At the intersection of research between Europe & Southeast Asia, I am still overwhelmed by how vast the divide is in the sense of research priorities and interest. I really am not sure what causes this, but the inequality is real.

Here I am on my 3rd #kupostdocday!

New better #AdapterRemoval for your routine #popgen needs

🧵1/2 AdapterRemoval v3, a dang fast(Q) processor, is here! 🚀 AdapterRemoval v3 filters and trims high-throughput sequencing data, merges overlapping reads, performs demultiplexing, & generates detailed QC reports (HTML & JSON), and does so much faster than #AdapterRemoval v2.

I am excited and proud to introduce to you PSMC-FAC (FNR-Automatized Correction) — a mathematical method designed to optimize the calculation of False Negative Rates in low-coverage curves. Let me break it down briefly:

Do you know how much CO2 emission our supercomputer produce? Let's safe the Earth by not running jobs on Earth Day :v

How can you investigate nutrient cycles & plant composition as affected by large vertebrates, which the effects can only be seen yearly for 10 years, using grants that only have 5 years cycle at maximum, most even 1 year? 🥲

Peer reviews can be so long that you are afraid your species already evolved differently than your paper when your paper is out 😭

Wanna learn how to explore your genomic data to know how related your samples and populations are to each other? Come and join us and @jolijnerven.bsky.social on our next #AaRCademy workshop! April 16h at 14:00 CET!

My physicist colleague asking me about this paper as he thinks I'm doing enough popgen to understand, but I don't think I'm doing enough human genetics & simulations do justice in my review. Anyone can, care to, & can fairly tell me what makes sense & what not? bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.ph...

Anyone has a guideline/template of how to use genetic data in management recommendations that has *actually* been used by the government to make a management decisions? #consgen

"Perhaps it’d be a good thing if AI finally pushes us to move on from a system where universities spend taxpayer money to pay commercial publishers to very slowly produce paywalled PDFs with outdated results of publicly funded research." alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/academics-...

We recommend a read of the new MBE editorial on how society journals work towards protecting the scientific record. Publishing in society journals, such as @molbioevol.bsky.social or @genomebiolevol.bsky.social, promotes transparent science that benefits the research community.

Crop scientists have long recognized that reproduction is going to be the first point of failure for plants with rising global temperatures. However, this has often been overlooked by those studying natural populations. In this new review, we try to change that. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

I never know when people use "prefer not to say" in their gender dropdown question, are they actually queer or just do not want to register to the diversity inclusivity effort here.

I am pleased to announce that my Google Calendar invites has been all ACCEPTED.

Happy International Day of Women in Science, folks! Is there any grant available to keep women in science without having to uproot their family somewhere else around here? Happy with 3 months mobility but not 1-2 years "have to move from country where you have spent more than 12 months in" :D

It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵 Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

US seems to have a lot of job ad going on, I thought science fundings were cut there? Are they back because POTUS decides to focus on Greenland?

A bit of a long shot, but does anyone know of any good (short) courses and/or reference books in/for zooarchaeology? I've had an interest in zooarch (esp microfauna) for a while, but have limited specialist knowledge/hands on experience to take it any further! TIA 😊 #archaeology #zooarchaeology

Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers? peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern. Are you lecturing in the Spring? Contact me to receive the survey link!

🦙🧬Pleased to present our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧬🦙 Palaeogenomics of early camelid use in the Atacama Desert (Chile). We used ancient DNA to revisit animals being hunted/herded >3,000 years ago. Manuscript here: rdcu.be/eVwwl #aDNA #popgen Thread below🧵 Reposts appreciated :)

🎉🎉 New publication out! 🎉🎉 🧵1/6 🦒 The giraffe known as Marius made global headlines when he was euthanized by Copenhagen Zoo in 2014 after being deemed surplus. His story highlights how challenging it is to manage zoo populations for conservation with limited resources 🧬 doi.org/10.1007/s105...

SMBE2026 Symposium 15 | Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

Another shoutout to people working in selection and local adaptation to submit to this very special symposium on #SMBE2026 😆 We hope to hear and discuss works from systems where non-equilibrium happens 🤩

The crazy mumbo jumbo output of LLM texts is actually a good source of inspiration for making a research grant proposal. Now that I see this thing envisioned similar idea with me I am not sure if I should be happy being vindicated or sad that my imagination is not even better than an artificial one.

🧵1/5 Thought long-read sequencing had “solved” structural variant genotyping? We did. Turns out many SVs still have high genotype error rates with current tools. Our new method SVUPP uses long-read pre-phasing to reduce errors and improve genotype quality doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

Hi! I'm Francesca (Xisca), MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow working on crocodiles' cognition evocroproject.github.io, passionate about natural sciences, shows, fantasy books and music, you can easily find me with headphones on, and I host a science news channel called @dropsofsciencenews.bsky.social

The worst flood I've known in the country claiming all kinds of life and yet the government still does not want to declare it national disaster and even refusing foreign aids! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Another shoutout to people working in selection and local adaptation to submit to this very special symposium on #SMBE2026 😆 We hope to hear and discuss works from systems where non-equilibrium happens 🤩

Organisers - @sagitaninta.bsky.social | @popgendk.bsky.social - Cindy Gilda Santander | Florida Atlantic University - Carolina Pacheco | Lund University - Anubhab Khan | Indian Institute of Science Invited Speaker - @aidaandres.bsky.social | @ucl.ac.uk

Climate change disproportionately affects areas with risks of extreme weather events, including Southeast Asia. Floods have been & will be destroying our homes. If you care about climate change, demand your media to tell you more about this. People have to see this. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Internet is becoming increasingly unreliable. Buy books and read them.

Are you working on detecting selection in populations that are not usually easy to get selection detected? We'd love to hear you on "S15 Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems" where @aidaandres.bsky.social will tell you more about her work around this area as well :D

Really looking forward to this symposium and the whole SMBE meeting! Join us at the #SMBE2026 for interesting discussions of how to identify signatures of natural selection (or try to) where it seems impossible.

Are you working on detecting selection in populations that are not usually easy to get selection detected? We'd love to hear you on "S15 Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems" where @aidaandres.bsky.social will tell you more about her work around this area as well :D

I came to appreciate the intriguing difficulties of determining what CAUSES a disease with multiple symptoms. Is it bacteria/virus? Which one? Why the histology does not match? What is IT? - Copenhagen Zoo research seminar presented by Yannick Van de Weyer who invetigate hydrocoelom in Bombina.

Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026

Big science highlights this month at our #EPIC seminar! Kees uncovered new insights into isolation by distance and shorebird diversity🐧, and Anna showed how ancient chewing gums provide a remarkable snapshot into #microbiome 🦠evolution and health. Fascinating work from both! 👏

There is not so much money from learned societies to invite enough financially disadvantaged researchers from countries that needs expensive visa to go around & only have weak currencies. Can crowdfunding help? But it is so much... How do we remedy this?

Are you interested in 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐞 and its relationship to 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 conditions? If you are, please look at the 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝑷𝒉𝑫 opportunity we are offering (main supervisor Dr Catrin Ffion Williams) : lnkd.in/e53Rz_FB To apply for the PhD visit the 𝐁𝐁𝐒𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐖𝐁𝐢𝐨 𝐃𝐓𝐏 here: lnkd.in/eWSjXK8a

Our paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to @jolijnerven.bsky.social #aDNA

New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals #consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...

Lessons learned: Recommendations for reproducible paleogenomic data analyses www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac...

New publication out, highlighting the link between genetic diversity (GD) and policy! 🧬📜 "Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework" www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

This version dependency going on between conda and snakemake is madness. Syntax issue as well between versions; crazy python stuffs. This volatility cannot be the future of Bioinformatics. What does people use to make pipeline nowadays? How have people in maths/physics/chemistry been doing it?