A seriously important paper about the links between health and climate change in Polar regions ⬇️ This really is an urgent call #Arctic #COP30 #ClimateChange

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

Suomi on pitkä maa. Toisessa päässä suunnitellaan tunnin junaa välille Hki-Turku. Toisessa päässä on suunnitteilla Ivalon terveyskeskuksen ilta- ja yöpäivystyksen lakkauttaminen ja näin esim. Utsjoelta lähimpään päivystykseen (Rovaniemi 450 km) olis matkaa 5-6 tuntia.

A recent Science Advances special issue focused on #aquaculture, but seemed to have missed the mark in a multitude of ways. My incredible colleagues and I wrote this sweeping Open Access opinion article (with 80 citations!) in response. Hope it's useful! 🐟 🦐 🎣 doi.org/10.1111/raq....

📣📣📣 CONSERVATION GENETICS WORKSHOP - Few more spaces left! ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course 🧬💻💡 University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍 7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP! 🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏 More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/

Is MDPI Predatory? www.predatoryjournals.org/news/is-mdpi... [if the question needs to be asked....]

Looking forward to working with 5 new, and one current, colleague. However, the number of Deans called Johanna will drop from three to two.

Humane genetics and genomics position in Helsinki open for 9 more days!

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

One week to go! I am recruiting a postdoc, call ends October 7 🍃🌿☘️ In ecology, University of Helsinki is the leading university in Finland and the Nordics and the fifth-best in Europe (ShangaiRanking's 2024). And for 8 years in a row, Finland is still the happiest country in the world :-)

🚂 🚂 whoop whoop! Meillä @helsinki.fi #Viikki on yliopistonlehtorin pesti auki! Vastuullasi on kehittää ja opettaa tulevaisuuden ympäristöongelmien ja luontokadon ratkaisijoita. Saa kernaasti jakaa! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Always a special moment when a PhD student publishes their first paper for their thesis. This one was expertly supervised by senior author @jpverta.bsky.social and highlights the regulatory potential of lncRNAs in reproductive biology and maturation age variation in salmon

In 2020, O Gaggiotti, J Goudet and I showed that Qst-Fst comparison was uncalibrated with high population structure. During her PhD with us, Isa do O developed LogAV: a method that accounts for any population structure while testing for local adaptation : journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

@annaliisalaine.bsky.social, with wonderful urban biodiversity in the background, challenging the leaders of @helsinki.fi to think of how our decisions may have biodiversity impacts, and what their tradeoffs are

Come and work with us! Three new academic posts (including Animal Behaviour) and superb facilities in the new Life & Mind Building

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

Two new papers about diversity and genetic structure of Atlantic salmon populations in two sub-arctic rivers in the northernmost Finland and Norway doi.org/10.1007/s105... doi.org/10.1111/jfb.... @fishcongen.bsky.social @andersfoldvik.bsky.social @alamarins.bsky.social @luke.fi @helsinki.fi

Pekka Katajisto @katajistolab.bsky.social introducing Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka who will talk about 2 of my favorite topics: sciences and marathons

I'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

🧪 postdoc in Toronto in a very cool lab!

How do regulatory genes control alternative life histories? We have an open PhD position to answer this question using functional genomics in Atlantic salmon. Apply by October 15th through www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Please share widely! 🧬🦑🖥️

Team Evolcongen has signed off from #eseb2025. Thanks to @tonigabaldon.bsky.social and his team for arranging a great meeting! Now the countdown starts to #eseb2027

@robinaraya.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social et al. investigate TEs in four large inversions in Atlantic cod - TEs accumulate in breakpoints, suggesting they drive inversions through ectopic recombination. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf131 #genome #evolution #TEsky

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

Next ESEB meeting will have an innovative format, across four hubs. The aim is to make it easier to avoid plane travel, and to diversify the locations that can host a meeting #ESEB2025 #ESEB2027

This is a big innovation for #eseb2027 not without it's challenges (time zones, currencies, technical delays...) but with potentially HUGE savings in terms of carbon footprint. So well done @eseb.bsky.social, let's embrace the experiment and make the hub concept a success! #eseb2025

OK, I've not yet managed to attend an #ESEB conference, but this looks really intriguing. Can the "hub" model reduce environmental impact of conferences, but still be vital and interactive? We should be trying out lots of things!

Aurelien Tellier presenting the details of #eseb2027 which will be a hub meeting, with connected and local sessions in 4 hubs (Gothenburg, Munich, London, Istanbul) eseb2027.org #eseb2025

Our new study in Molecular Ecology doi.org/10.1111/mec.... explores the northward expansion of the Eurasian #reedwarbler. Despite a fast range shift, genetic diversity wasn't lost and only weak founder effect signs were found. Let’s break it down: 🧵👇 1/6 #ornithology

@jmappes.bsky.social is the final plenary speaker at #eseb2025 talking about the ecology and genetics of being dangerous in her beloved wood tiger moths

Excited to soon start my new role as Academy of Finland Research Fellow 🦋🐛I’ll later be advertising a PhD position on tiger moth colour and genomics, and will be speaking at #ESEB2025 this week if you want an idea of what’s going on!

Details about the code of conduct at #ESEB2025 ⬇️ eseb2025.com/code-of-cond... 7/n

Heading to the first #eseb2025 plenary by Michael Lynch by city bike. Amazing improvements in #Barcelona cycling infrastructure in recent years 🚲

Folks going to #ESEB2025 : To help people connect on Bluesky, I've started making starter packs. Here is a first one with the names that were available when I started. Ping me if you want to be included in the next one!

On the way to #eseb2025 but a flight delay means I miss the welcome reception 🙁. The group has 3 talks and 2 posters on various aspects of life history genes in salmonid fishes throughout the week. Including talks by @alamarins.bsky.social Maria Cadiz & myself & posters by Ana Lindeza & Lilian Redon

3 prof positions open in Helsinki! 🧬Human genetics and genomics (open rank, DL 10.10) 🧬Cellular physiology (TT, DL 17.8) 🏙️ Ecological restoration of urban environments (open rank, DL 17.8) www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/... Come and join us in the happiest country in the world 5 years running!

A fourth starter pack for #ESEB2025! A few slots left in it (there's a 150-account limit) I have gone through the whole program now 😅. Still missing people who are attending without presenting (and accounts I missed). You can use Clearsky clearsky.app/eseb2025.bsk... to see the pack(s) you are in

... and here's a second #ESEB2025 starter pack! go.bsky.app/DnUAnt5

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

bioRxiv bat signal going up. We have a big backlog of submissions. If any affiliates have time to do some screening, we (and all the authors) would be immensely grateful! 🙏

Finally is this story out public!! With an amazing historical dataset from IMR (@havforskningsinstituttet) we demonstrate how human perturbations impact the genomic signal in one of the largest cod stocks in the world: the northeast arctic cod | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I can confirm that it's kinda warm

New preprint! How do leaf functional traits vary within a growing season? 🌿🍃☘️ We sampled 6 traits of 11 species over 15 weeks, and found that traits vary greatly, and every growth form followed their own pattern 🦄 Species rank remained somewhat same! @niittynen.bsky.social doi.org/10.22541/au....

We are the European Reference Genome Atlas #ERGA community! 🌍🧬 🔹 An open community of 1000+ members and the European node of @ebpgenome.bsky.social 🔹 ERGA connects people and institutions to advance #biodiversity #genomics across Europe 🔗 Learn more & join us: www.erga-biodiversity.eu

Last week our new paper "Clear effects of population and sex but not rearing temperature on stress tolerance in a temperate butterfly" came out in Oikos. Read it here! doi.org/10.1002/oik....

How do genetic differences in major effect genes translate into alternative life histories? Our group has an open PhD position in functional genomics (ChIP-seq + ATAC-seq + RNA-seq) to answer this question. Official add posted in August - before that contact me through email!

Come to work with us! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

‘Biodiversity is not declining’ is a claim you may have heard. But science says otherwise. 📉 The @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment reveals 1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction. Misinformation clouds the crisis. Rely on trusted research to understand our shared challenges. 🌍🧪