📢 NEW GENOME ALERT In #G3journal, @krynadachowska.bsky.social et al. present a high-density linkage map and chromosome-level assembly of spruce bark beetle, revealing an inversion-rich genome that will be a crucial resource for comparative genomic studies. 🪲 buff.ly/7hiXUon

My son and his team will represent Poland in the world finals of the Odyssey of the Mind in USA! They look for support so their dreams come true 😀

Now out! We show that TEs can be horizontally transferred between fungal species via Starships. Once transferred, these TEs can become active, changing the genome organization and affecting the lifestyle of the recipient fungus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @oggenfussursula.bsky.social #TEsky

Great project and PI! Apply!

26 hours into the #BM100 4 runners are on loop 3, 3 runners are on loop 2, and 5 runners are in loop 1. Runners currently on loop 2 must begin loop 3 by 26:40 in order to continue. #BM100

Recombination landscape shaped by inversion polymorphisms – a high-density linkage map and chromosome level assembly of inversion-rich spruce bark beetle genome doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... Happy to have an article where one of the co-authors is my mum :):):):)

Finally! Influence of polimorphic inversions on demographic inference and the spruce bark beetle demographic history! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Demographic History Inferred From an Inversion-Rich Spruce Bark Beetle Genome

For a while (many years!) back, @eseb.bsky.social gave us €€€ to form a Special Topic Network. Formally, the network no longer exists, but informally for sure AND we can now pick the fruits of our labours! Here is one and the next post shows another... Thank you ESEB! 🙏

Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses - Cell www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... #genetics #genomics #popgen

Super proud PI moment at #ESEB2025. Julia just presented her PhD project on selection inference in inversion rich genome of spruce bark beetle. Also at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Proud supervisor moment! Congratulations Julia! Take and read how inversions influence selection inference.

Finally ready to see the world! Theories of balancing selection - past, present and future: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A true collaborative effort that brought together theoreticians and empiricists, models, data, and fresh perspectives on how balancing selection can shape genetic variation.

Join us! @krynadachowska.bsky.social from our institute is giving a planary talk.

Apply now! Wieslaw is the best supervisor and the project is great! If you want to be supervised by a person from whom you can learn a lot, who cares about your scientific development and you want to work in our fantastic team - do not hesitate any longer! Please share!

Paper alert! @JesperBoman et al bring empirical evidence for the idea that #chromosome number differences between taxa can contribute to #speciation! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reminder! Please share:)

Disturbing review paper; our environment and body tissues are now thoroughly impregnated with micro-plastic particles. Doesn't seem ideal. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My and Derek Setter's work on gene flow is now published in the latest issue of Genetics. We show that it is possible to detect past gene flow between two populations by summarising the asymmetry in pop-specific external branch lengths. 1/2 tinyurl.com/5ff8ch9e

Highly recommended! great research and PI :)

Folks, please weigh in. If you've read/used my book - what's missing? What's out of date? What would make it more useful for you, or for your students?

Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to see our preprint now published in MBE, one of my preferred journals: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 🎁🎄

And finally formatted :) Complex Genomic Landscape of Inversion Polymorphism in Europe's Most Destructive Forest Pest academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-... photo credit: Gilles San Martin

I am looking for a postdoc! Pls share #postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141

I am looking for a postdoc! Pls share #postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141

Finally! It was a LOT of work :) Kudos to the team. See how crazy inversion polymorphism can be. #inversions #BarkBeetles Complex genomic landscape of inversion polymorphism in Europe's most destructive forest pest academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Recent studies have revealed unexpected Y chromosome diversity and suggest that the Y may play a big role in evolution. @vdbijl.bsky.social and I wrote this perspective for @evolletters.bsky.social with a few suggestions and requests. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... Figs by www.jacelyndesigns.com

First and very happy post on this site: Guenons are again breaking the rules of biology: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Outstanding work by @axeljensen.bsky.social showing exceptional Y-chromosome introgression in primates!

How did dinosaurs conquer the world? Polish scientists help explain it, with research funded by #NCN.

Naukowcy przeanalizowali setki skamieniałych materiałów trawiennych, aby odtworzyć dietę dinozaurów. Wyniki ich pracy opublikowało 27 listopada #Nature. Badania będące podstawą publikacji finansowane były m.in. przez #NCN. www.ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/...

I am very happy that my proposal "Genomics of eco-evolutionary dynamics in spruce bark beetle" has been funded. #NCN I will be looking for a postdoc (in a year or so) :) If you are interested in temporal sampling, rapid adaptation in the context of inversion-rich genomes, get in touch!

Hi #Popgen #evolution #ecology people: I'm always looking for more Ne/Nc data to verify, scrutinize and add to a database, linking life history traits to Ne/Nc. If you see a paper with Ne and Nc data, pm it to me! thanks. please fw - adding some life to this: a green hairstreak - Callophrys rubi

New synthesis available ahead of print: "Using Computational Simulations to Model Deleterious Variation and Genetic Load in Natural Populations" by Kyriazis et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Postdoc position using genomics to study evolutionary constraint in threespine stickleback in Diana Rennison's lab. A great opportunity:

Just reposting James Kitchens blog post on pedigrees and the coalescent. As I'm using the R shiny he made for teaching again this year james-kitchens.com/blog/why-are...