Current grad students: Submit your research proposal by May 18th to be considered for a Graduate Research Excellence Grant! Learn more about how to craft a strong proposal on our website: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

"Getting to spend my last summer before university doing something I love while also preparing for my future was amazing." 🔔 Just over two weeks left to apply for our paid Museum Experience Internship for sixth form students. Find out more and apply by 8am, 11 May 2026 ⬇️

we are live now #consgen , an overview on the different projects the Conservation Genetics Specialist Group is involved can be found on our new website - check it out #IUCN #SSC

Come join our aDNA community at Trinity College Dublin and explore medieval ruminant genomes! Funded PhD studentship in ancient animal genomics at Trinity College Dublin. Deadline 27th May 2026 Please see the information attached for full description and application process.

We present DNAharvester 🎉🦴🚜🧬 A pipeline to process highly degraded ancient DNA data that integrates metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, multiple alignment strategies, reference bias evaluation and much more. GitHub: github.com/NBISweden/DN... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you are researcher or student in Latin America apply for our Biodiversity Genomics course in Colombia from 27th-31st July 2026 (10 days left for registration) biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com

Wrote a fun little thing on gene tree discordance: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mzPI3QW8S...

🧬 Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics SING Canada is an all-expenses-paid, Indigenous-led training program offered to #Indigenous students and community members. The curriculum explores #Genomics through hands-on training, discussions and more: https://sing-canada.ca/#Indigenous#Genomics#IndigiSky

ROV SuBastian wants to know if you have voted! We've been nominated for a People's Voice Webby, and you can cast your vote here: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

🚨PhD opportunity! Study brown bears in the Balkans using ancient DNA 🧬🐻 Interested in paleogenomics & conservation? Apply! @lpcg.bsky.social 🔗 Details here: www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u... #PhD #AncientDNA #Paleogenomics #ConservationGenomics #WildlifeConservation

We have a new exiting PhD position in our program on the skin microbiome of amphibians, supervised by @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social! Follow the link to read more and apply: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/.... Deadline the 8th of May.

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Still time to sign up! Register on our website: animal-adna.org/events/2026/...

I posted a while ago about doing DNA analysis in a single day of a lab course for non science majors. For many reasons we are looking into LAMP assays for various bacteria. If anyone out there has experience w/ LAMP especially in undergraduate courses, I would love pointers/ comments.

I wrote about why every lab should have AI use guidelines, and how to do it. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

Join our Conservation Genomics online course from April 7-10. A few seats are left! Learn population genomics tools for conservation. Details: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/course62/ #course

Calling all Postgraduate & Early-Career Marine Scientists! Join us for the 22nd Marine Biological Association (MBA) Postgraduate Conference at Newcastle University from 15–17 April 2026.

Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Want to do a PhD @universityofotago.bsky.social on climate impacts on #NZ vertebrates w/ Michael Knapp, @plubbe.bsky.social, @atennyson.bsky.social & me? Comes w/ fully funded scholarship & will investigate climate extinction risks using genomics & niche modelling evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Come join us! We're recruiting 3 new academic posts in the School of Biology, University of Leeds, closing 23/04/26. Assoc Prof Plant Science tinyurl.com/4x48jc78 Assoc Prof Animal Biology tinyurl.com/2s4sk85s Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management: tinyurl.com/39dwp47j

Seats still available for our #ConservationGenomics course (7–10 April, online) with @eljensen.bsky.social Cathy Cullingham! 🧬 Learn how to go from raw sequencing data to insights on population structure, adaptation & inbreeding with hands-on training. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

The American Genetic Association has a new grant opportunity for Research Comunity Engagement Award (RCE). Funding covers activities that strengthen trust and foster between researchers and the communities where they work. www.theaga.org/rce-awards-f... Apply by May 1

SSE offers free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all countries in our Global Membership Assistance program, including India, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and 152 countries and territories around the world. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Don't miss this fantastic exhibition at Great North Museum: Hancock! Picture This: Someone Like Me transforms Newcastle University research into illustrated artworks, encouraging visitors to feel curious about research and to see themselves as part of it too. Read more >> bit.ly/4t0t8YN

🚨 Postdoc in conservation genomics & experimental evolution (Copenhagen) Join us explore questions on gene editing for biodiversity conservation 🔬 Required: exp in experimental evolution (ideally C. elegans) 📅 1-year pos ⏰ Dline: April 6 employment.ku.dk/faculty?show... @hologenomics.bsky.social

Please share widely: courtesy of the British Council, Durham University are offering FULL scholarships (visa fees, flights, etc) for MSc in STEM for women from a selection of countries. www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola... Including our Biotech and Plant Biotech MScs! www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...

The University of Copenhagen seeks a postdoctoral researcher for a project on conservation genomics and gene editing to restore genetic diversity in populations at risk of extinction. Apply by April 6, 2026. More info: https://globe.ku.dk #postdoc

I wrote lectures about DE-EXTINCTION for my human evolution and anthropological genetics courses and have been really popular with students so I decided to turn it into a very long 🧵 I'll post everything as replies here but will try to break into bite size pieces and retweet as I go:

Gu et al. leveraged hundreds of genomes and mitogenomes of the African white-bellied pangolin, uncovering the evolutionary history of this species and indicating the need for urgent attention and priority conservation action. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag049 #evobio #molbio

Totikov et al. present a comparative and phylogenomic study of the Mustelinae, uncovering striking variation in genome-wide heterozygosity and genome size, marked homozygosity in some Asian lineages, and remarkable diversity in widespread species. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag014 #genome #evolution

Undergrad and graduate students! Could your work benefit from visiting one of the NHMLAC’s collections? Apply for our Collections Study Award, due Apr. 1. I’d love to have students make use of our Entomology collection! Details here: tinyurl.com/bdduefsy

Looking for an MSc student to start in Sept 2026 with possible summer employment this May. We're looking for a student to apply stable isotopes to a small mammal community to test hypotheses related to variation in diet among species and habitats. Please DM if you or anyone you know are interested.

Application for this PhD is 1 April. Please come and work with us in the Faroes (while the project is based primarily in Denmark). 🌍🧪🇫🇴🇩🇰 #science #conservation #anthropocene

Oh man, I want to try this! Doesn’t seem it is for sale!

An Evolving View of Species Tree Inference academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Escaping bottlenecks: The demographic path to genetic recovery in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) 🐨 🧬 #consgen #popgen

Effective population size is a key ingredient in indicators used to monitor genetic #biodiversity – and a fundamental concept in population genetics. But what is it, really? 🧬 We try to explain in our new blog post ⬇️ #ConsGen #Genetics #PopGen #Monitoring #KMGBF ginamo.org/2026/03/02/t...

Model selection in ADMIXTURE can be inconsistent: proof of the K=2 phenomenon https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708651v1

📢 Now accepting proposals for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Applicants must be members of SSE. Deadline: May 18, 2026 www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

PopGeneJS is a free web platform for teaching population genetics with 32 interactive modules on various topics. It offers real-time visualizations and requires no installation. Explore at https://popgenejs.bioinformat.org.

We are taking applications for our 2026 international Conservation Genetics course. This year the course will be in Brazil at the Vale Natural Reserve on Aug 3-13. See congenglobal.org/brazil2026/en for details. #conservation #genomics #course #handson #brazil #apply #biodiversity #bioinformatics

Job alert! Lectureship in field ecology at University of Reading with a special focus on plants.

If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award. Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026. Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior

Finally published! We first uploaded this preprint in 2022 but dropped it after frustrating reviews. It was well received and cited, motivating us to revisit it. We added new content, including simulations and a proof-of-concept genomic green status assessment. #consgen #popgen #PopulationGenomics

This recently-accepted study highlights the critical need to incorporate genomic erosion—the loss of genetic diversity, accumulation of harmful mutations, maladaptation, and introgression—into conservation assessments. 1/3

Attention, Latin American community! The North American Banding Council (NABC) is soliciting applications for small grants that support the development and certification of Latin American and Caribbean bird banders. Apply here: www.animalecology.org/grants

🧬SedaDNA Postdoc position💥 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March. Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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!

🧬Course Alert! 🌍 Join us ONLINE, 7–10 April, for the #ConservationGenomics course with @eljensen.bsky.social & Cathy Cullingham! Learn how population genomics guides conservation decisions—study design, SNP filtering, structure, adaptation & more. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods. Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...