What a course!🧬🦣 Thanks to this amazing team of instructors @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social & @hernmoral.bsky.social for delivering such a great first edition of the #Museomics course. Thanks to everyone who has joined us this week and good luck with your data!💯

We are extremely happy to have kicked off this first edition of the #Museomics course with @hernmoral.bsky.social @claudiafontsere.bsky.social & @jazminrm.bsky.social and a great group of participants working on very different systems! #Museomics #aDNA #Bioinformatics

I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.

"...researchers who invest time in their students tend to lead more-productive, more-collaborative groups and attract stronger future students than those who do not." "Time spent with the next generation of scientists is an investment." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓 I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction. 👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates! Reposts appreciated 🙏

New rock dove paper!🕊️ Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species *please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase @trstngnthr.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes? Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... Please reach out if you have any questions!

Expertly led by @claudiafontsere.bsky.social now published in Molecular Ecology! 🥳 Learn why from a genetic perspective whooping cranes should remain protected due to loss of genetic diversity and accumulation of inbreeding and load #popgen #consgen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is now published at #MolecularEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Check it out!

Navigating #motherhood and academia: Attending our 1st conference #ESEB2025 as a family with our 10mo baby. I am disappointed with the organization for not providing childcare for <3yo babies. Academia should do better for the ✨inclusivity✨ of (lactant) mothers. See you in P03.148 on thursday!

📌 Museomics symposium Claudia Fontsere — Poster P03.148 (Thu) From almost extinct to rescued? Temporal dynamics of genomic erosion after demographic recovery

⚠️There's two days left to submit abstracts for this years #ICAZ-AGPM meeting. We're looking forward to welcoming you here in Copenhagen in October! @icaz-news.bsky.social.

I'll be teaching in the SIBE Summer School in Ferrara, from the 7th to 11th of September. Great place to learn about PopGen, comparative genomics and ✨Conservation Genomics✨ 🚨Deadline to apply: 11th of May🚨 sites.google.com/view/sibesum... See you there!

First day at the office after maternity leave...

🧀 New preprint drop: adventures in the cheese microbiome! 📝 We tracked microbiome dynamics across 14 production steps of industrial Herrgårds cheese (Swedish classic 🇸🇪🧐). www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... (1/7)

Check out the paper 👇🏻 So grateful and proud to be part of this group effort.

🚨 New preprint! We analyzed 39 bird genomes—including 3 Mauritian species that bounced back from the brink of extinction—to explore genomic erosion in a comparative framework. 🧬🦜🧩 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #consgen #popgen @claudiafontsere.bsky.social

Milers d’investigadors veuen coartada la seva llibertat acadèmica i fins i tot la seva integritat física arreu del planeta. Que farà el Govern? Seria d’agraïr que la política de #recerca del país no estigués basada en mesures efectistes (i cíniques si em permeteu). 🧵 govern.cat/salapremsa/n...

🚨Paper alert🚨 Birds, conservation and genomics, you shouldn't miss it 😉

Join us for a week of working with genomics data derived from natural history collection, aka #museomics

🧬Interested in #Museomics? Join us to learn how to generate & analyse genomic data from natural history collections with hands-on bioinformatics workflows @hernmoral.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @hologenomics.bsky.social 👉 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

I wish this position would have been open 3 years ago! Don’t hesitate and apply 😉

3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals

New paper out! 📄 My first adventures in (ancient) metagenomics. 🦠 “Exploring DNA degradation in situ and in museum storage through genomics and metagenomics” www.nature.com/articles/s42... Curious about the water color painting (see ALT text)? 🦌 Thread (Bluetorial?) with findings! 🧶👇 (1/n)

With some delay... but some good news. The final version of our paper Local Genetic Adaptation to Habitat in Wild Chimpanzees is out in Science. Great PanAfrican (PanAf) collaboration led by PhD student (now Dr!) Harrison Ostridge. 🧪#PopGen #evobio www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Neglected primates no more! 162 lemur genomes from 50 species in our latest paper: Ecological and anthropogenic effects on the genomic diversity of lemurs in Madagascar! 1 of 2 lemur evolution papers in Jan25 @natureecoevo.bsky.social 3 big takeaways below! rdcu.be/d4XWV @tmarquesbonet.bsky.social

Another great paper from the PanAf family, focusing on local adaptaion in chimpanzee populations: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Fecal samples 💩 and target capture 🧬 (exome) going to another level. So proud to have been part of it, amazing work led by Harrison Ostridge and @aidaandres.bsky.social

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their forest and savannah habitats, some of which may protect against malaria: new @science.org paper led by Prof @aidaandres.bsky.social & Harrison Ostridge @ugiatucl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ja...

Hello there! 👋 Sharing our last perspective piece 📄 👀: “Unlocking hidden dimensions of genomic diversity within species” doi.org/10.32942/X2Z... Co-ordinated together with @diegoharta.bsky.social and "not-on-bsky" Marina Brasó-Vives @mbv_marina.bsky.social

Excited to share our new paper on mammoths: doi.org/10.1016/j.qe...! I was only involved near the end of this ~9 year project (science takes time sometimes 😅) with sampling being done in 2015 by Eline and Ashot, and Alba having done most of the heavy lifting, but happy to have contributed 😄 Thread 👇

Emphasises the importance of Conservation Genomics. Understanding changes in realised and masked loads and using genomics to inform hybrid in situ ex situ strategies increasingly important. 🌎

another important paper demonstrating that relying purely on individual numbers for conservation might be misleading - information on genomes can aid conservation #consgen 🪶 🦤 🌏 🧪

I was very lucky to work with @claudiafontsere.bsky.social for this one before she starts her independent fellowship. Thanks for all the amazing work Claudia !

With the Crane Foundation & amazing co-authors, we analyzed 150+ years of genomic data, revealing whooping cranes have lost 70% of their genetic diversity and accumulated harmful mutations. Despite conservation successes, they remain vulnerable. We argue keeping their endangered status

I'm super happy to share our newest preprint on whooping crane genomics 🐣🧬 🚨Persistent genomic erosion in whooping cranes despite demographic recovery🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Extremely thankful to @hernmoral.bsky.social and all co-authors! #conservationgenomics #genomics #whoopingcranes

📣 Two ERC-funded positions are available in the lab! If you are interested in exploring the mechanisms underlying mutation, we’d love to hear from you. PhD: shorturl.at/Oc04N Postdoc: shorturl.at/1ShHB RPs and shares would be greatly appreciated! 🧪🧬🖥️ #ScienceJobs #PostdocJobs

Today, Globe Institute employees attended an interesting panel debate to discuss "Research Excellence", defining new parameters to assess it. The discussion explored how factors such as diversity, collaboration, curiosity, and gender balance could be evaluated (1/7). 🧵 follows!