Really interesting work, showing that animals with winter-white coats may be more in danger of predation under climate change, compared to those with winter-brown coats. #seasonalcamouflage

We have 🐟 herring pre print! Our new study reveals that ancient gene flow between Pacific and Atlantic herring played a key role in helping Atlantic herring adapt to the brackish waters of the Baltic Sea. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧬 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: “tskit arg visualizer: Interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphs.”  Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf302 Authors include: @kitchensjn.bsky.social, @yanwong.bsky.social

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... #PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

🦣 🤯 🦣 🤯 🦣 Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost! Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Modestly, we decided to review a century's worth of theories of balancing selection :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢New PhD paper out! Science communication & education are one of my priorities, which is why, a few years ago, I accepted the challenge to develop a one-year scientific project with local high school students. What started as a side project has now turned into a paper! doi.org/10.20897/ejs...

🙌 Many thanks to all the speakers and participants who made our Genomics for Biodiversity Conference a success! It was a wonderful opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and learn from @biogeneurope.bsky.social case studies and their results. #genomics #biodiversity #conservation #bioeconomy

Acclaimed conservationist and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall has died, leaving behind a legacy of empathy for primates and the natural world.

The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Really great review on recombination-aware phylogenomics. Highlights how we can leverage recombination rate variation to resolve the evolutionary histories of species, and better understand the evolutionary processes of speciation and hybridization. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm super excited to share our new paper on Norwegian lemming genomics just published in @pnas.org!! Read the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... Summary ⬇️

Comparative genomics and phylogenomics of the Mustelinae lineage (Mustelidae, Carnivora) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.01.662473v1

📣 NEW PAPER! News from our group in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! The broom hare (Lepus castroviejoi) carries traces of multiple genomic ancestries, revealing a complex history of admixture in Iberia! Read more here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1093/evol...

🚨 Super exited to see our paper on the inheritance and genetic basis of guppy color variation come out in @natecoevo.nature.com‬ rdcu.be/eugWV Guppy males have enormous variation in color patterns, with many combinations of ornamental spots and stripes. But where does all this variation come from?

📢 New #BGE-‪@ergabiodiv.bsky.social‬ publication! It’s time to #harmonise practices for assessing genome-wide genetic diversity. 🧬 #Standardisation is key to meet the needs of #stakeholders in biodiversity #conservation. 🔗 More info: biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/07/01/h... @ebpgenome.bsky.social

✴️ NEW PAPER! ✴️ In the beautiful Caucasian mountains of 🇬🇪 lives a moth whose wing colour variation (🔴🟠🟡) has intrigued us for ages. Here (doi.org/10.1111/1744...), we studied whether such variation is associated with 🧬 structure or other traits such as size. (1/3)

New review paper in TREE out! The Progressive Evolution of Cold-Adapted Species By John Stewart, @lovedalen.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social and others www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

MBE highlighting our museomics work on the International Museum Day! 🏛️🧬

Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41... We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.

New genomic & genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes, including previously uncharacterised alleles 159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist) 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

About 15-20 yrs ago, a bunch of reviews (inc. 1 by me) made predictions about the future of genomics in conservation. 1 yr ago at ICISB, Robin Waples assessed which of those predictions had been fulfilled. Sam May & Sam Rosenbaum now led the effort to turn this into a review: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Congratulations to lab member Gabi Alves Ferreira who lead us in this fun project! She modeled how range shifts of neotropical frogs with climate change will change phylogenetic diversity and endemism in the new communities. So great to see this published #ProudPI 💪🐸 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our research lab in now on BlueSky - follow us for all things genomics! ⬇️

I finally read @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social 's NEE paper on allllll the reproductive barriers in swordtails, and loved it. We bumped our lab meeting discussing it to next week because we all want to take more time on it. Definitely a paper to teach speciation from. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

[Please share] 📢‼️ I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

Deadline application extended until May 4th #Genomics #PopGen #Evolution #Camouflage #Birds #PhDPosition #PhDStudent

How #genome-wide sequence divergence maps to species status www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #biodiversity #genomics

🧵 1/ New study on squamate color evolution hits the press: we show that brightness variation in lizards & snakes is strongly linked to habitat openness 🌞 This reveals how ecological pressures drive color evolution in one of the most diverse groups of tetrapods www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Outstanding opportunity to work on a really cool system and with an amazing person & scientist as mentor 😊

OK who's ready for some science? Do you like speciation? Genomics? Hybridization? Bioinformatics? Then this is for you: Published today: "The Distribution & Dispersal of Large Haploblocks in a Superspecies" Bonus interest if you like ring species and cute greenish birds: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

I am looking for a Postdoc (3 years, start Mid-2025) to work on conservation genomics of ringed seal in the Baltic. The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations. #conservationgenetics #consgen Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

This is growing; let me know which journals we're missing. Add this to your browser's bookmarks for easy access to explore their publications (see posts of each journal in the pack) or to discover potential outlets for your research: go.bsky.app/TivtkJn

Friends, LiftOn is now published in @genomeresearch.bsky.social! LiftOn maps genes across genomes using a protein-centric, homology-based approach with both DNA & protein alignments @stevensalzberg.bsky.social Mihaela Pertea, Jakob Heinz, Alaina Shumate, Celine Hoh, Alan Mao doi.org/10.1101/gr.2...

Dynamics of a supergene. A study of the BC supergene in wing color morphs of the African monarch #butterfly by @rishidekayne.bsky.social &co reveals dynamic evolution of #supergene haplotypes, fueled by incomplete recombination suppression 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3DiFhnL

Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.

A few years ago, we started asking if the adaptation of Iberian wolves to anthropogenic landscapes could be associated with ancient introgression from domestic dogs. In our recently accepted paper at @genomeresearch.bsky.social we provide new insights: genome.cshlp.org/cgi/content/... 🐺🧬🐶

Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi there, Bsky! 👋🏻 Using #WomenInScience Day as an excuse to introduce myself. I've very recently finished my PhD in Evolutionary Biology, during which I studied the evolution and adaptive potential of seasonal colour polymorphism in least weasels. 🐾🧬

Happy International Women & Girls in Science Day 2025 #WomenInScience #womeninSTEM #IDWGS