I had an idea—just a hunch, really— on how to link #Popgen and #eDNA. I was lucky to be in a lab that embraced curiosity, open discussion, and let me run with it. One year, many equations, and a few too many simulations later, here’s the result: 🧬 Preprint now live: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I use BHL every single day in my research and teaching. I could not write my books or articles without it, I don't know what my students would do without it, and I would have to radically rethink my career without it. This is more critical with funding cuts. Please, please someone support BHL.

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

GenDivRange: A global dataset of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges #popgen #consgen www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Everyone should know about GBIF. It's an international biodiversity data aggregator. Museum collections, apps like eBird and iNaturalist, published datasets from the technical literature, all in one place. www.gbif.org

Today was truly inspiring. Something happened that we’ve never seen before, you made noise in places that rarely see protests like this. Communities across traditionally conservative areas hosted historic turnouts.

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

If you have a public platform & spent years calming everyone down, telling us Trump was not a danger,was not racist, & arguing that the best way to deal w/Trump was to laugh at him, berated ppl who used the word fascist, insisted that the two parties are the same, admit YOU WERE WRONG.

If you're struggling to keep all of the different immigration/deportation cases straight, I've got a post for you: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Natural History Museum Denmark is hiring a new Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and Curator of (Vertebrate) Palaeontology! Could it be you or someone you know‽ spread the word! Really excited to have a new colleague to work on our amazing collections! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Many, if not most, of us depend on open, accessible research infrastructure to do our work and improve the world around us. But political support for such systems is not always there, or can change rapidly - consider signing below mitigate some that risk. investinopen.org/blog/stateme...

Analysis of #IUCNRedList data on 67,217 animal spp, by @ashsimkins.bsky.social @billsutherland.bsky.social &co, reveals that a range of #conservation actions successfully conserved species at greatest risk of extinction, but rarely resulted in full recovery 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3XUzEDd

A fantastic, critical and accurate piece on the 🦣mammoth de-extinction claims from Colossal, sparked by the woolly mice we’ve been seeing these days on the news. Some sentences are gold 👇🏽 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... ✍️ by @adamrutherford.bsky.social

On 21st of March we'll have a feedback session with MInAS to talk about animal #aDNA metadata and reporting. If you are producing ancient animal data, please join @ddj-sa.bsky.social and Ophélie Lebrasseur on the conversation to set up proper metadata standards. www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

Ecology & biodiversity folks! Reply to this post to join the science feed! Checklist to help with verification ✅ Have posted a few times already ✅ Profile description not empty ✅ Have a profile picture ✅ Link to orcid, scholar, RG profile, etc, in the reply ℹ️ DM only if anonymous account 🧪🌏

“Operation Whirlwind” What’s Happening Now? In 2025, Operation Whirlwind was launched under Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to investigate alleged threats against employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Interested in a project in the intersection of ancient DNA and Deep Learning for characterizing genetic variation? Do send a DM. Thank your for your RT!

Check out our new method for summarising BEAST trees. The CCD0-MAP tree gives much more accurate results than MCC tree. It returns the tree that maximises the product of sampled clade probabilities regardless of whether that tree was sampled. Highly recommend :) journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

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)

'Education is Resistance' - quoted from a heartfelt essay in @londonreview.bsky.social by Malaka Shwaikh.

From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience 👩‍🔬 May your experiments work, may your research be impactful, and may those papers be accepted with minor revision 🧬

An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

✨Excited to share our new article on time lags/genetic extinction debts, online now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution #KewScience 🧬🧬🧬/1 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science! Women are still often paid less and are less likely to get promoted than men in academic STEM. This is also true in "progressive" places like Denmark (where I'm based)! Everyone has to make a conscious effort to make more progress. #WomenInSTEM

Down with white supremacy. Down with apartheid. Down with fascism.

Wonderful piece, @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social! Keep flying that flag! 🇿🇦 www.nature.com/articles/d44... #SouthAfrica #Africa #representation #palaeoanthropology #anthropology #evolution #paleosky #scisky #palaeoproteomics

Hi We contributed towards the South African Journal of Science Taung Centennial! some links; the special issue: issuu.com/sajs/docs/so... our paper: sajs.co.za/article/view... and I got featured on where I work from Nature Africa if you are interested in that: www.nature.com/articles/d44...

A high-throughput aDNA extraction method for large-scale sample screening 🦣🦬🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our new #OpenAccess paper is out! Cape buffalo mitogenomics 🐃🧬 We found a highly divergent lineage in Addo Elephant National Park in #SouthAfrica, which has conservation implications! #congen Where did it come from? We pull out a map & speculate wildly! Jk, more below... doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

And a note to all authors in #consgen and #evolution: REPORT your standard errors, variance or confidence intervals in the papers for every summary stat that you provide! In the meta-analyses we had to skip thousands of papers for this reason.

What do evolution and adaptation have to do with predicting vulnerability to climate change? Find out in our new paper led by the amazing Dr. @brennaforester.bsky.social and featuring the WORLD'S COOLEST 🐸 just published in Molecular Ecology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! #congen

💯 I teach the chromosomal basis of sex in #BIOL112_UC and make it clear throughout sex ≠ gender. this year I will include links to @scishow.bsky.social videos like this one bit.ly/40F5ENB

I am very very jealous that this family on Prince Edward Island (Canada) had a small meteor hit their sidewalk and managed to catch it on their door cam in what is likely the first audio and visual recording of a meteor strike! youtu.be/F_1xInfNMok?...

If you want to search and/or visualize how a set of long reads lay down on a reference genome -- whether to check a gene annotation, for assembly error, or another reason, Gio Madrigal's Klumpy can help you do it. Excited to see it on the cover! (and online: catchenlab.life.illinois.edu/klumpy/)

Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1/ 🎉 Thrilled to announce our new paper, "A Post-Mortem Molecular Damage Profile in the Ancient Human Mitochondrial DNA," is now published in Molecular Ecology Resources! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/1755... #aDNA #genomics #mtDNA

To new accounts here: If you want your posts with images to actually be seen, use alt-text. It’s a big deal here (an accessibility thing), a lot of accounts have a filter to simply omit viewing any posts that don’t use alt-text. “Settings -> Accessibility -> Require alt text before posting” Do it.

At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics! Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics. Please spread the word! www.su.se/english/sear...

Scary!

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 👇

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

Congratulations @shyama-mama.bsky.social on a great piece of work! academic.oup.com/bib/article/...

Hey, so it turns out that paper on black plastic was a bit blown out of proportion by a simple math error. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

A new view of #SpeciesConcepts by @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social and me, clarifying time frames while unifying interbreeding, genealogy, and traits. A general-purpose species should be a reproductive community (bound by cohesive processes) viewed retrospectively (RRCC).  doi.org/10.18061/bss...

New pre-print from recent Slater lab graduate Dr David Černý and me, from David's dissertation work - a bayesian least squares supertree method for inference of time-calibrated phylogenies. Feedback much appreciated but here's the motivation.... 🧵

Take note, researchers! Post DOI URL to papers, not short links (yet), if you want research to be tracked by @altmetric.com. Make a thread if you want to say more. #SciSky

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.