🎉 #EGG2026 Celebrating 70 Years of Ecological Genetics!🥚🧬 A milestone meeting for ecologists and practitioners 📍 Sheffield + Online (Hybrid) 📅 Abstract by 15 Feb 🎟️ Register by 15 Mar britishecologicalsociety.org/content/egg2... @britishecologicalsociety.org #Ecology #Genetics #eDNA

What an exciting lineup of presentations for #EGG2025! See you in #Cardiff!

📢#GenDivRange is out on @ScientificData! An open database for #genetic diversity of 19,173 geo-referenced populations among 1,109 species. The most comprehensive resource to date. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #conservation #biodiveresity #monitoring #macrogenetics #openaccess

📣 #EGG2025: On Scales of Time 📍 National Museum Cardiff & Online 📅 17–19 Sep 2025 ✔️ Abstracts close 31 May ✔️ Registration closes 31 Jul britishecologicalsociety.org/content/egg2... Don’t miss cutting-edge talks, posters & socials across time-scales in ecological genetics! 🦊🦗🐡🌲🍄🌾

Perhaps biology is not fair. We need generosity and inclusiveness instead. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#ForbesUnder30 I can only feel blessed and grateful now.

I am truly grateful to be awarded the #Croucher Fellowship 2024 for my research on oak trees @OxfordBiology. Thank you @croucherFDN for hosting an eventful Symposium and Foundation Day Dinner. Also lovely to meet with Prof Paul Lehner FRS again since he chaired my interview.

We’ve just got a new member in the @MacKay_Lab——@nanopore PromethION P2 Solo! More #sequencing and more #biology!

3⃣-minute read @OxfordBiology @UniofOxford: The race to save the world’s most trafficked wild species #rosewood #conservation #wildlife #genomics #dalbergia https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/features/race-save-world-s-most-trafficked-wild-species

🚨 New paper! 🚨 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-09978-6 #conifer #genomics Copy number variations (CNV) occur more often than SNPs. In plants, we have seen ~200 copies of RLG1a in monkey flower and EPSPS in carelessweed. Our study found up to 381 copies of Bglu-1 in a white...

Who can believe just in the blink of an eye we’re near the end of #BES2023. Finally our very own @ymalhi’s Presidential Address. “Why do I do #ecology?”

Come to the @BritishEcolSoc Stand and meet the committees! Make ecology count, make everyone count. Talk to us to see how you can influence and contribute to this wonderful community. #BES2023 #BESChristmas

@lucymorley81 presenting a wealth of methods in studying phenological traits of trees and their invertebrate consumers @WythamWoods #BES2023!

Guess how many trees outside woods were there in 1850? 🌳 Old maps and hierarchical model gave the answer! Half of them were lost and they are now in great threats. @Ewan_McHenry @WoodlandTrust

Radim Hédi #BES2023 presenting how an 8-yr oak coppice forest restoration sees a rapid increase in biodiversity of plant community then stabilisation. As a researcher @WythamWoods working both on #oak and #badger, I love this “#AI badger rejoice over an oak #resprouting”.

@trishuphigh presenting the potential and challenges of blended finance model in ecosystem restoration. Happy to learn that she was also a #Somervillian during her DPhil (she recognised me by my @SomervilleOx stash at #BES2023 SIG social)!

#Oaks are such important features on the British landscape. @ChavanaBryant @UCLgeography @WoodlandTrust @AncientTreesATF presenting important work in scanning ancient trees with terrestrial #LIDAR with the #SCATTER project. Here are some magnificent pics! 🌳🌳🌳 #BES2023

I have a poster at A7.2 #BES2023. I can’t be there during the poster session but you can find me representing @BES_EGG in the ‘Meet the SIGs’ at the foyer the same time. DM me any questions or read the preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.18.551884#BES2023to find out...

@JEcology Senior Editors Andy Hector and @y_buckley talk about #reproducibility in research with @rmarkdown and @quarto at #BES2023! “Self-care” is important, the future you and the community will be thankful.

#Ecology is all about diversity and interactions, and I just happily spotted @Rob_SalGo with a little, lovely feline delegate at #BES2023 🐈

Welcoming remarks by our very own @ymalhi @BritishEcolSoc at #BES2023. It was (and is still quite) indeed intimating to join such a big conference - but everyone here is always friendly and helpful. There’s always something for everyone - and @BES_EGG if you’re into genetics! 🧬

So many familiar faces in the #BES2023 Welcome Mixer, but also getting to know many new friends! Just a head’s up - @BES_EGG will have a joint SIG social with @BESClimate AND @BESForests tomorrow at Dark Horse at 7:45 pm! Meet at 7:30 pm at lobby or just come directly!

Walking by the college lawn and seeing the smiley faces of the newly #matriculated. #WelcomeToOxford and I wonder how many great things they’ll achieve and sweet memories they’ll make together @SomervilleOx.

It’s been an absolute pleasure to visit the Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics Lab @sywsin! And thank you for the team’s valuable feedback on our #badger research with @MingshanTw. Hope I would come home more often and visit these lovely scientists again. 🦡🦜🌳

Thank you so much @alex_twyford for giving the closing keynote of #EGG2023! It’s also very wholesome to see @edgarwongly’s work in Euphrasia. And speaking of hard-to-assemble #mistletoe genome @darwintreelife, conifer scientists can relate! 🌲

🎼 @magdalenoxford Evening Recital “Die Un trennbaren” 16 Jun (Fri) 6 pm, Grove Auditorium Repertoire: 🎵 #Schumann’s Dichterliebe 🎵 Alvin Leung’s Wooden Heart (my poems on #rosewood set to music) 🎵 Schumann’s 3 Duets Tickets + house programme: https://dir.lat/0jsSto

Truly grateful to be awarded a @NERC_EOF ECR Grant! Over the past 3 years I submitted ~20 different applications and this is the 3rd successful. Rejections are normal in the academia, so let's celebrate every achievement no matter how small #AcademicChatter #ECR #GrantApplication

This is one of the greatest wonders I think as a #forest scientist. 🌲 #Alpine tree line ❄️ 46.00°N, 7.76°E, towards 30°NE, 2310 m.a.s.l. 2023.03.26

Ready to recycle all these @nanopore flow cells and plan for the next #sequencing projects! #bioinformatics #academicchatter #genomics

RNA God, bless us and these Thy sharp bands which we receive from Thy bountiful goodness. May it be free of nucleases, inhibitors, and genomic DNA. Grant the reverse transcriptase strength for synthesising full-length cDNA. #nanopore #sequencing #AcademicChatter

@magdalenoxford 1st year biologists were asked “Why are leaves sometimes red and falling?” 🍁🍂 Before coming to the tutorial with me, they had a great time collecting the Nature’s palette! 🎨 credit: Adam, Heather, Kate, Jess, Harveet, Ferdinand @OxfordBiology

Absolutely thrilled to announce that I am awarded a @InsideNatGeo #NatGeoExplorer grant to continue my research on #rosewood. This will also support our new Master's student @OxfordBiology @MacKay_Lab for their labwork. Stay tuned for more updates on this project! 🌳🧬🥵🌡️

When I was chairing the #ClimGen22#ClimGen22 this old @PHDcomics meme popped up in my mind again. But seriously, I enjoyed #ClimGen22 very much. Lots of cool research, thoughtful discussions & brilliant ideas that would last. Thank you all for this amazing time. #AcademicChatter

I’m desperate for a bigger gel tank #agarosegel #academicchatter #lablife

Finally gave a try for the @nanopore Kit 12, was totally impressed by the read quality. (Left) Singlex basecalling: Q20+ as promised; (Right) Duplex basecalling: Simply wow. Now I'm really looking forward to the new Kit 14 for higher throughput. #sequencing #genomics #nanopore

Saying goodbye to some of my PhD samples in today’s #labclean - more than a thousand of DNA extractions 🥲 but I’m thrilled to continue to be @MacKay_Lab as a #postdoc! 🧬🔬🥼 #AcademicTwitter

Dominus illuminatio mea - 2022.03.21 14:36:22 Radcliffe Camera, @UniofOxford - #cityofdreamspires #magnolia #radcam #springtime #phototropism

One of the little things that just keeps your a little happy but all day long. ☺️ #labday #AcademicChatter #PositiveVibesOnly

This is the Herbology field equipment room at the Hogwarts. Or known as Plant Sciences @OxfordBiology to most muggles. . 📸 @LGuillardin

“What do you see?” “A broken gel.” “No, my broken heart.” - #phdchat #dna

I’m heading back to Oxford now from #EAB2021. I enjoyed the entire conference very much and I couldn’t imagine all the hard work and last-minute changes that the wonderful teams @BritishEcolSoc and @sfecologie had to deal with. You made this possible.

Regardless how many times I gave a talk and how many preparations and practice, adrenaline rush is still very real. But I made it #EAB2021! Thanks for listening and please do get in touch for any discussion! 😉 (📸: @LGuillardin)

Illegal wildlife trade is worth between US$7 to $23 billion annually. How much of this trade is in #rosewood? You will find the answer in my talk #EAB2021 at 10:45 today in Room 3B. #wildlife #conservation #genomics

Why Ecology Across Borders #EAB2021? Jane Memmott: “#Climate change and #biodiversity don’t respect borders.” Most of our problems are across borders, and we need people across borders to find the solutions.

#EAB2021 Draw your study organism! We @MacKay_Lab have our favourite trees here! #rosewood #larch #douglasfir

What a festive welcome, Liverpool! Despite the train cancellation and delays, I made it here for #EAB2021! Excited to join the Welcome Mixer tomorrow! 🥳🥳🥳

I'm coming to #EAB2021! A big shoutout to the amazing staff @BritishEcolSoc @sfecologie making this possible in such challenging times. If you're interested in ecological #genomics and #conservation, please come to my talk. I can't wait to meet and chat with you all! 😊

🧑🏻‍🔬: You know what, SPAGeDi actually estimates heterozygosity values for tetraploids… 🙋🏻‍♂️: Sorry I lost everything after “spaghetti”. I haven’t had lunch. #popgen #AcademicTwitter #phdchat

I thought that writing a paper is mind-numbing, but I was wrong, apparently my legs are more numb. #mylittlefriend #phdchat #luna #CatsOfTwitter

Thank you @edgarwongly for the treat ❤️ I can’t be more grateful for our 13-year friendship. Still remember the first day I came to Oxford and you brought me out for lunch. #oxfordplants #friendship #churchlab #turning26