"it was not a case of them stealing the King’s group’s data and then, voila, those data gave them the structure of DNA. Instead, they solved the structure through their own iterative approach and then used the King’s data — without permission — to confirm it."

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!💯

New Zealand’s invasive starlings on the cover of Molecular Ecology! 🐦🧬 This collaborative project unpacks the invasion history of starlings in Aotearoa New Zealand, combining population genomics with historical records of human-mediated translocations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our monthly #EPIC seminars are back! 🎉 This month, Thomas Bøggild kicked things off with a fascinating talk on stopped recombination in new sex chromosomes, and @audald.bsky.social followed with great insights into recombination maps and imputation in #PopGen studies. See you next month!

Our Q&A article on inbreeding for conservation is out in BMC Biology! We discuss some important key concepts related to inbreeding in the light of new genomic tools and what it means for conservation when we want to improve species survival. #consgen bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Este verano visitamos Cambridge, con su universidad y centros de investigación referentes en biología molecular. Donde trabajó Fred Sanger, ganador de 2 premios Nobel de Química. Un investigador singular e irrepetible. Te lo explico en mi blog @naukas.bsky.social montoliu.naukas.com/2025/08/24/u...

Low-coverage sequencing (LCS) + genotype imputation is a cost-effective approach to genotype hundreds of samples at a full-genome level. But how do different imputation tools perform across populations with varying relatedness and inbreeding?

Aotearoa, meet your 2025 Bird of the Year 👑🦅 The kārearea or New Zealand falcon is our only species of falcon, and has reclaimed the top spot once again after its last victory in 2012 🏆 Learn more about this endemic bird of prey ⬇️ w.wiki/FUGN 📷: Tony Wills, CC BY-SA 3.0 #BirdOfTheYear

UCPH seeks a postdoc in Water Buffalo Population Genomics, starting Jan 2026. Applicants need a PhD in related fields, programming skills, & experience with… https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentId=18965&ProjectId=164930&MediaId=5&SkipAdvertisement=false #postdoc

Scientists, DON'T USE LaTeX UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON'T GIVE LaTeX TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE .tex DOC INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE DOCS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE [Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred]

Nice SciShow-video with many examples of studies using "fake birds" (i.e. decoys or dummies). #ornithology www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSzC...

☀️ My Mediterranean summer has come to an end, and today I’m kicking off a new postdoctoral adventure in @hernmoral.bsky.social’s group at the Globe Institute! Lots to learn, lots to contribute, and hopefully lots more posting here about Evolutionary & Conservation Genomics 🚀

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD Reposts appreciated 😁

1/10 We are thrilled to announce that our new paper on conservation genomics of the Balearic shearwater has just been published online at @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Genomic imputation can boost dataset quality and benefit research on wild populations. In hihi, we found high #imputation accuracies despite a small reference panel of high-fecundity individuals. Imputation improves downstream #ConservationGenomics analyses. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Me promoting the Genomic History Inference Strategies Tournament at #eseb2025! ghi.st Population geneticists: join, compete, earn cash, become an author, learn, help the community! ghi.st

Will be presenting our work on imputation of lcWGS in populations with a range of relatedness and inbreeding. Find me throughout the day at #ESEB2025 (board 337) Dr. Tram Vi, @annasanture.bsky.social and colleagues (@aucklanduni.bsky.social)

Back home for a good reason 💁🏻‍♂️ #ESEB2025

Dr. Tram Vi presented yesterday her fantastic work on imputation of lcWGS in population analyses, in which I had the chance to participate (w/ @annasanture.bsky.social and colleagues). #GSA2025

The actual PopGen Power Rangers were revealed at the #GSA2025

First chilly jog in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland and ready for the #GSA2025 - @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Just three more sleeps until #GSA2025 kicks off in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland! Bring your love of science, your curiosity, and maybe a rain jacket - just in case 🌧️🧬 We can't wait to see you there!

✍ New blog post: The World Is Falling Apart, But You Don't Have To Follow jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/t...

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!

CJ Versoza @susanneppfeifer.bsky.social @audald.bsky.social & JD Jensen use WGS of pedigrees of aye-ayes to map crossover and noncrossover recombination events. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf072 #genome #primate #recombination #evolution

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Already 30+ registered for our 7th #bioinformatics #hackathon @bcmhgsc.bsky.social around Structural Variants, Graph genomes & many related topics: fritzsedlazeck.github.io/blog/2025/ha... Groups will work on interesting topics that will be published in F1000. Registration till 10th of Aug!

Lovely spring day in Tucson, enjoying many exciting talks at the #AZPopGroup, moderated by @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social.

🐐 New preprint out with @gingerhowley.bsky.social The VarGoats Consortium and many others! We explore how genotype imputation can enhance low-coverage ancient goat/Capra🐐 genomes, shedding light on early domestication and herd management. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #aDNA #Domestication​

It's unusual to be cited twice in a day (diff. papers!) but even more considering how cool these preprints are 🤩 - High quality (HiFi) assemblies of African cattle breeds: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - Ancient genome imputation to infer goat demographic history: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social 🥳 academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

The orange-bellied parrot is predicted to go extinct by 2038. We tracked >200 years of genomic erosion. Here’s what we found 🧬🦜 #ConservationGenomics #consgen #popgen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... pic by Marc Gardner

Message from SSE Council: Supporting our Community and our Mission mailchi.mp/evolutionsoc...

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of my grant application."

Donate your time, become a Wikipedian (preferably minoritized languages): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

The Long-read sequencing Special Issue is now LIVE! Guest-edited by @ahoischen.bsky.social , @sedlazeck.bsky.social, and @anaconesa.bsky.social.

Here, we present the landscape of crossover and non-crossover events in aye-ayes (strepsirrhines), as well as the autosomal genetic map of the species.

First time a cloned endangered species has produced offspring! reviverestore.org/breaking-new...

Back to research after a busy and lively #Evo2024. Here you can watch my presentation about recombination rates in aye-ayes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmD... (second talk / chapter)

BRAKER3: Fully automated genome annotation using RNA-seq and protein evidence with GeneMark-ETP, AUGUSTUS, and TSEBRA genome.cshlp.org/content/earl... 🧬🖥️ github.com/Gaius-August... 🐳 hub.docker.com/r/teambraker...

I am delighted to share a preprint of our *Guide to k-mer approaches for genomics across the tree of life* By Katie Jenike, Lucia Campos-Domínguez, Marilou Boddé, José Cerca, Christina N. Hodson, @mikeschatz.bsky.social & myself. arxiv.org/abs/2404.01519

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship @ ASU - One Health, Many Diverse Genomes apply.interfolio.com/144623

Want to learn more about the tricks and tips for generating ONT Ultra-long DNA? The T2T Consortium and UCSC SeqTech Center are hosting a Technology-focused Webinar next Thursday with a group of experts. Register today: bit.ly/3PFTa2f @aphillippy.bsky.social

A thread about how meiotic recombination is directed to the genome in vertebrates, discovered by studying corn snakes. Work with @choge.bsky.social, @mollyprz.bsky.social, and co-authors: 1/n

What exactly is a species? I take a look at polar bears, barn owls, frogs, giraffes, crustaceans, and more in my piece today in the New York Times. A simple answer is really hard to find! 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/s...

Attendees can apply to symposia after registration, when they submit their in-person or virtual talks. Talks not included in symposia will be scheduled in the general sessions (as they are in typical Evolution meetings), so there is no risk and all are encouraged to apply!

I’m so proud of this work! Awesome collaboration between the Galaxy Project and the Vertebrate Genomes Project to make reference quality genomes accessible for all. 51 (!!!) new vertebrate genomes presented here means only about 70,000 left to go😀🚀 rdcu.be/dwYSO

Excellent team effort from the ETH Animal Genomics group identifying mQTLs with impact in bull fertility!

The US embassy in London has weighed in on the controversy created by a US scientist's suggestion that tea needs a pinch of salt.

There is a consensus on accurate genotyping accuracy with lcWGS imputation. Haplotype phasing is also important and seems to be coverage-dependent.