That's it! On Monday I defended my PhD working with the genomics and evolutionary history of the relationship between butterflies and Wolbachia, with a comment on the use of genomics to conservation! Thanks a lot to @pavelmatosm.bsky.social for supervising and mentoring!

@pavelmatosm.bsky.social has a new PhD position opportunity to work with conservation genomics of European butterflies! The project involves very cool collaborations with @projectpsyche.bsky.social, @10klepgenomes.bsky.social and the LepEUConsortium! Deadline Sep 12 pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

This month's ERGA BioGenome Analysis & Applications Seminar will feature a talk by speaker Pío Sierra about a new tool, pantera, which allows faster identification of Transposable Elements in genome assemblies. www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/faster-...

Anybody out there with BayesAss2 experience? I think we are not understanding each other about how the input file has to look like!

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies 2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com

RAxML-NG v2.0 beta is here github.com/amkozlov/rax... Features 1. Difficulty prediction academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 2. Adaptive search academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 3. Early Stop www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 4. Model selection 5. Rapid bootstrapping academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

(1/4) In its first year, #ProjectPsyche has engaged with the research community by creating networks with experts in moths and butterflies 🦋 Members of the project have also trained the research community in #GenomeCuration, a key step in the generation of genomes 🧬

This Editorial by Brandon S. Gaut and Claudia A. M. Russo provides some nice insight into how #SocietyJournals work, and why it pays for Scientists to publish with #SocietyOwned Journals. 👇 A Message From the Editors-in-Chief academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #PlantScience #SciencePublishing

It's been brilliant to discuss so many aspects of Project Psyche as a community and find ways to make Psyche even better! Big thank you to @lepphylo.bsky.social @lunduniversity.bsky.social for hosting us and COST for making this meeting possible! www.cost.eu/actions/CA23...

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.

Official petition for using em-dash in scientific publication (is it used?). It feels to me a bit too flamboyant to use it in a paper, but honestly I see it as a stylish alternative to "i.e" or sometimes colons.

A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🚨Registration open🚨 1st - 6th of June, me, Katie Jenike, @rayanchikhi.bsky.social and Gene Myers will run a week long workshop on k-mers for biodiversity genomics organised by @connectingscience.bsky.social at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. Join us & get equipped to wrestle large genomic datasets!

@lepphylo.bsky.social was ahead of me to post about our paper together with Pavel Matos, @joanameier.bsky.social and others! I will come back to this to talk a bit more about it. For me, this is the product of amazing collaborations with inspiring people!

Happy to have been part of this new article on planthopper (Fulgoromorpha) systematics! A great collaboration between Jagiellonian and Lund Universities! doi.org/10.1111/syen...

In our lab's website, we have a Blog section for more informal articles: our research, "philosophical" discussions from our meetings and journal clubs. I've contributed to two of these blog posts: - Are cryptic species real? - Congresses attended by our [...] pavelmatos.wordpress.com/category/blog/

Left ex-twitter today (finally). There I tried to maintain a strictly science-based profile. Here I will try to be more flexible, bringing some readings, movies, music, personal life in general. But the aim is mostly to engage with researchers! Cheers!