🚨 #Policy brief for recent @nature.com paper: available in 14 languages (more to come)🚨 We highlight key recommendations for #policymakers, #conservation practitioners & researchers to safeguard #GeneticDiversity. 🔗Download the policy brief: www.coalitionforconservationgenetics.org/resources-da...

🚨New #policy research! A recent study explores how the #conservation of #GeneticDiversity can be integrated into the EU’s Nature Restoration Regulations & why safeguarding genetic diversity is key to ecosystem resilience🌿 Read more here: www.coalitionforconservationgenetics.org/resources-da...

Breaking news: The #NCCR #CLIM+ on "Climate Extremes & Society" will be funded by the @snf-fns.ch in the coming 4 years! With 47 PIs, 20 institutions & 22 stakeholders from #health to #finance & #agriculture, it will unite climate expertise from both natural & social science! nccr-climplus.ch

Spatial inference of ancestor locations suggests northern refugia for canopy-forming #kelps in the Pacific Northwest Jordan B. Bemmels, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @gregowens.bsky.social #PlantScience #phylogeography

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻 DL 14 September jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Arctic charr #genome - a highly polygenic basis of morph differentiation with population-specific selection on alleles linked to the development of similar morph phenotypes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

👇 This is an excellent opportunity to join this fantastic group led by our great new colleague Prof. Melissa Chapman @milliechapman.bsky.social at the USYS Department @usyseth.bsky.social ofETH Zürich @ethz.ch as doctoral student or postdoc!

We discuss the startling news that the rubber hand illusion works on OCTOPUSES m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8B...

Happy to see our latest work out in @molbioevol.bsky.social. We revisit the evolution of 5-methylcytosine across neglected eukaryotic supergroups, establishing an ancestral repressive role silencing genome invaders, both transposons and viral elements👾: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... 🧵 1/7

Just want to share this wild revision history of the Wikipedia page on Linkage Disequilibrium where Felsenstein himself debated people on the correct use of notations & definitions. After 100 years of #popgen people does not seem to be totally agree on what LD is? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Li...

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Painters often prime a canvas with a layer of white to make it smoother, stronger and to enhance the colours they will later layer on, but it seems this is a mechanism that birds were using long before humans picked up paintbrushes.

1/5 ✨Proud✨ to see our review with Katie Peichel as featured content in Trends_Ecol_Evo, with my beloved alpine lineages of Arabidopsis arenosa on the cover. Hope that you find it interesting! doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.007

🎉🧬🇨🇭 Researchers in Switzerland can soon deposit human genomics data in a secure national archive, and control access to researchers around the world, with Swiss FEGA joining the international FEGA network 👇 Swiss FEGA is consortium of six institutions, including at @ethz.ch, coordinated by SIB.

#TEsky Lepidopteran genomes have denser transposable elements in smaller chromosomes, likely driven by non-allelic homologous recombination doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

“Invest in data resources to make FAIR a reality”, a correspondence penned by our director, @dessimoz.bsky.social, @francesarnold.bsky.social‬, Richard J. Roberts, and @timjph.bsky.social, published in Nature.

Seen a potential problem in a published article? Wonder whether and how to respond? Here are some thoughts on how to figure out what's best for you. Happy to hear your thoughts... thetrophiclink.org/posts/2025-0...

Pls. share widely Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025 → Vibrant & friendly community → Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology → Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating) submit abstract by July 29

The National Research Programme “Promoting #Biodiversity and Sustainable Ecosystem Services for Switzerland” (NRP 82) is supporting 15 projects with a total of 11.2 million francs. And it is doing so with an approach that is completely new in #Switzerland. ➡️ buff.ly/1nx56ln

📣 I’m recruiting a #Postdoc to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group @leibniz-hki.de will be a good fit for you! Please share! jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...

🕷️🕸️🧬 whole #genome sequencing of 202 parent-offspring trios from 34 families across 3 social & 4 subsocial species - sociality is associated with an approximately 50% reduction in germline mutation rate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #biodiversity #genomics

11 Funded PhD Positions in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen in Germany Explore 11 fully funded PhD opportunities in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen. Work on groundbreaking research in genome evolution, reproductive systems, and bioinformatics. Apply before…

In #G3journal, Ziming Zhong, Bruce A. McDonald, and @jessstapley.bsky.social identified genomic regions associated with colony growth and melanization under temperature conditions in the wheat pathogen, showing how the pathogenic fungi respond to temperature stress. Read more: buff.ly/4eBnwhs

A great collection of papers here ... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998... Special Issue: Advancing species conservation and management through omics tools

Milking it - leveraging large pedigree-SNP dataset to study age-related changes in Recombination in Dairy cattle. Finally out thanks to a very talented student Evelyn Jade and a dedicated academic @annasanture.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

13 PhD Positions in Food Science at University of Naples Federico II, Italy – Open for International Students The University of Naples Federico II has opened applications for the 41st PhD cycle (2025/2026), offering fully funded opportunities for international students. Deadline: July 7, 2025.

The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery – a long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces the special issue on ‘The Fungi’. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Incredibly sad. Triste. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two caught Smuggling Fusarium graminearum into US www.bbc.com/news/article...

184 PhD Funded Positions in All Research Fields at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy Discover 184 fully funded PhD opportunities across multiple disciplines at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Open to all nationalities. Apply online by June 30, 2025.

What joy & privilege to work with such amazing people - today a brilliant scientist I mentored successfully defended his PhD with NO REVISIONS!, a manuscript written by then undergrad was accepted, my beautiful group bought me a birthday cake and my dear friend and collaborator bought me flowers

Two academic (lecturer) positions available at the University of Otago in Aotearoa/New Zealand! One in Conservation Biology, another in Evolutionary Ecology. Links for positions below: otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

Happy to announce that registration for the 2025 Stromlo Plant Pathology (and plant pests!) conference at ANU is now open (Nov 27-28). Plenary speakers confirmed include @yasukadota.bsky.social, Cecile Segonzac [email protected]. Please go to tinyurl.com/2rdxuap3 to register - all are welcome!

Upgraded CheloAbing_2.0 assembly resulted in individual estimates of inbreeding, including ROH proportion (FROH), number (NROH), and cumulative length (SROH), that were statistically different from those derived from the draft #genome onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🐢

Papua New Guinea plant survey research jobs at Binatang Research Centre Madang

Beyond thrilled to see this paper out. It is a combination of experiments I did breeding anole lizards in Panama combined with sequence data collected by my collaborators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our latest paper on QTL mapping of temperature stress in the devastating wheat pathogen Z. tritici. academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

Mapping genomic regions associated with temperature stress in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

Hey Journals - when you ask me if I can review a MS on Friday - I really don’t appreciate being reminded and asked to respond on the following Sunday. Surely you can train your automated response algorithms about weekends.

Genetically modified pod borer resistant cowpeas now boosting food security for smallholder farmers in Ghana #plantscience 🧪 theconversation.com/ghanas-first...

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894

New post doc opportunity in our team at Kiel University in the north of Germany. We are looking for a motivated molecular biologists to unravel plant-microbe interactions in grasses. Please see: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de

Are you interested in a postdoc in Germany on fungal pathogen biology, genomics, or antifungal resistance? My Uni (@uni-jena.de) is hosting a free two-day masterclass in June on preparing MSCA Postdoc Fellowships with it as host. If you are interested in writing a fellowship with me, get in touch!

🚨There is still time to apply for the POST DOC POSITION on wheat powdery mildew in my lab @theccdm.bsky.social !🚨 staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie...

Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni! Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity. #linguistics #evolution #academia #phd www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Very excited about this PhD project exploring new ways to model interactions of abiotic stress with environmental conditions in plants, combining sensor technology and advanced data analysis. Apply for a chance to change how we study environmental responses! www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...

Looking for a MSc programme @uni-kiel.de that combines agriculture and genomics (with options to specialize in plant or animals, molecular or computational techniques, or a bit of all?) Our MSc programme Agrigenomics is open for applications for next fall! www.agrigenomics.agrar.uni-kiel.de/en

@jessstapley.bsky.social covering the history of QTL mapping in Zymoseptoria tritici done by the Plant pathology Group of ETH Zürich 🧬🧬 #ecfg17

Fully open, FAIR and AI-ready biodiversity data by 2035 – this is the goal of a new roadmap already signed by natural history collections, journal publishers, global biodiversity networks & research infrastructures including SIB. See more 👇🏽 @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social @libroscope.bsky.social