🐦‍🔥 Meet the Tragopan: one of the Himalayas’ most spectacular birds Often called “horned pheasants”, these stunning birds display inflatable orange or blue horns during their elaborate courtship displays. Sadly, several Tragopan species are under growing pressure from habitat loss and hunting. 🧵👇

BopCo and JEMU are using genetic tools, COI barcodes and SNP data, to trace the flies’ origins and deliver fast insights to authorities. 🌱 Want to help? Applications open this spring to host a fly trap at home for summer 2026! More info on how to participate: www.africamuseum.be/en/get_invol...

Registration is open for GuardIAS Summer School 2026, with a focus on e-DNA and Invasive Species! 🌊 Explore the program and meet the trainers: guardias.eu/welcome-to-t... Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #GuardIAS #InvasiveAlienSpecies #IAS #InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions

Looking forward to presenting @bopco-be.bsky.social to the iBOL Europe community! More info 👇

The first community meeting of the year will happen on 26 January! We'll be joined by Amber Hartman Scholz (Leibniz-Institut DSMZ), who will discuss the BBNJ Treaty, including Marine Genetic Resources & the requirements for fair & equitable sharing of benefits. iboleurope.org/community-me...

PhD opportunity at the University of Freiburg in plant-insect-microbe interactions. Focus on drought and herbivory effects on Quercus petrea. Details: https://uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004720/ #phd

Postdoc position in population genomics available in Montpellier, France, focusing on the evolutionary history of food plants in the Congo Basin. Salary ~€2,200/month. Apply by 15/01/2026. More info: https://anr.fr/Project-ANR-23-CE27-0023. #postdoc

🎉 Happy 10th Birthday to BopCo! 🎉 November 2025 marks 10 years of BopCo, the Belspo funded DNA Identification Service at RBINS & RMCA — and what a journey it’s been!

🐟 Fast DNA testing to protect the future of European eels The lucrative trade of glass eels continues to raise serious concerns across Europe. While the European eel is critically endangered and protected under CITES regulations, illegal trafficking persists due to high demand, especially in Asia.

We have published a new special issue on invasions in aquatic systems, which stemmed from @neobiota.bsky.social's 2024 conference in Lisbon. 🌊🇵🇹 🔗 Read all about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/10/10/n...

One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇

Natural History Museum, London, seeks a Bioinformatician for its Insect Pollinator Genomics Project. Position details: https://jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=431. Required skills include bioinformatics and genomics. #postdoc

🧬Join the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference! 🗓️ 29–31 October 2025 #savethedate 💻 Fully online & free of charge! More info - including the #opencall for abstracts: ➡️ biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/08/07/g... #GenomicsforBiodiversity #conference #BGE @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social

Belgium is home to several breeders of CITES-listed birds such as parrots and birds of prey. Some of these species are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity, which has led to illegal practices in the past, such as the collection and raising of eggs or chicks taken from the wild. 🧵👇

🌞 Feeling the summer heat? Step into the frozen world of science with us, at -80°C! ❄️ Did you know that both the AfricaMuseum and @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social house massive tissue collections stored at -80°C for molecular research?

The Delmore lab at Columbia University is offering a fully funded postdoctoral position in Ecology and Environmental Biology, focusing on behavioral and speciation genomics. Apply by emailing a cover letter and CV to [email protected]. More info at: delmorelab.com #postdoc

🔬🧬🍄 @science.org Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @ubcbotany.bsky.social #fungi #fungisky #mycology #genetics #chromosome #nucleus #DNA #evolution #genome #biodiversity

🚢 In January 2024, BopCo received damaged wood from the “Berendrechtsluis” in the port of Antwerp. The wood was riddled with tiny holes and tubes — a telltale sign of possible shipworm activity.

Check out our new paper led by the amazing @benkuhnhaeuser.bsky.social in @science.org, exploring how the extraordinary diversity of Asian rattan palms was assembled 🌴

Last 3 days to apply for the #CETAF E-SCoRe Award! 🏃🏃‍♂️ HURRY UP! 🌿 for #natural collections based #researches 👩‍🔬 for PhD #students 💶 prize of 1.000 € + 1.500 € for research trip Check this page out 👇 cetaf.org/template-act... #taxonomy #biodiversity #phd #opportunity

🚨2025 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership First up: The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage @universityofleeds.bsky.social and @theul.bsky.social 📅: 30 April 2025 🪶: [email protected] Apply here👇 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/... #GLAM

PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals

Come work with us! The New York Botanical Garden is hiring a Curator at the Assist. or Associate level. Profile: a productive and FUN Mycologist or Cryptogamic Botanist. Happy to talk to candidates about how wonderful one of the best botanical research centers is, easy. www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

#LIBresearch Museum collections are gems for genomic research! We refined amplification-free long-read DNA sequencing, which led to the assembly of new genomes and moved us closer to reference genomes for all eukaryotes! #Genomics #Biodiversity Read more: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years. Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

3-Year PhD position @Uni Mainz (Germany) with @crltt.bsky.social, S. Foitzik, and me #Neurobiology #genomics #transcriptomics to investigate the olfactory system of ants from genes to neurons Information: seafile.rlp.net/f/5df9298781... We still have a postdoc position available for this project.

🦑🧪 Three days left to apply for the postdoctoral position in my lab. We're looking for a population geneticist/ecologist/evolutionary biologist who is interested in studying tiny fishes in the Indo-Pacific! Come join us! 🤗 fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...

Great to see our paper on the front cover @natureecoevo.bsky.social, with the tropical displays in our glasshouse range! With thanks to all 50+ co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Nice editorial on the issues facing a variety of ex situ plant collection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Applications open for the new round of Participatory Research fund! NEW & IMPROVED! Check the Further Particulars and Apply via our website. Email us for any questions, and spread the word! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/opportunities/ @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @docbroc.bsky.social @nealspencer.bsky.social

looking to find folks who have current access to identified specimens (can be live or dead and well preserved) of many mosquito species. there are 3500ish described Culidae out there - anyone know anyone who might have specimens from 50+ species? please get in touch if so!

🚇 New Research Uncovers the Ancient Origins of the "London Underground Mosquito" 🦟 Culex pipiens - a.k.a. the common house mosquito or northern house mosquito - is one of the most common mosquitoes found in human habitats across the temperate regions of Europe, Africa, and Asia. 🧵👇

📣 What is the importance of wildlife surveillance? What is the role of AI in advancing One Health? How should biological invasions be managed within the One Health concept? These and other related topics were discussed at the Belgian One Health event in Brussels last week. 🧵👇

Biologists Unveil New Taxonomic System Classifying Species By Hotness theonion.com/biologi...

#Mosquito #genome chromatin architecture #evolution - extremely long-ranged looping interactions, conserved for ~100 million years www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿 Introducing #OneSTOP 🎉 A new EU-funded project to strengthen European #biosecurity by addressing terrestrial invasive alien species. We're breaking silos, fostering collaboration, and engaging communities to protect biodiversity. Stay tuned for updates on our mission! 📸 Mario Shimbov

Toward a phylogenomic classification of #magnoliids New #AJB research by Andrew Helmstetter, Zacky Ezedin, Elton John de Lírio, Sylvia de Oliveira, Lars Chatrou, Roy Erkens, Isabel Larridon, @hsauquet.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantsciences #Angiosperms353 #phylogenomics

A reference-quality NLRome for the hexaploid sweetpotato and diploid wild relatives https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.13.632774v1

Phylogenetic biome niche conservatism underlies the evolution of forest paleoendemic legume trees in tropical Africa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.10.632308v1

🧑‍🏫 Last week, BopCo hosted a workshop on DNA-based species identification for students from HOWEST Hogeschool and @universitedeliege.bsky.social. Our ENFORCE collaborators also shared their expertise in wood identification methods, and we went on a tour through their lab and wood collections. 🧵👇

📣Call for session proposals - #LivingData2025 🐦 Living Data 2025 is a joint conference jointly hosted by GBIF, TDWG, OBIS and GEO BON from 21 -24 October in #Colombia. Learn more: 🔗www.livingdata2025.c...#LivingData2025#Colombia.#Biodiversity #DatosVivos2025

The Van de Peer lab at Ghent University seeks two postdocs focused on gene loss in plant evolution. Funded by FWO, roles include computational genomics and evolutionary analysis. Apply at: https://jobso.id/ko16 #postdoc

👑 Did you know that the Swiss National Museum owns around 90 bridal crowns from around 1550 to the early 20th century, some decorated with delicate red and white flowers? These bridal crowns are found in Switzerland, but also in Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein. But here's the mystery: 🧵👇

Congrats to @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al on publication of "Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in walnuts and hickories" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We’re looking for 3 postdocs to join our lab and work on engineering plant gene expression, metabolism and growth. If you have enthusiasm & skills in synthetic biology or metabolic engineering, apply by Jan 31. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49767/ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49773/ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/

Our paper on the phylogeny of Nematoda 🪱came out on the last day of 2024 in @systbiol.bsky.social. Well at least the link is, the PDF will come later... What started off as a collaboration invitation to design UCE probes snowballed building a phylogeny of the whole phylum using BUSCOs...

Happy New Year! Our GPN-MSA paper is finally published, under a slightly different title from the preprint. Please check it out and share it with your colleagues: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/4

Please circulate widely: We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

🤩 Many thanks to the various stakeholders for their trust in our identification services, and thank you for being part of our journey. 🎉 The BopCo team wishes you happy holidays and an inspiring 2025! 🤝 BELSPO - Belgian Science Policy Office || Institute of Natural Sciences || AfricaMuseum

🌍 Last week, BopCo participated in a workshop organized by the FPS Public Health and the Institute of Natural Sciences, to discuss crucial strategies to combat wildlife trafficking and the related health implications in Europe, together with experts from TRAFFIC, WWF France, Air France, and more.