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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 14h

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 4h

🚨🧬Next Generation Sequencing scientist position!

Shorter link for easier access!
tinyurl.com/SRA-81640

🙏Appreciate the sharing!

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org

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Ellie Armstrong @elliecat.bsky.social · 13h

Interested in giving a talk at PAG 2026 in the Wildlife Genomics, Comparative Genomics of Animals, OneHealth, Ancient DNA, or Domestication Genomics sessions? We are extending our abstract submission by a few days. We'd love to hear from you! Submit here and please repost! forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...

PAG 2026 Abstract Submission: Ancient DNA, Domestication Genomics, Comparative Genomics of Animals, Wildlife Genomics, One Health Hologenomics

****DEADLINE: OCTOBER 12, 2025**** This is the abstract submission form for the following PAG 33 workshops: Paleogenomics and Degraded DNA Domestication Genomics Comparative Genomics of Animals Wildl...

forms.gle

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Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · 17h

I'm recruiting a postdoc for my group (based in beautiful Eugene, OR). Please get in touch if you're interested, esp if you'd like to chat at #ASHG25!

Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · Aug 6

We'll primarily work at the intersection of statistical and population genetics, and we also have active projects related to the ethical and social implications of human genetics (ELSI). Please get in touch if that's a combination that sounds interesting to you!

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Sam Bogan @snbogan.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to share this work, out today in MBE! In polar fishes, we found that antifreeze protein genes expanded in copy number at low temperatures and contracted in the deep sea, highlighting a role of depth and pressure in AFP evolution.

🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · 8d

#newpreprint: "Climate Shaped the Global Population Structure of Leopards and their Extinction in Europe": www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Leopards are charming big cats but there are many mysteries around them. Thread 🧵

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Katie Solari @kasolari.bsky.social · 8d

Very excited to share that our work assessing the genomic diversity of snow leopards has come out today in PNAS! Spoiler alert - they have the lowest genetic diversity of all big cats!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
@petrovadmitri.bsky.social @elliecat.bsky.social

Exceedingly low genetic diversity in snow leopards due to persistently small population size | PNAS

Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) serve as an umbrella species whose conservation benefits their high-elevation Asian habitat. Their numbers are belie...

www.pnas.org

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Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos @dortizba.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to share our new paper in
@GeneticsGSA
! We developed "Retriever," a novel method that enables high-quality genotype imputation in non-model organisms. 🧬 Congratulations to Charles on his first PhD paper!

Paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

A thread 🧵👇

Chimeric Reference Panels for Genomic Imputation

Abstract. Despite transformative advances in genomic technologies, missing data remains a fundamental constraint that limits the full potential of genomic

doi.org

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Ellie Armstrong @elliecat.bsky.social · 16d

had a wonderful day down at SDSU! Thank you for having me and for all of the awesome questions and interest in the work. The students I got to chat with were absolutely incredible! So many great young scientists in this group 🧑‍🔬🧪

Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 16d

From one superb seminar on Friday to another today. So inspiring to hear from @elliecat.bsky.social about her work with grizzlies today!

Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 16d

Looking forward to the awesome @elliecat.bsky.social’s lecture today in our EEB seminar series! “Not All Bad News: Minor Genomic Impacts of Population Declines in Brown Bears” Noon Pacific in the Gold Auditorium, Shiley Biosciences Center. See ya there!

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Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · 22d

Hi! We need lice for our diversity and adaptation project. Specifically, we need lice from zebras, camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos) & aardvarks. If you or someone you know might have lice, I'm happy to discuss our inclusive collaboration plans!
sites.google.com/nhm.org/anop...

Mammals & Lice

We are interested in understanding what drives host-parasite relationships. We are using the Anoplura (sucking lice) parasite and mammalian host system to generate a comprehensive sucking louse phylog...

sites.google.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23d

A tiger handler who had acquired some of his tigers from Joe Exotic was fatally mauled on Saturday by a tiger at his family-run zoo in southeastern Oklahoma, the authorities said.

Tiger Handler Linked to Joe Exotic Is Fatally Mauled by Tiger

Ryan Easley, 37, was performing at his family-run private zoo in Hugo, Okla., when a tiger attacked him, the authorities said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

nyti.ms

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Maria Akopyan, PhD @akopyan.bsky.social · 23d

Now published in Cell! We found that ~15% of SNPs from divergent refs did not liftover as SNPs in the gray fox ref—half mapped to monomorphic sites, half failed to map. Co-authored with Matthew Genchev, @elliecat.bsky.social, and @jazlynmooney.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ellie Armstrong @elliecat.bsky.social · 23d

So proud of this work—out today in Cell! 🦊 (and only the beginning of lots of exciting fox work to come!)

Maria Akopyan, PhD @akopyan.bsky.social · 23d

Now published in Cell! We found that ~15% of SNPs from divergent refs did not liftover as SNPs in the gray fox ref—half mapped to monomorphic sites, half failed to map. Co-authored with Matthew Genchev, @elliecat.bsky.social, and @jazlynmooney.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 26d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social · Sep 15

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student whose research would benefit from visiting a collection at the @nhm.org? Apply now for our Collections Study Award! Deadline is Oct. 1; learn more at nhm.org/student-coll...

Flyer for the award. Has images of three students interacting with collections materials; text reads:

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Student Collections Study Award
October 1st, 2025 Application Deadline
Application and Details:
https://nhm.org/student-collections-study-award

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Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social · Sep 15

Join Mia Wege and me to study niche partitioning among three Antarctic mesopredators!

Fully-funded PhD opportunity at U Canterbury, please email [email protected] if you're interested!

Applications will be reviewed until filled.

Fluffy Weddell seal pup looks straight into the camera

We are seeking a motivated PhD student to investigate how multiple mesopredators share space and resources in the Southern Ross Sea. The project will address questions about niche partitioning (both spatial and temporal) and foraging ecology in the Southern Ocean using three years of animal tracking data deployed on penguins (n = 60) and seals (n = 30). Specifically, we wish to uncover aspects of three-dimensional space use in Adélie penguins, emperor penguins, and Weddell seals at Cape Crozier, in the southern Ross Sea. There exists one of the largest colonies of Adélie penguins, a small colony of emperor penguins, and a small group of Weddell seals. We ask: How are these animals using the same space at the same time? How can that part of the ocean support hundreds of thousands of central-place foragers in a relatively small foraging halo, during the short summer window of time? Answers to these questions will provide fine-scale insights as part of the larger project which seeks to understand the metacommunity structure of marine mesopredators in the Southern Ocean and will inform conservation in the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area (one of the largest in the world). With the first 10-year evaluation of the MPA coming up, this project will have immediate real-world impact.
We cannot guarantee Antarctic field work as part of the PhD project.
Funding: Rutherford Discovery Fellowship ($27,000 NZD/year for three years + fees), plus potential school-supported (School of Earth and Environment) conference travel opportunities.
Requirements: Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Ecology, Marine Biology, Geography, Zoology or Statistics required; good communication skills (written and verbal), with previous publication experience a bonus; strong work ethic, strong initiative, and team attitude; previous experience handling biologging data (in any system), large datasets, and data wrangling a plus.

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Jim Leebens-Mack @jleebensmack.bsky.social · Sep 11

Analyses of a new genomes for garden asparagus and a Mediterranean basin congener reveal independent origins of dioecy and XY sex chromosomes. The work led by Phil Bentz @pbentz.bsky.social finds no overlap in the two Y-linked sex-determination genes - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... .

Two independent origins of XY sex chromosomes in Asparagus

The relatively young and repeated evolutionary origins of dioecy (separate sexes) in flowering plants enable investigation of molecular dynamics occurring at the earliest stages of sex chromosome evol...

www.biorxiv.org

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · Sep 9

🦣🍖🧬 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 😁

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Ellie Armstrong @elliecat.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hell yeah congrats, Mick!

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓

I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.

👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Sep 5

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.

Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.

kevingdaly.github.io

Ruminant Palaeogenomics - Kevin G. Daly: Ruminant Palaeogenomics

kevingdaly.github.io

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · Sep 4

PREVIEW of Alveus Adventures episode 1: a visit to @garlab.bsky.social!

Full episode drops 12pm Central 9/4/2025!!!

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Sep 3

Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference

Visit our website to learn more.

genetics-gsa.org

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