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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 11d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Emiliano @emitruc.bsky.social · 12d

Happy to share the latest publication from our labs on the Apennine brown bear, a relict population not far from Rome, Italy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2504409122
Thanks to great co-auths, we moved beyond our "genomic" comfort zone incl. cellular experiments and molecular dynamics simulations.

A fixed mutation in the respiratory complex I impairs mitochondrial bioenergetics in the endangered Apennine brown bear | PNAS

Effective conservation genomics of endangered species requires realistic understanding of the fitness consequences caused by the accumulation of de...

www.pnas.org

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 12d

New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.

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⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · 17d

Congrats CD on your well-earned achievement!

(This is _actually_ on the "journal" website)

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Screenshot from journal website. There is a picture of of Count Dracula. Text:

BEST AUTHOR Of The Month

Professor Thomas Count Dracula, MD, PhD

Distinguished Professor of Haematology Head — Experimental, Historical & Sensory Haematology Vlad the Impaler University, Wolf’s Lane, Wooden Stakes Grove 666, Transylvania.

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 15d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · 15d

The 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics will take place between the 25th of January and 7th of February, in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. 🧬🌳 Applications are now open! Deadline: 15th of November, 2025. Do not miss the chance to attend! Spread the word among colleagues! 🤗 evomics.org/apply-worksh...

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Camille Roux @crouxevo.bsky.social · Sep 12

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · Sep 12

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

Multicolored CT model of a fossil cichlid skeleton. Image credit: Austin Babut (project technician).

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Michael Matschiner @mmatschiner.bsky.social · Sep 2

I hope so, too!

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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!

Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨JOB ALERT!🚨

Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!

Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬

Apply here:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Thomas Desvignes @notothentoma.bsky.social · Aug 22

While trying to see if two populations of the Antarctic longfin icedevil fish Aethotaxis mitopteryx were genetically differentiated, we uncovered a clear sex signal demonstrating that in this rarely encountered species males are the heterogametic sex!
🧪🐟🌎🐧🧊🧬

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sex Differentiation and Long‐Distance Gene Flow in the Elusive Antarctic Fish Aethotaxis mitopteryx

This genetic study of a rare Antarctic fish, the longfin icedevil (Aethotaxis mitopteryx) investigates population connectivity across the Weddel Sea, revealing little to no differentiation even over ...

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Milan Malinsky @millanek.bsky.social · Aug 20

Want to make recombination maps from sperm/pollen/gametes? There is an easy way, based on Hi-C sequencing.

Full details in the Hi-reComb paper now in Genetics:
doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Thanks to Richard Durbin and Ed Green and a great group of co-authors for contributions.

Hi-reComb: constructing recombination maps from bulk gamete Hi-C sequencing

Abstract. Recombination is central to genetics and to evolution of sexually reproducing organisms. However, obtaining accurate estimates of recombination r

doi.org

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Andy Foote @andrewfoote.bsky.social · Aug 15

'Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation' - now published online in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social‬

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 10

*PhD position* 🦉

Would you like to do a PhD with Indo-Pacific birds and evolutionary genomics? Join us in Stockholm:

05 September 2025, 23:59

PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds

The Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics is offering a four-year PhD position focused on analyzing population-level genomic data from museum bird samples. The project will employ cutting-edge gen...

recruit.visma.com

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology!

Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions.

(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)

lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

Postdoctoral Researcher

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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Chase Brownstein @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social · Aug 9

1/16 🚨🚨 New paper!! I am thrilled to share our study that uses fossils, genomes, and a bit of geology to investigate how many times cavefishes evolved, and how they can help us figure out the ages of caves themselves! Link: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · Aug 1

University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology in the "news" again 🤣

The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 1

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

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Michael Matschiner @mmatschiner.bsky.social · Aug 1

W. Nuss vo Bümpliz! 🇨🇭

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Santiago Claramunt @sclaramunt.bsky.social · Jul 30

Happy to share our latest paper in which we use a new big phylogeny of birds to analyze the relationships between dispersal, geographic range size and diversification rates across all birds. See also post by
‪@sheardcat.bsky.social‬ and @josephtobias.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...

A new time tree of birds reveals the interplay between dispersal, geographic range size, and diversification

Flight may affect the dispersal and evolution of birds. Using a new evolutionary tree, Claramunt et al. find that efficient fliers have broader geographic ranges, and speciation reduces range size, bu...

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Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social · Jul 30

Despite the rearrangements, we find evidence of past hybridisation throughout the evolutionary history of these radiations. Multiple species show strongly admixed ancestries, indicating that hybridisation may have facilitated their evolution. This is something we are currently investigating more.

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · Jul 22

Excited to share that I will be a co-director for the upcoming Workshop on Phylogenomics @evomics.bsky.social, alongside the amazing main team lead @rosafernandez.bsky.social and Erin K. Molloy

We are putting together an amazing workshop with details to come - can't wait to share it with everyone!🥳

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Dr. Mathilde Cordellier @mcordellier.bsky.social · Jul 10

Job alert! I am looking for someone who would like to join my lab as a senior researcher, permanent, with teaching included. My lab is new, I still have startup money, just sayin. DM or email me with questions. Deadline Aug. 11th, interviews in september.
Ad here: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/c...

Research Assistant (m/f/d) - Population Genomics/Evolutionary Genomics

jobs.uni-rostock.de

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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · Jul 13

Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!

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Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · Jun 27

1/13 Time to talk about dogs and fossilized birth-death models! Here is a quick run-down of my #Evol2025 talk. 🧵

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · Jun 25

Starting from wild brown fish from the Amazon, pet breeders have produced a wide array of varieties discus for the aquarium trade:

doi.org/10.1007/s104...

Discus varieties produced for global export, with reference to the exportation list of Malaysia. The 69 discus varieties with their common names are categorized according to 7 base colors (beige, brown, white, yellow, gray, cream, and orange). Black-line squares represent solid color discus and gray-line squares represent pattern discus

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