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Francesca Raffini Lab @francescaraffini.bsky.social · Jul 28

A long-awaited, deeply rewarding achievement made possible only by the dedication, perseverance, and passion of incredible collaborators and friends 😍: @anjamwestram.bsky.social @ruimmfaria.bsky.social ‪@carmelofruciano.bsky.social‬ & many others not here

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Ken Struck @kenstruck.bsky.social · Jun 13

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SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Jun 8

a nice group of people and researchers, nice shores, new research facilities, fantastic Littorina system

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SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Jun 8

In my case, it all changed with a Marie Curie MC fellowship. I know there is not much time left to apply but if you want to come to the sunny Portugal, near Porto, to work on Littorina inversions (adaptation, sex chromosome evolution, speciation),contact me [email protected] to try out for a MC

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Winkle watch @winklewatch.bsky.social · Jun 2

Love fun science?
Join the WinkleWatch Project! Launched last year, we’re solving the mystery of periwinkle snail colours—with your help.
📸 Snap a pic
📍 Tag your beach
💬 Share your snail finds
Scan the QR in the image to learn more.
Let’s spotlight the winkles! #winklewatch

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SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · May 12

For those interested in attending EVOP 2026 evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de
these are the last days to apply!

Programming for Evolutionary Biology School (EVOP) | February 17th – March 6th 2026

evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de

SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Apr 24

Hi everyone. New deadline to submit your abstract to ESEB: 5th of May. Please consider our interesting symposium!

SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Apr 10

Organized by @aruizherrera.bsky.social and Thea Rogers with the wonderful speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social and Harris Lewin

SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Apr 10

NEW FRONTIERS IN GENOME DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION: if you have work on 3D organization and function of genomes submit your abstract to our symposium!

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Mafalda S Ferreira @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social · Apr 14

Postdoc position with @milocco.bsky.social at @scilifelab.se and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social in predictive modeling in evolution and development.

#Evolution #Popgen #Modeling #Postdoc

Lisandro Milocco @milocco.bsky.social · Apr 11

🚨 We're hiring!
Fully funded Postdoc(s) in Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab — focus on predictive modeling in evolution and development.
📍 Stockholm
🕒 2+1 years
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Evolutionary Prediction

The Department of Zoology is one of the departments within the Faculty of Science and has approximately 80 employees including researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and educati

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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · Apr 8

Two more weeks to apply for a PhD position in our yeast genomics and evolution lab at Stockholm University! Please share widely. 🧪🧬🌳🍄

Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · Mar 10

We have a 4-year fully funded PhD position available! Research topics include but are not limited to 1) Parallel evolution of climate adaptation in Europe and South America 2) The genetic architecture of temperature adaptation 3) The evolution of pathogenicity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD student in Evolutionary Genomics with Yeast

The Department of Zoology of Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees, including researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an intern

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SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Apr 15

Could I also be added?

Thanks

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Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · Apr 14

#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

Post-Doctoral Researcher – Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel (M/F)

- work environment: Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions Laboratory (UMR5244 IHPE), Montpellier - main mission:

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Apr 10

Organized by @aruizherrera.bsky.social and Thea Rogers with the wonderful speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social and Harris Lewin

SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Apr 10

NEW FRONTIERS IN GENOME DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION: if you have work on 3D organization and function of genomes submit your abstract to our symposium!

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SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Apr 10

Together with @aruizherrera.bsky.social (UAB and Thea Rogers (Univ. of Vienna)

SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Apr 10

NEW FRONTIERS IN GENOME DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION: if you have work on 3D organization and function of genomes submit your abstract to our symposium!

SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Apr 10

NEW FRONTIERS IN GENOME DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION: if you have work on 3D organization and function of genomes submit your abstract to our symposium!

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Mafalda S Ferreira @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social · Apr 2

Read more about the project and requirements here:

seasonalgenomics.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/w...

We are recruiting a PhD student

We are offering a fully funded PhD Position in Evolutionary Genomics of Seasonal Camouflage, at Stockholm University and SciLifeLab. The project focus on characterizing phenotypic and genomic varia…

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Público @publico.pt · Mar 31

"Era aceitável que Luís Montenegro continuasse em funções se fosse ministro de um outro qualquer primeiro-ministro? Não."

A opinião de Ana Sá Lopes

Montenegro pode ser Sócrates 2009 - quem tem ética passa fome

Um primeiro-ministro cuja ética já causava muitas dúvidas foi reeleito perante a anomia do seu partido e do eleitorado. Muitos do que falam de “lama” no caso Montenegro já usavam a palavra em 2009.

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SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Mar 25

Fantastic Cátia! Well done! we hope to interact :)

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SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Mar 22

For those interested in sex chromosomes and speciation, Thomas Lenormand from CEFE, University of Montpellier, will visit us and present a seminar about his work on these topics. For more information (and the zoom link), please follow the link here: www.cibio.up.pt/en/events/a-...

A single theory for the evolution of sex chromosomes and the two rules of speciation - Events - Cibio

The mission of the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources is to develop world-class research in the areas of biodiversity and evolutionary bi

www.cibio.up.pt

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SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Mar 11

If you have a dream of combining genetics, ecology and marine organism, this is for you. If not, this may still be for you!
We are looking for candidates to apply for a FCT PhD fellowship within SEAGEN-CIBIO on evolutionary genomics of marine organisms! Please spread the word.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Mar 3

Dynamics of a supergene. A study of the BC supergene in wing color morphs of the African monarch #butterfly by @rishidekayne.bsky.social &co reveals dynamic evolution of #supergene haplotypes, fueled by incomplete recombination suppression 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3DiFhnL

Top: Topology weightings across chr15 showing how the karamu haplotype is related to the klugii and orientis haplotypes. Upper panel shows three possible rooted genealogical topologies. Second panel shows weights for each topology along the chromosome, smoothed with a 20 kb span. Arrows above the plot indicate the locations of inversions. Third panel shows unsmoothed topology weightings across a 1.5 Mb region corresponding to Inversion 2. Bottom: Ancestry painting across a 100 kb region within Inversion 2, showing ancestry tracts for two homozygous karamu individuals compared to two representative individuals homozygous for the orientis and klugii haplotypes. Coding regions are indicated below the plot, with the candidate gene for background colouration yellow indicated. Green triangles represent the top 10 SNPs for background colour in our GWAS. There is evidence for recombination throughout the supergene region, and specifically in the vicinity of yellow, consistent with the hypothesis that orientis ancestry at this locus (i.e., the B allele) is associated with darker colouration in karamu individuals.

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · Mar 1

Mollusks encompass species ranging from squid 🦑 to sea snails 🐌 - 13 new #genomes from across the phylum to assemble a new phylogeny for Mollusca www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #phylogenomics

A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology

Extreme morphological disparity within Mollusca has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups—gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods—e...

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Público @publico.pt · Feb 28

João Miguel Tavares: "Aquilo que temos na prática é um primeiro-ministro a ser pago por empresas privadas no exercício do cargo. Isto vai muito para além dos conflitos de interesses. É mesmo um enorme escândalo nacional."

O que é que Luís Montenegro tem na cabeça?

Aquilo que temos na prática é um primeiro-ministro a ser pago por empresas privadas no exercício do cargo. Isto vai muito para além dos conflitos de interesses. É mesmo um enorme escândalo nacional.

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SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Feb 20

Com a crise que temos no sector imobiliário, parece-me eticamente degradante que muita gente do nosso governo tenha exactamente um negócio nesse sector e lucre com isso. Não resolvem os problemas como aliás contribuem para a subida do preço das casas e ganham com isso.

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Feb 20

Short insertions and deletions are abundant but are they useful markers in genome scans for divergent selection? Hybrid zones in Littorina suggest they can add to information from SNPs, despite stronger purifying selection:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Perini, Butlin and @anjamwestram.bsky.social

Short INDELs and SNPs as markers of evolutionary processes in hybrid zones

Abstract. Polymorphic short insertions and deletions (INDELs ≤ 50 bp) are abundant, although less common than single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Evide

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