Sabhrina Aninta
@sagitaninta.bsky.social
Conservation genetics & population genomics of tropical island populations, occasionally ancient DNA, phylogenetics, biogeography, & biodiversity informatics, mostly mammals 🐗🐂. She/her. 🇲🇨. X/Twitter previously sagitaninta.
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Sabhrina Aninta
@sagitaninta.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hi! I'm an Indonesian moslem researcher working on conservation genetics/genomics of island species (which is most species in Indonesia also).
I'm currently working on population genomics of Indonesian cattles with wild introgressions, also learning the limit of speciation using African mammals.
I'm currently working on population genomics of Indonesian cattles with wild introgressions, also learning the limit of speciation using African mammals.
I came to appreciate the intriguing difficulties of determining what CAUSES a disease with multiple symptoms. Is it bacteria/virus? Which one? Why the histology does not match? What is IT?
- Copenhagen Zoo research seminar presented by Yannick Van de Weyer who invetigate hydrocoelom in Bombina.
- Copenhagen Zoo research seminar presented by Yannick Van de Weyer who invetigate hydrocoelom in Bombina.
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I came to appreciate the intriguing difficulties of determining what CAUSES a disease with multiple symptoms. Is it bacteria/virus? Which one? Why the histology does not match? What is IT?
- Copenhagen Zoo research seminar presented by Yannick Van de Weyer who invetigate hydrocoelom in Bombina.
- Copenhagen Zoo research seminar presented by Yannick Van de Weyer who invetigate hydrocoelom in Bombina.
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Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026
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Big science highlights this month at our #EPIC seminar! Kees uncovered new insights into isolation by distance and shorebird diversity🐧, and Anna showed how ancient chewing gums provide a remarkable snapshot into #microbiome 🦠evolution and health. Fascinating work from both! 👏
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Big science highlights this month at our #EPIC seminar! Kees uncovered new insights into isolation by distance and shorebird diversity🐧, and Anna showed how ancient chewing gums provide a remarkable snapshot into #microbiome 🦠evolution and health. Fascinating work from both! 👏
There is not so much money from learned societies to invite enough financially disadvantaged researchers from countries that needs expensive visa to go around & only have weak currencies.
Can crowdfunding help? But it is so much... How do we remedy this?
Can crowdfunding help? But it is so much... How do we remedy this?
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There is not so much money from learned societies to invite enough financially disadvantaged researchers from countries that needs expensive visa to go around & only have weak currencies.
Can crowdfunding help? But it is so much... How do we remedy this?
Can crowdfunding help? But it is so much... How do we remedy this?
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Are you interested in 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐞 and its relationship to 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 conditions? If you are, please look at the 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝑷𝒉𝑫 opportunity we are offering (main supervisor Dr Catrin Ffion Williams) : lnkd.in/e53Rz_FB
To apply for the PhD visit the 𝐁𝐁𝐒𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐖𝐁𝐢𝐨 𝐃𝐓𝐏 here: lnkd.in/eWSjXK8a
To apply for the PhD visit the 𝐁𝐁𝐒𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐖𝐁𝐢𝐨 𝐃𝐓𝐏 here: lnkd.in/eWSjXK8a
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Are you interested in 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐞 and its relationship to 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 conditions? If you are, please look at the 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝑷𝒉𝑫 opportunity we are offering (main supervisor Dr Catrin Ffion Williams) : lnkd.in/e53Rz_FB
To apply for the PhD visit the 𝐁𝐁𝐒𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐖𝐁𝐢𝐨 𝐃𝐓𝐏 here: lnkd.in/eWSjXK8a
To apply for the PhD visit the 𝐁𝐁𝐒𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐖𝐁𝐢𝐨 𝐃𝐓𝐏 here: lnkd.in/eWSjXK8a
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Our paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to @jolijnerven.bsky.social #aDNA
Inferring Domestic Goat Demographic History Through Ancient Genome Imputation
Abstract. Goats were among the earliest managed animals, making them a natural model to explore the genetic consequences of domestication. However, a chall
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November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Our paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to @jolijnerven.bsky.social #aDNA
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New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
The evolutionary genomics of life-history adaptations in pinnipeds - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Project summary Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walrus) are keystone marine predators, and sentinels for marine ecosystem health. Advances in genomic technology open up the possibility to u...
yes-dtn.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
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Lessons learned: Recommendations for reproducible paleogenomic data analyses
www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac...
www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac...
Lessons learned: Recommendations for reproducible paleogenomic data analyses
Souilmi et al. propose essential guidelines to improve the reproducibility of paleogenomic
data analysis. As ancient DNA research often relies on the destructive sampling of
finite resources, these re...
www.cell.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Lessons learned: Recommendations for reproducible paleogenomic data analyses
www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac...
www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac...
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New publication out, highlighting the link between genetic diversity (GD) and policy! 🧬📜
"Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework"
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵
"Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework"
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵
Conserving Genetic and Genomic Diversity in Accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework
Adopted in December 2022, the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) under the Convention on Biological Diversity outlines a visionary road map guiding humanity's relationship wit...
www.annualreviews.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New publication out, highlighting the link between genetic diversity (GD) and policy! 🧬📜
"Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework"
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵
"Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework"
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵
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If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
October 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
This version dependency going on between conda and snakemake is madness. Syntax issue as well between versions; crazy python stuffs. This volatility cannot be the future of Bioinformatics. What does people use to make pipeline nowadays? How have people in maths/physics/chemistry been doing it?
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This version dependency going on between conda and snakemake is madness. Syntax issue as well between versions; crazy python stuffs. This volatility cannot be the future of Bioinformatics. What does people use to make pipeline nowadays? How have people in maths/physics/chemistry been doing it?
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@sderkarabetian.bsky.social et al. developed a metazoan ultraconserved element (UCE) probe set, providing a resource for multiple research groups working on vastly different animal lineages.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf193
#genome #evolution #compbio #phylogenetics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf193
#genome #evolution #compbio #phylogenetics
Covering All Bases: A Universal Metazoan UCE Probe Set to Democratize Phylogenomics
Abstract. Biology is in a genomics era, but many researchers may still be alienated from these techniques as a lack of genomic resources remains for many a
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
@sderkarabetian.bsky.social et al. developed a metazoan ultraconserved element (UCE) probe set, providing a resource for multiple research groups working on vastly different animal lineages.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf193
#genome #evolution #compbio #phylogenetics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf193
#genome #evolution #compbio #phylogenetics
I have a hard time reconciling 322 EUR as the price of LMIC countries but sure Copenhagen *sob*
It was one month salary still for even Indonesia's senior researchers. Such is the fate of middle-class economy.
It was one month salary still for even Indonesia's senior researchers. Such is the fate of middle-class economy.
Registration is now open for SMBE 2026!
Head over to the registration page to find all the details and secure your spot 🏃♀️
📝 smbe2026.org/registration
🐦 Early-bird deadline: March 31, 2026
If you are an active member of the SMBE you can register for the meeting with discounts.
#SMBE2026
Head over to the registration page to find all the details and secure your spot 🏃♀️
📝 smbe2026.org/registration
🐦 Early-bird deadline: March 31, 2026
If you are an active member of the SMBE you can register for the meeting with discounts.
#SMBE2026
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I have a hard time reconciling 322 EUR as the price of LMIC countries but sure Copenhagen *sob*
It was one month salary still for even Indonesia's senior researchers. Such is the fate of middle-class economy.
It was one month salary still for even Indonesia's senior researchers. Such is the fate of middle-class economy.
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Registration is now open for SMBE 2026!
Head over to the registration page to find all the details and secure your spot 🏃♀️
📝 smbe2026.org/registration
🐦 Early-bird deadline: March 31, 2026
If you are an active member of the SMBE you can register for the meeting with discounts.
#SMBE2026
Head over to the registration page to find all the details and secure your spot 🏃♀️
📝 smbe2026.org/registration
🐦 Early-bird deadline: March 31, 2026
If you are an active member of the SMBE you can register for the meeting with discounts.
#SMBE2026
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Registration is now open for SMBE 2026!
Head over to the registration page to find all the details and secure your spot 🏃♀️
📝 smbe2026.org/registration
🐦 Early-bird deadline: March 31, 2026
If you are an active member of the SMBE you can register for the meeting with discounts.
#SMBE2026
Head over to the registration page to find all the details and secure your spot 🏃♀️
📝 smbe2026.org/registration
🐦 Early-bird deadline: March 31, 2026
If you are an active member of the SMBE you can register for the meeting with discounts.
#SMBE2026
"In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (ca. 350 BC) suggested that politics was the most sovereign and most comprehensive master science, because politics uses the rest of the sciences, and because politics legislates what people are to do and what they are not to do."
doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
Biodiversity conservation depends on the expansion of taxonomy and systematics research
Abstract. Despite mammals constituting fewer than 0.3% of all described species, their conservation is compelling for a number of reasons. They contribute
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (ca. 350 BC) suggested that politics was the most sovereign and most comprehensive master science, because politics uses the rest of the sciences, and because politics legislates what people are to do and what they are not to do."
doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
I have always been a fan of Patrícia's piece in the molecularecologist and I have no idea I will be writing together with her in 4 years after the start of the fangirling.
I love my life.
I love my life.
This aged like wine. But also seems like I haven't moved far from the struggles of almost 10 years younger me as a PhD student.
www.molecularecologist.com/2016/03/14/a...
www.molecularecologist.com/2016/03/14/a...
Are genetic drift and inbreeding the same thing?
Does it ever happen to you that the more you try to understand something, the more difficult to understand it turns out to be? Recently, I’ve had such a problem with two of the very basic microevol…
www.molecularecologist.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I have always been a fan of Patrícia's piece in the molecularecologist and I have no idea I will be writing together with her in 4 years after the start of the fangirling.
I love my life.
I love my life.
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All those questions about inbreeding in conservation that you were afraid to ask.
A bunch of early career scientists is here to explain something that even Wright and Fisher couldn't agree on, the (not so) simple question of what is inbreeding.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A bunch of early career scientists is here to explain something that even Wright and Fisher couldn't agree on, the (not so) simple question of what is inbreeding.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Q&A: inbreeding and its implications for conservation - BMC Biology
Inbreeding depression plays a role in the decline, endangerment, and extinction of small populations, and thus inbreeding has received much attention in conservation biology. The term inbreeding is us...
link.springer.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
All those questions about inbreeding in conservation that you were afraid to ask.
A bunch of early career scientists is here to explain something that even Wright and Fisher couldn't agree on, the (not so) simple question of what is inbreeding.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A bunch of early career scientists is here to explain something that even Wright and Fisher couldn't agree on, the (not so) simple question of what is inbreeding.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Job alert🚨📢! Join us as Director of the SIB Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics, on a topic where global collaboration is particularly important, in a highly stimulating environment. This is a research infrastructure leadership position.
Apply or spread the word!
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
Apply or spread the word!
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
Director, Center for Pathogen Bioinformatics
The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) is a unit of SIB which offers expertise and services in pathogen bioinformatics, computational molecular epidemiology and related multi-site project manage...
apply.refline.ch
October 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Job alert🚨📢! Join us as Director of the SIB Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics, on a topic where global collaboration is particularly important, in a highly stimulating environment. This is a research infrastructure leadership position.
Apply or spread the word!
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
Apply or spread the word!
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
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We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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BREAKING: The #StateOfClimateAction 2025 finds the world is failing to act fast enough to combat the climate crisis and secure a livable future, with no indicators of global climate action currently on track for 2030. 🌏🌡️
Read the report to learn more: bit.ly/4o6hPwm
Read the report to learn more: bit.ly/4o6hPwm
October 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
BREAKING: The #StateOfClimateAction 2025 finds the world is failing to act fast enough to combat the climate crisis and secure a livable future, with no indicators of global climate action currently on track for 2030. 🌏🌡️
Read the report to learn more: bit.ly/4o6hPwm
Read the report to learn more: bit.ly/4o6hPwm
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Myself and Alastair Wilson wrote an updated version of our 2016 primer to quantitative genetics in the wild: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Happy to share a copy if interested. It is also on research gate
Quantitative Genetics in Natural Populations
Phenotypes evolve under natural selection if, and only if, they are genetically variable. While evolutionary ecologists have long studied natural sele…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Myself and Alastair Wilson wrote an updated version of our 2016 primer to quantitative genetics in the wild: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Happy to share a copy if interested. It is also on research gate
Our Q&A article on inbreeding for conservation is out in BMC Biology!
We discuss some important key concepts related to inbreeding in the light of new genomic tools and what it means for conservation when we want to improve species survival.
#consgen
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We discuss some important key concepts related to inbreeding in the light of new genomic tools and what it means for conservation when we want to improve species survival.
#consgen
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Q&A: inbreeding and its implications for conservation - BMC Biology
Inbreeding depression plays a role in the decline, endangerment, and extinction of small populations, and thus inbreeding has received much attention in conservation biology. The term inbreeding is us...
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Our Q&A article on inbreeding for conservation is out in BMC Biology!
We discuss some important key concepts related to inbreeding in the light of new genomic tools and what it means for conservation when we want to improve species survival.
#consgen
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We discuss some important key concepts related to inbreeding in the light of new genomic tools and what it means for conservation when we want to improve species survival.
#consgen
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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🔁Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open.
We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️Deadline: October 15th
More info: smbe2026.org/symposia
@official-smbe.bsky.social
We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️Deadline: October 15th
More info: smbe2026.org/symposia
@official-smbe.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🔁Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open.
We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️Deadline: October 15th
More info: smbe2026.org/symposia
@official-smbe.bsky.social
We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️Deadline: October 15th
More info: smbe2026.org/symposia
@official-smbe.bsky.social
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Hello, Bluesky! We're the IUCN SSC Parasite Specialist Group, a part of the Species Survival Commission! We're just starting to understand the important roles parasites play in their ecosystems, and our goal is to determine the threats wildlife parasites face and to conserve rare and unique species!
September 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Hello, Bluesky! We're the IUCN SSC Parasite Specialist Group, a part of the Species Survival Commission! We're just starting to understand the important roles parasites play in their ecosystems, and our goal is to determine the threats wildlife parasites face and to conserve rare and unique species!