Judith Mank
@judithmank.bsky.social
🧬 Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at @zoology.ubc.ca and @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social. Editor-in-Chief of @evolletters.bsky.social. Science with a sprinkling of dachshund pictures. https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/
Please help! We are looking for tissue-specific RNA-seq datasets or pubs with both male and female individual gene expression data, not pooled, from animal species. If you know of any relevant resources, please drop a link in the comments or send me a DM. Also, please help spread the word - thanks!
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Please help! We are looking for tissue-specific RNA-seq datasets or pubs with both male and female individual gene expression data, not pooled, from animal species. If you know of any relevant resources, please drop a link in the comments or send me a DM. Also, please help spread the word - thanks!
Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!
Pabs has made a groundbreaking observation:
if you sit very still in colorful leaf litter, humans will drop everything to admire you.
if you sit very still in colorful leaf litter, humans will drop everything to admire you.
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Pabs has made a groundbreaking observation:
if you sit very still in colorful leaf litter, humans will drop everything to admire you.
if you sit very still in colorful leaf litter, humans will drop everything to admire you.
We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
Living his best life on his 7th birthday.
September 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Living his best life on his 7th birthday.
Interested in joining the lab? The Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to bring outstanding scholars from around the world to UBC. I can nominate one person, and help with application materials. More information at www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam...
DM if you are interested!
DM if you are interested!
August 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Interested in joining the lab? The Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to bring outstanding scholars from around the world to UBC. I can nominate one person, and help with application materials. More information at www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam...
DM if you are interested!
DM if you are interested!
Lydia Fong’s poster is on Thursday, P03.077. Genome of the Amazon Guppy (Poecilia bifurca) reveals conservation of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation. The preprint for this is at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @squarehare.bsky.social #eseb2025 5/n
August 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Lydia Fong’s poster is on Thursday, P03.077. Genome of the Amazon Guppy (Poecilia bifurca) reveals conservation of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation. The preprint for this is at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @squarehare.bsky.social #eseb2025 5/n
Bernadette Johnson’s poster is on Tuesday, P02.23. Testis transcriptome evolution in the absence of sperm competition: Insights from pregnant males. Image by @jacejostles.bsky.social #eseb2025 4/n
August 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Bernadette Johnson’s poster is on Tuesday, P02.23. Testis transcriptome evolution in the absence of sperm competition: Insights from pregnant males. Image by @jacejostles.bsky.social #eseb2025 4/n
Changfu Jia has a poster on Monday, P01.144. Dynamic transposon activation and gene regulatory rewiring drive functional divergence of duplicated genes during the rediploidization process in Orychophragmus violaceus #eseb2025 3/n
August 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Changfu Jia has a poster on Monday, P01.144. Dynamic transposon activation and gene regulatory rewiring drive functional divergence of duplicated genes during the rediploidization process in Orychophragmus violaceus #eseb2025 3/n
Wouter van der Bijl will talk on Wed 11:45, room 122+123 about his work on the maintenance of variation by sexual selection in the guppy. Some of this was recently published at www.nature.com/articles/s41..., some of it is new. @vdbijl.bsky.social #eseb2025 2/n
August 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Wouter van der Bijl will talk on Wed 11:45, room 122+123 about his work on the maintenance of variation by sexual selection in the guppy. Some of this was recently published at www.nature.com/articles/s41..., some of it is new. @vdbijl.bsky.social #eseb2025 2/n
Must stop making jam
August 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Must stop making jam
Almost as long as a container ship
July 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Almost as long as a container ship
Finally warm enough for a romp at Spanish Banks Beach. Summer in Vancouver has its perks.
July 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Finally warm enough for a romp at Spanish Banks Beach. Summer in Vancouver has its perks.
📣📣📣 So pleased to see @vdbijl.bsky.social's stunning analysis of the inheritance and genetics of guppy color diversity out today @natecoevo.nature.com! Deep learning reveals the complex genetic architecture of male guppy colouration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
📣📣📣 So pleased to see @vdbijl.bsky.social's stunning analysis of the inheritance and genetics of guppy color diversity out today @natecoevo.nature.com! Deep learning reveals the complex genetic architecture of male guppy colouration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Go check out @jacejostles.bsky.social 's very pretty poster this evening about the science behind guppy magic and science communication. Spot I1 #evol2025
June 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Go check out @jacejostles.bsky.social 's very pretty poster this evening about the science behind guppy magic and science communication. Spot I1 #evol2025
Check out our cover article in @evolletters.bsky.social, Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis. By @babimt.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @mevisser.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
June 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Check out our cover article in @evolletters.bsky.social, Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis. By @babimt.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @mevisser.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
Am looking forward to being back in Athens for #Evol2025! Come see me talk about @vdbijl.bsky.social 's beautiful work on beautiful guppy colours on Saturday, 11:15 in the Athens GH. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Am looking forward to being back in Athens for #Evol2025! Come see me talk about @vdbijl.bsky.social 's beautiful work on beautiful guppy colours on Saturday, 11:15 in the Athens GH. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Just out - Genome of the Amazon Guppy (Poecilia bifurca) reveals conservation of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation. By @squarehare.bsky.social, with @idarolti.bsky.social and others not yet on Bsky.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Just out - Genome of the Amazon Guppy (Poecilia bifurca) reveals conservation of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation. By @squarehare.bsky.social, with @idarolti.bsky.social and others not yet on Bsky.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Siyu Xie’s paper is out now @genomeresearch.bsky.social. A remarkable story about this remarkable creature -Extreme heterochiasmy and high rates of sex-reversed recombination result in large yet homomorphic sex chromosomes in the Emei moustache toad genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...
April 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Siyu Xie’s paper is out now @genomeresearch.bsky.social. A remarkable story about this remarkable creature -Extreme heterochiasmy and high rates of sex-reversed recombination result in large yet homomorphic sex chromosomes in the Emei moustache toad genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...
A punk revival is overdue.
April 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A punk revival is overdue.
Check out the latest @evolletters.bsky.social cover article: Parallel and convergent evolution in genes underlying seasonal migration, by Zamudio-Beltrán and colleagues
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April 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Check out the latest @evolletters.bsky.social cover article: Parallel and convergent evolution in genes underlying seasonal migration, by Zamudio-Beltrán and colleagues
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
It has been nearly 20 years since I lived in the US, but I still have strong ties, friends and family there. The last month (has it only been a month?) has been hard to watch from the outside, and I can only imagine how much more difficult it is on the inside. @eseb.bsky.social sums it up well.
February 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It has been nearly 20 years since I lived in the US, but I still have strong ties, friends and family there. The last month (has it only been a month?) has been hard to watch from the outside, and I can only imagine how much more difficult it is on the inside. @eseb.bsky.social sums it up well.
Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....
February 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....