Debbie Leigh
@debbiemleigh.bsky.social
Associate Professor Senckenberg and Goethe
Conservation biologist and genomicist.
Dyslexic so please forgive spelling mistakes!
She/her
🌳🐐🪶🐧
Conservation biologist and genomicist.
Dyslexic so please forgive spelling mistakes!
She/her
🌳🐐🪶🐧
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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...
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Working in genetic diversity monitoring? Consider submitting an Abstract to the @worldbioforum.bsky.social session "Implementing and achieving the GBF goals and targets for genetic diversity"
🧪 🧬 ⚛️
#WBF2026 #geneticdiversity #KMGBF #biodiversity
🧪 🧬 ⚛️
#WBF2026 #geneticdiversity #KMGBF #biodiversity
September 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Working in genetic diversity monitoring? Consider submitting an Abstract to the @worldbioforum.bsky.social session "Implementing and achieving the GBF goals and targets for genetic diversity"
🧪 🧬 ⚛️
#WBF2026 #geneticdiversity #KMGBF #biodiversity
🧪 🧬 ⚛️
#WBF2026 #geneticdiversity #KMGBF #biodiversity
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Wir heißen die ersten Geförderten des „1000-Köpfe-Plus-Programms“ willkommen! 🤩
Die Mittel des Bundesforschungsministeriums ermöglichen es der Humboldt-Stiftung, mehr Forschungsstipendien und -preise zu vergeben.
www.humboldt-foundation.de/entdecken/ne...
@dfg.de @daadworldwide.bsky.social
Die Mittel des Bundesforschungsministeriums ermöglichen es der Humboldt-Stiftung, mehr Forschungsstipendien und -preise zu vergeben.
www.humboldt-foundation.de/entdecken/ne...
@dfg.de @daadworldwide.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Wir heißen die ersten Geförderten des „1000-Köpfe-Plus-Programms“ willkommen! 🤩
Die Mittel des Bundesforschungsministeriums ermöglichen es der Humboldt-Stiftung, mehr Forschungsstipendien und -preise zu vergeben.
www.humboldt-foundation.de/entdecken/ne...
@dfg.de @daadworldwide.bsky.social
Die Mittel des Bundesforschungsministeriums ermöglichen es der Humboldt-Stiftung, mehr Forschungsstipendien und -preise zu vergeben.
www.humboldt-foundation.de/entdecken/ne...
@dfg.de @daadworldwide.bsky.social
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🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527
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This week in the @calstate.bsky.social bioinformatics webinar series! Yours truly - I’ll update y’all on recent work from my lab on addressing missing data problems in pop-gen. Friday, 10/10 at noon PST! Do join us via Zoom. Deets in flyer.
October 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This week in the @calstate.bsky.social bioinformatics webinar series! Yours truly - I’ll update y’all on recent work from my lab on addressing missing data problems in pop-gen. Friday, 10/10 at noon PST! Do join us via Zoom. Deets in flyer.
There are key moments, key role models, key events in a person's life that shape who they are and what they do.
I vividly remember learning about Dr Goodall's work at a birthday party as a child and deciding that is what "I would do when I grew up".
She was the nudge that pushed me into science
I vividly remember learning about Dr Goodall's work at a birthday party as a child and deciding that is what "I would do when I grew up".
She was the nudge that pushed me into science
October 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There are key moments, key role models, key events in a person's life that shape who they are and what they do.
I vividly remember learning about Dr Goodall's work at a birthday party as a child and deciding that is what "I would do when I grew up".
She was the nudge that pushed me into science
I vividly remember learning about Dr Goodall's work at a birthday party as a child and deciding that is what "I would do when I grew up".
She was the nudge that pushed me into science
Reposted by Debbie Leigh
The global economy depends on #nature but also has an impact on nature. Learn more about these interactions with this graphic from the @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment Report.
Read the Summary for Policymakers: www.ipbes.net/transf...
Read the Summary for Policymakers: www.ipbes.net/transf...
October 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The global economy depends on #nature but also has an impact on nature. Learn more about these interactions with this graphic from the @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment Report.
Read the Summary for Policymakers: www.ipbes.net/transf...
Read the Summary for Policymakers: www.ipbes.net/transf...
Working in genetic diversity monitoring? Consider submitting an Abstract to the @worldbioforum.bsky.social session "Implementing and achieving the GBF goals and targets for genetic diversity"
🧪 🧬 ⚛️
#WBF2026 #geneticdiversity #KMGBF #biodiversity
🧪 🧬 ⚛️
#WBF2026 #geneticdiversity #KMGBF #biodiversity
September 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Working in genetic diversity monitoring? Consider submitting an Abstract to the @worldbioforum.bsky.social session "Implementing and achieving the GBF goals and targets for genetic diversity"
🧪 🧬 ⚛️
#WBF2026 #geneticdiversity #KMGBF #biodiversity
🧪 🧬 ⚛️
#WBF2026 #geneticdiversity #KMGBF #biodiversity
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We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
The TERRA cluster is looking for a CORE NGS specialist until 31.12.2032!
🧪 🧬 👩🔬👨🔬
#Science #Bioinformatics #postdoc #Genomics
🧪 🧬 👩🔬👨🔬
#Science #Bioinformatics #postdoc #Genomics
September 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The TERRA cluster is looking for a CORE NGS specialist until 31.12.2032!
🧪 🧬 👩🔬👨🔬
#Science #Bioinformatics #postdoc #Genomics
🧪 🧬 👩🔬👨🔬
#Science #Bioinformatics #postdoc #Genomics
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Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
September 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
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This is one of the reasons I am so passionate about the Caleb Scholars program. We give students funds to return home to learn from elders as they go to school, and we find undergrads though professional/PhD programs bc I know how hard it was to return home during grad school.
www.calebscholars.org
www.calebscholars.org
Caleb Scholars Program – Inuit-led conservation advocacy.
A fellowship program focused on providing community and cultural connection, professional development, mentorship, and financial support to students in the arctic.
www.calebscholars.org
July 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This is one of the reasons I am so passionate about the Caleb Scholars program. We give students funds to return home to learn from elders as they go to school, and we find undergrads though professional/PhD programs bc I know how hard it was to return home during grad school.
www.calebscholars.org
www.calebscholars.org
Reposted by Debbie Leigh
Reposted by Debbie Leigh
If you like to connect with modellers of various flavours, who like to think about complex multiscale things, consider this "SCALES" workshop here in Mainz! Sept 1-5. model.uni-mainz.de/scales-confe...
SCALES Conference 2025 | Mainz Institute of Multiscale Modeling
model.uni-mainz.de
July 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
If you like to connect with modellers of various flavours, who like to think about complex multiscale things, consider this "SCALES" workshop here in Mainz! Sept 1-5. model.uni-mainz.de/scales-confe...
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Nice job at Aarhus University @au.dk: we need more professorship in genetic biodiversity!
tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
July 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Nice job at Aarhus University @au.dk: we need more professorship in genetic biodiversity!
tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
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🔊 SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT
There's still time to submit your abstract for a Bluesky presentation at #BOUasm25
A day at the museum | 18 November 2025
No registration required to participate via Bluesky
⏰ Deadline: 28 July
Details: bou.org.uk/event/a-d...
#ornithology 🪶
There's still time to submit your abstract for a Bluesky presentation at #BOUasm25
A day at the museum | 18 November 2025
No registration required to participate via Bluesky
⏰ Deadline: 28 July
Details: bou.org.uk/event/a-d...
#ornithology 🪶
June 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🔊 SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT
There's still time to submit your abstract for a Bluesky presentation at #BOUasm25
A day at the museum | 18 November 2025
No registration required to participate via Bluesky
⏰ Deadline: 28 July
Details: bou.org.uk/event/a-d...
#ornithology 🪶
There's still time to submit your abstract for a Bluesky presentation at #BOUasm25
A day at the museum | 18 November 2025
No registration required to participate via Bluesky
⏰ Deadline: 28 July
Details: bou.org.uk/event/a-d...
#ornithology 🪶
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Packing for #Evol2025? Bring your new and gently used field gear and clothes that you no longer use to donate to the Field Gear Swap! Hosted by the tri-society Diversity Committees - drop by their booth to donate or pick up! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @evolmtg.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Packing for #Evol2025? Bring your new and gently used field gear and clothes that you no longer use to donate to the Field Gear Swap! Hosted by the tri-society Diversity Committees - drop by their booth to donate or pick up! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @evolmtg.bsky.social
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We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor in molecular microbiology in our department in Lausanne! Do consider appyling!!
Come join us in beautiful Lausanne! Deadline for applications: August 10th, 2025
wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
June 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor in molecular microbiology in our department in Lausanne! Do consider appyling!!
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“One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night
It is too devastating to see how few there are”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It is too devastating to see how few there are”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
“One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night
It is too devastating to see how few there are”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It is too devastating to see how few there are”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The loss of diversity, including genetic diversity in crops like potatoes, poses a serious risk to global food security by undermining the resilience of many agricultural systems to pests, pathogens & climate change. 🥔
.— @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment
🎥 For #InternationalDayOfPotato w/ @fao.org
.— @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment
🎥 For #InternationalDayOfPotato w/ @fao.org
May 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The loss of diversity, including genetic diversity in crops like potatoes, poses a serious risk to global food security by undermining the resilience of many agricultural systems to pests, pathogens & climate change. 🥔
.— @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment
🎥 For #InternationalDayOfPotato w/ @fao.org
.— @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment
🎥 For #InternationalDayOfPotato w/ @fao.org
Climate change is far reaching and we must curb emissions.
Many years ago Nico and I found an oil painting in a small Alpine Broki. We soon found out it is of a famous 'study' spot in Blatten. Today it is no more.
We must do more to protect species, culture, and landscapes.
#blatten #glacier
Many years ago Nico and I found an oil painting in a small Alpine Broki. We soon found out it is of a famous 'study' spot in Blatten. Today it is no more.
We must do more to protect species, culture, and landscapes.
#blatten #glacier
May 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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The destruction of the village of Blatten in Switzerland by a melting glacier, is a stark reminder of the immediate perils of global warming.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Well done to the geologists and local authorities for evacuating the village in good time and avoiding a tragedy.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Well done to the geologists and local authorities for evacuating the village in good time and avoiding a tragedy.
Swiss village almost entirely destroyed after collapse of glacier buries it in mud
One person missing and Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The destruction of the village of Blatten in Switzerland by a melting glacier, is a stark reminder of the immediate perils of global warming.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Well done to the geologists and local authorities for evacuating the village in good time and avoiding a tragedy.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Well done to the geologists and local authorities for evacuating the village in good time and avoiding a tragedy.
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The FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026!
Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠
Save the dates ✅
Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!
Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠
Save the dates ✅
Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!
May 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026!
Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠
Save the dates ✅
Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!
Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠
Save the dates ✅
Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!
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Join our #MEEGene #seminar at
@leibnizlib.bsky.social on zoom next Tuesday, June 3, 3PM CEST (Berlin) and listen to @elliecat.bsky.social from University of California, Riverside talking about Anthropocene Impacts on #Genetic #Diversity in Big Cats.
Email meegene@leibniz-lib.de for login details.
@leibnizlib.bsky.social on zoom next Tuesday, June 3, 3PM CEST (Berlin) and listen to @elliecat.bsky.social from University of California, Riverside talking about Anthropocene Impacts on #Genetic #Diversity in Big Cats.
Email meegene@leibniz-lib.de for login details.
May 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Join our #MEEGene #seminar at
@leibnizlib.bsky.social on zoom next Tuesday, June 3, 3PM CEST (Berlin) and listen to @elliecat.bsky.social from University of California, Riverside talking about Anthropocene Impacts on #Genetic #Diversity in Big Cats.
Email meegene@leibniz-lib.de for login details.
@leibnizlib.bsky.social on zoom next Tuesday, June 3, 3PM CEST (Berlin) and listen to @elliecat.bsky.social from University of California, Riverside talking about Anthropocene Impacts on #Genetic #Diversity in Big Cats.
Email meegene@leibniz-lib.de for login details.
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🌈Heute ist #DiversityTag! Bei Senckenberg arbeiten Menschen aus rund 50 Nationen gemeinsam für Erforschung & Erhalt der Vielfalt der Natur. Diversität ist am Arbeitsplatz und in der Gesellschaft so wertvoll wie in der Natur. Wenn Vielfalt gewinnt, gewinnt Naturforschung!🌏🌱🙌
#DDT25 #ChartaDerVielfalt
#DDT25 #ChartaDerVielfalt
May 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🌈Heute ist #DiversityTag! Bei Senckenberg arbeiten Menschen aus rund 50 Nationen gemeinsam für Erforschung & Erhalt der Vielfalt der Natur. Diversität ist am Arbeitsplatz und in der Gesellschaft so wertvoll wie in der Natur. Wenn Vielfalt gewinnt, gewinnt Naturforschung!🌏🌱🙌
#DDT25 #ChartaDerVielfalt
#DDT25 #ChartaDerVielfalt