Germán Hernández-Alonso
@germanha.bsky.social
Postdoc at The University of Edinburgh, UK. Evolution| PopGenomics| Vertebrates| aDNA 🧬
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🚨 New paper alert 🚨
Our research, published today in Science, reveals remarkable concordance between human and dog genomes through time, highlighting how deeply intertwined our evolutionary histories have been over the past 11,000 years.
🔗 Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our research, published today in Science, reveals remarkable concordance between human and dog genomes through time, highlighting how deeply intertwined our evolutionary histories have been over the past 11,000 years.
🔗 Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Genomic evidence for the Holocene codispersal of dogs and humans across Eastern Eurasia
As the first domestic species, dogs likely dispersed with different cultural groups during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed 73 ancient dog genomes, including 17 ...
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
🚨 New paper alert 🚨
Our research, published today in Science, reveals remarkable concordance between human and dog genomes through time, highlighting how deeply intertwined our evolutionary histories have been over the past 11,000 years.
🔗 Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our research, published today in Science, reveals remarkable concordance between human and dog genomes through time, highlighting how deeply intertwined our evolutionary histories have been over the past 11,000 years.
🔗 Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Germán Hernández-Alonso
Just over a month left to apply for scholarships on this project. We will run internal pre-selection interviews end of November, so if you consider applying, please reach out now. I can guarantee amazing scientific and intellectual environment at the Institute for Eco Evo @edinburghup.bsky.social
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
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evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Just over a month left to apply for scholarships on this project. We will run internal pre-selection interviews end of November, so if you consider applying, please reach out now. I can guarantee amazing scientific and intellectual environment at the Institute for Eco Evo @edinburghup.bsky.social
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Western chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau are at threat. Study shows a critically low population size (~500), signaling high extinction risk. Coastal groups are most vulnerable, while inland populations are a key stronghold. Urgent, targeted conservation is needed 🧬🌍
doi.org/10.1111/eva.70162
doi.org/10.1111/eva.70162
October 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Western chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau are at threat. Study shows a critically low population size (~500), signaling high extinction risk. Coastal groups are most vulnerable, while inland populations are a key stronghold. Urgent, targeted conservation is needed 🧬🌍
doi.org/10.1111/eva.70162
doi.org/10.1111/eva.70162
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Career highlight being interviewed and featured in Science news 👩🏼🔬🧬
Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved
DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio
www.science.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Career highlight being interviewed and featured in Science news 👩🏼🔬🧬
Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Really cool study led by Emily L. Cavill about the last female great auk specimen!! 🕵️ 🔍🐧
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
The hunt for the last great auks: ancient DNA resolves a 180-year-old mystery
Abstract. Over 180 years ago, the last reliably observed pair of great auks (Pinguinus impennis) were killed on a small island off the coast of Iceland. Th
doi.org
September 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Really cool study led by Emily L. Cavill about the last female great auk specimen!! 🕵️ 🔍🐧
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
Great place and people to work with!! 🐏 🐏 🐏
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Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
September 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Great place and people to work with!! 🐏 🐏 🐏
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑🎓
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑🎓
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
Reposted by Germán Hernández-Alonso
🚨 The #SMBE2026 website is live! 🚨
The call for symposia is now open ➡️ smbe2026.org/symposia/
📅 Opens: Sept 1, 2025
📅 Closes: Oct 15, 2025
📢 Results: Nov 3, 2025
We can’t wait to welcome you to beautiful #Copenhagen 🌍✨
@official-smbe.bsky.social
#evolution #science
The call for symposia is now open ➡️ smbe2026.org/symposia/
📅 Opens: Sept 1, 2025
📅 Closes: Oct 15, 2025
📢 Results: Nov 3, 2025
We can’t wait to welcome you to beautiful #Copenhagen 🌍✨
@official-smbe.bsky.social
#evolution #science
Symposia - SMBE 2026 - Copenhagen Denmark
SMBE 2026 Symposia Check deadlines and important dates below. Days Hours Minutes Seconds Conference Symposia We are now accepting proposals for symposium for the 2026 Annual meeting taking place in C...
smbe2026.org
September 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🚨 The #SMBE2026 website is live! 🚨
The call for symposia is now open ➡️ smbe2026.org/symposia/
📅 Opens: Sept 1, 2025
📅 Closes: Oct 15, 2025
📢 Results: Nov 3, 2025
We can’t wait to welcome you to beautiful #Copenhagen 🌍✨
@official-smbe.bsky.social
#evolution #science
The call for symposia is now open ➡️ smbe2026.org/symposia/
📅 Opens: Sept 1, 2025
📅 Closes: Oct 15, 2025
📢 Results: Nov 3, 2025
We can’t wait to welcome you to beautiful #Copenhagen 🌍✨
@official-smbe.bsky.social
#evolution #science
More about the West African rock doves, including what could be the first "official" picture of these birds alive!! 🕊️
doi.org/10.25226/bbo...
doi.org/10.25226/bbo...
September 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
More about the West African rock doves, including what could be the first "official" picture of these birds alive!! 🕊️
doi.org/10.25226/bbo...
doi.org/10.25226/bbo...
New rock dove paper!🕊️
Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species
*please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase
@trstngnthr.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species
*please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase
@trstngnthr.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Gone With the Wind: Exploring a Vanished Rock Dove, Columba Livia, Hybrid Zone in the Sahara Desert
In this study, we tested the hypothesis of the existence of a hybrid zone between two differentiated rock dove lineages, which may contribute significantly to their divergence. By analyzing newly gen...
doi.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
New rock dove paper!🕊️
Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species
*please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase
@trstngnthr.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species
*please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase
@trstngnthr.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution!
Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!
Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!
August 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by Germán Hernández-Alonso
Fantastic dental calculus and where to find it
Johnny Richards and team (@markella-morait.bsky.social + curators from 5 museums) survey >140 mammalian species with >1,600 specimens to understand what factors determine dental calculus formation. #aDNA #museomics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Johnny Richards and team (@markella-morait.bsky.social + curators from 5 museums) survey >140 mammalian species with >1,600 specimens to understand what factors determine dental calculus formation. #aDNA #museomics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Fantastic dental calculus and where to find it
Johnny Richards and team (@markella-morait.bsky.social + curators from 5 museums) survey >140 mammalian species with >1,600 specimens to understand what factors determine dental calculus formation. #aDNA #museomics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Johnny Richards and team (@markella-morait.bsky.social + curators from 5 museums) survey >140 mammalian species with >1,600 specimens to understand what factors determine dental calculus formation. #aDNA #museomics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...