Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬
@gsegelbacher.bsky.social
professor at university Freiburg, ornithologist, conservation geneticist,
❤️outdoors, mountains ⛰️, open water swimming 🏊 and birds 🦤 (not necessarily always in this order, but sometimes all together)
#teamscience, #teamvorsicht #lowcarbonbirding
❤️outdoors, mountains ⛰️, open water swimming 🏊 and birds 🦤 (not necessarily always in this order, but sometimes all together)
#teamscience, #teamvorsicht #lowcarbonbirding
Lunch break at #localpatch #lowcarbonbirding
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Lunch break at #localpatch #lowcarbonbirding
to cross or not to cross - some insights on hybridisation for conservation
www.zooscience.be/en/blog/luck...
🪶 #consgen 🧪🦤🌏
www.zooscience.be/en/blog/luck...
🪶 #consgen 🧪🦤🌏
Lucky in love, across species boundaries?
I'm a hybrid, you're a hybrid, ... We're all hybrids. No plug-in hybrids but crossbreeds between species. After all, thousands of years ago, our ancestors reproduced with Neanderthals. The result...
www.zooscience.be
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
to cross or not to cross - some insights on hybridisation for conservation
www.zooscience.be/en/blog/luck...
🪶 #consgen 🧪🦤🌏
www.zooscience.be/en/blog/luck...
🪶 #consgen 🧪🦤🌏
Epic sunrise above the fog
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Epic sunrise above the fog
Good morning
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Good morning
looks like there is more pink in the sky again
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
looks like there is more pink in the sky again
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Alarmierende Nachrichten aus der #Antarktis: Das Meereis schwindet unerwartet schnell – und der westantarktische Eisschild könnte einen Kipppunkt bereits überschritten haben. Das Abschmelzen würde einen globalen Meeresspiegelanstieg von bis zu vier Metern bedeuten. #Klimakrise
Antarktis – Der Meeresspiegel könnte jetzt um 4 Meter steigen
Die globale Erwärmung bringt das System Antarktis immer mehr aus dem Gleichgewicht. Die Veränderung hat tiefgreifende Folgen für das gesamte Klimasystem.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Alarmierende Nachrichten aus der #Antarktis: Das Meereis schwindet unerwartet schnell – und der westantarktische Eisschild könnte einen Kipppunkt bereits überschritten haben. Das Abschmelzen würde einen globalen Meeresspiegelanstieg von bis zu vier Metern bedeuten. #Klimakrise
Sunset at the lake
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sunset at the lake
This is tragic 🪶
The impacts of avian influenza are profound and far reaching. Hopefully 🇮🇸 Gyrfalcons will recover in time but this is near catastrophic #RaptorResearch 🌎 🪶
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
The Icelandic gyrfalcon population has been hit hard by the ongoing wave of avian influenza in recent years. Once numbering around 2,000 birds, the population has now collapsed to roughly 500 individu...
icelandmonitor.mbl.is
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is tragic 🪶
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 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reposted by Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬
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. 🧵
What makes biologists happy....
#unifreiburg field trip to the Black forest , again with no snow and temperatures of 14 degrees in mid november 🪶
#unifreiburg field trip to the Black forest , again with no snow and temperatures of 14 degrees in mid november 🪶
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
What makes biologists happy....
#unifreiburg field trip to the Black forest , again with no snow and temperatures of 14 degrees in mid november 🪶
#unifreiburg field trip to the Black forest , again with no snow and temperatures of 14 degrees in mid november 🪶
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Und so sieht das in Lindenberg im Dunkeln aus. #polarlicht
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Und so sieht das in Lindenberg im Dunkeln aus. #polarlicht
Good morning, what a surprise....
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Good morning, what a surprise....
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Enjoy your evening
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Enjoy your evening
Chewing gum? I wonder why they take the hardest wood
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Chewing gum? I wonder why they take the hardest wood
Good morning
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Good morning
Novemberfarben
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Novemberfarben
Office view, start of the week
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Office view, start of the week
Good morning
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Good morning
Some extra colour at #localpatch, with today's Jack's snipe now at #143 species for 2025 #lowcarbonbirding 🪶 , #pwc2025
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Some extra colour at #localpatch, with today's Jack's snipe now at #143 species for 2025 #lowcarbonbirding 🪶 , #pwc2025
Autumn in the forest
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Autumn in the forest
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards
Warming is destabilising glaciers in mountain regions, triggering cascading hazards, from glacier collapse to downstream flooding.
Climate impacts are interconnected, not isolated.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warming is destabilising glaciers in mountain regions, triggering cascading hazards, from glacier collapse to downstream flooding.
Climate impacts are interconnected, not isolated.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards - Nature Geoscience
Nature Geoscience - Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards
Warming is destabilising glaciers in mountain regions, triggering cascading hazards, from glacier collapse to downstream flooding.
Climate impacts are interconnected, not isolated.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warming is destabilising glaciers in mountain regions, triggering cascading hazards, from glacier collapse to downstream flooding.
Climate impacts are interconnected, not isolated.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...