Hernán E. Morales
@hernmoral.bsky.social
Evolutionary and conservation
genomics group leader at Globe institute, University of Copenhagen
🇲🇽in🇩🇰
https://globe.ku.dk/research/hologenomics/evolutionary-and-conservation-group/
genomics group leader at Globe institute, University of Copenhagen
🇲🇽in🇩🇰
https://globe.ku.dk/research/hologenomics/evolutionary-and-conservation-group/
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What a course!🧬🦣
Thanks to this amazing team of instructors @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social & @hernmoral.bsky.social for delivering such a great first edition of the #Museomics course.
Thanks to everyone who has joined us this week and good luck with your data!💯
Thanks to this amazing team of instructors @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social & @hernmoral.bsky.social for delivering such a great first edition of the #Museomics course.
Thanks to everyone who has joined us this week and good luck with your data!💯
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
What a course!🧬🦣
Thanks to this amazing team of instructors @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social & @hernmoral.bsky.social for delivering such a great first edition of the #Museomics course.
Thanks to everyone who has joined us this week and good luck with your data!💯
Thanks to this amazing team of instructors @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social & @hernmoral.bsky.social for delivering such a great first edition of the #Museomics course.
Thanks to everyone who has joined us this week and good luck with your data!💯
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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
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
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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Our #Genomics for #Biodiversity conference in Porto, Portugal www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7I... with two keynotes and our tranche of @biogeneurope.bsky.social & @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Case Studies in reference #genome applications for conservation or bioeconomy
November 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Our #Genomics for #Biodiversity conference in Porto, Portugal www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7I... with two keynotes and our tranche of @biogeneurope.bsky.social & @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Case Studies in reference #genome applications for conservation or bioeconomy
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I'm doing a workshop on R package development with Positron on Jan 15 2026. Register for the virtual workshop here: sites.google.com/view/dariia-... I'll cover devtools, usethis, testthat, covr, and a few AI tools along the way to help. #Rstats
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I'm doing a workshop on R package development with Positron on Jan 15 2026. Register for the virtual workshop here: sites.google.com/view/dariia-... I'll cover devtools, usethis, testthat, covr, and a few AI tools along the way to help. #Rstats
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Today we kicked-off our #Genomics for #Biodiversity conference in Porto, Portugal www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0X... with two keynotes and our first tranche of @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Case Studies in reference #genome applications for conservation or bioeconomy
DAY 1 - Genomics for Biodiversity Conference - from genomes to impact
YouTube video by ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Today we kicked-off our #Genomics for #Biodiversity conference in Porto, Portugal www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0X... with two keynotes and our first tranche of @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Case Studies in reference #genome applications for conservation or bioeconomy
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Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
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Join us tomorrow either at the @smnstuttgart.bsky.social or online to learn what 20,000 years old bones of crows 🐦⬛ can tell us about the evolution of color pattern! @kombiota.bsky.social
Tomorrow, October 28 | 4:00 p.m.
Research Colloquium: The use of ancient DNA and museum collections to understand speciation and introgression in crows
with Chyi Yin Gwee, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Join in person (Museum am Löwentor, #Stuttgart) or via zoom: t1p.de/d3y6j
Research Colloquium: The use of ancient DNA and museum collections to understand speciation and introgression in crows
with Chyi Yin Gwee, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Join in person (Museum am Löwentor, #Stuttgart) or via zoom: t1p.de/d3y6j
October 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Join us tomorrow either at the @smnstuttgart.bsky.social or online to learn what 20,000 years old bones of crows 🐦⬛ can tell us about the evolution of color pattern! @kombiota.bsky.social
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In October 2025, Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) reached a milestone: over one hundred genomes have been sequenced and publicly released as part of the project. biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/10/27/c... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social
Celebrating 100+ BGE genomes! - Biodiversity Genomics Europe
By Luisa Schlude Marins In October 2025, Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) reached a milestone: over one hundred genomes have been sequenced and publicly released as part of the project. More than si...
biodiversitygenomics.eu
October 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In October 2025, Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) reached a milestone: over one hundred genomes have been sequenced and publicly released as part of the project. biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/10/27/c... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social
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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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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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Happy to see my former @nbis.se advisory program student Zach Nolen's new pipeline PopGLen for analyses of short-read data using genotype-likelihood based methods out!
Github: github.com/zjnolen/PopG...
Paper: academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
Github: github.com/zjnolen/PopG...
Paper: academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
PopGLen—A Snakemake pipeline for performing population genomic analyses using genotype likelihood-based methods
AbstractSummary. PopGLen is a Snakemake workflow for performing population genomic analyses within a genotype-likelihood framework, integrating steps for r
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March 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Happy to see my former @nbis.se advisory program student Zach Nolen's new pipeline PopGLen for analyses of short-read data using genotype-likelihood based methods out!
Github: github.com/zjnolen/PopG...
Paper: academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
Github: github.com/zjnolen/PopG...
Paper: academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Learn about these and many other applied projects during the @biogeneurope.bsky.social Genomics for Biodiversity Conference:
🗓️ 29–31 October
💻Fully online & free of charge!
👉More info: erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...
#GenomicsforBiodiversity #conference #impact #genomics
🗓️ 29–31 October
💻Fully online & free of charge!
👉More info: erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...
#GenomicsforBiodiversity #conference #impact #genomics
Genomics for Biodiversity Conference - from genomes to impact
29–31 October 2025Summary🗓️ Dates: 29 - 31 October 2025 (click to add to your agenda!)🔗 Online venue: ERGA YouTube ChannelWe are excited to announce the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference organised...
erga-biodiversity.eu
October 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Learn about these and many other applied projects during the @biogeneurope.bsky.social Genomics for Biodiversity Conference:
🗓️ 29–31 October
💻Fully online & free of charge!
👉More info: erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...
#GenomicsforBiodiversity #conference #impact #genomics
🗓️ 29–31 October
💻Fully online & free of charge!
👉More info: erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...
#GenomicsforBiodiversity #conference #impact #genomics
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Exciting new pre-print from the group! Why and how are our owls getting redder over time? 🦉
Check it out on BioRxiv 👇👇
Check it out on BioRxiv 👇👇
Genomic bases of short-term evolution in the wild revealed by long-term monitoring and population-scale sequencing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679793v1
October 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Exciting new pre-print from the group! Why and how are our owls getting redder over time? 🦉
Check it out on BioRxiv 👇👇
Check it out on BioRxiv 👇👇
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Low-coverage sequencing (LCS) + genotype imputation is a cost-effective approach to genotype hundreds of samples at a full-genome level. But how do different imputation tools perform across populations with varying relatedness and inbreeding?
October 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Low-coverage sequencing (LCS) + genotype imputation is a cost-effective approach to genotype hundreds of samples at a full-genome level. But how do different imputation tools perform across populations with varying relatedness and inbreeding?
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My colleague @hernmoral.bsky.social is teaching what looks like a wonderful course online this November - Museomics: An Introduction to Genomic Analyses of Natural History Collections. Register: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #consgen
Museomics: An Introduction to Genomic Analyses of Natural History Collections
3-7 November To foster international participation, this course will be held online
www.physalia-courses.org
September 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My colleague @hernmoral.bsky.social is teaching what looks like a wonderful course online this November - Museomics: An Introduction to Genomic Analyses of Natural History Collections. Register: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #consgen
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PhD position available in my lab at @mncn-csic.bsky.social in Madrid to study speciation in oceanic islnd birds with phenotypic and genomic data.
💰4-year contract
🎓Biol, Genetics, Msc, English
📆 Apply by October 15th
👉CV & letter to b.mila@csic.es
💰4-year contract
🎓Biol, Genetics, Msc, English
📆 Apply by October 15th
👉CV & letter to b.mila@csic.es
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
PhD position available in my lab at @mncn-csic.bsky.social in Madrid to study speciation in oceanic islnd birds with phenotypic and genomic data.
💰4-year contract
🎓Biol, Genetics, Msc, English
📆 Apply by October 15th
👉CV & letter to b.mila@csic.es
💰4-year contract
🎓Biol, Genetics, Msc, English
📆 Apply by October 15th
👉CV & letter to b.mila@csic.es
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New manuscript out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social, led by my grad student Anais. We collated data from thousands of recent animal pop-gen studies to test 3 simple hypotheses: does genomic (1) diversity decrease (yes), (2) differentiation increase (yes), both with increased IUCN-endangerment?
September 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
New manuscript out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social, led by my grad student Anais. We collated data from thousands of recent animal pop-gen studies to test 3 simple hypotheses: does genomic (1) diversity decrease (yes), (2) differentiation increase (yes), both with increased IUCN-endangerment?
We are very happy that you have joined the group Audald!!!
☀️ My Mediterranean summer has come to an end, and today I’m kicking off a new postdoctoral adventure in @hernmoral.bsky.social’s group at the Globe Institute! Lots to learn, lots to contribute, and hopefully lots more posting here about Evolutionary & Conservation Genomics 🚀
September 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We are very happy that you have joined the group Audald!!!
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⚡ Only a few days left to submit your abstract & present a lightning talk during the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference (Oct 29–31 | online & free).
🧬 Topics: conservation, bioeconomy & data standardisation.
Deadline: Sept 15
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...
🧬 Topics: conservation, bioeconomy & data standardisation.
Deadline: Sept 15
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...
September 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
⚡ Only a few days left to submit your abstract & present a lightning talk during the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference (Oct 29–31 | online & free).
🧬 Topics: conservation, bioeconomy & data standardisation.
Deadline: Sept 15
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...
🧬 Topics: conservation, bioeconomy & data standardisation.
Deadline: Sept 15
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...
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📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
September 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
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📢 Postdoc Opportunity – Université Paris-Saclay
🌾🧬💻 Reproductive isolation between crops and their wild relatives
Candidates with PhD in evolutionary genomics & programming skills.
👉 Full description & how to apply: [https://moulon.inrae.fr/en/]
#Postdoc #EvolutionaryGenomics #Speciation
🌾🧬💻 Reproductive isolation between crops and their wild relatives
Candidates with PhD in evolutionary genomics & programming skills.
👉 Full description & how to apply: [https://moulon.inrae.fr/en/]
#Postdoc #EvolutionaryGenomics #Speciation
September 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
📢 Postdoc Opportunity – Université Paris-Saclay
🌾🧬💻 Reproductive isolation between crops and their wild relatives
Candidates with PhD in evolutionary genomics & programming skills.
👉 Full description & how to apply: [https://moulon.inrae.fr/en/]
#Postdoc #EvolutionaryGenomics #Speciation
🌾🧬💻 Reproductive isolation between crops and their wild relatives
Candidates with PhD in evolutionary genomics & programming skills.
👉 Full description & how to apply: [https://moulon.inrae.fr/en/]
#Postdoc #EvolutionaryGenomics #Speciation
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🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
September 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
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Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier.
Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET)
How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs.
Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity
Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET)
How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs.
Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity
3-year #postdoc position at Centre de synthèse et d'analyse de la biodiversité (CESAB) in Montpellier to work on how taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS
[📢 Postdoc offer in Montpellier] Work on intraspecific diversity & translocation in Nature-based Solutions 🌿
Join the EVOLUTION Knowledge-Hub at the #FRB-CESAB
🔗 More informations: bit.ly/43uRz6Z
@cnrs.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
Join the EVOLUTION Knowledge-Hub at the #FRB-CESAB
🔗 More informations: bit.ly/43uRz6Z
@cnrs.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier.
Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET)
How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs.
Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity
Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET)
How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs.
Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity
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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 🙏