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Ina Satokangas
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Postdoctoral Researcher @ Univ. Edinburgh. Evolutionary genomics, structural genomic variation, adaptation/ speciation/ hybridisation. Wood ants, cichlids, butterflies & simulations.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X5vOIiMAAAAJ&hl=fi&oi=ao
A dream came true as I started recently a postdoc in Edinburgh, @ simonmartinlab.org! I study the role of #chromosomal #inversions in #adaptation - especially in changing environments; involving #popgen, African monarch #butterfly #pangenomics & #SLiM. Big thank you #skr for making this possible.
October 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Exciting news!
The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris.

This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics.

More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

See you there !
Population Genetics group 59
populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk
September 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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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...
October 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Thank you ESEB2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social & Barcelona! Lovely to get to know new amazing people and reconnect with old friends. Now digesting all the science & inspiration while in a train to new home in Edinburgh ❤️(more about that later on)…
August 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Over 30 prominent scientists call for a ban on the creation of a "mirror cell"--a microbe made of molecules that are mirror images of their natural forms. It could cause a mind-boggling global disaster. Here's my story [gift link] 🧪https://nyti.ms/3OUCXp6
A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn (Gift Article)
Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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My and Derek Setter's work on gene flow is now published in the latest issue of Genetics. We show that it is possible to detect past gene flow between two populations by summarising the asymmetry in pop-specific external branch lengths. 1/2
tinyurl.com/5ff8ch9e
Genealogical asymmetry under the isolation with migration model and a two-taxon test for gene flow
Abstract. Methods for detecting gene flow between populations often rely on asymmetry in the average length of particular genealogical branches, with the A
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December 12, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics
November 27, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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I made a starter pack of speciation researchers. Please let me know if you or someone you know would like to be added. I am particularly sad that so far there are not many speciation researchers from the Global South represented.
go.bsky.app/J7qDY56
December 7, 2024 at 4:40 PM
I feel thrilled to have been awarded a grant to study the role of structural genomic variation in resilience to environmental change. One step closer to a postdoc period in Edinburgh. Thank you #skr2024 #postdocpooli.
December 5, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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Extended abstract submission deadline for the Speciation GRS: December 8th!

Encourage your graduate students, labmates, academic buddies, inspiring postdocs to join us in Ventura this March to marvel over Darwin's mystery of mysteries: The Origin of Species.

www.grc.org/speciation-g...
2025 Speciation (GRS) Seminar GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Speciation (GRS) will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 29, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...
docs.google.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Super excited to start my first postdoc & join the Integrative Evolutionary Biology lab (Univ. Helsinki) for spring 2025! Can’t wait to get my hands on structural genomic variation behind coloration & sex determination in East African cichlids. 🐠 w @Claudius Kratochwil & team
November 13, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Do you work in ecology/evolution? Did you do a study that is too small to publish as a full manuscript? Negative results? Part of a larger effort? Consider publishing in microPublication Biology: EEB!

www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...

Short papers, one figure. And we peer review! Please RT
microPublication - Get Your Data Out, Be Cited
www.micropublication.org
June 3, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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To help SMTPB grow & build a community in modeling, theory, simulations, & data analysis in population biology (widely interpreted, incl. ecology, evolution, epidemiology, systematics...), please share this widely, join the listserv (email lbond@stanford.edu), & consider membership (smtpb.org)!
Society for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology - Join
smtpb.wildapricot.org
May 10, 2024 at 10:51 PM
An evolutionary biology PhD position open @ University of Amsterdam with Jonna Kulmuni (DL 26th May). Warmly recommend!
--> "you will investigate the impact of hybridization on adaptation and population persistence using experimental evolution in spider mites"
vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...
PhD Position in Evolutionary Biology
PhD Position in Evolutionary Biology
vacatures.uva.nl
April 26, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Dear all, would there be someone around who has received a HFSP fellowship and would like to share some thoughts about the application process with a potential future applicant? 🙂🙋‍♀️
April 12, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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New edited volume on Speciation, organized by Katie Peichel and colleagues, coming soon from Cold Springs Harbor Press
March 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM
How to enhance scientific and social integration in speciation research? 🧩 The outcome of a workshop from last spring is out! Thank you everyone involved in this fantastic project, especially Sean Stankowski for leading the review, and IoS network for organizing. Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1093/evol...
February 26, 2024 at 2:34 PM
A fascinating journey behind, excited to share our work on predictability of speciation, led by Marius & Hannes Rösti, w Janette Boughman, @samridhi.bsky.social, Jochen Wolf, and Brian Langerhans. cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/earl... - part of the CSH Perspectives on Speciation.
Predictability, an Orrery, and a Speciation Machine: Quest for a Standard Model of Speciation
A new type of review journal, featuring comprehensive collections of expert review articles on important topics in the molecular life sciences
cshperspectives.cshlp.org
February 14, 2024 at 1:57 PM