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We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
DL 14 September
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
University Lecturer in Biostatistics
University Lecturer in Biostatistics
jobs.helsinki.fi
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
DL 14 September
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Arctic charr #genome - a highly polygenic basis of morph differentiation with population-specific selection on alleles linked to the development of similar morph phenotypes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals How Plasticity and Genetic Differentiation Underlie Sympatric Morphs of Arctic Charr
Salmonids have a remarkable ability to form sympatric morphs after postglacial colonisation of freshwater lakes. These morphs often differ in morphology, feeding and spawning behaviour. Here, we expl....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Arctic charr #genome - a highly polygenic basis of morph differentiation with population-specific selection on alleles linked to the development of similar morph phenotypes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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👇 This is an excellent opportunity to join this fantastic group led by our great new colleague Prof. Melissa Chapman @milliechapman.bsky.social at the USYS Department @usyseth.bsky.social ofETH Zürich @ethz.ch as doctoral student or postdoc!
The Environmental Policy Lab at @ethz.ch is hiring!
🌱 A Postdoc broadly interested in resilient data infrastructure & policy for biodiversity governance
🌱 Two PhD students interested in biodiversity policy and spatial planning
more info here: epl.ethz.ch/the-group/op...
Please share widely! 🌍
🌱 A Postdoc broadly interested in resilient data infrastructure & policy for biodiversity governance
🌱 Two PhD students interested in biodiversity policy and spatial planning
more info here: epl.ethz.ch/the-group/op...
Please share widely! 🌍
Open Positions
We are currently hiring for multiple PhD and postdoc positions (see below)! If you are interested in applying to independent fellowships (e.g. SNSF Ambizione, MSCA Postdoc Fellowship, ETH4D graduate ...
epl.ethz.ch
July 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
👇 This is an excellent opportunity to join this fantastic group led by our great new colleague Prof. Melissa Chapman @milliechapman.bsky.social at the USYS Department @usyseth.bsky.social ofETH Zürich @ethz.ch as doctoral student or postdoc!
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We discuss the startling news that the rubber hand illusion works on OCTOPUSES m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8B...
Famous psychology trick works on octopuses too
YouTube video by New Scientist
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July 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We discuss the startling news that the rubber hand illusion works on OCTOPUSES m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8B...
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Happy to see our latest work out in @molbioevol.bsky.social. We revisit the evolution of 5-methylcytosine across neglected eukaryotic supergroups, establishing an ancestral repressive role silencing genome invaders, both transposons and viral elements👾: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... 🧵 1/7
Repressive cytosine methylation is a marker of viral gene transfer across divergent eukaryotes
Abstract. Cytosine DNA methylation patterns vary widely across eukaryotes, with its ancestral roles being understood to have included both transposable ele
academic.oup.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Happy to see our latest work out in @molbioevol.bsky.social. We revisit the evolution of 5-methylcytosine across neglected eukaryotic supergroups, establishing an ancestral repressive role silencing genome invaders, both transposons and viral elements👾: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... 🧵 1/7
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Just want to share this wild revision history of the Wikipedia page on Linkage Disequilibrium where Felsenstein himself debated people on the correct use of notations & definitions.
After 100 years of #popgen people does not seem to be totally agree on what LD is?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Li...
After 100 years of #popgen people does not seem to be totally agree on what LD is?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Li...
Talk:Linkage disequilibrium - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Just want to share this wild revision history of the Wikipedia page on Linkage Disequilibrium where Felsenstein himself debated people on the correct use of notations & definitions.
After 100 years of #popgen people does not seem to be totally agree on what LD is?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Li...
After 100 years of #popgen people does not seem to be totally agree on what LD is?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Li...
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We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Painters often prime a canvas with a layer of white to make it smoother, stronger and to enhance the colours they will later layer on, but it seems this is a mechanism that birds were using long before humans picked up paintbrushes.
The secret to what makes colours pop on dazzling songbirds
Hidden layers of colour in the plumage of tanagers and some other songbirds explain what makes them so eye-catching
www.newscientist.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Painters often prime a canvas with a layer of white to make it smoother, stronger and to enhance the colours they will later layer on, but it seems this is a mechanism that birds were using long before humans picked up paintbrushes.
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1/5 ✨Proud✨ to see our review with Katie Peichel as featured content in Trends_Ecol_Evo, with my beloved alpine lineages of Arabidopsis arenosa on the cover. Hope that you find it interesting! doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.007
July 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
1/5 ✨Proud✨ to see our review with Katie Peichel as featured content in Trends_Ecol_Evo, with my beloved alpine lineages of Arabidopsis arenosa on the cover. Hope that you find it interesting! doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.007
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🎉🧬🇨🇭 Researchers in Switzerland can soon deposit human genomics data in a secure national archive, and control access to researchers around the world, with Swiss FEGA joining the international FEGA network 👇
Swiss FEGA is consortium of six institutions, including at @ethz.ch, coordinated by SIB.
Swiss FEGA is consortium of six institutions, including at @ethz.ch, coordinated by SIB.
Switzerland joins the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA)
Following the successful demonstration of secure infrastructure for storing and sharing sensitive patient data, Switzerland has now officially joined the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEG...
www.sib.swiss
July 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🎉🧬🇨🇭 Researchers in Switzerland can soon deposit human genomics data in a secure national archive, and control access to researchers around the world, with Swiss FEGA joining the international FEGA network 👇
Swiss FEGA is consortium of six institutions, including at @ethz.ch, coordinated by SIB.
Swiss FEGA is consortium of six institutions, including at @ethz.ch, coordinated by SIB.
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#TEsky Lepidopteran genomes have denser transposable elements in smaller chromosomes, likely driven by non-allelic homologous recombination doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Lepidopteran genomes have denser transposable elements in smaller chromosomes, likely driven by non-allelic homologous recombination
Abstract. Transposable elements (TEs) drive major genome size and structural variations, yet evolutionary forces affecting their accumulation and removal r
doi.org
July 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
#TEsky Lepidopteran genomes have denser transposable elements in smaller chromosomes, likely driven by non-allelic homologous recombination doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
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“Invest in data resources to make FAIR a reality”, a correspondence penned by our director, @dessimoz.bsky.social, @francesarnold.bsky.social, Richard J. Roberts, and @timjph.bsky.social, published in Nature.
Invest in data resources to make FAIR a reality | Nature
Letter to the Editor
rdcu.be
July 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
“Invest in data resources to make FAIR a reality”, a correspondence penned by our director, @dessimoz.bsky.social, @francesarnold.bsky.social, Richard J. Roberts, and @timjph.bsky.social, published in Nature.
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Seen a potential problem in a published article? Wonder whether and how to respond? Here are some thoughts on how to figure out what's best for you. Happy to hear your thoughts...
thetrophiclink.org/posts/2025-0...
thetrophiclink.org/posts/2025-0...
Public critique or private conversation? How to know what's best for you. | TheTrophicLink
A few months ago, I and some colleagues at the University of Zurich gathered to discuss a recent paper in a leading ecology journal. During the discussion, I realised, or at least believed, that the p...
thetrophiclink.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Seen a potential problem in a published article? Wonder whether and how to respond? Here are some thoughts on how to figure out what's best for you. Happy to hear your thoughts...
thetrophiclink.org/posts/2025-0...
thetrophiclink.org/posts/2025-0...
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Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation
MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025
→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)
submit abstract by July 29
Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation
MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025
→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)
submit abstract by July 29
⏰ Abstract deadline for 'The mobile genome' is 29 July!
👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍
⭐🧑🏼🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out!
#EMBOMobileGenome
👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍
⭐🧑🏼🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out!
#EMBOMobileGenome
July 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Pls. share widely
Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation
MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025
→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)
submit abstract by July 29
Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation
MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025
→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)
submit abstract by July 29
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The National Research Programme “Promoting #Biodiversity and Sustainable Ecosystem Services for Switzerland” (NRP 82) is supporting 15 projects with a total of 11.2 million francs. And it is doing so with an approach that is completely new in #Switzerland.
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11.2 million francs for biodiversity
The National Research Programme “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services“ (NRP 82) is supporting 15 research projects.
www.snf.ch
July 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The National Research Programme “Promoting #Biodiversity and Sustainable Ecosystem Services for Switzerland” (NRP 82) is supporting 15 projects with a total of 11.2 million francs. And it is doing so with an approach that is completely new in #Switzerland.
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📣 I’m recruiting a #Postdoc to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group @leibniz-hki.de will be a good fit for you! Please share!
jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...
jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...
Job opportunity Postdoctoral Researcher (m/w/div) in “Microbial Infection Strategies” at Leibniz HKI Jobportal
Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena
jobs.hki-jena.de
July 17, 2025 at 5:41 AM
📣 I’m recruiting a #Postdoc to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group @leibniz-hki.de will be a good fit for you! Please share!
jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...
jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...
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🕷️🕸️🧬 whole #genome sequencing of 202 parent-offspring trios from 34 families across 3 social & 4 subsocial species - sociality is associated with an approximately 50% reduction in germline mutation rate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #biodiversity #genomics
Convergent Evolution of Sociality Causes Reduction of Mutation Rates in Spiders
Germline mutations play a crucial role in determining the rate of molecular evolution. In the spider genus Stegodyphus, sociality has independently evolved three times within the past million years, e...
www.biorxiv.org
July 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🕷️🕸️🧬 whole #genome sequencing of 202 parent-offspring trios from 34 families across 3 social & 4 subsocial species - sociality is associated with an approximately 50% reduction in germline mutation rate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #biodiversity #genomics
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11 Funded PhD Positions in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen in Germany
Explore 11 fully funded PhD opportunities in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen. Work on groundbreaking research in genome evolution, reproductive systems, and bioinformatics. Apply before…
Explore 11 fully funded PhD opportunities in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen. Work on groundbreaking research in genome evolution, reproductive systems, and bioinformatics. Apply before…
11 Funded PhD Positions in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen in Germany
Explore 11 fully funded PhD opportunities in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen. Work on groundbreaking research in genome evolution, reproductive systems, and bioinformatics. Apply before September 1, 2025!
agristok.net
July 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
11 Funded PhD Positions in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen in Germany
Explore 11 fully funded PhD opportunities in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen. Work on groundbreaking research in genome evolution, reproductive systems, and bioinformatics. Apply before…
Explore 11 fully funded PhD opportunities in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen. Work on groundbreaking research in genome evolution, reproductive systems, and bioinformatics. Apply before…
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In #G3journal, Ziming Zhong, Bruce A. McDonald, and @jessstapley.bsky.social identified genomic regions associated with colony growth and melanization under temperature conditions in the wheat pathogen, showing how the pathogenic fungi respond to temperature stress.
Read more: buff.ly/4eBnwhs
Read more: buff.ly/4eBnwhs
June 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
In #G3journal, Ziming Zhong, Bruce A. McDonald, and @jessstapley.bsky.social identified genomic regions associated with colony growth and melanization under temperature conditions in the wheat pathogen, showing how the pathogenic fungi respond to temperature stress.
Read more: buff.ly/4eBnwhs
Read more: buff.ly/4eBnwhs
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A great collection of papers here ... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998... Special Issue: Advancing species conservation and management through omics tools
Special Issue: Advancing species conservation and management through omics tools: Molecular Ecology Resources: Vol 25, No 5
Molecular Ecology Resources is a broad journal publishing computer programs, statistical & molecular advances & more for studies in evolution, ecology & conservation.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A great collection of papers here ... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998... Special Issue: Advancing species conservation and management through omics tools
Milking it - leveraging large pedigree-SNP dataset to study age-related changes in Recombination in Dairy cattle. Finally out thanks to a very talented student Evelyn Jade and a dedicated academic @annasanture.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An Increase in Male Recombination Rate With Age in Dairy Cattle Is Heritable and Polygenic
Meiotic recombination is an essential process for shuffling genetic diversity in sexually reproducing organisms, can vary within and between individuals in response to intrinsic and extrinsic factors....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Milking it - leveraging large pedigree-SNP dataset to study age-related changes in Recombination in Dairy cattle. Finally out thanks to a very talented student Evelyn Jade and a dedicated academic @annasanture.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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13 PhD Positions in Food Science at University of Naples Federico II, Italy – Open for International Students
The University of Naples Federico II has opened applications for the 41st PhD cycle (2025/2026), offering fully funded opportunities for international students. Deadline: July 7, 2025.
The University of Naples Federico II has opened applications for the 41st PhD cycle (2025/2026), offering fully funded opportunities for international students. Deadline: July 7, 2025.
13 PhD Positions in Food Science at University of Naples Federico II, Italy – Open for International Students
The University of Naples Federico II has opened applications for the 41st PhD cycle (2025/2026), offering fully funded opportunities for international students. Deadline: July 7, 2025.
agristok.net
June 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
13 PhD Positions in Food Science at University of Naples Federico II, Italy – Open for International Students
The University of Naples Federico II has opened applications for the 41st PhD cycle (2025/2026), offering fully funded opportunities for international students. Deadline: July 7, 2025.
The University of Naples Federico II has opened applications for the 41st PhD cycle (2025/2026), offering fully funded opportunities for international students. Deadline: July 7, 2025.
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The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery – a long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces the special issue on ‘The Fungi’. www.cell.com/current-biol...
The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery
Long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces this special
issue on ‘The Fungi’.
www.cell.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery – a long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces the special issue on ‘The Fungi’. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Incredibly sad. Triste.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
www.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Incredibly sad. Triste.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two caught Smuggling Fusarium graminearum into US www.bbc.com/news/article...
Chinese nationals accused of smuggling 'biological pathogen' into US
Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu allegedly brought into the US a fungus which damages a variety of crops and is toxic to humans and animals.
www.bbc.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Two caught Smuggling Fusarium graminearum into US www.bbc.com/news/article...