Áki Jarl Láruson
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Áki Jarl Láruson
@akijarl.bsky.social
Passionate about marine evolutionary biology and molecular ecology 🇮🇸
Population geneticist at the Icelandic Marine & Freshwater Research Institute. Instructor at the University of Iceland. Ph.D. from University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
akijarl.wordpress.com
The collective plight of token Icelanders in groups asked to field "is this true" questions about Iceland:
October 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Strikamerkjagreining á hvatbera DNA, einangrað um borð á meðan leiðangri stóð, sýnir pólhverfa útbreiðslu tegundarinnar. Minna en 1% munur sást á milli allra sýnistöku staða, frá Noregshafi alla leið yfir til Kanada.
October 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Mitochondrial barcoding of DNA extracted onboard during the expedition revealed circumpolar connectivity of the species, with intraspecific sequence similarity >99% across all sample sites, from Norwegian water across to Canada.
October 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Reposted by Áki Jarl Láruson
Here is a press release/ summary blog post about our new paper.

Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is.

www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...
“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant
My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…
www.southernfriedscience.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ostur er veislukostur.
August 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM