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Daniele Battilani
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PhD in Conservation Genomics at Sapienza University & ISPRA 🐺
Currently employed as a Researcher at Edmund Mach Foundation 🌐🧬
Trained by and sharing knowledge with Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics (KU) 📊
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ginamo-consgen.bsky.social
🧬 GINAMO is...

🟩 an international research initiative
🟩 developing tools for monitoring genetic #biodiversity
🟩 co-creating with stakeholders
🟩 funded by @biodiversa.eu
🟩 now on Bluesky!

📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=GARevjuLDhs
🏞️ #ConsGen #Conservation #Genetics #KMGBF #Science
Team
GINAMO is a collaborative international project of eleven universities and research institutes. Find all GINAMO members below! Some of us meeting in France in summer 2024 Work Package 1, Coordinati…
ginamo.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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lauradbertola.bsky.social
We have another publication out! 🎉🎉🎉
“Hybrids along a natural–anthropogenic gradient: improving policy and management across all levels of biodiversity.”
We explore how to deal with hybrids in conservation — scientifically and practically. A thread 🧵
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hybrids Along a Natural‐Anthropogenic Gradient: Improving Policy and Management Across All Levels of Biodiversity
Hybridization has long been a central topic in evolution and conservation. Recent developments in genomics have increased the ability to detect hybridization, defined here as breeding between species....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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anjamwestram.bsky.social
🧬 Interested in monitoring & reporting on genetic diversity?

🏞️ Our project GINAMO (Genetic Indicators for NAture MOnitoring) now has a blog & newsletter!

🐝 Please share! ginamo.org/2025/09/29/welcome-2

#Conservation #Genetics #Biodiversity #Nature #consgen #KMGBF #SciComm
Welcome!
Get to know GINAMO in 10 questions Welcome to the GINAMO (Genetic Indicators for NAture MOnitoring) blog! Whether you’ve already attended one of our workshops or are just discovering us, we&#…
ginamo.org
October 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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natrevbiodiv.nature.com
New online! Marine heatwaves as hot spots of climate change and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Marine heatwaves as hot spots of climate change and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 07 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00058-5Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have become more intense and widespread globally, affecting species, ecosystems and people. After summarizing how and why MHWs are changing, this Review explores these impacts and their underlying mechanisms, highlights knowledge gaps and considers opportunities to mitigate the effects of MHWs.
bit.ly
July 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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devoevomed.bsky.social
Another pathetic DMCA takedown by @dailyimagesde, for figs published under CC-BY 4.0; so silly because they only had to attribute the images to use them. Again, I can't prove this was at the bequest of #ColossalBio co-founder Ben Lamm but lets this opportunity to learn about gorilla sperm! 🧪
a gorilla is standing in the woods with trees in the background and looking at the camera .
ALT: a gorilla is standing in the woods with trees in the background and looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
daniele-battilani.bsky.social
Back to the roots! 🌱
It was truly emotional to give a seminar in the historical Ghigi classroom. I spent so many hours listening and taking notes here during my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Bologna. 🎓
June 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Korfmann et al. compare methylome and genome data in two plant species, showing that CG methylation captures recent demographic events missed by SNPs, and present a new deep learning method using methylation to infer demographic histories.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf101

#genome #plants #epigenetics
Methylomes Reveal Recent Evolutionary Changes in Populations of Two Plant Species
Abstract. Plant DNA methylation changes occur hundreds to thousands of times faster than DNA mutations and can be transmitted transgenerationally, making t
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June 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
daniele-battilani.bsky.social
Scientific communication is the way by which researchers share their results and their plausible implications. As such, it must be rigorous, transparent, and realistic. When it’s inflated to chase sensationalism and media attention, it loses its purpose, and this is a shameful example.
Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves
Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve...
www.newscientist.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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ipbes.net
🗞️Authors from the @ipbes.net #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report have published the Global Impacts Dataset of Invasive Alien Species derived from the report, creating a global resource for investigating and managing the impacts of invasive alien species. 🌍🧪

Read more in ‪@nature.com‬ bit.ly/43APoP7
An image of two lionfish. Overlay text reads: Major New Resource, Global Impacts Dataset of Invasive Alien Species
May 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
Pangenomes are not just for humans 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧, livestock 🐮🐷, and crops 🌾🌱 --- highlight yours by adding it below! #biodiversity #genomics
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Pan‐genome analysis highlights the role of structural variation in the evolution and environmental adaptation of Asian honeybees
The Asian honeybee, Apis cerana, is an ecologically and economically important pollinator. Mapping its genetic variation is key to understanding population-level health, histories and potential capac...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
daniele-battilani.bsky.social
Yesterday, I defended my PhD thesis, marking the end of the most significant formative journey I’ve ever experienced. Despite being steeped in precariousness and inequality, Science, you push passion and curiosity beyond all barriers.
#Sapienza #ISPRA #PhD
May 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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rsbiello.bsky.social
🐻New preprint🐻
We analysed WGS data from the Apennine brown bear—a small and isolated population which has coexisted with humans for millennia—and found unique genomic diversity, including adaptation associated with reduced aggressiveness.
#ConsGen #Genomics #Bears
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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georgealfredcurrie.bsky.social
Does publishing serve science or is science serving publishing?

Damian Pattinson and I (@elife.bsky.social) argue scientific publishing has evolved into a system that, rather than facilitate scholarly communication, distorts and dictates it.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#OpenScience
Screenshot of article summary of: Toward Science-Led Publishing by Damian Pattinson, George Currie published as an opinion piece, in Learned Publishing Summary The current dynamic of scholarly publishing prioritises the wants of the publishing industry over the needs of the research community. This article explores this theme through the lens of ‘publisher-led science’ as a description of our current status quo, and through ‘science-led publishing’ as an improved future state. We argue that financial motivations central to most publishing distort how research is presented, how it is assessed and even what research is undertaken, leading to a system that hinders, rather than facilitates, scientific progress. We propose three elements of a science-led publishing approach that would accelerate research communication, incentivise collaboration between authors, editors and reviewers, and create a more transparent and equitable research landscape. We believe that research funding and research assessment are two of the primary levers for wider change in research and research culture and consider the future purpose of scholarly publishing in a world where these proposals have been widely adopted.
May 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
Upgraded CheloAbing_2.0 assembly resulted in individual estimates of inbreeding, including ROH proportion (FROH), number (NROH), and cumulative length (SROH), that were statistically different from those derived from the draft #genome onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🐢
Synteny Enabled Upgrade of the Galapagos Giant Tortoise Genome Improves Inferences of Runs of Homozygosity
Here we update the reference genome for the Pinta Island Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis abingdonii) through rescaffolding against the most closely related chromosome-level genome assembly, the...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
daniele-battilani.bsky.social
Robin Waples with a delicate sociopolitical introduction before digging the concept of Ne.
#GINAMO
May 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
daniele-battilani.bsky.social
Amazing work!

Genomes of critically endangered saola are shaped by population structure and purging: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Genomes of critically endangered saola are shaped by population structure and purging
The generation of whole-genome sequencing data from 26 saolas provides insights into the phylogenetic placement, population structure, historical decline, and genetic diversity in one of the world’s m...
www.cell.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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joanferrerobiol.bsky.social
🚨 New paper alert 🚨

🪶 Evolutionarily distinct lineages of a migratory bird of prey show divergent responses to climate change 🪶

👉 rdcu.be/ehvAA

#LesserKestrel #ornithology #ClimateChange #Conservation

🧵👇 1/6
© D. Tome
May 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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📢 📢📢📢📢
Every biologist who cares about biodiversity should provide public comment on this rule proposed by the Trump administration that would REMOVE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS for endangered species! This is extremely bad.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...
www.federalregister.gov
April 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
Aye-ayes - amongst the lowest #genetic diversity of any primate measured to date - characterising genetic composition is key for future conservation efforts academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad... #biodiversity #genomics
A whole-genome scan for evidence of positive and balancing selection in aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis) utilizing a well-fit evolutionary baseline model
Abstract. The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is one of the 25 most endangered primate species in the world, maintaining amongst the lowest genetic
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April 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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natrevbiodiv.nature.com
ICYMI: New online! Current approaches and future opportunities for climate-smart protected areas
Current approaches and future opportunities for climate-smart protected areas
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 08 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00041-0A crucial element of conservation planning is spatial prioritization: the identification of areas that are high priority for conservation. This Review synthesizes advances in climate-smart spatial prioritization, which takes into account the effects of climate change on biodiversity.
bit.ly
April 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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science.org
The biotech company Colossal Biosciences declared on Monday it had “resurrected” the dire wolf. The bold claim was immediately met with skepticism and outrage from scientists on social media. scim.ag/42imbGU
Is the dire wolf back from the dead? Not exactly
Genetically edited gray wolf pups became instant media darlings—and drew hefty skepticism from scientists
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April 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is to work with others to “conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.” The Department of the Interior is excited about the potential of “de-extinction” technology and how it may serve broader purposes beyond the recovery of lost species, including strengthening biodiversity protection efforts and helping endangered or at-risk species. The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave. In fact, 97 percent of species that are added to the endangered list remain there. This is because the status quo is focused on regulation more than innovation. It’s time to fundamentally change how we think about species conservation. Going forward, we must celebrate removals from the endangered list - not additions. The only thing we’d like to see go extinct is the need for an endangered species list to exist. We need to continue improving recovery efforts to make that a reality, and the marvel of “de-extinction” technology can help forge a future where populations are never at risk. Since the dawn of our nation, it has been innovation – not regulation – that has spawned American greatness. The revival of the Dire Wolf heralds the advent of a thrilling new era of scientific wonder, showcasing how the concept of “de-extinction” can serve as a bedrock for modern species conservation. The Dire Wolf revival carries profound cultural significance as it embodies strength and courage that is deeply encoded within the DNA of American identity and tribal heritage. Breakthroughs of this nature will inspire leading minds and future generations of innovators to chase the impossible, capture it, and unleash its potential! The Department of the Interior looks forward to a vibrant future full of innovation that advances core missions such as wildlife conservation.
April 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Happy to see our new article out on "Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature" in #NatureReviewsBiodiversity led by the amazing Ingo Kowarik with D. Haase, L. Fischer, F. Kleinschroth, C. von Haaren, @anurbanforester.bsky.social and @tanjastraka.bsky.social
🎉 rdcu.be/ee3sX
March 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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coalitioncongen.bsky.social
This #WorldWildlifeDay, we call for urgent action to halt biodiversity loss. Preventing extinctions, protecting genetic diversity, & addressing human-wildlife conflict are key to achieving Target 4 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Learn more: www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/4 #WWD2025
March 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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coalitioncongen.bsky.social
🚨New #policy research! A recent study explores how the #conservation of #GeneticDiversity can be integrated into the EU’s Nature Restoration Regulations & why safeguarding genetic diversity is key to ecosystem resilience🌿
Read more here: www.coalitionforconservationgenetics.org/resources-da...
Genetic diversity is key to restoring nature — Coalition for Conservation Genetics
Find out how genetic diversity can be integrated into the EU’s Nature Restoration Regulations.
www.coalitionforconservationgenetics.org
February 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM