David Combosch
@reef-combo.bsky.social
Professor of Population Genetics, Guam
Evolutionary Genomics, Marine Biodiversity, Corals, Molluscs, Sponges…
Evolutionary Genomics, Marine Biodiversity, Corals, Molluscs, Sponges…
Pinned
Our latest issue is out!👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
On the cover: Nautilus ≈ 🐙+🐚
(Maybe — like the Nautilus — our journal is a living fossil, believing in the interest and inspiration our readers might draw from the diversity of biological systems, questions and approaches we try to feature🙏 )
www.cell.com/current-biol...
On the cover: Nautilus ≈ 🐙+🐚
(Maybe — like the Nautilus — our journal is a living fossil, believing in the interest and inspiration our readers might draw from the diversity of biological systems, questions and approaches we try to feature🙏 )
Our paper on Nautilus unique sex determination made the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳🤩
With Hector Torrado, Carlos Leiva, @sarah-thesea.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social, Gonzalo Giribet et al!
With Hector Torrado, Carlos Leiva, @sarah-thesea.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social, Gonzalo Giribet et al!
Reposted by David Combosch
On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
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We have reached 1.4 degrees celsius #globalheating according to NASA data (smooth black trend line). Breaching 1.5 is now inevitable. From now on the fight is to keep overshoot as small and short as possible.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We have reached 1.4 degrees celsius #globalheating according to NASA data (smooth black trend line). Breaching 1.5 is now inevitable. From now on the fight is to keep overshoot as small and short as possible.
Reposted by David Combosch
🍂 🏛️ 👿 🧪 US Congress Bill to Prohibit Funding for Research with China
Proposal bars funding for US scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students; bill is retroactive - interactions in previous 5 yrs could cause ineligibility for future Federal funding
Proposal bars funding for US scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students; bill is retroactive - interactions in previous 5 yrs could cause ineligibility for future Federal funding
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🍂 🏛️ 👿 🧪 US Congress Bill to Prohibit Funding for Research with China
Proposal bars funding for US scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students; bill is retroactive - interactions in previous 5 yrs could cause ineligibility for future Federal funding
Proposal bars funding for US scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students; bill is retroactive - interactions in previous 5 yrs could cause ineligibility for future Federal funding
Interesting genomic perspectives…food for thoughts!
The Genomic Kaleidoscope: On the Hidden Dimensions of Within-Species Genomic Diversity academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... 🧬🖥️🧪
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Interesting genomic perspectives…food for thoughts!
Reposted by David Combosch
The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
Join Us!
brown-ecology.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
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Cornell University invites applications for a PhD in Evolutionary Genomics for Marine Conservation, starting Fall 2026. Interested candidates should contact Nina Overgaard Therkildsen at nt246@cornell.edu. More info: https://www.therkildsenlab.org/ #phd
THERKILDSEN LAB
The Therkildsen Lab at Cornell University. Conservation Genomics and Molecular Ecology
www.therkildsenlab.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Cornell University invites applications for a PhD in Evolutionary Genomics for Marine Conservation, starting Fall 2026. Interested candidates should contact Nina Overgaard Therkildsen at nt246@cornell.edu. More info: https://www.therkildsenlab.org/ #phd
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Join the course "Integrative taxonomy in the 'big data' era" from March 16-20, 2026, at MNHN Paris. Register at: https://sites.google.com/site/coursbarcode/home. For queries, contact Nicolas or Sarah. #course
Integrative taxonomy course in Paris
Integrative taxonomy course at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Ecole Doctorale 227
sites.google.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Join the course "Integrative taxonomy in the 'big data' era" from March 16-20, 2026, at MNHN Paris. Register at: https://sites.google.com/site/coursbarcode/home. For queries, contact Nicolas or Sarah. #course
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Join the GRACE project as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics and Climate Resilience. Conduct genomic analyses on marine species to study responses to climate change. Apply by March 1st, 2026. More info: https://umr-sebio.fr #postdoc
Accueil | UMR SEBIO
Accueil | UMR SEBIO
umr-sebio.fr
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Join the GRACE project as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics and Climate Resilience. Conduct genomic analyses on marine species to study responses to climate change. Apply by March 1st, 2026. More info: https://umr-sebio.fr #postdoc
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“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
www.fastcompany.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
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I wouldn't board an aircraft, a bus, a train, a ship or even get in a car that had a 5% chance of crashing. Now AMOC collapse is closing in on over 25% probability we are all being boarded to a mad future.
Excellent eye opener of a presentation. Educate yourself, watch it.
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Excellent eye opener of a presentation. Educate yourself, watch it.
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I wouldn't board an aircraft, a bus, a train, a ship or even get in a car that had a 5% chance of crashing. Now AMOC collapse is closing in on over 25% probability we are all being boarded to a mad future.
Excellent eye opener of a presentation. Educate yourself, watch it.
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Excellent eye opener of a presentation. Educate yourself, watch it.
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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#LIBresearch: A new study challenges long-standing ideas about how and when lungs can be lost or regained in amphibians.
→ doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#Evolution #Amphibians #Biodiversity
→ doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#Evolution #Amphibians #Biodiversity
Lungless tadpoles breathe fresh air into hypotheses for tetrapod lung loss and trait regain
We use lung loss in frog tadpoles to test debated hypotheses of tetrapod lung loss and challenge common explanations for the irreversibility of evolutionar
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#LIBresearch: A new study challenges long-standing ideas about how and when lungs can be lost or regained in amphibians.
→ doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#Evolution #Amphibians #Biodiversity
→ doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#Evolution #Amphibians #Biodiversity
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PhD position available in Mainz, Germany, focusing on fecundity evolution in the Colorado potato beetle. Master's degree required. Apply with motivation letter, CV, and referees: shuqing.xu@uni-mainz.de. More info: https://www.genevo-rtg.de/ #phd
Gene Regulation in Evolution
GenEvo is a DFG funded Research Training Group organised in a collaboration between the faculty of biology of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB).
www.genevo-rtg.de
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
PhD position available in Mainz, Germany, focusing on fecundity evolution in the Colorado potato beetle. Master's degree required. Apply with motivation letter, CV, and referees: shuqing.xu@uni-mainz.de. More info: https://www.genevo-rtg.de/ #phd
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Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social
Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals
go.nature.com/4i0i61w
go.nature.com/4i0i61w
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals - Nature
Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence for convergent genomic evolution across the animal kingdom and recurring periods of terrestrial colonization.
go.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social
Reposted by David Combosch
Amazing output of our #BIEN - #bigdata on #plants - project! Big congrats & thx to @gabrielmoulatlet.bsky.social for leading! 🌿🌴🌲🌳🌐🌍🌎 #macroecology
in "General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally", we provide key insights into species’ vulnerability to environmental change and the processes that structure biodiversity at global scales.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally | PNAS
A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large
geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...
www.pnas.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Amazing output of our #BIEN - #bigdata on #plants - project! Big congrats & thx to @gabrielmoulatlet.bsky.social for leading! 🌿🌴🌲🌳🌐🌍🌎 #macroecology
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"Our data are exquisite. Our world is empty."
An amazing piece on the coral reefs of the future by Rick MacPherson.
An amazing piece on the coral reefs of the future by Rick MacPherson.
Ghost Reefs of 2083: The Paleontology of Color (A Speculative ‘Fiction’) https://therevelator.org/ghost-reefs/
Ghost Reefs of 2083: The Paleontology of Color (A Speculative ‘Fiction’) • The Revelator
What will the loss of coral reefs cost the planet — and humanity?
therevelator.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"Our data are exquisite. Our world is empty."
An amazing piece on the coral reefs of the future by Rick MacPherson.
An amazing piece on the coral reefs of the future by Rick MacPherson.
Sponges vs. Ctenophores
NEW pub in @science.org 🥳
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Sponges vs. Ctenophores
Reposted by David Combosch
NEW pub in @science.org 🥳
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
NEW pub in @science.org 🥳
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dem kann ich nur zustimmen! Bitte unterschrieben
Wissenschaft ist kein Wunschkonzert der Reichen und Mächtigen, die missliebige Forschung - etwa die Klimaforschung - am liebsten abschaffen und unterdrücken wollen. Deshalb habe ich das Hamburger Manifest unterschrieben. Es ist auch ein Appell an Forscherkollegen.
Hier ist es: openpetition.de/!hcbrf
Hier ist es: openpetition.de/!hcbrf
October 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Dem kann ich nur zustimmen! Bitte unterschrieben
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Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.
October 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.
Reposted by David Combosch
Talk about an in-flight meal.
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Talk about an in-flight meal.
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
Reposted by David Combosch
This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature
The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Submit abstracts for the Population and Conservation Genomics Workshop at PAG 33 in San Diego, Jan 9-14, 2026. Deadline: Oct 31, 2026. Details: https://intlpag.org/PAG33/ #conference
PAG 33 - Home
PAG 33 - Home
intlpag.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Submit abstracts for the Population and Conservation Genomics Workshop at PAG 33 in San Diego, Jan 9-14, 2026. Deadline: Oct 31, 2026. Details: https://intlpag.org/PAG33/ #conference
Our paper on Nautilus unique sex determination made the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳🤩
With Hector Torrado, Carlos Leiva, @sarah-thesea.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social, Gonzalo Giribet et al!
With Hector Torrado, Carlos Leiva, @sarah-thesea.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social, Gonzalo Giribet et al!
Our latest issue is out!👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
On the cover: Nautilus ≈ 🐙+🐚
(Maybe — like the Nautilus — our journal is a living fossil, believing in the interest and inspiration our readers might draw from the diversity of biological systems, questions and approaches we try to feature🙏 )
www.cell.com/current-biol...
On the cover: Nautilus ≈ 🐙+🐚
(Maybe — like the Nautilus — our journal is a living fossil, believing in the interest and inspiration our readers might draw from the diversity of biological systems, questions and approaches we try to feature🙏 )
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Our paper on Nautilus unique sex determination made the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳🤩
With Hector Torrado, Carlos Leiva, @sarah-thesea.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social, Gonzalo Giribet et al!
With Hector Torrado, Carlos Leiva, @sarah-thesea.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social, Gonzalo Giribet et al!