@rbgkew.bsky.social Has just released their annual State of the World's Plants and Fungi. Should be of great interest! www.kew.org/science/stat...

State of the World's Plants & Fungi

We publish reports that give our assessment of the current knowledge on the world's plants and fungi.

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Published today alongside Kew's State of the World's Plants & Fungi report, 'Harnessing the benefits of specimen digitisation', explores how digitised specimens are changing how we study plants and fungi. Antonelli, et al. introduce the Collection: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Come work with me @rbgkew.bsky.social with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on the Conservation Genetics of orchid populations! 🧬🌿 Apply for the Harding PhD studentship "Surviving small: genetic diversity, symbiosis and resilience in orchid populations", deadline 31st May www.kew.org/science/trai...

Available PhD opportunities

Discover our funded PhD opportunities in environmental science and plant humanities and learn about our involvement with a range of Doctoral Training Partnerships and similar schemes.

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🚨 Advanced #ConservationGenomics (ONLINE, 28 Sep–1 Oct) with Giulia Fabbri & @rsbiello.bsky.social . Learn how population genomics informs real-world conservation decisions: Ne, genetic load, SNP panels, policy & legislation + invited expert speakers @roberta-gargiulo.bsky.social shorturl.at/X8Dsi

Advanced Conservation Genomics

Dates ONLINE, 28 September -1 October 2026 To foster international participation, this course will be held online

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🚨 Postdoc in conservation genomics & experimental evolution (Copenhagen) Join us explore questions on gene editing for biodiversity conservation 🔬 Required: exp in experimental evolution (ideally C. elegans) 📅 1-year pos ⏰ Dline: April 6 employment.ku.dk/faculty?show... @hologenomics.bsky.social

Postdoctoral position in conservation genomics and experimental evolution at Hologenomics Section, Globe Institute

The Hologenomics Section, Globe Institute, University at Copenhagen, is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to join our team. This position is part of the research project “Back from the Brink: experimental de-extinction in a model-organism to restore lost diversity”, funded under the Villum Experiment Programme. The project explores the potential of gene editing technologies for conservation using an experimental setting, the risks and consequences for the management of genetically vulnerable populations. Duration: one year.

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Seedbanks of wild species are instrumental for conservation, but their intraspecific genetic diversity 🧬 is often poorly understood. Our new opinion piece explores... 1/ @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The potential of seedbank digital information in plant conservation

Seedbanks are vital for biodiversity conservation, but their potential remains underutilised due to a limited understanding of the intraspecific genetic diversity they hold. By leveraging digitised d...

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#consgen authority Fred Allendorf cries out in despair for American science in the Missoulian newspaper. It’s terrifying to watch this destruction unfold day by day. My heart goes out to my American colleagues and friends. Stay strong and fight.

Orchids have existed for 80 million years, but most of their diversity evolved in just the last 5 million! 🌸 Here's a free poster of the most complete Orchid Tree of Life built by Kew's @latinorchidbot.bsky.social & partners' DNA research 🧬👇 figshare.com/s/241e1bd47d...

It is great to have the restoration law - but it needs to incorporate genetic diversity more #consgen 🌏🦤 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Restoring genetic diversity to facilitate the implementation of the EU Nature Restoration Law

Governments and economic blocs are recognising that the world faces a biodiversity crisis. The restoration of biodiversity to the levels prior to wide…

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Robin Waples's "The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size" is now online in Molecular Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature

A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

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Dealing With the Complexity of Effective Population Size in Conservation Practice -- Summary of our workshop on 🧬 #Ne for practical 🌱🌳🦟🍄🐟🐦🐘 #conservation. incl. bsky.app/profile/jmer..., bsky.app/profile/robe..., bsky.app/profile/lper... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dealing With the Complexity of Effective Population Size in Conservation Practice

Effective population size (Ne) is one of the most important parameters in evolutionary biology, as it is linked to the long-term survival capability of species. Therefore, Ne greatly interests conser....

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I'm super happy to share our newest preprint on whooping crane genomics 🐣🧬 🚨Persistent genomic erosion in whooping cranes despite demographic recovery🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Extremely thankful to @hernmoral.bsky.social and all co-authors! #conservationgenomics #genomics #whoopingcranes

✨Excited to share our new article on time lags/genetic extinction debts, online now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution #KewScience 🧬🧬🧬/1 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mind the lag: understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation

The delay between disturbance events and genetic responses within populations is a common but surprisingly overlooked phenomenon in ecology and evolut…

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There’s a time lag between an event and its impact on the genetic composition of a population ⏱️🧬 This cool new paper by @roberta-gargiulo.bsky.social explains why and how conservation strategies should account for this 🧪🌏

Mind the lag: understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation

The delay between disturbance events and genetic responses within populations is a common but surprisingly overlooked phenomenon in ecology and evolutionary and conservation genetics. If not accounted...

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3/ An extinction debt also occurs when gene flow in a metapopulation drops below 1 MPG. This doesn't reflect a deviation from mutation-drift equilibrium, but from migration-drift equilibrium in the metapop. A drop in gene flow reduces the realized inbreeding Ne of the subpopulation.

Genetic Bottlenecks Driven by Population Disconnection

Abstract: Connectivity among populations plays a crucial role in maintaining genetic variation at a local scale, especially in small populations affected strongly by genetic drift. The negative con...

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2/ if allelic richness is smaller than expected from the observed He there is a pending extinction debt The same principle applies to Tajima's D (haplotypes) or the Site Frequency Spectrum (SNPs).

New paper by @roberta-gargiulo.bsky.social on extinction debts and #popgen. A bottleneck test is also a test for a genetic extinction debt 1/ at mutation-drift equilibrium Ne predicts allelic richness AR and gene diversity He and vice versa

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Check out this new paper just out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on better understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... #conservationgenetics #PopulationGenetics

Check out this new paper just out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on better understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... #conservationgenetics #PopulationGenetics

Let´s form a community of conservation geneticists here - I started with some people I know, but there are likely to be many more... I can happily add them to this list go.bsky.app/VMqVSAi