📻🎙️🔊 New Heredity Podcast! Portia Wong and Paolo Momigliano join us to talk about their work. They've used samples confiscated from the illegal wildlife trade to study the illusive pangolin. 👂👂 shows.acast.com/heredity-pod... or get it in your podcast app of choice

... but in many cases even were active drivers of the eugenics movement worldwide. Also worth reading the in my view very thoughtful editorial by former @heredityjournal.bsky.social editor in chief Sara Goodacre: "The Genetics Society: looking back but moving forwards." doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Hopefully this review by Alex Aylward, Daniel J. Fairbanks, Maria Kiladi & Gregory Radick will form an important contribution to the Genetics Society UK, but also the wider scientific community in wrapping our heads around how genetics and biology not only widely accepted, ...

Ed Hollox@edhollox.bsky.social · 4mo ago

An excellent paper in @heredityjournal.bsky.social by Alex Aylward and colleagues on the role of the @gensocuk.bsky.social and eugenics. As a current committee member, I am embarrassed by my predecessors wait and see attitude to Nazi antisemitism in 1934. In contrast, Lancelot Hogben's quote...

🎙️🔊📻 New Heredity Podcast A team from universities in Connecticut talks about their use of pangenomes to examine the status of mink populations in Florida, and an innovative programme that's training the next generation of researchers. Listen: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod... Or in your podcast app

We are delighted that @wenjuanma84.bsky.social has joined the Heredity team. @gensocuk.bsky.social #societyjournal

Dr. Wen-Juan Ma | 马文娟@wenjuanma84.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited and honoured to join the editorial board of @heredityjournal.bsky.social as an Associate Editor 🧬🙃 I look forward to contributing to the community & supporting excellent research across #genetics #popgen #genomics #phylogenetics #epigenetics #quangen and more www.nature.com/hdy/editors

📻 🔊New Heredity Podcast ! Genetics Society Vice President Jonathan Pettitt @genotripe.bsky.social discusses what Heredity's publication revenue is used for, and the scientific community benefits of publishing in society journals. Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod... or in your podcast app

Join us for our Anniversary Day! This special event will feature talks from Genetics Society prize winners, honorary members, and summer students, a great opportunity to hear about exciting developments across genetics and connect with the community. Register: genetics.org.uk/events/anniv...

We are proud to publish this thoughtful & nuanced article by Aylward et al. on the Genetics Society's changing relationship with eugenics over the past 100 years. 'Eugenics and the Genetics Society' by Alex Aylward, Daniel J. Fairbanks, Maria Kiladi & Gregory Radick www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lovely article about the impactful and inspirational career of Roger Butlin (now retired). I've always admired how he worked hard at community building and research synthesis, and his research achievements were even more extensive than I realised: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

A career in pursuit of the origin of species: celebrating Roger Butlin’s contributions to the advancement of knowledge and growth of our scientific community

In 2025, the annual meeting of the Population Genetics Group (PopGroup) returned to Sheffield, U.K., for the third time. The timing could not have been mor

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Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation www.nature.com/hdy/volumes/... This special issue highlights recent advances in our understanding of genomic structural variation & its functional & adaptive consequences across different systems. @gensocuk.bsky.social

Deadline is 8th of April. #phdposition

Alper Akay@alperakay.bsky.social · 5mo ago

PhD position in our lab - 4-year funded by BBSRC and @nrpdtp.bsky.social in collaboration with @earlhaminst.bsky.social and Inspiralis Ltd. Open to UK fee qualifying students - UK citizens and citizens of Ireland (residency requirement), etc biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

The special issue Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation is now out in Heredity. Many thanks to all contributors for their submissions, to the editorial team at @heredityjournal.bsky.social and to @ellenleffler.bsky.social, @mydennis.bsky.social & @gokcumenlab.bsky.social!

Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation

See more information on the new Heredity special issue on functional and adaptive effects of genomic structural variation.

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📻🎙️🔊 New podcast! Student paper prize winner Eléonore Lavanchy talks about: 1. Her work 2. European Barn Owls 3. Inbreeding 4. Deciding if she was being scammed, or if she'd really won the prize! 👂 shorturl.at/rcF2F @dee-unil.bsky.social @sib.swiss @fbm-unil.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social

Many thanks to Popgroup and Heredity for this opportunity to chat about our research.

@HeredityJournal@heredityjournal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New Heredity Podcast! 🎙️ 📻 🔊 In the second episode from @popgroup2026.bsky.social in Lille, plenary speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social & Denis Roze tell us about their talks and their experience at the conference. 👂 Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Join us for a Master's in Evol Bio! We have leading experts in theory (@kokkonut.bsky.social), behavioural genomics (@socialinsectlab.bsky.social, @hibernogruppe.bsky.social), palaeogenetics, and more! Mainz also offers hikes along the Rhine, sporadic Roman ruins, and the most castle rich area of 🇩🇪.

Hanna Kokko@kokkonut.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We've had so much fun teaching in this program already. Looking forward to welcoming the next cohort! Might it include you?

Join us! 👇

STRIVE@strivestn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧬 Join the STRiVE kick-off conference (TiBE-STRiVE) July 8-10, 2026 near Porto! Registration & abstracts open: 🔹 Members: Feb 25-Apr 7 🔹 Non-members: Mar 16-Apr 7 Info: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/porto_about/ #Evolution #Genomics #Biology

New Heredity Podcast! 🎙️ 📻 🔊 In the second episode from @popgroup2026.bsky.social in Lille, plenary speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social & Denis Roze tell us about their talks and their experience at the conference. 👂 Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!

February issue out now www.nature.com/hdy/volumes/... 📸 © Jeannine Hayward, Cape Leopard Trust @gensocuk.bsky.social

Registrations are now OPEN! Join us in Newcastle for the “RNA in Physiology and Disease” conference, an international meeting bringing together world-leading RNA biologists and emerging researchers. Early bird deadline: 1 May Abstract deadline: 30 June Register now: genetics.org.uk/events/rna-i...

Come celebrate our Anniversary Day in Edinburgh, 25 & 26 June! Join us for talks from our Honorary Members, Prize & Medal winners, and our Summer Students. Programme & registration details: genetics.org.uk/events/anniv...

Relaunch of our London Fly Meeting - whole afternoon of amazing science @ucl @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social sponsored by @gensocuk.bsky.social

Pleasure giving a recap of a wonderful PopGroup conference, and the opportunity to talk about my research. 🔥

@HeredityJournal@heredityjournal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎙️🔊📻 New Heredity podcast! From PopGroup 59 in Lille. Plenary speaker Florencia Camus talks about: 1. The conference 2. Conflict and coadaptation between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

🎙️🔊📻 New Heredity podcast! From PopGroup 59 in Lille. Plenary speaker Florencia Camus talks about: 1. The conference 2. Conflict and coadaptation between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species @caitismuheil.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species - Heredity

Heredity - Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species

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Genetic diversity and structure lag the effects of contemporary environmental changes in a platypus meta-population www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genetic diversity and structure lag the effects of contemporary environmental changes in a platypus meta-population - Heredity

Heredity - Genetic diversity and structure lag the effects of contemporary environmental changes in a platypus meta-population

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Pleased to be able to offer a summer placement at the Exeter Centre for Hyperinsulinism Genetics through this scheme. The Research Access Placements programme is open to undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds @gensocuk.bsky.social

Pleased to be able to offer a summer placement at the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics @cardiffuni.bsky.social through this scheme. Research Access Placements are open to undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds @gensocuk.bsky.social

Dwarfism in Pinus taeda originates from independent somatic mutations co-localized in a shared genomic region www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dwarfism in Pinus taeda originates from independent somatic mutations co-localized in a shared genomic region - Heredity

Heredity - Dwarfism in Pinus taeda originates from independent somatic mutations co-localized in a shared genomic region

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Balancing selection maintains intraspecific diversity in a deep-sea fish www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Balancing selection maintains intraspecific diversity in a deep-sea fish - Heredity

Heredity - Balancing selection maintains intraspecific diversity in a deep-sea fish

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