drought is an ongoing problem in Europe and it will get worse - and yes - this is human induced ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s - Nature Geoscience

Shifting atmospheric circulation patterns over Europe since the 1980s have been the major cause of increasingly severe droughts on the continent, according to nudged circulation climate model simulati...

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The ERGA BioGenome Seminar Series is back! We return with Jérôme Goudet and Isabela do O for a seminar on the impact of population structure in identifying local adaptation. How do we know when population differences reflect adaptation, and when they are shaped by demography and structure?

‪ @eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀 "Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species" doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio

New special issue in Molecular Ecology on Conservation Genomics #popGen #evolution 🧪🧬🖥️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1365294x...

Special Issue: CONSERVATION GENOMICS ‐ MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Molecular Ecology: Vol 34, No 23

Molecular Ecology is an international journal for research using molecular genetic techniques to address questions in ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.

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#popgen #consgen

Laura Bertola@lauradbertola.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The value of structural variants to conservation genomics in the pangenome era academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...

#popgen #consgen #evolbiol

Marty Kardos@martykardos.bsky.social · 8mo ago

www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

we.copernicus.org/articles/25/... First documented mating behaviour in blue shark. That's a nice one! #elasmo #sharkscience #marineconservation

First documentation of putative mating behavior in blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a potential reproductive area in the Northeast Atlantic

Abstract. Reproductive behavior in sharks remains poorly understood, with direct observations of mating reported in only a few species. The blue shark (Prionace glauca) is a widely distributed, placen...

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#PopGen New preprint of the team on the discovery of a very high rate of polymorphic duplication in a marine bivalve. Imagine looking at the distribution of the allelic coverage fraction at heterozygous calls in an indivdual and getting this distribution 👇 😱😱😱

#JFB: Prolonged use of freshwater habitats by the European sea bass revealed by otolith chemical analysis doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70069 #FishSci

What tuna is sustainable for consumers? A guide: sustainablefisheries-uw.org/tuna-sustain...

An Overview of Tuna and its Sustainability in 2025 - Sustainable Fisheries UW

Is tuna sustainable in 2025? Learn how to make informed seafood choices with this comprehensive guide to tuna sustainability.

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If it had been published a few years ago, my academic life would have been far less difficult 🤣🤣🤣🤟

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · last yr.

Guidelines for ensuring meaningful engagement of early career researchers in scientific collaborations: recommendations from and for marine and polar scientists

New #popgen tools I found that use a likelihood method to mitigate small sample size problem when calculating IBD that can be great for #consgen purposes: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This has Windows implementation as well as Linux and Mac! Let me know if anyone has tried this :D

EMIBD9: Estimating 9 condensed IBD coefficients, inbreeding and relatedness from marker genotypes - Heredity

Heredity - EMIBD9: Estimating 9 condensed IBD coefficients, inbreeding and relatedness from marker genotypes

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Long runs of homozygosity are reliable genomic markers of inbreeding depression: Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Long runs of homozygosity are reliable genomic markers of inbreeding depression

A long-standing goal in ecological, evolutionary, and conservation genetics is to identify genomic correlates of fitness and inbreeding depression. Over the past several years, a growing body of theor...

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Happy to share our new review, led by Chrystelle Delord, Natacha Nikolic, @sofarndhnd.bsky.social and other people not on bluesky, about the Ne estimation in large marine populations, plus a simulation framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #PopulationGenetics

Effective Population Size Estimation in Large Marine Populations: Considering Current Challenges and Opportunities When Simulating Large Data Sets With High‐Density Genomic Information

Next-generation-sequencing has broadened perspectives regarding the estimation of the effective population size (Ne) by providing high-density genomic information. These technologies have expanded da...

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One more tool available to analyze the spatial structure of clade distribution. Always welcome!

Methods in Ecology and Evolution@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · last yr.

📖Published📖 Matthew Kling presents phylospatial, a new R package that fully supports probability, abundance, and binary community data across a range of spatial phylogenetic diversity (PD) analyses 🌎 🧪 Check the article out here 👇 buff.ly/onf4BV6

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...

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It has been since its first use in 1950, so confusing! Here is our attempt to clarify and organize this concept in population genetics: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Apologies for this sort of self-promo but it was born from this exact feeling

Genetic load: genomic estimates and applications in non-model animals - Nature Reviews Genetics

The reduction in individual and mean population fitness induced by novel deleterious genetic variation is known as the genetic load. Bertorelle et al. review the definition of the genetic load and its...

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Check out our new blog post, 'Tracking animals with particles'! Edward Lavender talks about the use of particle algorithms for movement modelling in passive acoustic telemetry systems 🐟 🌎 🧪 👇 buff.ly/8AJpP7I

How Microplastics Are Threatening Shark Reproduction

How Microplastics Are Threatening Shark Reproduction

Microplastics are accumulating in sharks’ gonads and GI tracts, disrupting reproduction and threatening population recovery.

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Forbes column from #shark researcher @melissacmarquez.bsky.social: a study of spadenose sharks on #India 's West coast finds microplastics "...in every water sample collected, 97.9% of GI tract samples and 95% of gonadal tissues." Click through for discussion about how this may impact sharks

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · last yr.

How Microplastics Are Threatening Shark Reproduction

Published version of our spatial simulations paper led by Jiseon Min and Elsie Chevy is up 🔐! This was such a fun paper to be a part of and a valuable resource to folks thinking population simulations of all kinds, even non-genetic ones! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

2-years #postdoc opportunity in #Brest #France to study #marine grey (anthropogenic) #connectivity #MarCo #GreyCo with Langrangian simulations, with the ultimate aim of integrating them with population genetics #PopGen data. #MarEvol #MarineEcology #Research www.talentdetection.com/ifremer/offr...

Like many of you, I have very strong, negative opinions about the current state of affairs, and I discuss those grievances with people daily. On this platform, I would like to share a very useful data analysis workflow that I've found in the effort of better transparency and reproducibility🧵:

Admixture (rescue?) + killer whales + Australia + @andrewfoote.bsky.social et al. = 🤩 #PopGen #MarEvol

Andy Foote@andrewfoote.bsky.social · last yr.

The 2nd publication from @bellareeves.bsky.social PhD thesis finds a genetic rescue effect from admixture between distinct killer whale lineages. Likely the cause of high genetic diversity in regions with low killer whale density. Open access in Mol Ecol: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

✨We are hiring!✨🧪🏛️🧬 The @nhmdk.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen is seeking a permanent, full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager to help us establish and run our National Facility for #Museomics in the heart of one of Europe's most beautiful cities! Please reskeet!

Registration for Evolution 2025 is now open! Come join us virtually from May 29-30, and/or in-person in Athens, GA from June 20-24. @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025 www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

Evolution 2025 Registration

Evolution 2025 - the joint conference of the SSE, ASN, and SSB

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Advances in systematic #conservation planning to meet global #biodiversity goals: Trends in #Ecology & #Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Advances in systematic conservation planning to meet global biodiversity goals

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) involves the cost-effective placement and application of management actions to achieve biodiversity conservation objectives. Given the political momentum for gre...

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‼️These #PSMC #peaks are #artifacts‼️ Seen #PSMC results like this🤔? They are caused by ill-set parameters, #very #common, and #easy #to #solve! For details see 🧵& OA paper @currentbiology.bsky.social 🙂🐢🧬🎉! cell.com/current-biol...

Avoidable false PSMC population size peaks occur across numerous studies

Hilgers et al. detect and solve a common artifact in PSMC and related methods for historical population size inference. Analyses of real and simulated genomes show that ill-set default parameters fals...

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Used the figure from the preprint in evolgen class last quarter. Super nice demo. of rapid spread of TEs. #popgen bsky.app/profile/sign...

Dr. Sarah Signor @signor-molevol.bsky.social · 2y ago

This collaboration was such a pleasure. Our new paper on cascades of HT after introduction of two TEs to human commensals www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#OpenCall I Access Aquaculture Services for Your Research EMBRC’s AQUASERV EU project provides researchers fully funded access to 274 of EMBRC’s services for #aquaculture research 👉 These services are also valuable for #fisheries, ecological restoration & the #BlueEconomy 🔗 tinyurl.com/dwvh288x 🧪🦑