Can I just include this in paper reviews every time someone ignores invariant sites and calculates π incorrectly?

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”

Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · last wk.

Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:

Online now: Genomic metrics should inform formal conservation threat assessments

This preprint is now published - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genomic structural variation rescues a classic biological invader from a population bottleneck

Genomic structural variants rescue a textbook biological invader from a population bottleneck and inbreeding.

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Trevor Krabbenhoft@fishgenomes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Biological invasions present an interesting paradox: often little genetic variation is accompanied by dramatic ecological success. Led by PhD student Chris Osborne, we evaluated genetic diversity in a classic invader, brown treesnake on Guam. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Photo: Pavel Kirilliov

Looking to build your editorial experience? Join the #ProcB Preprint Editorial Team and help showcase cutting-edge biological research. Develop your publishing expertise, expand your professional network and stay at the forefront of new discoveries. Apply by 1 September 2026 #ECR

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Preprint Editorial Team | Proceedings B | The Royal Society

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Preprint Editorial Team | Proceedings B | The Royal Society Proceedings of the Royal Society B Preprint Editorial Team Our team’s primary mission is to look through…

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Just in time for #SMBE2026, our new preprint is out: using 130 genomes spanning ~200 years, fitness data and simulations, we show that conservation rescued the Mauritius kestrel from extinction, but not from genomic erosion. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #popgen #consgen #conservation

❄️🧬 Can we generate high-quality reference genomes without the cold chain? A new study suggests the answer is yes. DNA preserved at room temperature for up to one week produced chromosome-scale reference genomes. 📖 tinyurl.com/3zwtj9ka #Genomes @gigascience.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

How do transposons jump when they’re released from host control? I babysat two chromosomes for 2 years, making sure they are ok without most piRNAs. Here’s what we found & excited to share my 1st postdoc paper: “piRNA loss unleashes episodic transposition bursts” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

piRNA loss unleashes episodic transposition bursts

In Metazoa, transposon expression is suppressed by the piRNA pathway, and disruption of this pathway leads to rampant transposon expression. However, it remains unclear whether increased transposon ex...

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Genomic quantification of inbreeding depression in wild vertebrate populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.16.737952v1

🐦 Why are bird genomes so difficult to assemble? Birds have dozens of tiny, gene-rich microchromosomes that are frequently fragmented, misplaced, or missing from genome assemblies despite containing important genetic information. 📖 Read the publication: lnkd.in/gar-GrKZ #BirdGenomics #Biodiversity

Kew Royal Botanic Gardens is seeking a lab research assistant for the Fungarium Sequencing Project! If you have experience in genomics and museomics techniques, proficiency in statistics and knowledge of UK Health and Safety regulations, then apply before July 26 info careers.kew.org/vacancy/labo...

Come work with me unlocking the secrets of island genetic diversity patterns! And exploring how the severely elevated genetic erosion we have previously shown on island systems might impact communities. #postdoc #job #germany senckenberg.softgarden.io/job/65352091...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Macrogenetics (f/m/d) at Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

We're looking for: Postdoctoral Researcher in Macrogenetics (f/m/d) (Full or Part Time) • Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland

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🚨 MANUSCRIPT ALERT 🚨 The VGP Phase I manuscript pre-print is now live on bioRxiv! 🧬 doi.org/10.64898/202... Over 8 years, the VGP generated reference genomes for more than 800 vertebrate species, spanning ~95% of vertebrate orders and delivering some of the highest-quality genomes ever produced.

A bioinformatician position is open at Naturalis in the Netherlands! You'll build the high-throughput sequencing and AI pipelines that make species monitoring accessible to researchers, industry, policy and citizens. More info: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Our paper is out! 📣 we find that molecular measures of genetic variation do not predict heritable genetic variation across species - important implications for the application of genomic data for conservation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential | PNAS

The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Ad...

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The Conservation Genetics Working Group is presenting the 2026 SCB Conservation Genetics Travel Awards ‼️ The primary aim is supporting Global Participation in Conservation Genetics. Check out the details & criteria & apply below. Application deadline: Aug 1, 2026 11:59 PM GMT+0

The evolution of structural variation across 500 million years of vertebrate evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.733778v1

Conservation rescued the Mauritius kestrel from extinction but not from genomic erosion https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.23.733933v1

'Avian Population Genomics: Latest Findings and Future Prospects' DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X2C...

After journalists, healthcare workers, poets, vloggers, academics etc the Israeli governement has now added environmental activists to their ever growing hitlist.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon

This was a massive collaborative effort from #MoveBon, led by Ruth Oliver, to think about how we could use movement data to understand more about biodiversity, how it is changing, and what we need to know for decision-making. I can't wait to see these ideas come to life !

Nature Reviews Biodiversity@natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 2mo ago

New online! A call to integrate animal movement into biodiversity indicators

🌍 Global Translocation Study – call for contributors 🐾 We’re compiling post-release movement data from translocated, reintroduced, relocated & rehabilitated vertebrates worldwide. Interested in taking part? Quick survey below 👇 tinyurl.com/global-trans... Feel free to pass it on to colleagues 😊

Involving stakeholders from the start is crucial, also for genetic monitoring. Presentation by Kiki from #ginamo at #gbf2026

How to select species in your countries for genetic monitoring? Workshop at #WBF2026 led by #ginamo

The laid-out version of the IPBES #BizBiodiversity Summary for Policymakers is now available in English, offering science-based insights on the impacts & dependencies of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people. 🌍 🧪🏡 https://www.ipbes.net/business-impact

Minibwa is a hybrid of bwa-mem and minimap2 and the successor of bwa-mem for short-read mapping. ~4X/2.5X as fast as bwa-mem/bwa-mem2 for WGS reads at comparable accuracy. Native support of directional bisulfite-seq. Applicable to long reads. Preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2606.15357

🚨 We're hiring computational evolutionary biologists! 🚨 Boosting this - industry evolutionary biology jobs don't come along often, so if you're excited to apply your computational evolutionary biology skills to cutting-edge problems, let's talk! 🧪🧬💻

Rishi De-Kayne@rishidekayne.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our team at @arcadiascience.com is hiring! We're looking to hire a computational evolutionary biologist interested in asking how and why protein sequences/structures/functions differ across the tree of life 🧬 jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... Please share widely!

This Perspective article is the focus of GBE's June Highlight, by SMBE Fellow Ioanna Kotari @janekay27.bsky.social Getting a π Right: Toward Reproducible Population Genomic Summary Statistics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #evolution

Getting a π Right: Toward Reproducible Population Genomic Summary Statistics

Population genomics is now in an era of abundance. Vast amounts of genomic data across an ever-growing diversity of species enable comparative analyses at

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Brault et al. propose guidelines for standardized π estimation, systematic reporting of summary statistics, and the adoption of richer metadata to ensure that population genomic data remain comparable and reusable across a wide range of systems. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #evolution