Brent Emerson

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New paper out in PNAS (led by Julia Heinen). Here, we reported a clear loss of coevolutionary history and functional potential on seed dispersal after vertebrate extinctions and introductions in islands.

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

@ipna.csic.es
Photo: B Rodríguez (Gallotia galloti-Plocama pendula)

Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU The wild cousins of beehive honeybees are disappearing – here’s why that matters.

New assessment of the conservation status of wild honeybees🧐🐝
theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...

Archived natural DNA samplers reveal four decades of biodiversity change across the tree of life - Nature Ecology & Evolution This study explores four decades of biodiversity change across the tree of life in Germany’s terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems by sequencing standardized biota samples from a long-term pollution monitoring archive.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.

Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.

How do I turn that on?

Happy weevil Wednesday!

Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.

Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses Using a species-specific reference genome significantly improves the accuracy of population genetic analyses, as exemplified by mapping gray fox sequence data to genomes of several canid species. Mapp...

Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

A nice example of hybridisation having either driven or facilitated speciation. Interesting either way I think, even if most of the attention is on hybridisation as a driver.

doi.org/10.1111/mec....

PhD position available with myself and @victor-noguerales.bsky.social to investigate how genomes influence insect diversification
4-year contract @ IPNA-CSIC, Tenerife
Relevant MSc and coding skills required
contact bemerson@ipna.csic.es or victor.noguerales@csic.es for more details B4 Oct 10
Pls RT

A 1-min video on outdoor cats and extinctions
(sound on)
@ebdonana.bsky.social

Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly The genome of the Atlas blue butterfly contains ten times more chromosomes than most butterflies, and more than any other known diploid animal. Wright et al. show that this extraordinary karyotype is ...

How many chromosomes can an animal have?

In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

To anyone interested in knowing how the RESL algorithm constructs BINs in BOLD, the algorithm is going become public sometime this year.

Mexico is truly amazing

📣 BUSCAMOS personal para concursar para optar a un contrato predoctoral en la convocatoria FPU de la Universidad de Murcia para el período 2026-2029 🐝 🌸

convocum.um.es/publicacione...

Best song reaction I got from my son when he was about one and a half was playing Paranoia. He grabbed the front bar of his push chair and started moshing.

Kiwi pukupuku/little spotted kiwi rediscovered on mainland NZ after 50 years Rare sighting of little spotted kiwi confirmed in West Coast wilderness, delighting conservationists.

Nice to have some good news now and then
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Island colonisation and extinction of an insect species revealed by mitochondrial and genome-wide nuclear variation Abstract. Our understanding of colonisation and speciation dynamics within oceanic islands is becoming enriched with the application of evolutionary approa

2/2 Following up with genome-wide nuclear variation to understand unusual patterns of mtDNA relatedness across islands within taxa, @victor-noguerales.bsky.social and myself find evidence for historical colonisation and extinction dynamics:

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

1/2 Unexpected and weird results are frustrating unless you have the opportunity to get to the bottom of them, and we frequently encounter this with island arthropods. Following up on them is time consuming, but often provides quirky insights into community assembly dynamics.

Love the title

Four review requests in my inbox this morning. The one I accepted? Society journal.

Our Societies consistently reinvest in our communities in ways the glossies never will. And that makes me invest in them.

I had no idea that our analysis PC had a liquid cooling system. Sounds like a good idea until one of the coolant tubes comes apart, and sprays liquid everywhere, which it just did. Fzzstt . .

This guidance from a national funding agency for reviewers of grant proposal submissions: "Do take into consideration publications in MDPI journals as normal publications . . . . There should however be a balance between publications in MDPI journals and other established journals"

@victor-noguerales.bsky.social

CISA 2025 | VI Iberian Congress of Biological Systematics 2025 VI Iberian Congress of Biological Systematics in Tenerife, Spain, October 26-30, 2025. Explore latest advances in systematics and evolutionary biology.

Exciting news! 🌟 The VI Iberian Congress of Biological Systematics (CISA 2025) will be held in Tenerife, a true biodiversity hotspot in Macaronesia 🏝️🔬
🔗 cisaconference.org

Fantastic study species!

Efficient near telomere-to-telomere assembly of Nanopore Simplex reads Telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly is the ultimate goal for de novo genome assembly. Existing algorithms capable of near T2T assembly all require Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) ultra-long reads w...

Preprint on hifiasm Nanopore-only assembly. Led by Haoyu Cheng: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Depressingly spot on.