Pleasure giving a recap of a wonderful PopGroup conference, and the opportunity to talk about my research.
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03.02.2026 11:49 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
🎙️🔊📻 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...
31.01.2026 12:39 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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
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27.01.2026 19:56 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
28.01.2026 10:15 — 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
⭐ Check out our January issue ⭐
www.nature.com/hdy/volumes/...
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27.01.2026 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Glad to receive a PhD prize from the @gensocuk.bsky.social for the work I lead on the origin and diversification of stratified epithelia.
Thanks to @frelab.bsky.social , the lab, and all collaborators involved.
Special thanks to @candice-merle.bsky.social for her help throughout the project.
26.01.2026 14:31 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to our student prize winners!
All winners will present their work at out Anniversary Day event on 25 and 26th of June in Edinburgh: genetics.org.uk/events/anniv...
15.01.2026 14:23 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to Daniel Malawsky, the winner of our 2026 postgraduate Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize for their work with Dr @hilarycmartin.bsky.social!
genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...
15.01.2026 14:41 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations to Dr @robinjournot.bsky.social, the winner of our 2026 Bruce Cattanach Prize for his PhD research into the genetic and evolutionary basis of epithelial stratification!
genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...
15.01.2026 14:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Congratulations to Shaoqi Wang, the winner of the 2026 Undergraduate Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize for her work with Prof Anne Ferguson-Smith.
genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...
15.01.2026 19:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Deadline extended! You now have more time to apply for our Communicating Your Science workshop (15–17 April).
Apply today and take your communication skills to the next level: genetics.org.uk/grants/comm-...
22.01.2026 16:24 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Image of two barn owls copyright Quentin Fort. Accompanying the winning paper of the 2025 student paper prize "Too big to purge: persistence of deleterious Mutations in Island populations of the European Barn Owl (Tyto alba)".
Congratulations 🎉
We are pleased to announce the winners of the annual prize for the best student-led paper in Heredity for 2025. The award for this year goes to Eléonore Lavanchy from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
➡️ www.nature.com/collections/...
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19.01.2026 16:07 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Check out the latest episode of the Heredity Podcast where @tillypemburysmith.bsky.social and @rhondasnook.bsky.social talk about their recent paper examining the effects of heat stress on mating systems!
13.01.2026 12:40 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Had a fab time this week at Pop Group @popgroup2026.bsky.social and stoked to have won a prize for my poster on hybridisation in island birds! 🧬🐦⬛🏝️ #pgg59
09.01.2026 17:18 — 👍 49 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Second plenary of #PGG59 by Claire Mérot on the importance and relevance of structural variations !
08.01.2026 11:08 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Looking for a post doc on cutting-edge methods in genomics?
Contact Hannes Becher #pgg59 #popgrouo59
08.01.2026 11:28 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Four days left to apply for two postdocs in social evolution with me and @dustinrubenstein.com
Based at the University of Bristol (UK), conducting fieldwork with wasps in Cameroon, Kenya, and South Africa.
07.01.2026 17:45 — 👍 22 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 1
🎙️ Reproduction involves decisions about when to mate and who with.
We know that high temperatures affect fertility, but how does this affect mating decisions and sexual selection within populations?
@tillypemburysmith.bsky.social and @rhondasnook.bsky.social talk about their work with fruit files
07.01.2026 20:21 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Evolutionary geneticist studying recombination, hybridization, and domestication in yeast! Asst. Professor at NC State
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Postdoc in Claudia Bank’s group at the University of Bern. Promoters, emergence, fitness landscapes, dogs 🐶 and triathlon 🏊 🚲 🏃. He/him 🏳🌈.
timothyfuqua.com
Drosophila, gene expression, academic life and things that make me smile 🪰🧬🥸🎓😹
Associate Professor @ Penn Biology, Penn Epigenetics Institute, Penn Center for Genome Integrity.
We combine evolutionary genetics and cell biology to study how DNA repeat evolution perturbs and preserves genome integrity.
Based in New Zealand. Research: #seafood #genomics #adaptation. Editor-In-Chief for @EvolAppJournal. Prof at @AucklandUni. Science Group Leader @plantandfood
https://marenwellenreuther.com/
Evolutionary ecologist at Stockholm University Zoology. Interested in how biotic and abiotic interactions influence the evolution of reproductive strategies.
Postdoc at @dee-unil.bsky.social interested in the theoretical study of plant evolution 🌺 | I also like badminton 🏸, chess♟️, beer 🍺 and raccoons 🦝 !
SNSF Ambizione fellow at @unifrbiology.bsky.social starting Sept 2026
https://thomas-lesaffre.github.io/
Postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University. Interested in sexual selection, behavioural ecology, and temperature effects on fertility. Currently spend most of my time looking at butterfly sperm.
The 2026 edition will be held in Lille (France) on 7-9 January ! https://populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk/
Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge
Interested in population genomics, invasive species, hybridization, adaptation, speciation
Research Associate | Genomics, Evolution, Conservation
Managing and improving populations using data science, genetics and breeding: @HighlanderLab, @RoslinInstitute, & @TheDickVet.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/roslin/highlanderlab
Postdoc in EvoMorphoLab at University of Copenhagen | Carnivore population and conservation genomics | Otter specialist | She/her | @SarahduPlessi16
PhD candidate @thehoffmanlab.bsky.social working on the genomics of sexual trait expression in black grouse 🧬👩💻🧪
mutation load | inbreeding | population genetics | ecological epigenetics | sexual selection
https://rshuhuachen.github.io/rc/
Academic at Charles Uni @sciencecharles.bsky.social and nature lover - evolutionary and ecological immunology, mainly in birds: evolutionary adaptations in immunity, behavioural disorders in parrots, ecotoxic effects of heavy metals
Evolutionary biologist interested in the population genetics and genomics of selfing organisms.
Post-doc at Uni. of Edinburgh.
Entomologist and Evolutionary biologist at JGU | Postdoc | Life-history evolution in ants
Hybrid evolution and speciation | PhD student in the theoretical ecology and evolution lab (@thee-bank-lab.bsky.social) at Uni Bern
Postdoc in
@CBGP_Madrid
developing computational methods for phylogenetic and metagenomic analysis in
@cgmlaboratory
github.com/dengzq1234/
She/her | Ecology | Population & Landscape Genomics | Conservation Genetics
