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Gu et al. leveraged hundreds of genomes and mitogenomes of the African white-bellied pangolin, uncovering the evolutionary history of this species and indicating the need for urgent attention and priority conservation action.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag049

#evobio #molbio

Totikov et al. present a comparative and phylogenomic study of the Mustelinae, uncovering striking variation in genome-wide heterozygosity and genome size, marked homozygosity in some Asian lineages, and remarkable diversity in widespread species.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag014

#genome #evolution

Undergrad and graduate students! Could your work benefit from visiting one of the NHMLAC’s collections? Apply for our Collections Study Award, due Apr. 1. I’d love to have students make use of our Entomology collection!

Details here:
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Looking for an MSc student to start in Sept 2026 with possible summer employment this May. We're looking for a student to apply stable isotopes to a small mammal community to test hypotheses related to variation in diet among species and habitats. Please DM if you or anyone you know are interested.

Application for this PhD is 1 April. Please come and work with us in the Faroes (while the project is based primarily in Denmark). 🌍🧪🇫🇴🇩🇰 #science #conservation #anthropocene

Oh man, I want to try this! Doesn’t seem it is for sale!

An Evolving View of Species Tree Inference Abstract. Nearly all modern studies that address evolutionary questions require consideration of the phylogenetic relationships among species. But what, ex

An Evolving View of Species Tree Inference
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Escaping bottlenecks: The demographic path to genetic recovery in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) Population bottlenecks can lead to evolutionary dead ends by eroding genetic diversity and intensifying inbreeding. Although theory predicts possible escape routes, direct observations of this process...

Escaping bottlenecks: The demographic path to genetic recovery in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) 🐨 🧬 #consgen #popgen

The effective population size – and why it matters Since the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted in 2022, “maintaining and restoring genetic diversity” in wild species is on the global agenda. The headline indicat…

Effective population size is a key ingredient in indicators used to monitor genetic #biodiversity – and a fundamental concept in population genetics.

But what is it, really? 🧬 We try to explain in our new blog post ⬇️
#ConsGen #Genetics #PopGen #Monitoring #KMGBF
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Model selection in ADMIXTURE can be inconsistent: proof of the K=2 phenomenon https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708651v1

Society for the Study of Evolution Site description

📢 Now accepting proposals for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Applicants must be members of SSE. Deadline: May 18, 2026
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

PopGeneJS is a free web platform for teaching population genetics with 32 interactive modules on various topics. It offers real-time visualizations and requires no installation. Explore at https://popgenejs.bioinformat.org.

We are taking applications for our 2026 international Conservation Genetics course. This year the course will be in Brazil at the Vale Natural Reserve on Aug 3-13. See congenglobal.org/brazil2026/en for details. #conservation #genomics #course #handson #brazil #apply #biodiversity #bioinformatics

Job alert! Lectureship in field ecology at University of Reading with a special focus on plants.

If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award.

Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026.

Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior

Finally published! We first uploaded this preprint in 2022 but dropped it after frustrating reviews.
It was well received and cited, motivating us to revisit it.
We added new content, including simulations and a proof-of-concept genomic green status assessment.
#consgen #popgen #PopulationGenomics

This recently-accepted study highlights the critical need to incorporate genomic erosion—the loss of genetic diversity, accumulation of harmful mutations, maladaptation, and introgression—into conservation assessments.
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Attention, Latin American community! The North American Banding Council (NABC) is soliciting applications for small grants that support the development and certification of Latin American and Caribbean bird banders.

Apply here: www.animalecology.org/grants

🧬SedaDNA Postdoc position💥 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March.
Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Davis Summer Population Genomics Program Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Conservation Genomics Dates ONLINE, 7-10 April 2026 To foster international participation, this course will be held online

🧬Course Alert! 🌍

Join us ONLINE, 7–10 April, for the #ConservationGenomics course with @eljensen.bsky.social & Cathy Cullingham!
Learn how population genomics guides conservation decisions—study design, SNP filtering, structure, adaptation & more.

www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods.

Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Preprint alert: We adopt a cheap & rapid WGS protocol for vertebrate sized genomes, and use it to sequence nearly 1K whitefish genomes to low/med coverage for lake-wide pop genomics of adults + larvae for species assignment, habitat use, decline & selection: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#PopGen

Earned settlement The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.

The #UK is proposing some fairly large changes to #immigration policy from April 2026, including skilled workers (aka #academics, #researchers) 🗣💬

Want to have a say? Complete the consultation (by 12 Feb) www.gov.uk/government/c...

Please share!

#Edusky #HigherEd #AcademicSky #UKVisa @ucu.org.uk

We are a go! The student forum will be held at my very own Newcastle University this year, and we've got some cracking talks from some brilliant entomologists lined up for the key note spots, some fab workshops and as always we'll have the ENTOquiz! So please send your abstracts over #entomology

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology and Evolution (Fixed Term) Applications are invited for the above post to support the Principal Investigator, Dr Ylenia Chiari, on a funded research project supported by Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (MFWP). The project aims to investigate the role of epigenetic signatures...

Join Dr. Ylenia Chiari's team at the University of Nottingham as a Postdoctoral Research Associate to study epigenetics in captive adaptation. Apply by Feb 26, 2026: https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=MED397426 #postdoc

Postdoctoral Fellow position in Population Genomics at UNBC, Canada. Lead research on wolf ecology, health, and genomic diversity. More info: https://tinyurl.com/5t56kwx7. Contact: Jamie.Gorrell@unbc.ca. #postdoc

DDLS Research School Postdoc call 2026 Call for Academic and Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data-Driven Life Science 2026 Generic Description of the DDLS Postdoc Program The SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Drive...

Interested in👇 ?

- museomics: genome erosion, adaptation 🦌 🦜 🐬
- marcogenomics of sea warming (methods dev. or empirical data)
🌊 🐟🦭🐋

Check this call (2 y. postdoc) and get in touch to discuss potential projects (deadline 31.03.26)
#popgen #consgen #evolbiol

👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

Can't be more stoked for this Demographic History workshop led by Pablo Librado. Message myself or AaRC in case you still want to attend!

#aDNA

The Importance of Effective Population Size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring Effective population size (Ne) is a key concept in biology and conservation. Stripped to its bare essentials, it reflects how much genetic drift a population experiences, expressed as a number of ind...

We have compiled a special issue for @evolappjournal.bsky.social on Effective population size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring, dedicated to the late Michael W. Bruford.
This SI is a must read for everyone who struggles with what "effective population size" means.
#consgen