Madlen Stange

@debbiemleigh.bsky.social and I are inviting abstracts for our symposium S05 showcasing research at the interface of molecular evolution, population genomics, and biodiversity monitoring.

#Seminar
Join our #MEEGene seminar at @leibnizlib.bsky.social on Zoom next Tuesday, Dec 9, 3PM CET and listen to:
Mandë Holford from Harvard OEB @harvardoeb.bsky.social talk about connecting nature and humanity through venom!
Email meegene@leibniz-lib.de for login details.
@leibnizlib.bsky.social

Looking for an internship in spring?

Do you like fish, lakes, cycling & cheese?

Our lab in Kastanienbaum might be the place for you!

Apply, it’s great!

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Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

Become our colleague! - 2yr Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past (UU) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social 🧪

Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

It's not to late to request the link for @kmkocot.bsky.social talk today, on #marine #invertebrate #biodiversity. 8AM CST, 9AM EST, 3PM CET.

Email meegene@leibniz-lib.de for login details.

#Seminar
Join our #MEEGene seminar at @leibnizlib.bsky.social on Zoom next Tuesday, Nov 11, 3PM CET. Listen to
Kevin Kocot @kmkocot.bsky.social from Alabama Museum of Natural History, talking about #Biodiversity & Systematics of Marine Invertebrates
Email meegene@leibniz-lib.de for login details.

For anyone interested, Dirk Ahrens will talk about the insights gained in this paper tomorrow, Oct 28, 3pm CET on zoom in the @leibnizlib.bsky.social MEEGene seminar.
Email meegene@leibniz-lib.de for login details.

#Seminar
Join our #MEEGene seminar at @leibnizlib.bsky.social
on zoom tomorrow, Oct 28, 3pm CET and listen to
Dirk Ahrens from @leibnizlib.bsky.social talking about chafer #beetles with extreme #philopatry and DNA-based #taxonomy.
Email meegene@leibniz-lib.de for login details.

🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527

Lead by Lars Dietz and Dirk Ahrens @leibnizlib.bsky.social , contributed by @rachelwarnock.bsky.social @lpodsiadlowski.bsky.social Jonas Eberle, Sandra Kukowka, Erika Bazzato Oliver Niehuis Christoph Mayer and me

Cryptic species can be phylogenetically old despite strong sex-biased dispersal Abstract. The impact of strongly differentiated populations on species delimitation due to limited or sex-biased dispersal remains challenging and under-ex

Extreme female philopatry in Pachypus beetles reveals 14 cryptic species!
🧬 Our study shows ancient speciation (5.3mya) despite limited dispersal, linked to the Messinian salinity crisis. Integrative taxonomy uncovers hidden diversity. #Taxonomy #Genetics url: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

Endspurt zum ersten Crowdfunding-Ziel von @riffreporter: 16.125€ von 25.000€, um die Plattform für unabhängigen und sachkundigen #Journalismus zu #Klima, #Natur,
#Wissenschaft, #Weltgeschehen und weiteren wichtigen Themenfeldern sicher ins nächste Jahr zu bringen, sind geschafft. Macht gerne mit […]

In our October issue: Perspective led by Laetitia Navarro (@laenavarro.bsky.social) on historical ecology, which uses various sources of information to study past biodiversity change and human-nature interactions. 🧪🌎
bit.ly/46Qp6Kp
Readcube: rdcu.be/eKYfH

Join @lauratensen.bsky.social's talk on the role of colour #polymorphisms in #evolution and in red leopards, today at 3 PM CEST. To receive login details, please contact meegene@leibniz-lib.de.

Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#Seminar
Join our #MEEGene seminar at
@leibnizlib.bsky.social
on zoom next Tuesday, Oct 14, 3pm CEST and listen to
Laura Tensen @lauratensen.bsky.social from @unigreifswald.bsky.social talking about comparative #genomics in red #leopards.
Email meegene@leibniz-lib.de for login details.

African lion conservation requires adaption to regional anthropogenic threats and mitigation capacity
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🗓️ Today @sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social (University of Zurich) will present her work on drought sensitivity in European beech at our Seminar Series. Join us to hear more about intraspecific traits, VOCs, and imaging spectroscopy.
Everyone is welcome, in-person or online.

What are the interconnections between livelihoods, biodiversity, and the services that connect the two?
Maria J. Santos (University of Zurich) will address this question at our Biodiversity Seminar today.
Join us in-person or online!
10 Sep at 11 am CEST
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...

🤩New paper from our team member @cchartierrescan.bsky.social entitled 'Snow drought propagation and its impacts on streamflow drought in the Alps' published on Environmental Research Letters! Big congrats! Check out more details here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

#ClimateChange #Hydrology

Yup.

Dass man hier handeln könnte, wenn man wollte, zeigt der LK #Potsdam -Mittelmark und der dortige Wasser-& Bodenverband Nuthe-Nieplitz.
Dort werden auf Kreistagsinitiative von #CDU & @die-linke.de (!) alte Stauanlagen systematisch saniert, um dem fallenden Grundwasserspiegel entgegenzuwirken.
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Beach picture from the Canary Islands. Copyright: Yves Bernardi auf Pixabay

#LIBresearch finds high mercury & arsenic in the critically endangered sawback angel shark (*Squatina aculeata*) near the Canary Islands. Contamination in liver & muscle exceeds safety limits, stressing urgent need for conservation monitoring.

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

#MarineScience

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

And that’s a wrap for #ESEB2025 - what an amazing week!
It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and meet new ones.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat with us! We look forward to seeing many of you online soon. #ERGA meetings resume in September ☀️
@ebpgenome.bsky.social

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Thanks to everyone who joined my talk the past Tuesday on different sex determination systems in two closely related hybridising minnow species in the Rhine #ESEB2025 #MINNOWS

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) is a pan-European community initiative to coordinate the generation of reference genomes representing European eukaryotic biodiversity @ergabiodiv.bsky.social #eseb2025

An ecological trait matrix of Neotropical freshwater fishes - Scientific Data Scientific Data - An ecological trait matrix of Neotropical freshwater fishes

#LIBresearch with @mstange.bsky.social‬, @gymnotus.bsky.social et al. lays foundation for studies on ecology & conservation of tropical aquatic biodiversity: 42 ecological traits for over 6,300 species of Neotropical freshwater fishes in one matrix!
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Biodiversity

🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share:

We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.

If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

The Hunger Gap A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.

1. At the Tipping Points conference in Exeter yesterday, I spoke about the likelihood of food system collapse: a massive existential threat few people's radar. If you want a handle on the issue, here's the submission I made to a parliamentary committee.
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www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...