Sabhrina Aninta

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Are you working on detecting selection in populations that are not usually easy to get selection detected?

We'd love to hear you on "S15 Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems" where @aidaandres.bsky.social will tell you more about her work around this area as well :D

Really looking forward to this symposium and the whole SMBE meeting!
Join us at the #SMBE2026 for interesting discussions of how to identify signatures of natural selection (or try to) where it seems impossible.

Are you working on detecting selection in populations that are not usually easy to get selection detected?

We'd love to hear you on "S15 Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems" where @aidaandres.bsky.social will tell you more about her work around this area as well :D

I came to appreciate the intriguing difficulties of determining what CAUSES a disease with multiple symptoms. Is it bacteria/virus? Which one? Why the histology does not match? What is IT?

- Copenhagen Zoo research seminar presented by Yannick Van de Weyer who invetigate hydrocoelom in Bombina.

(A) Genomic inbreeding coefficient (FROH) of imputed and modern dogs plotted as a function of time, calculated based on ROH. Imputed samples are colored based on their geographic grouping, while modern samples are colored in gray. A loess regression was applied with each colored shaded area depicting the SE. (B) Total number of ROH segments plotted against total ROH length for the imputed dogs. Colors correspond to age of imputed samples in years before present (ybp)., while modern samples belonging to each dog group are colored in gray. (C) Map of imputed dog samples colored by their inbreeding coefficient (FROH). Samples with FROH values above 0.1 are indicated.

Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ilustration of evolution in ecological communities, feuturing Drosophila

PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026

Big science highlights this month at our #EPIC seminar! Kees uncovered new insights into isolation by distance and shorebird diversity🐧, and Anna showed how ancient chewing gums provide a remarkable snapshot into #microbiome 🦠evolution and health. Fascinating work from both! 👏

There is not so much money from learned societies to invite enough financially disadvantaged researchers from countries that needs expensive visa to go around & only have weak currencies.

Can crowdfunding help? But it is so much... How do we remedy this?

Are you interested in 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐞 and its relationship to 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 conditions? If you are, please look at the 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝑷𝒉𝑫 opportunity we are offering (main supervisor Dr Catrin Ffion Williams) : lnkd.in/e53Rz_FB

To apply for the PhD visit the 𝐁𝐁𝐒𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐖𝐁𝐢𝐨 𝐃𝐓𝐏 here: lnkd.in/eWSjXK8a

Inferring Domestic Goat Demographic History Through Ancient Genome Imputation Abstract. Goats were among the earliest managed animals, making them a natural model to explore the genetic consequences of domestication. However, a chall

Our paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to @jolijnerven.bsky.social #aDNA

The evolutionary genomics of life-history adaptations in pinnipeds - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network Project summary Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walrus) are keystone marine predators, and sentinels for marine ecosystem health. Advances in genomic technology open up the possibility to u...

New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...

Lessons learned: Recommendations for reproducible paleogenomic data analyses Souilmi et al. propose essential guidelines to improve the reproducibility of paleogenomic data analysis. As ancient DNA research often relies on the destructive sampling of finite resources, these re...

Lessons learned: Recommendations for reproducible paleogenomic data analyses
www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac...

Conserving Genetic and Genomic Diversity in Accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework Adopted in December 2022, the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) under the Convention on Biological Diversity outlines a visionary road map guiding humanity's relationship wit...

New publication out, highlighting the link between genetic diversity (GD) and policy! 🧬📜

"Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework"
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵

Faces of different guenon species to show their morphological differences

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

I want to invest my time learning snakemake or nextflow but I never sure which is more future-proof. Or probably it is irrelevant as there will be always new stuff anyways 🤪

This version dependency going on between conda and snakemake is madness. Syntax issue as well between versions; crazy python stuffs. This volatility cannot be the future of Bioinformatics. What does people use to make pipeline nowadays? How have people in maths/physics/chemistry been doing it?

Covering All Bases: A Universal Metazoan UCE Probe Set to Democratize Phylogenomics Abstract. Biology is in a genomics era, but many researchers may still be alienated from these techniques as a lack of genomic resources remains for many a

@sderkarabetian.bsky.social et al. developed a metazoan ultraconserved element (UCE) probe set, providing a resource for multiple research groups working on vastly different animal lineages.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf193

#genome #evolution #compbio #phylogenetics

I have a hard time reconciling 322 EUR as the price of LMIC countries but sure Copenhagen *sob*

It was one month salary still for even Indonesia's senior researchers. Such is the fate of middle-class economy.

SMBE 2026 | Registration is open

Registration is now open for SMBE 2026!

Head over to the registration page to find all the details and secure your spot 🏃‍♀️

📝 smbe2026.org/registration
🐦 Early-bird deadline: March 31, 2026

If you are an active member of the SMBE you can register for the meeting with discounts.

#SMBE2026

Biodiversity conservation depends on the expansion of taxonomy and systematics research Abstract. Despite mammals constituting fewer than 0.3% of all described species, their conservation is compelling for a number of reasons. They contribute

"In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (ca. 350 BC) suggested that politics was the most sovereign and most comprehensive master science, because politics uses the rest of the sciences, and because politics legislates what people are to do and what they are not to do."

doi.org/10.1093/jmam...

I have always been a fan of Patrícia's piece in the molecularecologist and I have no idea I will be writing together with her in 4 years after the start of the fangirling.

I love my life.

Q&A: inbreeding and its implications for conservation - BMC Biology Inbreeding depression plays a role in the decline, endangerment, and extinction of small populations, and thus inbreeding has received much attention in conservation biology. The term inbreeding is us...

All those questions about inbreeding in conservation that you were afraid to ask.

A bunch of early career scientists is here to explain something that even Wright and Fisher couldn't agree on, the (not so) simple question of what is inbreeding.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Job alert🚨📢! Join us as Director of the SIB Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics, on a topic where global collaboration is particularly important, in a highly stimulating environment. This is a research infrastructure leadership position.

Apply or spread the word!

apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...

"Early career group leaders typically join the Crick for 12 years before being supported to move on" does this mean the group leader can only be there for 12 years max and needs to move somewhere else after that?

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

BREAKING: The #StateOfClimateAction 2025 finds the world is failing to act fast enough to combat the climate crisis and secure a livable future, with no indicators of global climate action currently on track for 2030. 🌏🌡️

Read the report to learn more: bit.ly/4o6hPwm

Quantitative Genetics in Natural Populations Phenotypes evolve under natural selection if, and only if, they are genetically variable. While evolutionary ecologists have long studied natural sele…

Myself and Alastair Wilson wrote an updated version of our 2016 primer to quantitative genetics in the wild: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Happy to share a copy if interested. It is also on research gate

This article is part of the Conservation Genomics collection at BMC Biology which we joined... in 2024. Haha. Thanks to the editors and reviewers for bearing with us 🥰

I think the #consgen people will enjoy reading some of the works in this collection. Dig in!
link.springer.com/collections/...

Kudos to bsky-less Barbara who managed to herd the massive opinions of the authors into shape. Writing a short article is harder than I thought 🙈

I felt privileged being in the same room and exchange thoughts with these amazing people 🥰