Anna Santure

Big shakeup for NZ's research funding - Expert Reaction - Science Media Centre The Government will consolidate decision-making for New Zealand's science research funding as part of its new science system strategy. Research Funding New Zealand will be a new independent board that...

Big shakeup for NZ’s research funding – Expert Reaction

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler.
A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us
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The notorious @thejuicemedia.com has just helped the Government of New Zealand with a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Not sure how they got it past Luxon, Seymour and Peters though, OMG!

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Whimsical photo of a karure | kakaruia | Chatham Island black robin courtesy of Kevin Parker. Features as a wee black bird with four leg bands: white over orange on the left leg and red over white on the right leg. Sneaky tufts of feathers peak out from otherwise borb-like body, encouraged by the unseen wind.

What are the ‘social dimensions’ of moving species for conservation and why does engaging with them matter?

This is the focus of our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social olevo.bsky.social led by ever talented @aisrayne.bsky.social

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GitHub - vibaotram/simulation Contribute to vibaotram/simulation development by creating an account on GitHub.

💡 Bonus: Open Snakemake pipelines for both simulation and imputation are provided:
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Feel free to test and optimize imputation strategies for your own datasets before committing to large-scale LCS projects.

💥 Downstream impact:
- PopGen analyses (relatedness, population structure) were congruent with imputation accuracy and depend on genetic relatedness.
- Inbreeding coefficient estimates were more sensitive to imputation.
- Demographic analysis on imputed data showed similar results across the tools.

🔑 Choosing your imputation tool:
- All tools worked well in highly related populations.
- Accuracy varied in populations with low relatedness, but GLIMPSE2 & QUILT2 generally outperformed the other tools.
- STITCH is useful when no reference panel exists but results in some missing data.

👩🏻‍💻 We tested 5️⃣ imputation methods (GLIMPSE2, GeneImp, QUILT2, STITCH, Beagle5.4), simulated realistic populations with different genetic structures, and applied the methods to data from 283 wild hihi (stitchbird) 🧬.

Assessing Genotype Imputation Methods for Low‐Coverage Sequencing Data in Populations With Differing Relatedness and Inbreeding Levels Low-coverage sequencing (LCS) followed by genotype imputation has become a cost-efficient approach for obtaining whole-genome SNPs. Several imputation methods for LCS data have been developed over th....

We explored that in this new study in Molecular Ecology Resources 🔎

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Low-coverage sequencing (LCS) + genotype imputation is a cost-effective approach to genotype hundreds of samples at a full-genome level. But how do different imputation tools perform across populations with varying relatedness and inbreeding?

Bridging forward-in-time and coalescent simulations using pyslim Ancestral Recombination Graphs (ARGs) provide an expressive and compact way to represent genetic variation data generated by simulations embedded within its genealogical history, and it can dramatical...

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🎙️ Have you discovered the Heredity Podcast?

👂 Hear about the latest genetics research straight from the authors

📚 Archive: www.nature.com/hdy/podcast

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🚩Upcoming Asia-Pacific Genetics Seminar:

Remember to tune in tomorrow for our ECR special symposium 🧬 - "Epigenetics in Evolution and Ecology"!

Registration link on poster below

I have never in my life felt as ashamed of the settler state of New Zealand as I am today. #FreePalestineNow

‘Poverty in Aotearoa is not accidental’: How our systems deliberately keep people poor All of this is avoidable – so how do we fix what's broken?

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🎙️ 📻 New Heredity Podcast!

We talk with @caitismuheil.bsky.social and Jessica McNeill about their work showing the sensitivity of meiosis to temperature and what this might mean for populations in a warming world.
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Episode:
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Damn pēhea tēnei? www.journal.mai.ac.nz/system/files...

I really like our paper published today. It is written directly for Māori and Pacific prospective and current PhD students in STEM www.journal.mai.ac.nz/10.20507/MAI...

Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies?

Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!

Check our new preprint:
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Bird of the Year ‹ Forest & Bird Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year recognises our unique birds and with each vote you give them a voice.

And very importantly - don't forget to vote Hihi for Bird of the Year! www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

PhD student Hui Zhen presents a slide titled 'A day in the life of a VIP hihi', with images highlighting the conservation management of this precious endangered bird species

Fabulous presentation to Forest & Bird Youth Auckland by @huizhentan.bsky.social on conservation management and genetic research for hihi, a taonga (precious) threatened bird species in Aotearoa New Zealand. VIP treatment for a very special bird!

Amazing turn out for Palestine today in Tāmaki

🧬 Upcoming Asia-Pacific Genetics Seminar:
📅 30th September

Join us for the "Epigenetics in Evolution and Ecology" symposium, featuring three outstanding early career researchers who will share their latest discoveries.

👉 Register now using the poster below!

Size matters—but maybe not how we thought. Most chromosomal inversions are just a few hundred bp. Ignoring these “small players” could mean we’ve misunderstood how genomes evolve -out in TREE authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljL1cZ3X3...

We’ve just published a paper on Senecio showing that ecological speciation and mutation-order speciation can act together rather than as an either/or. Congratulations, Maddie James and MC Melo!

Thank you to my amazing supervisor @annasanture.bsky.social and awesome team of co-authors: @katarinastuart.bsky.social, @vbtram.bsky.social, Annabel Whibley, Sarah Bailey, @pbrekke.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM