Raphaël Bouchard

That’s ok, no problem! I love you work, very inspiring 😊

Are you selling prints?

Want to study the genomics of repeated adaptation with data from hundreds of species? New funding for non-Canadians @ grad or postdoc level. Internal competition at UCalgary with very short deadline so please get in touch ASAP!!
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Final version of paper with @smishra677.bsky.social now published in a wonderful issue of GENETICS!

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Delineation of conservation units and assessments of pop. vulnerability are key to protection of intraspecific diversity. A new study shows why multiple vulnerability measures and accounting for high levels of population differentiation are key to Arctic charr conservation 🐟 @thefentagon.bsky.social

Excited to share our new paper on Pacific cod. We used GTseq to track movement of adults and juveniles. Adults from southern stocks move large distances into the Northern Bering sea to feed. Additionally, we showed that juveniles can move > 1000 km from where they were born. tinyurl.com/mryrz5j7

Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential A capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognised as a global conservation priority. Adaptation requires additive (heritable) genetic variatio...

I'm excited to share that our preprint is now available on bioRxiv! Our study challenges the widespread use of molecular genetic diversity as a predictor adaptive potential, with important implications for how genetic data is used to inform conservation decisions.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are we closing in on the dream of importing a single R package for genomic analysis? 🤓

Graphic advertising a talk for the Coregoning Science Webinar through the Great Lakes Fish Commission and the USGS. The talk title is “Genomic insights into population structure and sex determination in Great Lakes Ciscoes” given by Kristen Behrens (University of Michigan) on Jan. 9th, 2026 at 12:30PM EST. It includes a photo of the presenter at a table with a bunch of cisco drawings spread out and a trifold board with information on ciscoes.

For those interested in Great Lakes fish (or what I’ve been up to so far in my postdoc) I will be giving a talk for the Coregonine Science Webinar on Friday, January 9th at 12:30 EST! bit.ly/010926

Inversions support both parallel and location-specific adaptations in snail ecotypes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.05.697708v1

Thank you!

Any reading recommendations on the topic? I’m building a reading list for 2026 🖖

Global Warming and Genomic Diversity Loss Alter the Biomass and the Size Distribution of Experimental Fish Populations

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Pangenomes: new tools for ecological and evolutionary genomics Genomic structural variation is an important component of genetic variation in natural populations. By assembling and analyzing multiple high-quality genomes within a species or clade, pangenomes capt...

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🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming.

Apply here:

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#PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

Special Issue: CONSERVATION GENOMICS ‐ MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Molecular Ecology: Vol 34, No 23 Molecular Ecology is an international journal for research using molecular genetic techniques to address questions in ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.

New special issue in Molecular Ecology on Conservation Genomics #popGen #evolution 🧪🧬🖥️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1365294x...

Now in print: tour de force mitonuclear epistasis study in C. elegans.
Start to finish, vision and execution, 100% Tuc Nguyen @tuchmnguyen.bsky.social

We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...

job here at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk on water vole ecology and genetics.

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Accurate Runs of Homozygosity Estimation From Low Coverage Genome Sequences in Non‐Model Species Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are increasingly being analysed using whole genome sequences in non-model species as a measure of inbreeding and to assess demographic history, thus providing useful inform...

Accurate Runs of Homozygosity Estimation From Low Coverage Genome Sequences in Non-Model Species
#popgen #consgen
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Does anyone here know about Hi-C heatmaps? What do you think of this one? I feel like the patterns of the first and last five chromosomes are different. Would you agree? What do you think that is? Asking for a friend.

We are hiring... Please circulate #conservationgenomics, #postdoc, #researchscientist, #caribou

Optimising Genome‐Wide Detection of Runs of Homozygosity: Impacts of Reference Genome Quality and Sequencing Parameters on Inbreeding Assessment Inbreeding and inbreeding depression pose a critical challenge to the persistence of small and isolated populations, driving the need for precise assessment of genomic metrics. Genome-wide runs of ho...

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First paper from #TanguyMuller, PhD student in @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social: Population genomics of incipient allochronic divergence in an infamous moth. #WGS #demography #inbreeding #mutation-load #genome-scan onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

GitHub - alanrogers/popgen: A course on population genetics A course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub.

I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

📢Introducing our brand new app fisheriesXplorer!

Our fisheries overviews data as live, navigable visuals and downloadable datasets.

Find data on fishing activities in each ICES ecoregion: catches, bycatch, discards, fleet interactions and more.

Ready to Xplore? www.ices.dk/data/assessm...

We set out to investigate polygenic footprints of altitude adaptation in a moth species, but instead we uncovered a major selective sweep at genes often associated with insecticide resistance @prrnhd.bsky.social @schifanoalexandre.bsky.social @mgda76.bsky.social @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social

Development of High‐Throughput Genomic Resources to Inform White‐Tailed Deer Population and Disease Management White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are the most abundant and widespread cervid in North America. Genetic data are used as a tool to monitor populations and make management decisions for this ...

I am excited to be a part of my first ever mammal paper!!

Anyone working deer should check our new resource out and see if this panel could work for you!

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Super happy to share the *first* lab publication. Out today in Molecular Ecology - a review of methods used to identify repeated adaptation using genomic data (1)

Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very pleased to see this one out. Unexpected and fascinating finding. I look forward to follow-up on this story 😁