This article is related to this scientific paper published in Biological Conservation, where I focus on the legal vacuum in addressing the impact of pets on wildlife and suggest ways to bridging the gap between conservation and animal welfare laws in the EU. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
27.02.2026 14:33 β π 30 π 13 π¬ 1 π 0
When pets devour biodiversity. My new article on the European edition of @uk.theconversation.com about the impacts of pet-wildlife interactions and the opportunities for their legal regulation in the EU. theconversation.com/our-pets-are.... Related paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
27.02.2026 14:33 β π 24 π 18 π¬ 1 π 0
πΊπ¦ 4 years of full-scale war. 12 YEARS OF FIGHTING
Nothing better to remember and reflect about the fight for freedom and democracy of Ukrainian people than the words from our colleagues at #Chornobyl Radiological and Biosphere Reserve.
www.facebook.com/zapovidnyk20...
Π‘ΠΠΠΠ Π£ΠΠ ΠΠΠΠ! ΠΠΠ ΠΠ―Π Π‘ΠΠΠΠ!
Excited to be in Passau (Germany) at the start of the 9th yearly conference from the Society of Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social
If you are around donβt miss our session on Molecular Tropical Ecology organised by Prof. Ute Radespiel and myself.
An advertisement for a PhD position studying "Revealing the mechanistic basis of defence peptide antibacterial specificity." It shows fruit flies infected by green-fluorescent protein expressing bacteria, and describes the project and way to apply.
Very excited to be advertising this project with the excellent cosupervision of Peter Mergaert through @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social and @uniexecec.bsky.social.
This position is open to international applicants and will involve stints in both Penryn UK and Paris France. Please share!
Apply: adum.fr
A split screen: on the left is a crested Roman helmet in the foreground with a tunic of scale armour (lorica squamata) in the background. On the right is a close up of the tunic and the scales are practically indistinguishable from the scales of a pangolin (but there again we're on our third coffee).
We're marking World Pangolin Day by remembering that Roman soldiers would routinely dress as pangolins before going into battle.
21.02.2026 09:53 β π 640 π 142 π¬ 9 π 4
Time-calibrated phylogeny of the family Drosophilidae showing major species groups, surrounded by representative adult flies that highlight the remarkable morphological diversity of this model insect group. The composite image was created using Microsoft PowerPoint. Fly photographs were taken by Darren J. Obbard and are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License with permission.
The #fly community aims to achieve a comprehensive genomic study of the Drosophilidae family. @pankajd.bsky.social @bernardkim.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social @darrenobbard.bsky.social present a comparative gene annotation for 301 #Drosophilidae species @plosbiology.org π§ͺ plos.io/4c3pyrI
19.02.2026 13:55 β π 54 π 29 π¬ 0 π 0Are you interested in human DNA from ancient sediments? Do you want to do a PhD in Vienna? We have two open positions in our group! You can learn more and apply here (scroll down to the very bottom, ours are the last two listings): careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...
13.02.2026 09:46 β π 32 π 34 π¬ 1 π 3
ExE 2026
Interested in the interface of evolution 𧬠and ecology π³? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!
13.02.2026 10:06 β π 27 π 32 π¬ 1 π 5
In addition to great science π§ͺπ§¬π³πͺ°, this is your chance to explore some of the best places in #Cornwall, such as Kynance Cove and the Lizard, Glendurgan Gardens, the Helford River by boat! π₯Ύβ΄οΈ π sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/excursio...
13.02.2026 10:06 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
American chestnuts were iconic but got wiped out by a foreign pathogenic fungus. Hybrids are key for chestnut restoration. As second author I led parts of the evolutionary and functional work
Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? π§ͺπ
The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. π§΅(1/4)
As a not-for-profit organisation, the research published with us goes directly towards funding our community outreach & engagement. Most notably, this includes our historical collections, extensive education and events programmes, and our prestigious medals, prizes and awards. (2/4)
07.02.2026 13:02 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
A few years ago, I wrote this piece about #Chornobyl horses @uk.theconversation.com @es.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/the-mystery-...
theconversation.com/el-misterio-...
#ChornobylWildlife
Przewalski horse looking for the end of the winter.. #Chornobyl Radiological and Biosphere Reserve, Ukraine.
www.facebook.com/zapovidnyk20...
πΈ Sergei Domashevsky
5. He claimed that, overall, discovery research would not be reduced. Also, that overall, 'applicant-led' budgets will not be decreased.
03.02.2026 13:57 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
3. New info I think:
BBSRC grants are in a pause of a 'few weeks' while they transition to an always-open system, ie accepting applications at any time.
Time for a thread on our Christmas preprint βOrigin and evolution of acrocentric chromosomes in human and great apesβ. I had so much fun with this project and paper. It will be hard to summarize in a thread, but Iβll try www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/21]
02.02.2026 14:58 β π 41 π 29 π¬ 1 π 1
Took me way too long to realize that its super easy to just merge pdfs in R rather than fussing with Adobe #rstats
library(pdftools)
pdf_combine(
input = c("file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"),
output = "merged.pdf"
)
Another fun dental calculus study #aDNA #microbiome co-led by @martinafarese.bsky.social and @markella-morait.bsky.social, along with our favourite collaborators @chenyu.bsky.social and @tvdvalk.bsky.social. Ancient Romans, oral microbiomes, diet (which once again remains elusive) and more...
01.02.2026 13:22 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
New tool from @alexsweeten.bsky.social to find and classify all your satellites: "AniAnn's: alignment-free annotation of tandem repeat arrays using fast average nucleotide identity estimates"
π www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
π¦ github.com/marbl/anianns
Weβre getting so many journal submissions from people who think βit kinda worksβ is the standard to aim for.
28.01.2026 05:58 β π 421 π 108 π¬ 14 π 27
New review!
Theory & a practical guide to structural variants in popgenπ§¬
Many thanks to my co-authors: @rebekahoomen.bsky.social
@annatigano.bsky.social @marenwellenreuther.bsky.social @janawold.bsky.social @dlfield.bsky.social @clairemerot.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We are less than a week away from the deadline π€―
Remember to submit your abstracts to SMBE2026
Institut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!
27.01.2026 18:56 β π 34 π 49 π¬ 0 π 0
Snowy scene, with a magpie sitting on a rickety wooden gate
One of my favorite snowy day paintings is Claude Monet's "The Magpie," 1868-69 at the MusΓ©e d'Orsay www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/...
26.01.2026 14:30 β π 153 π 30 π¬ 4 π 1
Pre-announcement ... keep an eye out for news of our upcoming #Biodiversity #Bioinformatics Summer School 21-26 June in Germany co-organised by @sib.swiss & @denbi.bsky.social ... sign up to the mailing list to be sure not to miss it! www.sib.swiss/training/upc...
27.01.2026 08:34 β π 166 π 56 π¬ 1 π 2
OTD 126 years ago Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the founders of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, was born in Ukraine. My students already know him...
#evolution
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodos...
How and when did domestic cats conquer the world? π The aDNA study recently published in Science tells a fascinating story about the human-mediated dispersal of our purring furry friends.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #paleogenomics #cats #zooarcheology #domestication
Recombination landscape shaped by inversion polymorphisms β a high-density linkage map and chromosome level assembly of inversion-rich spruce bark beetle genome
doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
Happy to have an article where one of the co-authors is my mum :):):):)
