New blog post: The Camel's Camel.
Today, I found a beautiful example of synonymized plagiarism involving the microbiome of a camel’s udder.
#TorturedPhrases #ScienceIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity
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Why are we still spending tens of thousands of $$$ on APC for non-society journals like Nature?
Wouldn’t that money be better spent at society journals at least? We are doing ourselves a disservice by continuing to participate in this madness.
You don’t need a paper in these journals to succeed.
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data:
Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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...
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...
🇺🇦 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...
СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ! ГЕРОЯМ СЛАВА!
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 don’t miss our session on Molecular Tropical Ecology organised by Prof. Ute Radespiel and myself.
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
We're marking World Pangolin Day by remembering that Roman soldiers would routinely dress as pangolins before going into battle.
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 🧪 plos.io/4c3pyrI
Are 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...
Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? 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!
In addition to great science 🧪🧬🌳🪰, 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! 🥾⛴️ 🔭 sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/excursio...
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? 🧪🌍
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. 🧵(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)
A few years ago, I wrote this piece about #Chornobyl horses @uk.theconversation.com @es.theconversation.com
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#ChornobylWildlife
Przewalski horse looking for the end of the winter.. #Chornobyl Radiological and Biosphere Reserve, Ukraine.
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📸 Sergei Domashevsky
5. He claimed that, overall, discovery research would not be reduced. Also, that overall, 'applicant-led' budgets will not be decreased.
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 “Origin and evolution of acrocentric chromosomes in human and great apes”. I had so much fun with this project and paper. It will be hard to summarize in a thread, but I’ll try www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/21]
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...
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"
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
📦 github.com/marbl/anianns
We’re getting so many journal submissions from people who think ‘it kinda works’ is the standard to aim for.
New review!
Theory & a practical guide to structural variants in popgen🧬
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 🤯
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!
One of my favorite snowy day paintings is Claude Monet's "The Magpie," 1868-69 at the Musée d'Orsay www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/...
