Elisabetta Canteri

🔁Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open.

We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.

🗓️Deadline: October 15th

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Climate change puts pressure on reindeer populations, both wild & domestic herds In 2024, as unpredictable rains, snow and heat beat down on Finland’s Arctic, reindeer struggled to secure food sources, say Indigenous Sámi herders who shuffle their packs from one grazing ground to ...

Happy to share that @mongabay.com covered our Science Advances paper about past and future responses of reindeer to climate change. Thanks to Sonam for this great article ☺️

news.mongabay.com/2025/10/clim...

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓

I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.

👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏

New research indicates caribou populations could decline 80 per cent by 2100 Despite surviving through large climatic fluctuations in the past, future climate warming may cause a drastic decline in caribou populations.

New research indicates caribou populations could decline 80 per cent by 2100

New research indicates caribou populations could decline 80 per cent by 2100 Despite surviving through large climatic fluctuations in the past, future climate warming may cause a drastic decline in caribou populations.

We have written a short piece for @ca.theconversation.com about the future of reindeer. You can read it here: theconversation.com/new-research...

Come check my poster today about relationships across spatiotemporal patterns in genetic ancestry and burial rite practices! #isba11 @isba11.bsky.social

Mismatch in reindeer resilience to past and future warming signals ongoing declines Rangifer population dynamics over 21,000 years reveal that future climatic warming will cause losses that surpass safe boundaries.

Today we publish a new paper on the past and future resilience of the reindeer under global change...the future looks grim

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rudolph and all of the other reindeer are probably dying from climate change North America’s herds will likely be hit the hardest.

Please check out the article in Vox. Thanks so much for covering our paper!
www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

Reindeer is key for the maintenance of the tundra ecosystem. We need to increase investments for the management and conservation of this majestic species, as this will benefit not only nature but also many communities that rely on reindeer for their economy, identity, and emotional well-being. 4/🦌

We predict declines in population size over 80% by 2100, under a business-as-usual climate change scenario, with North American populations being the most vulnerable. 3/🦌

We show that reindeer was able to survive abrupt climatic fluctuations of the past thanks to its ability to travel long distances to track suitable environments and to survive in low population numbers. Still, these traits might not be enough to protect it from future climatic warming. 2/🦌

We used historical and modern observations, fossils, ancient DNA and ecological models to simulate the abundance and distribution of wild reindeer and caribou since the Last Glacial Maximum until present, and we directly compared these to future predictions. 1/🦌

Mismatch in reindeer resilience to past and future warming signals ongoing declines Rangifer population dynamics over 21,000 years reveal that future climatic warming will cause losses that surpass safe boundaries.

🦌 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🦌

Our paper on wild #reindeer and #caribou is out in Science Advances! Thanks to the team: Eric Post, @nmschmidt.bsky.social, Stuart Brown, @noguesbravo.bsky.social and Damien Fordham that co-lead this research.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

A map of the Arctic Ocean where the four different management stock boundaries of bowhead whales are colored in (Sea of Okhotsk; Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort; East Canada-West Greenland; East Greenland-Svalbard-Barents). Also shown are arrows highlighting potential Holocene habitat connectivity routes between these different populations.

🐋 ANOTHER ONE 🐋 !!!

We have a hot new #bowhead #whale preprint out now on @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social, co-led with @mick2474.bsky.social !

We show what is possible when you integrate genomic and ecological data to tell an insightful story about this charismatic #Arctic endemic! 🧬

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A bowhead whale swimming in Arctic waters. Credit: Kit Kovacs and Christian Lydersen, Norwegian Polar Institute.

🐋 WHALE PAPER ALERT! 🐋

My 2nd #PhD Chapter is now out #OpenAccess in @ecol-evol.bsky.social where we built a 11,700 year-long ecological baseline of #bowhead whales in the #Arctic

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🧬🐭🐴🐻Job Alert🐻🐴🐭🧬

We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers in DeepTime Palaeogenomics!

All positions are for 2 years (extension possible), & are fully funded both in terms of employment and project costs.

Deadline: 2 Dec 2024

Please RT!

Apply:
www.su.se/english/abou...

We are currently advertising two fully-funded PhD scholarships to work on a new project preventing extinctions of Australia’s threatened mammals with ancient DNA.
#sediments #aDNA #eDNA

For further details, please see:
scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...

Here's a starter pack for ecological niche modeling, species distribution modeling, and general ecological biogeography. Please reply here to be added!

go.bsky.app/AjbQxpK