Roberto Biello

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
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#languagebarriers

19.09.2025 02:45 — 👍 95    🔁 63    💬 5    📌 2

This is now published at #MolecularEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check it out!

26.08.2025 11:21 — 👍 50    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 2

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🚀 PhD Opportunity 🎓: Why do some species survive #climatechange while others vanish?

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28.05.2025 10:53 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks Ines!

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🐻New preprint🐻
We analysed WGS data from the Apennine brown bear—a small and isolated population which has coexisted with humans for millennia—and found unique genomic diversity, including adaptation associated with reduced aggressiveness.
#ConsGen #Genomics #Bears
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

19.05.2025 21:04 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

We have a new pre-print!

If you are interested in #smallpopulations, here we show how selection may shape behavioral traits in small isolated populations. We also show selective signatures at genes associated with reduced aggressiveness, possibly involving alternative splicing
#consgen #popgen

19.05.2025 20:23 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

SIBE summer school SIBE SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 7th − 11th September 2025 FERRARA (ITALY) Overview The analysis of genomic data has become increasingly feasible, even in non-model organisms, thanks to the “omics” revolution...

I'll be teaching in the SIBE Summer School in Ferrara, from the 7th to 11th of September.
Great place to learn about PopGen, comparative genomics and ✨Conservation Genomics✨
🚨Deadline to apply: 11th of May🚨
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See you there!

01.05.2025 08:32 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Marty Kardos

Lukas Keller, Chris Funk, and fury toothy friend.

What can genome sequence data reveal about population viability? (And equally important, what CAN'T it reveal??) These are key questions that @martykardos.bsky.social, Lukas Keller, and I address in our new paper in a Molecular Ecology special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#congens

18.12.2024 00:50 — 👍 30    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack

18.11.2024 09:58 — 👍 68    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 2