Tanja Pyhäjärvi

Associate Professor in Zoology with focus on ecology and evolution Department of Zoology  at Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees counting researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an internatio

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Thank you for hosting, Uppsala Universitet!

Foreseen already by e.g., author Sami Tissari in his great dystopic book Krysa.

What a memorable day to give and listen to inaugural lectures of new professors at University of Helsinki! Here we are after the lectures with colleagues Fred Stoddard and Anne-Maria Pajari and the dean Ritva Toivonen from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. @helsinki.fi

Tutkimus auttaa ymmärtämään puiden sopeutumiseen vaikuttavia tekijöitä | Maatalous-metsätieteellinen tiedekunta | Helsingin yliopisto Metsägenomiikan ja metsänjalostuksen professori Tanja Pyhäjärvi tutkii puiden geneettistä monimuotoisuutta, evoluutiota ja sopeutumista. Hän toivoo, että päättäjät ja yritykset arvostaisivat enemmän m...

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It is a little bit depressing that 80 % of papers applying population genetic methods typically estimate π (nucleotide diversity per bp) wrong, and even worse, do not realize that when looking at the point estimates.

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The FORGENIUS genomic resources: new genotyping tools and genomic data for 23 forest tree species and their Genetic Conservation Units Genetic diversity is a critical but often overlooked component of biological diversity. The European H2020 FORGENIUS project is precisely aimed at increasing the quality and quantity of genetic data t...

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Baffling failure of a well-studied trade-off in plants to survive the transfer from greenhouse studies to the open field. Intriguing study from @derekseveri.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social and colleagues in @plosbiology.org

Two postdoctoral researchers and/or doctoral researcher, Future Forests Two postdoctoral researchers and/or doctoral researcher, Future Forests

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Beets, 🥕, 🌰, pickles, 🍎, sometimes also herring.

And I thought that Finnish Chrismas salad "rosolli" was weird.

Oh my god...

You know over the years what I have been really bothered by? When I was in college, bryophytes were taught as if they were relics of the past. Its sole purpose was to demonstrate trait progression leading to angiosperm, w/o mentioning their importance in nature, research, or potential in biotech.

Googlen NotebookLM on alkanut tehdä suomenkielisiä pocasteja. Nais-AI:n ääni kuulostaa karmivan samalle kuin Tuija Pehkonen. Pehkonenhan on ollut radiossa paljon äänessä.

Two postdoctoral researchers and/or doctoral researcher, Future Forests Two postdoctoral researchers and/or doctoral researcher, Future Forests

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Who started this ridiculous habit of using K for thousands? 10K run? 10 kelvin run is freezing! And now in scientific writing too. I know there are big battles going on now, but I will focus on this one instead.

The de-extinction of the dire wolves?
"Colossal Baloney"— @stemcells.bsky.social
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@latimes.com by @hiltzikm.bsky.social

NSF Q&S highlighting response to question "Are you still funding research on misinformation?". RESPONSE: NSF will not support research with the goal of combating "misinformation" "disinformation" or "malinformation" that could be used to infringe on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the US

The NSF discontinuing “misinformation” research b/c it threatens free speech is laughable. 9/

Still waiting for a reimbursement from a US University that invited me there to give a talk last August. My advice: do not ever pay the travel expenses yourself when invited and promised reimbursement.

kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room . ALT: kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .

Me to my lab members: "No need to stress about your Lab Meeting presentation. Just show us where you are at in your project". Also me: *spending 8 hours to prepare my own lab meeting presentation and getting nervous about it*.

Today I have spoiled myself with reading just single review paper all day, taking pauses to think. Luxury!

Pictures of two dichogamy morphs in Pterocarya trees, a graph visualizing flower dimorphism, and a phylogeny of the Juglandaceae family showing divergence times and origins of genetic systems for heterodichogamy.

I'm excited to share our new preprint on the molecular evolution of heterodichogamy in two wingnut genera of Juglandaceae. Heterodichogamy features two morphs synchronously alternating male and female flowering phases in time to generate disassortative mating.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Yle lopetti radion alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset vähin äänin – johto ei kommentoi sanallakaan Yleisradion perinteiset alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset Radio Suomessa ovat loppuneet. Esimerkiksi Yle Lapista ei tule enää itsenäistä iltapäivälähetystä.

"Yleisradion perinteiset alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset Radio Suomessa ovat loppuneet."

"[---] Ylen johto tapaa parhaillaan aluetoimitusten henkilöstöä ja kertoo heille heidän työsuhteensa kohtalosta."

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Metsäpuihin kohdistuva huippututkimus tähtää hiilinielujen lisäämiseen Yrjö Helariutta (oik.) toimii huippuyksikön johtajana. Ryhmänjohtajista mukana kuvassa Tanja Pyhäjärvi, Maija Sierla, Ari Pekka Mähönen ja Teemu Hölttä. Su...

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The Oxford Nanopore Technologies stock performance on the GBX exchange, showing a strong downward trend.

The newer sequencing tech, Oxford Nanopore, is traded on the London exchange as part of the FTSE 250, and it is likewise having a rough day, down 10% today so far, 42% since Trump took office.

These tools are how we genotype cancer, flu, measles, etc., by the way.

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

I do not talk about politics a lot here. But the way Trump and Vance talked to Zelenskyi is the most disgusting thing I have seen for a long time. So sad, we are not able to really stand up for Ukraine. We could do so much more.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Watched meeting between Trump and Zelensky and all I can say is that I have never ever seen something like that. IMO, disrespectful were Trump and Vance, not Zelensky. And not only to the US but to Ukraine and Europe as well.