Craig Primmer

Hey genomics colleagues: are they any software programs you wish still worked on your modern OS? I’m trying to get a list of dead software that lost support and fell out of fashion, not due to method but due to software support. #genomics #evosky #evolbio #popgen #Evolution

Peltoset ❤️

Skiing on the sea in (almost) downtown Helsinki (along with have the population

Recruitment of bifunctional regulator thermospermine to methylated ribosomes directs xylem fate Polyamines are often associated with ribosomes and are thought to stabilize their integrity. In Arabidopsis, the polyamine thermospermine (tSpm) affects xylem cell fate. tSpm induces translation of SU...

In @science.org this week, thermospermine affects ribosome methylation, which in turn regulates translation of xylem development proteins www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#plantscience

Worried you might miss the EMPSEB 31 abstract submission deadline? Fret not, because we have decided to extend the deadline!

Send us your abstracts till February 15, 2026! Mark this one on your calendars so you don't forget!

Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by highlighting the incredible women of SFB 1372 advancing our understanding of birds, behaviour, and the natural world 🐦🔬
A small glimpse of the brilliant minds behind our research ⬇️
##WomenInScience

The band that helped me learn Finnish

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The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers is available now!

Explore this first of it’s kind report highlighting methods and actions to measure and respond to business impacts and dependencies on nature.

🔗 https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media

Yritysten luontovaikutusten hillintä on keskeistä luontokadon pysäyttämiseksi, korostaa IPBESin tuore raportti. Yritykset ovat riippuvaisia luonnosta, mutta luonnon monimuotoisuuden merkitystä talouden ja liiketoiminnan perustana ei huomioida riittävästi.

Ketjussa keskeiset nostot ja suosituksia
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One week left to apply!

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)

Biodiversity Bioinformatics Summer School This School is co-organized by SIB/ELIXIR Switzerland and de.NBI/ELIXIR Germany Overview Biodiversity is fundamental to ecosystem functioning, yet it

#biodiversity #bioinformatics Summer School announcement ... 21-26 June in Siegen, Germany co-organised by @sib.swiss & @denbi.bsky.social www.sib.swiss/training/cou...
🟢 eDNA & ecosystems
🟣 pangenome diversity
🔵 population genetics
🟡 comparative genomics

I have been single parenting our dog for a week because @eevaprimmer.bsky.social has been busy as the co-chair of the #IPBES12 business and biodiversity assessment. Tip to delegates, if she starts looking exhausted, chocolate almost always helps #BizBiodiversity #ProundHusband

Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Economics Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Economics

Hey folks! There's a #postdoc position open @ University of Helsinki in #biodiversity #economics ! For #ecology , #environmental #economics, etc. PhDs.

Deadline 18 Feb so apply soon! I'm told that is a really nice research group too!

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

The dam is already there. Worth a look if you haven't already. Very cool ice formations

Preprint alert: We adopt a cheap & rapid WGS protocol for vertebrate sized genomes, and use it to sequence nearly 1K whitefish genomes to low/med coverage for lake-wide pop genomics of adults + larvae for species assignment, habitat use, decline & selection: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#PopGen

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

Mathematics and statistics | Faculty of Science | University of Helsinki The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is Finland’s largest university department for mathematical sciences. Its multifaceted research has received the highest points in numerous assessments. The Department collaborates actively with other higher education institutions and with several government research institutes both in Finland and abroad.

The University of Helsinki seeks a postdoctoral researcher in Statistical Ecology. Apply by Feb 28, 2026. Salary €3800-4000/month. Details: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-science/faculty/mathematics-and-statistics. #postdoc

Good times to be had in Finland this summer, submit an abstract now 👇
#restoration #science 🧪

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Symposium "Species on the move" next Thr in Viikki @helsinki.fi
Great speakers Maria Delgado, @juliakemppinen.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social!

Organised by @josephinecouet.bsky.social who will defend her PhD thesis on Friday!
@hkilabornithology.bsky.social

Research scientists in research and advice for fisheries stock assessment in a development context  (294225) | Institute of Marine Research Job title: Research scientists in research and advice for fisheries stock assessment in a development context  (294225), Employer: Institute of Marine Research, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Are you a fisheries assessment scientist looking for new opportunities? Come join our team at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen, Norway, working on exciting developments projects in the global south. 🦑🧪🐟

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social has two open PhD positions, help us spread the word! 📣

We are looking for a PhD student in Lichen Biology, and one in Ecology & Evolution. Find more information and apply by 1 February below!

A new preprint from the lab, with postdoc @deboraycb.bsky.social and collaborators @aidaandres.bsky.social and Tim Connallon:

“Characterising the detectable and invisible fractions of genomic loci under balancing selection”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We have a postal system in Finland too 😉. Sounds like a great book!

8 months after this Bluesky post, that @dochfroehlich.bsky.social responded to, we are super excited to have Halley starting a new professorship in our faculty @helsinki.fi from 1 May 2026 to strengthen research and education in sustainable fisheries and aquaculture. #NewAdventures

Mathematics and statistics | Faculty of Science | University of Helsinki The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is Finland’s largest university department for mathematical sciences. Its multifaceted research has received the highest points in numerous assessments. The Department collaborates actively with other higher education institutions and with several government research institutes both in Finland and abroad.

The University of Helsinki seeks a postdoctoral researcher for a 3-year role in statistical ecology and evolution, focusing on sex-specific differences in immunity and life history. Apply by Feb 28, 2026. More in… https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-science/faculty/mathematics-and-statistics #postdoc

The Importance of Effective Population Size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring Effective population size (Ne) is a key concept in biology and conservation. Stripped to its bare essentials, it reflects how much genetic drift a population experiences, expressed as a number of ind...

We have compiled a special issue for @evolappjournal.bsky.social on Effective population size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring, dedicated to the late Michael W. Bruford.
This SI is a must read for everyone who struggles with what "effective population size" means.
#consgen

Top: pictures of Salmo salar and Oncorhynchus mykiss (credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain). Bottom: Structure of the identified PRDM9 alleles in S. salar PRDM9 α1.a.2 and O. mykiss PRDM9 α1.a.1. Colored boxes represent unique ZFs, characterized by the 3 amino acids in contact with DNA (3-letter code).

PRDM9 helps determine the location of recombination hotspots in many mammals. Study of salmonid fish reveals that #PRDM9 function is conserved across vertebrates, and this peculiar evolutionary runaway caused by PRDM9 has been active for 100s of millions of years🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3DIvFCG

It’s a tremendous honour, really tremendous - to be presented with a ‘World No.1 University’ ranking from Oxford. Very smart people. The best. Everyone knows it. Nobody thought it could happen, but here we are. Absolutely incredible.