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Dr Alice Balard

@alicebalard.bsky.social
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Molecular (esp. DNA methylation) 🧬 ecology 🌱 & evolution 🦠🪱🐭🐟🤸‍♀️, biostatistics 📊 she/her UCL, London, UK profiles.ucl.ac.uk/99848-alice-bala… evoepijc.wixsite.com/epigenetics-jo…

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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The second Epigenetics for Wildlife Research Workshop 🧬🐻🐟 is going strong, thanks a ton Cloé Nater from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social to once more reunite the dream team in CNR Rome, and NKV for funding! Exciting paper to follow in a few months... 👀 @go70north.bsky.social
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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Want to know the kind of work we do in @ugiatucl.bsky.social ? Here’s a poster from our recent away day, showcasing research from @aidaandres.bsky.social and Garrett Hellenthal’s groups using population genetics to study human evolution. Poster led by @alicebalard.bsky.social. #popgen #humanevo
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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What does a typical workflow look like for @ugiatucl.bsky.social researchers studying pathogen diversity? See our microbial genomics theme poster featuring the groups of @lucyvandorp.bsky.social @proffballoux.bsky.social @gemmamurray.bsky.social & Marina Escalera-Zamudio. Poster: Phoebe Cunningham
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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A sneak peek of some of the cool work done at UCL UGI!
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
On our 250th birthday, celebrating the contribution of immigrants and international collaboration —46% of people with doctoral-level degrees working in US science and engineering fields are foreign-born
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Nancy Bird @nancybird1.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Just published our new paper: “The reliability of inferred archaic segments” 🎉🧬💀 www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/6/2/000... We systematically compare several published methods and our new method "cp-archaic" using simulations and 1000 Genomes data
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The reliability of inferred archaic segments
The reliability of inferred archaic segments
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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Today at ECR CompBio SkillS, Dr Angharad Green told us about her microbiology career and her role of data steward at ARC. Thanks UCL Grassroots Research Culture Seed Fund tinyurl.com/2sy7umj5 for sponsorship of our events bringing the computational community together! @ugiatucl.bsky.social
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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Q. for scientists: how do you efficiently supervise undergrads for fully computational projects? Less 1:1 supervision time than wet lab can mean less support if they don't actively ask for it, more use of AI to produce loads of code without full understanding, loss of motivation... Any tips welcome!
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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨Save the Date: CEE Spring Symposium 2026, Thurs 28th May afternoon, ‘Molecular Frontiers in Wildlife, Ecology and Evolution’. How emerging 🧬 and 💻 tools are transforming our ability to study eco-evo in wild systems Please sign in to our free Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/Ceespring and share!
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CEE Spring Symposium 2026
How emerging molecular and computational tools are transforming our ability to study evolution and ecology in wild systems.
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Charley Yen, PhD @eugeniecyen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🚨 New preprint alert 🚨 I’m excited to share our study presenting a non-invasive method for sexing sea turtle hatchlings via DNA methylation - the culmination of many years of work! Huge thanks to our fantastic co-authors, whose dedication made this possible doi.org/10.64898/202...
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DNA methylation reveals evolved buffering responses to climate-driven sex ratio skew in sea turtles
Species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), including all sea turtles which produce females at warmer temperatures, face projections of demographic collapse under climate-driven sex ra...
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al: "Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited" doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals
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Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology
Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R
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Allegra Angeloni @angeloniallegra.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
1/ I’m very excited to share my postdoc work with @kseskv.bsky.social, in collaboration with @oligriffith.bsky.social. We explore embryonic DNA methylation reprogramming in the fat-tailed dunnart, an Australian marsupial 🦘🌏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9
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Adenine DNA methylation associated with transcriptionally permissive chromatin is widespread across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics
Long-read sequencing in 18 unicellular eukaryotes reveals that 6mA is widespread across eukaryotes and is enriched at transcriptionally permissive regions, which are also marked by H3K4me3.
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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
You want to learn about all of the amazing ways epigenetics 🧬can inform wildlife 🐻🐟 research? Check the online presentations me and colleagues will give 16-18th of Sept! Thanks NKV, and Chloé Nater from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social for putting together this great learning & networking workshop!
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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Come to join a great team and a super exciting project!
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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
If you want to know more about DNA methylation in conservation, especially temperature-sex dependent species, check this cool video & the paper tinyurl.com/yvspkzp6! It was a pleasure to be part of such cool collaboration, very well done for the intense work @eugeniecyen.bsky.social you're a queen!
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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
A nice review paper from the lab!
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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
You can catch UGI post-doc @nancybird1.bsky.social presenting at @official-smbe.bsky.social #SMBE next week on her work: "A flexible and efficient new model to infer multiple admixture dates via joint analyses of modern and/or ancient individuals".
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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
✨🧬 Sharing our UCL Genetics Institute starter pack of researchers, friends and alumni past and present 🧬 ✨ #UGISKY (DM us to be added) go.bsky.app/Gw1NqRa
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Charley Yen, PhD @eugeniecyen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Great to see this published in @gigascience.bsky.social! Using @nanoporetech.com, we generated genome and methylome resources simultaneously to drive molecular insights for conservation of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde 🐢🧬🇨🇻 doi.org/10.1093/giga...
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Chromosome-level genome assembly and methylome profile yield insights for the conservation of endangered loggerhead sea turtles
AbstractBackground. Characterizing genetic and epigenetic diversity is crucial for assessing the adaptive potential of threatened populations and species i
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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Tomorrow is the first #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this semester, with @alicebalard.bsky.social from UCL @ucl.ac.uk who will be talking about the role of methylation in adaptive response to environmental pressures. Join us! Details: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... @klivvvienna.bsky.social
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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
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