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Clare Holleley

@clareholleley.bsky.social
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Head of Vertebrate Research Collections @CSIRO 🦎🥚🪶🧬 | Epigenomic Time-Machine | Evolution | Genomics | Reptile Sex Determination | Mother | STEMinist

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🚨IT'S BIG #MUSEUMJOBS TIME🚨 We are looking for a talented and engaged Project Manager to oversee the delivery programme across the Central England Digitisation Hub, as part of #DiSSCoUK – a nationwide programme to digitise the UK’s natural history collections. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/project...
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Alex The Lion: Is There A Manager We Could Talk To?
Alt: Alex The Lion: Is There A Manager We Could Talk To?
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Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · 10/01/2026
📣 We're hiring: Science Adviser Do you have policy experience and the skill to translate complex science into actionable advice? Work with leading scientists to deliver evidence-based advice on national and global issues. 📍 Canberra ACT (Hybrid) ⏰ Apply by 27 Jan 2026 bit.ly/45B5oBf
Advertisement by the Australian Academy of Science showing 'NOW HIRING' for a Science Adviser position, with a backdrop of a sunset over a bridge leading to Parliament House, Canberra. Visit science.org.au/careers for details.
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Join CSIRO as Collection Manager for the Australian National Fish Collection (Hobart) and help contribute to the future of biodiversity science in Australia: jobs.csiro.au/job/Hobart%2...
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Collection Manager - Australian National Fish Collection
Collection Manager - Australian National Fish Collection
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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨 Lecturer in Animal Science position at the University of Southern Queensland. Candidates with a strong teaching background in Animal Science are encouraged. 📷 Toowoomba, Australia Closes: 8th October 2025 🔗 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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University of Southern Queensland hiring Lecturer (Animal Science) in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | LinkedIn
Posted 12:32:42 AM. $112,381 to $132,831 pa + 17% Super + Leave LoadingFull-time continuing appointment (37.5…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11/09/2025
Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/
Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Unlocking nature's time machine: Revolutionising collections science
Australia’s natural advantage gives us the possibility of succeeding to protect our biodiversity on a grand scale – and collections science is key.
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Some of the news footage from yesterday's launch of the Diversity Building. www.9news.com.au/national/csi...
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New $90 million facility to house millions of insect and wildlife samples
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Boy what a day. Our brand new collections building has officially launched. An amazing team helped us celebrate this landmark today: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Erin Hahn (she/her) @erinhahn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🚨 New paper led by ANWC postdoc @liviagerber.bsky.social! We developed a high-yield 🧬 extraction method for FTA Elute cards - enabling long read AND epigenomic studies from field-collected nucleated blood 🦎 - even after 10+ years at room temp. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Stable preservation and recovery of methylation marks from FTA elute cards in species with nucleated red blood cells using a customized DNA extraction method
Specialized chemically-coated paper cards, such as Flinders Technology Associates (FTA) cards, provide simple and reliable storage of nucleic acids by protecting DNA from degradation. Owed to their si...
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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
My department has open positions at Level B (Lecturer) or Level C (Senior Lecturer), - one position in Genomics and two in Ecology. #PlantSciJobs Applications close on Thursday 7 August Aussie time careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia?
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here: Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Daniel MacArthur @dgmacarthur.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Excited to be in Milan for #eshg2025! If you’re interested in leading analysis of large, diverse cohorts with WGS and cellular genomic data in Australia, I’d be keen to chat - we’re looking to fill a variety of senior comp bio roles: populationgenomics.org.au/careers/ #eshg25
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Careers - Centre for Population Genomics
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Steph Godfrey @stephgodfrey.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We're looking for TWO lecturers (in Conservation Biology & Evolutionary Ecology) to join us in this beautiful corner of the world! Come join our pretty awesome (if I do say so myself!) department! 💚 @zoologyotago.bsky.social otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨 Permanent position of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Pūkenga/Pūkenga Matua) - Conservation Biology at @universityofotago.bsky.social. Candidates with strong wildlife management and conservation background are encouraged. 📍Dunedin, NZ Aotearoa 🔗 otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Pūkenga/Pūkenga Matua) - Conservation Biology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 08/05/2025
Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 02/05/2025
The results of The Chaser's Poll to Save Democracy are in and they suggest a real shock during tomorrow's election. Read more: preview.mailerlite.io/preview/4483...
EXCLUSIVE: Bluey's dad leads preferred PM poll
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Australasian Evolution Society - AES @ausevosoc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Postdoc in Avian Behaviour (2.5 yrs) Study evolution of escape behaviour in threatened birds. ARC-funded project w/ Matt Symonds & Mike Weston (Deakin), Lee Ann Rollins (UNSW). Exp. in bird behavioural ecology required Apply : careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...
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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Conservation position closing 12th May. Queensland Herbarium and Biodiversity Science business unit- Science Leader of Ecological Sciences team. smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobtools/jnc...
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Science Leader |   Brisbane—West |
An amazing opportunity to step into strategic science leadership in Queensland government. We are looking for someone to set the direction and lead a team of scientists to deliver ecological products ...
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Sergio Cruz-León @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Excited to share our preprint on the molecular architecture of heterochromatin in human cells 🧬🔬w/ @jpkreysing.bsky.social, @johannesbetz.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social 🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv
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Science Sam @samanthayammine.com · 08/04/2025
Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that: 1. Climate change is real 2. Vaccines work 3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤 🧪
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
A bit of insight into how our National Biological Collections are moving house: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03... The job isn't done yet, but we are well on the way.
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'Small piece in a really big jigsaw': Penguin frozen in time finds home
The collections include 99 per cent of Australia's native birds as well as exotic bird species, skeletons, mammals, reptiles stored in ethanol, eggs and frozen tissue.
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA)- University of York - Department of #Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) at University of York
An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Michael Jennions @mikejennions.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Come on folk, get off your butts! Let's thank @arc-tracker.bsky.social. 3500+ of you follow their posts about proposed changes in ARC funding & which schemes remain open for now. But only 135 of you have signed up to support their nomination for a Eureka prize. Sign! forms.gle/ie7b32rWcZKK...
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Letter of Support for nomination of @ARC_Tracker for a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science
In signing this form you endorse the proposal to nominate @ARC_Tracker for a Eureka Prize in the category 'Leadership in Science'. The list of signatories will be appended to the nomination form. I wi...
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Ben Phillips @benflips.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It actually exists! A few copies of my new book just arrived. Nice to see it in person, finally. If you've ever wondered about the ecology or evolution of an invasive population, this one's for you. #evobio 🌏 #bioinvasions #ecoevo
A book, "the ecology and evolution of invasive populations", atop another identical book.
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A job going at our National Collections: jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra...
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Curatorial Technician (eucalypt specialist), Australian National Herbarium
Curatorial Technician (eucalypt specialist), Australian National Herbarium
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project). Applications close 25th March 2025! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
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Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
😈 A rare sight with an ominous name— a black seadevil anglerfish was recently spotted off the coast of Tenerife. Ben Frable (@frable.bsky.social), manager of the Scripps Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection, shared more about this cool creature for @nytimes.com. ⬇️
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A Deep-Sea Fish of Nightmares Strays Into Shallow Waters
A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.
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Michael Jennions @mikejennions.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Hi Australian Researchers. I have a plan. Let's thank the amazing @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a decade of selfless work by nominating them for a Eureka Prize (Leadership in science). Are you with me? If so, repost this. Please also reply and state your support for this quest. We can do this people.
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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Job alert! We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Job alert! Lectuter in Evolutionary Biology out now
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
New blogpost: gobbledegook papers as canaries in the coalmine- and more bad news for MDPI deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/toma...
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Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine: another embarrassing paper for MDPI
Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in publis...
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Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The late Eric Pianka made thousands of observations of desert lizard body temperature and activity. We used them to test biophysical models of their cost of living and projected the models to past and future climates in Africa and Australia #unimelb #ARC @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Climate change and the cost-of-living squeeze in desert lizards
Climate warming can induce a cost-of-living “squeeze” in ectotherms by increasing energetic expenditures while reducing foraging gains. We used biophysical models (validated by 2685 field observations...
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Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...
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Details : Research Fellow in Mammalian Movement Ecology and Energetics : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🚨 great #sciencejournalism 🧪 job opening — @nature.com reporter! Based in Berlin 🌍 or Sydney 🌏 . A rare opportunity to write your best, deepest and most impactful work, in a supportive and inspiring newsroom 😁
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(Senior) Reporter (m/w/d)
Job Title: (Senior) Reporter (m/w/d) Locations: Berlin or Syndey – hybrid working model; full time, permanent contract Application Deadline: January 20th 2025 About Springer Nature Group Springer Natu...
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Erin Hahn (she/her) @erinhahn.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Bringing formalin-preserved specimens back to life! 🧬🦎 No longer DNA’s final resting place, these jars hold the secrets to past gene expression and adaptation. Who said formalin was just a preservative? New mini review w/ @clareholleley.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2p4btv4k #Museomics #Epigenetics
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Taking stock of 2024 as we enter 2025. Managed to drag this kid through his 9th year of life and also do a little science on the side... DOI: 10.1126/science.adj3210
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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
*Be my new work supervisor!* Arizona State University is hiring a new Director of the ASU Biocollections with a concurrent appointment as a tenured associate or full professor. *I'd really love for this person to be an entomologist so ento friends, please share!* apply.interfolio.com/159166
Photograph of an open cabinet with insect specimen drawers. One door is closed and has close up images of beetle specimens. There is a "NEON Biorepository" label on the door.
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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 25/12/2024
The Claus Hypothesis
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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
WWF Australia job fixed term 2 years- conservation priorities in the Asia-Pacific region. jobs.wwf.org.au/jobs/5376960...
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International Species and Forests Program Manager - WWF-Australia
Join an amazing team of passionate people making a difference. Great benefits including RDOs, Salary Packaging (rebatable), Health Days.
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Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
We are hiring a new entomological curator in Hamburg at the Leibniz institute for the analysis of biodiversity change… Please share and apply!!! 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2024-20-...
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Karriereportal für Bewerbungen
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
New addition to the CSIRO logo, but a perfect fit for our theme of biodiversity, here at the collections
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Chris Jiggins @chrisjiggins.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Join us in Cambridge! This evolutionary genomics professorship (lecturer/reader level) has an emphasis on introgression and gene flow. If you study any aspect of evolutionary genomics then please apply! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/
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Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.
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Australasian Epigenetic Alliance (AEpiA) @aepia.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
AEpiA 2024 ORAL PRESENTATION PRIZE WINNERS 1st - Mark Ezegboyu (University of Otago) 2nd - @evhealy.bsky.social (Monash University) Runners up - Braydon Meyer (@garvaninstitute.bsky.social), Kate O'Hara (@csiro.bsky.social) and @scientistkate.bsky.social (@cmri.bsky.social)
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Creatures of the Deep: spectacular evolutionary radiations can unfold even within environments with few ecological resources and demanding physiological challenges. New work from the Australian National Fish Collection & collaborators out in Nature Ecol Evol: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Based on phylogenomic and geometric morphometric analyses of 132 anglerfish species, the authors infer a Cretaceous origin of the clade and show that bathypelagic anglerfish are undergoing rapid pheno...
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Whoa! Temperature*perception* and epigenetic inheritance. I am intrigued and curious to see how this could play out in vertebrates. C. elegans are pretty cool models sparking new epigenetic insights.
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a man in a black jacket is standing in front of a green wall with the words `` whoa '' written on it .
ALT: a man in a black jacket is standing in front of a green wall with the words `` whoa '' written on it .
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
So "Science Twitter" seems to have migrated over to this platform. What a lovely safe haven so far. I am re-posting some recent work, that I am hoping will now reach the right people! Epigenetic time travel is now possible with the help of museums: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Century-old chromatin architecture revealed in formalin-fixed vertebrates - Nature Communications
Formaldehyde-preserved museum specimens have produced genetic data. Here, the authors generate chromatin profiles from museum specimens 117 years old and experimentally demonstrate chromatin profile p...
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Anna Kearns from the Australian National Wildlife Collection has made the cover the journal Evolution. Her paper “Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations”. Congratulations Anna! doi.org/10.1093/evol....
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Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations
Abstract. Island radiations, such as those of the Australo-Pacific, offer unique insight into diversification, extinction, and early speciation processes.
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Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !
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Clare Holleley @clareholleley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The "Environomics Future Science Platform" program has grown from a seed of an idea to an enormous program of work delivering environmental benefits and tools over the last 9 years. I am so happy to be a small part of it. Our celebratory video that describes the impacts: my.csiro.au/News/NCMI/20...
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