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David Berger

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Associate Prof at Uppsala University. Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics in Insects

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Still 10 days left to apply - Come join us in Uppsala! Fully funded Phd position in Evolutionary Biology. Deadline 22nd of May.
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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
PhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬 Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution? Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 22nd of May!
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We have a new exiting opportunity to join our program with a new PhD position supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social co-supervised by @gmkov.bsky.social on the repeatability of evolution in seed beetles! Click the link to read more and apply! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD-student in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics - Uppsala University
PhD-student in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Roberto García-Roa et al.
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Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth
Abstract. Sexual conflict frequently gives rise to adaptations that increase male reproductive success at the expense of harming females (“male harm”) and
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 14/10/2025
The reliability of environmental cues shape learning and selection against deleterious alleles in seed beetles #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecology #Behaviour @dbergerbiol.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Behavioral plasticity can be a double-edged sword for genetic adaptation. Have a look at our experimental demonstration published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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The reliability of environmental cues shape learning and selection against deleterious alleles in seed beetles | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Behavioural plasticity can play a key role in evolution by either facilitating or impeding genetic adaptation. The latter occurs when behaviours mitigate selection pressures that otherwise would targe...
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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Life-History Evolution of Insects in Response to Climate Variation: Seasonal Timing Versus Thermal Physiology | Annual Reviews
Climate adaptation in insects can proceed via responses in life-history traits and their thermal plasticity and through phenological shifts mediated by responses to photoperiodic cues (photoperiodism)...
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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Interested in evolutionary ecology and genetics? Check out this PhD position in Pau Carazo's lab in Valencia - we look forward to your application!
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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues
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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Just hours before the end of the early bird, registrations are rapidly going up. We had an overwhelming response to the abstract. call (>2000) and the possibility of reaching the capacity limit is not so unlikely. So better hurry up to secure your spot at #ESEB2025 eseb2025.com/registration/
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ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🐦 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬! 🐦​ ​ Hurry up and seize the opportunity to participate in the upcoming ESEB Congress, set in the beautiful city of Barcelona 🌟​ 🎟️ Secure your spot with the Early Bird fee before the end of today 17/06 👉🏻 lnkd.in/djd2c7ZG
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 10/06/2025
Our June issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: 🧬Airborne eDNA 💰Costs of biological invasions 🌡️Genomic predictions of temperature adaptation Cover illustration by Marco Lawrence, based on Bradfer-Lawrence et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image of the June issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing an illustration of a woodpecker flying into woodland at the edge of a typical UK farmland landscape. The cover line reads "Land-use legacies"
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇
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Suvi Ruuskanen @suviruuskanen.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
3-year #Postdoc position on the role of #genetics and #microbiome on #thermal #physiology in @erc.europa.eu project in my group at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social FIN! We establish #selection lines on quails, collab @btschirren.bsky.social DL 15.7., start Nov25-Jan26 ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Contribution of genetic background and gut microbiome on thermal physiology
A post-doctoral Researcher position is available at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in the group of Dr. Suvi Ruuskanen. The post-doctoral res...
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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🔖The Tree of Sex consortium: A global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes Advanced article version👇 academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... 📖 Read more: treeofsex.sanger.ac.uk Follow us here 👉 @treeofsex.bsky.social #TreeOfSex #Evolution #Genomics #Biodiversity
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The Tree of Sex consortium: A global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes
Abstract. Reproduction is a fundamental aspect of life that affects all levels of biology, from genomes and development to population dynamics and diversif
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Eve Seuntjens @eveseuntjens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology
Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.
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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41... We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.
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Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors compare genomic and phenotypic changes between genetic backgrounds of seed beetles evolved at hot or cold temperatures. Despite phenotypic changes being more rapid and predictable at hot t...
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Maria Hällfors @mariahallfors.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
New study led by Jussi Mäkinen out in PNAS! 🤩 🎉 Using several long-term datasets on species in Finland, we show that while most communities have become dominated by warm-affiliated species over time, this is paralleled by a *decrease in thermal diversity*. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Thermal homogenization of boreal communities in response to climate warming | PNAS
Globally, rising temperatures are increasingly favoring warm-affiliated species. Although changes in community composition are typically measured b...
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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So excited for this paper by the Insect Loss RCN led by Chris Halsh! #insectloss @cbahlai.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Meta-synthesis reveals interconnections among apparent drivers of insect biodiversity loss
Abstract. Scientific and public interest in the global status of insects has surged recently; however, understanding the relative importance of different s
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Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Our latest paper revisits Haldane 1957 on speed limits to adaptation, the paper that triggered neutral theory. We clarify and then significantly extend the theory, and apply the resulting model to @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social's data doi.org/10.1093/gene... 1/14
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Substitution load revisited: a high proportion of deaths can be selective
Abstract. Haldane's Dilemma refers to the concern that the need for many “selective deaths” to complete a substitution (i.e. selective sweep) creates a spe
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
And now, we also have a 2-year postdoc position in the Stelkens Lab! 🧪 If you are interested in parallel evolution, genomics, yeast, and climate adaptation, this could be for you! Please apply through U Stockholm's job platform here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Katerina Guschanski @kguschan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word! Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #ecoevojob
A male pied flycatcher perching on a branch
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Jesper Boman @jesperboman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Do you want to map the loci underlying selection but you're on a budget? Let me introduce you to the concept of sequencing the living and the dead. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A plot showing allele frequencies along a chromosome for two groups: those that survived the selective event (Alive) and those that perished (Dead).
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Martyna Zwoińska @martynazwoinska.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Finally ready to see the world! Theories of balancing selection - past, present and future: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A true collaborative effort that brought together theoreticians and empiricists, models, data, and fresh perspectives on how balancing selection can shape genetic variation.
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A century of theories of balancing selection
Traits that affect organismal fitness are often very genetically variable. This genetic variation is vital for populations to adapt to their environments, but it is also surprising given that nature (...
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
📣 We now have a starter pack—come and follow our current colleagues who are on Bluesky! go.bsky.app/PVKQ6tB The building of the pack is ongoing work. If you or someone you know should be featured, give a shout 😉
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Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.
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Luis Zaman @luiszaman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Our Evolution of Evolvability work is finally* out! *technically it has been out for a bit, but all of ~this~ bullshit was happening www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Evolution takes multiple paths to evolvability when facing environmental change | PNAS
Life at all scales is surprisingly effective at exploiting new opportunities, as demonstrated by the rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance an...
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Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Do your (often subjective) choices done during data analysis change their outcomes? Unfortunately and strikingly 🤯 yes! A stellar team of authors (the paper resembles some of CERN outputs in terms of authors number ;) clearly shows that biases may be severe! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology - BMC Biology
Although variation in effect sizes and predicted values among studies of similar phenomena is inevitable, such variation far exceeds what might be produced by sampling error alone. One possible explan...
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Øystein Opedal @oysteinopedal.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
One week left to apply for our open PhD position focused on the evolution of pollination-generalized flowers!
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Unprecedented Number of Recurrent Mutations Drive the Rapid Evolution of Pesticide Resistance in a Notorious Pest www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Alper Akay @alperakay.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Check out our collaborative work with the Maklakov lab @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social led by Zahida Sultanova and Aykut Shen! @biouea.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Optimising Age‐Specific Insulin Signalling to Slow Down Reproductive Ageing Increases Fitness in Different Nutritional Environments
We found that reducing insulin signalling in adult worms slows down their reproductive ageing and extends their lifespan without negative side effects. Moreover, combining it with IF further enhances....
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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A lack of genetic variation can constrain adaptation, and correlations between trait variability and divergence are testaments of that. But how do we interpret such correlations when they last over many many millions of years? New paper in @natureecoevo.bsky.social with Patrick Rohner. rdcu.be/d8YxG
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Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysing wing shapes within and across distantly related dipteran lineages, the authors show that intrapopulation variation reflecting microevolutionary change can...
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council
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Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University @evobiouppsala.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Paper alert! @JesperBoman et al bring empirical evidence for the idea that #chromosome number differences between taxa can contribute to #speciation! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Congrats to @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al on publication of "Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in walnuts and hickories" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science magazine front cover. Picture of a walnut in its opened shell. The text reads "All about timing. Mating type evolution in walnuts and pecans" graphical abstract:
"In Juglans (top left) and Carya, two morphs show complementary temporal separation between male and female flowering (heterodichogamy). Mating types are controlled by two nonhomologous single-locus mechanisms that arose in the common ancestor of each genus, respectively. (Bottom left) Simplified schematic of a putative functional regulatory element at the Juglans locus. (Bottom right) Strong genotypic correlations across the Carya locus indicate a lack of recombination between two colinear haplotypes with similar gene content."
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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Check out our new study 👇 With @denovorego.bsky.social and @alexfhart.bsky.social
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Timothy C. Roth, a member of Maryland's 'Task Force Turtle' (TFT) snapped this photo of a female common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) emerging from brumation in a dry lake mudhole with 18 lbs of dirt & grass on her back. TFT tag these animals with radio transmitters to track movements.
A giant snapping turtle moves across a field, with a lump of dirt on her back that has green grass growing on it.  It's comically oversized, flat on top.  Behind the turtle is what looks like a bit of forest with dry lake in the foreground, and some shore grasses in between.
CREDIT:  Timothy C. Roth, Task Force Turtle
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/01/2025
OpenAI right now
Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"
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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🚨 New paper published in... Nature 😱 I never thought that I would write these words, but here is a Nature-paper that I contributed to. We found global loss in genetic diversity. But conservation strategies may maintain or increase genetic diversity. Full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Check out this short blurb on our paper about the importance of genetic adaptation in insect pests 👇
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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Excited to report that Joy Bergelson (bergelsonlab.org) and I will be running a brand new GRC conference on the Function of Evolving Systems in the summer of 2026. The 2028 one will be chaired by Mikhail Tikhonov (physics.wustl.edu/people/mikha...) and @asanchezlab.bsky.social! Stay tuned!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/01/2025
Amazing how these people are suddenly experts in everything. Anyone who knows anything about the biology of aging realizes that doubling human lifespan is not going to be a matter of a few miracle drugs. This is complete and utter snake oil, and they sound increasingly desperate by the day.
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Anthropic CEO Sees AI-Powered Advances Doubling Human Lifespans | PYMNTS.com
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday (Jan. 23) that accelerated advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in biology, can lead to a
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
[please share widely!] We have two PhD positions available at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: [Position 1] Birds, hybridization, genomes, island biology, biogeography, sexual selection 🦚, w/ me, Knud Jønsson, Martin Iredstedt and @stelkens.bsky.social et al recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
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PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds
The Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics is offering a four-year PhD position focused on analyzing population-level genomic data from museum bird samples. The project will employ cutting-edge gen...
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I’m excited about this project!
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 22/01/2025
wow. world map as viewed through gut microbiomes, bravo Ran, Casey, and team! @blekhman.bsky.social @casey.greenelab.com
A) The top map illustrates the categorization into seven world regions by color, and below it, the map was distorted to reflect each country’s proportion of samples in the dataset. Oceania is represented here in black, though this region was excluded from these analyses because too few samples remained in the filtered dataset used here.
(B) A bar plot illustrating the number of samples analyzed from each world region. The x axis illustrates total samples, and the colors used here are the same as those used in (A).
(C) A violin plot illustrating the distribution of observed Shannon index values assigned to samples from each world region. The x axis indicates the Shannon index value, as calculated using all unique taxonomic identifications in samples from each world region as in Figure 1G. Colors indicate the region (same as in A), and the y axis for each violin indicates the relative frequency with which diversity of a given magnitude was observed. The vertical lines in each violin indicate the median value. The black points within each violin indicate the mean Shannon diversity as determined by rarefaction analysis, as illustrated in Figure S1. See Figure S2 for an evaluation of differences in diversity between regions.
(D) A violin plot organized in the same manner as (C), with the x axis indicating the number of merged reads that were included in the filtered taxonomic table.
(E) A series of plots illustrating the results of a principal coordinates analysis of samples from all world regions. 
(F) A series of density plots illustrating the distributions of the first four axes of variation determined by the ordination analysis displayed in (E). Each panel illustrates a single factor, and the x axis indicates the value of that factor, and the y axis indicates the relative frequency of the value in the given world region.
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hot off the press. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Carine Meignin 🪰🦠🧬🌈 @cmeignin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
📢Job alert We have two postdoctoral positions available, starting in Spring 2025. These positions are part of research funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, focused on exploring evolutionary immunology (Evo-Immuno). #Postdoc #InnateImmunity Do not hesitate to contact us. ibmc.cnrs.fr/en/laboratoi...
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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Our records of the world’s biodiversity are patchy—but that's not because lots of places are "unexplored." That story and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
World map showing biodiversity collection hotspots (red) and blindspots (blue).  BALL ET AL./PEERJ  (2025)
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