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Sabhrina Aninta

@sagitaninta.bsky.social
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Conservation genetics & population genomics of tropical island populations, occasionally ancient DNA, phylogenetics, biogeography, & biodiversity informatics, mostly mammals 🐗🐂. She/her. 🇲🇨. X/Twitter previously sagitaninta.

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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now I am suddenly thinking on how to get more citations. Usually you are working on what a lot of other people also work on, or if you don't, on something really seminal. The first is easier so people do that, but then it discourage frontier research.
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can't entirely say if it is rude because it might be because the revisions being asked by the reviewers require it being removed (?) Not sure if scrutinising the removal is productive; but sad reading the published version as it's a topic I care deeply 🥲 (my work almost cited after all!)
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Saw a preprint citing my paper then when the preprint got published my paper was disappeared from the citation in the published version 🥲
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Statistics, it turns out, is a subject built on hope. The belief that if you measure a thing carefully enough, honestly enough, with sufficient regard for the people being measured, you can make better decisions." Very beautiful article and webpage design. altermag.com/articles/the...
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The Making of Indian Statistics
How Mahalanobis Counted India's Aspirations
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Population and Statistical Genetics Group at UCPH @popgendk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🧵1/5 🧬 New paper from our group! We present the first whole-genome data for the giant forest hog, #Hylochoerus #meinertzhageni (GFH), filling a major gap in our understanding of African #suid #evolution 🐗🧬 📖 Read the full paper in iScience: doi.org/10.1016/j.is... #Genomics #Conservation
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#SMBE2027 Call for symposia proposals now open Proposal submission link 📨 event.fourwaves.com/smbe2027/sub... 🗓️ Key dates Deadline: Sept 20, 2026 Communication of results: Oct 21, 2026 Public announcement: Nov 2, 2026 Abstract selection: Feb 2-20, 2027 #society
SMBE 2027 - Call for Symposia is now open

Deadline: September 20, 2026
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
PNAS waive publication fees for a lot of low income countries! Check if yours are here: www.pnas.org/post/update/...
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PNAS Provides Free Access to Journal Content and Publishing in Lower-Income Countries
PNAS is committed to removing barriers to scientific knowledge and publication by providing free and immediate access to journal content and waiving publication fees in over 120 lower-income countries...
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Sibelle Vilaça @sibellevilaca.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We have a new paper! Here we argue that the Global South needs to play a central role in biodiversity genomics, and not be relegated to sample providers. We also propose a pathway forward. #genomics #consgen www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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Frontiers | Sequencing life on Earth: why the Global South must be central
The biodiversity crisis is accelerating, with recent IUCN Red List confirming multiple recent species extinctions (IUCN, 2025). Of the 17 megadiverse countri...
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Ryan Gutenkunst @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The 2026 Genomic History Inference Strategies Tournament is live! This year we have demographic history inference, sweep detection, and genealogical inference challenges. Learn more at ghist.bio. The 2024 paper is at doi.org/10.1093/molb..., and the 2025 paper is being drafted. Join the fun!
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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The next AaRCademy workshop is coming up on Thursday September 17th! This time @anders-bergstrom.bsky.social and @ddj-sa.bsky.social will dive into #aDNA metadata reporting, archiving data in the ENA and the metAaRCive database, a community-led initiative of curating ancient animal genomes.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"The central challenge is no longer building models that reproduce biological behavior, but building models from which causal structure can be inferred." Very sensible paper about not just throwing everything into your simulation or model. arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998
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Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology
In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...
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J. Camilo Chacón-Duque @jcchacond.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🧵 New preprint: Have you ever tried to perform molecular clock dating of ancient mitogenomes using BEAST? Have you struggled using manual tools to create your input files, run your analyses and extract your results? We hope our pipeline provides a solution to this: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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MitoDate: a Nextflow pipeline for molecular clock dating and phylogenetic inference using ancient mitogenomes
Summary Ancient DNA studies are increasingly targeting samples that are beyond the limit of radiocarbon dating (>50 thousand years old) and are often difficult or impossible to date using other geochr...
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Molecular evidence say three species but the morphology only says one species," This morpho-genetic discordance needs to be the null hypothesis by now in phylogeographic studies :v
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I feel weird when a PI proudly present their students' measurements but no acknowledgement of who these students are and they are not even on the paper they finally publish from the students' measurements. This is convergent in many countries btw, not exclusive in certain culture.
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I was attending a talk on range expansion of the butterflies in Japan and I was thinking oh isn't that great? But then he said it is only few families so oh no that is not great, and he proceed further to mention all the bad things a change of community assembly can do to ecosystems. #SAGE2026
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Our collaborator think it is too complicated," My first love to the field of ecology and evolution is exactly how complicated it is, and actually, it is not that complicated. You can still see lines instead of fuzzy network 😆 I think "complicated" is in the eye of the beholder. #SAGE2026
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I think my #SAGE2026 highlight is Fernandez Ginting actually made his own supervisor answer questions directed at his presentation 🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Joke aside it was a massive impressive database on freshwater molluscs all over Papua
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Singaporean museum digitally repatriating their freshwater crustaceans specimens from museums all over the globe. Darren Yeo from LKCNHM & NUS at #SAGE2026 🙌🏼
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hi Kirsty, I resonate with this as I did my PhD application after giving birth, but that is me already resigned so it becomes more of an unemployment period rather than a maternity leave so it falls on the first part 😂 Anyways, if you are happy doing it there is nothing to be questioned at all!
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Very encouraging to see that with time the number of local authors increasingly balanced with the number of species described in herpetology. Next step is increasing the number of local corresponding/lead/senior authors 🔥 #SAGE2026
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I blame the US for the lack of new collections in Indochina around 1960s 🤪 #SAGE2026
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Enjoying this passionate talk about regional diversification in Sulawesi mountains from Prof Jimmy McGuire from UC Berkeley. I think elevational diversity is another interesting avenue in speciation research 🧐
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Thanks to Dr Bryan Stuart from NCMNS for his inspiring talk. No clear answer to funding problem to keep doing repeated sampling, but I guess people just do what people want to do 😉
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There seems to be speciation happening across elevations but we don't know why. Massive phenotypic differences, closel phylogenetic relationships. No clear barrier to dispersal so no idea yet why this happen: both ecological gradient & mid-elevation barrier seems implausible Any ideas? #SAGE2026
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Not a herpetologist but my research career was kickstarted by a herpetologist supervisor and these detailed microhabitat recordings as well as heavy statistics in anything measurable is how I did my works in mammals. Great mentorship goes a long way to next generations of scientists 🙂 #SAGE2026
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Everyone wants clear story, clear concordance between genetic and morphology, everything is fine, etc you sorted the clade and happy. But if you got that, there is no more research. How do you get more funding from clear story?" #SAGE2026
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I got lovely colleagues taking my picture 🥰 trying to talk about the domestication and introgression complexity of Asian Bos and why mainland SEA is extremely important for it at #SAGE2026 If anyone happen to have access to gaur, banteng, or kouprey from mainland SEA please reach out 😆
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Deon de Jager @ddj-sa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Come join us to learn how to contribute to, and use, metAaRCive, a community-curated database of published ancient animal genomes! We'll also cover best-practises for metadata reporting in #aDNA studies and how to archive sequence data on the ENA! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1E4k...
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If only we can get DNA from fossils
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Third plenary: Dr Kantapon Suraprasit from Chulalongkorn Uni who showed amazing feat of local collab & luck that led them to SPOTTED HYENA fossil in THAILAND caves! SUMATRAN 🦏 fossil (why is it in a cave?) with hyena BITE MARK. ORANGUTAN 🦷 🙌🏼 Massive habitat contractions going on #SAGE2026
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Second plenary: Dr Thomas von Rintelen from MfN Berlin reviewed recent biogeography research in SEA, using everyone's favourite island Sulawesi then moving to advertising how to better study dark taxonomy using AI & robotics. I think his most interesting take is to ditch barcoding 👀 #SAGE2026
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
First plenary: Dr Wijarn Simachaya from Thailand Environmental Institute reviewed threats to biodiversity in Thailand, as well as national commitment to fix it. The AR3T framework is part of the nature positive economy they seek to do in that regards. Happy to see my fav MSG on board 🥰 #SAGE2026
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Happy to be attending Southeast Asian conference in Evolution at #SAGE2026 in Phuket, Thailand! Only happened once every 4-5 years gathering distinct scientific community; you don't wanna miss it when it happens! Grand venue, generous goodie bag, extraordinary evolutionary biology, good food 🤌🏼👌🏼
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Is it possible for Indonesia? But our economy is just too bad for any in-kind contribution especially in the political year of 2029. Also, not enough SMBE "alumni" to help 🥲 More things in your goodie bags than any country in Global North that hosted SMBE is guaranteed within the same cost 😝
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
SMBE rotates its meetings geographically to encourage international participation. The next two meetings will be in Copenhagen, Denmark (2026) and Quebec City (2027). For 2029, we are particularly requesting proposals from *outside* Europe and North America.
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Academics: What's a journal in your field that's great? I feel like they are a dwindling breed. Criteria: (1) No APC. Supports green or diamond OA. (2) High-quality and relatively fast peer review. (3) Editors who provide real curational value and exercise purposeful agency in the decision process.
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology
Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Okay now I am curious 👀
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I know this is the internets and people be vent posting, but can you not disrespect invertebrates by comparing them to human politicians? invertebrates did nothing to deserve this kind of treatment
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I think the posters in S15 #SMBE2026 are as good as the talks and this is just few of the many cool ones I managed to see in time. I did not manage to talk to the presenters for these ones 🥲 so I just put this here to show my appreciation for the work you did (I am a fan!)
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Nonetheless, I'm pretty humbled by the available talks & posters being presented in S15 #SMBE2026! My major take away is that extra variables (e.g. time series, env var, etc) helps you working with "impossible" systems. Props to @aidaandres.bsky.social who made Drosophila an impossible system 😆
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It was a great experience chairing S15 sympo at #SMBE2026 with @carolinapacheco.bsky.social & Cindy, but it was tainted by Anubhab's absence, which is a reminder that the world is not equally open to all. Imagine the kinds of talks we can get if the world is more open!
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Very privileged to organise this seemingly (im)possible symposium with @carolinapacheco.bsky.social and the bskyless Anubhab Khan & Cindy Santander at #SMBE2026 on discussing about detecting selection on systems where model assumptions often fails. Cool works in posters as well, stay tuned!
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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD student position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University
PhD student position in Population Genomics , Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Hi Laura, circling back to you on this one, do you know any policy publication like this that does not focus on translocation? I am just wondering if there are any other examples.
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
They are similar to some extent right 👀 Only different for the initiated 🕯
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Is stabilizing selection = background selection = purifying selection? #popgen
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Not that we need more evidence of genocidal intent to recognise what we are seeing. But deliberately shooting children? That's about as clear as it gets. #Gaza www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
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Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
BREAKING: Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza and halted all humanitarian aid following Iranian missile strikes on Israel. Why do Palestinians in Gaza have to pay the price for everything, (even the creation of Israel). Disgusting collective punishment.
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