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Camille Roux @crouxevo.bsky.social · 29d

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 We are hiring!
🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
📧 [email protected]
🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom

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Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · Aug 28

A new article of the team published in @heredityjournal.bsky.social #PopGen #MarEvol
Congratulations to Hedvig for her brilliant work on this project.

Atlantification is dead, long live genetic atlantification!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genome sequence analysis provides evidence that a boreal crustacean colonised Svalbard well before the ongoing Atlantification of the Arctic - Heredity

Heredity - Genome sequence analysis provides evidence that a boreal crustacean colonised Svalbard well before the ongoing Atlantification of the Arctic

www.nature.com

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Pavel Dimens @pvdimens.bsky.social · Aug 28

My lil' baby turns 3.0 today! Most notable features:
- autodetection of linked-read types (and not linked-read WGS too!)
- more debuggin' and troubleshootin' options

#bioinformatics #genomics #linkedreads

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Mathieu Gautier @mgda76.bsky.social · Aug 26

For those interested: 🚀 BayPass v3.1 released!
🔹 Improved MCMC adaptive phase
🔹 Computation reduced >6X with default (recommended) options, while keeping similar accuracy
🔹 Plus other minor edits

📖 Details in the manual / changelog
🔗 Repo: forge.inrae.fr/mathieu.gaut...

GAUTIER Mathieu / baypass public · GitLab

GitLab Community Edition

forge.inrae.fr

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Claire Mérot @clairemerot.bsky.social · Aug 19

Useful warning on pangenomes by Resco Hogers... Now your application to pick which flavour of pangenome to need

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Claire Mérot @clairemerot.bsky.social · Aug 19

Join us today and tomorrow in room 117 #ESEB2025, starting with Dr Neda Barghi at 11am about adaptive architecture of complex traits in Drosophila. And the poster session today at 5pm. 😊

Claire Mérot @clairemerot.bsky.social · Apr 22

A few days left to send your abstract to #eseb2025 !

If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social · Aug 18

This week, the capital of Evolution is Barcelona!
Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025.
Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n

Photo of the welcome address at ESEB2025

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · Aug 17

Join the TIBBE team at #ESEB2025 on Monday in room 115 for S17 *The evolution of behavioural diversity: from ecology to genes and neural systems* - lots of great talks, and more excellent posters throughout the evening sessions! 🧠

The Integrative Biology of Brain Evolution (TIBBE)- Network @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social · Apr 17

This is TIBBE – The Integrative Biology of Brain Evolution network.
We bring together researchers on brain evolution to exchange ideas, share expertise on tools and methods, share data and discuss new findings.
Discover & join TIBBE on our website and a short video tibbe-network.github.io

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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · Aug 16

Interested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!

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Hernán E. Morales @hernmoral.bsky.social · Aug 17

🎤 Symposium: Evolution in Small Populations
I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse
🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115

Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week!

@hologenomics.bsky.social

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Thea F. Rogers @theafrogers.bsky.social · Aug 17

So excited to be in Barcelona for #eseb2025! If you’re interested in 3D genome evolution, gene regulation, and the evolution of cephalopod novel traits, come to my talk on Tuesday at 11.30 in room 117 🐙🦑🧬

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Claire Mérot @clairemerot.bsky.social · Aug 17

And talking about structural variants, inversions, haploblocks and flies in symposium 38 - at the same time 🙄 12am Tuesday - in room 118.

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Steve Ramm @steveramm.bsky.social · Aug 17

A reminder too that we have an open Junior Professorship position at the ECOBIO lab in Rennes, so do reach out if you might be interested in applying for that, I'd be happy to chat www.univ-rennes.fr/sites/www.un...

www.univ-rennes.fr

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Claire Mérot @clairemerot.bsky.social · Aug 16

On my way to @eseb2025.bsky.social ! 🌞
Please join us for symposium 47 about the interplay of genetic architecture and the evolution of biodiversity in room 117 on Tuesday. I'm very much looking forward to seeing so many cool talks and posters, and catch up with some of you 😊

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ISYEB @isyeb.mnhn.fr · May 5

Retrouvez les biologistes Marc-André Selosse @isyeb.mnhn.fr & Audrey Dussutour @cnrs.fr Univ.Toulouse, dans un podcast @sciencecqfd.bsky.social sur @franceculture.fr ,
diffusé le 29/04/2025.
Les champignons sont partout : de la confiture aux réacteurs de Tchernobyl.....

Champignons : cèpes à la maison

Les champignons sont partout : de la confiture aux réacteurs de Tchernobyl. Ils sont essentiels aux écosystèmes et ont permis l’apparition de la vie sur Terre. S’ils peuvent être bénéfiques, ce sont a...

www.radiofrance.fr

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Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · May 5

Just three more days to apply to this post-doc position (Deadline 8 May 2025). Not only is the subject matter stunning 🤯 but, you know, life in Montpellier is great too 😎.

Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel

Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · Apr 14

#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894

Post-Doctoral Researcher – Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel (M/F)

- work environment: Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions Laboratory (UMR5244 IHPE), Montpellier - main mission:

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Pavel Dimens @pvdimens.bsky.social · Apr 30

It is with joy and exhaustion I'd like to announce the release of Harpy v2 🎆.

What's different? Uh, almost everything. The changelog is so long that even I don't want to read it. BUT. IT WORKS WITH WGS DATA. AND MOST LINKED READ TECH. it just works 🙂

github.com/pdimens/harpy

GitHub - pdimens/harpy: Process linked-read data, from raw sequences to phased haplotypes, batteries included. Works with WGS too!

Process linked-read data, from raw sequences to phased haplotypes, batteries included. Works with WGS too! - pdimens/harpy

github.com

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Claire Mérot @clairemerot.bsky.social · Apr 24

10 more days to send your abstract to ESEB 2025 in Barcelona @eseb.bsky.social (deadline 05/05/2025).

Claire Mérot @clairemerot.bsky.social · Apr 22

A few days left to send your abstract to #eseb2025 !

If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV

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Steve Ramm @steveramm.bsky.social · Apr 17

Abstracts for @eseb2025.bsky.social due next week! Milk, ejaculates, skin secretions, regurgitate, microbes ...our symposium will have it all, with invited speakers @berasymbionts.bsky.social and @jennyperry.bsky.social ...and you?
Organised w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social and @wolfnerlab.bsky.social

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Pavel Dimens @pvdimens.bsky.social · Mar 18

Harpy v2.0 is almost across the finish line, and I wrote a lil' post about what linked-read sequencing actually is and how we evaluate the data differently than standard short-read data. It's a quick and easy read (with pictures!), highly recommend 🤓 #PopGen
pdimens.github.io/harpy/blog/l...

A kind introduction to linked-read data | Harpy haplotag

What you ought to know about linked reads

pdimens.github.io

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Claire Mérot @clairemerot.bsky.social · Apr 22

A few days left to send your abstract to #eseb2025 !

If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV

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Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte.bsky.social · Apr 18

New preprint! We investigated the evolution of supergenes and mechanisms underlying distyly in Linum species that diverged ca 33 Mya. 1/8
bsky.app/profile/bior...

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Charikleia Karageorgiou (Clio) @evobioclio.bsky.social · Apr 18

Adaptation repeatedly uses complex structural genomic variation

Structural elements are widespread across genomes, but their complexity and role in repeatedly driving local adaptation remain unclear. In this work, we use phased genome assemblies to show that adapt...

www.science.org

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Claire Mérot @clairemerot.bsky.social · Apr 11

Looking forward to this symposium, lots to learn and discuss about genome structure and evolution #SVs #ESEB2025 ( and thanks for the invitation)

SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Apr 10

Organized by @aruizherrera.bsky.social and Thea Rogers with the wonderful speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social and Harris Lewin

SEAGEN - Rui Faria @ruimmfaria.bsky.social · Apr 10

NEW FRONTIERS IN GENOME DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION: if you have work on 3D organization and function of genomes submit your abstract to our symposium!

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