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Líffræðifélag Íslands (Iceland Biological Society) @liffraedifelag.bsky.social · 18h

Nú er Líffræðiráðstefnan að fara að skella á! Opnunarerindi er á fimmtudaginn, 9. okt. kl. 13 í aðalsal Íslenskrar Erfðagreiningar. Nálgast má dagskránna hér:
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Dagskrá / Program

Listi yfir öll málstofuerindi með ágripum / List of all seminar talks w/ abstracts Listi yfir öll veggspjöld með ágripum / List of all posters and abstracts Yfirlit yfir dagskrá / Schedule overvi…

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 3d

First 10 @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social #genome reports now online at the ORE collection open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/collections/...

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MFRI - Hafrannsóknastofnun @mfri.bsky.social · 28d

MFRI´s research vessel Thorunn Thordardottir is on a charter from for a research project focused on the oceanography and current measurements in the East Greenland Coastal Current. The measurements of this project aim to assess its possible impact on AMOC stability. www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new...

Expedition measuring East Greenland Current

MFRI´s new research vessel Þórunn Þórðardóttir HF300 is on a charter from 29 August to 12 September for an international research project focused on the oc

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 28d

We're running a virtual genome assembly workshop next week. Online, but live instruction on a real HPC. Code and session recordings distributed to participants.

UConn Computational Biology Core @cbcuconn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us Sept. 16–18 for a Virtual Genome Assembly Workshop! 🧬 Learn sequencing, assembly & QC—all from your laptop.

📅 10 AM - 2 PM EST
💻 Live on MS Teams + recordings
💰 $500 ($400 UConn affiliates)

Register: bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/

#GenomeAssembly #Bioinformatics #Workshop

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MFRI - Hafrannsóknastofnun @mfri.bsky.social · Aug 15

MFRI is looking for an individual for a position which involves diverse research on the effects of ocean acidification and climate change on marine life and its ecosystems. See more in a news item on www.hafogvatn.is, also there a link to more information on ResearchGate. #oceanadification

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 19

Here is a press release/ summary blog post about our new paper.

Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is.

www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

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Áki Jarl Láruson @akijarl.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ostur er veislukostur.

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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · Jun 16

Over the weekend, I finally published a piece I’ve been sitting with for several months now, trying to do it justice. It's about the state of climate change journalism (mainly in the U.S.)

What climate journalism means heading into a 1.5 C world

Five charts and fifty-five opinions about the state of the field, and where it is going.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out!

Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur).

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

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 1

My paper "Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should" is formally published in an issue.

It's a how-to guide to using Bluesky, the first ever published in the scientific literature! 🧪🦑🌎🐟

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Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should

ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook

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MFRI - Hafrannsóknastofnun @mfri.bsky.social · Jul 23

A new webpage on sea temperature has been launched on the MFRI's website. It contains a new presentation of data from sea temperature gauges in various parts of the country.
www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new...

New webpage on sea temperature

A new webpage on sea temperature has been launched on the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute's website. The page contains a new presentation of data

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Áki Jarl Láruson @akijarl.bsky.social · Jul 26

I was fortunate enough to get to attend the Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics Gordon Research Conference in Italy this month. Amazing to meet, reconnect, and hear from so many amazing researchers from just about all over the world working on the dynamics of ecological and evolutionary change.

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Professor Jodie Rummer @physiologyfish.bsky.social · Jul 11

We are super proud of this paper led by @jcuofficial.bsky.social PhD student @joelgaylard.bsky.social - so cool that #sharks follow these centuries-old mathematical scaling 'rules' almost perfectly!!

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Jul 10

The geometry of life: testing the scaling of whole-organism surface area and volume using #sharks. Read the full #RSOS paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @physiologyfish.bsky.social‬

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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · Jul 11

We are the European Reference Genome Atlas #ERGA community! 🌍🧬

🔹 An open community of 1000+ members and the European node of @ebpgenome.bsky.social
🔹 ERGA connects people and institutions to advance #biodiversity #genomics across Europe

🔗 Learn more & join us: www.erga-biodiversity.eu

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Ensembl @ensembl.org · Jul 9

🚀 We've launched an Integrated Release on Ensembl Beta!
Beta Release 2025-02 features 2,919 genomes, ready for both current & long-term use.
You can explore the data on zurl.co/FuoKx or read more about Ensembl Beta releases on our blog at zurl.co/xbRr4

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Áki Jarl Láruson @akijarl.bsky.social · May 15

Two exciting research projects were just awarded the first ever Explorer's Grant by the Icelandic Biological Society, in cooperation with jbcharcot.fr and en.fin.is!
The projects focus on Arctic Charr spawning and nursing grounds, and Redwing and Common Blackbird habitat partitioning.

Líffræðifélag Íslands (Iceland Biological Society) @liffraedifelag.bsky.social · May 15

Kynning á verðlaunahöfum Könnuðarstyrksins! biologia.is/2025/05/15/k...

Kynning á verðlaunahöfum Könnuðarstyrksins!

Eins og áður var tilkynnt bárust níu umsóknir um Könnuðarstyrk til félagsins. Þetta er í fyrsta sinn sem styrknum er úthlutað, en framtakið er samstarfsverkefni Líffræðifélags Íslands og Les Amis d…

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Iana V. Kim @ianakim.bsky.social · May 7

I’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome - Nature

The physical organization of the genome in non-bilaterian animals and their closest unicellular relatives is characterized; comparative analysis shows chromatin looping is a conserved feature of ...

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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · May 6

🧬 Want to learn more about #genome sequencing, assembly, curation and analysis? Why not head to Florence this autumn?

⏳ There's still time to apply and attend #EMBOgenomeSeq — deadline is the end of May! meetings.embo.org/event/25-gen...

@embo.org @ebpgenome.bsky.social

ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · Apr 11

Hands-on @EMBO course in #genome sequencing, assembly, curation, and downstream analyses: 08 –12 Sep 2025 in #Florence Italy 🇮🇹☀️

DEADLINE: 31/05! meetings.embo.org/event/25-gen...

#EMBOgenomeSeq @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social #assembly #bioinformatics

Genome sequencing, assembly, curation, and downstream analyses

Advances in long-read sequencing methods such as Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) and scaffolding approaches using chromosome conformation capture have significantl…

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Áki Jarl Láruson @akijarl.bsky.social · May 5

The French newspaper Mediapart interviewed me last week about our review article of long standing bias in conservation research. There are always minor details that get warped in translation, but it was great to see the willingness to mediate technical results.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecol...

Le délit de faciès des sciences de la conservation

En matière d’orientation des recherches sur la protection de la nature, la prétendue objectivité scientifique laisse la place à toutes sortes de biais et de conformismes. Des préférences subjectives …

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · May 1

We still have a few spots left for the GRC Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics meeting in Tuscany this summer (July 13-18). Lots of great speakers already lined up, and we'd love to hear from you! www.grc.org/ecological-a...

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MFRI - Hafrannsóknastofnun @mfri.bsky.social · Apr 28

The report: The Circular Economy of Fishing Gear in Nordic Fisheries was published recently. It sets region-specific guidelines for reducing plastic waste and ghost fishing by embedding circular-economy principles throughout each fishing gear’s lifecycle. Mroe here: www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new...

New roadmap to tackle fishing gear plastic waste

The Nordic Council of Ministers published recently The Circular Economy of Fishing Gear in Nordic Fisheries. It is the outcome of a Pan-Nordic project

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · Apr 28

ERGA Plenary meeting, Monday, April 28 at 15:00 CEST, Dr. Thomas Mathers: improving reference genome assemblies for challenging species & new insights from complete bird microchromosome 🐦🧬 assemblies www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/plenary...

Plenary talk - Chromosomally complete reference genomes for challenging species: overcoming sequencing dropout in bird microchromosomes

At this month's ERGA Plenary meeting, taking place on Monday, April 28 at 15:00 CEST, Dr. Thomas Mathers will present his work on a Tree of Life pilot project focused on improving reference genome ass...

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MFRI - Hafrannsóknastofnun @mfri.bsky.social · Apr 14

A new article describes the genetic stratification of inshore shrimp and offshore shrimp (Pandalus borealis) populations in northern Iceland. Reduced representative genome sequence data was collected from samples North of Iceland. More here: www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new... #shrimpresearch

A newly published article describes the genetic stratification of shrimp

A newly published article describes the genetic stratification of inshore shrimp (common in shallower water) and offshore shrimp (northern shrimp,

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Craig Primmer @fishcongen.bsky.social · Apr 21

About 15-20 yrs ago, a bunch of reviews (inc. 1 by me) made predictions about the future of genomics in conservation. 1 yr ago at ICISB, Robin Waples assessed which of those predictions had been fulfilled. Sam May & Sam Rosenbaum now led the effort to turn this into a review:
doi.org/10.1111/mec....

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Apr 14

Excited to see our article on the cover! @drk-lo.bsky.social

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Molecular Ecology Resources: Vol 25, No 4

Molecular Ecology Resources is a broad journal publishing computer programs, statistical & molecular advances & more for studies in evolution, ecology & conservation.

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