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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 28d

SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...

Robust and accurate Bayesian inference of genome-wide genealogies for hundreds of genomes - Nature Genetics

SINGER is a method for creating ancestral recombination graphs to understand the genealogical history of genomes. The method has increased speed, and thus scalability, without sacrificing accuracy.

doi.org

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Jaime Muriel @jaime-muriel.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔬📢 Oferta #FPI (2026–2029) en el ‪@mncn-csic.bsky.social. Proyecto sobre vínculos de pareja en aves polígamas, éxito reproductivo y redes sociales.

@diegogil.bsky.social & Lorenzo Pérez Rodríguez (@irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social)

Excelente entorno académico y personal 🐦🥰
@behavecol-lab.bsky.social

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Tilly S Scott @tillysscott.bsky.social · Aug 18

I've had a wonderful 1st day at @eseb2025.bsky.social Here are the sketches from some of the talks I attended today. My highlights include Tristan on the adaptive genomics of colour spots on owls, Vicky on pearl mussel's response to climate change & Rebekah on firefly TEs & TE-induced mutations

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Evolutionary Applications @evolappjournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Next, we had Dr. Andrea Estandia talking about 'Spatial scales of genomic adaptation to climate and phenology in the winter moth' 🦋 #ESEB2025

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Aug 11

Looking forward to presenting our winter moth work next week in the S23 symposium (Monday morning room 114) and catching up with everyone in Barcelona! 🦋🧬

Maren Wellenreuther @marenwellenreuther.bsky.social · May 28

Our symposium "Evolutionary Genomics: Understanding and Adapting to Climate Change" (S23), co-organized by Molecular Ecology and @evolappjournal.bsky.social received outstanding submissions. We'll showcase research on using evolutionary genomics to tackle climate change. eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jul 14

Congrats, Wenyuan! 👏

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jul 2

Our study highlights the complex interplay between dispersal, population turnover and spatial population structure, and suggests that great tits in Wytham Woods experience substantial gene flow within the population and from immigrants, maintaining high genetic diversity.

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jul 2

We also show that immigrants are outbred, as are local birds; have fewer close relatives within the population, and are less likely to be related to their neighbours than locally born birds.

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jul 2

Despite extremely low FST and no clear genome-wide population structure, immigrants and locals can be distinguished above chance using a Random Forest classifier trained on SNP data.

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jul 2

We quantify how temporally persistent this pattern is and find similar levels of decay of relatedness with distance across years, without a consistent genetic basis, which is frequently renewed due to high population turnover.

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jul 2

We observe some spatial genetic structure largely driven by the spatial and temporal clustering of close kin.

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jul 2

New preprint: Using pedigree data + genomics from 2,684 great tits in Wytham Woods, we explore spatial genetic structure and the role of dispersal, population turnover and immigration 🐦 With @sheldonbirds.bsky.social @nilomr.bsky.social @jon-slate.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Santiago Claramunt @sclaramunt.bsky.social · Jun 20

I’m recruiting graduate students to join my lab at the University of New Orleans starting in January or September 2026!
If you're at #Evol2025 and curious about my research, come to my talk on Saturday at 11:30 AM in Macroevolution & Diversification II.
Contact me if interested.
claramuntlab.org

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thank youuu!

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jun 11

Gracias, Germán!

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jun 11

As always, this was a team effort—huge thanks to @nilomr.bsky.social, Ash Sendell-Price, Dom Potvin, Will Goulding, Bruce Robertson, and most importantly, Sonya Clegg. Many of them have spent decades collecting silvereyes across the South Pacific. A true piece of collaborative work!

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jun 11

Excited to share our new paper in Molecular Ecology! Using whole-genome and morphological data from silvereyes, we explore their evolutionary history and find that water barriers are more effective than continental distances in driving population divergence 🐤🧬
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Islands Promote Diversification of the Silvereye Species Complex: A Phylogenomic Analysis of a Great Speciator

Geographic isolation plays a pivotal role in speciation by restricting gene flow between populations through distance or physical barriers. However, the speciation process is complex, influenced by t...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Edward Grey Institute @egioxford.bsky.social · Jun 5

After the usual Field Season hiatus, we will be having a few seminars this term, beginning with Dale Clayton from University of Utah talking about Ecology, Evolution and Endocrinology of Grooming in Birds. 4 pm today in the Board Room in Mansfield Road at @biology.ox.ac.uk

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jun 1

A year and a half after passing our DPhil vivas, we finally made it to graduation. Lovely to have my family, partner, and academic parents there, and to catch up with old friends at college. Thank you, Oxford, for four unforgettable years as students and the ones we’re lucky to spend here now.

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · Jun 1

Very grateful for all the support over the years. Couldn’t have asked for better academic parents!

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · May 31

Celebrating DPhil graduation of @nilomr.bsky.social & @andreaestandia.bsky.social today with Sonya Clegg. Great to have had them both as DPhil students here in Oxford @biology.ox.ac.uk and even more fortunate they both stayed for postdocs!

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Edward Grey Institute @egioxford.bsky.social · May 29

As the Wytham tit (and drone, tree and winter moth) field season winds down (the end, like the start, gets earlier each year!) we posed for the traditional field team photo followed by an excellent lunch. A great team again. Some quantitative updates to follow next week... #suspense

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · May 16

Manuscript accepted! 🎉 Couldn’t ask for a better way to finish a looong week. Stay tuned for some exciting silvereye updates! 🐤👀

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Andrea Estandía @andreaestandia.bsky.social · May 8

Huge congrats, Dr. Jones! I’ve been so lucky to spend the past 4 years with you. Nothing better than seeing one of your closest friends pass their viva!

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