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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 1d

Please consider signing this open letter to Winston Peters on behalf of NZ university staff, students & alumni to demand recognition of a Palestinian state.
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Tammy Steeves @testeeves.bsky.social · 1d

What are the ‘social dimensions’ of moving species for conservation and why does engaging with them matter?

This is the focus of our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social olevo.bsky.social led by ever talented @aisrayne.bsky.social

📷 Kevin Parker

Whimsical photo of a karure | kakaruia | Chatham Island black robin courtesy of Kevin Parker. Features as a wee black bird with four leg bands: white over orange on the left leg and red over white on the right leg. Sneaky tufts of feathers peak out from otherwise borb-like body, encouraged by the unseen wind.

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Audald Lloret-Villas @audald.bsky.social · 5d

💡 Bonus: Open Snakemake pipelines for both simulation and imputation are provided:
- github.com/vibaotram/si...
- github.com/vibaotram/im...

Feel free to test and optimize imputation strategies for your own datasets before committing to large-scale LCS projects.

GitHub - vibaotram/simulation

Contribute to vibaotram/simulation development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Audald Lloret-Villas @audald.bsky.social · 5d

💥 Downstream impact:
- PopGen analyses (relatedness, population structure) were congruent with imputation accuracy and depend on genetic relatedness.
- Inbreeding coefficient estimates were more sensitive to imputation.
- Demographic analysis on imputed data showed similar results across the tools.

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Audald Lloret-Villas @audald.bsky.social · 5d

🔑 Choosing your imputation tool:
- All tools worked well in highly related populations.
- Accuracy varied in populations with low relatedness, but GLIMPSE2 & QUILT2 generally outperformed the other tools.
- STITCH is useful when no reference panel exists but results in some missing data.

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Audald Lloret-Villas @audald.bsky.social · 5d

👩🏻‍💻 We tested 5️⃣ imputation methods (GLIMPSE2, GeneImp, QUILT2, STITCH, Beagle5.4), simulated realistic populations with different genetic structures, and applied the methods to data from 283 wild hihi (stitchbird) 🧬.

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Audald Lloret-Villas @audald.bsky.social · 5d

We explored that in this new study in Molecular Ecology Resources 🔎

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Assessing Genotype Imputation Methods for Low‐Coverage Sequencing Data in Populations With Differing Relatedness and Inbreeding Levels

Low-coverage sequencing (LCS) followed by genotype imputation has become a cost-efficient approach for obtaining whole-genome SNPs. Several imputation methods for LCS data have been developed over th....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Audald Lloret-Villas @audald.bsky.social · 5d

Low-coverage sequencing (LCS) + genotype imputation is a cost-effective approach to genotype hundreds of samples at a full-genome level. But how do different imputation tools perform across populations with varying relatedness and inbreeding?

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Joseph Guhlin @josephguhlin.bsky.social · 7d

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

Bridging forward-in-time and coalescent simulations using pyslim

Ancestral Recombination Graphs (ARGs) provide an expressive and compact way to represent genetic variation data generated by simulations embedded within its genealogical history, and it can dramatical...

www.biorxiv.org

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · 9d

🎙️ Have you discovered the Heredity Podcast?

👂 Hear about the latest genetics research straight from the authors

📚 Archive: www.nature.com/hdy/podcast

@gensocuk.bsky.social

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Genetics Society of AustralAsia @geneticsaus.bsky.social · 10d

🚩Upcoming Asia-Pacific Genetics Seminar:

Remember to tune in tomorrow for our ECR special symposium 🧬 - "Epigenetics in Evolution and Ecology"!

Registration link on poster below

Genetics Society of AustralAsia @geneticsaus.bsky.social · Sep 8

🧬 Upcoming Asia-Pacific Genetics Seminar:
📅 30th September

Join us for the "Epigenetics in Evolution and Ecology" symposium, featuring three outstanding early career researchers who will share their latest discoveries.

👉 Register now using the poster below!

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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · 12d

I have never in my life felt as ashamed of the settler state of New Zealand as I am today. #FreePalestineNow

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Anna Santure @annasanture.bsky.social · 13d

‘Poverty in Aotearoa is not accidental’: How our systems deliberately keep people poor thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-09-...

‘Poverty in Aotearoa is not accidental’: How our systems deliberately keep people poor

All of this is avoidable – so how do we fix what's broken?

thespinoff.co.nz

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · 13d

🎙️ 📻 New Heredity Podcast!

We talk with @caitismuheil.bsky.social and Jessica McNeill about their work showing the sensitivity of meiosis to temperature and what this might mean for populations in a warming world.
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Episode:
shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 15d

Damn pēhea tēnei? www.journal.mai.ac.nz/system/files...

www.journal.mai.ac.nz

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 15d

I really like our paper published today. It is written directly for Māori and Pacific prospective and current PhD students in STEM www.journal.mai.ac.nz/10.20507/MAI...

www.journal.mai.ac.nz

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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 23d

Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies?

Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!

Check our new preprint:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

squidSim: a flexible R package for structured and reproducible simulations in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

ecoevorxiv.org

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Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 24d

Are you looking for a lectureship in biochemistry, molecular genetics, or bioinformatics? Come and enjoy the greatest place for kayak fishing and a fun research+teaching career.

*there are other fun things to do here too.

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Peter Dearden @peterkdearden.bsky.social · 24d

My Department has a permanent, full-time, resarch and teaching job for someone awesome. details here.... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Genetics Society of AustralAsia @geneticsaus.bsky.social · 24d

GSA is now on linked in!

Follow us at:

www.linkedin.com/company/gene...

Genetics Society of AustralAsia | LinkedIn

Genetics Society of AustralAsia | Building a community for genetics research across AustralAsia | The Genetics Society of AustralAsia (GSA) is the professional organization for scientific researchers ...

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Anna Santure @annasanture.bsky.social · 24d

And very importantly - don't forget to vote Hihi for Bird of the Year! www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

Bird of the Year ‹ Forest & Bird

Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year recognises our unique birds and with each vote you give them a voice.

www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

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Anna Santure @annasanture.bsky.social · 24d

Fabulous presentation to Forest & Bird Youth Auckland by @huizhentan.bsky.social on conservation management and genetic research for hihi, a taonga (precious) threatened bird species in Aotearoa New Zealand. VIP treatment for a very special bird!

PhD student Hui Zhen presents a slide titled 'A day in the life of a VIP hihi', with images highlighting the conservation management of this precious endangered bird species

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 26d

Amazing turn out for Palestine today in Tāmaki

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Genetics Society of AustralAsia @geneticsaus.bsky.social · Sep 8

🧬 Upcoming Asia-Pacific Genetics Seminar:
📅 30th September

Join us for the "Epigenetics in Evolution and Ecology" symposium, featuring three outstanding early career researchers who will share their latest discoveries.

👉 Register now using the poster below!

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Maren Wellenreuther @marenwellenreuther.bsky.social · Sep 5

Size matters—but maybe not how we thought. Most chromosomal inversions are just a few hundred bp. Ignoring these “small players” could mean we’ve misunderstood how genomes evolve -out in TREE authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljL1cZ3X3...

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