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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓

I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.

👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏

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Germán Hernández-Alonso @germanha.bsky.social · Aug 28

New rock dove paper!🕊️
Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species
*please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase
@trstngnthr.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Gone With the Wind: Exploring a Vanished Rock Dove, Columba Livia, Hybrid Zone in the Sahara Desert

In this study, we tested the hypothesis of the existence of a hybrid zone between two differentiated rock dove lineages, which may contribute significantly to their divergence. By analyzing newly gen...

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Laurits Skov @lauritsskov.bsky.social · Aug 28

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes?
Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :)

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Please reach out if you have any questions!

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Hernán E. Morales @hernmoral.bsky.social · Aug 28

Expertly led by @claudiafontsere.bsky.social now published in Molecular Ecology! 🥳
Learn why from a genetic perspective whooping cranes should remain protected due to loss of genetic diversity and accumulation of inbreeding and load
#popgen #consgen
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Clàudia Fontserè @claudiafontsere.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is now published at #MolecularEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check it out!

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Clàudia Fontserè @claudiafontsere.bsky.social · Aug 18

Navigating #motherhood and academia:
Attending our 1st conference #ESEB2025 as a family with our 10mo baby.
I am disappointed with the organization for not providing childcare for <3yo babies.
Academia should do better for the ✨inclusivity✨ of (lactant) mothers.
See you in P03.148 on thursday!

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

📌 Museomics symposium
Claudia Fontsere — Poster P03.148 (Thu)
From almost extinct to rescued? Temporal dynamics of genomic erosion after demographic recovery

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

📌 Museomics symposium
Claudia Fontsere — Poster P03.148 (Thu)
From almost extinct to rescued? Temporal dynamics of genomic erosion after demographic recovery

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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · May 14

⚠️There's two days left to submit abstracts for this years #ICAZ-AGPM meeting. We're looking forward to welcoming you here in Copenhagen in October! @icaz-news.bsky.social.

Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · Apr 30

The extended deadline for abstract submission for the next #ICAZ working group meeting on #Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics and Morphometrics (AGPM) is Friday, 16th of May.

You have just over two weeks!

sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

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Clàudia Fontserè @claudiafontsere.bsky.social · May 1

I'll be teaching in the SIBE Summer School in Ferrara, from the 7th to 11th of September.
Great place to learn about PopGen, comparative genomics and ✨Conservation Genomics✨
🚨Deadline to apply: 11th of May🚨
sites.google.com/view/sibesum...

See you there!

SIBE summer school

SIBE SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 7th − 11th September 2025 FERRARA (ITALY) Overview The analysis of genomic data has become increasingly feasible, even in non-model organisms, thanks to the “omics” revolution...

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Clàudia Fontserè @claudiafontsere.bsky.social · Apr 30

First day at the office after maternity leave...

a baby is being held by a woman with a pink ribbon on it

ALT: a baby is being held by a woman with a pink ribbon on it

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Juan Antonio Rodríguez @jrotwitguez.bsky.social · Apr 24

🧀 New preprint drop: adventures in the cheese microbiome! 📝

We tracked microbiome dynamics across 14 production steps of industrial Herrgårds cheese (Swedish classic 🇸🇪🧐).
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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The effect of different milk pretreatment methods on microbiome community development during Herrgårds cheese production and ripening.

One of the biggest challenges for dairy producers is the substantial variability in final product properties caused by changes in the production environment. In cheese production, this variation is in...

www.biorxiv.org

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Clàudia Fontserè @claudiafontsere.bsky.social · Apr 10

Check out the paper 👇🏻

So grateful and proud to be part of this group effort.

Hernán E. Morales @hernmoral.bsky.social · Apr 10

🚨 New preprint!
We analyzed 39 bird genomes—including 3 Mauritian species that bounced back from the brink of extinction—to explore genomic erosion in a comparative framework.
🧬🦜🧩
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#consgen #popgen
@claudiafontsere.bsky.social

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Hernán E. Morales @hernmoral.bsky.social · Apr 10

🚨 New preprint!
We analyzed 39 bird genomes—including 3 Mauritian species that bounced back from the brink of extinction—to explore genomic erosion in a comparative framework.
🧬🦜🧩
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#consgen #popgen
@claudiafontsere.bsky.social

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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · Apr 1

Milers d’investigadors veuen coartada la seva llibertat acadèmica i fins i tot la seva integritat física arreu del planeta. Que farà el Govern?

Seria d’agraïr que la política de #recerca del país no estigués basada en mesures efectistes (i cíniques si em permeteu).

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President Illa: "Oferirem més de 70 places a investigadors d'excel·lència que puguin veure coartada la seva llibertat acadèmica als Estats Units"

govern.cat

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Clàudia Fontserè @claudiafontsere.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚨Paper alert🚨
Birds, conservation and genomics, you shouldn't miss it 😉

Hernán E. Morales @hernmoral.bsky.social · Mar 27

🧬🌍 Happy to see our latest paper out at @royalsocietypublishing.org
We show how genetic risks in endangered species can stay hidden due to a time-lag between demographic collapse and genetic loss. Work led by amazing MSc students Xufen Liu and Ester Milesi #ConservationGenomics
Pic by David Stowe

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Hernán E. Morales @hernmoral.bsky.social · Mar 18

Join us for a week of working with genomics data derived from natural history collection, aka #museomics

Physalia-courses@Online @physaliacourses.bsky.social · Mar 13

🧬Interested in #Museomics?
Join us to learn how to generate & analyse genomic data from natural history collections with hands-on bioinformatics workflows @hernmoral.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @hologenomics.bsky.social

👉 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Museomics: An Introduction to Genomic Analyses of Natural History Collections

3-7 November To foster international participation, this course will be held online

www.physalia-courses.org

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Physalia-courses@Online @physaliacourses.bsky.social · Mar 13

🧬Interested in #Museomics?
Join us to learn how to generate & analyse genomic data from natural history collections with hands-on bioinformatics workflows @hernmoral.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @hologenomics.bsky.social

👉 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Museomics: An Introduction to Genomic Analyses of Natural History Collections

3-7 November To foster international participation, this course will be held online

www.physalia-courses.org

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Clàudia Fontserè @claudiafontsere.bsky.social · Mar 2

I wish this position would have been open 3 years ago! Don’t hesitate and apply 😉

Katerina Guschanski @kguschan.bsky.social · Mar 2

3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals

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Katerina Guschanski @kguschan.bsky.social · Mar 2

3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals

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Juan Antonio Rodríguez @jrotwitguez.bsky.social · Feb 12

New paper out! 📄
My first adventures in (ancient) metagenomics. 🦠

“Exploring DNA degradation in situ and in museum storage through genomics and metagenomics” www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Curious about the water color painting (see ALT text)? 🦌

Thread (Bluetorial?) with findings!
🧶👇 (1/n)

Caption by professor B Gronnow.

Water color by Nuka Konrad Godtfredsen (2021). Copyright: The National Museum of Denmark.

"Hunting a herd of swimming caribou from kayak at the site, Aasivissuit, in the early 18th century West Greenland as interpreted by the Greenlandic artist, Nuka Godtfredsen. Through communal drive hunts the Inuit secured large amounts of caribou meat and fat for consumption as well as hide and antler for raw materials and trade. Large heaps of bones from the butchering of the animals piled up as waste in the midden area of the settlement, Three centuries later archaeologists excavated the bones, which were analyzed, including studies of preservation conditions of ancient DNA contained in the bones and soil."

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Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · Feb 3

With some delay... but some good news.
The final version of our paper Local Genetic Adaptation to Habitat in Wild Chimpanzees is out in Science. Great PanAfrican (PanAf) collaboration led by PhD student (now Dr!) Harrison Ostridge. 🧪#PopGen #evobio www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees

How populations adapt to their environment is a fundamental question in biology. Yet, we know surprisingly little about this process, especially for endangered species, such as nonhuman great apes. Ch...

www.science.org

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Joseph Orkin @knomascus.bsky.social · Jan 14

Neglected primates no more! 162 lemur genomes from 50 species in our latest paper: Ecological and anthropogenic effects on the genomic diversity of lemurs in Madagascar! 1 of 2 lemur evolution papers in Jan25 @natureecoevo.bsky.social

3 big takeaways below! rdcu.be/d4XWV @tmarquesbonet.bsky.social

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Clàudia Fontserè @claudiafontsere.bsky.social · Jan 11

If you want, you can check out the previous chapter we published three years ago: Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history.

Here based on chr21 hybridization capture 🧬 on fecal samples 💩.

www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history

Fontsere et al. captured and sequenced chromosome 21 from 828 non-invasively collected chimpanzee samples, providing an extensive catalog of genomic diversity for wild chimpanzee populations. The authors describe patterns of isolation and connectivity between localities and implement a fine-grained geolocalization approach to infer the origin of confiscated chimpanzees.

www.cell.com

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Clàudia Fontserè @claudiafontsere.bsky.social · Jan 11

Another great paper from the PanAf family, focusing on local adaptaion in chimpanzee populations: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fecal samples 💩 and target capture 🧬 (exome) going to another level. So proud to have been part of it, amazing work led by Harrison Ostridge and @aidaandres.bsky.social

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