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Elin Videvall

@elinvidevall.bsky.social

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My lab studies wild animal microbiomes at Uppsala University, Sweden. Previously been at Brown University & Smithsonian. Molecular Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Genomics, Hologenomics, Conservation Biology. she/her. https://www.videvall.com/

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hi all,
I am back again on blue sky after some time of dwindling Twitter engagement.

My group studies #microbiomes of wild animals, we have exciting projects in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians.

We are based at Uppsala University, Sweden. @animecol-uu.bsky.social

www.videvall.com

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 3d

Last week, we at @animecol-uu.bsky.social had the pleasure to host Chima Nwaogu från the University of Cape Town.

Chima gave the #Hemborg lecture, titled 'Why do Afrotropical birds breed when they do?' 🐦🪺

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 23d

New manuscript out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social, led by my grad student Anais. We collated data from thousands of recent animal pop-gen studies to test 3 simple hypotheses: does genomic (1) diversity decrease (yes), (2) differentiation increase (yes), both with increased IUCN-endangerment?

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 23d

Bioinformaticians / computational biologists take note - know where you should take your OS tool chain from and do not introduce backdoors.

James Bonfield @jbonfield.bsky.social · 23d

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.

Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 23d

Today in the AI hellscape we are building for ourselves, people are easily creating "official looking" websites of popular bioinformatics software that are not at all linked to the developers.

Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 29d

minimap2.com is potentially a phishing site. Please don't use anything from that website.
github.com/lh3/minimap2...

Phishing site : minimap2.com · Issue #1316 · lh3/minimap2

Not sure how to label this one, but I have come across a website minimap2.com which appears to be AI generated but is serving it's own copy of the Github repository. If you search the address or em...

github.com

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 27d

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks for sharing your experience, Laura! We've done (with collaborators) individual mosquito transcriptomes, that worked well, and 16S on individuals, with only some giving enough reads, similar to your experience. So might be difficult, not sure!

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · Sep 2

Interested in evolutionary ecology and genetics? Check out this PhD position in Pau Carazo's lab in Valencia - we look forward to your application!

Pau Carazo @paucarazo.bsky.social · Sep 1

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks! Going to tag @hassansalem.bsky.social here as well. Although I'm not thinking of beetles, more mosquito-like, maybe he has some thoughts?

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Sep 1

Anyone with experience doing #metagenomics #microbiome of small insects, e.g. mosquitoes? 🦟🦠

Trying to figure out feasibility of doing individual metagenomes vs pools of individuals. I see both approaches are still used in the literature. My concern would be getting enough DNA from individuals.

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks for sharing! Would have liked to see your talk! The microbial #pangenomes session was my favorite besides the #microbiome one.

Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thanks #ESEB2025 for a great conference!

Our group had a lot of fun meeting people, learning new things, and talking about our research!

@madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social
@estermart.bsky.social
@cenkvist.bsky.social
@matiasbeck.bsky.social

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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · Aug 22

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

Editorial: Accountability, voice, and trust - responsible use of GenAI in scientific publishing

Over the last few years, the development and rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatG

academic.oup.com

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 22

60+ people currently queuing for S24 Forecasting evolution in natural populations at #eseb2025. 👥👥👥😅
We need bigger rooms ! @eseb2025.bsky.social

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 22

Final day at #eseb2025 starts with a great plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social about aposematism. 🦋
@eseb2025.bsky.social

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 20

Great to see Tom Gilbert still holding the #microbiome flag high, focusing mostly on why we need to study wildlife microbiomes more, even in the #museomics session. 🦠

#hologenomics #eseb2025

Fabio Barteri 🇪🇺 @linudz.bsky.social · Aug 20

Finally, the #museomics symposium. #ESEB2025

Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very interesting plenary about deep-time #paleogenomics 🦣 and #aDNA by @lovedalen.bsky.social at #ESEB2025

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Tilly S Scott @tillysscott.bsky.social · Aug 19

#eseb2025 #eseb #sciart

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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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 19

Unfortunate that both ESEB and EOU are running simultaneously!

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm not very good at live posting (I tend to overthink my posts and then lose track of the talks). For #ESEB2025 live posts, I recommend following @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy and @mrtnj.bsky.social, who have been good at it at every conference I've attended with them

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 18

I will present a poster about the lack of diet-microbiome interactions in giraffes. P01.104. #ESEB2025

Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 18

Matias Becker Burgos @matiasbeck.bsky.social presents a poster about genome-microbiome interactions in feral chickens. P01.111. #ESEB2025

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 18

Madeleine Van Well Bergström @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social presents a poster about feralization of the horse gut microbiome. P01.101. #ESEB2025

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 18

Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social presents a poster about gut microbiomes in the Scandinavian wolverine. P01.080. #ESEB2025

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ester Martinez Renau @estermart.bsky.social presents a poster about hybrid flycatcher gut microbiomes. P01.089. #ESEB2025

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 18

We're five people from our group presenting posters tonight at #ESEB2025 ! In the #microbiome adaptation symposium S07.

Come chat with us about our research!

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