Maria Madrid (she/her)
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Colombian 🇨🇴 PhD student @ KU Leuven || Bioinformatician || Eco-evolutionary genomics 🪲🦋🕷️ Studying the evolutionary role of chromosomal inversions in beetles 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸
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jay.bsky.team
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
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melbrien.bsky.social
Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Wood tiger moth on leaf. Photo: Juhani Maamela.
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svbelleghem.bsky.social
Fantastic "first" #EvolutionaryGenomics day @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social with talks from Kerstin Johannesson, Felicity Jones, Alexander Suh, @wenjuanma84.bsky.social, @mariamadrid16.bsky.social, and many others 🐌🐦🐟🐞🐚🌱🧬
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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kdarragh.bsky.social
I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
Green butterfly sat on a flower.
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milocco.bsky.social
🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab

🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Please share!
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mariamadrid16.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing your poster Ling! 🫶
mariamadrid16.bsky.social
This is so cool! Thanks a lot for listening to my talk 🥹🫶
I absolutely LOVE these drawings
mariamadrid16.bsky.social
Got the chance to present my research on chromosomal inversions and beetles at ESEB 2025 in Barcelona 🪲🧬 Thanks for everyone who came and asked questions!
Big thanks also to @eseb2025.bsky.social for organizing and for having me. We’re having a wonderful time!
@svbelleghem.bsky.social
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svbelleghem.bsky.social
Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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francescaraffini.bsky.social
🚀 PhD Opportunity 🎓: Why do some species survive #climatechange while others vanish?

Join us in 🧜‍♀️ to 🔍🌊🐌 :
🐚Unravel rapid #evolution & #adaptation, biological invasions & extinction
🐚Integrate #genomics, #conservation, ecology & more
🐚Turn science into conservation action

ℹ️ tinyurl.com/fhzxr7ed
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evoldir.bsky.social
Open PhD position in Population Genomics at University of Zurich. Fully funded, focus on human demographics, genetics, and cultural evolution. Apply by June 30, 2025. More info: https://www.evobio.uzh.ch/en.html #phd
www.evobio.uzh.ch
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vibai.bsky.social
VIB.AI's International PhD call is now open!
https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd

If you're interested in applying AI to biology, take a look at the PhD projects across our labs.

🗓️ Deadline: June 22nd
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dickmerrill.bsky.social
Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!
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biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
Metagenomic, metabolomic and sensorial characteristics of fermented Coffea arabica L. var. Castillo beans inoculated with microbial starter cultures https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.22.634363v1
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luckytran.com
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.

Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.

If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
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evoldir.bsky.social
PhD position in Evolutionary Genomics of Seasonal Camouflage at Stockholm University extended to May 4, 2025. Suitable candidates should apply via: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:805048/where:4/ #phd
PhD Student in Evolution of Seasonal Camouflage
PhD Student in Evolution of Seasonal Camouflage
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tiboleroyinen.bsky.social
A PhD position in plant evolutionary genomics is available at Univ.Vienna 🇦🇹. Focus: genomic drivers underlying the diversification of Tillandsia 😍. Funded by a project between France & Austria (ANR-FWF project RadiaSpe).
Come join the team!
More information: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Univie_R...
thibaultleroyfr.github.io
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megadarren.bsky.social
“De-extinction” is to biodiversity loss what “Mars colonization” is to climate change—wishful thinking that is at its core impossible but nevertheless sucks up attention and resources from actual solutions to these crises (which, ultimately, might be the whole point)
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krynadachowska.bsky.social
Apply now! Wieslaw is the best supervisor and the project is great! If you want to be supervised by a person from whom you can learn a lot, who cares about your scientific development and you want to work in our fantastic team - do not hesitate any longer! Please share!
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drk-lo.bsky.social
This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️
Sex redefined - Nature
The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.
www.nature.com