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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · Sep 6

After a long and frustrating discussion with the Cell Press ”help”-desk, led by Ben and Tom, the paper is finally made open access (in line with what we had requested and expected from the beginning) 😅

Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Sep 2

The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth!

New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!

Paper:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Sep 1

New paper led by @yadirapga.bsky.social!

Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations

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Low mutation rate but high male-bias in the germline of a short-lived opossum

Abstract. Age and sex have been found to be important determinants of the mutation rate per generation in mammals, but the mechanisms underlying these fact

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Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte.bsky.social · Sep 2

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5

su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.

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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!

Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨JOB ALERT!🚨

Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!

Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬

Apply here:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · Aug 22

www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Inbreeding reduces fitness in spatially structured populations of a threatened rattlesnake | PNAS

Small and fragmented populations are at high risk of local extinction, in part because of elevated inbreeding and subsequent inbreeding depression....

www.pnas.org

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · Aug 12

Conservation Genomics course (ConGen) this December in South Africa

This course is always a lot of fun, and will be great for grad students, postdocs, or anyone else wanting to dive into applications of genomics for conservation and management of wild populations. www.umt.edu/congen/africa/

ConGen: Population Genomic Data Analysis Course/Workshop, South Africa 2025

www.umt.edu

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · Jun 25

A great way to destroy biodiversity is to be consciously ignorant of it

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · Jun 12

I’m pretty amazed that any real scientists are still willing to be involved with Colossal.

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Matthew Kauffman @wyokauffman.bsky.social · Jun 12

Wyoming deer are heading to the high country, some will travel up to 150 miles. Amazing - and necessary - movements across vast swaths of YOUR public lands. Follow along for weekly updates!

Wyoming Migration Initiative @wyo-migrations.bsky.social · Jun 11

Migration tracking week 2 🦌 #Deer665 trekked 40 miles north to a new stopover in her second week of migration. So far she’s migrated 92 miles in 15 days after leaving her Red Desert winter range — while pregnant with twins!
#deer #Wyoming #wildlife #nature

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is admirable

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies

www.nytimes.com

Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · Jun 4

Agents that make frequent massive mistakes I suspect

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · May 28

We really did live through a world-historical scientific and technical effort to contain a pandemic, decide that we don't ever want to do that again, and conclude that means tearing down everything and everyone involved in containing a pandemic

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · May 28

Source:

HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics

HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.

www.statnews.com

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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · May 28

Save the date, follow ICP2026, update your ABBA playlist, and come join us in Stockholm next year!

This is going to be fun!

ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · May 27

The FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026!

Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠

Save the dates ✅

Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · May 28

The end result is hollowed out institutions with no credibility

Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · May 28

‘doing it for the sake of the institution’ and “my boss told me to” are pathetic excuses.

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · May 28

We watched in horror as the acting administrator of NOAA fired hundreds of workers for cause when she must’ve known there was no cause. Officials at NOAA broke legally binding bargaining agreements with unions knowing that this was unethical at best.

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · May 28

Unethical and illegal orders that come from a legitimate leader are still unethical and illegal. Many high ranking federal officials seem to not recognize this.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · May 28

….whatthefuck.

RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals

The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

www.politico.com

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · May 28

Geniuses at work

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · May 26

If you are privileged enough to be a tenured Prof at a US university, here is an opportunity to lend your voice to media. Sign up if you are willing to talk to the press about what the war on science means for education and for our society.

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 26

💥👊BOOM! We did it!👊💥

Ok, keep signing, everyone!

Next steps, if you're a scientist willing to talk with the press go sign up here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · May 24

I want to eat there

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · May 23

This will benefit the fossil fuel industry and hurt biodiversity and public health.

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · May 23

EO directs federal scientists to account for uncertainty, be transparent about methods and data, use weight of evidence in interpreting results… like this isn’t already done in every agency.

The only thing new is an order to essentially abandon the precautionary principle in rule making.
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