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Veronika N. Laine🦇🪲🐠🐦🌈
@veronikanlaine.bsky.social
Curator at the Finnish Museum of Natural History. Molecular biologist. Video games, movies, dancing.
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From the @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Sampling & Sample Processing Committee: recommendations to support both small-scale #biogenome projects & large initiatives onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #European Reference #Genome Atlas (ERGA)
From Permits to Samples: Addressing Key Challenges for High‐Quality Reference Genome Generation in Europe
High-quality reference genome assemblies have become essential for deepening our understanding of biodiversity, yet obtaining them for many species remains surprisingly challenging. Drawing on experi...
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January 25, 2026 at 10:27 AM
So it begins… 🤧🤧🤧
Pähkinäpensas kukkii Lounais-Suomessa ja Uudellamaalla, ja leppä maan länsiosien lämpimillä alueilla. Lepän kukinnan odotetaan alkavan tällä viikolla myös laajemmin maan etelä- ja keskiosissa. Pian ilmassa voi olla myös koivun siitepölyä, sillä koivun kukinta alkaa Keski-Euroopassa lähiaikoina.
March 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Studies of domestic pigeons have taught us lots about cognition, navigation, and genetics. If you’d like to learn why their wild cousins are also worthy of scientific attention, I’ve written a Rock Dove @currentbiology.bsky.social ‘quick guide’: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.065
March 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Weather radars continuously register the movements of billions of animals in the air! We have now published datasets covering large parts of Europe, providing an overview of the aerial habitat in a way no other method can.

Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost:
go.nature.com/3F0wQ0L
European data on animals aloft now publicly available
Weather radars detect more than weather, they also continuously register the movements of billions of animals (birds, bats, insects) in the air. Those data are now publicly available for large parts o...
go.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Kerran vuodessa @nathist.bsky.social näyttelyt korjataan ja siivotaan sekä pölyt imuroidaan tai pyyhitään eläimistä. Ohessa #YLE juttu huoltoviikosta.
yle.fi/a/74-20136793

@helsinkiuni.bsky.social
Seurasimme suljettujen ovien takana, miten Luonnontieteellinen museo siivoaa korvaamatonta kokoelmaansa
Luonnontieteellisen museon huoltoviikolla dinosaurukset pääsevät pesulle kellariin ja täytetyt eläimet imuroidaan. Seurasimme suursiivousta suljettujen ovien takana.
yle.fi
January 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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#Urbanization changes also our boreal landscapes—but how does it affect #bats? 🦇 Thrilled to share part of my PhD research that highlights the importance of old forests for bats and the challenges land-use changes create. Curious? Read it in Landscape Ecology: tinyurl.com/batsinboreal 🦇🌲<3
January 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Year 2024 ended in good news for me, I got a permanent curator position at the Finnish Museum of Natural History!! @nathist.bsky.social 🥳🙌 So happy to continue working here with amazing people and collections.
January 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Throwback Thursday! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
I have been talking about this paper recently for many reasons. If you haven’t seen it, check it out 😊🦇
Whole-genome Analysis Reveals Contrasting Relationships Among Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genomes Between Three Sympatric Bat Species
Abstract. Understanding mechanisms involved in speciation can be challenging, especially when hybridization or introgression blurs species boundaries. In b
academic.oup.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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Kiinnostaako vesilintujen hyvinvointi? Tule meille vesilintuasiantuntijaksi kehittämään vapaaehtoisia syyslevähdysalueita. Lue lisää: www.birdlife.fi/rekry/

Kuvan jouhisorsa ei liity tapaukseen. Kuva: Micha Fager.
December 16, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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One animal unexpectedly predating/eating another animal is one of my favourite genres of papers to read

Here's an otter eating Lesser Horseshoe Bats; www.researchgate.net/publication/...
December 13, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Still time to apply! My lab has a postdoc position open! Helsinki is great and working environment is fantastic! join us!
#colours #polymorphism #behavior #experiments #lepidoptera
predatorpreyinteractions.com/opportunities/
Opportunities
New opportunities Undergraduate opportunities Postdoctoral Research New opportunities Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology on Colour Polymorphism We are seeking a passionate …
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December 7, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Whaaaa!??? Epigenetics keeps surprising!
Scared to share this after 10 freaking years of waiting, but here we go: We found that temperature *perception* can change the biology of the next generations, even when “it’s just in the parents' head”. Read how C. elegans neurons control epigenetic inheritance!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Perception of Temperature Even in the Absence of Actual Change is Sufficient to Drive Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Can processes occurring in one individuals nervous system influence the physiology of the descendants? Here we explored the provocative hypothesis that parents sensation or perception of environmental...
www.biorxiv.org
December 6, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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Want to work in the field with great tits? We have a 3yr technical position available with @babimt.bsky.social :
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Staff Engineer affiliated with the project EvoLight (270892) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: Staff Engineer affiliated with the project EvoLight (270892), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Sunday, January 12, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
December 2, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Luonnontieteellisen museon 100-vuotisjuhlanäyttely on auki vielä tämän kuukauden. Sen jälkeen on luvassa jotain uutta. www.helsinki.fi/fi/luomus/ju...
December 1, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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A permanent molecular ecology lab coordinator position in Helsinki! Come and work with a bunch of groups (including mine) working on various topics in ecology and evolution. English is the working language of the lab. Finland is the happiest country in the world 😀
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Laboratory Coordinator for the Laboratory of Molecular Ecology and Systematics
Laboratory Coordinator for the Laboratory of Molecular Ecology and Systematics
jobs.helsinki.fi
November 28, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Today was a seminar day for all the Biomon-projects. Really interesting projects, different methods, lots of ideas for monitoring. Our DEADMON-project is also coming to an end, sort of. Data analysis will continue and also a deadwood monitoring handbook will also be published next year. 🪵
November 26, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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Katse ihmiseen: miten ornitologit parveutuvat? Ornitologiparvien koko näyttäisi määräytyvän paljolti tarkkailtavan linnun harvinaisuuden ja paikallaan pysyvyyden mukaan. Jo parissa kolmessa päivässä raripaikalle voi lehahtaa satapäinen ornitologiparvi. www.researchgate.net/figure/Birdw...
Birdwatchers gathered to observe rare bird species in Poland. (1)...
Download scientific diagram | Birdwatchers gathered to observe rare bird species in Poland. (1) greater short‐toed lark Calandrella brachydactyla (Hel, N Poland, June 2021), (2) azure tit Cyanistes cy...
www.researchgate.net
November 25, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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The Faculty of Science at Stockholm University is recruiting up to three Assistant Professors in Biodiversity to tackle the critical global issue of biodiversity loss caused by human-driven factors such as climate change, habitat alteration and pollution.

www.su.se/department-o...
Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
www.su.se
November 22, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Lintujen ruokintapaikat vähenevät, mikä saattaa pienentää lehtimetsätiaisten populaatioita. www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/en...
Entistä harvempi ruokkii lintuja – ruokintapaikkojen määrä vähentynyt
Suurimmat syyt ruokinnan vähenemiseen ovat havainnot rotista ja taloyhtiöiden tiukentuneet säännöt.
www.mtvuutiset.fi
November 20, 2024 at 12:27 PM
I hope the sky here will remain blue.
November 19, 2024 at 5:01 PM