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January 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
akfraik.bsky.social
Job alert:
NOAA NWFSC & UW are looking for a postdoc (ASAP) in Seattle study foraging ecology of Cook Inlet beluga whales using eDNA. Genetics/ecology/eDNA experience preferred. Interested candidates reach out to [email protected] or [email protected] directly. #eDNA #ConsGen
January 14, 2026 at 6:43 PM
stephenturner.us
Turning IUCN's Synthetic Biology Policy Into Action conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #consgen 🧵 1/
January 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
stephenturner.us
The Importance of Indigenous Voices in Conservation Genomics doi.org/10.59350/axq... #consgen
The Importance of Indigenous Voices in Conservation Genomics
Reply to ‘Genome engineering for conservation might be a game changer but only with the incorporation of Indigenous voices’ in Nature Reviews Biodiversity
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January 12, 2026 at 11:07 AM
stephenturner.us
In the orig paper we made substantial efforts to cite relevant literature to this effect. Today we published a reply to Wilcox et al. expanding on how ethical and governance considerations were intended in our discussion. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #consgen 4/4
January 12, 2026 at 10:24 AM
stephenturner.us
A few months ago I published a review on genome engineering for biodiversity conservation with my colleagues at U East Anglia, Globe institute at the U Copenhagen, Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, U Kent, and Colossal 1/ 🧵 #consgen 🧬🖥️🧪
stephenturner.us Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Jul 18
I'm thrilled to share a new Perspective paper we published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com today:

Genome engineering in biodiversity conservation and restoration: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

You can read the paper free here: rdcu.be/ewG5R

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January 12, 2026 at 10:24 AM
annabruniche.bsky.social
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🧬 We use whole-genome data to investigate patterns of admixture, genetic diversity, and inbreeding in zoo giraffes, informed by reference data from wild populations—and show why genomics matters for better ex situ conservation decisions.
#consgen #pogpen #zoo #giraffe #genomics
Client Challenge
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January 12, 2026 at 9:43 AM
colingarroway.bsky.social
Interested in genetic diversity-area relationships as a potential proxy for genetic diversity? Check out Chloé Schmidt's latest 😀
@chloology.bsky.social 🧪🌎🧬🌐
#consgen #popgen #evobio
with Sean Hoban, @debbiemleigh.bsky.social, & Walter Jetz
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
akfraik.bsky.social
Work by Bell, Kovach, Whiteley and colleagues demonstrates that even inbred trout source populations can be used for genetic rescue. Great news for folks considering translocation efforts, but are faced with the challenge of identifying suitable (genetically diverse) donor populations #ConsGen
Inbred source populations result in genetic rescue of imperiled trout populations
Genetic rescue—assisted translocation to reduce inbreeding and increase population viability—is a promising conservation strategy for mitigating the e…
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January 9, 2026 at 1:28 PM
nicolasdussex.bsky.social
one more week to apply for a 4-years PhD position with me to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming.
Deadline: Jan 18th 2026

#MarineGenomics #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics #consgen #conservationgenetics
nicolasdussex.bsky.social Nicolas Dussex @nicolasdussex.bsky.social · 27d
🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming.

Apply here:

recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

#PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics
January 9, 2026 at 7:18 AM
katefarquharson.bsky.social
#scicomm #conservation #consgen #popgen 🌎🦤
January 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM
sibellevilaca.bsky.social
#popgen #evolbio #genomics #consgen
December 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
drk-lo.bsky.social
I'm excited to share memes that my students made this year in my undergraduate #Evolution class #popgen #consgen #evolbiol . "When a batesian mimicry species comes to the party: hello fellow harmful species" "I found on all-encompassing way to define species"
"When a batesian mimicry species comes to the party: hello fellow harmful species" "I found on all-encompassing way to define species" (with desperation "phylogenic" "phenetic" "ecological" "biological" "genetic"
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
dorotdesigns.bsky.social
This is one of my favourite projects from this year - three infographics for a conservation genetics workshop. Free to use and modify #ConsGen 🧪 #biodiversity
dorotdesigns.bsky.social Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · Jul 8
My most recent design/illustration project is out! 🐡Three infographics for the conservation genetics workshop, aimed at practitioners working in #biodiversity conservation #consgen 🧪
Available in German, French, Italian and English with a CC BY license: free to use, share and modify
Front pages of three infographics: 1: Types of genetic markers: what can they reveal? 2: Concepts of population genetics 3: Conservation genetics in practice: how to plan a project? An infographic in a form of a folded flyer, showing the front and the back page. The front page has a title: "Types of genetic markers: what can they reveal?", as well as bullet points for the main take-home messages, and an illustration of three levels of biodiversity: genes, species and populations. The back page has an info box about open and FAIR data and the footnote with contact details, "how to cite", funding, and institutional logos An infographic in a form of a folded flyer, showing the open inside page with a large table explaining the four essential biodiversity variables: genetic diversity, genetic differentiation, inbreeding, and the effective population size. The German language version is shown. An infographic in a form of a folded flyer, showing the front page. This is the French language version of the infographic titled "Conservation genetics in practice: how to plan a project?" Apart from the bullet points for the main take-home messages there is an illustration of the main steps of the project planning. The visual summary follows a path from 1) define the problem & form the question, 2) identify partners, 3) plan the project, 4) do the work and obtain results, 5) communicate findings, 6) formulate recommendations. There are visual icons for the different partners (land owners/farmers, engineers, foresters, researchers, nature conservationists, planners, government agencies) and an additional path going back from partners (2) to problem/question (1) labeled „co-create”
December 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
sibellevilaca.bsky.social
#popgen #consgen #evolbiol
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
ginamo-consgen.bsky.social
🧬 Today, we ran a webinar addressing questions about monitoring #genetic #biodiversity with genetic indicators.
Thanks @seanmhoban.bsky.social @jgeue.bsky.social @jmergeay.bsky.social @joostraeymaekers.bsky.social for joining the panel!
🍿 The recording will be available in January.

#consgen #KMGBF
Webinar title slide, saying "Webinar December 2025 - Genetic Indicators in Practice" and showing the biodiversa+ and EU logos
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
ginamo-consgen.bsky.social
🧬🧬🧬 In 2026, most countries will need to report genetic diversity indicators to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
🦉🍄🌳 But which species should they focus on?
⬇️⬇️⬇️ We discuss this in our new blog post!

#genetic #biodiversity #monitoring #conservation #consgen #KMGBF
Choosing species for genetic indicator reporting
The genetic indicators included in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework were designed to represent the genetic diversity of species in each country. But which species, exactly? Becaus…
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December 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
annabruniche.bsky.social
Accurate Runs of Homozygosity Estimation From Low Coverage Genome Sequences in Non-Model Species
#popgen #consgen
doi.org/10.1111/1755...
Accurate Runs of Homozygosity Estimation From Low Coverage Genome Sequences in Non‐Model Species
Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are increasingly being analysed using whole genome sequences in non-model species as a measure of inbreeding and to assess demographic history, thus providing useful inform...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
sibellevilaca.bsky.social
#popgen #evolbiol #consgen
silastittes.bsky.social Silas Tittes @silastittes.bsky.social · Dec 3
Popgen folks, Jiseon, Nate, and Andy, along with Yuxin Ning and Franz Baumdicker, just released a really cool new method for simulation based inference (think ABC) using normalizing flows. It seems to work really well! full joint posteriors ftw!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Neural posterior estimation for population genetics
Simulation-based inference methods are increasingly being used in population genetics due to their flexibility and ability to be applied in settings where likelihood-based methods are intractable. Per...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
gsegelbacher.bsky.social
very interesting work on mosses in the arctic and their change in spore dispersal over time - also an important argument why we need long term monitoring programs #eDNA #consgen 🧪🌏🦤
jecologyblog.com/2025/11/18/s...
Striking shifts in the timing of bryophyte spore dispersal: What 35 years of airborne DNA revealed about climate change
Fia Bengtsson, Lund University and Norwegian Institute of Nature Research, discusses her article: Rapid shifts in bryophyte phenology revealed by airborne eDNA Most of us walk past mosses and liver…
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December 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
jmergeay.bsky.social
Ancient dog and wolf genomes were less inbred than present day relatives. And more of this below! #consgen #mammals 🦊
katiabou.bsky.social Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · Dec 1
Our paper in the PNAS Special Feature on 🐕 is out!
We demonstrated the accuracy of imputing ancient canid genomes, looked at inbreeding levels over the past 10,000 years and found genomic regions resistant to ROH which were enriched for immunity and chemosensory genes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Imputation of ancient canid genomes reveals inbreeding history over the past 10,000 years | PNAS
The multi-millennia-long history between dogs and humans has placed them at the forefront of archaeological and genomic research. Despite ongoing e...
www.pnas.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
jmergeay.bsky.social
Inbreeding and the history of it is most reliably assessed from runs of homozygosity. How reliably this works depends on reference genome quality and on resequencing quality and depth. 👇#consgen
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 AM
stephenturner.us
Conservation Genomics—Making a Difference onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #consgen
December 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
sibellevilaca.bsky.social
Folks, I'm looking for funding opportunities to organize a training schoool or workshop in Brazil. Does anyone know of any grants I can ask?

I have asked SMBE in the past, but I can't see open calls from EMBO or UK-Brazil... I would appreciate any suggestions!
#popgen #consgen #evolbiol
November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
sibellevilaca.bsky.social
#popgen #consgen
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM