The peaceful Kaveri, a day off work, and some crazy wildlife biologists! Such an honour working with all of you Dr. Arjun Srivathsa 🐾 Abhinav Tyagi Divyashree Rana B. V. Aditi Prasad 🌱 B.R. Ansil Vinay Sagar and many others! National Centre for Biological Sciences Jungle Lodges

Very excited to be co-organising a workshop on 'emerging infectious disease:ecology and evolution'. July 1-12, 2024!
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Applications open! register1.icts.res.in/ecoevoeids
with Farah Ishtiaq 🐦(^o^) B.R. Ansil and supported by ICTS.

If you are contemplating a career in the botanical sciences there are two recent published articles that might help you determine your path for academia or the govt/industry/nonprofit space. Links ⬇️ from Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 #botany #botany jobs #academia

3 months jail for not registering a relationship is something that even George Orwell wouldn’t have thought of.

#EMBOpopgen is back for its seventh edition, in person 10-16 June 2024 in Castellammare di Stabia (Naples), Italy!

‼️ Registration deadline 16th Feb 2024 - RT please! ‼️
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Enza Colonna Andrea Manica Leo Speidel Tábita Hünemeier 🏳️‍🌈 Erik Garrison Loïc Lannelongue

#EMBOpopgen

Thousands of elephant seal pups have died from bird flu in Argentina, raising fears that the virus is now being transmitted between mammals. newscientist.com/article/241274…

Out today⚡️
Gibbons have different voices (just like we do) and we can exploit this to count populations more accurately.

We applied this idea to one of the rarest primates on Earth, finding that it's much closer to extinction than we previously thought.
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We keep hearing “barbaric” used in Western media to dehumanise Palestinians.

So let’s take a look at Western Barbarism shall we?

Gather round children it’s history time. 🧵

Scientists are detectives, but what if you get to solve a start-to-finish mystery, start in your PhD? Vinay Sagar defended his thesis and solved a mystery, what makes black tigers black..watch as he continues his quest to understand evolution and other pop gen mysteries....

This video from Iran moved me to tears. Staff members of the Iranian Cheetah Society | انجمن یوزپلنگ ایرانی looking at trapcamera footage of Asiatic cheetah mother Khorshid (Sun) and her three cubs. The Asiatic #cheetah is on the brink of extinction and ICS estimates there are still only 30 individuals left.

I just found out (through a desk-reject) that Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution no longer considers most papers based on Sanger sequences (only genomic datasets). It is quite ironic that countries that hold most of the biodiversity will be unable to publish in this journal...

Lions getting the king of the jungle title has to be the craziest PR in history

Many congratulations B.R. Ansil 🎉

Our work on phylogeography of Indrella ampulla is out in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. The work, carriedd out at ATREE is a result of years of effort from Sudeshna Chakraborty, Surya Narayanan Chinta Sidharthan, Aravind Madhyastha, I and other members of the team.
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1/6 #BOUsci23 #BREAK5
The fine-scale migration patterns of Common Crane wintering in India is not well studied. We aimed to identify migratory patterns, migratory timings and major stop-over areas for the species along the Central Asian Flyway. Wildlife Institute of India Suresh Kumar

We are looking for a research technician to help us with various conservation genomics projects. Please spread the word!
Apply if you love labwork, want to contribute to conservation, and work in a dynamic and exciting environment National Centre for Biological Sciences
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Total blast being at Student Conference on Conservation Science-BNG ! Lucky to share this experience with many inspiring early career researchers whom I work with National Centre for Biological Sciences

So excited to have designed these t-shirts for Prachi Mehta @wildwise for Student Conference on Conservation Science-BNG. Be sure to check them out if you're around!

#Tigers #owls #wildlife #conservation

Range Officer, Sishir Behera, had a pleasant sighting of T17 while Patrolling in Similipal Tiger Reserve. T17, tigress had littered 4 cubs and successfully raised them.
MoEF&CC National Tiger Conservation Authority PCCF & HoFF Odisha PCCF WL & CWLW, Odisha Odisha Forest, Env. and Climate Change Department Ramesh Pandey SP Yadav