Andrea Manica
@DrManica
Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Cambridge
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http://www.eeg.zoo.cam.ac.uk 27-08-2014 04:05:15
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Want to do a PhD? Interested in evolutionary genetics? Come join myself and Andrea Manica in Cambridge UK to study the role of admixture in adaptive evolution of humans. Fully funded by Cambridge Philosophical Society Available to UK and international students. Pls retweet!
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#EMBOpopgen is back for its sixth edition, in person 13 – 19 March 2023 in Procida, Italy!
Registration deadline 3rd Jan 2023 - RT please!
Enza Colonna Andrea Manica Flora Jay Kelley Harris AnnaSapfo Malaspinas Benjamin Peter Leo Speidel Lucy van Dorp
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4/4 Establishing drivers of #movement is crucial for understanding age-related survival rates, & for marine predators 🌊, the link between #fisheries overlap and incidental mortality ( #bycatch ), which is driving↘️in many taxa (eg the white-chinned petrel onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…)
1/4 Our #newpaper shows how young albatrosses 🪶respond to new environments as they disperse from their natal colonies🥚(spoiler: winds 🌬️ + food 🐟are important drivers of movement) Nordic Society Oikos Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge Tommy Clay Andrea Manica British Antarctic Survey 🐧 Government SGSSI
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so exciting to meet the participants of the #EMBOpopgen course starting today - always a great bunch! EMBO Events Enza Colonna Andrea Manica Gianluca Damaggio Anahit Hovhannisyan
Thrilled to receive the MarieSkłodowskaCurie Fellowship to study demographic history, selection and origins of the deleterious variants in Armenia. Thank you Dan Bradley and Andrea Manica!😊
Our paper presenting a spatiotemporally explicit framework for the Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa is now out in Scientific Reports Scientific Reports! by Matt Grove, Andrea Manica, Stephen Rucina and Jimbob Blinkhorn
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Deadline for registration approaching for this course - get your applications in by 31/01/2022! Spread the word! EMBO Events Enza Colonna Andrea Manica #EMBOpopgen
Spread the word, the 5th edition of the EMBO population genomics course is back virtually in 2022! More information and registration details at meetings.embo.org/event/22-pop-g… #EMBOpopgen Anders Albrechtsen Benjamin Peter Dan Schrider Kirstie Whitaker Leo Speidel Nina Jablonski Enza Colonna Andrea Manica
Out today our paper on how climate affected body and brain size evolution in Homo over the last million years nature.com/articles/s4146… Manuel Will Mario Krapp Jay T. Stock
Let's act on this #ecology falks, should be easy!
🔹1/4 of articles (at best) in ecology publish their analytical #code
🔹1/5 (at best) is #reproducible (data+code there) estimated by Simon Evans Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar, vanBerg, me PLOS Biology
More @ dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… ⬇️ 1/7
My new paper with Peter Shaw and Volker Behrends shows that 9% of first-year Life Sciences students do not believe in #evolution by natural selection. 16% don't believe in #humanevolution ! Why? And what can we do about it? link.springer.com/article/10.100…