Very proud of my team, having taught a successful course on biodiversity genomics with k_nasvall and nicol rueda at Ikiam in Ecuador with participants from 5 Neotropical countries. All course materials are free to use here: github.com/rapidspeciatio…

Less than 4 weeks to BGA24 we have 38 sessions, including Collaborative Annotation with Apollo3 (Matthew Berriman), Assembling VGP genomes in Galaxy (Delphine Larivière) and the Colora Assembly Pipeline (Lia Obinu) Sign up here: thebgacademy.fillout.com/attendee_form

“I don't want to use the word doom, but I think there’s a very good chance that snow crabs are not going to recover to the levels that we’ve seen historically.” bit.ly/4cX8ZKG

Call for papers 📢 Special Issue on the genomic assessment of adaptive potential in populations facing environmental challenges. How can genomics inform effective management/conservation and predict responses to environmental change? Deadline April 1st! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

Come work with us at Duke Biology ! Openings for ***Three*** Assistant Professors in Ecology, Evolution or Organismal Biology... biology.duke.edu/about-us/jobs

Very useful collection of genomics tutorials by European Reference Genome Atlas knowledge.erga-biodiversity.eu

JOB ALERT! I have a project listed in the prestigious Wellcome Sanger Institute Janet Thornton Fellowship. 3-year postdoc role targeted at people who have had a 12-month or more break in research and keen to get back in. See here: sanger.ac.uk/about/equality… and get in touch if interested.

NEW: Dairy worker in California tests positive for H5N1 bird flu bnonews.com/index.php/2024…

Job alert! 🚨 We're hiring a tenure track ecologist at Mount Royal University (in Calgary, Canada)! Come work with me (and all the other people here who I think are great)! mtroyalca.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting…

Accurate genome assemblies are key for research. DeepPolisher uses Pacbio HiFi alignments to improve base-level accuracy, cutting errors by half and reducing indel errors by over 70%. ✍🏼Mira Mastoras Kishwar @BenedictPaten Mobin Asri Here's how... biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#Curator Job! Department of Integrative Biology at MSU and the Michigan State University Museum are conducting a search for an Assistant/Associate Professor(s) and Curator of Vertebrate Collections. The advertisement can be viewed here: careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5209…

Please, Scientific Reports do not claim that this paper was ever per reviewed. I think it is cryptic message (presented as XRD patterns) or simple trolling of research world. 😂 Top 100 joke by Scientific Reports for 2024. pubpeer.com/publications/6…

Come check out the excellent talks we have lined up from AGC members Miki Davidson Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social, Ying Chen Ying Chen,and Hayley Beth Free Hayley Beth Free today at #BG24.

Exciting news for the AGC—our first paper is now published in BMC Genomics! Check it out here: link.springer.com/article/10.118…

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/art…

Postdoctoral position available on population and landscape genomics to inform host-pathogen co-evolution and conservation of wild 🦌and CWD as part of highly integrative, fun team!: drive.google.com/file/d/1qAygDq…. Please RT! SSE Molecular Ecology Kezia Manlove CSU Department of Biology