🚨 And another paper from the lab! We developed a new R package to plot genome synteny - now published in Bioinformatics Advances and deposited in CRAN academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

2023 - a great year of research! The highlight being a month-long visit to the University of Copenhagen to learn population genetics. Plus the waterbuck genome published with DNA Zoo. 2024 - Final chapter of the PhD and hopefully some publications! 🤞📕 #phdlife

We are looking for a research technician to help @KHajdu32620 improve UK hops School of Biosciences, University of Kent, please RT jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

🚨Weekly reminder that we want to hear what you have to say! Join us for our #BG24 Conference showcasing Biodiversity Genomics around the globe. Darwin Tree of Life @BiodivGenomics Click the link below to submit your abstracts: biodiversitygenomicsconference.org

This week we're testing the new PromethION P2Solo School of Biosciences, University of Kent and launching the new Agricultural Genomics (AG-GEN) group. So far so good! #nanopore

At the Annual Postgraduate Conference University of Kent University of Kent Graduate and Researcher College I was the runner up for Best Research Supervisor Award of the Uni😊 THANKS to my research group Sarah Quigley Carla Canedo Ribeiro Corey Kirkland and Frances Burden for nominating me! 🥹 🥹#EmotionalAndSlightlyEmbarrassed

Nice evening stroll along the River Stour tonight - with the highlight spotting a beaver sitting on the banks of the river!! 🦫

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The North York Moors today - fire after fire as they set grouse moors alight, as if the climate crisis simply doesn’t exist.

New ME Special Issue! 𝘼 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙐𝙥𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨, edited by Hannah Augustijnen, Cristina, Marta Farré, & Kay Lucek. Wiley Ecology & Evolution Read more: buff.ly/4gbNs3u

Happy New Year! Our Twigstats paper is now out! nature.com/articles/s4158…

📢📢📢 New paper alert! Very excited to finally see this work online at nature. It all started with screening 80,271 records, to get data to measure temporal genetic diversity change, and here we are: Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss

So happy to share that I passed my PhD viva on Friday!! 🤓📖 A huge thank you to my supervisor Marta Farré for all her support and to the examiners Jim Groombridge and Raquel Chaves for a great discussion.

[New Paper] is on the COVER of Science Magazine !! The FIRST genome-phylogeny of MOLLUSCS complete with ALL classes —including the mythical "living fossil" Monoplacophora— reveals how they evolved the most diverse body forms of all animals! Read for FREE: doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

New preprint out from my PhD on waterbuck evolutionary genomics! Chromosome-level genome assembly, historical DNA, and chromosome rearrangements 👇

New paper from the lab in Animal Genetics! We developed a new method to detect chromosome rearrangements (in this case reciprocal translocations) in pigs using Hi-C. Great job by Frances Burden , in collaboration with PIC. #chromosomerearrangements onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ag…

New individual spotted. Nine different pet cats use our garden as their personal hunting ground—on a daily basis. No other pet is given the same freedom to trespass on others’ property without question. This has to change: 📣📣📣pet cats should not roam outside unsupervised 😾

First complete sequencing of chimpanzee genome finds 12.5% difference with human genome (for non-sex chromosomes) nature.com/articles/s4158… [🧵1/3]

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 🪶 Evolutionarily distinct lineages of a migratory bird of prey show divergent responses to climate change 🪶 👉 rdcu.be/ehvAA #LesserKestrel #ornithology #ClimateChange #Conservation 🧵👇 1/6

📢 It’s time to harmonise practices for assessing genome-wide genetic diversity 🧬 Standardisation is key to meet the needs of stakeholders in biodiversity #conservation. 🔗 New publication by #ERGA & Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) out now in molecol onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me… #Genomics