Dan Bolnick finishing his talk on Non-parallel evolution in the Zoologiska seminar talk.

For this frog, neutral and selective forces influenced genetic variation. Learn about a contact zone between lineages, and how neutral and putatively adaptive markers tell contrasting stories: buff.ly/338YS23 @RodinMorch Emilien Luquet Alex Richter-Boix @JacobHglund1

We are currently looking for a post doc interested in the evolution of phenotypic plasticity and niche width. Know anyone interested in evolutionary ecology and good at handling genome data? Tell them to join us Animal Ecology Uppsala in Uppsala! Deadline Nov 8th. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Just heard the awful news that the godfather of conservation, and the cofounder and first President of SCB, Michael Soulé, has passed. Grateful for his vision and leadership for #science and #conservation. Our planet’s wildlife and wildlands owe him a great debt.

We mourn with you the loss of a legend, the “father of conservation biology”, SCB cofounder Michael Soulé, 84. Conservation biology is taught globally bc of him. We express our gratitude. In '85 he defined a "new synthetic discipline" to save species bit.ly/3fznuHl

This threatened sexually dimorphic legged lizard lives mostly in East EU, protecting itself by popping off their tails + biting predators! Day 47 #VGPgenomestats Collab w/Mette Lillie, Mats Olsson, Neil Gemmell, U of Gothenburg Data/Assembly/Curation VGP bit.ly/3461II1

Nice numbers at the #UppTransposon2021! Thanks to the organizers Alexander Suh 서상재 Claudia Kutter and Patric Jern! 👏🏼

Thanks so much to keynote speakers @WelkinJ Kathleen Helen Burns, 13+39 regular/lightning talk presenters, and all participants for exciting discussions at #UppTransposon2021! Thrilled to see so many early-career researchers presenting - what a bright future for the #transposon field!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on sand lizards immunogenetics and conservation genomics. uu.se/en/about-uu/jo… Please share!

Wow, what an #ESHG2022 talk! #CRISPR-Cas9 causes off target structural variants in zebrafish NOT detected by short-read sequencing and ARE passed on to offspring. Huge implications to studies and any possible future therapeutic editing Paper is here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very excited to share that our paper on koala ERVs is out today in PNAS pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Please save the date! The 6th Uppsala Transposon Symposium "– integrating transposon and virus identification into evolution and disease research" will be on October 26-28 in Uppsala! transposonsymposium.wordpress.com/2022/07/05/sav… #transposon Registration (free of charge) will open in mid-August.

Present your long-read sequencing related work at #LRUA2022 in Uppsala (Oct 31st - Nov 2nd) and take part of a few exciting days of long-read fun! Abstract deadline: Sept 1st Submission and registration: lrua2022.se NGI Sweden SciLifeLab

Please RT! FREE registration is open for the 6th Uppsala Transposon Symposium on October 26-28, 2022! This year, we have an in-person symposium w/ abstract submission + livestream w/ virtual questions + interactive workshop. #transposon #UppTransposon2022 transposonsymposium.wordpress.com/6th-uppsala-tr…

Please RT! One week until abstract submission deadline. Join us in person for a fantastic #transposon event. Developers from RepeatModeler/Masker, Repbase, dfam, REPET, dnaPipeTE, TEhub, RepeatExplorer will all be in Uppsala for #UppTransposon2022 + interactive workshop + demos.

The Stelkens Lab is looking for a #postdoc in #yeast evolution and genomics! Start date asap. 2-year period with possible extension. Project is flexible but should involve experimental evolution, #Saccharomyces, and fundamental questions in evolutionary biology. Come join us!

Hill et al. observe considerable species-specific endogenous retrovirus variation among Darwin’s finches, reflecting historic retrovirus-host interactions. Mette Lillie nature.com/articles/s4146…

WOOHOO!! *starts frantically downloading bams*

I've spent a long time resisting the idea of a central role for TEs to the evolution of complexity. Sure, they've contributed to some important innovations, like adaptive immunity, placental development, light responsiveness in plants and a whole bunch of transcription factors.