Muckross lake in Killarney National Park is the deepest lake in Ireland, reaching 75 metres. Beautiful scenery and sights. Not so fan of the sudden (crazy) wind appearing after midnight leaving us with zero sleep lol.

Prepping for fieldwork and eating crumpets, how is life so good sometimes

Three days sampling cambium from larch trees. 370 samples from different provenances. Here how we did it: silica gel in a falcon tube and a tea bag inside the tube. Samples were drying until we got to the lab and took the sgel out and put the tube in the -20c. #forest #genetics

Scoring #Ash #Dieback #disease tolerance in our gene-bank. Observations show a range of resilience: some trees stay healthy; others show dieback symptoms. Notable drought and heat stress in some 🌳. Ongoing research is key to finding tolerant ash 🌳 genotypes. Teagasc Forestry 🌳🌲🌳🌲

Alex Doherty #Sunday #solo, soon new album launch! #music #guitarsolo Alex Doherty youtube.com/shorts/xYh6pyM…

Great beach bag today, nice memories from a wonderful conference and trip #canada #forestgenetics2023

Another one! youtube.com/shorts/g2qxobw…

Sometimes it feels pure luck. I'm trying to install a software, it crashes, shows incompatibility with other packages, not the correct version of python, I give up.... Then I try again, and there it is, Pixy is ready to analyse my vcf, I wanna know the pi and dxy , thank you!

A story in four parts. Mine costs $25 in parts. Tops.

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#AcademicChatter #AcademicX

Graduation done. Sharing this special weekend with family and friends was wonderful. I'm very lucky to have you, your support is invaluable. I will miss you Oxford.

Applications now open for our Post-doctoral Research Fellowship Open Day on 11 February 2025. We welcome approaches from candidates who are thinking of applying for externally funded Post-Doctoral Fellowships. Application deadline: 2 December 2024. 👉tinyurl.com/548tcacc

Our new paper is available at in silico Plants ModelBark: a toy model to study bark formation in woody species academic.oup.com/insilicoplants…

As this trip of 3.5 years is coming to and end and I will (hopefully) submit my dissertation soon, lately I have been drawing leaves and trees for the cover of the dissertation 🌳🍃

Didn't have many time before, but here is the link to our paper in at the #JournalofBiologicalEducation Taylor & Francis Research Insights , funded by #pie24UPM Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ETSI Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Pipelines with easy conda setup have been tested and are ready to try out, now with customisable input parameters. They are a simple alternative to bash loops or other means to run paired reads through routine bioinformatics tasks. Feedback welcome! github.com/Tom-Jenkins/ne…

We know that forest diversity influences the trait variation within tree species, so we decided to tell more about these exciting results during the #iDivConference2024 iDiv Biodiversity Research

We're recruiting for an exciting new #PhD project in #mountain #woodland restoration! "The genetic diversity & adaptive potential of mountain birch in Scotland for high-altitude nature recovery" hosted by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, University of Stirling & Forest Research Apply here: iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/t…

Leaving for good. I'll be in @lguillardin.bsky.social and Laura Guillardín, PhD@ecoevo.social