The published version of the paper that goes along with Rob's awesome tutorial is now out: doi.org/10.1093/molbev… "The meaning and measure of concordance factors in phylogenomics"

For road safety, the solution will always be political will to make real change. Everything else is a distraction. — Tom Flood

European butterflies have been studied intensely by scientists and naturalists for centuries. It is therefore with some surprise that we wish to report the discovery of a European hybrid lineage of butterflies that has persisted for more than 50,000 years. (THREAD)

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What geneticists fear the most: The Cambridge Plot.

Indiscriminate assaults on children, civilians and humanitarian workers in the Gaza Strip continue. It is beyond time to end this war. We need a ceasefire now.

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza is now official policy: No Palestinians will be allowed to live in N. Gaza theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

‼️Job alert ‼️ We have an open position for a bioinformatician to work on songbird genomics until October next year: bit.ly/3YILiAO Please RT! 🐦🐦

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…

📌Just published: "Meta-analysis of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis reveals no support for the effect of vegetation structure on acoustic signalling across terrestrial vertebrates" More details 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

New paper! Exploring the interaction between two convergent lizards who evolved separately on different Caribbean islands and were introduced to south Florida. Read all about how character displacement could play out in real time in the wild! 🦎🦎🦎 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Yesterday came the news about the decision to declare Slender-billed Curlew extinct. It's my ultimate favourite bird, so it is quite tough to face this realization. You can read more about it here: vogelbescherming.nl/.../dbb230d1-5…... Here are some of my illusrtations and paintings.

My PhD chapter on the French hybrid zone of midwife toads has been published ! It focuses on the distribution, hybridization and mating calls 🎵 of our two Alytes species 🐸 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

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Since everyone is talking about healthcare right now, let me tell you this. The US health system is a deadly catastrophe… but it doesn’t have to be this way. It is 100% possible to have world-class public healthcare for all, completely free at the point of use. The data on this

Passionate about studying the genomics of local adaptation? Join us for a fully funded 4-year PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden. Enjoy competitive salaries, full employment benefits, and a vibrant research community surrounded by nature. Apply here bit.ly/4gAsHyn

I don't use this platform much anymore, but I'm happy to share our work on sexual selection and the genomics of speciation in barn swallows. Thanks for reading and sharing, if of interest! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) hunting a Deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) at Montreal botanical garden, 09/12/24.

We've passed 500,000 Taxa! Thanks for helping us record nearly a quarter (23%) of all described species globally! inaturalist.org/blog/103155