I'm recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow for a 3-year academic level A appointment ($106K - $113K plus 17% superannuation and annual leave loading) to lead research projects in genomics & computational biology in stunning Sydney (🧵⬇️)
linkedin.com/jobs/view/3931…

I developed this application Assembly Stats Viewer to query the NCBI assembly database and allow users to compare stats.

I've found it useful for:
- Finding out if a species has a reference genome
- Comparing basic stats of assemblies

#genomics #popgen
assemblystatsviewer.netlify.app

Excited to share our recent work on annelid comparative genomics, led by Tom Lewin. Using Darwin Tree of Life data, we assembled a dataset of 23 genomes and discovered lineage-specific chromosome scrambling. 1/3
doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Skin colour: A window into human phenotypic evolution and environmental adaptation Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Global variation in ecoregion flammability thresholds vist.ly/333dh #biogeography #climatechange #firerisk Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Been on an R Shiny app for teaching kick this semester (students averse to learning coding), and gotta say: this week's prac on phylogeography using Tom Jenkins mapmixture app (tomjenkins.shinyapps.io/mapmixture/) was a great success! (1/2)

✨ New Paper Alert!✨

Research from Charlie Ellis & team examines extent, environmental drivers & #evolutionary mechanisms of divergence of isolated Dutch #lobster stock in Oosterschelde estuary 🔎 🦞

Published by ICES Journal of Marine Science: academic.oup.com/icesjms/advanc…

An exciting end to the week, as our new paper on the extent, environmental drivers and evolutionary mechanisms of divergence of an isolated Dutch lobster stock in the Oosterschelde estuary is now published by ICES Journal of Marine Science!
🇳🇱🦞🧬🧑🏻‍🔬🧵
tinyurl.com/p4cwr7st

Heartiest congratulations to Dr Daniel Osmond who today passed his viva for his excellent ExeterEvo doctoral research on adaptation of brown trout to metal pollution. And bake-off credentials may be lost, but my cakes fortunately tasted less terrifying than they looked! #PhDone

Why are lobsters in The Netherlands (Oosterschelde) genetically differentiated? Paper in ICES Journal of Marine Science: tinyurl.com/p4cwr7st led by lobster enthusiast Charlie Ellis! Charlie Ellis ExeterEvo 🧬🦞

😳Climate change: world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day for the past year bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

For anyone interested in drawing phylogenetic trees, here’s a new free and powerful tree-drawing software application called TreeViewer. Available on Windows/macOS/Linux, it lets you transform phylogenetic trees, add layers, map data to branches, align text, and much more! 👇

The latest stable version of mapmixture is now available to install from CRAN!

install.packages('mapmixture')

cran.r-project.org/web/packages/m…
github.com/Tom-Jenkins/ma…
#rstats

mapmixture #rstats package specialises in plotting admixture as pie charts on a map (admixture maps).

However, you can also plot any data as pie charts on a projected map with no distortion issues using the add_pie_charts() function.

Check it out here: shorturl.at/fAGK1

📢 Something exciting is coming up!

🪸 On #WorldOceanDay we’ll be launching an opportunity to help name a new species of deep-sea coral found by University of Essex Dr Michelle Taylor.

Stay tuned for more details on how to participate!

Please join us The Roslin Institute on the 18th June for a workshop on Shellfish Biotehnology . We will be exploring the potential of biotech to enhance the study and production of Molluscan and Crustacean shellfish.

ed.ac.uk/roslin/aquacul…

What software are people using for assessing gene flow / admixture events with 10K+ biallelic SNPs these days?

BA3-SNPs, Migrate-n, TreeMix, AdmixTools? Any new programs?

#popgen

Our review paper on 'Genome assembly in the telomere-to-telomere era' published online in Nature Reviews Genetics. It amazes me how much assembly has progressed in the past four years – often ~100X improvement in contiguity and base accuracy and with haplotypes and hard regions resolved!

🚨 Our team just published a new exiting and important study on the impact of salmon farming 🐟 on Norwegian maerl beds and associated communities 🪸 🪱 🦀:
doi.org/10.1002/aqc.41…
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