Lots of interesting talks at this year’s Popgroup 59 in Lille! I got to present a poster on some ongoing work with Dipteran reference genomes, and even tried some traditional Breton dancing.. @popgroup2026.bsky.social
We have arrived in snowy Lille for the 59th PopGroup conference! Come to the MEE stand and have a chat! 😀
@popgroup2026.bsky.social
Late to posting (!) but I recently had the opportunity to present some ongoing research on genetic diversity in flies at the Linnean Society’s Organismal Resilience Meeting. Excellent talks from across systems, and a wonderful and historic venue.. @linneansociety.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ Journal Club is turning 1! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈To celebrate, here's a bit about what we've been up to over the past year: a thread of interesting papers in queer biology (1/n) ⬇️🧵
PhD available @biology.ox.ac.uk applying historical genomics to fish populations under pressure www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
I'm advertising a PhD project on the evolution of horizontal transfer. Interested in this or other topics in evolution and species diversity, please get in touch. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Beautiful wasp!
Good spot from one of my fly sequences yesterday… does someone want to do the maths of what the probability of this happening is?
Day 1 of Insect Taxonomy and Field Sampling Skills at Wytham Woods earlier this week, learning about insect sampling methods. Really enjoying this course ran at the Museum of Natural History Oxford. @morethanadodo.bsky.social
Group photo from the EMBO Population Genomics Course in Naples, 2025
After a week of intense population genomics, lots of tired but still smiley faces. Thank you @embo.org for funding another edition of our Population Genomics course in Naples. And thank you to the trainers and participants for making this eight edition another success! #EMBOpopgen