Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants?
Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
You really know how pick study systems Paťa!
Sequencing all complex life in the UK & Ireland could add up to £3bn to the economy over 30 years, a new report finds.
Explore the impact of the Darwin Tree of Life Project ⤵️
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Excited to share our latest work in Nature. Applying single-molecule and single-cell DNA sequencing methods, we uncover an extraordinary landscape of somatic mutations in immune checkpoint genes in autoimmune B cells, suggesting that somatic mutations may be key to autoimmunity [1/n] rdcu.be/fdqbr
1/ BRAKER4 hatched!
The Earth BioGenome Project is on track to sequence ~1.5M eukaryotic species. Every one needs a structural annotation. No Perl monolith was going to survive that. So we rewrote BRAKER from the ground up. github.com/Gaius-August...
Subscription based academic publishing is a terrible model that has done a lot of harm.
I do find the decision by Cancer Research UK understandable, but I like Wellcome's decision not to pay for OA in hybrid journals better.
Care to elaborate? The article does not say that at all…
Is there anyone around Newcastle owning a patch of green where we could collect springtails this Tuesday by any chance? More about the project in @jamesimcc.bsky.social's blog post: sangerinstitute.blog/2026/03/26/s...
Ok, another from my series of weird questions… does anyone know how testes of Psychoda sigma (owl midge) looks like?
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Do you plan to analyse lots of genomes? Or few that are large? One or multiple species? Join us for the course on analysing data at scale! (and yes, it will involve a lot of k-mers!). With @katiejenike.bsky.social and others...
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Large parts of Tree of Life work on Jíra and I think unite like it. However it’s definitely not minimalistic, others invested a lot of time in setting it right but now it really works very well (including passing metadata to cluster submitted jobs)
Great, thanks!
Does anyone know where will be the next PopGroup? #PGG
If anyone would have the full collection of Boyes' "SOMATIC CHROMOSOMES OF HIGHER DIPTERA: " I would really appreciate it.
I get so frustrated with access to papers. We are slowly getting back to the point when it's easier to physically go to the library and see what they got there...
Got to say, this does not bother me. What gets to me is fundamental misunderstanding of word "random" which gets further propagated by common speech where it is used as "unexpected". In 9/10 cases when a scientist say non-random, they mean non-uniform.
And this is my favourite figure, nicely illustrating diversity and turnover of oligocentromeric satelites. Look at Carol and Sandra - one invaded the other at least 2x, which I find particularly amusing.
Very proud of @jamesimcc.bsky.social to submit his first PhD paper about evolution of genomes and centromeres in taxa with oligocentromeric organisation. Lots of interesting discoveries including possibly the first reported re-evolution of monocentricity.
🔬 Recruiting a Postdoc!!!!
I’m looking for a motivated postdoc to join my lab and work on characterizing the role of a heterochromatin protein involved in a sex-ratio meiotic drive system in Drosophila.
If you know someone who might be interested, please share widely!
Excited for this. Teaching popgen is one of my favourite parts of my job and I've wondered about doing an online version of the class for sometime. Teaming up with @jrossibarra.bsky.social to do this is wonderful.
Last two weeks to apply for a senior faculty position at the Tree of Life. Great environment, amazing colleagues and the world's biggest genome engine... Come to join us at the Tree of Life @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
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Peer review is broken because papers that are entering the process are so often sooo bad, just because academics are submitting to the peer pressure and feel that’s what they need to do for their careers and grants.
How can one submit 5 papers in 3 month period? I understand that’s not what the article is about but maybe it kind of relates to why the system is so clogged…
Join our Tree of Life Programme as a Group Leader in Biodiversity Genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Lead ambitious, large-scale genomics research to understand life’s diversity on Earth.
🔗 Learn more and apply: sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco...
📅 Closing date: 8 February 2026
The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge is seeking a talented Postdoctoral Research Associate to work in the group of Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira (www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-gro...)
➡️For Further details see the link www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
Open postdoc position at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Tree of Life to contribute to the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, with a focus on spatial transcriptomics.
Apply by January 4
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Please share with anyone who might be interested!
please share this postdoc job alert! come join the budding Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative as a postdoc or senior postdoc at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social working closely with @arnausebe.bsky.social and me to make progress on what we cover in this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Are you interested in biodiversity genomics? Fantastic opportunity to join us as a Group Leader at the Tree of Life Programme, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social.
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(1/5)Thrilled to announce our paper on #ProjectPsyche is out! 🦋We describe how we’ve generated 1000+ high-quality genomes for European Lepidoptera, providing an unprecedented resource for biodiversity, conservation, and evolutionary research.
#Genomics #Biodiversity
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