#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers genomes. These weird cancers, microparasites with a mussel genome, have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation. You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data. Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #TransCan #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool #JobAlert https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894

How did the @ScientistRebellion movement emerge and spread so quickly around the world? My new book, Science in Resistance (out in October with UC Press) documents the evolution of the SR movement over the past 5 years. Combining personal stories, interviews with scientist-activists, and insights from research on direct action and academia, I explore the challenges scientists face when taking a stand for climate and ecological justice.

Half of the proceeds will go to SR and allied climate justice groups.

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/science-in-resistance/paper

#ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #Activism #Science #Academia #Degrowth #Ecology #CivilResistance #Climate #DirectAction

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Come work at the U. of Oslo. We are advertising a 3-year postdoc in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics. If working with plant evolution in the Galápagos, pangenome and structural variants sounds exciting for you - this may be your chance!

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/277333/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-evolutionary-and-comparative-genomics

🚨If you fancy evolutionary genomics, theory, my lab now offers *two* fully-funded #PhD #genomics #popgen #evolution
ℹ️One on sex-asex transitions with Christoph Haag bit.ly/4hp1q1A
ℹ️One on allele-specific expression with Sylvain Glémin bit.ly/4iuKLuQ

Part of #ERC RegEvol
In #CEFE lab, Montpellier

La mobilisation des chercheurs montpelliérains pour #standup4science a été au rdv hier. L'administration Trump détruit ce qui lui fait peur: la connaissance, la raison, le bon sens, l'intelligence, le partage, la collaboration, toutes ces valeurs portées par la science académique. Des dizaines de milliers de contrats et bourses (comme la fameuse bourse Fullbright) ont été simplement gelés du jour au lendemain. C'est intolérable. Les médias traditionnels sont malheureusement aux abonnés absents.

Several thousand people today at #standupforscience2025 in Paris.

PhD thesis proposal in our lab:
"Evolutionary history and conservation genomics of black honey bees"

Supervision: Pierre Faux and I
Location: GenPhySE, INRAE Toulouse, France

More information: https://thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_these_GenomiqueAbeillesNoires_EN.pdf

(thanks in advance for your boosts and for sharing with your students 😉)

Projet de thèse sur l'histoire évolutive et la génomique de la conservation des abeilles noires

Co-direction: Pierre Faux et moi-même
Localisation: GenPhySE, centre INRAE Toulouse
+ d'infos: https://thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_these_GenomiqueAbeillesNoires_FR.pdf

(Merci par avance pour vos RT et la diffusion à vos M2 😉)

Happy to announce the much-improved and extended VCF Zarr preprint:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.11.598241v3

Hopefully we're now making a strong case that there *is* a FAIR and efficient alternative to VCF, and we now have the foundations for a new generation of high-performance, cloud native applications. Case studies on Genomics England, Our Future Health, All of Us, Norway Spruce and SARS-CoV-2 show this is ready for real, boundary pushing datasets.

Do you think marine evolution #MarEvol is cool? Maybe you were at the 2018 Marine Evolution meeting in Strömstad, Sweden? And surely you'd like us to do it again and organise MarEvol2? Why not in the South of France? Then fill in this questionnaire and spread the word:
https://framaforms.org/my-interest-in-participating-in-marine-evolution-2-in-2028-in-montpellier-france-1732109549

Our paper with Luis-Miguel Chevin on the partitioning of variance of reaction norm for plastic traits has now been published in @PeerCommunityJournal.

#evolbiol #phenplas #quantgen

https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.515/

If you wonder what additive genetic variance could mean in the context of a plastic trait in a heterogeneous environment, and how to estimate it, go check it out!

This has been a long time in the work, and we realised quite a few things ourselves doing it!

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #evolutionarybiology section: Partitioning the phenotypic and genetic variances of reaction norms
https://buff.ly/4hxb0jz

Comment les humains ont bouleversé l’histoire et la diversité des abeilles à miel?
🐝🍯🧬🌍

Article de vulgarisation publié sur TheConversationFr sur l'histoire des abeilles à miel, l'apiculture, la diversité génétique, la conservation... Bref, un résumé très accessible de nos recherches récemment publiées dans MBE!
Bonne lecture!

Article à retrouver ici: https://theconversation.com/abeilles-a-miel-comment-les-humains-ont-bouleverse-leur-histoire-et-leur-diversite-247707

Huge thanks to my sister Elizabeth for helping to put these together

The second session of our 3-year Study Circle on Degrowth & Exnovation (co-organized with Kristiina Visakorpi) is now open to all for registration! Join us in Finland to explore and discuss how to build resilient communities in the midst of collapse, while dismantling the fossil capitalist economy.

https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/

How are people organizing locally along degrowth principles of sufficiency and conviviality? What challenges do we face, and what tactics can we pursue in establishing ways of living that allow dismantling of harmful organizations, infrastructure, technologies and ideas, that contribute to extractivism and fossil capitalism?

Suggested themes of discussion include initiatives for convivial community-based leisure (let's turn airports into natural recreation areas!), paths towards nowtopias, municipal organizing, neo-ruralism, defense of the commons, convivial conservation, unlearning high-tech and promoting low-tech, among many others.

The session will be part of the Nordic Summer University's summer session, including 8 concurrent study circles on other super-cool topics, which you can also attend: https://www.nsuweb.org/activities/summer-session/

#Degrowth #Sufficiency #Conviviality #Exnovation #Postgrowth #Finland #Conservation #Community #LowTech

@AudreyBras @growth_kills @IDN @channel @SanjaHakala

Pensée philosophique du soir après une salle journée:

Le jeu du "je" est une martingale fragile

I did a quick and dirty website for our new project, DokEvol, on the evolution of marine species in seaport ecosystems under human-altered selective pressures. Given the time and energy expended, it's not too bad. Deliverable done !
https://isem-evolution.org/projects/DockEvol.html

Here are some 2024 highlights of PCI and Peer Community Journal.📊 Grateful to everyone who contributed to this success🦸. We're excited and prepared for an amazing 2025🤩!

Hi all, if you want to promote #mastodon in the #nature poll about #bluesky #twitter #x use by scientist please go to
https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8149795/Bluesky
There is a field where you can write that you use mastodon

Building on the UShER tree of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes maintained by Angie Hinrichs, Hugh Haddox and Georg Angehrn have looked into how the neutral mutation rate of the virus varies along the genome. Have a look at the surprising patterns they uncover in this new preprint:

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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.07.631013v1