@sagitaninta
Conservation genetics & population genomics of tropical island populations, occasionally ancient DNA, phylogenetics, biogeography, & biodiversity informatics, mostly mammals 🐗🐂. She/her. 🇲🇨. X/Twitter previously sagitaninta.
"Perhaps it’d be a good thing if AI finally pushes us to move on from a system where universities spend taxpayer money to pay commercial publishers to very slowly produce paywalled PDFs with outdated results of publicly funded research."
alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/academics-...
We recommend a read of the new MBE editorial on how society journals work towards protecting the scientific record.
Publishing in society journals, such as @molbioevol.bsky.social or @genomebiolevol.bsky.social, promotes transparent science that benefits the research community.
Crop scientists have long recognized that reproduction is going to be the first point of failure for plants with rising global temperatures. However, this has often been overlooked by those studying natural populations. In this new review, we try to change that. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
I never know when people use "prefer not to say" in their gender dropdown question, are they actually queer or just do not want to register to the diversity inclusivity effort here.
I am pleased to announce that my Google Calendar invites has been all ACCEPTED.
Currently counting the days I may not be able to do science anymore as no grants nor contracts coming in 👻
Happy International Day of Women in Science, folks!
Is there any grant available to keep women in science without having to uproot their family somewhere else around here? Happy with 3 months mobility but not 1-2 years "have to move from country where you have spent more than 12 months in" :D
marta with dyzio the feathered dilophosaurus from 1997
A protoceratops family from the museum of evolution
Muzeum Przyrody i Techniki w Starachowicach
It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵
Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.
Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
US seems to have a lot of job ad going on, I thought science fundings were cut there? Are they back because POTUS decides to focus on Greenland?
A bit of a long shot, but does anyone know of any good (short) courses and/or reference books in/for zooarchaeology? I've had an interest in zooarch (esp microfauna) for a while, but have limited specialist knowledge/hands on experience to take it any further! TIA 😊
#archaeology #zooarchaeology
Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers?
peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html
We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern.
Are you lecturing in the Spring?
Contact me to receive the survey link!
🦙🧬Pleased to present our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧬🦙
Palaeogenomics of early camelid use in the Atacama Desert (Chile).
We used ancient DNA to revisit animals being hunted/herded >3,000 years ago.
Manuscript here: rdcu.be/eVwwl
#aDNA #popgen
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Reposts appreciated :)
🎉🎉 New publication out! 🎉🎉
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🦒 The giraffe known as Marius made global headlines when he was euthanized by Copenhagen Zoo in 2014 after being deemed surplus. His story highlights how challenging it is to manage zoo populations for conservation with limited resources 🧬
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
SMBE2026 Symposium 15 | Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems
SMBE2026 Symposium 15 | Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
Another shoutout to people working in selection and local adaptation to submit to this very special symposium on #SMBE2026 😆
We hope to hear and discuss works from systems where non-equilibrium happens 🤩
The crazy mumbo jumbo output of LLM texts is actually a good source of inspiration for making a research grant proposal. Now that I see this thing envisioned similar idea with me I am not sure if I should be happy being vindicated or sad that my imagination is not even better than an artificial one.
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Thought long-read sequencing had “solved” structural variant genotyping? We did. Turns out many SVs still have high genotype error rates with current tools. Our new method SVUPP uses long-read pre-phasing to reduce errors and improve genotype quality
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
Hi! I'm Francesca (Xisca), MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow working on crocodiles' cognition evocroproject.github.io, passionate about natural sciences, shows, fantasy books and music, you can easily find me with headphones on, and I host a science news channel called @dropsofsciencenews.bsky.social
The worst flood I've known in the country claiming all kinds of life and yet the government still does not want to declare it national disaster and even refusing foreign aids!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Another shoutout to people working in selection and local adaptation to submit to this very special symposium on #SMBE2026 😆
We hope to hear and discuss works from systems where non-equilibrium happens 🤩
SMBE2026 Symposium 15 | Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems Organisers - Sabhrina Gita Aninta — University of Copenhagen (Female) - Cindy Gilda Santander — Florida Atlantic University, USA (Female) - Carolina Pacheco — Lund University, Sweden (Female) - Anubhab Khan — Indian Institute of Science, India (Male) Invited Speaker - Aida Andrés — University College London (UCL), UK (Female)
Organisers
- @sagitaninta.bsky.social | @popgendk.bsky.social
- Cindy Gilda Santander | Florida Atlantic University
- Carolina Pacheco | Lund University
- Anubhab Khan | Indian Institute of Science
Invited Speaker
- @aidaandres.bsky.social | @ucl.ac.uk
Link to videos showing the emergency
www.instagram.com/p/DRxCJLiD9Yk/
Climate change disproportionately affects areas with risks of extreme weather events, including Southeast Asia. Floods have been & will be destroying our homes.
If you care about climate change, demand your media to tell you more about this. People have to see this.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Books.
Also books.
More books.
The Internet is becoming increasingly unreliable. Buy books and read them.
Are you working on detecting selection in populations that are not usually easy to get selection detected?
We'd love to hear you on "S15 Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems" where @aidaandres.bsky.social will tell you more about her work around this area as well :D
Really looking forward to this symposium and the whole SMBE meeting!
Join us at the #SMBE2026 for interesting discussions of how to identify signatures of natural selection (or try to) where it seems impossible.
Are you working on detecting selection in populations that are not usually easy to get selection detected?
We'd love to hear you on "S15 Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems" where @aidaandres.bsky.social will tell you more about her work around this area as well :D
