Iβm trying to get funding and collaborators on a project about #genetics #interactions and mechanistic ecological #models. Come check out my poster this afternoon! #TIBS2026
Iβm trying to get funding and collaborators on a project about #genetics #interactions and mechanistic ecological #models. Come check out my poster this afternoon! #TIBS2026
πPlease share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open.
We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
ποΈDeadline: October 15th
More info: smbe2026.org/symposia
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Happy to share that @mongabay.com covered our Science Advances paper about past and future responses of reindeer to climate change. Thanks to Sonam for this great article βΊοΈ
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/clim...
Excited to share that Iβve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! π§βπ
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
π PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon β follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated π
New research indicates caribou populations could decline 80 per cent by 2100
We have written a short piece for @ca.theconversation.com about the future of reindeer. You can read it here: theconversation.com/new-research...
Come check my poster today about relationships across spatiotemporal patterns in genetic ancestry and burial rite practices! #isba11 @isba11.bsky.social
Today we publish a new paper on the past and future resilience of the reindeer under global change...the future looks grim
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Please check out the article in Vox. Thanks so much for covering our paper!
www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
Reindeer is key for the maintenance of the tundra ecosystem. We need to increase investments for the management and conservation of this majestic species, as this will benefit not only nature but also many communities that rely on reindeer for their economy, identity, and emotional well-being. 4/π¦
We predict declines in population size over 80% by 2100, under a business-as-usual climate change scenario, with North American populations being the most vulnerable. 3/π¦
We show that reindeer was able to survive abrupt climatic fluctuations of the past thanks to its ability to travel long distances to track suitable environments and to survive in low population numbers. Still, these traits might not be enough to protect it from future climatic warming. 2/π¦
We used historical and modern observations, fossils, ancient DNA and ecological models to simulate the abundance and distribution of wild reindeer and caribou since the Last Glacial Maximum until present, and we directly compared these to future predictions. 1/π¦
π¦ NEW PAPER ALERT! π¦
Our paper on wild #reindeer and #caribou is out in Science Advances! Thanks to the team: Eric Post, @nmschmidt.bsky.social, Stuart Brown, @noguesbravo.bsky.social and Damien Fordham that co-lead this research.
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
A map of the Arctic Ocean where the four different management stock boundaries of bowhead whales are colored in (Sea of Okhotsk; Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort; East Canada-West Greenland; East Greenland-Svalbard-Barents). Also shown are arrows highlighting potential Holocene habitat connectivity routes between these different populations.
π ANOTHER ONE π !!!
We have a hot new #bowhead #whale preprint out now on @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social, co-led with @mick2474.bsky.social !
We show what is possible when you integrate genomic and ecological data to tell an insightful story about this charismatic #Arctic endemic! π§¬
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A bowhead whale swimming in Arctic waters. Credit: Kit Kovacs and Christian Lydersen, Norwegian Polar Institute.
π WHALE PAPER ALERT! π
My 2nd #PhD Chapter is now out #OpenAccess in @ecol-evol.bsky.social where we built a 11,700 year-long ecological baseline of #bowhead whales in the #Arctic
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π§¬ππ΄π»Job Alertπ»π΄ππ§¬
We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers in DeepTime Palaeogenomics!
All positions are for 2 years (extension possible), & are fully funded both in terms of employment and project costs.
Deadline: 2 Dec 2024
Please RT!
Apply:
www.su.se/english/abou...
We are currently advertising two fully-funded PhD scholarships to work on a new project preventing extinctions of Australiaβs threatened mammals with ancient DNA.
#sediments #aDNA #eDNA
For further details, please see:
scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...
Here's a starter pack for ecological niche modeling, species distribution modeling, and general ecological biogeography. Please reply here to be added!
go.bsky.app/AjbQxpK