Nicolas Dussex

Great write up of our study showing that both extrinsic factors (e.g. habitat availability) and intrinsic traits (e.g. body mass and diet) play important roles in shaping patterns of genomic diversity in birds 🦜 🧬 🌏
#consgen #popgen

Finally published! We first uploaded this preprint in 2022 but dropped it after frustrating reviews.
It was well received and cited, motivating us to revisit it.
We added new content, including simulations and a proof-of-concept genomic green status assessment.
#consgen #popgen #PopulationGenomics

Postdoctoral Fellow position in Population Genomics at UNBC, Canada. Lead research on wolf ecology, health, and genomic diversity. More info: https://tinyurl.com/5t56kwx7. Contact: Jamie.Gorrell@unbc.ca. #postdoc

DDLS Research School Postdoc call 2026 Call for Academic and Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data-Driven Life Science 2026 Generic Description of the DDLS Postdoc Program The SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Drive...

Interested in👇 ?

- museomics: genome erosion, adaptation 🦌 🦜 🐬
- marcogenomics of sea warming (methods dev. or empirical data)
🌊 🐟🦭🐋

Check this call (2 y. postdoc) and get in touch to discuss potential projects (deadline 31.03.26)
#popgen #consgen #evolbiol

👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

one more week to apply for a 4-years PhD position with me to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming.
Deadline: Jan 18th 2026

#MarineGenomics #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics #consgen #conservationgenetics

🧬 The project will analyse modern and historical genomes for several marine species and use simulations to study past and future responses of marine species to climate change.

Supervision by myself at NRM and @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social at Stockholm Uni.

Deadline: Jan 18th 2026

Please share!

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming.

Apply here:

recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

#PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

GBE | The Genomic Basis of the Svalbard Reindeer's Adaptation to an Extreme Arctic Environment

@nicolasdussex.bsky.social et al. investigate the genomic basis of adaptation in the Svalbard reindeer, an endemic subspecies that colonized the High Arctic ~7,000 years ago, adapting to extreme cold, day length changes, and resource scarcity.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf160

#genome #evolution

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.

Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025

For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD

Reposts appreciated 😁

'Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation' - now published online in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social‬

🧪 #consgen
This de-extinction absurdity is clearly all about $$$$$$.

Worse, it is being exploited by the right wing as a cover to justify environmental destruction. Every good biologist at Colossal should resign.

Constraints to gene flow increase the risk of genome erosion in the Ngorongoro Crater lion population Communications Biology - Whole genome sequencing and simulations reveals how habitat fragmentation and population isolation exacerbate the effects of genome erosion in the Ngorongoro Crater lion...

rdcu.be/eiBW9 #consgen #popgen

Collaboration with Ingela Jansson, Göran Spong, @tvdvalk.bsky.social , Craig Packer, Bernard Kissui, Ernest Mjingo.

Extremely grateful to the Government of Tanzania, TAWIRI, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, kopelion.org and lioncenter.umn.edu, without which this would not have been possible

Slim predictions

We also used simulations to predict the number of mating males required to mitigate the negative effects of genome erosion. One to five males per decade would be needed to remain within a 5% window of genetic change.

Slim simulations 1

However, our results and field data suggest that high male territoriality in the Crater and few mating opportunities for immigrant males could have exacerbated the effects genome erosion.

Ngorongoro Crater Lion. Photo: I. Jansson

demography

pop. gen. indices

Great to see our latest paper on Ngorongoro Crater lion genomics out @commsbio.bsky.social

Even after a rapid post-epizootic recovery in the 1970s, habitat fragmentation and continued isolation led to an increase in genetic load and to a reduction in overall genetic variation.

#consgen authority Fred Allendorf cries out in despair for American science in the Missoulian newspaper. It’s terrifying to watch this destruction unfold day by day. My heart goes out to my American colleagues and friends. Stay strong and fight.

#Consgen postdoc position for 2-3 years on Vancouver Island to work on saving a fluffy endemic marmot. and its in Canada!
engage.iucn.org/group/iucn-s...

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I am looking for a Postdoc (3 years, start Mid-2025) to work on conservation genomics of ringed seal in the Baltic.
The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations.
#conservationgenetics
#consgen

Apply here:
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size This is a reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne), inspired by a classic, self-published manual of automotive repair ‘for the compleat idiot’...

Robin Waples' reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne) #biodiversity #genomics #conservation #evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager at Natural History Museum Denmark Natural History Museum Denmark, Faculty of Science, the University of Copenhagen is looking for a full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager, to start 1st June 202

We are making a brand new #Museomics Lab at NHM Denmark, University of Copenhagen - working with DNA from museum & herbarium specimens. We are looking for a lab manager to join us - unlocking the amazing potential of our collections for global change 🌐 and #conservationgenomics research

Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen

Wide range of Earth’s species are showing a decline in diversity The loss of genetic variation means species may be less resilient to climate change and other stressors

Our long term project has finally been published - genetic diversity is lost worldwide, but we can also make a difference and conservation actions matters.
Find out more in the Science news here
www.science.org/content/arti...
#Consgen

Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments - Conservation Genetics Genetic diversity is critical for adaptation in response to changing environments and provides a valuable metric for predicting species’ extinction risk. The International Union for Conservation of Na...

Redlisting genetics: towards inclusion of genetic data in IUCN Red List assessments link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Geneticist This position is a Geneticist, GS- 0440-12 working in Lamar, Pennsylvania for the R5-Lamar NFH and Northeast Fishery Center.<br> <br> <em>This position is also open to status candidates under announce...

Wildlife and fisheries metabarcoding geneticist position at USFWS in Lamar, PA!

Email Dr. Stacey Nerkowski with any questions: stacey_nerkowski@fws.gov

#genomics #consgen #metabarcoding

Genetic load Christine Grossen and Uma Ramakrishnan introduce the biology of deleterious mutations in wild populations.

Nice!

#consgen #conservationgenetics #conservationgenomics

www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Genomics job at NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center being hired off the fish biologist call. They are looking for scientists to lead, plan, and conduct research in the Marine Mammal Molecular Genomics program to support marine mammal conservation 🧬 🦭
#ConservationGenetics #marinemammals

Commissioner Costas Kadis – end Puffin starvation now! 33 NGOs & the Wind sector ask Costas Kadis in a letter to save Puffins in Scottish and UK waters

🚨Puffins are starving!
We urged Commissioner Costas Kadis to back the sandeel fishing ban in UK & Scottish waters. Sandeels are vanishing, leaving seabirds like Atlantic Puffins without food

The EU is challenging the ban, risking declines & fragile ecosystems
www.birdlife.org/news/2024/12... #birds

I've updated this starter pack for all interested!

Now bursting with over 100 natural history museum related accounts 🎉🌱🦆🙌
go.bsky.app/NtdUnyF

I would also add kakī (black stilts), but most likely there are other examples of NZ birds with different types of genomic data...