Mats Björklund

I am leaving now for a place with a clear blue sky. Bye!

Please RT! 🚨4-year PhD position in my lab (Oct 2025 start)🚨 The genomic architecture of adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster Application deadline: Jan 8, 2025 aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/g…

‼️Job alert ‼️ We have an open position for a bioinformatician to work on songbird genomics until October next year: bit.ly/3YILiAO Please RT! 🐦🐦

@EvolOdonata @joelmcglothlin @Ben_Sheldon_EGI @joshiamitabhevo @tncvidya Even cited!

This paper could be of interest to @MatsBEBC, @joelmcglothlin, @Ben_Sheldon_EGI, @joshiamitabhevo, @tncvidya and others.

Thankyou @MasahitoTsuboi for leading this author team behind this paper in @JEvBio! I am very excited about this and a proud member of the team. We now hope that we have made colleagues aware of an important bridge between micro- and macroevolution: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-ar…

@MasahitoTsuboi @JEvBio @GaboriauT @Phylogenetrips Great work!

Our study @JEvBio shows how adaptation overrides constraints in the evolution of #SexualDimorphism in #Cichlids. We highlight that integrating intra-specific variation with comparative methods can advance macroevolutionary research. @ #SpecialIssue with @GaboriauT @Phylogenetrips

2025 PhD-student opportunity in our lab (skoglundlab.org) open! This year I am particularly looking for candidates interested in computational ancient human genomics: genetic history and selection. crick.ac.uk/careers-study/… Those with an exceptional interest in other topics such as ancient pathogen genomics, ancient proteomics, and ancient canid genomics are also very welcome to apply. Application by 5 November, interviews in January, start date September 2025.

@swannegordon @kokkonutter Well deserved! And very expected...

@Marjo__S @michelle_dileo @martykardos Congrats!

@EvansSre Spot on!

Anyone else getting strong ornithology don vibes from the chap on the right? Noughties era.

Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists #PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science

@IngvarBa Det andra ligger ca 500 m längre in. Man går längs ängen och in i skogen. Högre och mer fågel där.

@MatsBEBC Jag kände bara till det ena. När man kommit tillbaka från fågelskådandet kan man få kaffe (kohvi) i herrgården.

I dag har talats om estlandssvenskarna på radio. Här är några bilder från Lyckholms herrgård och Nuckö kyrka.

Found it! My yearly hunt for Botrychium lunaria paid off 😊

@KLVoje @Jente_O @ScienceMagazine @AgnesHolstad Brilliant! Congrats!

Our paper in @ScienceMagazine demonstrates that microevolutionary evolvability can predict evolutionary divergence across timescales spanning thousands to millions of years, linking evolution across these vast time intervals. Work led by @AgnesHolstad science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@wc_ratcliff You are absolutely right. I was chair for 19 years. It sucked. Early retirement.

Being departmental chair has to be the worst job in academia, right? Everyone wants you to fix their problems, but you have extremely limited resources/power. Faculty are also super entitled. PS: I love our Chair, he does a great job. I just can't see how the job is any fun.

@GonzaParra_ I would say that most reviewers see this as a good ambition, but that it will not happen. I did, at least. Very unrealistic and optimistic app's are getting lower grades.

"Develop routines and schedules that promote your wellbeing and productivity. Do research you feel passionate about, and be proactive in seeking opportunities & responsibilities that feel meaningful. Don’t worry about impressing the bigwigs; they’ll retire sooner than you think"

My interview is out now in @CurrentBiology, thank you for this opportunity to share my career track and research interests. Please see below my thoughts on advice to early career researchers and what I think the public should know about my field. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm looking for a postdoc who wants to apply for an upcoming scholarship to come to Uppsala and join my research group for 2 yrs. The project is on hybrid flycatchers and diet-microbiome associations 🐦 Project is already ready, samples have been collected + more this spring.

Alfred Russel Wallace FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1823. He independently conceived of the theory of #evolution by natural selection and his work prompted Charles Darwin to publish 'On the Origin of Species'. Wallace laid the foundations of modern biogeography.