Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️
Evolutionary biologist into genomics of speciation, epigenetics, & reptiles. Here to share science & stories🦎🧬 🇮🇳🇩🇪🇬🇧🇨🇭
Postdoc at Uni Neuchâtel | Former Marie S. Curie postdoc @ the Natural History Museum London | National Geographic Explorer
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- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Happy to share this collaborative paper! It is an outcome of our collective experience studying Indian biodiversity & realisations about the need of having accessible natural history collections & data for the future of Indian biodiversity science. #biodiversity academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
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- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Claire Merot opens the afternoon session at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about the structural genetic diversity across the tree of life. Structural variants (SVs) are in order de magnitude higher than SNPs. TEs accounts for many SVs. SVs are different across different lineages.
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- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Our lab has published a couple of major papers in the past few months, which I would like to highlight in this thread! 🧵
- Enjoying terrific talks and discussions on #speciation in #roscoff this week! Such a beautiful coast :-)
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate. The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯
- Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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- That must have been a great talk with an optimistic end! Thanks for the article and summary Rishika.
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️ We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation. You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️PhD position available at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin on avialan ontogeny (birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur relatives)! jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/e...
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- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Only known from a single plant growing in the botanic gardens in Sri Lanka, the endemic Pini-Beraliya was declared Extinct in the Wild. But a post on social media about the tree has now led to the discovery of three wild populations and a recovery programme! 🌱🧪🙌🏻 news.mongabay.com/2025/08/soci...
- Using gene-order information to infer phylogenetic relationship seems super interesting. Yet to read!
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Axolotls may enjoy celebrity status among pet owners, but their wild populations have been dealt huge blows by habitat loss, water pollution, invasive species and the pet trade. Now, the success of reintroduction programs in their native ranges in Mexico brings new hope for their comeback.
- Looks a good opportunity for #postdocs studying #neurobiology or #behaviour or any research that studies intelligence in different contexts.
- Apply now to become a speaker at our Institute! We invite excellent postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply by October 24: www.bi.mpg.de/ess @chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...
- Looks like a terrific opportunity!
- 🚨JOB ALERT!🚨 Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics! Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬 Apply here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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- Learnt loads working on this review together with incredible 🌿 biologists! We discuss the role of chromosomal rearrangements in population div. & speciation & attempt to bridge the gap between macro- and microevolutionary processes. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
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- A really well written piece about an exciting recent work from Vijay Ramesh et al! india.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-... #scicomm #naturalhistorycollections #nhm
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- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Wonderful wrap up for a great symposium #ESEB2025 - thank you to all parcitipants for their high quality presentations, talks and posters (here most of the female contributors, but there were more 😉)
- #ESEB2025 Join us today!
- Here for @eseb2025.bsky.social ? Catch my posters on the 19th (Tue.). 1: How can we measure genomic structural variants (P02.308), & 2. Genomic drivers of karyotype change & impacts on the linear & 3D genome structure (P02.328). Photo: cool decorations from the #gracia festival last night! #ESEB2025
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Going to eseb2025.bsky.social? 🇪🇸 Into heterogeneity in parasite transmission? 🦠 Or just feel like playing a board game? 🎲 Then come say hi and check what @kayla-king.bsky.social and I have been cooking! 🧪✨ Poster P01.365 in session 1 (Monday 18, 5pm) See u there ✌️ 🌞 🍻 #EvoSky #ESEB2025
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- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Really happy to see chapter 2 of my PhD published today in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. DeepDiveR is an R package to assist with deep learning inference of biodiversity change through time 🤿🦊 Thanks to @bethanyjallen.bsky.social & Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration doi.org/10.1111/2041...
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- So, more rejections ➡️ more applications in the future? Can just perseverance beat the Matthew effect?
- Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Finally out! 🥳 Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁 Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5
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- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci
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- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat. In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. scim.ag/44cSw3Z
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Two research teams from @cnrs.fr @sbroscoff.bsky.social carried a comparative analysis in flowering plants that supports the prediction that inbreeding, such as self-fertilization, selects for higher recombination rates: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Brazier et al. (@romanstet.bsky.social)
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- 2 days of discussions all about why holocentricity? How holocentricity across the tree of life has evolved? And the implications on species diversification, meiosis, and other adaptations! Thanks @camillecornet.bsky.social @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social for making this happen in our uni!
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Congratulations to lab member Gabi Alves Ferreira who lead us in this fun project! She modeled how range shifts of neotropical frogs with climate change will change phylogenetic diversity and endemism in the new communities. So great to see this published #ProudPI 💪🐸 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️In which I, a person who trained over 1,500 early career scientists all over the world in how to use Twitter, tell the scientific community that Twitter sucks now and you should use Bluesky for networking and outreach instead.
- New paper! Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should. This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
- Barcelona has been amazing both in terms of research learnings and meeting people, but also finding Gauri’s lizzie! (Or dragon!?)
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- Congratulations @evoswami.bsky.social 🎉🥳🙌🏾🍾
- @toriherridge.bsky.social are you going to write anything about this dire (wolf) situation! It is now being claimed as de-extinction? Please please. I need to share how it isn’t true with better words than my blabber.
- Happy to be visiting the lab of Aurora Ruiz-Herrera & learning more about #3Dgenomics from Laia Marin Gual & the group at UAB Barcelona for the next couple of weeks! Thanks to the SNSF SPARK grant awarded to Kay Lucek. Rainy & spring weather in Barcelona reminds me of home (Bengaluru) 🌸
- One thing that we don’t speak enough in academia is the pain of goodbyes to friends we make. Waves of PhDs and postdocs who come in and move out of our immediate surroundings, potentially forever.
- Terrific talk by @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social on his visit to our department at the University of Neuchâtel! #TE #transposableelements #genomics #genetics
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- Haven’t caught a break since the end of Jan. Analysing data & conferencing back to back 🥲😀. Can’t wait for the Gordon research symposium & conference on speciation, starting just in 2 days! #speciation
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