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
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Thrilled to see that Diego's paper was featured on the cover of the latest issue of @newphyt.bsky.social! Go check his paper if you haven't already (open access) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- 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...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Opportunity! Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
- 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.
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️The economic effects of international students go far beyond their tuition dollars. Many stay, innovate, & shape the productivity of the entire economy. My co-authors & I estimate the impact of US international student exclusion policy in this new paper commissioned by the @nationalacademies.org.
- 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...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️New report on navigating challenges of doing science in Global South countries. We often hear about obstacles like bureaucracy and funding constraints. Some practical here on how to navigate
- 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...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️(1) So happy to share our recent work on Finish wood ants 🐜🧬🥳 "Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @helsinki.fi & @uvapress.bsky.social This integrative project was funded by the Research Council Finland & #MSCA of the European Comission
- 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...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️
[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!
- Check out our new preprint! We compare sequence versus synteny approaches for resolving a challenging #phylogenetic problem. In this case, synteny is far more informative! Also includes the first chromosome-level #genome for the enigmatic #fish family Gyrinocheilidae. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- 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/...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Want to spend time in the French Alps and talk about Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics Data? Join us for the 2nd Legend conference - abstract submission deadline is on September 22 legend2025.sciencesconf.org
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️My first first-author article is finally here! Happy to share with you a little piece of the puzzle in the evolution of sex chromosomes in chameleons of the genus Furcifer. You can read the full text at academic.oup.com/jhered/advan... #reptiles #chameleons #evolution #sexchromosomes
- 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...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️A great and engaging set of students for the #Biodiversity bioinformatics @sib.swiss training couse in #Lausanne this week - congratulations to you all! www.sib.swiss/training/cou... @dessimoz.bsky.social @marcrr.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Some of the #Bengaluru representation at #ESEB2025 in Barcelona! @shikharabhat.bsky.social @crazychipkali.bsky.social @vrindarvkm.bsky.social @gauravathreya.bsky.social @utharasrini.bsky.social
- A really well written piece about an exciting recent work from Vijay Ramesh et al! india.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-... #scicomm #naturalhistorycollections #nhm
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Epigenetics and #chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera #eseb2025
- 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
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️@alisondawnscott.bsky.social et al. use genome data from >400 Arabidopsis lyrata sampled across Eurasia to show it as the most polyploid-rich species complex in Arabidopsis, with multiple origins of autotetraploidy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf153 #evobio #molbio #PlantSky
- 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...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Curious about the answer? Dive into her paper (journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...) and check out her blog post (metamorphosis-project.org/publications...) to learn more!
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Huge congratulations to Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé on publishing the first paper of her PhD! 🎉 Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀
- 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...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Really excited to share my first PhD paper about fitness effects of chromosomal inversions! Using an experimental approach we explored if inversions involved in ecotype divergence in threespine stickleback affect fitness-proxies 1/🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @heredityjournal.bsky.social
- 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
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be... Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Nice editorial job here for a life sciences graduate interested in remote work!
- the journal Animal Behaviour, which is run by @asab.org, is looking to hire a new Managing Editor. Please share advert with folks with a Life Sciences degree (ideally postgrad) who might be interested www.asab.org/opportunities
- 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
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Please share widely! We are offering the 4th iteration of our free & online crash course in Evolutionary Biology, catered to students in the Global South! Join us this summer for an incredible line of up classes & tutorials from amazing graduate student researchers, covering a vast array of topics!
- 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)
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️We hear a lot about how Africa has 'become too dependent on aid' We don't hear much about how Africa was impoverished & exploited and why they are owed reparations for colonial damages
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Out in the US and UK in less than six months! Pre-order here, pretty please — it makes a world of a difference to sales. And please RT / spread the word! www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Beneath-...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️This is likely the weirdest and most interesting story you could read today. From @usha.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2025/05/02/d...
- 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...
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️#Moths and #butterflies hold a special place in the hearts of #ProjectPsyche members, and some have chosen to carry them on their skin forever! 🦋 Check out this collage of Lepidoptera-inspired tattoos from our community, featuring real species and artistic interpretations alike 🎨
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down! It was thought that Marmoretta oxoniensis swam around in tropical swamps, but new research shows it actually lived in trees nearby. Find out more about this ancient reptile 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
- 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!?)
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice. Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced. They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study. 2/n
- Congratulations @evoswami.bsky.social 🎉🥳🙌🏾🍾
- Exciting times ahead! www.gov.uk/government/n...
- @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
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️Only one week left to register to the first conference on holocentric chromosomes, from cells to species! 🧬🪱🦋🌱 Join us in Switzerland on the 25-26 April 2025 Travel grants available! Register here: holocentricity.ch
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️With more mollusk genomes available, a new genome-based phylogeny is featured on the cover of Science. Paper from @sigwartae.bsky.social at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Cover photo by Magnus Lundgren.
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- 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
- Reposted by Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾♀️We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project). Applications close 25th March 2025! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
