Michael Matschiner
Professor of Systematic Zoology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Director of Bavarian State Collection for Zoology
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- Reposted by Michael MatschinerReptile Handler At Birthday Party Ruthlessly Heckled By 6-Year-Old For Showing Amphibian theonion.com/reptile-handler-at-…
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerCharley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
- Reposted by Michael Matschinerwikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerHit me up if you'd like to apply to a Data-driven postdoc fellowship with me in Sweden. 2 year salary, excellent community. Deadline March 31. I have a project idea on reference bias vs pangenome, but keen on hearing ideas. Please share broadly. www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
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I am looking for a postdoc to develop high-performance algorithms in computational genomics. Email or DM me if interested. For more information, see hlilab.github.io/vacancies. RTs appreciated! - We’re so used to conflicting phylogenetic results that we tend to shrug shoulders. Nice to see how @caseywdunn.bsky.social digs into one such conflict, finds the issue, and resolves it. Bravo!
- Our eLetter github.com/caseywdunn/s... responding to a recent Science paper was just posted. The paper found more genes with consistent support for sponge-sister than ctenophore-sister. We found several technical issues that, when corrected, reverse the conclusions and recover ctenophore-sister.
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerPlease repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧 We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology. Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerCome and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8…
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerGreat new study about the loss of a colour morph in Common Wall Lizards (Podarcis muralis) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerNEW JOB in #ornithology with @vogelwarte.bsky.social to unravel the demographic drivers of population change in Alpine #swifts in #Switzerland: buff.ly/crV1rT8
- Reposted by Michael Matschinerand the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com
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- What are the good free LIMS these days used by molecular labs? We mainly need to link specimen and sample information.
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- Reposted by Michael MatschinerVery excited to share that our latest paper is out in Science! We show that the type specimen of Nanotyrannus—an isolated skull—is fully grown, showing that it is not a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex but a distinct species (1/12) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerCheck out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
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- Reposted by Michael MatschinerA unique feature of gars is those distinctive armor-like scales! Unlike a typical fish’s overlapping scales, gars have interlocking “ganoid” scales that are made up of a material similar to the enamel on our teeth. The name “Lepisosteus” even means “bony scale” 🦴 #25DaysofFishmas
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerPopgen folks, Jiseon, Nate, and Andy, along with Yuxin Ning and Franz Baumdicker, just released a really cool new method for simulation based inference (think ABC) using normalizing flows. It seems to work really well! full joint posteriors ftw! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Hi Team Fish, we (@notothentoma.bsky.social, Julia York, and Jin-Hyoung Kim) are organizing a session on Antarctic Fish Evolution at SCAR 2026 in Oslo: scar2026.org Submit your abstract by 28 February, and join us in beautiful Oslo 8–19 August! (Photo: Armin Maywald / Alamy)
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerNew species of tinamou, the slaty-masked tinamou (Tinamus resonans): mapress.com/zt/article/v... 🪶🧪 (📷Luis A. Morais)
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerHey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Michael MatschinerOpen position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/... I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerDo you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
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- Reposted by Michael Matschiner@notothentoma.bsky.social @arcolon14.bsky.social & @jpostlethwait.bsky.social show how Antarctic white-blooded icefishes, the only vertebrates without hemoglobin, independently lost hemoglobin cluster genes, driven by TEs and repeats. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf184 #genome #evolution #TEsky
- Reposted by Michael Matschiner1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005 How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.
- Reposted by Michael Matschinersuper cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
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- Reposted by Michael MatschinerGreat news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerThe 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics will take place between the 25th of January and 7th of February, in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. 🧬🌳 Applications are now open! Deadline: 15th of November, 2025. Do not miss the chance to attend! Spread the word among colleagues! 🤗 evomics.org/apply-worksh...
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerHybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerDo you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerI'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!
- 🚨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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- Reposted by Michael MatschinerWant to make recombination maps from sperm/pollen/gametes? There is an easy way, based on Hi-C sequencing. Full details in the Hi-reComb paper now in Genetics: doi.org/10.1093/gene... Thanks to Richard Durbin and Ed Green and a great group of co-authors for contributions.
- Reposted by Michael Matschiner'Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation' - now published online in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social
- Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the chronology of parallel adaptation biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Michael Matschiner*PhD position* 🦉 Would you like to do a PhD with Indo-Pacific birds and evolutionary genomics? Join us in Stockholm: <deadline> 05 September 2025, 23:59 PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerFun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology! Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions. (Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.) lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...
- Reposted by Michael Matschiner1/16 🚨🚨 New paper!! I am thrilled to share our study that uses fossils, genomes, and a bit of geology to investigate how many times cavefishes evolved, and how they can help us figure out the ages of caves themselves! Link: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
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- Reposted by Michael MatschinerDespite the rearrangements, we find evidence of past hybridisation throughout the evolutionary history of these radiations. Multiple species show strongly admixed ancestries, indicating that hybridisation may have facilitated their evolution. This is something we are currently investigating more.
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerExcited to share that I will be a co-director for the upcoming Workshop on Phylogenomics @evomics.bsky.social, alongside the amazing main team lead @rosafernandez.bsky.social and Erin K. Molloy We are putting together an amazing workshop with details to come - can't wait to share it with everyone!🥳
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerJob alert! I am looking for someone who would like to join my lab as a senior researcher, permanent, with teaching included. My lab is new, I still have startup money, just sayin. DM or email me with questions. Deadline Aug. 11th, interviews in september. Ad here: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/c...
- Reposted by Michael MatschinerAnyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!
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