Marty Kardos
Conservation Genomics | Ecology | 🧬 🐺 🐋 🐠
Former NOAA Fisheries scientist.
- Reposted by Marty Kardos📣Job alert!📣 Working as a federal scientist is complicated right now, but we are actually hiring. One *permanent* stock assessment position on my team at NOAA NWFSC will open for 7 days in early-mid Feb. Will be a shared ad across several science centers. Get those usajobs resumes polished...
- Reposted by Marty KardosWe have compiled a special issue for @evolappjournal.bsky.social on Effective population size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring, dedicated to the late Michael W. Bruford. This SI is a must read for everyone who struggles with what "effective population size" means. #consgen
- Reposted by Marty KardosExploring #PAG33 and San Diego for the first time! If you're interested in knowing more about why bird microchromosomes are so hard to sequence, come by poster 287 this afternoon!
- Reposted by Marty KardosThese orcas are on the brink, and so is the science that could save them (Featuring @uwsafs.bsky.social professor Amy van Cise) www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...
- Reposted by Marty KardosThe authoritarian, violent, and anti-science actions of the Trump admin over the past week show clear contempt for democracy and the public good, endangering people in the US and around the world. Congress must uphold its constitutional responsibility and hold the administration accountable.
- Reposted by Marty KardosOur latest preprint revisits the classic model of mutation-selection balance. Do human recessive genes fit Haldane's 100-year old model? This work is by the wonderful @jonj-udd.bsky.social, and co-mentored by @jeffspence.github.io www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Marty Kardosin a week, I'll start reviewing applications for this postdoc. come work with me in Santa Cruz, CA on fitting Bayesian hierarchical models to whale tag and photo datasets. position starts in fall 2026. ask me questions and apply here: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
- Our Editorial for our upcoming special issue in Molecular Ecology: Conservation Genomics—Making a Difference onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Marty KardosThe EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals. The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry. Where is the MAHA outcry?
- Reposted by Marty KardosTo be clear: he is in no way a "man in science." The entire premise here is laughable.
- Reposted by Marty Kardos🧬 Out now! This study on the endangered eastern Massasauga rattlesnake reveals 218 candidate genes linked to disease response, highlighting genetic factors that may influence resistance to Snake Fungal Disease. (Photo from the Gibbs Lab)
- Reposted by Marty KardosHow bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry
- More geniuses at work! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
- Removing building blocks. one at a time. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
- Reposted by Marty KardosAll those questions about inbreeding in conservation that you were afraid to ask. A bunch of early career scientists is here to explain something that even Wright and Fisher couldn't agree on, the (not so) simple question of what is inbreeding. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Marty KardosIt’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.
- Reposted by Marty Kardos📣📣📣 CONSERVATION GENETICS WORKSHOP - Few more spaces left! ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course 🧬💻💡 University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍 7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP! 🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏 More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/
- Reposted by Marty KardosFor the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
- Reposted by Marty Kardos1/9 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.
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- Reposted by Marty KardosAfter a long and frustrating discussion with the Cell Press ”help”-desk, led by Ben and Tom, the paper is finally made open access (in line with what we had requested and expected from the beginning) 😅
- The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth! New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
- Reposted by Marty KardosNew paper led by @yadirapga.bsky.social! Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
- Reposted by Marty Kardos*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
- Reposted by Marty KardosI'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/...
- Reposted by Marty KardosMy lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
- Conservation Genomics course (ConGen) this December in South Africa This course is always a lot of fun, and will be great for grad students, postdocs, or anyone else wanting to dive into applications of genomics for conservation and management of wild populations. www.umt.edu/congen/africa/
- Reposted by Marty KardosWyoming deer are heading to the high country, some will travel up to 150 miles. Amazing - and necessary - movements across vast swaths of YOUR public lands. Follow along for weekly updates!
- This is admirable www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
- Reposted by Marty KardosWe really did live through a world-historical scientific and technical effort to contain a pandemic, decide that we don't ever want to do that again, and conclude that means tearing down everything and everyone involved in containing a pandemic
- Reposted by Marty KardosSave the date, follow ICP2026, update your ABBA playlist, and come join us in Stockholm next year! This is going to be fun!
- The FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026! Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠 Save the dates ✅ Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!
- Unethical and illegal orders that come from a legitimate leader are still unethical and illegal. Many high ranking federal officials seem to not recognize this.
- We watched in horror as the acting administrator of NOAA fired hundreds of workers for cause when she must’ve known there was no cause. Officials at NOAA broke legally binding bargaining agreements with unions knowing that this was unethical at best.
- ‘doing it for the sake of the institution’ and “my boss told me to” are pathetic excuses.
- The end result is hollowed out institutions with no credibility
- Reposted by Marty Kardos….whatthefuck.
- Reposted by Marty KardosIf you are privileged enough to be a tenured Prof at a US university, here is an opportunity to lend your voice to media. Sign up if you are willing to talk to the press about what the war on science means for education and for our society.
- EO directs federal scientists to account for uncertainty, be transparent about methods and data, use weight of evidence in interpreting results… like this isn’t already done in every agency. The only thing new is an order to essentially abandon the precautionary principle in rule making. 🧪
- The Trump administration just dropped an executive order, "Restoring Gold Standard Science" and there's lots to unpack. This EO reveals more about how the Administration will approach scientific integrity and science in regulatory contexts. Some initial thoughts. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- This will benefit the fossil fuel industry and hurt biodiversity and public health.
- Reposted by Marty KardosI commented. You should too!
- 🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
- So many of us now have the previously unusual experience of having a mad man lay waste to our careers and contributions to society. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Marty KardosThe comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
- BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
- 📣📣📣📣 Please consider submitting a comment! Only 3 days left. The Trump administration wants to exclude environmental destruction from the definition of ‘harm’ in the ESA - reversing decades of progress on threatened species protection.
- 📢 📢📢📢📢 Every biologist who cares about biodiversity should provide public comment on this rule proposed by the Trump administration that would REMOVE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS for endangered species! This is extremely bad. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
- Reposted by Marty KardosFate of Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit staffers — Matt Kauffman, Anna Chalfoun and Annika Walters — remains unclear, but Trump administration cuts have led to widespread suspicion that their days on the job are numbered.
- Reposted by Marty KardosStrong rebuke of NOAA fisheries job cuts from fishing industry commenter John Sackton. Full article here [paywall]: www.seafoodnews.com/Story/130626...
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- Reposted by Marty KardosBears repeating that Congress has not passed a budget or any other legislation that has asked the NSF to do this downsizing, they're dismantling the agency in anticipation of cuts that as of yet have no basis in law
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- Reposted by Marty KardosProud 🧪 post: @iangtaylor.bsky.social, other collaborators, and I have been working furiously despite *waves hands* to produce the best possible science for management of yellowtail rockfish. Today, our draft document (typos and all! 😶🌫️) was posted publicly prior to the review 2 weeks from now.
- People don't notice the fruits of critical #NOAA science: - wild-caught seafood is reliably brought to market - they don't die from a flood or hurricane they were warned about - wild salmon and marine mammals remain despite humanity's best efforts - warnings of the effects of #ClimateChange
- Google AI butchering of Ne: Effective population size (Ne) in genetics IS A MEASURE OF HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS IN A POPULATION CONTRIBUTE TO THE GENETIC DIVERSITY OF THE NEXT GENERATION. IT'S ESSENTIALLY THE NUMBER OF BREEDING ADULTS, and it's often smaller than the total census population size (N).
- Google AI butchering of LD: Linkage disequilibrium (LD) refers to the non-random association of alleles at different loci within a population. IN SIMPLER TERMS, IT MEANS THAT ALLELES AT NEARBY LOCATIONS ON A CHROMOSOME ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE INHERITED TOGETHER THAN EXPECTED BY CHANCE ALONE.
- Reposted by Marty KardosBeautiful documentary about a conservation issue and success in Wyoming! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gCP...
- Reposted by Marty KardosInteresting analysis of the effects on US seafood sustainability of Trump's Executive Order "Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness" eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
- #consgen @elinck.bsky.social on the dire wolf BS and the ESA
- wrote about fake dire wolves and the real endangered species act for @highcountrynews.org: www.hcn.org/articles/de-...
- Reposted by Marty KardosThe climate is changing. The questions haven’t gone away. This week, hundreds of scientists were dismissed from the 6th National Climate Assessment. But will the work live on? 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Marty KardosAnd, last but not least, Trump’s proposed budget shuts down the world’s leading computer models of climate change. “We’ll go back to the technical and proficiency levels we had in the 1950s,” said a former NOAA official. 10/10 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
- Reposted by Marty Kardos#WithoutNSF I wouldn't be a scientist. NSF grants funded my undergrad research experiences, graduate and postdoctoral projects, and years of work in my own lab. The funding freezes and cuts we're seeing mean my students probably won't have similar opportunities lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...
- Reposted by Marty KardosI wish the public could read the heartfelt goodbye emails I received from colleagues leaving the federal service this week. The brilliance, kindness, and dedication of the U.S. federal civil service is unmatched. Their departures are a loss for me, but also the entire American public. 💔
- This looks absolutely awesome 🧪
- Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Marty KardosBrilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Marty Kardos🌊🔊Underwater sound recordings confirm endangered North Pacific Right Whales use of historic habitats 🐋 Scientists find that Aleutian Island passes & the northern Gulf of Alaska remain key feeding grounds for this rare whale. Read more on @noaa.gov Fisheries⬇️ www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...
- Reposted by Marty KardosBaby salmon head out to sea. Then they do something unexpected, new research shows www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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- 🧪 #consgen
- More neat work coming out of research on the Olympic Peninsula. Link to the paper (in press) here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Plus peep the pictures of the LEKT and NOAA crew deep in Deep Creek!
- Reposted by Marty KardosMore neat work coming out of research on the Olympic Peninsula. Link to the paper (in press) here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Plus peep the pictures of the LEKT and NOAA crew deep in Deep Creek!
- Baby salmon head out to sea. Then they do something unexpected, new research shows www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
- Reposted by Marty KardosHe had an appointment with his conscience
- Reposted by Marty KardosToday NOAA posted this. I guess this is no longer a nonpartisan account.
- Reposted by Marty KardosA ridiculous amount of very careful work by @jahemker.bsky.social and coauthors gave a clear answer - one needs ultra-long and not just long reads to call SVs correctly in Drosophila. Now we are ready to quantify evolutionary impact of Drosophila SVs. Let us know what you think!
- Excited to share the first manuscript from my PhD in which we leveraged ultra-long Nanopore sequencing, D. melanogaster inbred lines, and a ton of manual validation to investigate the effects of long-read length on population-level structural variant (SV) calling accuracy! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Marty KardosOur cover this week.
