Matthias H. Weissensteiner
Bioinformatician and Researcher at the Institute of Avian Research
| evolution | birds | genomics | structural variation | non-B DNA | repeats
ifv-vogelwarte.de/en/institute/staff/…
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerA richly rewarding two days reviewing @ifv-whv.bsky.social: thriving under the brilliant leadership of Sandra Bouwhuis & Miriam Liedvogel. An exciting programme of research into avian migration & life histories with many future stars. Outstanding @commonternproject.bsky.social museum by frozen sea!
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerMAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...
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- Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply. In a similar way, by discretizing time, we can use a binomial distribution to represent the number of events that occur over some period of time t.
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerJust a few days left to apply to the PhD position in our group. It focuses on selfish genes in #fungi and how they might affect the spread of giant #TEs called Starships.
- We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerThere’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142
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- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerOur new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry. But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out! doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧵1/6
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- I personally have donated to Wikipedia before and will, even without the very good reason explained below, do so again.
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- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerExciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !
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- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerWhen we hypothesised female terns to have lower mercury levels than males due to egg laying, @matteobeccardi.bsky.social et al designed an elegant experiment to prove the effectiveness of this pathway. That proof just got published & the open access paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerHeads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
- Congratulations Anna! What a fantastic PhD with tremendous amounts of work and exciting results! All the best for your future trajectory!
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- Reposted by Matthias H. Weissensteiner#EOU2025 #ornithology folks and friends liking #birds and #mammals, this is the position I just highlighted. Join us! Cool collection and very active continuous preparation of new specimens. Deadline soon... Happy to chat with anyone curious today!
- Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553! 🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job
- Reposted by Matthias H. Weissensteiner📌 I really enjoyed @pablosalmon.bsky.social’s talk at #EOU2025! 🐦 Exploring how #mitochondria may shape avian #migration — lessons from Eurasian #blackbirds with different strategies. Great insights into the energetic basis of life-history strategies!
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerThe @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerCongratulations, Dr. Andrea. What a very special day. Happy, proud and honoured to see you fledge 🐦⬛🧬🏝️🧪 - fly on @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerThanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerNew preprint from the lab led by former masters student AJ Roussel in collaboration with Alexander Suh and @fjruizruano.bsky.social. We found a ~4-fold accumulation of a Neptune #transposon in asexually reproducing "F1" fish hybrids. An unexpected and fascinating finding! #TEsky
- Reposted by Matthias H. Weissensteiner🚨 Wanted: PhD student excited about population genomics, Natural History Collections and birds! 📍 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany 🕒 3 Years, fully funded by the Leibniz Junior Researchgroup program Details and Application portal 👇 jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/8...
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- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerInterested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerReally excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost.
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerI'm very happy to announce our new pubblication out now in @animalecology.bsky.social🥳 Many thanks to @oscarvedder.bsky.social and @ifv-whv.bsky.social. Read the full text if you want to know more about this work👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerNew publication in @animalecology.bsky.social by @oscarvedder.bsky.social & @matteobeccardi.bsky.social 'Poor developmental conditions decrease adult body size and egg size, but not egg laying rate and survival throughout adulthood: A long-term experiment in a precocial bird' doi.org/10.1111/1365...
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerTwo more weeks to apply for a PhD position in our yeast genomics and evolution lab at Stockholm University! Please share widely. 🧪🧬🌳🍄
- We have a 4-year fully funded PhD position available! Research topics include but are not limited to 1) Parallel evolution of climate adaptation in Europe and South America 2) The genetic architecture of temperature adaptation 3) The evolution of pathogenicity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerGreat article on the work of @genmig.bsky.social and others: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerLungfish xkcd.com/3064
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerI am very excited to announce our new paper describing the tick communities on Helgoland. We highlighted a potentially stable population of a tick species which has not been described in Germany since the 1970s! Feel free to reach out if you have questions 😄 doi.org/10.1007/s004...
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- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerTo celebrate #InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsinScience, we took this photo of NaviSense ♀️PIs. Find out more about our Cluster of Excellence Initiative here: ↘️ www.navisense.org ↙️ #WomeninSTEM @commonternproject.bsky.social @lundvision.bsky.social @genmig.bsky.social @hifmb.de @sfb1372.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerNew publication by the @commonternproject.bsky.social. 'Selective disappearance based on navigational efficiency in a long-lived seabird'. In @animalecology.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1111/1365...
- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerNew publication by @genmig.bsky.social. 'High-recombining genomic regions affect demography inference based on ancestral recombination graphs.' doi.org/10.1093/gene...
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- Reposted by Matthias H. WeissensteinerHappy to share our new paper OA in Genetics. We show that population genomic methods based on ARGs (ancestral recombination graphs i.e. genetic ancestry along chromosomes) for demography inference can be biased when applied to genomes with wide high-recombining regions. doi.org/10.1093/gene...
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- Reposted by Matthias H. Weissensteiner🤩 Today on air: Bob McDonald interviewed me for the #CBC science program 🧪📻 #QuirksAndQuarks about our recent finding that #DesertAnts have a #PolarityCompass that we published in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🧭🐜 Check it out: ↘️ www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... ↙️ @sfb1372.bsky.social @neuroethology.org
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