Sabhrina Aninta
Conservation genetics & population genomics of tropical island populations, occasionally ancient DNA, phylogenetics, biogeography, & biodiversity informatics, mostly mammals 🐗🐂. She/her. 🇲🇨. X/Twitter previously sagitaninta.
- US seems to have a lot of job ad going on, I thought science fundings were cut there? Are they back because POTUS decides to focus on Greenland?
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaA bit of a long shot, but does anyone know of any good (short) courses and/or reference books in/for zooarchaeology? I've had an interest in zooarch (esp microfauna) for a while, but have limited specialist knowledge/hands on experience to take it any further! TIA 😊 #archaeology #zooarchaeology
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaCan interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers? peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern. Are you lecturing in the Spring? Contact me to receive the survey link!
- Reposted by Sabhrina Aninta🦙🧬Pleased to present our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧬🦙 Palaeogenomics of early camelid use in the Atacama Desert (Chile). We used ancient DNA to revisit animals being hunted/herded >3,000 years ago. Manuscript here: rdcu.be/eVwwl #aDNA #popgen Thread below🧵 Reposts appreciated :)
- Reposted by Sabhrina Aninta🎉🎉 New publication out! 🎉🎉 🧵1/6 🦒 The giraffe known as Marius made global headlines when he was euthanized by Copenhagen Zoo in 2014 after being deemed surplus. His story highlights how challenging it is to manage zoo populations for conservation with limited resources 🧬 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaSMBE2026 Symposium 15 | Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026
- The crazy mumbo jumbo output of LLM texts is actually a good source of inspiration for making a research grant proposal. Now that I see this thing envisioned similar idea with me I am not sure if I should be happy being vindicated or sad that my imagination is not even better than an artificial one.
- Reposted by Sabhrina Aninta🧵1/5 Thought long-read sequencing had “solved” structural variant genotyping? We did. Turns out many SVs still have high genotype error rates with current tools. Our new method SVUPP uses long-read pre-phasing to reduce errors and improve genotype quality doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaHi! I'm Francesca (Xisca), MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow working on crocodiles' cognition evocroproject.github.io, passionate about natural sciences, shows, fantasy books and music, you can easily find me with headphones on, and I host a science news channel called @dropsofsciencenews.bsky.social
- The worst flood I've known in the country claiming all kinds of life and yet the government still does not want to declare it national disaster and even refusing foreign aids! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
- Another shoutout to people working in selection and local adaptation to submit to this very special symposium on #SMBE2026 😆 We hope to hear and discuss works from systems where non-equilibrium happens 🤩
- Organisers - @sagitaninta.bsky.social | @popgendk.bsky.social - Cindy Gilda Santander | Florida Atlantic University - Carolina Pacheco | Lund University - Anubhab Khan | Indian Institute of Science Invited Speaker - @aidaandres.bsky.social | @ucl.ac.uk
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaOrganisers - @sagitaninta.bsky.social | @popgendk.bsky.social - Cindy Gilda Santander | Florida Atlantic University - Carolina Pacheco | Lund University - Anubhab Khan | Indian Institute of Science Invited Speaker - @aidaandres.bsky.social | @ucl.ac.uk
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- Climate change disproportionately affects areas with risks of extreme weather events, including Southeast Asia. Floods have been & will be destroying our homes. If you care about climate change, demand your media to tell you more about this. People have to see this. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaThe Internet is becoming increasingly unreliable. Buy books and read them.
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaReally looking forward to this symposium and the whole SMBE meeting! Join us at the #SMBE2026 for interesting discussions of how to identify signatures of natural selection (or try to) where it seems impossible.
- Are you working on detecting selection in populations that are not usually easy to get selection detected? We'd love to hear you on "S15 Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems" where @aidaandres.bsky.social will tell you more about her work around this area as well :D
- Are you working on detecting selection in populations that are not usually easy to get selection detected? We'd love to hear you on "S15 Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems" where @aidaandres.bsky.social will tell you more about her work around this area as well :D
- Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open! Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal. 📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts And symposium selection is now finalized! 👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026
- I came to appreciate the intriguing difficulties of determining what CAUSES a disease with multiple symptoms. Is it bacteria/virus? Which one? Why the histology does not match? What is IT? - Copenhagen Zoo research seminar presented by Yannick Van de Weyer who invetigate hydrocoelom in Bombina.
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaDelighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaPhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaBig science highlights this month at our #EPIC seminar! Kees uncovered new insights into isolation by distance and shorebird diversity🐧, and Anna showed how ancient chewing gums provide a remarkable snapshot into #microbiome 🦠evolution and health. Fascinating work from both! 👏
- There is not so much money from learned societies to invite enough financially disadvantaged researchers from countries that needs expensive visa to go around & only have weak currencies. Can crowdfunding help? But it is so much... How do we remedy this?
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaAre you interested in 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐞 and its relationship to 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 conditions? If you are, please look at the 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝑷𝒉𝑫 opportunity we are offering (main supervisor Dr Catrin Ffion Williams) : lnkd.in/e53Rz_FB To apply for the PhD visit the 𝐁𝐁𝐒𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐖𝐁𝐢𝐨 𝐃𝐓𝐏 here: lnkd.in/eWSjXK8a
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaOur paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to @jolijnerven.bsky.social #aDNA
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaNew PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals #consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaLessons learned: Recommendations for reproducible paleogenomic data analyses www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac...
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaNew publication out, highlighting the link between genetic diversity (GD) and policy! 🧬📜 "Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework" www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaIf you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
- This version dependency going on between conda and snakemake is madness. Syntax issue as well between versions; crazy python stuffs. This volatility cannot be the future of Bioinformatics. What does people use to make pipeline nowadays? How have people in maths/physics/chemistry been doing it?
- I want to invest my time learning snakemake or nextflow but I never sure which is more future-proof. Or probably it is irrelevant as there will be always new stuff anyways 🤪
- Reposted by Sabhrina Aninta@sderkarabetian.bsky.social et al. developed a metazoan ultraconserved element (UCE) probe set, providing a resource for multiple research groups working on vastly different animal lineages. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf193 #genome #evolution #compbio #phylogenetics
- I have a hard time reconciling 322 EUR as the price of LMIC countries but sure Copenhagen *sob* It was one month salary still for even Indonesia's senior researchers. Such is the fate of middle-class economy.
- Registration is now open for SMBE 2026! Head over to the registration page to find all the details and secure your spot 🏃♀️ 📝 smbe2026.org/registration 🐦 Early-bird deadline: March 31, 2026 If you are an active member of the SMBE you can register for the meeting with discounts. #SMBE2026
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaRegistration is now open for SMBE 2026! Head over to the registration page to find all the details and secure your spot 🏃♀️ 📝 smbe2026.org/registration 🐦 Early-bird deadline: March 31, 2026 If you are an active member of the SMBE you can register for the meeting with discounts. #SMBE2026
- "In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (ca. 350 BC) suggested that politics was the most sovereign and most comprehensive master science, because politics uses the rest of the sciences, and because politics legislates what people are to do and what they are not to do." doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
- I have always been a fan of Patrícia's piece in the molecularecologist and I have no idea I will be writing together with her in 4 years after the start of the fangirling. I love my life.
- This aged like wine. But also seems like I haven't moved far from the struggles of almost 10 years younger me as a PhD student. www.molecularecologist.com/2016/03/14/a...
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaAll 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 Sabhrina AnintaJob alert🚨📢! Join us as Director of the SIB Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics, on a topic where global collaboration is particularly important, in a highly stimulating environment. This is a research infrastructure leadership position. Apply or spread the word! apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaWe're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaBREAKING: The #StateOfClimateAction 2025 finds the world is failing to act fast enough to combat the climate crisis and secure a livable future, with no indicators of global climate action currently on track for 2030. 🌏🌡️ Read the report to learn more: bit.ly/4o6hPwm
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaMyself and Alastair Wilson wrote an updated version of our 2016 primer to quantitative genetics in the wild: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Happy to share a copy if interested. It is also on research gate
- Our Q&A article on inbreeding for conservation is out in BMC Biology! We discuss some important key concepts related to inbreeding in the light of new genomic tools and what it means for conservation when we want to improve species survival. #consgen bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
- Kudos to bsky-less Barbara who managed to herd the massive opinions of the authors into shape. Writing a short article is harder than I thought 🙈 I felt privileged being in the same room and exchange thoughts with these amazing people 🥰
- This article is part of the Conservation Genomics collection at BMC Biology which we joined... in 2024. Haha. Thanks to the editors and reviewers for bearing with us 🥰 I think the #consgen people will enjoy reading some of the works in this collection. Dig in! link.springer.com/collections/...
- Reposted by Sabhrina Aninta🔁Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open. We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting. 🗓️Deadline: October 15th More info: smbe2026.org/symposia @official-smbe.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaHello, Bluesky! We're the IUCN SSC Parasite Specialist Group, a part of the Species Survival Commission! We're just starting to understand the important roles parasites play in their ecosystems, and our goal is to determine the threats wildlife parasites face and to conserve rare and unique species!
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaExciting 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 !
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaOur new paper on Indonesian cattle #genomics is out on @natcomms.nature.com 🎉 Did you know Indonesian #cattle 🐂 were a mix of two species? 🧵 Great work by Xi, @sagitaninta.bsky.social, Casia, Rasmus & co-authors Read 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #popgen #evolution #agriculture
- Reposted by Sabhrina Aninta🚀 We’re hiring a #Postdoc! 🔬 Join our group in Copenhagen to study Water Buffalo 🐃 #Population #Genomics Highly motivated & enthusiastic candidates are welcome! 👉 **Apply:** candidate.hr-manager... ⏰Deadline Oct 15th 2025 #WaterBuffalo #Conservation #EvolutionaryBiology
- New postdoc ad alert to work with Rasmus Heller from UCPH Denmark on water buffalo population genomics! Application deadline 15 October 2025 to expected start date 1st January 2026. A recommended project and workplace so far! #popgen #consgen candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
- I am blessed by great mentors in science so far. Not having to get awkward to get recommendation letters is apparently not the average experience for early career researchers 🥲
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaI will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue. Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October. kevingdaly.github.io
- Is it just me or "genetic purity" sounds fascist?
- Do you want to build a symposium 👉🏼👈🏻 #SMBE2026 smbe2026.org/symposia/
- I am thinking something along the lines of evolution in the face of interspecies genome exchanges in small populations 🤔 anyone interested teaming up? 👐🏼
- Thanks Roberto for the kind commentaries 🥰 I co-lead this study with the bluesky-less Rosie Drinkwater who tirelessly tracked the metadata & the details of the spatial modelling and cannot join the interview because she was on the field. Always a privilege to work with brilliant people 😁
- Grateful to @mongabay.com for the opportunity to comment on this great study led by @sagitaninta.bsky.social investigating the genetic health of populations of anoa and babirusa across islands of varying sizes. Link to the study: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🏝🧬🐃🐗 #island #extinction #conservation
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaIndonesia: Jakarta protests resume after overnight clash kills motorcycle taxi driver europesays.com/2368213/ Indonesia: Jakarta protests resume after overnight clash kills motorcycle taxi driver bbc.com/news/live/cdrk7rjv8z5t Posted by thinkB4WeSpeak
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaWhat is happening in Indonesia deserves more attention www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaVery nice explainer from twitter user normelpeople on what's happening in Indonesia this week and how people are feeling
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaJust sharing for what happen in my country right now 🇮🇩 #Indonesia #StopPoliceBrutality
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaWhat a busy August it’s been for our group! 🌍✈️ From our Summer Course in Copenhagen to #EPIC25 in Aarhus and #ESEB25 in Barcelona. So great to see so many of our researchers sharing their work through talks and posters! An inspiring month full of science, learning, and collaboration! 🙌✨
- Surprised SMBE being allowed in such an expensive city LOL but here we are: save the date for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen on 28 June - 2 July 2026! If you need visa, apply 2 months in advance the latest; as long as I'm still here I can help nudge the committee if you need anything :D smbe2026.org
- This early announcement is also for you to do some saving from now if you want to attend SMBE 2026 in Copenhagen because the cheapest food in Copenhagen is not really cheap unfortunately relative to its neighbouring countries (:
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaPlease share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaShameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaSomething we need to grasp is that Establishment power meant imperialism. Imperialism is a system of thought that sees upper class white men as the pinnacle of humanity, with a sacred duty to control the lives of others. What we now call the far right is an extension and revival of imperialism.
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaPreparing my 'Long Read Genomics' course for a visit at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. Materials will be freely available on GitHub: github.com/bpucker/LRG #Genomics #Bioinformatics #OpenEducation @puckerlab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sabhrina Aninta"The UK imports nearly 50% of its food, making it highly dependent on international supply chains, particularly from Europe. #Climate shocks in key export regions like Spain, France, and Brazil could disrupt imports and further exacerbate inflation." autonomy.work/portfolio/on...
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaDenmark enters the global race for chip production: uniavisen.dk/en/wafers-fo...
- Reposted by Sabhrina Aninta🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
- Say all the bad things about X/Twitter all you want, it still has the realest conversations about the Israel-Palestine conflict than this place.
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaIt's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaOoh, look. When we covered the climate impacts of machine learning (“AI”) on Rare Earth in June we found it really frustrating that none of the tech companies would tell anyone the water and energy costs. Now Google has made at least some of it public. More of this! (and preferably raw data too).
- I cannot believe there are this many Indonesians in #ESEB2025 After so long of being almost the only Indonesian in these kinds of conferences, I am just so happy to have found *literally* my people. I hope many more to come from Indonesia studying evolutionary biology around the EU 🥹
- Room size for forecasting evolution symposium was not properly forecasted 🥁
- Impossibly long queue for the symposium on forecasting evolution in natural populations at #eseb2025 Needs a much bigger room! :)
- Reposted by Sabhrina AnintaThanks to Sofia and May Sheday for the courageous and inspiring talks! The scientific world cannot remain silent @eseb2025.bsky.social #ESEB2025 #inclusivity 🏳️🌈 #transrights 🏳️⚧️ #freepalestine 🇵🇸
