Fernando Lopes
@FernandoRVLopes
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🇧🇷📚 Postdoctoral Researcher @unicampoficial 🧬 Phylogenomics, population genomics 🦭&🪲
Campinas, Brasil
Joined March 2015
Postdoc time is often harder than PhD. You have little time. Competition is higher. And you MUST stand out. + Your contract may end any moment. + Your salary is often low (for your age/education). + You’ve just relocated and prepare to relocate again. No wonder that Max
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New year, new paper! Our Lab Protocol manuscript on DNA 🧬 from museum collection specimens 🪲 is now accessible on @PLOSONE Check this out! @tarasov_sergio @coleopteriste @LepanusLady @_G_Montanaro @michross83 @_FedeLosacco @gimo_daniel
https://t.co/x3Tjw3LBkK
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Although several methods exist for extracting and sequencing historical DNA originating from dry-preserved insect specimens deposited in natural history museums, no consensus exists as to what is the...
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2.7 years ago my wife @nathymjp and I arrived in Finland with 4 🧳 and 2 🎒Today we leave with 10 🧳, a stroller, a carseat and a baby. We had great moments, I wonder. The greatest time of our lives 🥰🇫🇮
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Heads up! We’ll soon announce two postdoc positions in the Biovision Lab. One in AI-driven computational paleontology, and one in computer vision applied to biology (open-ended). Official ads to follow. Please RT! https://t.co/sJszjQJNAH
#Postdoc #AI #Paleontology
biovisionlab.com
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My time to say a definitive goodbye for the bear has come 🇫🇮🥹 I’m leaving a better scientist and person. Thank you @tarasov_sergio lab for the 2,7 years of 2-way exchange of knowledge & @luomus & @helsinkiuni for the amazing structure that allowed it! Future? News soon! 🧬🦭🧑🔬
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📢🎓#PhD Position in #Beetle #Phylogenomics 🐞🧬🔎@Senckenberg Frankfurt in an @dfg_public funded grant. #Application deadline June 14th 🚀Please RT! #lcwgs #fossils #Morphology #Biogeography
@Leibniz_LIB @smithsonian @uofmemphis @narodnimuzeum @IZWberlin
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Sentinel-2 satellite imagery from earlier today shows the incredible extent of the historic flooding in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Just terrible.
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Dear friends, this is the size of the catastrophe that happened in my home town/state. Something similar never happened before Climate change is happening now! #ClimateCrisis
IMAGEM | Imagem de satélite do antes e depois do #Sentinel2 do @CopernicusEU gerada por @or_bit_eye mostra o antes e depois da enchente catastrófica na Grande Porto Alegre.
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No need to write traditional species descriptions! Use ontologies and make them computable! Happy to share our latest preprint: https://t.co/nL0Cp6PylX Led by @_G_Montanaro, with @balhoff @jennifergiro @JGEntiminae & others. @luomus @LifeSciHelsinki
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After almost two years, Dr. Valiati and I are successfully closing this chapter with our opinion ���🏻🌍
New Research: Editorial: Molecular systematics and phylogeography of tropical and subtropical biodiversity https://t.co/8fhjhK6PN3
#Genetics
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The Brazilian politician who turned the tide on deforestation As Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva helped to rein in rampant deforestation and rebuild institutions that were weakened by the previous government #Natures10 #COP28
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Shocking indeed!
Shocking news from Finland! The sun has come out. A situation so rare in November @hsfi has a live broadcast to prove it. 😎
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Are you interested in #insect #museomics 🧬🏫 & #DungBeetles🪲? In a new paper by @tarasov_sergio group & co., we used a cost-effective method combination that allowed the phylogenetic placement of rare, enigmatic & potentially extinct species! Check it out! @luomus @helsinkiuni
From museum drawer to tree: historical DNA phylogenomics clarifies the systematics of rare dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) ... https://t.co/MYm13Oxviz
#biorxiv_evobio
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Hoje não só é aniversário do @LulaOficial como tb é meu aniversário de casamento com o @FernandoRVLopes, que dia!!! PRESIDENTE, NOTA NÓIS 🥹
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2-year postdoctoral researcher position open in project on the evolutionary history of #Lepidoptera and #Trichoptera @luomus @helsinkiuni @SuomenAkatemia. Researchers interested in morphology and fossils are encouraged to apply! https://t.co/Fg9vAGwO5Y
jobs.helsinki.fi
Postdoctoral researcher in insect phylogeny and evolution
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Can we track vertebrates🐒💩using 🧬 from guts of dung beetles🪲? Would you like to know more about it? Check out this interview with @tarasov_sergio to @newscientist about our paper published in @ZooKeys_Journal
@luomus @helsinkiuni
newscientist.com
Biologists identified DNA from six species of lemurs in the guts of dung beetles collected in Madagascar, demonstrating a possible way to monitor endangered wildlife
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Very cool paper from our group is now out in @ZooKeys_Journal
Happy to be a part of this paper with @FernandoRVLopes and others :)
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How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences. https://t.co/Z6za22rMgg 1/9
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Interested in studying primate phylogenetics, speciation, and genetics? I'm currently recruiting graduate students (PhD and MA) to start in Fall 2024 at @UTSA. The deadline for PhD application is Dec 1. If interested, please contact me for more details
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