Michael Matschiner
@m_matschiner
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Evolutionary biologist / Software developer / Outdoor enthusiast @[email protected]
Oslo
Joined December 2012
Excited to start the Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics 2025 in Český Krumlov tomorrow! You can follow us on BlueSky at https://t.co/dHKJSjMlxY
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This postdoc position is now announced: https://t.co/PSbiINiue1 - Four years of funding ✔️ - a spectacular adaptive radiation ✔️ - hundreds of genomes✔️ - Norwegian salary and benefits✔️ Please share or apply!
4) Separately, a four-year postdoc position will soon be announced at Natural History Museum Oslo within my "ICEFISH" project to resolve the radiation of notothenioid fishes in Antarctica. If you like hundreds of genomes waiting for you, get in touch!
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Btw, just pausing my Twitter hiatus to get these messages out broadly. You should really join us over there on the blue sky network!
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4) Separately, a four-year postdoc position will soon be announced at Natural History Museum Oslo within my "ICEFISH" project to resolve the radiation of notothenioid fishes in Antarctica. If you like hundreds of genomes waiting for you, get in touch!
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3) Two further attractive, permanent positions as scientific curators will open later this year at the Bavarian State Collection for Zoology: One with a focus on Diptera, the other with a focus on Hymenoptera. Please feel free to get in touch already now if this could be for you.
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👆This is a great opportunity to work with exciting specimens in a European city with high quality of life (and the Alps within sight!).
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2) At the Bavarian State Collection for Zoology ( https://t.co/EBwvbO4bek), a permanent (!) position as technical assistant is open right now, with a focus on the bird collection: https://t.co/7zxdgPAU6p Application deadline is already in a week!
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1) My own position as Associate Professor at Natural History Museum Oslo ( https://t.co/kfXuMFui1z; part of the University of Oslo) will soon be re-advertised, so stay tuned if this might be of interest. I highly recommend it!
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Time for some announcements! As much as I've enjoyed my time in Oslo, it is about to end. I'll move to Germany in December to start as Professor in Systematic Zoology at LMU Munich and Director of the Bavarian State Collection for Zoology. This move comes with open positions:
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Two new papers of my group to explain the explosive cichlid radiation in Lake Victoria. Ngoepe et al show the importance of ancestral ecological versatility. Meier et al show the importance of genetic variation acquired through genetic exchange.
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In just 16,000 years, more than 500 cichlid species, distributed throughout the entire food web, have evolved in Lake Victoria. This explosion of biodiversity was made possible by repeated cycles of...
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🐟 Excited to share our latest paper on the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake Victoria, now out in Nature ( https://t.co/OG9kFLdjH8)! A continuous fish fossil record from sediment cores shows a dramatic change in the fish community around 13ka. 🧵
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New paper out: Teleost genomic repeat landscapes in light of diversification rates and ecology https://t.co/lcU9GZet4Y Great work by William Reinar, @olektoerresen, @m_matschiner, @lexnederbragt, @JentoftSissel
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Repetitive DNA make up a considerable fraction of most eukaryotic genomes. In fish, transposable element (TE) activity has coincided with rapid species diversification. Here, we annotated the...
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I am thrilled that our Science paper on the evolution of Lake Victoria cichlids is now out! https://t.co/vszCpl5fUl
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Re-upping this, as we start to review applications in 10 days!
New postdoc position available! Evolution of mutation rates! 🚨🚨🚨 Please apply, but also feel free to get in touch with me--or past and present members of the lab--directly. (RTs appreciated) https://t.co/Lk313CuHhv
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The Bulletin of the SSB is looking for editors and reviewers. Find our more information at https://t.co/39e8kug7I7 and email our managing editor to volunteer.
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PhD position available in my lab in Oslo. Does one (or more) of the following subjects make your heart beat faster than normal? ☑️ mammals ☑️ phenomics ☑️ morphometrics ☑️ quantitative genetics If yes, read more here 👇 https://t.co/NsUUXEAixh Come to Oslo and join the team!
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1/4 A preprint of Near, T. J. and C. E. Thacker. in press. Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 65 is available here https://t.co/Zo5QwJUcW1
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