What a lovely surprise! Thanks to everyone of the lab 🥰

We conquered the heat at our lab retreat yesterday! 😎 Talked feedback, funding for PhDs/postdocs, growing the group, and plans for pursuing #MyGreenLab certification 🌱 Great energy all around! 🧪
#LabLife

Our PhD candidate @anelivb.bsky.social just published new research on Antarctic fur seal predator–prey dynamics using image data and a YOLO neural network to generate automatic detections. 🧪

Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

#Ecology #AntarcticResearch

Looking for a PhD opportunity in molecular ecology or know of someone? We are hiring a new PhD candidate who will be working on mutation load dynamics in banded mongoose! 🧬Read more here: thehoffmanlab.com/opportunities/. Deadline for applications is January 30th! #phd #jobs #genetics #mutationload

Massive congratulations to @ramonammm.bsky.social for successfully defending her PhD thesis last December! 🎓🥳 We wish you all the best in your new job and adventures Down Under! 🦘 🐨 🐋

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Hoffman lab! 🎄 May 2026 be a great year for science ✨

Illustrations made by Ane Liv Berthelsen

How can we make scientific events such as #conferences more #inclusive? Read about the study we conducted during #Behaviour2023 as a nice and concise summary in the press-release here 👉 aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/10/06/r...

DNA as street decoration? Of course! Our very own @k-hench.bsky.social made some beautiful pictures of the @eseb2025.bsky.social street decorations at the “Festes de Gràcia”.

Check out some of his pictures and read more about why we were there: thehoffmanlab.com/2025/09/05/e...

Smelly birds at #EOU2025 🐦

The genome and epigenome are not independent, so why analyse them separately? 🤔 Come and discuss our hypotheses on the interplay between deleterious mutations and epigenetic mechanisms today with @rebeccachen.bsky.social at #ESEB2025 poster number 85! 🧪🧬

@annekep.bsky.social shows us a super impressive long term study in Antarctica fur seals to explore interactions between inbreeding and climate change 🦭

Do inbred females suffer disproportionately from climate change induced changes in selection pressure? Come and find out in @annekep.bsky.social's talk today at the @eseb2025.bsky.social conference 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM in meeting room 115 #ESEB2025

Our very own Ramona Mattmueller @ramonammm.bsky.social and her colleague Karolin Thomisch from AWI wrote an article for the Circle Stories of the WWF Global Arctic Program.

🧪 Lab plastic waste is a huge problem - but what can we do about it? 🥼

In our lab, we tested whether reusing and washing microtitre plates could help reduce waste.
In some cases, it works! ♻️ 🌍

Read more here: buff.ly/XOGSX0q

#greenlab #sustainability #openscience

Fresh publication alert 📃! Our paper about skin and gut microbial communities in Antarctic fur seals is now available in Frontiers in Microbiology. In this study, @ecopetridish.bsky.social and colleagues found that skin microbial communities were strongly influenced by the colony membership. 1/3

🧬 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰? As part of your conference registration, you get free entry to the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona: just show your ESEB badge at the door!

🔗 More info: https://lnkd.in/dh5uKSru

#ESEB2025 #Biodiversity #MuseumExhibition #Barcelona #NaturalHistory #EvolutionaryBiology

Last week our lab member @annekep.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD and was rewarded a magna cum laude for her work! Congratulations dr. Anneke! 🥳🎓 Luckily we don't have to say our farewells yet, as Anneke will continue working on her Antarctic fur seal project as a postdoc in the group 🦭