Valentina Burskaia

Postdoc in the Svardal group at the University of Antwerp. Evolutionary genomics: parallel evolution, hybridization, speciation. Cichlids, amphipods, birds.

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

Looks like we've found a torn page from Mother Nature's cookbook on "quick colorful fish salad":
https://t.co/qZPtm086qC

[Fyodor Kondrashov @fkondras]

Our laboratory is looking for a postdoc or two to work at the interface of evolutionary, molecular and synthetic bio interfacing with a team of AI researchers: https://t.co/HkJEdG2mpu

[Pascal Hablützel @PascalHablutzel]

Job alert! 🚨
Fully funded (4 years) PhD position in my research group at @VLIZnews in the field of plankton metagenomics! This is a collaboration with @SVBelleghem from @KU_Leuven. Deadline for applications is approaching (16 June) https://t.co/chLUnSLXjK

[Hugo Gante 🐟🐡🦈🧬 @hugofgante]

Are you looking for a postdoc in genomics, color patterns, speciation, or genetic diversity of African cichlids? 🐟
Get in touch if you would like to apply for an
@MSCActions @HorizonEU
postdoctoral fellowship to join my lab
@KU_Leuven @BiologyKULeuven

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

Great reminder (especially if you doubt your quantitative skills, ha-ha)

[Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer]

I’m largely off this site (and It’s not GRFP season), but I was going through the attic and came across my 25-yr-old NSF rejection and reviews. Thought this might make someone feel better—academia can be tough.

[ESEB @eseb_org]

Registration and abstract submission for the 3rd Joint Congress (@eseb_org, @sse_evolution, @ASNAmNat, @systbiol) on Evolutionary Biology is now open!

To register: https://t.co/pGMvcnV9Tx

Further details: https://t.co/ziLNx9WF1o

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

The darkest day.

Each text by Alexei Navalny taught humaneness. He was a friend of everyone. A funny, fearless and kind friend. Now we are alone with this emptiness.
Here are some pictures of opossums, that I sent to the penal colony for Alexei. We still had some hope then.

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

@HannesSvardal @UAntwerpen Rather a harvester brigade (given it's a soybean field)

[Joana Meier @joana_meier]

Looking for a postdoc and interested in the effects of chromosome fusions and fissions and other rearrangements on speciation? Apply to join my lab at @SangerToL at the Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK for 3 y. Lots of genome assemblies to study.
https://t.co/Cn8Qi2AU3o

[Alexander Suh 서상재 @alexander_suh]

Dear avian genomics friends at #ESEB2022, birds seem to appear in ~every symposium (simultaneously), so let's meet on Friday 12:30-14:00 for an improvised Avian Genomics Lunch.

Everyone is welcome - flock to this spot in front of the conference venue.

Please spread the word!

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

Thanks very much for organizing such a great symposium and for the opportunity to give a talk. It was an excellent day! #ESEB2022

[Joana Meier @joana_meier]

Thanks very much to all speakers of our symposium on the combinatorial view on speciation! @emjrichards1, @OstevikLab, Alex Jensen, Laura Meyer, @evoleoC, @moestmar, Alexandre Blanckaert, @jonna_kulmuni,

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

So proud to make a cover picture for my favorite epistatic paper from @GBazykin's Lab:)

[astolyarova @avstolyarova]

Our paper on positive epistasis and balancing selection now out in @eLife! See how an extremely polymorphic population of a wood decay fungus can navigate rugged fitness landscapes (thanks @VBurskaia for the beautiful illustration) https://t.co/RiJhZgreEy

[Hannes Svardal @HannesSvardal]

#ESEB2022 presentation by Julia Camacho on deep water adataptation in Malawi cichlids was moved to today Tuesday 12.30 Panorama hall. Not in the program, so @eseb_org and delegates please retweat. Thanks!

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

Brussels, square in front of the European Parliament. Sun was so bright that day. I don't even know how it finds the strength to rise.

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

My PhD supervisor Yegor Bazykin is a role model in almost everyting.

[Georgii Bazykin @GBazykin]

Propaganda is a very strong force. Nevertheless, people in Moscow are divided. It has been a privilege being a part of a considerable crowd today, even though many participants, myself included, were arrested minutes later.

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

Mikhail Gelfand, my teacher and co-author, gave an interview to Science Magazine. For the first time in ten years I don't participate in protests in Moscow, but read about them on the Internet.
https://t.co/AVXwEwXxwR

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

Hello everyone, I have a request (honestly quite big one). Have you ever won an MSCA (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions) grant for postdocs? Could you please share your application with me?
I've got a chocolate bar. A charlotte cake. And endless gratitude.

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

Our study about excessive homoplasy (or hemiplasy - nobody knows) in baikalian amphipods.

[GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution) @GenomeBiolEvol]

The September cover image highlights the high amount of parallel adaptive evolution observed in Lake Baikal amphipods. Read the study here: https://t.co/hzrPnvuGD3

[Valentina Burskaia @VBurskaia]

Should start with something. Painted these ringtail possums last winter. They look quite surprised.