Conservation genetics & population genomics of tropical island populations, occasionally ancient DNA, phylogenetics, biogeography, & biodiversity informatics, mostly mammals 🐗🐂. She/her. 🇲🇨. X/Twitter previously sagitaninta.https://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3mvpwkthizs25"Statistics, it turns out, is a subject built on hope. The belief that if you measure a thing carefully enough, honestly enough, with sufficient regard for the people being measured, you can make better decisions." Very beautiful article and webpage design. https://altermag.com/articles/the-making-of-indian-statistics17 Sep 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpwkthizs25https://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3mtnpy2emns2kPNAS waive publication fees for a lot of low income countries! Check if yours are here: https://www.pnas.org/post/update/free-access-journal-content-and-publishing-lower-income-countries22 Aug 2026 07:13 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtnpy2emns2khttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3msf7c4hth22j"Molecular evidence say three species but the morphology only says one species," This morpho-genetic discordance needs to be the null hypothesis by now in phylogeographic studies :v06 Aug 2026 04:28 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msf7c4hth22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3msf6aztcmk2oI feel weird when a PI proudly present their students' measurements but no acknowledgement of who these students are and they are not even on the paper they finally publish from the students' measurements. This is convergent in many countries btw, not exclusive in certain culture.06 Aug 2026 04:09 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msf6aztcmk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3msf427en422qI was attending a talk on range expansion of the butterflies in Japan and I was thinking oh isn't that great? But then he said it is only few families so oh no that is not great, and he proceed further to mention all the bad things a change of community assembly can do to ecosystems. #SAGE202606 Aug 2026 03:29 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msf427en422qhttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3mseyjalg522j"Our collaborator think it is too complicated," My first love to the field of ecology and evolution is exactly how complicated it is, and actually, it is not that complicated. You can still see lines instead of fuzzy network 😆 I think "complicated" is in the eye of the beholder. #SAGE202606 Aug 2026 02:26 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mseyjalg522jhttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3mscqsohrcs2zI think my #SAGE2026 highlight is Fernandez Ginting actually made his own supervisor answer questions directed at his presentation 🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Joke aside it was a massive impressive database on freshwater molluscs all over Papua05 Aug 2026 05:03 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mscqsohrcs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3mscijgz52s2hSingaporean museum digitally repatriating their freshwater crustaceans specimens from museums all over the globe. Darren Yeo from LKCNHM & NUS at #SAGE2026 🙌🏼05 Aug 2026 02:35 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mscijgz52s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3msaiorss6c2yVery encouraging to see that with time the number of local authors increasingly balanced with the number of species described in herpetology. Next step is increasing the number of local corresponding/lead/senior authors 🔥 #SAGE202604 Aug 2026 07:32 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msaiorss6c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3msa2fkwjr22eI blame the US for the lack of new collections in Indochina around 1960s 🤪 #SAGE202604 Aug 2026 03:17 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msa2fkwjr22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3ms7zqtr6qs26There seems to be speciation happening across elevations but we don't know why. Massive phenotypic differences, closel phylogenetic relationships. No clear barrier to dispersal so no idea yet why this happen: both ecological gradient & mid-elevation barrier seems implausible Any ideas? #SAGE202604 Aug 2026 03:05 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7zqtr6qs26https://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3ms7xn6tjyc2uNot a herpetologist but my research career was kickstarted by a herpetologist supervisor and these detailed microhabitat recordings as well as heavy statistics in anything measurable is how I did my works in mammals. Great mentorship goes a long way to next generations of scientists 🙂 #SAGE202604 Aug 2026 02:27 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7xn6tjyc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3ms7vfuzyhk2l"Everyone wants clear story, clear concordance between genetic and morphology, everything is fine, etc you sorted the clade and happy. But if you got that, there is no more research. How do you get more funding from clear story?" #SAGE202604 Aug 2026 01:47 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7vfuzyhk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3ms6isdfv5s22I got lovely colleagues taking my picture 🥰 trying to talk about the domestication and introgression complexity of Asian Bos and why mainland SEA is extremely important for it at #SAGE2026 If anyone happen to have access to gaur, banteng, or kouprey from mainland SEA please reach out 😆03 Aug 2026 12:29 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6isdfv5s22https://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3ms5pjqzj3k2jIf only we can get DNA from fossils03 Aug 2026 04:57 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms5pjqzj3k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3ms5i2ps3mc2wHappy to be attending Southeast Asian conference in Evolution at #SAGE2026 in Phuket, Thailand! Only happened once every 4-5 years gathering distinct scientific community; you don't wanna miss it when it happens! Grand venue, generous goodie bag, extraordinary evolutionary biology, good food 🤌🏼👌🏼03 Aug 2026 02:43 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms5i2ps3mc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3mrzlmzu2ks27Is it possible for Indonesia? But our economy is just too bad for any in-kind contribution especially in the political year of 2029. Also, not enough SMBE "alumni" to help 🥲 More things in your goodie bags than any country in Global North that hosted SMBE is guaranteed within the same cost 😝 [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Aug 2026 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrzlmzu2ks27https://bsky.app/profile/sagitaninta.bsky.social/post/3mrylpenvhk2h"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oik.11867?campaign=woletoc01 Aug 2026 04:05 +0000at://did:plc:jexbklejunltaptntlwxx5z3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrylpenvhk2h