#biodiversity #bioinformatics Summer School ... 21-26 June in Siegen, Germany co-organised by @sib.swiss & @denbi.bsky.social www.sib.swiss/training/cou... 🟢 eDNA & ecosystems 🟣 pangenome diversity 🔵 population genetics 🟡 comparative genomics Register to apply, selections will start from March 16th

Check this out 👀 “Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (And Why They Are Wrong!)” is now published in PLOS Computational Biology! The paper takes on 10 persistent myths about Galaxy and responds with evidence and real-world examples from the community. galaxyproject.org/news/2026-02...

The growing number of sequenced #genomes provides a positive feedback loop, in which database searches become more effective and shared sequence patterns emerge more clearly www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biodiversity #genomics

2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 6️⃣ will be full of exciting scientific events for the #BiodiversityGenomics community in Europe! Are you attending or organizing one? Let us know!! We can help advertise your session, talk, or event! 👉️ www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/confere... #science #events #conferences #genomics

📄 Repeated evolution of supergenes on an ancient social chromosome 🐜🧬 ⬇️ www.cell.com/current-biol...

What is biodiversity? What is genomics? How do they work together to support species monitoring & conservation? 🌍🧬 The #Connections series explores these questions: biodiversitygenomics.eu/category/con... @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social

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Queen-only parasitic parthogenetic ant. Cool combination! www.cell.com/current-biol...

#biodiversity #bioinformatics Summer School ... 21-26 June in Siegen, Germany co-organised by @sib.swiss & @denbi.bsky.social www.sib.swiss/training/cou... 🟢 eDNA & ecosystems 🟣 pangenome diversity 🔵 population genetics 🟡 comparative genomics Register to apply, selections will start from March 16th

From the @ergabiodiv.bsky.social community & Sampling & Sample Processing (SSP) Committee onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Outputs like this are great examples of the bottom-up co-creation philosophy of ERGA actions - congratulations to the whole team! #biodiversity #genomics

📄 No evidence that haplodiploidy favors the evolution of eusociality 🐝🐜 ⬇️ www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Join us for the ERGA @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Plenary today at 15:00 CET ... 🟢 highlights from the ERGA Committees 🔵 keynote: Cibele Sotero-Caio presents Genomes on a Tree www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/address...

Reminder! Join us next Monday for the #ERGAPlenary — this month featuring a talk by @scaioc.bsky.social about Genomes on a Tree #GoaT 🐐 @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social #genomes #database #science #community

Reminder: as well as sharing or finding #training materials, you can also find or post information about upcoming #courses, #workshops, and training events related to the production and/or use of reference #genomes at the ERGA KnowledgeHub knowledge.erga-biodiversity.eu?category=eve...

Very excited for the upcoming seminars of the of the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN @eseb.bsky.social! Featuring @manishamuna.bsky.social, @mobilepurin.bsky.social, @joealcock.bsky.social, @asherleeks.bsky.social Join the email list here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

🗒️ The ERGA #SocialJustice Committee recently published a positioning statement on current events and recent political developments. ➡️ Read the statement: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-so...

Highlight of our review paper on long-read sequencing for biodiversity analysis by the EBP @ebpgenome.bsky.social #BiodiversityGenomics #eDNA #Biodiversity #PacBio #ONT Read @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041...

💬 Check out this interview to learn more about our #SocialJustice committee and their plans for promoting positive #change inside our community and beyond: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/5-quest... @jamesfvfleming.bsky.social @fghiselli.bsky.social

BMC Biology is currently welcoming submissions of original research to the “Genome organization and evolution” Collection, which I am supporting as a Guest Editor. If interested check out the link: www.biomedcentral.com/collections/... Deadline: 26 March #GenomeEvolution @bmc.springernature.com

🐐 Join this month’s #ERGAPlenary for an update on the Genomes on a Tree (#GoaT) datastore, with recent developments and community feedback highlights, presented by @scaioc.bsky.social 📅 16/02 at 15:00 CET 🔗 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/address... #Data #genomes @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

Thanks to the fantastic #biodiversity #genomics @ergabiodiv.bsky.social & @ebpgenome.bsky.social #community!

From the @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Sampling & Sample Processing Committee: recommendations to support both small-scale #biogenome projects & large initiatives onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #European Reference #Genome Atlas (ERGA)

The recent Review on the applications of 'omics tools to the evolutionary ecology of bees is the focus of January's GBE Highlight. From Genomes to Hives: ‘Omics Perspectives on Eusocial Evolution and the Ecology of Bees 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf249 📸 Amro Zayed #genome #evolution #bees

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And if you want a list of the reasons that have been given for keeping Musk as FRS, there's this piece deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve...

If functional constraints limit the realm of possibilities in terms of allowed #gene evolutionary trajectories then recurring patterns should be observable for genes evolving under similar constraints academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

In the #gonad, #sex is not an irrevocable commitment, and requires active maintenance. Artyom Kopp explores a new @plosbiology.org study elucidating the molecular mechanisms that preserve sexual identity in the adult #Drosophila #testis 🧪 Paper: plos.io/4pMT6hq Primer: plos.io/3MRBBxG

🎥 Want to hear directly from our committee representatives? They presented these highlights during the last #ERGAPlenary. Rewatch their talks anytime: youtu.be/ldj49yUimeI?... 👏 Congratulations for the great work!!! #community #plenary #ERGA

What was the #ERGACommunity up to in 2025? The answer is: a lot! Head to our website for an overview of the main achievements and ongoing priorities across our community ➡️ www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-20... #community #2025highlights #ERGA @ebpgenome.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social

Very happy to share that I just published a new paper from my thesis! 🎉 We analysed 546 species of ant to understand how extreme specialisation into reproductive and non-reproductive roles evolved.  Key discoveries in thread🧵 👇 Full paper here: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

@kztwyman.bsky.social & @andygardner.bsky.social mathematically connect the dynamics of natural selection to optimisation to provide formal justification for viewing obligately eusocial colonies as adaptive individuals in their own right—that is, superorganism: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Announcing ERGA Community #Genomes on GoaT Guidelines: zenodo.org/records/1582... @ergabiodiv.bsky.social #biodiversity #genomics The European Reference #Genome Atlas

GIGA VI will be in the Philippines July 6-10, 2026. We have a pre-registration survey and a survey for interest about the Genome Assembly Workshop we will be running during the meeting. Sign up to receive updates about the conference: gigavi.org

Population-scale long-read datasets, involving sequencing and de novo assembly of multiple individuals within a species, are better at capturing the full spectrum of structural variants, but such datasets are rare outside of humans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics

Join me Tuesday with authors J. Arvid Agren and Manus M. Patten for the launch of their book The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict.

New preprint out! Using ~75k environmental OTUs + 77 fossil calibrations, we reconstructed a Proterozoic timeline of eukaryote evolution. Our results show crown eukaryotes were already diversifying >1.6 Ga, long before the first undisputed fossils (~1.05 Ga). 🔗 DOI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The ant nest serves as the skeleton of the ant superorganism. Turns out that a colony’s demographic and physical history are sketched into the structure of its nest, with older ants responding to catastrophe and digging differently. buff.ly/Ci54Vzk

An interesting result is that the rate of species description has accelerated, with the largest numbers of new species per year in the past ~20 years. We're currently experiencing an age of discovery for Earth's biodiversity & the role of natural history museum collections couldn't be more important

Sequencing and hybrid #genome assembly of 45 taxonomically and ecologically diverse termites and two cockroaches 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biodiversity #genomics

eggNOG v7, the first release implementing a fully phylogenetic, domain-centric workflow - Speciation and duplication events are detected using a noise-tolerant algorithm to generate hierarchically consistent, evolutionarily dated OGs academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #orthology #evolution

What's the working routine of a researcher? Posing for photoshoots is a possibility! We just had a photo session to portait some key aspects of WoodWideAnts research: #bioinformatics, #wetlab & #taxonomy 🖥️🧬🐜 This is part of our commitment to #SciComm to bring science to the public! #bugsky

Nguyen et al. used C. elegans as a model to study mitonuclear epistasis, leveraging genetic and phenotypic data to show that mitonuclear epistasis contributed significantly to phenotypic variance across all tested conditions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf300 #evobio #molbio

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What does the #DeExtinction of “dire wolves” and Hitler’s DNA have in common? #Pseudoscience, scientific #Misinformation, #Clickbate headlines, and #Hype Great article by @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social on media-first science 🧪 #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky #HumanGenetics

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️ Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown! Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵

These wood ants are edge specialists... but not all edges are equal. Jacob Podesta used a decade of population expansion data to show that wood ants spread more quickly along certain edges, depending on the edge orientation. Currently available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Analysis of read mapping accuracy and efficiency, missing data, heterozygosity, and inferred phylogenies to evaluate the impact of reference #genome and read-mapping method onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New in @currentbiology.bsky.social "Genomic evidence of a complex supergene system linking dispersal to social polymorphism" #Myrmecina_graminicola Mona,S., Gay,E.J., Ducancel,J., Laso-Jadart,R., Chifflet-Belle, P., Doums,C. @isyeb.mnhn.fr @ephe-psl.bsky.social et al. 🐜 www.cell.com/current-biol...