Science Christmas Carols!!!!! (great background music the whole family will enjoy) youtu.be/efXGqG2tMgQ?...

The UK-based science sleuth Sholto David will receive $2,625,000 following a settlement with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which admitted that its researchers misrepresented data and images in 14 scientific journal articles. cen.acs.org/research-int... #chemsky 🧪

‘tis the season to celebrate the many animal species that reproduce via parthenogenesis - or reproduction from an unfertilized egg. Pictured here are 3 species of all-female, parthenogenetic gecko: Mourning Gecko; Bynoe's gecko; & Indopacific slender gecko #MerryChristmas #Herpetology 🎄🧪🦎

I've been thinking about the "virtual cell" concept and wanted to write up a few thoughts. Specifically on how I think the prior experience in GWAS informs the most likely way these models will be useful. andrewcarroll.github.io/2025/12/23/t...

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

Now accepted in Genetics! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... We ask why and when rescaling of forward simulations in population genetics is not accurate. There are some interesting results for people performing simulations with selection.

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

I’m glad AI lovers use AI generated images when presenting their work, in their talks and papers. This lets me know when to stop taking them serious and start wondering how much of anything they write or say was their own brain, then I realize I don’t care and check my email. 🧪

We have 🐟 herring pre print! Our new study reveals that ancient gene flow between Pacific and Atlantic herring played a key role in helping Atlantic herring adapt to the brackish waters of the Baltic Sea. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📖 Published📖 In our new application paper, Mestre-Tomás introduce GLOSSA, an open-source R package and Shiny application designed to make marine species distribution modelling more accessible 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/W3cemFv

Attack of the blankets!!!

Stockholm University's Department of Zoology seeks an Associate Professor in Animal Ecology and Evolution. Deadline: Feb 28, 2026. More info: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:883922/where:4/ #job

An example of AI hallucinations entering the scientific record, in some way -- and another reason not to let Google Scholar automatically update your profile; manually review its proposed changes instead...

This headline is wrong and misleading, and the brief text below it is not much better. Whatever might constitute a full explanation of the differences between sapiens and other hominins, we remain confident that 'genes' will be central to it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... #PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV

While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪 Explainer🧵👇1/n

Who really lives fast and dies young? In Drosophila, females show faster ageing and reproductive senescence than males across social environments, overturning sexual selection predictions and highlighting social effects on ageing. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... @laurenmharrison.bsky.social

🧬 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: “tskit arg visualizer: Interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphs.”  Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf302 Authors include: @kitchensjn.bsky.social, @yanwong.bsky.social

GSC: efficient lossless compression of VCF files with fast query academic.oup.com/gigascience/... 🧬🖥️ github.com/luo-xiaolong...

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

In my first Editorial as Associate Editor for @conphysjournal.bsky.social, we help combat this lack of training by providing some "tips and tricks" for writing constructive peer reviews, based on our collective experiences as editors for multiple scientific journals.

My critiques of #ColossalBio and their #Deextinction scam might lead you to believe that I’m anti GMOs, I’m not; this is a stunning example genetic engineering in pursuit of beauty and aesthetics 🧪 🧬🌹

Nature would do well to publish more content like this thoughtful piece from @kevinbaker.bsky.social and fewer Buzzfeed listicles gussied up as career advice "Five productivity hacks for using AI in your scientific workflow"

Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas. Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...

We recently published a follow up in a new article published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social about the hemoglobin gene cluster deletions in the icefish ancestor. We show that each deletion involve different mechanisms and that transposons fueled these deletions! 🐟🧪🌎🧊🇦🇶 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

NEW METHODS ARTICLE: Phylogenetic GLMMs open doors to study evolution of discrete traits. We show how binary models extend to ordinal & nominal traits, using bird data, and provide tutorials to make these methods accessible to evolutionary biologists: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Mizuno et al.

🚀 Join our online course “Species Distribution & Ecological Niche Modelling in R” with @ambarbosa.bsky.social from Jan 19–23! Learn SDM & ENM concepts with hands-on R practice—no advanced skills needed. Save your spot now! 🌿👉 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

GWAS has been an incredible discovery tool for human genetics: it regularly identifies *causal* links from 1000s of SNPs to any given trait. But mechanistic interpretation is usually difficult. Our latest work on causal models for this is out yesterday: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short🧵:

Are you excited about pangenomics? If so, join us in Edinburgh on 8-9th June to discuss the latest methods & insights from using these approaches across biodiversity! More details here: royalsociety.org/science-even... Organised together with @henrylnorth.bsky.social & @joanameier.bsky.social!

It's in print! My opinionated dive into the definition of "coevolution" is officially out in the December issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Such an awesome paper! Go @alexrob.bsky.social, @alisonfeder.bsky.social and Ben Kerr! At times less is more. www-nature-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/articles/s41...

Watch Jan Ellenberg @scilifelab.se on the importance of #PlanetaryCellBiology and opportunities for ECRs. Join the discussion tomorrow Dec 7 | 8:30-9:45 AM EST CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgRW... and/or join our community docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚀 Big news in genome annotation! The latest Nature Methods paper presents Helixer. Developed as part of the @denbi.bsky.social infrastructure, Helixer makes high-quality genome annotations more accessible and efficient for the community. 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02939-1

Accurate Runs of Homozygosity Estimation From Low Coverage Genome Sequences in Non-Model Species #popgen #consgen doi.org/10.1111/1755...

Very proud to see this work highlighted by the journal! Publishing in Evolution has always meant something special to me. Congrats to the first author Sylvain Pouzet who found the energy to keep on working on his master project during his PhD.

RegEvol: detection of directional selection in regulatory sequences through phenotypic predictions and phenotype-to-fitness functions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690685v1

Rahman, Smith & Szpiech present selscan v2.1, a dynamic programming algorithm to improve runtime and memory usage in the calculation of extended haplotype homozygosity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf275 #evobio #molbio #compbio

Zhao et al. analysed phylogenetic signal in OXPHOS genes, mtDNA genes and nuclear genes in 53 beetle species, detecting two major cases of mitonuclear discordance caused by introgressive hybridization and incomplete lineage sorting. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf291 #evobio #molbio

Sharma & Kumar present the Net Bootstrap Support (NBS) approach that accounts for phylogenetic variation in the estimates of bootstrap confidence. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf296 #evobio #molbio #phylogenetics

Democratizing protein language model training, sharing and collaboration www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eOikv) 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/westlake-rep...

The EU has published rules for the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Butterflies, moths, bees and hoverflies will all be monitored by every Member State. Target to reverse decline in Pollinators by 2030 and increase pops. A big step in conserving biodiversity environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...

plinkQC: An Integrated Tool for Ancestry Inference, Sample Selection, and Quality Control in Population Genetics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 R package meyer-lab-cshl.github.io/plinkQC/ #Rstats

The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat. Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S

The DNA of butterflies & moths is supporting conservation, shedding light on evolution, and could find new ways to stop pests 🦋 1,000 genomes have been released, and @projectpsyche.bsky.social aims to continue until all 11,665 European species have been sequenced🧬 www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/10...

Medieval agricultural and trade practices in southwestern Germany boosted plant diversity for centuries, with biodiversity peaking around 1000 CE and declining only when human activity contracted during the Black Death. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Q6ca50XxIvC

Wow A good explanation!