I think I understand how it can be that LLMs are both exceptionally good and quite terrible at programming. It's because there are two entirely different skillsets that we both call "good at programming." LLMs have only one of them. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/llms-excel...

Community competitions help benchmark approaches in computational biology. Struck et al. now present GHIST 2024 - The First Genomic History Inference Strategies Tournament, for the inference of evolutionary history from genome data. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf257 #evobio #molbio #compbio #popgen

Species invasions often create a "founder effect" that makes it hard to see effects of adaptation to the invaded habitat— genomic signals of a rapid post-bottleneck expansion look a lot like signals of adaptation. This study of European starlings teases those signals apart! 🌿🪶 buff.ly/4RopxHb

It is so nice to finally see the first paper of my PhD published! It was possible thanks to invaluable contributions of Andrea Chiocchio, @mariaheikkila.bsky.social, @jadrankarota.bsky.social, Lauri Kaila, and @lepphylo.bsky.social.

At the workshop on #Phylogenomics and #Evolutionary Genomics, @nclark.bsky.social will be giving a lecture and lab on linking #genotype-to-phenotype in a #phylogenetic framework Space is limited - register today to ensure your attendance! Registration link: evomics.org/apply-worksh...

@guyleonard.bsky.social et al. report a near-complete genome and transcriptome sequence dataset for green algae host Paramecium bursaria, an endosymbiotic model system. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf183 #genome #evolution

Incredible paper - Genomic architecture of eggmimicry and its consequencesfor speciation in parasitic cuckoos www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... and a great commentary here www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... @btobirds.bsky.social

Come join the Workshop on Phylogenomics in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia, from January 25 through February 7, 2026! Applications close November 15! #phylogenetics #evolution #genomics #ai evomics.org/apply-worksh...

Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs Editorial @nature.com this week And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/d41...

A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...

A personal favorite, long time in the making. Adelina and David (@dduneau.bsky.social) were instrumental in getting this done. doi.org/10.1186/s129...

This preprint shows that the huge recent progress of non-coding effect predictions is likely going to help tremendously in this area. A must read. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reid et al. use empirically-based theoretical modeling to show how immigration rate affects the competing outcomes of evolutionary rescue, inbreeding-induced extinction vortex and migrational meltdown. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Brilliant use of gfp-tagged transposons & automated scoring of kernels, combined with differential style-lengths along maize ear, to screen for genes underlying pollen competition in maize. Diana gave a banger of a presentation on this in #Zeavolution this morning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Claire Merot opens the afternoon session at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about the structural genetic diversity across the tree of life. Structural variants (SVs) are in order de magnitude higher than SNPs. TEs accounts for many SVs. SVs are different across different lineages.

With help of international colleagues at @jgi.doe.gov, @oregonstate.edu, and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social, we are relasing new parameters for Tiberius. Thx to Lars Gabriel, @tomasbruna.bsky.social, Samuel Talbot, @chriswheat.bsky.social, @masta.bsky.social - and many others. github.com/Gaius-August...

My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🦟 From October 13-15, a broad group of researchers met in Houston (USA) for the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect Antimicrobial Peptides to discuss the evolution, molecular mechanisms, and translational potential of AMPs.

Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis? @jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles! Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...

We are looking for a physics/maths graduate with an interest in biology, or a biology graduate with strong computational/mathematical skills/interests, to join us as a PhD student working on biomechanical modelling of butterfly wing scale structure formation www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social spoke today at #LivingData2025 about journals that disappear from the web. To learn more about his example: the hijacking and fraudulent DOI Assignment of The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, see our BHL blogpost: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2022/10/jour...

One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to see my former @nbis.se advisory program student Zach Nolen's new pipeline PopGLen for analyses of short-read data using genotype-likelihood based methods out! Github: github.com/zjnolen/PopG... Paper: academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Check out this amazing paper by @ignacioq.bsky.social et al. on the rise and fall of clades using a new fossilized birth-death model and inegrating phylogenetic and fossil occurence data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now with @rosafernandez.bsky.social at @atlasea.bsky.social meeting in @mnhn.fr #Paris

1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005 How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.

Come be my colleague! Tenured Associate Professor position opening in Plant Ecology at my department @stockholm-uni.bsky.social www.su.se/department-o...

Celebrating the first 1000 genomes of Lepidoptera in Europe, sequenced at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social in collaboration with sampling hubs across the UK via the DToL project www.darwintreeoflife.org & across Europe via @projectpsyche.bsky.social www.projectpsyche.org & @10klepgenomes.bsky.social

1/3 Excited that my final PhD MS is online! Big thanks to Ullasa (PI) (vanasiri.in) & collaborators Freerk and Urszula. Turns out humidity, not just temperature, plays a major role in butterfly eyespot plasticity. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Extreme female philopatry in Pachypus beetles reveals 14 cryptic species! 🧬 Our study shows ancient speciation (5.3mya) despite limited dispersal, linked to the Messinian salinity crisis. Integrative taxonomy uncovers hidden diversity. #Taxonomy #Genetics url: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

This is my kinda college hotel. My room has a coffee table book of all the plants on campus, organized phylogenetically! At Huazhong Agricultural University.

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday! 🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling 📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines! 🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

🚀 The next edition of Bioinformatics of Transposable Elements with @valentinapeona.bsky.social & @ritarebollo.bsky.social is just around the corner! 🧬 Jump into the world of #transposons and level up your #bioinformatics skills ⏳ Seats are limited: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Interested in phylogenomics and genome evolution? Join us in Cesky Krumlov next January! The list of topics and faculty is simply spectacular! 🧬🪾🧬🪲🦞🦐🌿🌾🦠🧫

New review out! With students in my lab, we explore how population size shapes speciation—from drift in small populations to selection in large ones. Do small or large populations speciate faster? The answer is more nuanced than you might think. esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"Why sequence the #genome of every species? A view from evolutionary biology" Did you catch this amazing new review in our journal by @peterhox.bsky.social? REad it for FREE here now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @thembauk.bsky.social #dnasequencing #chromosome #mutation #evolution

How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Absolutely yes. And I'm proud that @asn-amnat.bsky.social has led the way on this with requiring code and data editors checking code for about five years now!

It's been great hosting you, @marcinwiorek.bsky.social! Looking forward to more collaborations together 🦋🧬

Un-frigging-believable. I have waited for something like this for so long!

Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam. Try the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4045010/... Give Muyuan feedback: steamcommunity.com/app/4045010 #ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach

@nicolasdussex.bsky.social et al. investigate the genomic basis of adaptation in the Svalbard reindeer, an endemic subspecies that colonized the High Arctic ~7,000 years ago, adapting to extreme cold, day length changes, and resource scarcity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf160 #genome #evolution

Early bird applications are now open! Go go go genomics!

We discovered an endogenous retrovirus that's still spreading in natural D. melanogaster populations! It was horizontally transferred from D. erecta in Central Africa, so we named it "Kuruka", which means "jump" in Swahili. Read its cool story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

Rapid, accurate long- and short-read mapping to large pangenome graphs with vg Giraffe www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/vgteam/long-...

Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)

Schall & @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social characterized structural variation in dogs using a combination of long- and short-read data and genome assemblies. Several SVs have frequency profiles across breeds consistent with selection. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf173 #genome #evolution #TEsky

Interested in the analysis on Transposable elements? 🧬 Have a look at our course with @valentinapeona.bsky.social & @ritarebollo.bsky.social We'll cover everything from TE biology to de novo library construction, quantification, & transcriptomic analysis. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Great stuff from Leland also involving my research group - there is a whole new previously hard to access layer of molecular control via RNA modifications on mRNA