1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Last day to apply to come work with me on developing AI approaches to understanding pangenome evolution www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU184/p...

Excited to announce I have officially joined the University of Barcelona for my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship! I'll be working with Jesus Lozano Fernandez in the DeepEvo lab at the @geneticsub.bsky.social, on various deep nodes in the tree of life!

🧵In collaboration with Caroline Puente-Lelievre, Ed Moody, Rosie Cater, and Tom Williams we just submitted a new paper describing the prokaryotic origins of the COMMD protein family. @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social‬, ‪@rosemaryjcater.bsky.social‬. @kmichie.bsky.social‬. 1/n

This first-author publication is my… first! Archaea kill bacteria by targeting their Achilles’ heel: peptidoglycan. Big shoutout to @ahocher.bsky.social‬, @valeriesoo.bsky.social‬, Pauline Misson, @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social‬ and MRC LMS Proteomics. A thread 🔽 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The proceedings volume from our Nov24 meeting on the evolution of biospheres is just in PhilTransB @royalsocietypublishing.org delivering insights into how our biosphere evolved - and how other biospheres may evolve

Very happy to announce our new paper on the evolution of metabolism is out now! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... With @tweethinking.bsky.social @sabifo4.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Davide Pisani, Tim Lenton and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social (1/2)

Great to see some nice news articles out about the new display we've been working on @dublindeadzoo.bsky.social ! 🦓🐢🐇🦥🦇 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Our paper on VPS29 is out now! Pleased to have been part of the team: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

(1/14) ¿Has probado alguna vez a trazar tu árbol genealógico? Es un ejercicio interesante para entender tus raíces, a pesar de que se complica cuantas más generaciones atrás intentas llegar… Imagínate un árbol así, pero a escala de toda la vida en la Tierra. #HiloDivulgación

Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out! @neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex

☕🌊 Coffee too weak? Pour more slowly A new study found that even a gentle water jet creates avalanches in coffee grounds, boosting mixing and extraction. Slower pours = stronger brews with less coffee. 🔗 doi.org/10.1063/5.02... #Coffee #SciComm 🧪

Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released! (Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Featured image with Allan Carrillo-Baltodano This is an image of a larva of a phoronid worm. To swim, the larva propels itself using cilia 💃 Find out about @allancarbal.bsky.social and his #EvoDevo research on marine annelids: thenode.biologists.com/featured-ima...

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Ecstatic to have played a small part in this, we find that the first aerobes predate the GOE by almost a billion years! Photosynthesis implications Lead by Adrián Davín, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @xrefugee13.bsky.social @tweethinking.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New isolates from eukaryote's closest archaeal relative: ‘Hodarchaeales’!! Syntrophic microaerotolerant peptide-degrading anaerobic archaea w/ simple cell structure & protrusions. Features conserved across the phylum provide new insight into our ancestor’s biology! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Three-year postdoc in computational evolutionary biology at the University of Glasgow. Ideal for PhD holders in bioinformatics. Applications close on March 18, 2025. More info: https://vibelab.co.uk/ #postdoc

Job Alert: Senior Research Associate in Phylogenomics @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social researching timing, sequence and phenotypic consequences of rediploidisation following whole genome duplication - comparative genomics, molecular clock and phenotypic disparity methods, with @jameswclark.bsky.social

Job announcement: a four-year postdoc position in phylogenomics at the Milner Centre for Evolution, Bath, with James Clark and me (I'm moving to Bath later in the year...). www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

PDRA opportunity at Kew - chance to work on an exciting new project with a wonderful boss! (speaking from first hand experience ☺️)

How may evolutionary rates vary on different planets? See our preprint where we think how temperature impacts the timings of the origins of major groups

Now hanging prominently in lab so we always remember why we’re here and that what we do matters

Are you interested in studying archaea with their diverse symbionts? We look forward hearing from you: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...

Mark your calendars! Archaea power hour is back!

New research on ancient Asgard archaeal ESCRT-III proteins reveals evolutionary secrets of membrane remodelling. Diorge Souza, Javier Espadas and Sami Chaaban, investigated the ESCRT-III proteins with Buzz Baum and Aurelien Roux. Read more: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/asgard-archa... #LMBResearch (1/2)

Really cool project to work on, happy to see it out!

Happy to share our paper’s final version on the evolution, structure, and membrane binding / remodeling of Asgard ESCRT-III proteins! And my first 🦋 post! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

January Editorial: We look back at papers published in NEE in 2024 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #1 Cited: 🔥 Extreme wildfires www.nature.com/articles/s41... #1 Accessed: 🦠 The nature of LUCA www.nature.com/articles/s41... #1 Altmetric: 🐘 Name-calling elephants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to have the first paper of my PhD out in Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

PhD project opportunity here in Manchester to do some cool inter-disciplinary stuff on the taphonomy and fossil record of collagen. Ancient, recent, modern, lab-work, theoretical, data, imaging, its all there! Deadline Jan 31st www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

These predatory journal email addresses are slowly getting scarier.

New vacancy in my lab: explore microbial evolution in metagenomes in a 2 year post @TheQuadram @EarlhamInst , UK: quadram.ac.uk/vacancies/re... (closes 27th Jan) You will have access to unique software, 3rd gen deeply sequenced unique human cohorts.

Wow! A real honour to be included on this year's list, thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social and of course all the vital collaborators involved in the work youtu.be/p9XHI_26cPE?...

I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report: Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

Our annotations of LUCA’s domains agree well with recent annotation of LUCA’s full-length genes by @emoody.bsky.social @phil-donoghue.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1038/s415... Recent gene-tree species-tree reconciliation methods are what made inferring LUCA possible for both groups. 13/15

Fancy coming to work with @biogeo-josh.bsky.social and me looking at the impact of stress on evolution using simulations? This project is funded for four years, with a decent amount of spending money and includes cover for tuition fees no matter where in the world you are from ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

Just because you can make all the citations in your LaTeX preprint internal links to the reference list, doesn't mean you should.

THREAD So your Attention Score went down because people are rage-deleting their Twitter accounts. Why is that happening? Should I be worried? Should I see my doctor? Let's get into what the Attention Score actually is, how it's impacted by posts and deletions, WITH THE HELP OF MEMES. 1/20

New short paper in GBE on the evolution of Pseudotrichomonas track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Discovered a new tune thanks to @altmetric.com introducing bluesky metrics, a success all round!

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

We loved making this illustration of LUCA for one of @emoody.bsky.social latest papers! Many congrats to all the authors- we loved working with you! 🩷 Artwork by EunJung and @mirantakouvari.bsky.social. 🐡🧪 Check out their paper here: https://buff.ly/4g9Onkv

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

📢 Bluesky is emerging as the New Platform for Academia, but what's missing? 📊 Altmetric integration to track attention for articles 🔄 Share and ♥️ Like if you agree! 🙏 @altmetric.com please tell us it’s going to happen!

What did the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (#LECA) look like? Consensus View in #PLOSBiology; massive authorship including @AncestralState, @lauraeme.bsky.social, John Archbald, @andrewjroger.bsky.social, @dackslabecb.bsky.social, Jeremy Wideman. plos.io/4g0alq4

A women-led team of 20, working remotely, is showing up a trillion dollar megacorp. Truly inspiring.

Join the Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellowship Program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), one of the best places to do research in modern biology and develop your career. Great opportunities for statisticians, comp. biologists, AI experts, mathem. modelers! www.embl.org/eipod-linc

Anyone looking for an assistant professor position in biodiversity research? Not one but three positions available at Stockholm U: www.su.se/department-o...

Great to see it out! Paper itself wouldn't be possible, of course, without a veritable horde of collaborators, and thanks very much for @jonlambert.bsky.social for writing such a wonderful commentary!