RE: https://ecoevo.social/@marcrr/115656029348896562 Updated preprint with cleaner figures and supplementary data

RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@snsf_ch/115688673236196835 Sad that this exciting funding program is ending because of budget cuts

Call for proceedings at #eccb2026 https://eccb2026.org/call-proceedings

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@Elendol/115684857823966607 I feel seen

I'm excited to present this new model to detect positive selection on regulatory sequences, which has been 3 years in the making! Thanks to Alexandre Laverré and @Phylogenetrips for their amazing work on this project. 😃 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.26.690685 #bioinformatics #MolecularEvolution

"We present DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology, evolutionary biology and archaeology (https://dafnee.isem-evolution.fr/). DAFNEE includes information on over 600 journals (co)run by academic or non-profit institutions, aiming at helping to keep publishing funds within […]

Amos was not only a giant of #bioinformatics and #biocuration, but one of the nicest people I've met in academia. His support and advice were invaluable when we were establishing @bgeedb, and I will always remember how warmly he welcomed us to @SIB when I arrived in Switzerland 20 years ago […]

Full room for @ElisabethBik at interdepartmental biology seminar

A study in Science reveals that tiny tweaks to Elon Musk’s X algorithm can produce the same level of political polarization in one week that historically took three years. Users didn’t even notice. This isn’t content delivery—it’s propaganda manufacturing. X is a Russian disinformation tool […]

In a rare show of sanity, the Swiss Data Protection Officer has severely restricted the use of international cloud services – particularly hyperscalers like AWS, Google, or Microsoft – for Swiss federal authorities! […]

#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

*At last, an entire light-day. That's a full 1/365th of a light-year. #spacetravel https://www.popsci.com/science/voyager-one-light-day-earth/

Randall Monroe's #xkcd comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons. * Posted in Nov 2012: Two Years * Posted in Dec 2017: Seven Years * Posted in Nov 2020: Ten Years * Posted yesterday (Nov 2025): Fifteen Years […]

Interesting @snsf_ch data on career interuptions (parenthood, care duties, illness, part-time work) for academic researchers by gender https://data.snf.ch/stories/cv-deduction-en.html

"Vienna researchers retrieved all #whatsapp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history" "...downloaded all 77 million profile pictures visible to everyone—a proud 3.8 terabytes in total. In a random sample of half a million images drawn from this, a facial […]

Nouveau Rogatons - 18/11/2025 - "Vivez vos Rêves" Source: https://bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2025/11/18

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@GenomeBiolEvol/115548007022672012 Great to see this exciting perspective by young evolutionary biologists lead by the great Marina Brasó-Vives out! @dee_unil

The "Fedora Man" famously caught in a photo right after the Louvre heist turned out to be a 15 year old kid who likes to dress as a 1940's detective. Because Paris. https://apnews.com/article/louvre-fedora-man-ap-photo-c0d59847ef5f836a0c5ac49de8bff441

The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf149 #climatechange #climatescience

Interesting overview of the optimism and pessimism among climate scientists in Switzerland https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-solutions/the-emotional-side-of-climate-science/90250784 #climatechange #climatescience #academicchatter

I did a drawing of a deep sea isopod

You cannot exaggerate how stupid this anti science movement is "RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/25/rfk-jr-saturated-fats

Our new Perspective is now out as Early Alert in the journal Evolution, where we re-visit evolutionary rate-time relationships and discuss the challenge of how to analyze and biologically interpret them: #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #statistics […]

Key findings: 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. Gemini performed worst with […]

Scientists Just Found a Tiny Genetic Switch That Could Feed Billions https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-found-a-tiny-genetic-switch-that-could-feed-billions/

our new website has a full overview at https://www.wikipathways.org/browse/citedin You may not differences in the numbers. One reason is that not all cited pathways are in fact on the new website #bioinformatics

@PLOS "exploring how scholarly communication business models can move beyond article processing charges (APCs)" https://explore.plos.org/validating-how-we-can-redefine-open-science-business-models #openaccess #OpenScience

One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish. It's also available as a print at www.tomgauld.com/

Rapport et propositions intéressants de France Universités sur la défense de la liberté académique https://franceuniversites.fr/actualite/rapport-defendre-la-liberte-academique/ #LibertéAcadémique #AcademicFreedom

The splendid Napoleon Oak 🌳 in its 248th year, now on the campus of the University of Lausanne. ➡️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Oak_(Lausanne) For this tree, #UNIL researchers tested how many 🧬 mutations have accumulated over the centuries […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

If for instance the @eLife website goes down, it's no problem because all the elife articles are also available in parallel at EuropePMC. This was a solved problem 20 years ago but it keeps on happening 🤣 Those who pay for the current publishing system really need to think hard about if we […]

I love days like this, when a hugely profitable academic publishing company f*cks up, and the whole research world actually notices. This is so so soooo avoidable. There is absolutely nothing stopping publishers having content available on three different platforms (redundancy). There should […]

Excellente lettre par mes collègues de l'Institut des humanités en médecine au CHUV et à la FBM de l'Université de Lausanne #UNIL https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/trump-annule-les-savoirs-en-sante-produisons-en

You are a very busy, very important professor publishing very important work. Do you a) just publish the code and data along with the paper because you know your work will survive close scrutiny and you have better things to do b) spend your time handling individual data requests, negotiating […]

Nice visualisation of the use of the International System of Units @ZachWeinersmith https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/measurement

The thing I had most hoped would happen on the feature-design side is that fediverse systems and ATProto systems would learn from each other and I think this is a good example of that actually taking place.

I think Mastodon's proposal for starter packs is a significant positive evolution of the way Bluesky rolled them out. I wound up on a bunch of packs there and it was…not a great thing for my specific brain and purpose. I do hope the people in Masto's comments saying […] [Original post on mas.to]

Rogatons Rediffusions - 08/02/2025 - "Streaming" Source: https://www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2025/02/08 LES LIVRES ! Tome 01: https://www.exemplaire-editions.fr/exemplaire/librairie/livre/rogatons Tome 02: https://www.exemplaire-editions.fr/exemplaire/librairie/livre/rogatons-tome-deux

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.) As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community. Read this blog post about our approach and let us know […]

Yale researchers didn't stop there. They also identified what people most need to know to catalyze action and support climate policy; and it's not about global temps, ice sheets, or ocean currents. What people most need to know about climate change is that (1) others care, and (2) there is hope.

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act. Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

TIL that you can put language-specific formulas in an Excel file, that make your file unusable by people who have Excel in another language. (I spent some time debugging a file that had a formula containing "Faux" instead of FALSE)

Cites this excellent piece: "A university isn’t a town square where anyone has the right to say anything they like... Universities contribute to society not by producing more speech, but by producing better speech. Our business is quality, not quantity" academicmatters.ca/free-speech-...

Thoughtful piece on the distinction between freedom of speech and academic freedom, and how the former is being mobilised to erode the latter: "Under freedom of speech, the distinction between true and false is irrelevant. Academic freedom is about seeking truth or producing better knowledge"

Impressive and very interesting: EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems (Not open access but you can apparently create a free login to access) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01201-2/abstract?dgcid=tlcom_carousel1_lanceteat25

I've finally read "Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia" by @olivia et al, it's really excellent and articulates many points I've been struggling to communicate to colleagues. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099

Bayesian humor at #smbc by @ZachWeinersmith 🤓😁 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/priors

The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91. She loved this _Far Side_ cartoon, and wrote a forward for a later Gary Larson collection.

I'm completely out of the loop in most of the fancy new programming my group does, so it's fun when I can provide relevant information with some old-fashioned grep | cut | sort | uniq 🤓 #unix #bioinformatics