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We just received an email from the Provost about a potential CUPE strike that mentioned: "our academic community is still navigating the impacts of the recent DFA labour disruption." I'm confused, wasn't it the Dalhousie Board that locked us out? @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social

New week, new tool: Find our Protein Domain Designer tool to generate publication-ready protein domain diagrams here: domaindesigner.farnunglab.com

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Massive investment in science in the upcoming Canadian budget would send a strong message that rationality and reason should lead the world, not charlatanism. People will return to science-based policies and health measures, and countries that have not given up will have a strong economic lead!

This is really interesting work!!

Sounds familiar. Is this the same playbook used by the Dal BoG in the current labour dispute with @dalfaculty.bsky.social Dalhousie faculty members? What's the role of the NS govt? @keepdalstrong.bsky.social

I've written a short follow up to this post, addressing the possibility that Dalhousie is, in fact, hiding money from operations in the capital budget. I hope someone shows me I'm wrong.

A very interesting post discussing: "Is Dalhousie diverting investment income to capital spending?" @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalfaculty.bsky.social mchugh-russell.ca/2025/09/15/i...

Here is a detailed and truthful account of what is going on with the Dalhousie labour dispute. @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalfaculty.bsky.social #keepdalstrong www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/...

"Here we are, with a legally-trained President once again electing to violate the duty to bargain in good faith as a tactic". Every member of the @dalfaculty.bsky.social wants to work. Stop this nonsense @dalhousie.bsky.social & bargain in good faith! #KeepDalStrong www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/...

I teach phylogenetics in my BIOC 4010/5010 "Bioinformatics" course to students in the basic biomedical sciences. For those who wonder about the relevance of these 'evolutionary' techniques to medical research, this excellent seminar showcases their application in public health settings.

I’m hopeful this will finally be resolved, but am increasingly frustrated by the lose-lose position faculty are in. In addition to the institutional damage, which impacts us all, every week delay means we’ll have to work twice as hard to cover the required material in fall term. #KeepDalStrong

With several grant deadlines coming up in the next few days, @dalfaculty.bsky.social researchers remain locked out by @dalhousieu.bsky.social and won’t be able to submit. #keepdalstrong

Another day of #DalLockout2025 means another day of research lost. @dalfaculty.bsky.social members want to get back to work asap. @noreenkamal.bsky.social shares the impacts of the lockout on her research program and long term consequences that @dalhousieu.bsky.social faces #keepdalstrong

Global segment focusing on the impact of the @dalhousieu.bsky.social lockout on nursing. #keepdalstrong

It’s disappointing that some of these so called leaders are in the health care industry. Yet their failure to negotiate & faculty lockout has crippled our ability to advance biomedical research & educating health care professionals. They are causing lasting damage to @dalhousie.bsky.social

📢 MIG Seminar: Models and Truth in Phylogenomics 🗓️ Fri, Sep 19 | ⏰ 12 - 1 pm AEST 📍 Ian Potter Auditorium (G52), Kenneth Myer Building (144) 🎙️ Prof. Rob Lanfear (ANU) 💻 Zoom available #Phylogenetics #Evolution #Bioinformatics #MIGseminar

Dalhousie leadership has made it clear that they want more precarious employment, even though it will make it very difficult to recruit and retain the outstanding highly-motivated teachers and researchers that do the heavy lifting of our academic mission. #KeepDalStrong @dalfaculty.bsky.social

I’m incensed. The lockout is crippling my research programme; a project over 2 decades in the making. Laying waste to the aggregate of our scientific expertise and research opportunities to fund the lab. They are reckless. If Dal doesn’t support my expertise, another university might.

Ren Thomas has a nice blog discussing Nous Group and Dalhousie @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social : renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou...

And munaca.com/open-letter-...

Want to know more about Nous Group activities @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social #keepdalstrong? The Queens Coalition Against Austerity has a nice summary: qcaa.ca/resources/no...

As soon as the senate reconvenes, we need a motion to investigate Nous contracting & cost, followed by a mechanism to review activities by the leadership that has harmed the academic mission of the university.

Hey, @dalhousie.bsky.social, are you listening to your faculty? They are the ones who teach the courses, supervise the research, and keep Dal running. How are they supposed to do their work properly if they're feeling exploited and unsupported? My supervisor, Dr. Mita Dasog, deserves better.

Take it from over 1,000 health care professionals: RFK Jr. is a threat to your health, your family's health, and the health of our country.  Innocent people will die at the hands of his incompetence. He must resign. www.axios.com/2025/09/03/r...

Ever heard of the Nous Group? A consulting firm that desperate universities hire to help with cost-saving and restructuring? Turns out they are actually vampires who parasitize tertiary education: drive.google.com/file/d/1_1Fk...

Why has the Dalhousie Board @dalhousieu.bsky.social been using such strange and disrespectful tactics in this labour dispute @dalfaculty.bsky.social ? Is the playbook coming from Nous Group, the consulting company that brought us "Uniforum" and presides over cost-cutting at universities worldwide?

Dalhousie @dalhousieu.bsky.social has already contracted Nous Group to do surveys...One wonders if the "crisis narrative" of the upper level admin (i.e. the "deficit crisis") and the strange behaviour of the board is somehow related. Please read on: circles.eduvation.ca/posts/inviti...

Chris Algar, Assoc Prof, Oceanography @dalhousieu.bsky.social Lessons in solidarity from the picket lines. This isn’t just a fight to #KeepDalStrong; it’s a fight against employer greed. @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

I am also waiting to get back to work to submit a grant. Any missed opportunity will impact Dal’s research competitiveness, as well as cobble my research program into nerve regeneration. But based on their silence, I am not confident the president and board will come to their senses. #KeepDalStrong

Locked out for 1 week so far. Not a peep from employer. Annoyed by their interference with our teaching and research mission (in my case, virus research for pandemic preparedness). Research grant deadline looms - Sept 10th. Grateful for my @dalfaculty.bsky.social colleagues! #KeepDalStrong

Another beautiful and mysterious protist brought into the light!!

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

In our ongoing saga of description of new protists, we are happy to introduce Multisulcus malaysiensis, a deep-branching heterolobosean that forms highly unusual multiflagellated cells with multiple ventral grooves. Great work by @kristina-prokina.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Forgot to link in #phylo #phylogenetics #EvoBio

Our paper describing our new improved GFmix models for phylogenetic inference that capture site-and-branch heterogeneity in amino acid composition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PHACE: phylogeny-aware coevolution algorithm that maps amino acid substitutions onto a phylogenetic tree to detect molecular coevolution academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.

Phylogenomic analyses indicate the archaeal superphylum DPANN originated from free-living euryarchaeal-like ancestors www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phylogenomics of Asgard archaea reveals a unique blend of prokaryotic-like horizontal transfer and eukaryotic-like gene duplication. Papier très intéressant qui cite mon preprint sur le système KJE des chaperonnes. Fait plaisir de voir ce genre de travail www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Things are so bad that I had already forgotten about some of this

The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now “communicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism