Congratulations to team members @phil-donoghue.bsky.social, @tweethinking.bsky.social, & @ssolo.bsky.social for their newly published study on the process of eukaryogenesis. We hope this framework will resolve historical events in individual gene families for the #WGDip project. 🧪🧬

🚨PhD position available!🚨🧪 I am seeking a talented PhD student to join my ERC StG project GEMINI, to explore the exciting world of vertebrate genomics and comparative genomics, seeking to understand the genomics of miniaturisation! 🦇🦎🦜🐸🐟🦈 🤏🧬 Deadline: 4 Jan 2026! employment.ku.dk/phd?show=153...

In biblical times, frogs were seen as a plague Today, thanks to new research, we know they’re actually guardians against disease 1/5

Just gave my talk at @austevolsoc.bsky.social 🐸 Shared our work on polyploidy and sex chromosome evolution in Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus. Exciting discussions on autopolyploids vs allopolyploids and their inheritance patterns! #AES2025 #polyploidy #Neobatrachus #amphibians #evolution

Off to AES 2025 in Brisbane to talk Neobatrachus! Records suggest both tetraploids can show up in Queensland. After three years with their specimens in Germany, the idea of seeing them in person feels a bit like meeting long-distance friends IRL 🐸 #Neobatrachus #amphibian #museomics

Been through this course, great content and very practical. Strongly recommend

Honored to present our latest progress on using museomics to study the Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus at the 23rd European Congress of Herpetology. Also very happy to have met so many new friends during these five days! #SEH2025

📷️ (1) crisinho (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/265348158) (2) Victor Raimilla (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/46684002) @galaxyproject.bsky.social ##UseGalaxy (4/4)

Today, besides my family, my supervisor sent me wishes. It may seem like a small gesture, but it carries a lot of warmth when you are far far from home. Moments like this remind me that a good PhD is not only about research, but also about mentorship, kindness, and growing together #birthday

Zhang et al. generated a heterozygous espl1 knockout line in diploid loach, showing that the heterozygous loss of espl1 was enough to induce spermatogonial mitotic sister chromatid separation defects, causing the production of unreduced sperms. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf195 #evobio #molbio

Calling all evolutionary biologists! 🧬 AES 2025 | UQ Brisbane | 1–3 Oct Early-bird registration close 1 Sept aes.corsizio.com/event/685405... #AES2025 #Evolution #ECR #AusSci

Many amphibians have large genomes, and some are polyploid. Chen et al. (2025) ask how polyploidy affects organismal physiology in a unique population of Microhyla fissipes, which has individuals with diploid and tetraploid genomes. Read more of this #AWNews at AmphibiaWeb.org.

I’m currently visiting the incredible Yuan Lab at Southwest University in China, where I’ve had the chance to explore the stunning herpetofauna. Here's a short photo thread of some fascinating species 🐍🦎🐸 #Amphibians #Camouflage #Biodiversity #Herpetology #Fieldwork 📸 All photos: Yuan Lab

Excited to share our new paper in #MolEcol on sex chromosome evolution in African killifish! 🐟 A great collaboration with @alexandrsember.bsky.social . We uncovered ≥4 sex chromosome turnovers across Nothobranchius spp. using cytogenetics & genomics. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I’m currently presenting my poster at #SMBE2025 Poster ID: S2-P05 Topic: Sex chromosome evolution in Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus 🐸 Would love to discuss with anyone interested, come by if you’re around! @stevedonnellan.bsky.social , Scott Edwards suggested I send you our photo together 😊

Online now: Recombination-aware phylogenomics

Our preliminary results revealed that LED lights affect metabolic rate, development and body growth of crested newts larvae. #lightpollution #alan #ENLIGHT #amphibians Stay tuned with our project www.enlightproject.rs/home

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Developed from the #WCH10 symposium, we provide a guide for researchers & managers on current advances for assessing the vulnerability of reptiles 🐍 & amphibians 🐸 to water stress | doi.org/10.1093/conp... | Published in @conphysjournal.bsky.social

Off to the #ICAR2025 Concurrent Sessions! Concurrent 3 in the former Bijloke Abbey refectory on Arabidopsis relatives, started by Polina Novikova from @raphmercier.bsky.social department @mpipz.bsky.social who’s reporting on her research on natural variations of polyploidy in Arabidopsis species.

1/ 🚨 My first PhD preprint is out on bioRxiv! We show how tiny mutations—point mutations and kb-level indels—can shape the massive structure of Arabidopsis centromeres. 📄 Read it here: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧵 A short thread 👇

Time flies—three years ago and now, the PhD retreat @mpipz.bsky.social

The London Zoo is working to conserve a unique frog that incubates its young in its vocal sacs. Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs1S...

That’s a wrap on the Cologne Spring Meeting 2025! A huge thanks to all participants, speakers, and organizers for making this event a wonderful success. Stay tuned for more news and discoveries from TRR341 and the world of plant science. #CologneSpringMeeting2025 #PlantScience #TRR341 #DFG

Excited to be part of this project! Follow the starter pack for more great repro evo researchers!

Cologne Spring Meeting was so much fun. I was happy to see everyone and finally present some progress on North American Arabidopsis lyrata selfers.

It's #WorldFrogDay! Did you frog-et about the toadally rad #Blog our Engagement Officer Scarlet Frog-ester wrote? I'm hop-timistic you'll love it! Why DO we care about frog sex? 🐸🧪🌍 www.linnean.org/news/2024/11... @linneansociety.bsky.social #FrogDay #Frog #KermitTheFrog

The Stickyfrogs wish everyone a Happy World Frog Day! 🐸🌏😀🐸 They send a Big Smile to their cousins in captivity and in the wild all over the world and Many Pats to all the Excellent Frog Scientists working very hard and doing amazing things to help protect them! 🐸 #WorldFrogDay

SMBE job posting - Social Media Editor to represent SMBE and its journals Part Time (0.5 FTE) Salary: $40,000 yearly We're seeking a dynamic and creative Social Media Editor to represent SMBE and its journals. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... Details on our website soon as well.

Centrophilic Retrotransposons of Plant Genomes www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... new review @annualreviews.bsky.social from @abousios.bsky.social, Tetsuji Kakutani, and myself on my favourite type of mobile genetic element

No job ad yet, but I'll be hiring a postdoc at Purdue in population genetics/quantitative genetics/genomics in plants. DM if you have relevant experience and are potentially interested.

We made it 😀 - excited to share our latest research and engage with this vibrant community here at Bluesky 🌿🪴

As we step into 2025, the Year of the Wood Snake (乙巳), we embrace wisdom, transformation, and renewal. Just as the snake sheds its skin for new beginnings. Wishing you a prosperous and insightful New Year!