mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing *cancer* with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.

I'm putting out yet another call for experimental papers that have recently been published (since Feb 19 2025) that I can write about for an Outside JEB feature. Preference for papers with an animal physiology or animal behaviour focus. Please repost as well to spread the word 🦇🧪🌎🐦🪶🐸

1/ Why is bioinformatics so complicated? Because biology is. Here’s a quick example to show just how nuanced even a "simple" analysis can be.

🙌 The first-of-its-kind #NGS workflow enables on-flow-cell library prep to make human #WGS accessible with existing #NovaSeqX systems. #illumina

Last #Crustmas ostracod is Manawa staceyi, which @ostratodd.bsky.social and I are nearly the only people who care! It is the coelacanth of arthropods, known from many species of fossils and rediscovered alive in 1989, but only seen a very few times, only in NZ (mostly by Kerry Swanson)

Job alert! Benioff Oceans Science Laboratory Associate Specialist – Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02903

Want to start your own lab out of grad school? Arc’s Science Fellows receive funding for a team of 2-4 people! Applications due Jan 15 from new-career scientists in Neurobiology or Immunology. Join Arc co-founder Patrick Hsu for an info session Fri 12/6 10 am PST. Register here: shorturl.at/r1cgD