This looks so good!

Understanding life is starting! Looking forwards to the new following days of talks on biodiversity genomics!

new publication by @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social who mined arthropod reference genome data for hidden microsporidia reads and then did a whole lot of assembling and sleuthing! great job @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social !

Really, really happy that our work on microsporidian genomes is now out in @plosbiology.org! A huge thank you to my coauthors, my supervisors @mblaxter.bsky.social & @marakat.bsky.social, the editors @roliroberts.bsky.social & Joseph Heitman, and the reviewers ❤️ plos.io/48HsAQJ

This is a really interesting story. Microsporidia have genome architecture as no other creatures! Congrats @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social

Preprint Alert! 🦥 We produced complete genomes for 2 Xenarthra and placed them in a mammalian comparative framework. We found that Xenarthra harbour the largest number of retrocopies in mammals! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What an achievement. I am so excited ATLASea is going strong!

We have a new small GenomeScope based on @jgrg.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy's pull request. Thanks James! Main new feature --json_report will generate a json formatted list of all the inputs and outputs which will make automatic processing of genomescope results easier. github.com/tbenavi1/gen...

This is getting a bit awkward. Anyone else feels like chipping in?

Last chance to join us next month for the #Biodiversity25 conference. A fantastic set of speakers, mix of talks & focused workshops, and the chance to meet others in the field of biodiversity genomics 🧬 In-person registration closes next Monday 29th September! Registration 🔗: bit.ly/4j3vAZ9

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@asn-amnat.bsky.social Did you consider releasing older papers? Asking money for nearly 60 year old papers is a bit... (lacking a good word here) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Am I the only one weirded by this?!

Our paper Genomic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles funestus was published in Science today! It features inversions, selection in action, museum specimens and putative new ecotypes. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

It's that time of the year again... Soon the applications for 12 PhD positions at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social will open. Interested in genomics and thinking about doing a PhD? Join us at Sanger. www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...

How many chromosomes can an animal have? In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Mind blowing chromosomal fragmentation of … everything but sex chromosomes in blues. Great piece by @charlottewright.bsky.social at al👏

Rather interesting thread, I always wondered why we don’t peer review preprints more.

You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very nice thread on a big Logan update. This very much looks like the future of querying genomic data.

We had productive 2 days of defining some hard bits of the database as well as figuring out the next steps forward. We will send around notes in the upcoming days. ToS folks are the best, thank you all for taking part and @aruizherrera.bsky.social and @sphaeromeria.bsky.social for organising!

The day 2 of the #TreeOfSex annual workshop started with a great talk by @yannguiguen.bsky.social about B chromosomes and their role in sex determination in fish. Next up, Sònia Garcia is giving an update on the works of the Literature team.

Tree of Sex annual workshop started today. It will be two days packed with reproductive biology.

As a community, it’s wonderful to meet in person after so many online meetings! 📸 Here are some of the many #ERGA members at #ESEB2025. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to say hi and learn more about ERGA! #GenomesForBiodiversity

Let me invite you to some cool posters this upcoming poster session at #ESEB2025 P02.034 - Sam Ebdon on faster X meeting whacky reproduction in globular springtails P02.201 - @jamesimcc.bsky.social on genome evolution of Sedges P02.049 - and myself about evolution of dipteran karyotypes

“More we study (germ line restricted chromosomes), less we know” — @fjruizruano.bsky.social quotes from #ESEB2025

Anyone else lost their poster during travels to #ESEB2025 and knows which of the local printing shops does walk in prints?

We are excited to attending #ESB2025 find … @arf-mln.bsky.social to chat about beetle genomics @jamesimcc.bsky.social about sedges or springtails evolution Sam Ebdon about distr. of dominance Myself about diptera comparative genomics And all of us to chat about any whacky reproduction #obscuromics

I'm excited to announce our new biorxiv preprint, wherein we investigate the evolution of the weirdest genetic locus I've ever seen! Behold the tgr genes of the social amoeba, which mediate self/non-self discrimination during facultative multicellularity 🐅 🧵 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper, led by Eva van der Heijden, shows the work of an international team combining phylogenomics, hybridisation tests, population and comparative genomics and pheromone analyses to resolve the taxonomy and evolution of two rapid radiations of glasswing butterflies. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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/...

This is fun. James described a species of springtails in the UK. He also happens to aim to sequence all uk species. I guess the task was not hard enough.

new from the lab -- we investigate 100% ethanol, DMSO salt solution (DESS), EDTA, RNAlater, and AllProtect as possible approaches for short term room temperature preservation of mosquito HMW DNA, nuclei for Hi-C, and RNA towards high quality reference genome creation. the key findings/tips are ....

Join us for the celebration of life at #Biodiversity25! 10 more days to submit abstracts.

I love an a smudgeplot turns out to be useful! Funny enough, I manage to break it today, we will fix it soon and make a release within a week or so. Get ready for 0.5.0 Skylight

Hey @eseb2025.bsky.social what about offering early bird registration fees for folks that were offered talks after the deadline?! I think that would be much more fair than charging them extra…

The UK-Japan frontiers of science meeting @royalsociety.org is this week - amazing line up of speakers covering very broad research themes 😀

Are there any good allotetraploid long reads datasets with diploid parental species sequenced too? #polyploidy #genomics

I would like to point out that this publisher also owns protocols.io! Do we really trust out good ol' publishing houses with... anything that is important for the community?!

This is a great @treeofsex.bsky.social material

That was a really funny looking spectrum…

The k-mer workshop is over. In the Friday 3 hour hackathon, people really showed that you CAN learn k-mers in a week! It's been great. Thanks to all the co-teachers, @connectingscience.bsky.social organising team and all the participants!

Recommend read for anyone doing wet lab for reference genome sequencing!

We are in the middle of the kmer workshop. So far had a great time with our bright participants and excellent teaching team. Stuff is not recorded, but we will compile all the reusable materials afterwards so if you are missing out, stay tuned….

This was the first duet talk I gave (we took turns on slide by slide basis and even live traded a few) and it was a great fun.

Struggling to find the tiny microchromosomes in draft bird genome assemblies? Our new #preprint introducing MicroFinder can help: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 below (1/n) @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

Officially (re-)annoucing the Tree of Sex! Read all about it in JEB below!

Interested to read a perspective by >160 reproductive biologists? The new Tree of Sex white paper is out! Led by @danjeffries.bsky.social 👏

Check out our latest work on the evolution of animal genome regulation out today in @nature.com. Nicely summarized below by @ianakim.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu

There are so many challenges working on genomics of isopods. It’s so impressive this is a single-author paper! Congratulations @jessthorpemas.bsky.social 👏

At least 51 of 150+ members of the Tree of Sex consortium are on BlueSky. It was never easier to follow them all :-)