How does a single cuckoo species evolve eggs that mimic those of many different hosts? In a new Science study, researchers report genomic data that reveal a complex geographic mosaic of cuckoo-host coevolution. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4nEZIfY

We are still interested in any found twite feathers for a study on the relationships and genetic diversity between the British groups - particularly now for birds of Scottish origin in the NE of England or, birds on the Avon. DM me for me more info. #birdringing

Talk about an in-flight meal. For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn

New research w/ @jacobphd.bsky.social et al. published today in Nature Communications: Genes linked to schistosome resistance identified in a genome-wide association study of African snail vectors doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🐌🪱🧬

Read 'Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito' by @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and @princeton.edu in @science.org here ⤵️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

A statement from the President of the #RoyalSociety - royalsociety.org/news/2025/10... actually, it's a declaration of abject cowardice #shame #musk

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Jeremy 2.0. Long live Jeremy! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... #snaillove #snails

If we act quickly, a massive public outcry could convince Ofgem to reject it. More than 25,000 people have signed in the last 24 hours. Add your name now: 38d.gs/MuskEnergy_b...

RFK has announced that he is developing a vaccine against all viruses. Yes, every single one. The whole, uh, "phylum"

Check out this awesome study from my phenomenally talented colleague @accorsi-alice.bsky.social ! Apple snails can regrow their eyes! How do they do this? 👀 Read below ⬇️ to find out more! #regeneration

Evolution’s eye game is wild, but mollusks take it to another level CRISPR in apple snails gives us a new model to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess It turns out Evolution doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, & regenerates rdcu.be/ezw0t

🐌👀What do apple snails have to do with human vision? Stowers scientists took a chance on a tiny creature, with big results. Learn how @planaria1.bsky.social & then postdoc @accorsi-alice.bsky.social brought apple snails to the Institute. ⬇️ #ResearchSky #SciSky Learn more: youtu.be/U-yQ7z1e6nA

Snails with human-like eyes?! Published in @natcomms.nature.com, the @planaria1.bsky.social & @accorsi-alice.bsky.social Labs have established apple snails as a novel model for studying vision restoration. They have complex camera-type eyes & the ability to regrow them in 28 days: bit.ly/4mvaxkq

This week's post is about snails! Beautiful snails, but endangered snails, and the relationship between art and science - and the work of @snaildoc.bsky.social makingsciencepublic.com/2025/08/08/b...

Just a few years ago we were celebrating mRNA vaccine development - new therapeutic modality, speed of development, life-saving… now, the US is cancelling its funding for further development. Illogical, inexplicable & damaging! 🧪 #MedicalSky www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Jesus. Excellent work by Michael Le Page, and utterly infuriating scenario. As Michael points out, the press release from Colossal called these dire wolves throughout. But now they want to argue that they never claimed that. Scandalous, really. www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Their website is pretty explicit in saying that a) it's a dire wolf and that b) they have brought it back from extinction. Attempting to say they never claimed this is quite an extraordinary piece of chutzpah: colossal.com/direwolf/

Turned my Cuban adventures back in March into "breaking news", snail-bombing the whole of the BBC and beyond 🤔😄. 1/3 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter): Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.

For snail Friday, new image of Polymita picta from Tetas de Santa*, Cuba #cuba #snail #snailfriday #alliterationfail #polymita *try translating that 😭, I am going with Santa's tits although that might not be exactly correct

👏 Exceptional front page by @scotnational.bsky.social ahead of Donald Trump's visit this weekend...

Introducing PGShield™ - our new room-temperature sample solution for Hi-C. No more dry ice shipments. Improved data quality and library yields. Store your samples for months without sacrificing data quality. Get a FREE 10mL bottle today! #genomics #HiC 🔗https://hubs.la/Q03yhGWf0

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

[now with link] Our opinion, on how animal social research can be applied to the problem of highly pathogenic avian influenza spread, has been published ! 🪶🧪 journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Very excited and delighted for new paper by my #UoN colleague Tom Reader, exploring the mechanisms behind Batesian mimicry using 3D printed insects: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... There's a N&V, a podcast and a blog to accompany it! #mimicry #batesian #UoN #hoverfly #wasp

Yes (see pinned post), but there's more than one ok opinion. To me, it depends on what your vision of what a healthy scientific community looks like. Live your vision, whether or not it aligns with others'. The authors lived theirs, deciding that a tie to Musk was worth some other perceived value.

Association with Musk has damaged the @royalsociety.org 's reputation so much that I no longer want my work to be associated with their journals. I've withdrawn my manuscript from their review process at Proceedings B. 1/4

I have been asked to review a paper for a Royal Society journal. Feeling conflicted about whether I should accept, because of their poor stance re Elon Musk. Not reviewing the paper would mainly hurt the authors. Opinions anyone? #RoyalSociety #Musk

Garden snails 🐌 try to stab each other with 'love darts' prior to mating. We finally got it on video! We could hear a 'ding' as the dart pierced through the body and hit the glass on the other side. Ouch! #snails #lovedarts #bbcspringwatch #UoN

Our snails 🐌 featured on #BBCSpringwatch last night. A lot of work for five minutes of film - but quite pleased overall. Mostly shot in studio in Life Sciences, rest on campus. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002 (14 minutes into program, UK only or VPN) instagram.com/reel/DK0DmMntmMZ #BBC #snails #UoN

www.ft.com/content/8778... Kudos to Andrea Sella for taking a stand against @royalsociety.org’s inaction over Elon Musk FRS

here’s this year’s Faraday lecture that inspired Sella to act. tinyurl.com/4xz9xbuz

“Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire” We need more people like Andrea to make a stand, to demonstrate some moral courage, to do the right thing. www.ft.com/content/8...

Snails seeking a nicotine high 🚬, after recent rain #snails #recycling 🚬🐌🚬

*Copy one of Boris Johnson's stupidest and most self-destructive policies. *Ignore the massive wave of public fury it ignited. *Smear and attack anyone warning that it might not be a great idea. In this week's column I ask what the hell Keir Starmer is playing at. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Really cool the way Labour is correcting for the Tories' "pander to their core voters at all costs" strategy, with a "telling THEIR core voters to go fuck themselves at every opportunity" strategy

Probably the most complete snail genome yet, a chromosome-Level assembly for the aptly-named, invasive 'Asian Tramp Snail' Bradybaena similaris. This particular one was not difficult - but it has been a long road to get to this point. #genomics #snails #HiFi #PacBio academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

New genomic & genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes, including previously uncharacterised alleles 159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist) 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well written and sobering take-down of the blue origin flight. Worth a read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Awesome new paper by @lucalivraghi.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... in @currentbiology.bsky.social on the evo-devo of a butterfly color variation enjoy the show!

alright i have my laptop, guess i'm livetweeting the dire wolf preprint. so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality. also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting

We won't and this sounds very ominous.

Amidst all of the horrors of the Trump administration, one stands above the rest: the trafficking of 270 men to El Salvador's CECOT prison. Here is the definition of concentration camp from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story. Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.

Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sketch, capture and layout phylogenies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/husonlab/phy...

Mr. Trump, this statute at the National Museum of African American History and Culture does not "undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States". It does not "fosters a sense of national shame." It does not "advance a corrosive ideology." It is literally what might redeem the USA.

"Vitellotag" - looks like a potentially transformative method to deliver CRISPR products into difficult oocytes (🐌!), yet I can't find any comments on social media. Anyone tried it? What am I missing? journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... #vitellotag #CRISPR