1/2🧵What a way to end 2025! NEW PAPER OUT with ppl from Uni of Bologna & @szndohrn.bsky.social Did you know that some bivalves🦪 transmit mitochondria through both the maternal and paternal lines? We looked at molecular signatures of this through comp #genomics & #RNAseq 🖥️🧬🦑 doi.org/10.1186/s129...

#DBfeature Wish our authors and readers a Happy Holiday & a fruitful 2026!🥳🥳🥳

Look mum, I'm famous! 🖥️🧬🐜

1/2🧵 After >1 month I can finally share my #invertober2025 phylogenetic wrap-up!! Actually it was done weeks ago, but I just didn't have the time to put everything together. #phylogenetics 🖥️🧬 Find the full-size version plus caption and additional content on github.com/filonico/inv...

Just gave a seminar on the #genomics of #SexDet for students of the uni of Bologna. I included these wonderful plates by Nettie M Stevens, the scientist who first linked XY chromosomes to SexDet: she was a woman and, guess what, she is rarely acknowledged for her work #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is the end 💥 I approached #invertober with no clear expectations, and now I can say it was exciting+painful+rewarding+exhausting! #SciArt What's the most appropriate subject for Day 31 of #invertober2025 if not the death's-head hawk moth? Stay tuned as I'll be publishing a wrap-up soon 👀

An impressive review on classification and study of #ants, taken from an historical perspective 🖥️🧬🐜 includes also loads of insightful sections 👀 #bugsky #phylogenetics academic.oup.com/isd/article/...

Dias et al. used genetic data from 27 Drosophilidae species and 6 outgroups to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships of fruit flies, recovering Drosophilidae as nonmonophyletic, underscoring the need for taxonomic revision. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf269 #evobio #molbio #drosophila

BEHOLD y'all the hecking bloody bobbit worm, who finally decided to get out from their sand burrow for the begone Day 14 of #invertober2025 #MarineLife This took way longer than I expected (3 sessions of 2+ hours each). The problem was not the body structure itself, but the freaking segments 💀

1/3 🧵 Im entering my 2nd year as a postdoc, & since Ive started my journey in academia I can't help but asking myself: is this work culture sustainable? is this what I want to do for the rest of my life? Stimulating editorial with a stimulating book👇 doi.org/10.1177/1570... [Continues below]

Just gonna put this here for now www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... bsky.app/profile/jlst...

Art train time🚆🎨 Next stops: @dinoserious.bsky.social @whistberry.bsky.social @fossilforager.bsky.social @hexerite.bsky.social Ive always been keen on drawing nature-related stuff, but recently I found a very pleasant comfort zone in sculptures too. Jump to comments for details of the drawings

🖥️🧬 imo AI is extremely helpful for coding & learning, or getting inspired on how to nicely style your code. But AI can also be dangerous if ppl don't know first the right questions to ask or how to read the language: the times I got codes with silent errors and bugs are countless!

Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Good morning everyone 🌞 There is only 1 seat left for the #Phylogenomics course in December! If interested, check it out before it is too late!

Day 30 #Invertober2025 - Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis) 🎄 just one more, and a whole day giving a talk and chatting science, and need to finish my Hornet costume for Saturday and cook for the Halloween party and make my usual Halloween greeting cards, and #SciArt #invertebrates

#invertober 29, red sea urchin+larval overlay #invertober2025

Happy #Invertober day 30! Almost there! Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis) #invertober2025

Day 30: Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis) [ #invertober #invertober2025 ]

#invertober 30, christmas beetle! wrong holiday buddy!! #invertober2025

This was pretty smooth, I don't have much to say about this chunky buddy 🥹 Day 30 of #invertober2025 is the Christmas beetle! #bugsky

What the heck was this?! I suspected sea urchins were difficult to draw, but this was just random spikes here & there 😵‍💫 I knew from skeletons that there should be a precise arrangement, but I gave up in few minutes #marineLife Almost done with #invertober2025, Day29 is with the red sea urchin

This is peak programming, period 🖥️🧬

Dude has loooooong wings, I had to reduce its size a lot 💀 at least this time I wasn't defeated by venations (see below), so I also managed to put legs 🥳 In #invertober2025 Day 28 we caught a pearly green lacewing

Day 27 #Invertober2025 - American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) 🐕 #SciArt #invertebrates

#invertober 27, american dog tick+gradient map fun variant #invertober2025

Day 26 of #invertober Sea Bunny a li'l orange one #invertober2025

Day 27 of #invertober American Dog Tick ... so I don't like ticks. at all. and drawing it didn't change that. #invertober2025

FUN FACT. Ticks are #arachnids, so they usually have 8 legs. But not always! When they hatch, they have only 6—the additional pair grows after the first molt 🕵 don't be fooled by mistaking them for insects! #bugsky Day 27 of #invertober2025 features the American dog tick and its sexual dimorphism

This is an outstanding work from the @arnonelab.bsky.social! Not only for the science behind (they literally blew..sea urchins' head off!), but also because of the extreme attention they put on the M&Ms section. This is what you call REPRODUCIBLE SCIENCE. Each of us should aim for this! Well done🥳

#invertober 26, sea bnuuy #invertober2025

Day 26: Sea bunny (Jorunna parva) [ #invertober #invertober2025 ]

I present to you the sea bunny, a type of sea slug known for impersonating a bunny to fool predators (at least that's what I assume.) #Invertober2025

Day 25 #Invertober2025 - House centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) 🦵🦵🦵🦵🦵 #SciArt #invertebrates

Day 26 #Invertober2025 - Sea bunny (Jorunna parva) 🐰 #SciArt #invertebrates

1/2 🧵 Aren't nudibranchs the most precious marine crawlers? 🥹 #marineLife #SciArt Double feature for Day 26 of #invertober2025, with the cute sea bunny here. And scroll down to meet its buddy!

A productive month for the lab — between new preprints and papers! Monoaminergic neurons evo and devo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Opsin evolution in plankton academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... Mosquito Cell Atlas (small contrib.) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Back on track for #invertober2025 with the house centipede! I usually like all kinds of critters, but must admit that I find centipedes quite intimidating: maybe it's their unpredictable and slithery movements 👀 #bugsky Stay tuned, as I'm preparing an epilogue for my #invertober

1/2 🧵 What's spookier than a swarm of hungry #ants feasting on your body?! 🐜👻 #bugsky Probably, a swarm of hungry *alien* ants feasting on your body! 💀 HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM WWA 🎃🐜 Find out more about this terrifying story on our website: tinyurl.com/59fmcxsk

Yesterday @fghiselli.bsky.social and Enrico Strada presented WWA and all of our activities at the #biodiversity #genomics conference by @biogeneurope.bsky.social @sib.swiss @ergabiodiv.bsky.social 🖥️🧬🌐 Check out our contribution on the YT rec below (starting ~3:07:00) 🫶🐜 #bugsky

Day 24 #Invertober2025 - New Zealand mussel (Perna canaliculus) 🦪 #SciArt #invertebrates

#invertober 24, new zealand green lipped mussel #invertober2025

Follow-up on this with a belated post of another bivalve friend🫶 the main question now is: how👏on👏earth👏have👏I👏never👏come👏across👏such👏a👏beautiful👏mussel👏during👏my👏PhD?! 😮‍💨😮‍💨 Anyway, Day 24 of #invertober2025 pleases us with the marvelous (and I'd say queer as well👀) New Zealand mussel #marineLife

What do u get when you seclude 200 science comms in a small town in Northern Italy for 72 hh? You get Folle di Scienza & Strambinaria, two fantastic events by Frame Divagazioni Scientifiche. We attended last weekend and got the chance to talk about WWA with many colleagues 🥹🫶🐜🖥️🧬 #SciComm #bugsky

Day 23 #Invertober2025 - Pink sand dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela albissima) 💖 #SciArt #invertebrates

#invertober 22, sea angel #invertober2025

I know body hairs shouldve been white, but they were just not looking right to me👀 Also, multi-color metallic iridescence is the next boss to fight, straight after gelatinous bodies, wing veins, and +10-legged animals Day23 of #invertober2025 is a beetle with a very long name that you'll find below

Haltom et al. analysed millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes to uncover the evolution of ORF10 orphan genes, finding that ORF10 sequences are identical to ancestral Wuhan-Hu-1 haplotype, and propose it contributes to severe COVID-19 in humans. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf211 #evobio #molbio #sarscov2

Wanted to keep this in its good-vibing and peace-bearing state instead of the demoniac one it turns out to be when preying on other sea snails (yes, this is a sea snail as well). #MarineLife For day 22 of #invertober2025, witness the sea angel #SciArt