Why do the chromosomes of cyperids (sedges & rushes) split and fuse so regularly on evolutionary timescales? Is it because they have so many centromeres? Our new preprint, the first major paper of my PhD, addresses this question. 🧵⬇️ 1/12 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

One week left to submit abstracts for the EMBO workshop on Molecular Mechanisms of Selfish Elements and Strategies! In Bern (Switzerland), from 8 to 11 February 2026. meetings.embo.org/event/26-sel... #EMBOselfishElements #EMBOevents

please share this postdoc job alert! come join the budding Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative as a postdoc or senior postdoc at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social working closely with @arnausebe.bsky.social and me to make progress on what we cover in this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

5 days left to register for the #k-mer workshop! 🧬 I would strongly recommend for anyone doing large scale biodiversity genomics. tinyurl.com/register-for...