A truly refreshing perspective on an age old debate. Big implications for animal evolution but also useful techniques to address many other remaining phylogenetic questions. Congrats to you both on a wonderful piece of work!

Huh, cracking in some dried tofu skins and garlic in macaroni and cheese isn't bad at all.

LACA as free living thermophilic methanogen. I always wondered if thermophilic root was noise or a real feature in these larger phylogenetic studies. Interesting! 🦠🧫

Oh okay this is genuinely very cool. Retroviral regulation of iridescence in fish.

Any #archaea #archaeasky lab out there interested in having their Natrialba species sequenced on ONT r10 up to about 3Kx read depth for free? I'll send back annotated assembly, methylation data and raw signal files. I need at least one more species for a paper. Feel free to DM! 🧫🦠🧪

#FungiFriends (LichenFriends included)

I'll be honest, that new Steam Machine looks really fun as a linux box for bioinformatics stuff, but on-die RAM topping at 16GB likely means its not really an option :-/

Very happy to share our recent work @cultivarium.bsky.social on genetic tools for Ideonella sakaiensis, a (Betaproteo-)bacterium that degrades PET plastic. We identified a plasmid vector for the strain and generated a large RB-TnSeq library, screening for genes impacting plastic degradation.

Apparently an engineering issue with Springer Nature platform is inflating citations for their online journal articles through circular citation links. They were informed by the preprint authors months ago, but nothing's happened so far. 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2511.01675

In our last thread, we left the jelly-enjoyers of Bluesky with a cliff hanger ending, in what one eager onlooker described as soap opera science 😜 ... wait no more, we are back! Grab your popcorn shrimp and come with us on a journey spanning more than... bsky.app/profile/iwan...

Please tell me this is just a wild guess. Democrats decided to cave in because successfully defending ACA coverage will get rid of a talking point in the midterms? newrepublic.com/post/202948/...

Overly honest methods #MicroSky

Picked up a #Polaroid Sun660 from a curve sale for pocket change. Very happy to see it's working properly with fresh film! Doubly glad to capture the last of the autumn leaves - I was afraid I wouldn't be able to take them before the rains washed them away. #analogphotography

the plot thickens... #Archaea #Microsky #SymbioSky

Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions

Ok I think I'm set for the winter.

Fantastic talk by @vikramshivakumar.bsky.social Mumemto—Scalable multi-MUM finding for pangenomes Papers biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.654611 & doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03644-0 Code: github.com/vikshiv/mume... Very efficient pangenome visualization tool, revealing synteny and variations!

Second day of Genome Informatics #GI2025 began with the session “Genome Assembly and Sequence Algorithms" Yun William Yu presented “Average-case Analysis of Seed-Chain-Extend under Random Mutations" genome.cshlp.org/content/33/7/1175 providing theoretical guarantees for the popular seed-chain-extend

Because plants move so slowly relative to human time scales, Darwin developed a diagrammatic system to make their movements more easily perspicuous to us. Below is a cartoon of the apparatus, and one of Darwin’s diagrams. 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Have any of my followers implemented a "flipped classroom" for an upper division Environmental Micro (or related) course? I am planning a re-work for my current class for next fall and considering a flipped modality.

Check this out - first image of a new Halococcus species I discovered with collaborators. Still figuring out the scheme to name the darn thing. Independent research & amateur biology FTW. 🧫🦠🧪

Huh, there's no dedicated nd2 image viewer/puller package for R? I'm surprised, normally R's more feature rich in these things than python.

나는 폐급이다 나는 일 못해 이런 생각 들 때 루브르 박물관의 영상보안시스템 비밀번호가 “루브르”였다는 점을 떠올리십시오 여러분은 잘하고 있습니다

Going through @samuelhorsfield.bsky.social presentation on pangenome graphs in comparative genomics, courtesy of @training.ebi.embl.org. Fascinating tidbit on history of alignment based sequence graph - it goes all the way back to 1989 (Hein), era of Apple IIs and IBM PS/2s. Great talk! 💻🧬🦠🧫

I am on the job market and wanted to advertise myself here! 🤠 Looking for full-time or contracting roles! Historically, my work spans population dynamics, healthcare informatics, robust adaptive controls, software engineering, and community engagement. 🧪 #STEMjobs #academicsky #publichealth

My paper 'Hegel, Absolute Knowing and Epiphany' published in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies is now freely available from my institutional repository @openuniversity.bsky.social Here's the link: oro.open.ac.uk/97415/ Feel free to download, and do get in touch with your comments!

Well well well, it looks like apt is going to be based on rust starting next year. And with it huge part of the Linux ecosystem. #linux #debian #rustlang Hard Rust requirements from May onward lists.debian.org/debian-devel...

Would you or your colleague like to improve the performance of your data analysis? Then please join us at our @julialang.org workshop at the 247th @aas.org meeting on Jan 3, 2026 in Phoenix, AZ. The regular registration deadline is Nov 7. aas.org/meetings/aas... #aas247 #JuliaLang #astrocode

We have had some amazing abstracts submitted to the free @official-smbe.bsky.social APSPM meeting. To help you make up your mind, here is a sneak peek. Join for what will be an amazing meeting. biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/strphy26/sneakpeek/ . #StrPhy26 @strphy.bsky.social #Evolution #Science

Woot! Great to see STC back. Apparently there's still work to be done for fully restoring images on older posts, but I'm just glad STC is back online again. 🧪

OTD in 1977 Carl Woese and George Fox redrew the tree of life. They proposed a third “urkingdom”—the “archaebacteria”—in addition to eukaryotes and bacteria. Woese later called this taxon “Archea.” AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s. 🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio 🐡

No more review articles for arXiv due to innundation of LLM generated submissions. I genuinely don't understand - what's the point of generating random nonsense for preprint submissions? blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

I’ve spent many years explaining/defending biorxiv’s “no reviews” policy. The logic was always that opening Word and opining is a far lower barrier than doing actual research, so noise’d be >> signal and we didn’t want to make subjective quality judgements. LLMs mean it makes even more sense 1/2

What the devil, there are jobs where HR forces you to take an IQ test every year? Something's deeply wrong with this country.

#nyc marathon day. Ran straight into this crowd coming back from work!

Planning some work for either a poster or a presentation for 2026 - hopefully I'll get to see some familiar faces there.

Just joined ICSB - aiming for 2026 BOSC attendance, finally!

"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by a small non-profit is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Our department (Comp Sci) at UMD is hiring this cycle. We have an open-rank search (umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...). Consider applying to join our department; we’re a pretty cool group if I say so myself ☺️!

Very necessary article considering widespread & early usage of ANI as a metric. Wish the article was open though. Newer publications behind paywalls are increasingly impossible to obtain (I don't think this is on the author!) Accessibility actually had been getting worse over the recent years.

Another bizarre statement by VP on how settlers stopped human sacrifice in North America. Rob Kennedy Jr is of course on yet another tirade too. Contrary to popular rube-blaming narrative, these people have degrees from Yale and Harvard. Maybe elite higher education in this country has issues?

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) is a curiously divisive movie among my age group. People I know either can't stand five minutes of it or watch it again every year or so. I belong in the latter camp. Wonder what's causing the difference.

Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review

PSA for #writers and #academics - Anthropic used stolen books to train Claude, and recent court settlement allows $3k payment per book to their authors. For the settlement: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Explanation: authorsguild.org/advocacy/art...

Good lord. Dunkin donuts bagel is an abomination.

오랜만에 눈마새를 정독중에 이 부분을 다시 읽었다. 자기완성을 위한 인생을 조심하라. 나중에 라수가 독자를 위해 풀이해 줄때 까지 정말 알쏭달쏭한 문장이었는데. 젠장. 한국밖의 사람들이 이 소설을 읽지 못하고 살아가야 한다는 사실은 굉장한 불의가 아닐 수 없다. 그럼, 내가 모르는 언어와 문화들의 시와 이야기들도 이처럼 재미있고 인생들을 흔들어 놓는 존재들 이라는 것이겠지. 인생이 어둡고 갑갑해질때 이런 생각을 하면 좀 가슴이 시원해지는 느낌이 든다.

Does anyone know what this knot is called so I can look up how to do it? I’ve worn this necklace nearly every day for a decade, and as you can kinda see there at the bottom, the drupe that forms the catch is wearing through the cord.