#marineinvert folks, not many #bryozoa genomes, here’s a new one, a Norwegian Flustra foliacea www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Genome is "large" (at c. 900Mb). Lead by Helle Baalsrud (NMBU) and Ole Tørresen (UiO). @ebpgenome.bsky.social Norway @kjetillsj.bsky.social

Phylogenomic analysis of deep-branching telonemid #protistsonsky academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

New publication highlight the interplay between sound exposure, environmental conditions, and the impact on #zooplankton in areas of #seismic activity. With Josefin Titelman from @biovitenskap.bsky.social Published in @nature.com

Very excited about this work now out in @molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New publication: "Role of forest edges and other seminatural linear landscape features in structuring wild bee habitat connectivity in intensively managed landscapes" with Marianne Torvanger & Bastiaan Star @biovitenskap.bsky.social Published in Conservation Biology @scbeurope.bsky.social

@notothentoma.bsky.social @arcolon14.bsky.social & @jpostlethwait.bsky.social show how Antarctic white-blooded icefishes, the only vertebrates without hemoglobin, independently lost hemoglobin cluster genes, driven by TEs and repeats. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf184 #genome #evolution #TEsky

New paper out where we demonstrate how pop gen parameters and scoring of structural variants (inversions) could be affected by the choice of reference genome (both in terms of both quality and relatedness). @unioslo-cees.bsky.social @biovitenskap.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Article alert: Maurstad, Hoff; Cerca et al. Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations. Now out in Genome Biol. Congrats to Sissel and the team😀 doi.org/10.1186/s130...

🧬 Not all DNA comes out easily! Some species lock their secrets behind tough shells, rigid walls, or tricky chemistry. Extracting high-quality DNA can mean cracking exoskeletons, dissolving cell walls, or working around inhibitory compounds — science meets detective work 🔬💥

Excited to share this work, out today in MBE! In polar fishes, we found that antifreeze protein genes expanded in copy number at low temperatures and contracted in the deep sea, highlighting a role of depth and pressure in AFP evolution. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Congratulations, Inga! @biovitenskap.bsky.social

Article alert! Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Structural Variants, and Short Tandem Repeats Capture Distinct Signals of Adaptive Divergence in the Atlantic Puffin url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

🧨 The Naturhistoriska riksmuseet has a position open for a Tenure-Track group Leader position (DDLS fellow). 17 M SEK start-up (1.6 million euros, which will account for your salary / 2 PhDs / 2 Postdocs / plenty of money for starting projects and sending peoeple to conferences). lnkd.in/d5jNr_Ti

Cool intro to the Earth Biogenome Project (link in the article) … and who doesn’t love our cute Aussie spiders? 🕷️ share.google/XvZI57IbEdNU...

The recent GBE Review on approaches to phylogenetic genotype to phenotype mapping is the focus of a new Highlight. Highlight: Leveraging Phylogenomics to Uncover the Loci of Repeated Evolution 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf164 #genome #evolution #phylogenetics

In a new Review article in GBE, @scientific-arlie.bsky.social et al delve into the growing field of phylogenetic genotype to phenotype mapping (PhyloG2P), discussing advances and future directions for using phylogenomic data to map traits to genomes 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf150 #genome #evolution

Neuron-specific splicing of Agrin by Nova is essential for AChR clustering at the NMJ. @rnadoctor.bsky.social @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social &co show that this pathway is conserved in tunicates & that the transcription factor Ebf is a key activator of Nova expression @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3VhTwig

Nuclear mRNA decay: regulatory networks that control gene expression go.nature.com/3WzQ7wc #Review by Xavier Rambout & Lynne E. Maquat

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

#Arctic #algae aren't immobile or entombed. They're not just surviving either—they're gliding into record books phys.org/news/2025-09... Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #protists #microbes #extremophiles

📣 New paper out! Ecosystem approach to capelin fisheries #marsocsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...

So proud to see my cohort-mate’s paper up!

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

Curious to hear thoughts from #popgen, #humangenetics, #genomics folks on recent paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "Directed mutation" in specific human pop'ns seems unlikely to me. DM didn't stand up as proposed in bacteria, but there are hot spots shaped by past selection. Plausible here?

Parallel but distinct adaptive routes in the budding and fission yeasts after 10,000 generations of experimental evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.675703v1

Really excited to share our latest paper led by @simonaube.bsky.social. Fascinating results examining whether regulatory mutations can lead to adaptation as fast as coding mutations do. #mevosky #evobio #evoSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cool preprint! 🚨 Lanternfish lack MHC I and functional MHC II — yet still produce antibodies! 🧬🐟 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

People are talking about Bluesky! From data analyzed between Jan 1 — Aug 18, 2025, we captured 85.5% of share of voice across social, digital, and traditional media, according to Meltwater. This is what death looks like 💀

Our paper on the genetics of guppy color patterns has now been assigned an issue in NEE: doi.org/10.1038/s415... With this paper, we also publish all 14,100 guppy photos used in the study, including before and after alignment and ornament extraction: doi.org/10.20383/103...

New publication about how Climate-induced shifts in spawning locations for #Atlantic #cod may lead to smaller offspring, impacting survival and recruitment success. With Ø. Langangen, T. Olsen, G. Ottersen, J. Durant @jodurant.bsky.social from @biovitenskap.bsky.social Published @cjfas.bsky.social

Arctic charr #genome - gradual development of reproductive isolation, locus-specific differentiation and eventually complete reproductive isolation and genome-wide divergence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🔖Last review from the lab👇 'Male meiosis at the helm: shaping genomes and sex chromosomes in emerging vertebrate models' academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

Earth BioGenome Project Frontiers Online Forum Deep Dive on September 18, 2025 (07:00 PT | 16:00 CEST), where we will discuss the article and chart next steps for the field. 📌 Register here: events.frontiersin.org/earth-biogen...

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

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...

📢 Exciting PhD fellowship with a great mix of ecosystem ecology and invasion biologie in Northern Norway! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Høyt fiskepress har endret alder for kjønnsmodning og genetisk sammensetning hos Barents-torsken, som er verdens største gjenværende torskebestand. Også på Grand Banks gikk gytealderen ned før kollapsen var et faktum www.forskning.no/dna-fisk-hav...

Crazy discovery in ants 🤯🐜 One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago."

Review: Transcriptomics in the era of long-read sequencing www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/efBjP) 🧬🖥️🧪

First pop gen paper from our lab! We find repeated evolutionary turn over of sex chromosomes in darters contributes to reproductive isolation. Turnover may be an escape hatch to resolve mitonuclear conflict & neo sex chromosomes evolved via a rare recessive mutation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

And I got to visit the public museum quickly and entomology collection!

Across the globe, EBP groups are sequencing vertebrate genomes — both locally and globally — to contribute to the growing database of high-quality reference genomes! 🧬🌍 @kurakulabmsm.bsky.social | @atlasea.bsky.social | @canadianbiogenome.bsky.social | @biogeneurope.bsky.social

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024...

In these dark times, it comes as a rare pleasure to highlight @natanaels.bsky.social ‬ & @marcdemanuel.bsky.social's work on germline and somatic mutations in humans. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

From a Twitter research project to an independent rival — Bluesky’s journey under CEO Jay Graber shows how a decentralized, user-first platform gained millions users by prioritizing control & openness in social media. A true alternative in a billionaire-dominated space. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/b...

Check out our new preprint: the high quality genome of Glacial lanternfish showes that it can do well without MHC I and II function - breaking the immunological rules. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Deleting a 600kb region in a genome? Not that crazy of an idea anymore! Papikian et al show that plants have an incredible ability to compensate for large genomic deletions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...