These two have made a difference. This prize will help them make even more of a difference.

"The digestive systems of carnivorous plants" This looks really cool. 👌 Work from Matthias Freund, Dorothea Graus, Rainer Hedrich & Kenji Fukushima et al. academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... #PlantScience

recent protein language models can extract embeddings from protein sequences reflecting high-order features, developed statistical tests to evaluate the adaptive convergence of such features. Interested to see how people will use this (I edited it, not an author). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have. apply.interfolio.com/177547

Congratulations Joe!

Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social

Super piece.

Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/... I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Genome Biology. We are particularly interested in researchers investigating the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying genome function and regulation. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3t7vvdct

Now accepting proposals for the Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach, which provide up to $1000 USD for a variety of evolution education & outreach projects, workshops, and events. Submit your proposal by March 2, 2026! shorturl.at/I8HqO

I'm super stoked that Colorado voted to fund free meals for kids for schools. (I've been saying lunches, but the program includes breakfasts, too.)

Please register for BAPG at Stanford 12/6, especially if you want to give a talk or a poster. The deadline is Nov 16. bapg2025.github.io/bapg2025stan... And please reshare on bsky!

Oh, the dreadful onions and mustard. Should be pun trigger warning on link.

One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution' organised by James Hombría & Antónia Monteiro Deadline 5 Dec. biologists.com/workshops/ju... @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @jlopezrios.bsky.social

#phahe #phagesky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Surely we can agree that p-value jokes only have a low prior probability of being funny.

The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

I keep telling my dog it is only just after 5 pm but she is pretty sure it is dinner time and I am just gaslighting her.

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch! 📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility. 🙏Please, RT!

50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵

Come join the Workshop on Phylogenomics in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia, from January 25 through February 7, 2026! Applications close November 15! #phylogenetics #evolution #genomics #ai evomics.org/apply-worksh...

We have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩‍💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/ Please share widely! #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

Sitting around after sessions at evolutionary biology meeting, we thought to start a journal called PoLLoS Done*. It had to be a great idea when you started it, you put a bit of work into it, but now, for reasons explained in the abstract, you promise you are just plain <<done>>. Maybe it's time.

Come join us in beautiful Britanny, France in May 2026 for a workshop that I am organizing with @lucievirevolte.bsky.social and @psudmant.bsky.social on Rapid host adaptations to infections: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I talked about why the replication/reproducibility crisis is, and has always been, rhetoric, rather than fact. Masking scientific progress in general in favor of a simplified crisis narrative has caused a lot of epistemic, ethical, and practical harms so far. We can and we must stop feeding it.

Blocking this site for producing what looks to be AI-generated nonsense, despite human-looking names that supposedly wrote and edited. Acetylcholinesterase *inhibitors* are the medicine, not acetylcholinesterase. The article, mixing words together, produces the exact opposite of true explanation.

"my AI says its trending toward significance" is enough reason to throw your AI out the window (let alone all the other reasons). It is painful to realize that the nonsense phrase "trending towards significance" was found often enough in the training data to make the AI parrot repeat it.

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")? Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event. Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

No deployment of the military in our cities. No illegal mass racial profiling. No kings in America.

Also just thank you to everyone out there who is able to show up, and please be safe.

Please remember that many disabled people won’t be at the No Kings rallies tomorrow. A lot of the planned events are not accessible and/or disabled people are not safe or well enough to attend. Anything you can do to increase accessibility and inclusion will help the resistance!

"it is a tunnel to nowhere on both sides"

I hope this will be fixed. Doesn't seem to agree with their "about" page: they "actively promote development of novel research tools for analysis of genomic data and helping developers facilitate the integration, or connection of their tools to analyze gisaid data."

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers

Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience

Try this: microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

PEQG website live! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/

One of the grant comments I am proudest of is someone's complaint that too many of my descriptions were written in prose. Yes, that is what I was trying for. Clarity, not muck (ie, not obfuscation, in more obfuscatory language)

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_ar...

We've made a related but different claim in bacteria: elifesciences.org/articles/93146

At top of reading list

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Looking forward to this! A non-Elsevier alternative to Theoretical Population Biology / Journal of Theoretical Biology

TPB needs some competition. It was always a problem that they didn't have modeling in their name.

Rapid radiations outweigh reticulations during the evolution of a 750-million-year-old lineage of cyanobacteria academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... #jcampubs

If I got a letter about lizard flight initiation, I would be suspicious too.

If my quick calculations are right, this is about a blue whale's worth of dead Synechococcus to offset your world average carbon production.