The Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative keeps growing! We're looking for a Bioinformatician to join the BCA team in Hinxton (UK). www.linkedin.com/posts/wellco...

Our latest: Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history, led by @meleonora-rossi.bsky.social with help from friends @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social including @anariesgo.bsky.social @evopalaeo.bsky.social Davide Pisani and many others

Great work showing the power of scATAC-seq to decode ontogenetic relationships! Maybe I will check chromatin after all...

Alpenglow Morning

www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/una... “Perquè la bondat no és cap feblesa, sinó l’única forma de fortalesa capaç de perdurar i mantenir estable una societat. […] Les societats que renuncien a entendre-la com a valor polític acaben devorant-se a si mateixes.» Estable, pròspera, oberta i lliure.

A scepter snatch’d with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintain’d as gain’d; And he that stands upon a slipp’ry place Makes nice of no vild hold to stay him up

Absolutely thrilled to share the latest work from my lab focused on the variation and evolution of human centromeres among global populations! We assembled 2,110 human centromeres, identifying 226 new major haplotypes and 1,870 α-satellite HOR variants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Lovely Xmas gift 🎄—our paper is out today in @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...! Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible, especially @aelek.bsky.social and @arnausebe.bsky.social

From a personal POV, tagging along with @martaig.bsky.social and @aelek.bsky.social while they developed this project has been one big learning opportunity. In Nematostella biology, clever omics, evo-devo, and more. And the paper certainly reflects all of that. Go check it out!

Dimecres @mossosdesquadra.bsky.social van desallotjar 400 persones del B9 de Badalona, sense alternativa d’allotjament i amb un dispositiu policial desproporcionat entre ARRO i @policia.es 🚨 Una acció degradant i inhumana, racista i violenta, que vulnera els DDHH. 🔗 www.3cat.cat/3catinfo/man...

Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social for this opportunity to contribute to your centenary collection with our take on the state of the field - 10 years after its modern reincarnation 🧪🌍 W/ @alebenoit.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @fritzlaylin.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

DNA is the best kind of time machine - really feels like we’re in a golden age of big data studies like this. Can’t wait to read!

Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to [email protected]

Save the date! The next instalment of Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes is a GO! Join us next year for a programme of talks, posters, ECR/networking activities. Website and registration details to follow in the coming weeks. See you October 5-10 2026 in beautiful San Feliu!!

The next SMBE conference is shaping up to be a great one…

Our latest, led by the inimitable Chris Kay "Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes" in which we used gene duplications to test hypotheses of eukaryogenesis. TLDR? They're all wrong. With @tweethinking.bsky.social @anya1.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Davide Pisani

I'm excited to present this new model to detect positive selection on regulatory sequences, which has been 3 years in the making! Thanks to Alexandre Laverré and @phylogenetrips.bsky.social for their amazing work on this project. 😃 doi.org/10.1101/2025... Thread!

We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n

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

This is an extremely interesting article about the collapse of early farming societies across Europe around ~5000 BC. We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.

Looking for PhD opportunities?👇🏻

Introducing popEVE, an AI model which can support diagnosing diseases "as rare as one". It was created by a team from the CRG and @harvardmed.bsky.social using data from hundreds of thousands of different species and of genetic variation across the human population. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Most interesting! The abstract says it all: «The neutral theory of molecular evolution, positing that most amino acid substitutions are neutral, [is well supported]. However, here we report that the key premise of the theory—beneficial mutations are extremely scarce—is violated.»

«Puta paparra, carronya on fermenta la claveguera de la llum del dia, apunta el seu coet lluna opulenta i implora no fallar la punteria. Teixeix sotanes una aranya lenta. Com ballen amb les vides per la via que va del militar a la serventa! Despullen amb les ungles pedreria. …

This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.

Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

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

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!

Most interesting. Increasing air travel connectivity in Europe has diminishing or negative economic returns in many regions, and may even be a regressive subsidy to the already rich.

A colleague is looking into organising a journal club about tinkering as a source of evolutionary innovation (sensu Jacob 1977)... She's got a couple of candidate papers already, but we're looking for new ideas 🙂 Any recommendations? #evosky #evobio

Today at the @iec.cat , @matteoagazzi.bsky.social gave an update on our coral reference genomes project🪸, part or the @catbiogenoma.bsky.social. It was great to see what everyone is working on within the @catbiogenoma.bsky.social effort! #corals #genomes

If you're interested in understanding discordance in phylogenomic analyses, the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social's special issue 'Phylogenomic Discordance: Patterns, Processes, and Solutions' is for you! tinyurl.com/v2eces3s I'll be sharing a few articles a week until we're through the issue! (1/n)🧪

Come and Join Us. Not only will it be fun, but you will be learning a lot of methods & travel some more ;)!

There must be someone out there who finds R's tryCatch function intuitive. I'd like to take a look into their unique brain.

That title feels like a little rollercoaster.

🚨 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!

Imma repost this again because I've been reading it more closely and, frankly, it's a great review.

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Avui que naixia Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill" en traducció de María Manent. Un dels poemes més bonics del món.

Weekend reading: our latest research about a dual feeding strategy in a Mediterranean coral is covered in French magazine @sciencesetavenir.bsky.social @arnausebe.bsky.social @xgrau.bsky.social

How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities? Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation. 🧵(1/n) @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515

«A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time» This looks great. Figure 2 is textbook material! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you looking for a PhD? Join us in Barcelona! You'll dive into a community of >100 PhD students from 30 countries exploring the frontiers of biology. You can also join an online workshop on 6 November (15:00 CET) to learn how to find the right lab for you. More info: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

Nature research paper: The evolution of facultative symbiosis in stony corals go.nature.com/43bS70Q

Yes, maybe, but it won’t tell you about the beautiful hand-drawn pictures of said protist only found in a 1878 limnology handbook for Prussian army officers…

There's something else we want to highlight about this paper: all the single-cell transcriptomic atlases can be freely browsed through an interactive database (by @aelek.bsky.social). This includes 3 coral species: Oculina, Stylophora pistillata & Acropora millepora 🪸 sebelab.crg.eu/multicoral-s...