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.

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

🚨 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...

Our paper Genomic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles funestus was published in Science today! It features inversions, selection in action, museum specimens and putative new ecotypes. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

“[Govern i Mossos recorden que] tan sols els jutges poden determinar si els principis de congruència o de proporcionalitat no han estat ben atesos en les actuacions.” Quan ja no quedi ningú al carrer, clar. www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/ala...

Oculina patagonica’s ability to alternate between feeding with or without algae supports its resilience to rising Mediterranean sea temperatures, highlighting flexible survival strategies in corals. doi.org/g964qq

1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005 How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.

Hot off the press! Our latest work on the evolution of facultative symbiosis in stony corals, focusing on a remarkable Mediterranean species: Oculina patagonica. 🪸 🌊 #evobio #corals #coralbiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

I find this a bit of a forced dichotomy. The reputational damage one gets from lying is strong enough to prevent most from blatantly making stuff up. And high standards for data/code sharing are good, but they're 1) unlikely to move the moral needle much, 2) a technical & financial burden for many…

“Thinking happens when two people who see themselves as equals pursue a question together. It’s a chimeric activity, shared but also private and enclosed My goal […] isn’t to dominate by scoring points, or to earn the respect of some audience, or to impress…” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Quite surprising!

Really grateful to see our work featured by @quantamagazine.bsky.social in this piece on the evolution of genome regulation. Huge thanks to @philipcball.bsky.social for such a beautifully written article.

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

Dos-cents mil morts a la postguerra per la fam de Franco www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/dos...

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

My first ever non-peer reviewed science-related piece. Together with Howard Wolinsky and Holger Breithaupt @embopress.org It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

🌊 Andrew Garrett's Fische der Südsee Hamburg: L. Friederichsen & Co., 1873-1910. [Source]

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Calling early-career developmental biologists! Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution. Application deadline: 5 December www.biologists.com/workshops/ju... #DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking

Avui fa 50 anys Jon Paredes 'Txiki' era afusellat a Collserola per un escamot de guàrdies civils voluntaris. Ahir nit, al pati de la presó Model, on Txiki esperava les darreres hores, passava això. Amb la veu de l'actor Sergi López posant veu a la darrera carta d'en Txiki directa.cat/50-anys-de-c...

woweee 🤩

BCA is a project to look out for — charting the diversity of cell type transcriptomes across the tree of life. Not only will it empower evolutionary studies, but also drive advances in biotechnology, biomedicine, and ecology. Kudos to the relentless, meticulous, and persistent team doing this work!

Gold of amber, red of ember, brown of umber, all September. (Autumn, Six Quatrains, @ursulakleguin.com)

Can we catalogue all the diversity of cell behaviours across the whole tree of life? Well, modern single-cell 'omics' certainly give us the chance to try!

#NotíciaIRBio 🐉✨ El drac blau arriba a la costa catalana! S’ha confirmat la presència del Glaucus atlanticus a la costa del Tarragonès. 🔬 Els exemplars seran estudiats pel grup de recerca del Dr. Ballesteros de l’IRBio i @biologiaub.bsky.social 🔗https://shorturl.at/7bYau 📷AgentsRurals

«One of Trumpism’s worst characteristics is its open warfare on the malleable psyches of young men. It tells them to act big, talk bigger, take out their aggression on anybody who seems softer or more thoughtful than themselves. [It] perverts moral categories… 1/2 www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

O, understand my drift.

Nice! And sort of soothing, in a sense.

«In light of the possibility that a reviewer might use an LLM to write a review from scratch, some authors have explored the use of hidden “prompt injections” [to ensure positive reviews]. We consider this a form of collusion».

Excited / nervous to share the “magnum opus” of my postdoc in Andreas Wagner’s lab! "De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA" This project is the accumulation of 4 years of work, and lays the foundation for my future group. In short, we… (1/4)

Chaetognaths have lost gene body methylation and shifted #5mC back to Transposable Elements. This reversion to the ancestral state is coupled with a simplification of DNMT3 architecture. We posit that trans-splicing might compensate. It is an honour to have contributed to this 20y struggle ⛰️.

This is quite something.

📣The #EMBOWorkshop is almost here! 🔬 Learn all about the evolution and origins of multicellularity 🦠🧬 from October 9–11, ONLINE🤩 🗓️ Register by September 5 ➡️ https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-multicellularity #UnravellingEvolution #DiscoveringLife

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.

Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study led by @tomlewin.bsky.social now out in Genome Biology @bmc.springernature.com! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians. doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Unfortunately, I couldn't join in person #eseb2025, but the organizers kindly accommodated a video. Posted here in case you missed it! youtu.be/n9Ls9-8p8x0?...