Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.

NYC, it’s time to take to the streets again. We’re joining over 40 cosponsors to protest authoritarianism, and march for a planet where we place people over profit. 📅 Saturday, April 19 ⏰ 12pm 📍 Bryant Park We’ll see you in the streets.

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 February 14th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Next Friday, @pandolfatto.bsky.social , will give the IJM Seminar "The evolution of toxin-resistant Na+,K+-ATPases: new insights from frogs and fireflies" ➡️ https://buff.ly/40wHF1R

“The distribution of highly deleterious variants across human ancestry groups”. Preprint with Anastasia Stolyarova and @gcbias.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Although it feels bizarre to be posting about research with what has been going on in the US this week, I want to highlight new work from graduate student @nemovrobles.bsky.social whose first-first author paper on mitonuclear incompatibilities in swordtails just posted on bioRxiv. shorturl.at/gC71V

"We describe a #mtDNA variant that confers protection against variety of pathogens in #Drosophila. This protection was at least partially caused by enhanced cell-mediated innate #immunity, including higher numbers of immune cells prior to and during infection." journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

This year I always had my camera and a small photo box to hand when I was gardening. My children are always finding caterpillars outside, and I wanted to document that a bit this year. With the exception of the garden tiger moth (Arctia caja), they all came from my garden.

Want to perform HIGH EFFICIENCY Homology Directed Repair in Drosophila spp? Try Atalanta plasmids. About 10X higher efficiency than other methods! Tag or delete genes, invert chromosome regions, make scarless site-specific modifications. All with easy cloning. This paper is proudly bioRxiv only!

📣 Two ERC-funded positions are available in the lab! If you are interested in exploring the mechanisms underlying mutation, we’d love to hear from you. PhD: shorturl.at/Oc04N Postdoc: shorturl.at/1ShHB RPs and shares would be greatly appreciated! 🧪🧬🖥️ #ScienceJobs #PostdocJobs

Just posting this to #popgen Here's a link to my notes on population & quantitative genetics: github.com/cooplab/popg... Hoping to extend it more after the winter holidays, as I'm just finishing up teaching the undergrad version of class.

Please share widely: The 2025 Speciation Gordon Research Conference (March 2-7 2025) is now open for registration to anyone. If you wish to attend, apply here: www.grc.org/speciation-c... Attendees can present posters, and there are a couple open talk slots to be filled from poster abstracts.

A really nice News and Views about our paper by @tollkuhn.bsky.social 🙏🏽 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How do animals know when it’s their turn to communicate during a conversation? In our latest preprint, we study the behavior and neurobiology of aggressive visual turn-taking of Siamese fighting (betta) fish to find out. Work lead by Claire Everett 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nice write up in Science Magazine about our ivory lncRNA color patterning preprints! Way to go @hwkmthcrspr.bsky.social, @lucalivraghi.bsky.social, and Tian Shen! www.science.org/content/arti...

Excited to share a new pre-print from our lab that demonstrates surprisingly repeatable genome evolution in replicated Xiphophorus hybrid populations! Led by former postdoc Quinn Langdon with substantial contributions from Jeff Groh from @gcbias.bsky.social's lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hey don't forget that both World Central Kitchen (wck.org) and Doctors Without Borders (msf.org) are on the ground in Gaza helping out. And they can use your help too.

Zach Baker's paper modeling the rapid evolution of PRDM9 is now out in eLife: elifesciences.org/articles/83769

This is me trying out Blusky! I am interested in #viruses #genomes #Drosophila #evolution and #popgen. Here is a pretty picture of some flies from the UK, as an attention-grabber (visit obbard.bio.ed.ac.uk/photos.html for more!)