This is insane. Amazing story!

forna and mfold webservers down at the same time is really annoying.

Having a great time at the Friedrich Löffler Institute in Greifswald. Impressive place (850 people work here). Many exciting questions about (viral) microRNAs after my presentation. Thank you for the invitation to Balal Sadeghi!!!

Our new paper is out in Dev Biol! 🎉 🐸🧬 We show #miR-196a directs #neural crest fate in #Xenopus by repressing immature neural #ectoderm — evidence #miRNAs can potentially drive, not just fine-tune, early patterning 👉 Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd... @devbiol.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social

New #miRNA paper from Lai lab!! 🧬🔥 some think this field, despite recent Nobel to Ambros and Ruvkun, doesn't have much surprises left. but, do we EVEN KNOW WHAT a miRNA precursor LOOKS LIKE? we found some conserved miRNA hairpins up to 10x longer than suspected. this is mir-12, just bonkers! 1/n

Paper alert!🔔 Think you know how microRNAs look like? Think again!! Giant hairpins in multiple animal phyla! Very happy to have contributed to this awesome paper with @lucksmith.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How many chromosomes can an animal have? In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Awesome paper by the lab of @lcochella.bsky.social on how MIR-10 / 100 family regulated cellular interaction pathways www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

What a figure!

#argonautes2025 end (for me) with an amazing dinner. Thank you for organizing @svobodalab.bsky.social

#argonautes2025 day3 with amazing talks spanning widely over generegulation to evolution and parasitic interaction (via AGO). A presentation by the Argonautes Syndrom family alliance reminded how relevant research on Argonautes and related mechanisms is

#argonautes2025 What to say: RNA U come around

Big news for @bsky.app, the open social web and the #science community! @arstechnica.com cites @whysharksmatter.bsky.social’s new survey showing most science communicators are leaving Twitter — with Bluesky emerging as their platform of choice.

#argonautes2025 day 2 started strong 💪🏻

FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...

"By contrast, in 2025 thus far, Bluesky has driven "a hundred times as many page views" to Southern Fried Science as Twitter." arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Beautiful setup #argonautes

.. achievement unlocked: backup beer obtained. Non-alcoholic included. Tastes better than Bud light. 😉

#argonautes 2025 starts with a card game including 4 Jokers (Nobellaureates)

Ichthyostracan Origins #Invertebrate #SciArt #PalaeoArt

This is impressive.

read and despair! "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hey blueskiers! We are looking for examples of "microRNAs" that you came across in your studies that seemed weird or behaving unexpectedly.

What an amazing asset and friend to have had in the lab. Thank you Pedro for the last half year!!!

I am starting a computational lab at LIOS, Riga, Latvia, and going to recruit a few people. Please DM if you are interested in a postdoc or PhD position in my Metabolic Research Group within the TARGETWISE project. I can highly recommend Riga, it is a beautiful city with very good living conditions.

What a beautiful trip!! Thank you @enricodanielloszn.bsky.social

happy to have contributed to this nice paper on the Platynereis genome: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very cool work using RNA feom historic specimen to trace vieaö RNA mutations!! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... An ancient influenza genome from Switzerland allows deeper insights into host adaptation during the 1918 flu pandemic in Europe | BMC Biology

Nice covarge of the paper we have been involved with on the genome of the sea spider! (microRNA complement is virtually complete!) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/s...

Happy to have contributed to this paper!!! Convergent placental phenotypes are mechanistically shaped by the same regulators

When you see convergent phenotypes do u wonder about their genetic basis? Did they re-invent some genetic element to construct the phenotype? The mammal placenta-a pretty important organ-has a lot of convergent phenotypes & this paper helps explain how they come about www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is wild! Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol) www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SedaDNA2025 is Go! @arcecogen.bsky.social

🔥🔥🔥NEW PAPER OUT in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social with @psarkies.bsky.social and many others who are not here, yet!🔥🔥🔥 academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

Beautiful discovery right at the beach.

Important episode of Big Biology on the proposed cuts to NSF. ( free access) open.spotify.com/episode/7lLw...

ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY Join us to discover the fascinating world of microRNAs Visit our group webpage to meet the team members and read about the projects in the lab carrellalab.wordpress.com Contact us: [email protected] Apply: www.szn.it/index.php/it... @frommlab.bsky.social

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it Colette Delawalla, Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#RNAsky #ncRNA #microRNA

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

Interested in a PhD position on microRNAs and oxidative stress with the fantastic @sabcarrella.bsky.social and co-supervised by me in beautiful Naples at the marvelous Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn? Check this opportunity!!

Join us to discover the fascinating world of microRNAs Visit our group webpage to meet the team members and read about the projects in the lab carrellalab.wordpress.com Contact us: [email protected] For info and application: www.szn.it/index.php/it... Apply or share! #RNAsky

Our friends in Stockholm @marcfriedlander.bsky.social are hiring a PostDoc and PhD candidate in environmental RNA!!! Highly recommended!! friedlanderlab.org/join-us/

If you happen to see a friend across the street, odds are you might raise an arm and wiggle your hand to say hello. Cuttlefish apparently do something similar—and that’s not the only arm gesture they use to communicate. Learn more: scim.ag/4j5nmQv

This is, at present, the best paper yet published on the origin of SARS-CoV-2. No work of remotely comparable rigor has been published in favor of *any* lab leak hypothesis.

🔥 Very hot sequencing results just came in!! #EXCITED!!!! old stuff :-)

Here's one of the incredible dataviz images that Ron Milo just showed at #EMBOclimateResilience, from the excellent Greenspan et al PNAS paper www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

✨So happy to see part of my PhD work with @lippilab.bsky.social out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! ✨ We developed new tools to study microRNA-target networks with greater spatial and temporal resolution and found neuronal subtype- and developmental stage-specific roles: