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I can only second this. BUT, what people often are not aware of: Frontiers in Zoology does NOT belong to the rest of the Frontiers in journals. It is the official journal of the German Zoological Society, a BMC journal and founded BEFORE the other Front in. We suffer a lot from this hijacking.

Latest RNAcentral update out! academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

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]

Awesome two day course on microRNA annotation and differential expression analysis done in Oslo last week (#OsloBioinformaticsweek2025) done. Participants (and tutors!) were so committed that this turned out a microRNA hackathon and we are drafting a paper!!!! Thanks for the invite!!

Peracarid crustaceans contain multitudes - at least 26000 species. In the open ocean, some have transparent eyes up to half the body size (they see more contrast but less precision). In caves, they lose eyes and enhance their smell processing. Papers next #Crustmas 🧪🦑

Two days of teaching everything about microRNAs in Oslo (#OsloBioinformaticsWeek) ahead.

WOW❗🤯 The amount and quality of the abstracts we've received have completely blown us away! More than 300 abstracts from researchers at all levels and from 33 countries. We will communicate the selected talks and open registration soon 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org #ICP2026 will be UNMISSABLE 😍💪

@projectpsyche.bsky.social is there a way to get samples of Morpho from you?

#FREECOURSE-announcement Want to learn about microRNA annotation and differential expression analyses? Within the Oslo Bioinformatics week 2025, we will be teaching a two-day course on the 9th and 10th of December at the University of Oslo. 1/2

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬 To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain). 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy

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

Forty-thousand-year-old mammoth mummies yield oldest RNA yet found

The world’s oldest #RNA extracted from #WoollyMammoth: “gives us a completely different picture” ↓ 🧪⚒️ Woolly mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years sequenced. 🖥️ 🧬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHQv... Weekend reading: www.scilifelab.se/news/worlds-...

RNA recovered from Siberian mammoth that died 39,000 years ago - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/rna-recovered-siberian-mammoth-died-39000-years-ago-5468461

Woolly Mammoth Reveals the World’s Oldest RNA www.scientificamerican.com/article/wool...

Scientists pull ancient RNA from a wooly mammoth’s body : NPR https://www.newsbeep.com/250103/ The body of the young wooly mammoth known as Yuka was so well-preserved that scientists were able to…

40,000-year-old woolly mammoth RNA offers a peek into its last moments Ancient RNA from Yuka, a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost, can offer new biological insights into the Ice Age animal’s life.

We sequenced the oldest RNA (yet) ;-)

A young woolly mammoth now known as Yuka was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for about 40,000 years before it was discovered by local tusk hunters in 2010. Now, a team has successfully sequenced Yuka’s RNA —a feat many researchers once thought impossible.

We dodo it: RNA from an extinct species 39k years old!!!

Boom!

✅microRNAs for the win 💪🏻

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a wooly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died. n.pr/4patABW

🦣🔥Annnnnnnd it is out!!! 🔥🦣 Mammoth RNA published in CELL @cellpress.bsky.social Great collaboration with the labs of @marcfriedlander.bsky.social and @lovedalen.bsky.social lead by @marmole6.bsky.social

…this will soon be formatted nicely and we will follow swiftly with a threadorial!!!

The Lepidoptera are leading the race in reference genome comparative genomics -- beating the Diptera and Drosophila as a model. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Gelechioidea, that superdiverse superfamily of Lepidoptera that has been a super mess taxonomically, finally gets some structure at the family level with phylogenomics! Read all about it in our article led by PhD student @etkayapar.bsky.social ! resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In German a contribution to the topic of papermills and what we might be able to do about it!

"Wenn Betrug schneller wächst als die Wahrheit" — Ein Gastbeitrag von Bastian Fromm (@frommlab.bsky.social, Universität Tromsø) zum Thema organisierte #Forschungsfälschung & #PaperMills und was dies für eine funktionierende #Wissenschaft bedeutet: www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3...

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7

Why has this microRNA review paper been cited more than 2,000 times? Our Sleuth in Residence @drg.bsky.social digs in

#2. This highlights the continuing shame of major journals doing a poor job of finding quality reviewers and not being responsible for the dubious work in their journals. They seem to want the flash, but are unwilling to clean up the messes they create.

#1. A huge number of "microRNAs" are not microRNAs. They will not act like microRNAs and should not be studied as microRNAs. Any studies of these "microRNAs" are dubious and likely erroneous and/or misinterpreted studies. MicroRNA studies should start with confirming it is in MirGeneDB.

🔥🔥🔥🔥New paper out; a opinion piece in @narjournal.bsky.social with Michael Hackenberg, @panosbino.bsky.social, Kevin K Peterson and @marcfriedlander.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥🔥 „Knowing is not enough, we must apply“ academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Unlike the heart attack of getting a “Decision” email, it’s such a good feeling to get a “Your review is ready” email from qed :)

High-quality Denisovan genome, reconstructed from a molar found at Denisova Cave. Belonged to a man who lived ~200 Kya A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan 🏺🧪 S. Peyregne, @benceviola.bsky.social, @elenaessel.bsky.social, @janetk.bsky.social et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics! June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm. Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)! Submit abstracts here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Deadline: Nov 30th

Super happy to host @lovedalen.bsky.social today talking about deep time genomics!

the eventual collapse of ai because it will run out of quality material to train on has me fascinated - esp since the collapse is expected to start sooner than i thought

An outage affecting several services on the internet is also impacting qed's platform. We're investigating this now, and will update you when we have more details.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

"microRNAs blaze into the clinic" Happy to see this article with a short interview with me out in Nature Biotechnology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy that the miRStress project led by @sabcarrella.bsky.social got funded and we were able to recruit William for it!!! Looking forward to contribute in the next years!

Paper accepted!! 🦣

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