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

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...