Watson and Crick steal ideas of Rosalind Franklin. Claim discovery of DNA. Win (ig)Nobel prize. Watson, now pictured with women in Epstein’s house www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...

Vibe Coding Kills Open Source arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494

Forget the bunch of White people who mostly still support him, I really want to hear from the 7% of immovable Black Protestants that seems like an interesting group to talk to

American chestnuts were iconic but got wiped out by a foreign pathogenic fungus. Hybrids are key for chestnut restoration. As second author I led parts of the evolutionary and functional work Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢 The Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committee is calling for instructors to run pilot workshops for 14 lessons currently in Alpha status. To move them toward Beta and then adoption as Library Carpentry lessons, they need the Carpentries community to test the lessons in real-world settings. 🙏

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

For anyone who missed the whole thing. Gloriously joyful and spot on youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?... #BadBunny #SuperBowl

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

I hope to see some of you in Bielefeld for this upcoming workshop on measuring and modeling plasticity. ECRs in and around Germany with a penchant for statistics should consider applying while spots remain available!

The #vaginal #microbiome is shaped by bacterial access to specific nutritional resources. This study uses a resource-based model & clinical data to identify key ecological mechanisms underlying #microbiota composition & potential #BacterialVaginosis interventions @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3NY2ssu

This is a growing movement of scientists transforming their raw data into sound or music go.nature.com/3NXJMcm

Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Hit parade " In this study, we systematically analyzed the entire human surfaceome, identifying approximately 4,500 targetable sites and introducing potential binding seeds for initiating protein design applications." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Introgression under linear selection on continuous genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.30.702779v1

👋 Hi #AcademicSky! Together with @smbe-idea.bsky.social I’m organizing a symposium at #SMBE2026 (Copenhagen) 🇩🇰 🌈 Our mission is to 𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 & 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 📣 Call for abstracts 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 ⏰ Deadline: 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟯 ✨ Hope to see you there! 😉 @official-smbe.bsky.social

Now published: our work using phylodynamics from surveillance data to quantify and experimentally validate the fitness impact of antibiotic resistance determinants & how this changes with patterns of antibiotic use: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing

Pre-announcement ... keep an eye out for news of our upcoming #Biodiversity #Bioinformatics Summer School 21-26 June in Germany co-organised by @sib.swiss & @denbi.bsky.social ... sign up to the mailing list to be sure not to miss it! www.sib.swiss/training/upc...

1.5 million and counting. Thank you.

🔊NEW ERGA @biogeneurope.bsky.social Publication in Molecular Ecology Resources! From Permits to Samples: Addressing Key Challenges for High-Quality Reference Genome Generation in Europe 🌍🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Deadline for #SMBE2026 abstract submission is coming up (Feb 3)! Consider symposium S14 "Evolution of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Genomic Age", organized by @jcwinternitz.bsky.social, @arcova.bsky.social, @michalvinkler.bsky.social and @diyarhamidi.bsky.social.

We're excited that The Carpentries Lab lesson "Introduction to Deep Learning" has been accepted to the Journal of Open Source Education! 🎉 The lesson is a practical intro to deep learning, intended for researchers who are familiar with (non-deep) machine learning: jose.theoj.org/papers/10.21....

Q&A with Patrícia Izar, who is a Professor of Ethology at the University of São Paulo, where she studies the behavioral ecology, plasticity, and cognition of Platyrrhine primates, especially robust capuchin monkeys (Sapajus). www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Join the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Hamburg, March 25-27, 2026. Theme: Interactions and Coevolution. PhD students & early postdocs can register. More info: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/evolutionaere-immungenomik/dzg-meeting.html #conference

Can’t travel to Copenhagen this summer? 🚗 ✈️ 🚄 🖥️ We’re pleased to offer virtual registration for SMBE 2026, giving you access to all parallel sessions live during the conference. Please note that the full conference experience, networking, and discussions are best enjoyed in Copenhagen. 🇩🇰

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

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Deforestation in Colombia appears to have declined in 2025. Officials attribute the trend to collaboration with Indigenous communities and environmental zoning in rural areas, as well as ecotourism and a program providing financial incentives for communities involved in forest conservation.

Nothing to see here... 👀 2024 National Wildlife Photo Contest Honorable Mentions 📲: https://ow.ly/pcsz50XUab2 📸 Yuan Minghui 📝 Hunstman spider on bark lichens in Xishuangbanna, China

Nature research paper: Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus go.nature.com/4pA9hNZ

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

🧪 Thousands of special issues are stained with PISS (>33% of articles authored by the guest editor). See @hansonmark.bsky.social's thread below for a brief summary, read our preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563), explore our ShinyApp to see where it occurs (paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...).

“First things first... We're having fish every Friday."

Florida professors, university faculty, and teaching assistants could soon be able to openly carry firearms on campus, thanks to a sweeping new measure filed by a Republican lawmaker. via @floridaphoenix.com

Population-scale long-read datasets, involving sequencing and de novo assembly of multiple individuals within a species, are better at capturing the full spectrum of structural variants, but such datasets are rare outside of humans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics

A good time for a reminder that the BIO Directorate will hold a Virtual Office Hour on Thursday www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...

#ArtAdventCalendar day 15 - have an octopus! #SciArt

Otters have the thickest hair of any mammal, up to a million hairs per square inch. Theoretically their skin doesn’t even get wet in the water because the water can’t penetrate their superb dense oiled hair. And that Ihow they stay warm in the water (as opposed to blubber).

Well, scientists, I have good news and I have bad news for you. The good news is now you only get one reviewer. The bad news is that it's always Reviewer 3.

NEW: Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us that Trump is a schmuck. (He was also a friend, and I'll miss our very long lunches.)

Opinion: Women (and some men) have been driven to the gender-swap stunt by a suspicion that the LinkedIn algorithm has changed in recent months, causing it to 'suppress' posts from women. It seems that being a man gets you seen by a lot more people. on.ft.com/499tfKq

Evolving viral threats www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to be organizing this symposium for SMBE2026 and looking forward to receiving your abstract submissions!

SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

Spillover of #influenza A viruses from animals to humans represents a threat to our health. In this Perspective, Silke Stertz @virology.uzh.ch discusses emerging research that suggests some influenza A viruses can enter host cells via MHC-II receptors across species 🧪 #virology plos.io/4pP3Gnq

Excited to be organizing this SMBE symposium and looking forward to SMBE 2026!!

"Diversity dynamics do not appear to be governed by clade-level processes expected from adaptive radiations or diversity dependence." 👀👀👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...