Uuund die 200.000-Marke ist locker geknackt! 🤩 Großartig! Da geht noch mehr, oder? 💪 #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz @fragdenstaat.de

Looking for a postdoc opportunity in evolutionary genetics? Join the Wolf Lab at LMU Munich. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

One of the good things about the AI co-scientist brouhaha is that it makes us discuss what science *is*, and how to measure its value, impact, quality. — Questions that have been there all along, but many preferred to gloss over.

Sequential origin of an alternative colony founding strategy driven by two supergenes in Temnothorax ants academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Da hat jemand die Aufklärung nicht verstanden, der wir unser liberales System der Wahrheitsfindung verdanken

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

"Wir unterrichten bereits in den ersten Semestern, dass Verbrennungsprozesse viel ineffizienter sind als die Erneuerbaren. Und was man jetzt momentan vorhat, ist ungefähr so, als wenn jemand zu euch nach Hause kommt & sagt: Der Induktionsherd, muss raus. Jetzt wird wieder auf offenem Feuer gekocht."

Harald Lesch bringt es auf den Punkt: Viele sind “geschockt, dass wir demonstrieren müssen für den gesunden Menschenverstand, für erneuerbare Energien.” Aber angesichts von Reiches fossiler Lobbypolitik müssen wir das tun - und das werden wir morgen bundesweit. Erneuerbare Energien verteidigen!

LMU-Professor Harald Lesch wird Ehrenbürger von München 🎉 Auszeichnung für Wissenschaft, Aufklärung und Engagement. #HaraldLesch #München #Wissenschaft

¡Contento de compartir nuestro nuevo artículo sobre el forrajeo de polen en Heliconius himera en @behavecol.bsky.social! 🦋🌼 Exploramos cómo hembras y muchos de H. himera difieren en el forrajeo de polen y rasgos sensoriales. 1/6🧵👇https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/37/3/arag014/8490681

Excited to share our new paper on pollen foraging in Heliconius himera @behavecol.bsky.social! 🦋🌼 academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... We explored how female and male H. himera differ in pollen foraging & sensory traits. 1/6🧵👇

Ich radle durch die sonnige Stadt und möchte am liebsten jede Person, die ich sehe, fragen, ob sie schon wählen war. Wenn ihr das als Münchner*innen lest, wart ihr bestimmt schon, oder geht gleich, richtig? #govote

New publication alert! 🥳🍾 With Prof. Dr. Kraiczy's lab, we asked how natural genetic variation affects the function of immune modulatory Borrelia proteins and if this could influence how pathogenic the populations are to humans. Out now in Scientific Reports: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Help us find ticks in Germany! NABU has launched a nation wide effort to understand the range expansion of ticks in Germany. With changing climates, tick species have been able to extend their ranges. You can help by reporting tick images as explained below: www.nabu.de/tiere-und-pf...

This sounds so great that I just have to re-repost it, even though it is competing with our masters program EES at LMU!

You want to work on Transcriptional Regulation in Beetles 🐞? Join our GEvol Community and work with many great people ➡️ Two open PhD positions in @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social lab in Frankfurt: g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...

Two exciting PhD positions for biologists or bioinformaticians in Barbara Feldmeyer's lab at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute in Frankfurt, one on transcriptional regulation of odorant perception in hymenoptera and... g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...

3/ Wir kennen alle die Lösung: Erneuerbare Energien! Sie… ☀️ …machen unabhängig von Autokraten 🏭 …schaffen jede Menge Jobs 💶 …bringen langfristig niedrigere Strompreise 🌍 …sind die beste Antwort auf die Klimakrise.

Excited to see our FML Research Group Leader @luisapallares.bsky.social in the latest Max Planck Research! 🎉 The article follows her journey from Colombia to Germany and her work on how genes and environment shape complex traits using fruit flies. Read the full story: www.mpg.de/26180374/W00...

Here’s some more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Oft Herr Mendel dreams that genes form living matter. They do the latter. doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Gestern hab ich bekannt gegeben, dass ich spätestens 2028 aus der Wissenschaft aussteigen werd — darüber schreibt @evamurasov.bsky.social nun im @tagesspiegel.de. Zig Kommentare & Nachrichten zeigen mir: Sehr viele Wissenschaftler_innen hadern. Bedingungen müssen dringend besser werden! #IchBinHanna

@jochenwolflab.bsky.social Where do potentially harmful mutations accumulate? We have an answer in birds. Congratulations Fidel for wonderful paper! doi.org/10.1093/gene...

#Photosynthesis 🌿: A team led by #LMU biologist Hans-Henning Kunz has now deciphered the chloroplast ionome of various plant species. Their findings form an important basis for elucidating the regulation of mineral homeostasis in chloroplasts & developing new biotech strategies.

Man muss sich das einmal klar machen: Die Staatssekretärin im Bundeswirtschaftsministerium Connemann relativiert wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und wischt sie einfach weg. Das ist Querdenkertum und Trumpismus inmitten der Bundesregierung. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Gevol Job alert: 2 New PhD positions. You want to do Bioinformatics 💻, please check the job Mario Stankes lab in Greifswald, or maybe work on ant venoms 🐜, please check the job in Simon Tragust lab in Halle. These and more open jobs can be found g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...

📢🪳 New paper alert! Former group members Alina and Mark contributed to a new study just published in Nature Communications. The team generated 47 new high-quality genomes from termites and cockroaches, filling a major gap in available data. Check out the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GEvol Job Alert: PhD position in Robert Paxtons lab in Halle This research project focuses on the extent to which the origin of eusociality in the socially variable halictid bees is ascribable to changes in gene regulatory mechanisms. Find this and more open positions @ g-evol.uni-muenster.de

Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

What has to change in the German academic system? In my opinion, achievements should be rewarded. Some countries have criteria for in-house promotions & tenure in place. In Germany, that is very difficult. Our anti nepotism laws make it hard. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Deadline soon (end of Nov) for this PhD position in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics in my group.

PhD position available for theoretical and statistical modeling in my joint @gevol.bsky.social project with @luisapallares.bsky.social on the evolution of transcriptional variability and its role in adaptation and evolutionary innovation. See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...

📢 Job alert: Post-Doc Position in the project "Functional annotation of genomic🧬 innovations in a densely populated clade🪰 with deep learning 💻" Join the GEvol community in a collaborative project between @bornberglab.bsky.social and @katharinahoff.bsky.social lab. 👉 bornberglab.org/post-doc-pos...

I am also super happy and excited about our joint project with @luisapallares.bsky.social as part of DFP SPP GEvol @gevol.bsky.social !

PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social

@jochenwolflab.bsky.social Check out the latest paper spearheaded by @chyiyin.bsky.social. She explored different methods for target enrichment of DNA extracted from thousands of years old crow bones. Long live ancient DNA! doi.org/10.1111/1755...

🎉We are happy to announce that our wonderful GEvol SPP will be funded by @dfg.de for another 3 years. Included are 17 great projects all over Germany with amazing people. You want to be part of this fantastic community? Soon you can find new PhD/Post-Doc positions here & on our website. Stay tuned🎉

Cuckoos: Maternal genes determine egg color www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry. But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out! doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧵1/6

AKW-Kühltürme sind wie 1500 Jahre alte Buddha-Statuen Die Wärmepumpe ist “die letzte Entfremdung des Menschen vom Feuer” E-Autos “haben keine Seele” Aber die Fanatiker, die “Sekte”, die “Ideologen”, die mit der “Klima-Religion” - das sind die anderen! #Welt 1/2

This month is my turn to bust science myths in our institute's mini-videos series. This month's topic: fruit flies and evolution! 🪰🧬 @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Fruit flies are more than pests! Humans share 60% of their genome with them. @luisapallares.bsky.social busts myths about how these tiny creatures can tell us about human diseases. Watch Luisa's full video here: www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/71433/videos #BiologyMyths #Drosophila #Genomics

Just out! Andre Amaral´s latest paper "First fossil mosquito larva in 99-million-year-old amber with a modern type of morphology sheds light on the evolutionary history of mosquitoes" is now published 🎉 Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have put together a comprehensive eQTL map for D. melanogaster using thousands of genetically diverse flies 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰 We hope this helps -as similar resources have done in yeast and humans- to understand how genetic variation 🧬 regulates complex traits variation 🪰 via transcriptional regulation ⬆️⬇️