Will proposals even matter anymore? It seems inevitable that CVs will become the most important evaluator soon (if they aren't already)

Roberto Márquez - Virginia Tech, USA 🐸 Webpage: www.biol.vt.edu/faculty/Marq...

DNA is not the same as kinship. Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can: • erase community-defined relationships • reinforce Western biases • and even cause real harm in policy + research Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here: mhibbins.github.io I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!

The Chinese banyan stem gall first found in Hawaii in 2012 finally has a name! Meet Josephiella manana, and its associate Gibsonoma kuewa. Fun small project with @kmagnacca.bsky.social in sorting out some of these introduced micro wasps of Hawaii. Link to paper: tinyurl.com/ych93swd

Damn, they really got me here. I am a long-read genome ass 🫏

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

BRAKER4 is about to hatch. It now also covers functional annotation for protein sequences... #genomeannotation

Great to see this paper in its final published form! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧪🧬🖥️ New vg v1.73.0 release, codenamed "Ducky," features off-linear-reference VCF generation in vg call and vg deconstruct, and GBZ-to-GBZ chunking in vg chunk. Distance indexes have also been improved: github.com/vgteam/vg/re...

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost

bugs are super cool

🌱 CRAG launches an international call for early‑career researchers! We invite young scientists interested in starting their independent research group at CRAG 📅 Deadline - April 26 Apply now 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jdwzombrbd

Excited about plant pigments? Anthocyanin biosynthesis is a hot topic in plant biology, judging by the growing number of publications #FlavonoidFriday doi.org/10.20944/pre... & shorturl.at/Hrm4c @puckerlab.bsky.social

oil prices are about to make polyester a noble fiber

How old are tomatoes, peppers and golden berries? 🍅🌱 We combined fossils with molecular data to time-calibrate the evolutionary history of #Solanaceae Curious about total-evidence dating? Take a look! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

Deep-sea hermit crabs from the Parapaguridae family live 1,000+ meters deep! Unlike typical hermits, they often use soft “homes” made by anemones or zoanthids instead of shells. #marinelife Image from @schmidtocean.bsky.social

I am so excited to travel back and forth between the US and UK like 6 times this summer 😬😬😬 What a great time to fly 🙃

Duplicated genes find their space: Spatial transcriptomics illuminates evolutionary fates (Min-Yao Jhu , Fabian van Beveren , Bruno Guillotin) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Latest from the lab - a comparative transcriptomic analysis of glandular trichomes from cannabis, hops and tomato plants. In it we identify which transcriptional regulators are shared and which are not doi.org/10.1111/tpj..... We also provide big datasets of gene expresison across several organs.

I have a joke about aphids but it sucks

How do I get my dog a job like this? She would be so good at finding illicit meats (and even dispose most of it into her belly) www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/loca...

I am so excited to move back to The States and open up my lab later this year 🙃

Paul Ehrlich has died. Most will remember him for "The Population Bomb." But for many of us, Ehrlich and Raven 1964 was a foundational read that influenced our careers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy weevil Wednesday yall!

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT The Coffee Leaf Miner, a global pest of coffee plants, is a serious threat to your morning brew. ☕️ Its newly assembled genome from @caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social may offer clues to fighting this pest and protecting the most beloved stimulant. Paper in #G3journal: buff.ly/lGbPeM0

Resharing again! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience or interests in longitudinal data collection OR analysis: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

i have never before hoped that Nintendo would file a lawsuit, but i guess there's a first time for everything

what software are people using to scaffold inveetebrate genome assemblies with hic data these days?

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

🗣️ Reminder: @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social FWO-funded 3y #postdoc position deadline tomorrow (10/03/2026) 🐸🧬 👉: Applications welcome! jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P... @vubrussel.bsky.social #postdoc #Brussels #sexchromosometurnover #meiosis #recombination #transposableelements

"your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didnt stop to think if they should"

Finally finished my timelapse of the lunar eclipse under the aurora in Fairbanks, Alaska! Check out the massive substorm turning the ground green in front of the eclipse, too! This is one of my favorite timelapses I have captured!

too bad gpus cost more than cars these days 😅

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$1B per day is about $42 million per hour. About 30 min worth of that spending can fund my lab for my ENTIRE career (~20 3-year NSFs or ~10 5-year R01s). Please wrap your head around that.

Deadline for applying is 9 march. Don't miss out!

one of my bandmates shared this with me a couple days ago and i legit have no stopped listen to them ever since 😅

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

does legalizing raw milk mean we get clotted cream in the US now?

Some folks think that if we preprint papers, then double-blind review is pointless. Here @comecology.bsky.social argues that even if double-blind can't be an impermeable shield, it's still worthwhile as a compass: www.oikosjournal.org/blog/view-ed...

is pizza a pancake?

tech companies stop making Black Mirror episodes irl challenge

roses are red violets are blue both make sugars from atmospheric CO2 🌹🌹🌹

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

my hot take is that double blind review should always be an option, but not mandatory since it is mutually exclusive with pre-printing

JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Fecal Flakes would make a great band name 😅

LOVE seeing the work on @nativebio.bsky.social and @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social highlighted in the NYT. More good news of Indigenous data champions! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...

NativeBio is comprised of leading Indigenous Scientists & Ethicists in fields of technology that will affect, or steal Indigenous Data & Resources for the "discovery" behemoth of today's world economy. Here, OUR scholars talk about CRISPR in relation to Native plant, microbial & animal relatives.