ERGA member Roberto Biello @rsbiello.bsky.social will present @official-smbe.bsky.social July 1 in session "Open 10b: Population genetics and genomics 3b" #SMBE2026

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

Imperial moth, it’s been too long

@conjustover.bsky.social explaining why all polyploid researchers are masochists at #Evol2026

The full Mongue lab will be at #evol2026! Say hi or come see our work. All three of us have talks (pic related). Check this thread for some more specifics and we hope to see you there! 1/5

I am not at #Evol2026, but @conjustover.bsky.social is! Go check out his talk on collaborative work we have been doing with John Wakeley on simulating autotetraploids tomorrow at 4:15pm.

How did snakes get so long? Did they expand their necks? Torsos? Both? Do they even have necks? Find out (kind of) in 25A at 3:30 June 21st #Evolution2026

Fire on the mountain. Haven’t seen this since the 2020 Bighorn Fire.

NODULE INCEPTION is definitely band name material

The new OrthoFinder paper is out now! In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets www.nature.com/articles/s41... github.com/OrthoFinder/...

When caterpillars attack, the common bean plant relies on a receptor in its leaves to sound a chemical rallying cry that recruits predatory wasps, a new #ScienceAdvances study finds. https://scim.ag/434rXN5

Effector recognition by molecular mimicry of its target by an NLR - enabling multiple disease resistance specificities to be generated- first seen on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social - great work led by @dianagdlc.bsky.social and Matt Moscou www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hummingbird moths on the columbines! 🌱🫛 From my front garden

📢 PDRA Position - Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Aug 2026 (flexible) 🧪 Wet lab + bioinformatics 📅 Up to 3 years (ERC-funded) 📍 South Kensington, on site ℹ️ shorturl.at/VIITk 🔗 kourelislab.com #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology 🙏 Share with interested candidates!

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

Research Associate in Plant Synthetic Biology and Immune Receptor Engineering // Imperial College www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRT581/r... Do you want to bioengineer plant immune receptors to enhance disease resistance in crops? Join the Kourelis laboratory. #BotanyJobs

Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social). We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT) 1/n 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

My talented lab tech is looking for a position in CA starting in August. She is looking for: -University research -Clinical setting -Clinical organization ideally, but open to any position Her skills: -microbiome research (from tissue collection to bioinformatics) -Genome assembly/annotation

Happy Pride month, from this Two Spirit Ojibwe!

Can confirm, we've used this method to preserve and sequence DNA from critters caught in the Costa Rican cloud forest. Chromosome level insect genomes from tissue kept at room temperature for ~5 days before we could get it back to the lab!

Synthetic Plant Biology from Simons Foundation. Due end of July. Max 360k/year for 3 years. Expected to fund 3-5 proposals. #PlantScience www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/synthe...

wow what a wonderful thing to be announced two days after accepting a faculty position 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Now out in Science Advances. Inceptin Receptor helps attract predatory wasps in two years of field experiments. Next steps: can we tune both receptor recognition and volatile blend traits in crops + companion plants?

Well, it's finally official: I'll be starting as Assistant Professor at Arizona State University this Fall!!! I'm super stoked for the opportunity to build my research group and continue studying plant-insect interactions in the coolest ecosystem on Earth - the Sonoran Desert 🏜️

i'm gonna be so rich once i figure out how to monetize cortisol

Chromosomal rearrangements: tempo and mode of karyotype evolution in Scarabaeoidea @seanchien.bsky.social & Heath Blackmon @tamu.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

If you haven't been using Bioicons, you should check it out: bioicons.com You can find so many high quality vector arts for science that is also open source/free! If you made vector arts for your papers, I urge you to contribute them on Bioicons too. I have shared several icons I made as well.

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

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.