I would LOVE to do more reviews for the journals I publish in, but they rarely hit me up. Presumably because I'm still just a lil ol' postdoc. All the requests I get are from DToL genome reports and predatory publishers 🙃

Is anyone else in the UK getting served an absurd amount of online army recruitment ads all of a sudden? 😬

It's only a war if its made in the War river valley, otherwise it's just a sparkling military operation

#ERGAReads | We start the year by highlighting our partner Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe! 🦋 🌍 🧬 @projectpsyche.bsky.social 🔗 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... #butterflies #moths #genomes

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't grunge

Nachos are salad

Merry Christmas from the Sonoran Desert 🏜️ 🌵☀️

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695989v1

A Christmas horror movie where the festive spirit is a long dormant pathogen recently released from melting permafrost

João Selva’s “Onda” Samba funk album of the year, with licks of disco and tropicália, clearly inspired by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil—what’s not to love? 3/4 joaoselva.bandcamp.com/album/onda

Felt a little festive at the microscope this morning for #FluorescenceFriday 🎄 Here’s the nervous system of a juvenile sea star ⭐️ Green = acetylated tubulin, red = nuclei Happy holidays!

The more men understand women as equal human beings who as fully conscious and feeling as they are, the less they’re threatened by female achievement and competition and less likely to dismiss it as unearned

Being an incorrigible skirt-chaser even when married and possible low-grade sexual harasser? Bad! Not the same as being a pedophile! Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes! The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.

I am recruiting a MS student in Biology at New Mexico Tech with an anticipated start date of Fall 2026 to work on the applied evolutionary genetics of wild populations with conservation or management concerns (butterflies, bighorn sheep). Please see the attached advertisement for more info.

"Implementing Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Australia: A Five-Phase Framework for Indigenous Data Governance" It's a global wave, NCAI and COLT need to step up their game. media.licdn.com/dms/document...

Rising undergrad junior or senior? Last chance to apply! Applications close TOMORROW, Dec. 22, 11:59pm EST. 🧪 Our 9-week summer research experience includes hands-on lab work, a generous stipend, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists. Learn more & apply at bit.ly/CechFellows.

Being academically “old” and very well rounded and lots of diverse publications is a much less viable strategy than having a successful PhD project and continuing that work (maybe in an adjacent group) to grab as many HI papers as fast as possible

I would love to have a little book with memories, a photo, and how their lives have unfolded from former students when I retire. Please spread the word?

My favorite part of the holiday season is the annual fight between authors and editors over who's desk the manuscripts are on 🤣

Recreating the Mexican flag for #ArtAdventCalendar 🪶

One of the many problems with the term "AI" is that it doens't refer to a coherent set of technologies, rather lumping together different types of automation. >>

You don’t need GenAI to improve your grammar. Seriously. Word processing software has non-GenAI grammar functions for ages. As an English-as-second-language speaker, I can assure you that we don’t need GenAI to write. My writing came out alright.

Me applying to jobs I'm obviously not a good fit for

Engineering plant tandem kinase immune receptors expands effector recognition profiles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.694194v1

New preprint on pop #genomics of #spittlebug—the main insect vector of Xylella, the bacterium that has ravaged olive groves in southern Italy 🇮🇹 🫒 Take-home: problematic insect vector may be less widespread than initially thought—important implications for disease control 💥 👇

Today the members of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior graduate program at Indiana University celebrated the upcoming retirement of Dr. Ellen Ketterson. Ellen was a bastion of civility and scientific excellence. The program would not be what it is without her presence over these past decades.

I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿 lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...

Thrilled to share that I recently got a position of an Assistant Professor/SciLifeLab Fellow at Stockholm University, where I will continue my work on #lichen symbiosis. The lab opens in April 2026, and if you are interested in joining please get in touch! #newPI

Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪

The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

The entire London moth catch this morning, probably the last of the year here... But I've only ever had a handful of December Moths on the roof terrace so it's going out on a mini high. #TeamMoth

Who sends a rejection letter out on Sunday morning? So rude.

I would like to inform everyone that baby seals are adorable. That is all.

Are you interested in biodiversity genomics? Fantastic opportunity to join us as a Group Leader at the Tree of Life Programme, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. 👇 sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco...

In case anyone needs to learn how to make a computer delete all of your data instead of running an anova in R

We are recruiting Guest Faculty for the 2026 Amazon Research Initiative for Educators in the Peruvian Amazon!! 🌴 🐸 🐒 🦎 🌱 @morphoinstitute.org July 11-25, 2026 at the Amazon Conservatory for Tropical Studies (morphoinstitute.org/actsperu/) For more info and to apply: forms.gle/hxgaiPuYhdfD...

We are excited to present the accepted paper on the Mycetohabitans pangenome now in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social! 🧬🦠 Thanks to @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social for leading and collaborators: @raw937.bsky.social @andrabuchan.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

Nothing could be better than bedtools. But maybe something could be bedder…

Me: Them: *sends blurry photo of a speck on a wall* "hey do you know what this bug in my house is?"

Very proud to named in this article. It's exciting times for the study of species interactions! www.cell.com/trends/genet...

CryoET of symbiotic cell-cell interfaces 🦑🦠 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We all wish peer review to be rapid and professional: doesn’t always go like that. But I am relieved to finally see Helixer by @alisandra-denton.bsky.social and team published in Nature Method. Congratulations! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

One of the most exciting projects I have ever been involved in: Project Psyche! Read all about our ambitions and aims. It's ground breaking stuff, just mind blowing and even surreal (27 years ago we did single genes for lep phylogenetics)! @projectpsyche.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

This is an incredible tool. I've been using for a couple years already and it has worked amazingly well for everything I've thrown at it. Except weevils. It's pretty bad at annotating my weevil genomes.

It’s fellowship season in UK and many postdocs will be looking for host institutions. This is a very critical step. Approach at least 3-4 hosts. Make sure there is genuine interest in hiring you. Many institutions claim to support fellows into long term careers but most actually don’t. #UKRIFLF

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬 To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain). 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy