A massive, heartfelt thanks to @pauligroup.bsky.social and @svenklumpe.bsky.social at the @impvienna.bsky.social for being the bests hosts a visitor could ask for. Happy holidays!

@pravrutharaman.bsky.social got super intrigued about EZHIP/CATACOMB, previously identified as a histone H3K27M mimic of PRC2. You can read about her efforts here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We hope these analyses will help spur more analyses in this very cool gene! 1/

Very proud of our lab manager, Aida de la Cruz, for winning the Nancy Hutchinson mentoring award (www.fredhutch.org/en/education...) based on her mentees' nominations. @fredhutch.org @basicsci.fredhutch.org Internal news: centernet.fredhutch.org/n/2025/12/sp...

So many phenomenal pumpkins at this year’s carving contest! Congratulations to the Berger Lab for most humorous, the Talbot Lab for most horrific, the @melodygcampbell.bsky.social Lab for most artistic and the @harmitmalik.bsky.social Lab for most scientific!

So excited to see the first part of my thesis work with @harmitmalik.bsky.social and @melodygcampbell.bsky.social in print! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... We have a bit of evolution and a whole lotta structure to figure out how new protein domains work

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the Evolution of Chromosomes and Genomes (ECG) Lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Our lab website is now live—come check it out! sites.google.com/view/ecg-lab...

Exciting news! I am launching the Lab of Polymicrobial Interaction & Evolution at IPMB at Academia Sinica (ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en)! 🎉Our brand-new website is live: (www.labofpie.org). Check the lab of PIE out!!🥧🎈

Congrats to Jeremy Hollis on receiving the Weintraub Award! A well-deserved recognition to a person who exemplifies (and resembles?) Hal.