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

"...researchers who invest time in their students tend to lead more-productive, more-collaborative groups and attract stronger future students than those who do not." "Time spent with the next generation of scientists is an investment." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Open position for PostDoc with background in (insect) genomics for our Insect Symbiosis Lab in České Budějovice! bucek-lab.org/join_us/

This work shows the first overview on the population genetics and demographic history of the big European firefly, **Lampyris noctiluca**. Feeling very happy this work is out :) academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Phosphaenus hemipterus - one of only 3 firefly species in Czech Republic with both sexes flightless! Was lucky enough to find pupae a while back and now they're already mating in my setup. Fingers crossed for eggs!

Urgent need for improving the statistical properties of summary methods and the computational efficiency of likelihood methods for inferring #gene flow using #genomic sequence data academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Friends from department of Entomology at National museum in Prague are again organising "Immature Beetles Meeting". I highly recomend this meeting to all the researchers and lovers of Coleoptera larvae. #Coleoptera docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Possible game-changer.

Our review on caddisfly silk genetics is out in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social. We’re excited about new developments in the field and we were stoked to have the chance to cover them in a review. We hope it is useful resource for people interested! www.cell.com/trends/genet...

New paper out 📝✨ "k-mer approaches for biodiversity genomics" We discuss k-mer spectra, sex determination, allopolyploid subgenome separation, among other topics - and offer a large tutorial list Link to paper: genome.cshlp.org/content/earl... Link to all tutorials: github.com/KamilSJaron/...

WASTER’s ability to accurately estimate trees from low-coverage sequencing data without relying on assembly and alignment will lead to substantially reduced sequencing and computational costs in phylogenomic projects. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #genomics #evolution #phylogeny

1/7 Very happy to share our latest paper on the joint evolution of separate sexes and sexual dimorphism in @jevbio.bsky.social, led by @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social and in collaboration with John Pannell at @dee-unil.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae136

The strain on scientific publishing direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... #academia #research #science #publishing #peerreview

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

🚨New paper out🚨 Very excited about this one as it showcases the evolution of the extraordinary morphological diversity of stick insects 🌿➡️ @pnas.org pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Unicore enables scalable and accurate phylogenetic reconstruction with structural core genes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.22.629535v1 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/steineggerlab/unicore

Many academics point to bioRxiv as “the one thing improving science publishing”. If so, the one thing you all can do is persuade colleagues to submit and make this a norm. 1/2

New preprint by butterfly wizard @lucalivraghi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression

New paper with @snaildit.bsky.social❗ You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction! This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our Lampyris sardiniae colony celebrates 20 years in 2024, and slowly approaching generation 27! 🎄 Best early Christmas gift ever - just received the original founder pair and F1 generation specimens preserved in alcohol from 20 years ago! 🧬✨

For #FossilFriday have you ever considered the scorpion fossil record? This is surprisingly rich, but how we categorize these animals transcends being a hot mess. It's a spicy disaster. My colleague Jason and I wrote a paper on it which came out today: peerj.com/articles/185... ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

I highly recomend.

OrthoDB and BUSCO update: annotation of orthologs with wider sampling of genomes academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs