🚨 Good news! Abstract deadline Extended! 🚨 Don’t miss your chance to be part of the meeting. Submit your abstract by May 15th, 2026. Meet our invited speakers, share your research, and connect with the community. ✨

"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew." Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

Our next speaker will be Timothy Fuqua @timothyfuqua.bsky.social with "The Evolution and Emergence of Regulatory DNA", 14th April, 5PM CET. Sign-up here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

My new mini article exploring recent developments using the phylogeny of genomes to improve data compression and the computational efficiency of some key tasks in genomics 🧬 rdcu.be/faKgm

🇵🇪 Tutorial proposals are open for #LATAM2026! We're seeking hands-on tutorials in cutting-edge #bioinformatics topics. Help attendees build knowledge, learn new research areas, or develop advanced skills. 📅Deadline: May 13 Submit here: https://www.iscb.org/latam2026/call-for-submissions/tutorials

To all early life enthusiasts🦠 How did we get from soups of chemicals to the Last Universal Common Ancestor? 🌋 Help us bridge the gap at A Road to LUCA in beautiful Prague! 🇨🇿 ⏳ 1 WEEK until the abstract deadline! Explore here: natur.cuni.cz/en/aroadtoluca

DSSS continues this Thursday with speaker Dr. Benjamin Podbilewicz who has thankfully managed to join us from Technion in Haifa, Israel. Everyone welcome! ▶️More info: tinyurl.com/27cedwft 📆: Thursday 26th March at 11am 📍: MP-Intelligent Systems seminar room, ground floor #DSSS #MP-IS

ERC starting grant eligibility window increased to 10 years post-PhD defense: www.ukro.ac.uk/news/changes...

🧬EvolCompGen presents: Christian Landry on the Evolution of gene duplication, from redundancy to dependency @christianlandry.bsky.social 🗓️ Join us on Monday, March 23 at 11:00 AM EDT 📌 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This talk is happening tomorrow—as part of the Protein Structure Evolution seminar! Click here to register if you like cool science: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Organized by @lacholt.bsky.social, @caro-rocha.bsky.social, @claudiaalcar.bsky.social, @zachary-ardern.bsky.social and myself.

Our next Talk will be "Protein Origami and the Hidden Rules of Functional Innovations"! March 11th, 5PM CET. Sign-up here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

Today is #RareDiseaseDay & we are celebrating by highlighting the invaluable work of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN)! Formed in 2020, it aims to solve the most challenging medical mysteries using advanced technologies. In this thread, we will highlight their use of the #zebrafish model. 1/5 🧪

Starting in less than an hour! Register to join: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

If the hashtag #SuperBowl has you wondering where the superb owls are…we got you! 🦉Detail from Owl, 1601–1800. EA2012.344.b 🦉An owl on a branch, 1893–1898, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898). WA2015.68.29 🦉Owl, 1865, Arthur Burgess (1843–1886). WA.RS.RUD.046

meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic... Announcing the 2026 EMBO course in Computational and Experimental Microbiomics, to be held at Bath. The course brings together experiments and bioinformatics to study host-microbe interactions and co-evolution. Register now, or at least by 11 May, if interested :)

Curious about how life began? OoLEN is a global community for early-career researchers in origins of life and prebiotic chemistry. 🧬🌍 Connect with others across disciplines, find opportunities, and grow together. Join: oolen.org/join Tell us in the replies—what do you work on? #OriginOfLife

Next up in our ProSE seminar series: Vyacheslav Tretyachenko on alternative translation in the human proteome Register to join: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Past seminars: tinyurl.com/ProSE-videos

Come one, come all to the first Protein Structure Evolution talk of the year (Feb 10)! Click here to register if you like cool science: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Jointly organized by @lacholt.bsky.social, @caro-rocha.bsky.social, @claudiaalcar.bsky.social, @zachary-ardern.bsky.social and myself.

Can proteins fold and function with half of the amino acid alphabet? Using only 10 residues, we designed stable, mutation-resilient structures—no aromatics or basics involved. A minimalist foundation for ancient biology and synthetic design. tinyurl.com/37t8br4v #ProteinDesign #OriginsOfLife

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

#OtD 22 Jan 2018 legendary anarchist author Ursula K Le Guin died aged 88 in Portland, Oregon. An ardent feminist and advocate for diversity in literature and publishing, she won numerous awards for her work. We have made available some of her books here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

FYI were starting weird structure/evolution/biology stuff at Glasgow University! If you're interested let me know! Tell your friends! CRYO www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... BIOINFO www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... TECHNICIAN www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/technici... #science #hiring #evolution

Thrilled to introduce TEDLH, a library of profile HMMs built from TED’s structure-derived domain annotations of the AFDB. Explore 765K HMMs capturing CATH superfamily diversity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Vaults. They are cell biology's greatest puzzle! This preprint from Martin Beck's lab shows them docked on ER membranes with a ribosome inside. What on earth is going on there?? #CellBiology #WTFology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The next ProSE Seminar will be given by Joana Pereira @joanampereira.bsky.social (VIB, KU Leuven) 🗓️ November 11th, 5pm CET Registration is now open: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Please share!

Join our next ProSe seminar 11th November 5PM CET and follow us @proteinstructure.bsky.social!

Protein Structure Evolution (ProSe) Seminar is now on BlueSky! Every 2nd Tuesday, 4PM GMT. Sign-Up: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Organized by Claudia Alvarez Carreño, Zachary Ardern, Lars Eicholt, Carolina Sanchez-Rocha, Sergio Romero Romero and Md. Hassan Uz-Zaman.

I'll be featured at the outreach event of the Science Café in Nijmegen 🇳🇱, talking about astrochemistry and the origins of life and its building blocks in space and on early Earth. Stop by if you're in the area on Thu, Oct. 23, 7.45 PM. Admission is FREE, and there will be jazz! 🎶🎷🌌🔭☄🦠

Last week to apply to join our recently created lab as a PhD Student! Join us to research about protein computational biophysics, evolution, machine learning , and human mutations! Description and link to apply here: www.bsc.es/join-us/job-...

The next Protein Structure Evolution Seminar will be given by Stephen Fried (JHU): Title: “Who Cares About Protein Refolding Anyway?: Why Some Microbes Do and Others Don’t” Date: October 14th, 5 pm CET Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

How does catalysis emerge from non-catalytic domains? In our new paper, we show that catalytic activity can arise without conserved active-site residues — through multimerization and electrostatic features instead. A striking case of catalysis evolving from binding.

The next Protein Structure Evolution Seminar will be given by Stephen Fried (JHU): Title: “Who Cares About Protein Refolding Anyway?: Why Some Microbes Do and Others Don’t” Date: October 14th, 5 pm CET Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

Modelling suggests that most Caribbean coral reefs will erode by the year 2100 as sea-level rise outpaces reef growth and limits potential reef restoration go.nature.com/42229kK

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

Happy to share Piecing Together the History of Protein Folds From a Fragmented Evolutionary Record 🧪 It appears as part of a Special Section in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social organized by @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social @proteinmechanic.bsky.social and J. Douglas doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

The ProSE seminars are back after a summer break. The next speaker is Nir Ben-Tal on "Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space". Date: September 9 Time: 5pm CET Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Please share! 🧪 #mevosky

The ProSE seminars are back after a summer break. The next speaker is Nir Ben-Tal on "Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space". Date: September 9 Time: 5pm CET Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Please share! 🧪 #mevosky

In a new GBE Review, @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social @proteinmechanic.bsky.social & J. Douglas give an overview on protein structural phylogenetics, how to obtain evolutionary insights from structural data, and key applications and future directions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf139 #genome #evolution

Help us gauge the state of the UK's research & innovation sector in terms of preventing and handling bullying & harassment. Please share our survey of anyone who has witnessed or experienced it at work. go.hw.ac.uk/EDICa/Bullyi...

Thrilled to see this out! Thank you for the shout out @chercheurjuteux.com!

[Resources] #AlphaFold protein and PPI prediction databases 1️⃣ Predictomes (genome maintenance & H2A/H2b) predictomes.org 2️⃣ Flypredictome www.flyrnai.org/tools/fly_pr... 3️⃣ Human interactome prodata.swmed.edu/humanPPI 4️⃣ BFVD (viral proteins) bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev 1/2

New preprint! We solve a mystery you didn't know existed. Mitotic cells lack new transcription but require ongoing translation. Interphase mRNA half life is only 2-4 hrs. So how do cells arrest in mitosis for hours without depleting their transcriptomes? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Early bird registration for 𝐄𝐔 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is open! 🎉🎉🎉 Come join us for three days of protein design fun! (October 20-22, 2025) Direct registration link: pretix.eu/SBD/RCon2025/ Website: europeanrosettacon.org We are looking forward to seeing you! Please share this far and wide:)

¿Te interesaría unirte a nuestro laboratorio como Postdoctoral Fellow? ¿Está interesado en investigar y contribuir a la comprensión del papel de los anaerobios en la salud humana? Revisa la convocatoria Pew Latin American Fellows ¡Contáctame si cumples con los requisitos! #Archaea #MicroSky

📖 SMBE journals on Bluesky Interested in learning the latest advances in evolutionary biology, genomics, and molecular biology? Follow the SMBE sister journals MBE and GBE here on Bluesky and get updates on new articles coming out. MBE: @molbioevol.bsky.social GBE: @genomebiolevol.bsky.social

Join us for the next ProSE Seminar! We are excited to welcome Sophie Heiding for a talk on "Computational Insights into Protein Adaptation Across Environmental Gradients" Date: June 10 Time: 4PM CET Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Please share! 🧪 #MEvoSky

Join us for the next ProSE Seminar! We are excited to welcome Sophie Heiding for a talk on "Computational Insights into Protein Adaptation Across Environmental Gradients" Date: June 10 Time: 4PM CET Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Please share! 🧪 #MEvoSky

Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Happy International Museum Day! Museums are essential repositories of specimens and information for biodiversity research. GBE has published much research in genomics and evolution that benefited from this crucial function of museums. See below ⬇️ and continue supporting museum research #IMD2025

Excited to share our new preprint on HLp—a bacterial histone from Leptospira perolatii that forms stable tetramers and wraps ~60 bp of DNA: "DNA Wrapping by a Tetrameric Bacterial Histone" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social