Maybe the Brits make Trump a lord, the Norwegians give him the Peace Prize, we Swedes hand over the rest of the Nobels, and he retires quietly in Florida.🤔

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

#Job alert: associate professor (universitetslektor) at the program in Human #Paleogenomics and #Population #Genomics. Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 1st. #vacancy @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

Giovanna Tornabuoni, perfect in profile in 1488, as painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio. Today is his day.

2. Bing Brunton and John Tuthill use this example and others to argue that neuroscientists will need to develop embodied models of brains if they hope to understand how animals actually work. /end

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

Unique 1.5m year-old ice to be melted to unlock climate mystery www.bbc.com/news/article...

The type specimens of Drosophila melanogaster from Meigen’s collection at the Natural history museum in Paris! 🤓

Its all crab!

CryoRhodopsins: A comprehensive characterization of a group of microbial rhodopsins from cold environments www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I love that the title uses "delve": Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time A once-in-a-lifetime shot I'm thrilled to share with you. See the uncropped shot or get the print in the reply

Darwinian evolution FTW

Really neat paper from my colleagues Eric Warrant and Stanley Heinze at @biologylu.bsky.social!

I definitely never regretted the decision to leave New York for Stockholm and Karolinska - now you can join us: big call for assistant professors across medical disciplines coming up. news.ki.se/ki-to-recrui...

Having a great time at the Crete fly circuit meeting!

Microbiomes shape our biology from gut-brain, skin, immunology, and more. Here, Rebecka Sepela et al explores octopus “taste by touch” sensation to ask how environmental microbiomes drive animal behavior. @cellpress.bsky.social, @mblscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Bit disappointing really. Very predictable so far, needs a plot twist.

A worm tower hitching a ride on a fly! 😲 Wild paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...

The cleverness of cockatoos is darned impressive. They've previously learned to open and raid bins in Australia, but now they are queuing up to use public water fountains. Read more in my story for @newscientist.com #birds #animals 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

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🔥 New episode of the Night Science podcast! The brilliant Eve Marder, professor at Brandeis University, talks with us about how "Recipe Science" ruins creativity. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4mSv...

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America now has both the pope and the antichrist

An alternative to tSNE & UMAP for more accurate data visualization: Tree representations for distortion-free visualization and exploratory analysis of single-cell omics data. The trees are constructed to accurately represent true distances between the objects in the high-dimensional space.

Proud to present the peer-reviewed version of our Cell Type Allometry paper, out today in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Are animals of different sizes made of the same cell types? Here’s an update of the main points and revision items (with memes!) Thread 👇🧵

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Harriers, though diurnal, have evolved “owl-like” brains with enlarged auditory nuclei that rival owls’ for pinpointing prey by sound. Neat study! And really great birds!

Along with every geneticist I am a total Mendel groupie and this new figure (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) that shows the chromosome location and underlying basis of his allelic pairs moves me to near-tears. Oh, to fly back in time and show this to him ...

Really excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost.

“We look forward to being there!”

Science!

Fly larvae keep on surprising us - check out this new paper from the Louis lab: www.cell.com/current-biol... Sensation of electric fields in the Drosophila melanogaster larva. Such cool little critters 🪰

Happy Moskva sinking anniversary to those who celebrate

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Alert! Postdoc positions available - at least two. Interested in coming to Karolinska and work on adolescent development/schizophrenia? Have a background in neuroscience, functional genomics, computational analysis or spatial transcriptomics? Large data sets available for analysis. Get in touch!

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We are looking for a PhD student! If you are interested in Drosophilids, systematics, bioinformatics, fiddling with museum specimens of old/weird flies, and chemosensation, then maybe this is for you! Please rebutterfly(?)! Apply below. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

The Laursen Lab (U. of Washington) is recruiting all career stages! We use genetic tools to understand how mosquitoes and other pests sense the world and how this influences their behavior. We welcome applicants from a wide range of backgrounds. The lab (and mosquitoes) can’t wait to meet you!

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

Great job at Lancaster University for those interested in quantitative ecology, spatial modelling and global health - Postdoc position to investigate spatial distribution of the invasive #malaria #vector #Anophelesstephensi Working with great team! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Besonders die Einleitung des Artikels ist wichtig. Ich frage mich die ganze Zeit: warum sollte Putin warten, bis Europa sich besser verteidigen kann? ME ist das einzige, was ihn noch aufhält, der ukrainische Widerstand.

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

If you’re wondering what a spreadsheet looked like in 1800 BCE, here is one that tallies foodstuffs for cattle received by four cowherds. Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”

There is still time to apply for this position! Great fit for students interested in combining evolutionary and eco-physiology theory to find solutions that promote pollinators in a warming world. Please distribute in your networks. Details 👇 🐝🦟 ☀️🌡