𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐏𝐉 Ecological divergence of sibling allopolyploid marsh orchids is associated with species-specific plasticity and distinct fungal communities 💮 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70001 by @katieemelianova.bsky.social @ViePlantGenom @univienna @sebiology.bsky.social

Mitochondrial dysfunction and mitophagy blockade contribute to #renal #osteodystrophy in chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2025.01.022 @katieemelianova.bsky.social #OpenAccess #NephSky #MedSky #CKD #MBD #chronickidneydisease #mineralbonedisorder

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Great to see the Norman Wickett give the fanciest of inaugural lectures at the University of Vienna 💅

New pre-print!!! What types of genes end up on plasmids and why? The take home message of this paper is that beneficial genes move from plasmids to chromosome, causing the ecological value of plasmids to decay over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

JIC Friday seminar by @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social

Post-Doc position for 3 years available jointly between University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) on soil microbiome and biogeography. Skills required: bioinformatics, metagenome analysis, microbiology Contact: [email protected]

Excited to share that IBDM (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) is expanding its research groups this year! A great place for developmental biology and interdisciplinary research located on the beautiful Marseille-Luminy campus! Deadline for applications: March 30th, 2025

New! @jenncoughlan.bsky.social kindly shared their MIRA NIH award with our github repo. If you have a successful grant app you're willing to share, please contribute! github.com/RILAB/statem...

I really believe more folks should start off staring at a kinship matrix rather than STRUCTURE, PCA, etc. Such a rich visual of the data.

The fact that 41% of Americans have no favorite dinosaur is a national scandal and there should be congressional hearings to get to the bottom of what went wrong.

Our #hypoxia FI is online! @plantphys.bsky.social featuring this stunning cover image by @moeabbas.bsky.social Check out the fantastic lineup of Updates, Topical Review & research articles @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plphys/issue...

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

HI old friends! Finally took the leap here to say I have several open positions going in my lab at the moment (and more to come). 1) PhD studentship in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society (genomics) 2) Biochemistry Postdoc to understand how Starships move Check out the links below!

Hi Bluesky community! 👋 Are you looking forward to 2025 as much as we are? 👀 We just updated our 2025 Annual Poster to include even more events for you to join, so go and have a look! ➡️ s.embl.org/poster-bl #EMBLEvents #molecularbiology #lifesciencetraining

📜 Ectomycorrhizal fungi of Douglas-fir retain newly assimilated carbon derived from neighboring European beech 🧑‍🔬 Michela Audisio, Jan Muhr, Andrea Polle 📙 @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #Forestry #Mycorrhiza #CarbonCapture

Check out our cool new findings showing how developmental temperature and corticosterone have long term impacts on mitochondrial efficiency that coincide with consistent differences in body size through life! A fantatsic team effort doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

I had a great time presenting at the fabulous EcoEvoDevo seminar series at my alma mater Queen Mary University of London, incidentally downstairs from where I sat my biochemistry exam over a decade ago 👶

Starlings- evening roost. Funnelling down into the reeds on the Somerset levels. #somerset #starlings #ukwildlife #birds

Job Alert📢! We are looking for a postdoc looking into how to reconcile Food Systems Sustainability and Biodiversity Conservation. Apply to work with us at VU Amsterdam Position for 36 months. Deadline: January 9th. Please apply/ Share workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...

What an absolute treat to return to my undergraduate stomping grounds to give a seminar on my work on the persimmon genus Diospyros 🌱 nostalgia galore!

Postdoc opportunity: Drivers of biodiversity change across time 🌿 🦅 🌍 Come work with fabulous Naia Morueta-Holme (and a bit with me) 2-year position starting March 1, 2025 Naia's lab page: lnkd.in/drHQBGdU Apply here (deadline 5 Jan 2025) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

The best presentations are made on a train on the way to give said presentation 🎁

R targets is the best thing that has ever happened to my projects - the reviewer wants us to substantially change about a third of the input data for my classification paper, so all classifiers had to be rerun (DONE), but all their output had to be reanalysed. All I had to do is targets::tar_make()

Paradox: there are so much talks about genomics of polyploids during recent years (at least 5), but still very few reliable computational instruments to work with them.

New paper alert 🚨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ICYMI 📢 Learn more about a twinning project we're part of—Digital Twin of the Ocean: Animal Tracking (or DTOTrack)—that was recently awarded €2.1m from the European Union Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership to support decision-making & biodiversity conservation in the North Sea tinyurl.com/8t7tw637

Tomorrow is the final day to pre-register for ESEB Barcelona 2025 for any fellow evo friends attending! 🦋 eseb2025.com/pre-registra...

Updating the #IUCN status of marine fish using AI shows that x5 more species are threatened with extinction than previously thought! see our study in Plos Biol with @nloiseau.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🔑 This silent extinction affects 12,7% of marine fishes (1337 species) ! 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑

Arctic plant-fungus interactions are highly plastic, with major rewiring among interaction partners across variable environmental conditions - read the paper here www.nature.com/articles/s43... #Zackenberg #Arctic #BioticInteractions

First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 : scidraw.io bioart.niaid.nih.gov www.phylopic.org More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com

Remember that type 1 and type 2 errors go the same order as the boy who cried wolf. Type 1 - villagers believed there was a wolf (effect) when there wasn't. Type 2 - villagers didn't believe there was a wolf (effect) when there was. #StatsSky

re-posting the potentially best meme I've ever made here, before the other place collapses and it's lost to history #MicroSky 🦠

The new outline of fungi and fungus-like taxa is out now. Why do we need to do this so often? Because there are so many fungal species and only about 5-10% have descriptions. New genera, families etc are frequently being added to the tree. 🧪 🌍 #fungi #mycosky www.mycosphere.org/pdf/MYCOSPHE...

A hill I will die on

🌾🌱🧪🦠🌍 New study out today! Please share! Meta-analysis of 302 globally sourced AMF inoculant trials. Only 12% of commercial products both boosted crop growth and had effective root colonization by mycorrhizal fungi. #soilscience #PlantScience #mycosky nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Question for people interviewing for international TT jobs in academia: is it typical to cover your own travel costs or does the interviewing institution sometimes contribute?

We found something interesting in the evolution of plant microbiota. It is under review and we published the preprint today. Avi Bograd from my lab analyzed the genomes of 38,912 bacteria and identified a clear depletion of all MGE types in plant-associated bacteria vs. non-plant associated bacteria

Throwback to a few weeks ago where I went straight from fieldwork in a bog to shopping in Paris before my flight home 💅

Call for papers Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation go.nature.com/3Z8xdOQ Submission deadline: 1st March 2025 Guest editors @evobioclio.bsky.social @ellenleffler.bsky.social Omer Gokcumen, & myself Reach out to any of us if you have questions!

well, here it is lads after combing through some 1,400 records, it looks like the slender-billed curlew is indeed extinct and the last known photo taken in 1995 was probably at the point it slipped beneath the waves 🦉🧪 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

I did my first PCR in 8 years last week and wowee after a long stint of mainly computational work I forgot how delightful it is to stand up and move about at work 🤠

New manuscript is out on a scale new to me: We sequenced >1000 genomes, mostly complete, of filamentous Actinobacteria. With these, we can start asking questions like "How long are Streptomyces terminal inverted repeats" and get answers like this 🧬🖥️ #secmet.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

A short explainer on youtube on our contribution to the EU H2020 project INVITE (www.h2020-invite.eu) on using molecular markers in plant variety protection www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCdA... #plantscience #INVITE #plantbreeding

Latest data from AllTheBacteria described in our updated preprint. All illumina WGS bacterial+archaeal sequence data to Aug 2024 consistently assembled, QC, and now AMR profiling. That's 2.4 million genomes. Gene annotations almost done , coming next. Please use! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sweeter tomatoes can be produced without yield penalty. Yet again, wild species had the answer. @natureplants.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m really excited to attend the transposon conference hosted by @geneticssocietyuk.bsky.social next week 🧬 who else is going?

🎉 Our #GraffiTE paper is out!!! t.co/TmoSL3WQ1P If you are interested in #Transposon insertion polymorphism, this is for you!