This week we're running the Transposable Elements course with @valentinapeona.bsky.social and @ritarebollo.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #TE25 #Bioinformatics #Genomics

‼️ À Punt emite un programa de corridas de toros “históricas” mientras miles de personas se manifiestan contra Mazón un año después de la dana. La televisión valenciana ha emitido la feria de toros de Alicante de 1997 en lugar de las masivas protestas que tienen lugar en la capital

"ADN repetitivo, intersección entre la citogenética y la genómica", con Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social, Institut Botànic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social. 📺 youtu.be/FNP6dfxMhkA?...

Nuestro instituto @ibb-botanic.bsky.social ha propuesto una tematica, contactame si estas interesada/o

#LabPaleoecology from the @ibb-botanic.bsky.social visited ALBA synchrotron for the first time to scan fossil insects embedded in amber. Results are very promising!

Organizing the National Course of Genetics 🧬 by @segenetica.bsky.social and Conexion Genoma @csic.es alongside @dariloops.bsky.social has been a blast! A great opportunity for young researchers to learn and interact with leaders in the filed of #genomics during a whole week - the future is bright!

Interested in repetitive DNA? We are organising a free workshop on Oct 2nd at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona! All organisms included - not only plants ;-) Last chance for registration, don’t miss it! bit.ly/repetitiveDN...

🧐 El grup de recerca de la Integritat i la Inestabilitat del Genoma, liderat per la investigadora Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, demostra que els canvis en la temperatura ambiental poden alterar els processos genètics per a la reproducció i l’evolució de les espècies. @aruizherrera.bsky.social #IBBpapers

Interested in repetitive DNA? We are organising a free repetitive DNA workshop this Oct 2nd at the Botanical Institute in Barcelona! Registration is open until September 7th :) bit.ly/repetitiveDN...

Family photo of the 2025 Workshop of the @treeofsex.bsky.social ! Thanks everyone for attending and see you soon!

Tree of Sex annual workshop started today. It will be two days packed with reproductive biology.

Esta es Pepita, la salamanquesa🦎 Como todas las salamanquesas,Pepita: ❌NO es venenosa💀 ❌NO te muerde👹 ❌NO se come tu ropa👕 ❌NO entra por ningún orificio de tu cuerpo para comerte desde dentro👃 😍Es preciosa 🦟Come bichos Sé responsable. No la mates y repostea para proteger a Pepita.✌️

🌱🌎 Join us to learn about the newly published paper ‘The winner takes it all: a single genotype of Kalanchoe ×houghtonii is a global invader’ in @annbot.bsky.social by @joanperepd.bsky.social and co-authors. 🧵(1/7) 👉 doi.org/pjvs @sphaeromeria.bsky.social @ibb-botanic.bsky.social #AoBpapers

¿Te interesan las áreas megadiversas? En ellas el paisaje puede estar dominado por muy pocas especies (hiperdominancia). Te proponemos un TFM en el RJB @csic.es para explorar este fenómeno en el género de leguminosas 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 DC. (JAEINT25_EX_0917) @sebot.bsky.social @jovenesbotanica.bsky.social

Massive canary in the coalmine moment

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

A paywalled article from @nature.com bemoaning the exploitation of scientists' unpaid labour. Chef's kiss. Perfection. No notes.

This is so destructive and idiotic. mRNA vaccines are one of the most exciting opportunities to tackle diseases - from infectious disease to cancer and beyond - and these morons want to shut it down.

The letter contains some fascinating insight into workings of a society operated paper vs a for-profit one, and mentions figures specific to operation of MBE. Well worth a read if you're interested in academic publications landscape.

The world’s richest man cries because his stocks fell and uses the White House for a Tesla advert. Meanwhile thousands of Americans he made jobless have no food. Power only cares about itself. Which why the only real power is PEOPLE POWER. Time to bring the oligarchs down

One of these things is not like the others

Can we stop talking throwing around words like "autocracy" and "oligarchy" when talking about America's uncertain future? According to history, political experts, and a little-known book called "a dictionary," America is ALREADY in the throes of fascism.

Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!

Join us on Wednesday, March 5, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month features Maya Wilson Brown on Capsella genetic variation and Nomar Waminal on the Crocus panrepeatome! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

Europe, Canada, and the rest of the free world need stronger alliances right now to face the threat of the rogue USA.

Current state of EU legislation on crop breeding summed up in one picture. Note that all plants carry the same mutation! One does not need to be a scientist to understand the this legislation makes no sense. #GMOs #CommonSense @testbiotech

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

Hello everyone! We compiled a list of Trans Inclusive / LGBTQIA+ health resources. Normally we wouldn't ask for engagement, but sharing this around would be deeply appreciated. Remember: You're not alone. We'll endure. www.broadlyepi.com/lgbtqia-heal... #MedSky #LGBTQIA+ #TransRights #HumanRights

It turns out that when an embryo finds itself in an inhospitable environment, it can... go dormant. In many species this is not reversible, the embryos die. But in 130 species of mammals, embryos can reverse and start developing again pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

If you're interested in chromosome biology (DNA folding, gene regulation, replication, polymer modelling and more) we're organising the below this autumn. It'd be great to see you there. Please share if you can. :-)

Desde el proyecto CytoGenLAB en el Instituto Botánico de Barcelona (CSIC-CMCNB), estamos buscando candidatos para solicitar un contrato predoctoral de Formación de Profesorado Universitario (FPU) para trabajar en la genómica de las invasiones de plantas. Más detalles 👇

Des del projecte CytoGenLAB a l'Institut Botànic de Barcelona (CSIC-CMCNB), estem buscant candidats per a sol·licitar un contracte predoctoral de Formació de Professorat Universitari (FPU) per a treballar en la genòmica de les invasions de plantes. Més detalls 👇

@segenetica.bsky.social Empezamos 2025 con muchas ganas de seguir creciendo, este año celebramos nuestro XLIV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Genética en la preciosa ciudad de Cartagena👏 🗓️Reserva las fechas 8-11 Julio 2025 ¡Te esperamos! 🌐Mantente al día de las novedades: seg2025.segenetica.es

It’s often assumed that the horizontal transfer of transposons btw animals is rare (Myr scale). But recent detective work by Kofler lab & others suggest HT must be very frequent, so that a single transposon can successfully invade multiple species around the world in just a few decades! Wild!

Inauguració de l'Exposició "SeaSensations: Experimenta l'univers dels #microorganismes #marins amb tots els sentits" 9/01/2025 19:30h Centre Cívic #TrinitatVella, Foradada 36, Sant Andreu Organitza @lcatmon.bsky.social ICM-CSIC FECYT @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social #MicroSeaSensations #biodiversitat

#TEsky Please circulate! The interdisciplinary research group I'm part of is looking for two postdocs to work on transposons with us here at the U of Guelph in Ontario Canada. philjobs.org/job/show/28330

🚨 Exciting Opportunity: Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Call will open soon! 🚨 Are you a talented young researcher interested in invasive plant genomics and chromosomics? Join our team and contribute to cutting-edge research in this dynamic field! 🗓 Application Deadline: 17 January 2025, 14:00

🚨 Exciting Opportunity: Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Call will open soon! 🚨 Are you a talented young researcher interested in invasive plant genomics and chromosomics? Join our team and contribute to cutting-edge research in this dynamic field! 🗓 Application Deadline: 17 January 2025, 14:00

Are you interested in invasive plant genomics? Do you love chromosomes? Then, we are your next team! We are looking for candidates to participate in the upcoming "Formación de Profesorado Universitario" (pre-doctoral stage) and "Juan de la Cierva" (early post-doctoral stage) calls 👇

We are advertising two fabulous jobs at the Cambridge University Herbarium. Collection Manager: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49404/ Collections & Digitisation Assistant: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49378/ Incredible collection of 1.1 million specimens including most of Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle material.

I have never seen it in flower before! The mother-of-thousands, genus Kalanchoe, produce asexual plantlets, but today I saw flowers too. It made me think about @sphaeromeria.bsky.social!

Join us on Wednesday, December 4, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have Pam & Doug Soltis presenting on the Polyploid Integration Institute and @trevorfaske.bsky.social on analyses of mixed-ploidy data! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

Wow, I love this work by Carlos @cmhmaliani.bsky.social! Summer flowering Asteraceae in Spain create an actively "refrigerated flower layer" which protects pollen and makes pollinators happy too. Wonderful thorough discovery work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#TEsky The evolutionary tale of lilies: Giant genomes derived from transposon insertions and polyploidization doi.org/10.1016/j.xi...

My work on a pangenome for the hexaploid oilseed crop Camelina sativa is now out early access in Genetics! This young polyploid genome has a small pangenome to match it's low SNP diversity, but regained lost diversity by packing in all the unique genes from its 3 diploid progenitors.