Another fantastic GRC Systems Aging conference comes to a close in Maine, USA. Thank you and congratulations to the chair and vice-chairs for organizing another incredible event, with outstanding science, networking, and discussions. My favourite conference in the field!

Sad to hear of the passing of Robert Ricklefs - a giant of Ecology who simultaneously pushed forward big ideas at multiple biological levels yet took time for detailed natural history .. McGill does a nice job summarizing his impressive contributions 🌐🧪 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

Longer human lives may be making an old evolutionary pattern harder to ignore. Late-acting harmful variants and youth-tuned pathways can now shape health on a scale selection never removed. doi.org/hb7fmz

New preprint from my PhD is out! We show that loss of miR‑219 disrupts neural border gene programs and prevents neural crest specification. Excited to finally share it 🚀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #xenopus #miRNA #genomics

And the press release is at www.su.se/english/news...

We took ~750,000 whole genomes and found the putative mechanism by which mitochondrial DNA mutations accumulate with age in blood. Spoiler: we think these mutations arise by replication error and tag age-related clonal hematopoiesis. Read @nature.com broad.io/ob2jft

Job advert! There is microbiology lectureship at @biouea.bsky.social with a focus on non-academic impact: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/20...

An antagonistically pleiotropic gene regulates vertebrate growth, maturity, and lifespan Great first post by @itamarh.bsky.social 😀 Very happy to contribute to this cool study!

🚀 The new edition of Beyond Beginner R course is now underway. A few improvements this time: - @philipleftwich.bsky.social & @eivimeycook.bsky.social l as instructors -More R reproducibility examples - Quarto workflows - Handling large datasets - Integration of AI tools shorturl.at/R97jw

Book review 📚 How long can humans live? We simply don’t know go.nature.com/3QelWur

"Unlike my good friends Dobzhansky and Simpson, I did not think that the only role I could take in a society was that of president." Ernst Mayr on why he became the first editor of Evolution.

Very cool to see that the forensic tool is now actively being used and the first conviction of poachers through individual identification of the poached lion is a fact. 🦁 🧬 👮 Read the whole story on our website: tinyurl.com/3vybce3b #LeoFoundation #StichtingLeo

Nature research paper: αKG-mediated carnitine synthesis drives DNA repair via histone acetylation go.nature.com/3POPIFZ

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Check out my first PhD paper, a model investigating life-history trade-offs and the evolution of sex differences in longevity, just out in @natcomms.nature.com! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Big thanks to Xiang-Yi Li Richter and @lottedevries.bsky.social!

Very happy to see our study on the development of an in vivo single-cell ribosome profiling strategy for the epidermis now online at @cp-molcell.bsky.social. Fantastic work by @claradure.bsky.social and all co-authors involved. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Our latest work is now online in NSMB: maternal yolk carries microRNAs from the intestine to embryos, shaping gene regulation and stress resilience in the next generation. rdcu.be/fj8Er #Epigenetics #microRNA #Inheritance @pasteur.fr @devstempasteur.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus go.nature.com/3P50GXD

Evolutionary genetics of ageing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gift link because this is important stuff. Pancreatic cancer is horrific and breakthroughs in treatment need to be shared around. Also, science. #PancreaticCancer Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/h...

Aging can reshape the immune systems of men and women in unique, sex-specific ways. @bbparis1984.bsky.social &co argue that accounting for both sex and age is essential to advance personalized medicine. 🧪 #aging #immunity #SexDifferencesDay #WomensHealthWeek

Still 10 days left to apply - Come join us in Uppsala! Fully funded Phd position in Evolutionary Biology. Deadline 22nd of May.

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

The red line in Figure 6B (% of 6-authors papers in all IEEE proceedings) is unreal

🚨 Wanted: PhD student excited about population genomics, Natural History Collections and birds! 📍 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany 🕒 3 Years, funded by the Leibniz Junior Researchgroup program Details and Application portal 👇 jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/d...

This NYT magazine article on longevity science, reversing aging with cellular reprogramming, is over the top. We have no proof that rejuvenation of a human organ is possible, no less the whole body, and there is risk of inducing cancer. gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/m...

Sex differences in response to longevity interventions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW: A biotech startup says it has grown functional human sperm in a lab and successfully fertilized eggs with it. The technique could eventually help men with certain types of infertility have biological children. @wired.com is the first to report this advance: www.wired.com/story/startu...

Reconstructing mammalian lifespan evolution reveals strong phylogenetic effects and lifespan-associated genes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Could the #ribosome be a selfish element? @mkrupovic.bsky.social & Eugene Koonin propose that the #evolution of life can viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources. 🧪 #OriginsOfLife

Most of the individuals in a seventeenth-century-Switzerland burial site had performed strenuous manual labour and died before the age of 20 go.nature.com/4tTj2tg

An analysis in Nature Aging identifies sex-specific changes in inflammation, autoimmunity and disease risk over the adult lifespan, with more widespread age-related immune remodeling in females. go.nature.com/4mwYVyJ #medsky 🧪

Excited to share our latest work in Nature. Applying single-molecule and single-cell DNA sequencing methods, we uncover an extraordinary landscape of somatic mutations in immune checkpoint genes in autoimmune B cells, suggesting that somatic mutations may be key to autoimmunity [1/n] rdcu.be/fdqbr

"More than 100,000 people are expected to benefit in the scheme's first year alone, according to the British government, which negotiated to contribute £570 million towards the scheme's costs in 2027." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Excellent paper with very clear and important results - selection on relative egg size (maternal investement) reduces lifespan and accelerates ageing in females.

€399M in EU funding is available to support around 1,600 researchers in their postdoctoral journey. You can choose your path: 🧪 European fellowships: 12-24 months in Europe 🧪 Global fellowships: 12-24 months abroad + return Deadline: 9 September (17:00 CEST) More info: link.europa.eu/t6jYb3

PhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬 Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution? Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 22nd of May!

New preprint looking at the associations between maternal mortality and having sons in preindustrial Finland from work with León van Dorp during his master’s project. Also with Mirkka Lahdenpera, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @hannahdugdale.bsky.social

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

Caenorhabditis elegans populations shape their microbial environment www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This researcher created a fictional illness, and fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and University of the Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad. LLMs warned people the illness was real. go.nature.com/48mAyh9

For our 75th annual meeting we are pleased to announce an additional grant call for Travel Grants to attend our 75th ASM in Oxford from 9-11 September. CALL NOW OPEN. Closing date 1st May 2026 bsra.org.uk/2026_travel_...

🚨 #BSRA2026 is LIVE! Registration now open for our 75th Annual Meeting 📍 Oxford (Keble College) Great science, great people, and some special 75th year surprises 👀 Tag someone who should be there! 🔗 meetinghand.com/e/75th-asm-o...

Using EMS mutagenesis, authors generated & sequenced 12,069 viable C. elegans strains, identifying 541,102 missense mutations. They developed TaoChongBao, an open-access database integrating mutation data, greatly expanding functional variant resources. www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/6/...

Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Aging killifish show systemic inflammation and accumulating DNA damage in progenitor-like immune cells, offering a window into the evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of vertebrate immune aging. Great work from Gabriele, @mdonertas.bsky.social, and the whole team. www.nature.com/articles/s43...