The 2025/2026 CGEBM Bioinformatics Courses have been announced: #genomics Courses 1-2 days, taught in person (by me!), training in #Unix/cluster computing, #genomeassembly , #RNAseq , #microbiome, other applications of short read sequencing. Full details on CGEBMs training page: tinyurl.com/c5n9n6p4

Here are all the talks I attended and sketched at #ESEB2025 ! Only a fraction of the 642 speakers at the conference 😮 I had an absolutely amazing week chatting about lots of fascinating science #sciart #eseb #esebcongress @eseb2025.bsky.social

Case and point that simple drawings are the best drawings!

Trans rights are, in fact, human rights. Pass it on. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂

I attended three great talks from the cancer in an evolutionary framework symposium this morning. Cancer therapies from nature, population genomics of Tasmanian devil cancer, and the tug of war of cancer resistance #eseb2025 #eseb #sciart

TIR elements in the centromere of brown algae, chromosome breakage and repair in bdelloid rotifers, chromosome number in beetles, chromosome restructuring in nematodes, and finally chromosome interactions in non-marine annelids 🧵2/2 #eseb2025 #conferenceart #sketchnotes #eseb

We started today with a wonderful talk on how cordyceps fungus generates zombie ants. Then on to modelling, egg laying timing & brood number, white clover in rural and urban environments, young active SINEs in Italian sparrow, TE content in ferns 🧵1/2 #eseb2025 #eseb #sciart

ESEB Day 3! Molecular clocks & identifying ghost lineages; marrying micro & macro evolution; female polymorphism; balancing selection in round-nose grenadier; the genetics of guppy colour polymorphisms; modelling genetic interactions; antagonist selection in flying ants #eseb2025 #eseb #sciart

There's going to be a lot of sketches by the end of this week! We're not even halfway though #eseb2025 and I've filled up my usual template of boxes! Looking forward to seeing what the rest of the week's talks include #eseb #sciart #sketchnotes

The day finished off strong with loads of great talks in the Genomics of Evolutionary Innovations symposium! I'm pleased to report that my talk went well ☺️ 🎨🖌️ #eseb2025 #eseb #esebconference @eseb2025.bsky.social @jfenn.bsky.social @timothyfuqua.bsky.social

A bunch of inspiring talks this morning! Chromatin loops (identified with Micro-C) in cephalopods; odorant receptors in slave ants; chromosome inversions in a beetle, the genetics of critically endangered bellinger river turtle +the importance of MHC; genetic load in the helmet honeyeater #eseb2025

#eseb2025 #eseb #sciart

I'm excited for my @eseb2025.bsky.social presentation later today. I'm part of the symposium on the Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations! I will have stickers to give out too (if bribery is required for attendance) 😁 #eseb2025 #sciart #eseb

I've had a wonderful 1st day at @eseb2025.bsky.social Here are the sketches from some of the talks I attended today. My highlights include Tristan on the adaptive genomics of colour spots on owls, Vicky on pearl mussel's response to climate change & Rebekah on firefly TEs & TE-induced mutations

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

Today's seminar featured amphipods! David has been researching the tidal clock cycle in intertidal marine animals. Parhyale (the #amphipod) has a 12.4 hour tidal cycle in the lab, tidal clock genes that play a role have been found - these genes are expressed in dorsal-lateral brain cells #sciart

Queer Animals of the World! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ For LGBTQ+ History Month, our PhD Society, Zoo&Roots, wanted to highlight how nature is filled with queer animals. For sources & reading material, go to linktr.ee/gayanimals Remember, spread your wings and F • L • Y! #gayanimals #lgbt #citypop

Today's seminar featured amphipods! David has been researching the tidal clock cycle in intertidal marine animals. Parhyale (the #amphipod) has a 12.4 hour tidal cycle in the lab, tidal clock genes that play a role have been found - these genes are expressed in dorsal-lateral brain cells #sciart

Two new drawings of my mascot Allie the Amphipod! Hirondellea gigas, my main study species & the most abundant animal at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, withstands 1000x the pressure that we and shallow-water amphipods experience. It also has enzymes that show cellulase activity,... 🧵1/2

For more cool facts about Hirondellea gigas check out this wonderful thread from Jon. At some point I'll have to draw Allie is an aluminium suit of armour, but I think that'll be a tad more time consuming than making her munch on wood! #SciArt

Two new drawings of my mascot Allie the Amphipod! Hirondellea gigas, my main study species & the most abundant animal at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, withstands 1000x the pressure that we and shallow-water amphipods experience. It also has enzymes that show cellulase activity,... 🧵1/2

A great start to the 2025 seminar series with a talk from @hasikadam.bsky.social (thanks for organising @gretabocedi.bsky.social) We heard about the importance of considering eco-evolution whilst looking at parasitology - with examples from odenates, deer and soay sheep

A great start to the 2025 seminar series with a talk from @hasikadam.bsky.social (thanks for organising @gretabocedi.bsky.social) We heard about the importance of considering eco-evolution whilst looking at parasitology - with examples from odenates, deer and soay sheep

For those who have never seen one, they look like this 👇

Stoked this is published! Collect feathers > chop into tiny pieces > set them on fire > measure the gasses. Now just need to learn multi-isotope isoscapes. Thank you Tilly for the cute summary swift! Follow @tillysscott.bsky.social if you haven’t already for cool science & more super SciComm & art!

Check out Alex's @alexbrighten1.bsky.social first PhD paper! Looking at age and migratory patterns in alpine swifts, using stable isotope analysis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The last seminar I attended in 2024 was from Beth Scott. Temperature levels in the North Sea create stratified plankton blooms, 25-40m below the surface. Internal ocean waves catapult deeper living fish upwards to sea birds BUT, wind turbines mix water more, reducing the spring plankton bloom

@empseb30.bsky.social have extended their abstract deadline until the 30th January. I had a wonderful time at this conference last year, I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to give their first conference presentation. Here are all the wonderful talks from last year #sciart

Happy New Year from invertebrates that look like fireworks. Credits Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live Anemone: Cathy Lewis Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Thank you for the lovely mention in the @gensocuk.bsky.social magazine @alicegodden.bsky.social ! Check out Alice's summary of the Transposon meeting ⬇️ My physical copy arrived on Christmas Eve so that was a nice Christmas present

Check out Jack's new paper! Diversionary feeding of predators (in this case a Pine Martin) increases the breeding success of Capercaillie, as fewer eggs get stolen #SciArt

Do you need to curate a Transposable Elements library for a new genome 🧬 or a new species 🐜🦟🦖? Try MCHelper.! Very proud of my (small) contribution here. Gracias a @simonorozcoa.bsky.social y @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social! genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated! Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you? #DataVisualization github.com/cxli233/Frie...

Thank you for the lovely seminar @anadrago.bsky.social . I hope you like the little comic! 1. Hawian field crickets find mates with wing songs. 2. silent males sneak in and steal mates. 3. Silent Flatwing males may be camouflaged during matings by their reduced chc

A lovely seminar from Tuomas @aivelo.bsky.social on the work of the Helsinki Urban Rat Project, featuring the work of a historian (History), visual artist (Niche), many school kids (Rat Tracks), and, of course, an ecologist. Covering loads of different aspects of rats in cities. #SciArt #UrbanRats

A wonderful set of talks from all the new PhD students in our department and from three Research Fellows, lots of very varied, very cool research! @quadratdtp.bsky.social @gallowayselkie.bsky.social #SciArt #SBSresearchday

Since the @spaam-community.bsky.social team is now here too might as well repost the two SPAAM online conferences I doodled for them back in the day 🦠 Too bad they switched to in person, now I don't get to see the progress in that map of new members 🌏

I'm still buzzing after the @gensocuk.bsky.social meeting. Here are all 25 talks summaries together #SciArt #TEsky

A lovely end to the @gensocuk.bsky.social Meeting, thank you for the best presentation prize! Today we had: 1) HUSH complexes suppressing young L1s; 2) TE insertions in centromeres; 3) My talk on amphipod TE and HSPs; 1/2 🧵

Here are my favourite facts from the @gensocuk.bsky.social Medal Talk and Balfour lecture. Of course much more fascinating information was also included! 1) siRNAs cause the triploid block which kills triploid maize progeny, which are bad 2) Alternative approached to getting ancient omics sequencing

And with that the afternoon of @gensocuk.bsky.social short talks is done! We've had: 1) KRABs binding L2/MIR elements, which would effect cardiovascular development; 2) DGCR8 prevents the accumulation of TE-made double-stranded RNA; 1/3 🧵

4) TE can create introns, longer TE-made introns are more detrimental; 5) SPIN1 and SPOCd1 control young LINE1s in the germline; 6) low GC content may help TE "hide" from piRNAs. 2/2 🧵 #TEsky #SciArt

Another great set of @gensocuk.bsky.social talks: 1) AFD neuron disruption in C. elegans results in an increase in Tc1 elements; 2) conserved LTRs generate extracellular sRNA; 3) effects of methyl-6-adenosine can be good or bad, depending on external factors; 1/2 🧵

A wonderful start to the @gensocuk.bsky.social Transposon meeting! We've had: 1) TE acting as gene switches, 2) CELLO-seq, 3) circular DNA and structural variations, 4) KRAB zinc finger proteins and pancreatic development, 5) epigenetics and KRABs in mice, and 6) pack-CACTA #TEsky #SciArt

A blue-rayed limpet and a lime hawk moth from this years #inktober using invertober prompts I love doing glow in digital art #sciart

Sharing some blue art 💙 Here we have some traveling (range shifting) dragonflies from @lancasterlt.bsky.social seminar back at the start of the year #SciArt

Hey Bluesky, I do seminar and conference drawings to help me remember all the topics. Here are all my drawings from last month's @quadratdtp.bsky.social annual science meeting

I'm busy getting ready for my next conference presentation at the Genetics Society Transposon meeting. Layla approves of the custom stickers