#SciencePhoto_IN “Stained glass axons” Author: Patricia Ordoño Lab: @eloisaherrera.bsky.social "Retinal ganglion cell axons from mouse optic nerve. In this image, myelinated axons appear as colourful flowers on a green field of unmyelinated axons. With a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Sigma 300 VP."

FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲 @gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...

If you‘re at #SMBE2025 and you still have a tiny little bit of energy left for the last day tomorrow, I‘d be happy to see you joining my talk at 10:20 tomorrow morning in Room 2, where I‘ll be talking about how TEs can reshape entire genome structures in ants! 🐜🧬👩🏽‍🔬

I can't post @gemmaeling.bsky.social's results, but she started her talk at #SMBE2025 with a great quote from Philippe Janvier about the ancient terrestrial environment being as alien to our marine ancestors as the surface of the moon is to us now.

This morning ended with the Graduate Student Excellence Symposium, where our eight awardees presented their great work. 👏 Congratulations to all GSEA recipients! #SMBE2025

@svalver.bsky.social et al. analyzed 15 years of Gene Ontology evolution, finding that GO changes not just incrementally, but also via major, curator-driven restructurings. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf148 #evobio #geneontology

A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by @rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.

Earthworms reveal an evolutionary mechanism which could defy Darwin🪱🧬 📕A new #IBE-led comparative genomics study of earthworms and their marine relatives shows that worms colonised land through evolutionary jumps.🧵 #UnravellingEvolution 👉https://shorturl.at/IyWqH

Can the structure of knowledge evolve like life itself? In our new MBE paper, we show that the Gene Ontology evolves through mechanisms shared with cultural and technological systems—reuse, modularity, and curator-driven restructuring. Here’s what we found: 🧵

Congratulations to this year's Hamilton Award finalists! 🎉 Join us Thursday, May 29 to hear these outstanding student talks. See the full schedule on the meeting website: www.evolutionmeetings.org/program-over... @evolmtg.bsky.social

📣 Congratulations to Gemma Martínez, PhD student at @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social, on winning the @official-smbe.bsky.social Graduate Student Excellence Award! 🏆🎉 A fantastic recognition of her work in #UnravellingEvolution 🌍🧬

Our latest GSEA winner is Alba Nieto Heredia, PhD student @psl-univ.bsky.social Alba's popgen and computational biology research focuses on population structure and its critical role in demographic inference. More on Alba ⬇️ and follow her: @albanietoh.bsky.social

👋 For the next two weeks, we will highlight our GSEA recipients - we start with Hannah Verdonk, Bioinformatics PhD student at @temple.edu Hannah works on improving bioinformatic tools to account for weak selection on synonymous codon usage. 💻 More on Hannah ⬇️ and follow her: @hverdonk.bsky.social

Meet Jacky Kaiyuan Li, Ph.D. student @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, and winner of the Graduate Student Excellence Award. Jacky's research interests lie in statistical modeling for evolutionary biology and population genetics. 📊 Follow Jacky on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jacky-kai...

Huangyi He from Zhejiang University is on today! Huangyi's research focuses on the evolutionary and developmental mechanisms behind sperm heteromorphism and sex chromosome evolution in Drosophila. 🪰 More ⬇️ and follow Huangyi on social media X: @HuangyiH92641

🪰 GSEA winner Philipp Hummer - PhD student @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social - is on today! Philipp is working at the intersection of genomics, museum collections, insect evolution, and transposable elements. More on Philipp ⬇️ and follow him: @philipphummer.bsky.social

🧬 Today, we present GSEA winner Dylan Sosa, PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. Dylan investigates the rate, pattern, and mechanisms of transfer RNA gene duplication to understand its propagation and maintenance in D. melanogaster. More on Dylan ⬇️ and follow him: @dylansosa.bsky.social

🌸 Today's Graduate Student Excellence Award highlight is Aidan Short, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow @sc.edu Aidan studies how divergent pollinator adaptation contributes to genome divergence and speciation. More on Aidan ⬇️ and follow him: @aidanwshort.bsky.social

Honored to receive this award — thank you! Excited to present my research at #SMBE2025 in Beijing!