piRNA loss unleashes episodic transposition bursts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.11.737971v1

Interested in joining a growing lab in LA? We’re hiring a postdoc!! Please spread the word to folks in your network and feel free to get in touch with any questions recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11142

So excited for #smbe2027 to occur in my hometown, and grateful to @christianlandry.bsky.social, @naubinhorth.bsky.social, the LOC and the student committee for jumping in again! It will be an amazing opportunity for members of the lab to network, learn and share our work!

Okay once more for the #SMBE2026 crowd! If you haven't yet, please take our survey on definitions of sex and reproductive terms. Link here or in the QR: univie.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...

I will be presenting a follow-up of this work later this afternoon at #SMBE2026. A great collaboration with the group of @tanjaslotte.bsky.social with @mafraca.bsky.social Join us at the session on the evolution of gene regulation (room Lumbye)

Vincent CASTRIC@vincentcastric.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ever wondered what makes some alleles dominant (A) and others recessive (a) ? In our new paper, we explored how a series of recently discovered "dominance modifiers", genetic elements that have long remained elusive, achieve their regulatory function. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

We wish everyone is having a fantastic meeting in Copenhagen; however, we acknowledge the harmful impact of any potential violation of our Code of Conduct. If you come across any prohibited behavior, please use our reporting form: 📨 tinyurl.com/smbe2026cond... #SMBE2026

We all know what sperm does. But what is its origin story? 🧬 Excited to be speaking about our #sperm #phyloproteomics work tomorrow 29th at 15:05 in the Main Hall in the grad student award symposium! #SMBE2026 An update from our preprint with @adriatica.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The origins and molecular evolution of sperm

Sperm is a nearly universal cell type among animals, yet its evolutionary origins remain unclear. Using comparative proteomics and phylogenomics across 32 species, we reconstruct the 700+ million year...

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I am at booth #10 to present the destination for the SMBE 2027 meeting, come and see me there or anywhere in the congress center! #SMBE2026

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

New from the lab 🐟❄️ What happens when a cold-water fish repeatedly runs low on oxygen? Arctic char don’t just cope, they remodel their metabolism. Proud to see this work from former PhD student @loick-ducros.bsky.social now out! 🐟 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Voici un article rédigé avec mes collègues Laurence Feyten et Fanie Pelletier qui souligne plusieurs enjeux environnementaux majeurs reliés au projet de réforme réglementaire proposé par le gouvernement fédéral. lp.ca/7arRBM?shari...

Grands projets économiques | Le pari risqué du recul des garde-fous environnementaux

Le Canada souhaite accélérer la réalisation de grands projets économiques au nom de la souveraineté énergétique et commerciale. Dans le contexte géopolitique actuel, cet objectif peut paraître raisonn...

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I was the sole female professor in our department of 10 when I started in 2019. The are now 3 of us, with an additional lecturer missing on the picture. Keep it up ladies, parity will be found along the way! And thanks to my amazing colleagues 💕💪🏻

To oppose the wholesale dismantling of environmental regulations in Canada, please go to this page www.canada.ca/en/one-canad.... ignore the very leading 'proposed' questions and submit your comments. CC your MP. If you need inspiration here is what I just sent.

And of course @annabellefournier.bsky.social and I had to go visit the fishies #csee2026 #teamfish

We’ve been talking in our lab meetings about sexual conflict and sexual dimorphism, and have some thoughts. What if animal genomes are far more sex-specific and less cosntrained than we assume? @linley-sherin.bsky.social pulled it all together here www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/pdf... 1/n

Time to bug your research office if you haven’t heard back from NSERC DG 🙏

a baby is crying while sitting in a stadium .

ALT: a baby is crying while sitting in a stadium .

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For other NSERC watchers this week:

Ben Bolker@bbolker.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Here you go. gist.github.com/bbolker/ce64... Uncertainty estimates are ±2 SE from the `mgcv` prediction for 2026 ...

Aren’t they cute? I think their gonads are even cuter 🤩🐟🤓

See you there!

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

❗Starting today, researchers who submitted abstracts to SMBE 2026 will be notified of the result of submission. Due to the high volume of submissions, results may be communicated up to the following week. We kindly ask for your patience while we finalize the communication of results. #SMBE2026

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...

Why grant funding should be spread thinly

How should a granting agency distribute the funds at its disposal? Different agencies have different answers to that question. The NSF (USA), for example, has traditionally awarded operating grants…

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Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Canada’s new government is investing big to attract world-class talent in science and technology — and become an innovation powerhouse.

Are these unsolicited/non-consented AI review of biorxiv posted papers really a thing? 🙄

How to keep in step when your (protein) partner speeds up… Here we investigated the adaptive remodeling of a protein-protein interaction surface essential for telomere protection. Congrats to whole team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rapid compensatory evolution within a multiprotein complex preserves telomere integrity

Intragenomic conflict with selfish genetic elements spurs adaptive changes in subunits of essential multiprotein complexes. Whether and how these adaptive changes disrupt interactions within such comp...

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In this latest piece, part of a trans-Atlantic enriching collaboration, we investigate sex-specific differences in gametogenesis in fish hybrids underlying clonal reproduction: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sex-specific modifications of gametogenesis in natural and lab-bred Fundulus spp. hybrids

Successful hybridization between species can be limited by a variety of reproductive barriers; the emergence of asexual lineages is an example of a strong post zygotic barrier that is relatively rare ...

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#CancerGenetics people: I am looking for examples of tumor suppressor genes that are inactivated in cancers by regulatory mutations (non-coding) rather than coding mutations. Please share.

Very pleased to see this one out. Unexpected and fascinating finding. I look forward to follow-up on this story 😁

Molecular Biology and Evolution@molbioevol.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Roussel, Suh, @fjruizruano.bsky.social & @amdioncote.bsky.social characterized TE content in naturally occurring killifish hybrids, finding higher TE load and accumulation of Neptune subfamilies in hybrids. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf266 #evobio #molbio #TEsky

Integrative Biology at UT is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist! Happy to answer any questions about the position/dept/UT. Come join us! integrativebio.utexas.edu cns.utexas.edu apply.interfolio.com/177547

🍃📣Upcoming CSEE Event! Join us online on Nov. 26th for a panel discussion Q&A on faculty positions. CSEE members will receive the link in their mailbox. (Event in English) #CSEE #online #paneldiscussion #eeb

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology - Uppsala University

Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University

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One week to apply for our fully funded PhD position in Norway! This is a really exciting project in collab. with University of Helsinki and Benchmark Genetics. Samples are ready - you do (read: learn) everything - functional genomics, bioinformatics, genotype-phenotype associations 🤩 Please RT!

Jukka-Pekka Verta@jpverta.bsky.social · 12mo ago

How do regulatory genes control alternative life histories? We have an open PhD position to answer this question using functional genomics in Atlantic salmon. Apply by October 15th through www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Please share widely! 🧬🦑🖥️