Updated my applyingtoeeb.info site on applying to evolution and ecology grad school in the US to incorporate some of the latest immigration changes. Share with any REU or other students who might be considering grad school.

Ahead of the game tonight, if / as needed.

Wellcome Trust moves to “always open” grant schemes as a form of demand management. Naive/curiosity Q: Is it known whether removing deadlines *decreases* applications? wellcome.org/insights/art...

Rethinking the future of research funding | News | Wellcome

Wellcome is making changes to how and when people can apply for our funding so we can more effectively manage demand, easing the strain on our services, applicants and institutions.

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The team that provided toughest tests to Spain and Argentina: Cabo Verde

Muchos ya habréis visto la resolución provisional de los proyectos #PID2025 de la @ageinves.bsky.social Aquí va la distribución. La financiación media por proyecto se ha quedado como el año pasado. Y seguimos con 2/3 de los proyectos con <50 k€ por año. ☹️ www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...

We are inviting studies that elucidate the mechanistic basis of senescence and its connections to organismal aging, including its links to genomic instability, mitochondrial dysfunction, proteostasis, and immune interactions as well as its heterogeneity and dynamics across tissues. go.sn.pub/4lrfq9

Senescence and ageing

We are now inviting studies that elucidate the mechanistic basis of senescence and its connections to organismal ageing, including its links to genomic ...

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Hey team - it’s looking very likely that I’ll be hiring not one but two four year postdocs! We’re a fun lab with tons of theoretical and applied pop gen projects - broadly in polyploid, conservation, and human evo. Competitive salary, sunny San Diego! Do share with your about to defend grads!

📣 Applications are open for the next NAR Early Career Investigator (ECI) Advisory Board cohort! Work with Executive Editors, help shape journal strategy, and gain insight into peer review during a 2-year term. Apply by 1 Nov 2026: lnkd.in/g233ZCAf #ECR #NAR #AcademicPublishing #MolecularBiology

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Our food is still better and nothing can ever take that away.

Sometimes I just like looking back at my old data and see if I'd spot something I've missed. And more often than not, I become more appreciative of the result. Here is a wound healing assay of transformed melanocytes from 10yrs ago. They do look like neurons! not quite #fluorescencefriday but cool!

Who, me? 🐶🧬

Daniela Robles-Espinoza@daniela-oaks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our DNA test results have arrived! 100% cute 🥰😍 Great experience with Wisdom Panel! 🐶🧬

We are excited to announce the 28th EMBL PhD Symposium for students in life sciences 🧬 This year's topic is: Shifting Gears ⚙️ Automation, AI, and High-Throughput Methodologies 📆 Date: 2-4 December 2026 🗺️ Venue: EMBL Heidelberg, Online More info on our website: phdsymposium.embl-community.io

Our DNA test results have arrived! 100% cute 🥰😍 Great experience with Wisdom Panel! 🐶🧬

It’s exciting to go to @asm.org #ASMicrobe but it can be intimidating if it’s your first time or you are alone (and even if you’re not!). We help you have a great meeting through our grassroots peer mentoring program. Join today! 🔬 🧪 🦠 #MicroSky #AMR forms.gle/4yT1CbEvE7pT...

Joan Massague giving the keynote at the EMBO Workshop on the Many Faces of Cancer Evolution - read his recent piece in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social calling for an organ-informed precision oncology framework integrating site-imposed metastatic programs aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

Simons Foundation has a new contest for Ecology and Evolution Graduate Fellowships! Due June 30th. Good luck everyone! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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What a wonderful talk we just heard from @lovedalen.bsky.social at @liigh-unam.bsky.social this morning! Everything from adventures to the Arctic to recover ancient DNA, lemmings, mammoths and yaks! 🦬🦣🐁 Super exciting discoveries and super entertaining seminar!

As part of the SAMBAI project, @bertharz.bsky.social studies cancer genomics in populations of recent African ancestry. This is a unique opportunity to make science more accessible and support historically underserved communities. www.embl.org/news/people-... @cancergrand.bsky.social #cancer

This week, @nature.com published an article on how I use mathematical models to study what is otherwise very hard to measure: the scale and dynamics of cartels. How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico's powerful drug cartels. 👇🧮🧑‍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Applications now open for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Proposals due May 18. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

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Gracias a Alejandro López y a @elpaismexico.bsky.social por cubrir nuestro último estudio en #melanoma #acral, realizado estudiando pacientes mexicanos 🇲🇽 Con @pbasurto.bsky.social y @christianmolinaag.bsky.social en portada, investigadores clave en este estudio 🤓💻🧬🧫

EL PAÍS México@elpaismexico.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Un estudio en pacientes mexicanos revela detalles inéditos del melanoma acral, el subtipo de cáncer de piel más común en Latinoamérica dozz.es/lu_nt1

La UNAM, que no tiene perfil aquí en Bluesky (hay que presionar!) con su equipo de TV UNAM Global hicieron un pequeño video para contextualizar los resultados de nuestro estudio. Se los dejo por si le quieren echar un ojo, dura 2 minutos :p #HistoriasUNAM youtu.be/WYwBzb2LN6s?...

HALLAZGO DE LA UNAM, CLAVE PARA CONOCER DESARROLLO DE CÁNCER DE PIEL EN MÉXICO

YouTube video by UNAM Global TV

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Daniela Robles-Espinoza@daniela-oaks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are very happy to see our study finally appear online @nature.com! This has been work of nearly 10 years in collaboration with the National Institute of Genome Medicine 🇲🇽, the National Cancer Institute 🇲🇽, the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and others ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature research paper: Ancestry and somatic profile indicate acral melanoma origin and prognosis go.nature.com/3OmsGVT

Ancestry and somatic profile indicate acral melanoma origin and prognosis - Nature

Analysis of the somatic and transcriptomic profile of 123 acral melanoma samples from Mexican patients helps understand tumour origins and prognosis, and highlights the importance of including samples from diverse ancestries in cancer genomics studies.

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We are very happy to see our study finally appear online @nature.com! This has been work of nearly 10 years in collaboration with the National Institute of Genome Medicine 🇲🇽, the National Cancer Institute 🇲🇽, the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and others ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ancestry and somatic profile indicate acral melanoma origin and prognosis - Nature

Analysis of the somatic and transcriptomic profile of 123 acral melanoma samples from Mexican patients helps understand tumour origins and prognosis, and highlights the importance of including samples...

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Somatic mutational signatures describe where mutations come from 🧬. But do they shape how proteins function? In our new preprint, we show that mutational processes can systematically rewire cellular signaling networks by altering short linear motifs (SLiMs). Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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Ahora, Evelia Coss nos cuenta sobre los #vieRnes de #bioinformatica que coordina en el @liigh-unam.bsky.social, que buscan fomentar la formación y crecimiento de la bioinformática por medio de cursos gratuitos #DiasAcademicos2026 Únete: viernes bioinformatica.github.io/

Finalmente, la última sesión científica la cierra Laura Figueroa, investigadora postdoctoral en el grupo de @delvecchyo.bsky.social, quien nos está platicando sobre una reconstrucción palaeogenómica del desierto chihuahuense #DiasAcademicos2026 @liigh-unam.bsky.social

La siguiente charla fue impartida por @aleconadeasombrosa.bsky.social, del grupo de @delvecchyo.bsky.social, quien nos habló sobre las señales de una posible relajación del impacto de la selección natural en los últimos 10,000 años #DiasAcademicos2026 @liigh-unam.bsky.social