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Max Telford

@maxjtelford.bsky.social

Zoologist and evolutionary biologist. Interested in animal phylogeny. At UCL. Author of 'The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle'

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Jay Shendure@jshendure.bsky.social · 5d ago

Thrilled to post thread re: new single-cell lineage of mouse embryo reconstructed w/ DNA Typewriter. One animal, zygote to late organogenesis (E13.5). Tree has 1,340,794 transcriptionally profiled, annotated tips (cells), 1,142,588 dated internal nodes, rooted at zygote 1/n

Hoyaboya@hoyaboya1.bsky.social · last wk.

McDermott et al. (2026-07, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences) 「動物における対称性の進化に対する形態系統学的アプローチ」 A morphological phylogenetic approach to the evolution of symmetry in animals doi.org/10.1098/rspb... うおおおおおおお！！！！！

James W. McDermott et al., CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.1111
Matthew Cobb@matthewcobb.bsky.social · last wk.

22 years ago today, Francis Crick died. You can read about his life, his brilliance and his failures in my biography, available in hardback in the UK and USA (and as an audiobook and ebook) and soon in a chonky UK paperback.

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Aylwyn Scally@aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · last wk.

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Lots of science, and it prompted me to read some of Crick's original writing. He had that incredible insight, like Turing, into the implications of his work and others'. Plus a fun puzzle trying to work out who some of his secret lovers were, with the aid of Google.

Matthew Cobb@matthewcobb.bsky.social · last wk.

22 years ago today, Francis Crick died. You can read about his life, his brilliance and his failures in my biography, available in hardback in the UK and USA (and as an audiobook and ebook) and soon in a chonky UK paperback.

ZooCELL MSCA-Doctoral Network@zoocell.bsky.social · last wk.

🔬 Meet Kevin Grüner, DC in the ZooCELL team at IGFL! Kevin completed his BSc in Biology and MSc in Zoology at the Uni. of Innsbruck, where he also worked at the EM facility and tutored different courses. He is now a DC in ZooCELL, investigating limb regeneration. 🧵 Read on to get to know Kevin.

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Phoebe Cohen@phoebefossil.bsky.social · 3w ago

Super excited that our paper led by @sandinmm.eurosky.social in PNAS is out! We show that crown-group eukaryotes were already taxonomically and ecologically diverse throughout the Mesoproterozoic, revealing complex communities well before the Neoproterozoic radiation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Environmental phylogenetics supports a steady diversification of crown eukaryotes starting from the mid-Proterozoic | PNAS

Molecular clock and preservation of early microfossil assemblages suggest that eukaryotes were present and already diverse more than ~1600 million ...

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Katie Holmes@runyoung50.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fabulous to see my book Rulebreakers and Ghost Runners out in the wild on social media! #SportsHistory #WomensHistory #Skystorians

Bloomsbury Sport @bloomsburysport.bsky.social · 3w ago

Did you know that until April 1975 women in the UK were banned from all races longer than four miles? In the 1960s, women started to break the rules and 'crash' men's races. Rulebreakers and Ghost Runners by @runyoung50.bsky.social tells their incredible stories. Out 13th August.

Max Telford@maxjtelford.bsky.social · last mo.

Uk in second place. Politicians should be asked what the optimal number of citizens in prison should be (correct answer is surely zero) and what they’re doing to achieve that.

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · last mo.

A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

Graph showing that the U.S. incarcerates people at a rate of 614 per 100,000. This is at least 4x higher than any other founding NATO countries.
Max Telford@maxjtelford.bsky.social · last mo.

HELP? Trying to get original, untrimmed alignments from this paper. Have looked very hard. Anyone able to help?? Philippe et al. Multigene analyses of bilaterian animals corroborate the monophyly of Ecdysozoa, Lophotrochozoa, and Protostomia Mol Biol Evol. 2005 May;22(5):1246-53.

Andrew Roger@andrewjroger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/ Deep-time phylogenetics is hard: overly simplistic substitution models can mislead tree estimation at the billion year timescale. Our new preprint introduces GTRspmix, a protein modeling framework designed to more realistically model site-to-site heterogeneity in amino acid replacement. 🧵

Lucy van Dorp@lucyvandorp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are advertising a 3-year Evolution Education Trust funded #PhD studentship at @ugiatucl.bsky.social UCL to investigate the genomic history of infectious diseases preserved within historical pathology collections. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... #findaphd #EET

Unlocking the Genomic History of Pathogens Through Pathology Archives at University College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Unlocking the Genomic History of Pathogens Through Pathology Archives at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Max Telford@maxjtelford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Less than a week until I talk about my book 'The Tree of Life' @linneansociety.bsky.social. 25th June, 6pm, tickets available here: members.linnean.org/events/69f21...

The Tree of Life (A User’s Manual)

Max Telford takes us inside one of science’s greatest quests: reconstructing the web of relationships between all our planet’s species.

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Max Telford@maxjtelford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I will be talking about The Tree of Life at the Linnean Society on 25th June. If you are interested you can find out a little more and sign up for a ticket at the link below. Hope to see some of you there! members.linnean.org/events/69f21...

Science Magazine@science.org · 2mo ago

The first single-cell three-dimensional lamprey brain atlas reveals that the vertebrate common ancestor already had a highly regionalized brain, and subsequent neuronal specialization likely drove vertebrate brain diversification. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4whLqXp

As living fossils, lampreys, such as this Far Eastern brook lamprey (Lethenteron reissneri), provide an irreplaceable model for reconstructing the ancestral vertebrate brain. The first single-cell three-dimensional lamprey brain atlas reveals that the vertebrate common ancestor (~500 million years ago) already had a highly regionalized brain, and subsequent neuronal specialization likely drove vertebrate brain diversification. Photo: Nobuhiko Akiyama/Minden Pictures