Couple of gorgeous Adders (Vipera berus) from this mornings walk - always a joy to see these

Intense week of science at Bacterial Cell Surfaces GRC! Best part was catching up with old/new friends! Tagging peeps in pics @paulhoskisson.bsky.social @hendersonlab.bsky.social @namurxa.bsky.social @sujeetkumar.bsky.social @weeboont.bsky.social @yeowjiang.bsky.social @siegristpalmore.bsky.social

Shu-Sin Chng@figlegend.bsky.social · last mo.

Awesome visit to @jhu.edu yesterday - lots of good questions during the seminar! Besides conversations with @goleylab.bsky.social, Tamara O'Connor and Gira Bhabha, it was fun chatting with trainees! Thanks again @jiexiaolab.bsky.social for great hospitality and catch-up! On to Gordon conf next wk.

really lovely piece of work from @raufs.bsky.social et al., Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms - Nature Microbiology

The evolutionary emergence of complex multicellularity in bacteria and fungi, such as the ability for mycelial growth, is strongly associated with increased genomic carriage of biosynthetic machinery ...

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this is very cool - Chemical ecology and convergent evolution of natural hallucinogens: From ecological defense to conserved neural targets www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cool new preprint of a new defence family! Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids encode Evangelion, a widespread DUF4062 anti-phage defence family www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids encode Evangelion, a widespread DUF4062 anti-phage defence family

Many bacterial anti-phage defence systems are encoded by mobile genetic elements, yet much of this antiviral repertoire remains undiscovered. Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids are well known for disse...

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Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

First ‘Charles Darwin’ Rose of the year has opened in the garden!

New research from #BiologyLetters: Song but not colour divergence constrains hybridization in birds doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... | #Evolution #Birdsong #Colouration

A type of natural selection known as negative frequency dependent selection is thought to be a major force promoting genetic diversity in important traits. Read research in a new issue of #PhilTransB: buff.ly/bOhpNlE

In the future, everybody will be Prime Minister for 15 minutes — Andy Narwhal

This is an awesome review from @sheppardlab.bsky.social - Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome #evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution - Nature Reviews Genetics

Bacterial genome evolution is shaped by epistasis, which can constrain or promote specific evolutionary paths. The authors review how integrating the effects of epistatic interactions into population-...

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I’m honored to receive this year’s Hamilton Award at Evolution! It was such a privilege to be surrounded by so many outstanding scientists doing such incredible work!

Society for the Study of Evolution@sse-evolution.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to this year’s Hamilton Award winner, Princeton Vaughn! @princetonvaughn.bsky.social www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

This is excellent from @roysleator.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Recently back from an amazing #Herping trip to #Albania and managed to see Europes smallest and rarest Viper - the Greek Meadow Viper (Vipera graeca), lots of careful searching at 1900 metres resulted in finding a beautiful, sub-adult female

wow- The evolution of high-order genome architecture revealed from 1,000 species www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

The evolution of high-order genome architecture revealed from 1,000 species

Comparative Hi-C analysis across 1,025 species reveals that genome architecture has evolved along distinct trajectories, with plants favoring global folding and animals developing checkerboard compart...

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#Academia is essentially, repeatedly adding the same information in to a range of different forms on a daily basis

Mind blown! 🤯 Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees

Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...

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Bacterial telomeres are common, just not so much in RefSeq 'complete' genomes. But they can be added by the new tool David Faurdal wrote. I am thrilled to see this out as a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @tilmweber.bsky.social @thombooth.bsky.social

Island-Hopping Frogs: How Geology, Ocean Currents and Evolution Shaped Biodiversity in the Pacific www.linnean.org/news/2026/04...

Island-Hopping Frogs: How Geology, Ocean Currents and Evolution…

Discover the latest news from The Linnean Society of London.

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@countryman100.bsky.social rooting for you guys tonight!

Evolution of genome-wide barriers to gene flow during complex speciation in rattlesnakes - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This is cool - ‘Descent from a common ancestor restricts exploration of protein sequence space’ - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... & a great commentary piece too- ‘Maynard Smith’s analogy, realized: Common ancestry constrains evolutionary percolation through protein space’ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Good to see this @microbiologysociety.org cross journal special collection taking shape: Advances in the biology of Actinomycetes www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/adva...

This is a really cool study - Convergent evolution of aerobic fermentation through divergent mechanisms acting on key shared glycolytic genes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Convergent evolution of aerobic fermentation through divergent mechanisms acting on key shared glycolytic genes - The EMBO Journal

As the tree of life becomes increasingly accessible to molecular investigations, describing mechanisms underlying evolutionary convergence and constraint will be crucial to understanding diversificati...

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We have a PhD studentship open! (UK only sadly) but if you are or know a student keen to work on some *really* weird mycobacterial enzymes then get in touch! #glycotime Advert below www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Uncovering a new class of toxins in pathogenic mycobacteria at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Uncovering a new class of toxins in pathogenic mycobacteria at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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We have a PhD studentship available to develop genome safeguarding technologies for synthetic phage therapeutics www.findaphd.com/phds/project... It is part of an exciting new @officialuom.bsky.social PhD by Enterprise programme www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/resear...

(PhD by Enterprise) Genome safeguarding technologies for synthetic phage therapeutics against multidrug resistant bacterial infections at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - (PhD by Enterprise) Genome safeguarding technologies for synthetic phage therapeutics against multidrug resistant bacterial infections at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD...

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Another three satellite-tagged Cuckoos have made it back to the UK and Ireland! 🙌 To sponsor a Cuckoo and follow their migrations on our interactive map visit www.bto.org/cuckoos. Thank you. 💚

Come and study for a PhD with us on antibiotic-producing Streptomyces, trying to understand the roles of primary metabolic enzymes with additional cellular roles - Details below - please repost www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Primary metabolic enzymes in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces bacteria, but not as we know them! at University of Strathclyde on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Primary metabolic enzymes in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces bacteria, but not as we know them! at University of Strathclyde, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Cool paper from the ISBA collection (www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/adva... ) from @evodivmet.bsky.social et al Functional shifts of the dual-substrate phosphoribosyl isomerase PriA from primary to specialized metabolism in rare Actinomycetota www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...