I wrote an opinion piece for @livescience.com about the #ColossalBioSci dire wolf deëxtinction campaign by #BenLamm; I explore the consequences of their #DisInformation on information and scientific integrity... www.livescience.com/animals/exti...

Colossal's de-extinction campaign is built on a semantic house of cards with shoddy foundations — and the consequences are dire | Opinion

"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction." But that all depends on your definition of de-extinction — and Colossal'...

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worth a read #consgen #popgen

Rob Waterhouse@rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 2y ago

Robin Waples' reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne) #biodiversity #genomics #conservation #evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transgenerational effects of heat shock on gene regulation and fitness-related traits are stronger in arid than temperate Drosophila populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.637908v1

Great phd opportunity!

Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 PhD Opportunity @halllab.bsky.social! 🔬 Decoding Early Life Microbiota & Host Interactions 🧬 Ideal for those with bioinformatics/microbiome experience 🌍 Open to international candidates (MSCA mobility rules apply). 📅 Deadline: 18th Dec 🌐 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Thrilled to see this paper out! 🎉 We analyzed 470 (!) angiosperm genomes and identified and dated 132 whole-genome duplication events. Importantly, we observed that WGD occurrence dates are not randomly distributed, but clustered at times of major environmental upheaval.

Yves Van de Peer@yvdp.bsky.social · 2y ago

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Come work with us! We're hiring two postdoc research fellows working broadly on nature-based climate solutions, including mitigation and natural sinks. If you'd like to chat about these, please get in touch. tinyurl.com/mt8stvmr @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

We have over the past month or so published a nice bouquet of papers about the interaction between the Atlantic salmon, its gut microbiome and the feed it eats. 1/4

Extremely happy to share our latest work on the functional genetic basis of maturity age variation in Atlantic salmon! 🖥️🧬🦑🧪🐟 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

My friend an colleague Dan Macqueen has a PhD opening on WGD and genome evolution in his group at the Roslin. Great opportunity! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Evolution following whole genome duplication - a comparative investigation of plant and animal genomes at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Evolution following whole genome duplication - a comparative investigation of plant and animal genomes at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Excited to share our newest paper, in which we report our discovery that monogamous oldfield mice have very recently evolved a novel cell type in their adrenal glands that promotes parental care Work led by the fabulous Natalie Niepoth and @jennymerritt.bsky.social 🧵 rdcu.be/dH1Kn

My lab is hiring a technician, to hopefully start asap! FT position with benefits, and potential for two positions. Pls re-post! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Excited to share my first undergrad-mentee-led manuscript! Here we introduce gatoRs, an R package designed to streamline the downloading and processing of biodiversity data. Check out our paper here: doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

Congratulations to Jeff Groh on the publication of "The temporal and genomic scale of selection following hybridization" showing how wavelets an be used to determine the timing of selection & drift during hybridization www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Great new preprint reviewing variant calling for polyploids by Alyssa Phillips (of @jrossibarra.bsky.social lab): ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

For this year’s International Women’s Day, I would like to put it as simply as possible: Men should be happy that women want equality. Not revenge.

Brown bear - polar bear hybridization has been principally bidirectional over time, but with different preponderant directions; ancient being brown—>polar, more recent, polar—>brown. Read our work and new method, delta-statistics, led by Kalle Leppälä www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🍓 From the upcoming #AJB #Polyploidy special issue 🍓 Neopolyploidy has variable effects on diversity & composition of the wild #strawberry microbiome By Thomas Anneberg, Nevin Cullen, Elizabeth O'Neill, Na Wei & Tia-Lynn Ashman doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

The first draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers.

Mary Robinette Kowal@maryrobinettekowal.com · 3y ago

I don't like "Your first draft will be shitty" as advice, because it's a really negative framing. I prefer, "You have the freedom to be messy creating your first draft." Anyone crafter knows what their room looks like mid-creation. Writers should be as free to be as exhuberent and messy.

The gene cortex has been thought to control butterfly and moth wing colour. Now *three* preprints challenge that view, claiming that two types of regulatory RNA next to cortex might be the causal mechanisms.

Registration now open for the 2024 New York area Population Genetics meeting, organized by @bendesky.bsky.social. Talks by Lindy McBride and Cedric Feschotte. At Columbia U, May 17, 2024. Register (free) and submit abstracts for talks or posters here: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/new-york-are...

What is the main force in evolution? Selection or drift? academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Half a Century of Controversy: The Neutralist/Selectionist Debate in Molecular Evolution

Abstract. The neutral and nearly neutral theories, introduced more than 50 yr ago, have raised and still raise passionate discussion regarding the forces govern

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@fishcongen.bsky.social . Dis you see my email ? :-)

How stable are bacterial genomes as they adapt to an environment? My collaboration with Anurag Limdi, Alex Couce, @relenski.bsky.social, and Olivier Tenaillon exploring this over 50,000 generations of evolution is out today! 1/ (cross-post from the other place) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Changing fitness effects of mutations through long-term bacterial evolution

Predictable and parallel changes occur in the fitness effects of mutations in Escherichia coli over 50,000 generations.

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Sometimes I’m lucky to be able to help out excellent physiologists with some genome stuff. This is one paper (from the Wood-lab) on the seasonal biology of hamsters and curious tanycytes in the brain 🐹🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hypothalamic tanycytes as mediators of maternally programmed seasonal plasticity

In mammals, maternal photoperiodic programming (MPP) provides a means whereby juvenile development can be matched to forthcoming seasonal environmenta…

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