Excited to share that our paper on Horizontal Gene Transfer is now out in its final form in @gigascience.bsky.social! 🥳 By analysing 163 high-quality ant genomes, we show that HGT from bacteria is widespread across the ants and likely has adaptive functions! doi.org/10.1093/giga... 🐜📸: Alex Wild

⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk

Our paper describing the discovery of triploid ensets and the impact of polyploidy on yield is now officially published! Collaboration: Addis Ababa Univ, @rbgkew.bsky.social, @qmulsbbs.bsky.social, Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute & UK Natural Resources Institute doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Recurrent evolution of cryptic triploids in cultivated enset increases yield

Author summary Duplication of a species’ entire genome (polyploidization) plays an important part in evolution. Domestication may have favoured polyploid crops including wheat, coffee, potato, cotton,...

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Pillbugs are fascinating. Especially those populations under the influence of sex-ratio distorters. Here is a look at our recently published paper in @springernature.com Genetica. rdcu.be/fv2ny

This guy was nice enough to land on my cap for some pictures!

⚡FINAL FLASH ABSTRACTS One last opportunity to share your research with the CGUE2026 community. 📅 Submissions open August 1 - 0:00 CET ⏰ Deadline: August 15 - 23:59 CET 👉 Submit your poster: comparativegenomics2026.com #ComparativeGenomics #Protistology #Genomics #ProtistsOnSky #Protist #Eukaryote

I wish I did not have to bring up this old tweet from ‘that other place’ every now and again but here we are (again) and here it is…

How good is MiniBWA, the successor to BWA? To test it, I ran MiniBWA on sequencing from 76 different species, comparing mapping speed, rate and accuracy with BWA MEM. In short, it's really good. If you map short reads, it's well worth your time. andrewcarroll.github.io/2026/06/30/t...

New preprint about genetic diversity after conservation efforts in the Mauritius kestrel, pretty cool!

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Just in time for #SMBE2026, our new preprint is out: using 130 genomes spanning ~200 years, fitness data and simulations, we show that conservation rescued the Mauritius kestrel from extinction, but not from genomic erosion. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #popgen #consgen #conservation

Pretty happy with this one! Tried to take a picture of the spider, but the hoverfly photobombed it.

Some of my favorite slugs I saw while teaching my Coral Reefs course last month on the Great Barrier Reef. #invertebrate #sluglife #nudibranch

We are pleased to introduce Molluscan Horizons, a diamond open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal born from a joint effort of Latin American malacological societies, led and funded by the Brazilian Society of Malacology. To learn more, please visit our website: www.molluscanhorizons.org

Le @mnhn.fr recrute un·e chargé·e de projet pour la délégation aux explorations scientifiques, qui sera en appui notamment au PEPR @atlasea.bsky.social recrutement.mnhn.fr/front-jobs-d...

Chargé de projet - explorations scientifiques (F/H) @ Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

Muséum national d'Histoire naturellerecrute !

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Avec 62 espèces planctoniques collectées, la nouvelle mission #DIVE-Sea par @mnhn.fr avec #MIO @univ-amu.fr a été un succès ! Une petite méduse Aglaura hemistoma comme dernière illustration de la diversité minuscule de la Méditerranée... @atlasea.bsky.social #mer #océan #biodiversité #génomique

💡 #KnowledgeHighlight | Tutorials: k-mer Approaches for Biodiversity #Genomics by Kamil Jaron @sangerinstitute.bsky.social github.com/KamilSJaron/... Explore open-access training materials in the ERGA #KnowledgeHub ➡️ knowledge.erga-biodiversity.eu #kmers #bioinformatics #learningmaterials

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k-mer learning materials. Contribute to KamilSJaron/k-mer-approaches-for-biodiversity-genomics development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Et quelques espèces planctoniques du jour collectée par #DIVE-Sea : Un hydrozoaire (Corymorpha nutans) Un tunicier (Doliolum denticulatum) Un gastéropode (Cavolinia inflexa) Un amphipode (Phronima atlantica) @atlasea.bsky.social @mnhn.fr @univ-amu.fr #MIO

Après Roscoff, une nouvelle mission #DIVE-Sea par @mnhn.fr avec #MIO @univ-amu.fr cible cette fois les espèces gélatineuses pélagiques, étranges et mal connues ! Ex: le siphonophore (hydrozoaire) Rhizophysa filiformis ou la salpe (tunicier pélagique) Doliolum denticulatum @atlasea.bsky.social

Vote for Mollusc of the Year 2026. The winner will have its complete genome sequenced. There are some cool species in the running this year! www.unitasmalacologica.org/mollusc-of-t...

Mollusc of the Year 2026

Click here to see previous Mollusc of the Year winners.

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📢 Recrutement La Direction pour la Science Ouverte d’INRAE recrute un·e ingénieur·e d’études pour contribuer au pilotage de PCI 📄 Contrat : CDD 15 mois 🎯 Mission : Accompagner le développement et la coordination de PCI Détails de l'offre : jobs.inrae.fr/ot-28928

🌻 Next STRiVE seminar: Loren Rieseberg (UBC) explores SVs, adaptation & speciation—from wild sunflowers to 1000+ species! 🗓️ Apr 29 | 9am PDT / 6pm CEST ✉️ Zoom link via mailing list: groupes.renater.fr/sympa/subscr... ℹ️ Info: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/about/

🚀 Campagne en cours à Roscoff Du 28 mars au 12 avril, la Station Biologique de Roscoff accueille les équipes d’ATLASea pour une nouvelle mission d’échantillonnage !

🛳️ Campagne à Roscoff : dernière sortie en mer, direction l’épave de l’Aboukir Bay à bord de La Korrigane, le nouveau navire de la flotte du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, conçu pour réduire l’empreinte environnementale de la navigation scientifique.

Arrived in Roscoff for the second week of the Roscoff @atlasea.bsky.social mission!

Programme ATLASea : nouvelle campagne de collecte à Roscoff | Mer et Marine ➡️ https://go.meretmarine.com/RWR

🧬 Join the STRiVE kick-off conference (TiBE-STRiVE) July 8-10, 2026, near Porto! Abstracts & Registration are now open to EVERYONE. 🔹 Abstracts due: Apr 15 🔹 Registration closes: Apr 30 Info: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/porto_about/ #Evolution #Genomics #Biology

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Myloasm, our long-read metagenome assembler, is now published! w/ @mgmarin.bsky.social and @lh3lh3.bsky.social Very rewarding after > a year of development and countless hours thinking about assembly. Thanks to beta testers, Li lab, and reviewers who gave very helpful feedback. rdcu.be/famFj

High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm

Nature Biotechnology - A long-read metagenome assembly method recovers circular and complete genomes better than existing tools.

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Nature Biotechnology@natbiotech.nature.com · 4mo ago

High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm - @lh3lh3.bsky.social @jimshaw.bsky.social @danafarber.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social go.nature.com/3PBEwvR

High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm - @lh3lh3.bsky.social @jimshaw.bsky.social @danafarber.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social go.nature.com/3PBEwvR

High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm - Nature Biotechnology

A long-read metagenome assembly method recovers circular and complete genomes better than existing tools.

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🎓 Applications open for Master 2 EvoGEM which provides theoretical and methodological training to interpret evolutionary patterns from genomic data. ✔️ Evolution, Maths, Population and quantitative genetics, Phylogenetics ✔️ Tutored projects ✔️Fully taught in English 📍Paris evogem.fr 📢 Please share!

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us