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No idea why I posted this 1st in French, but: we had a great day organised by the postdocs and grad students of 3 biology departments, on making our work and our departments more sustainable. :) https://ecoevo.social/@marcrr/114682705535409209

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Merci et bravo aux étudiants et postdocs qui ont organisé l'excellente journée Greener Biophore, dans laquelle nous avons travaillé à rendre notre travail et nos départements plus durables. C'était une excellente expérience et je me réjouis de voir la suite. https://www.unil.ch/news/1749632596499

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"This spider’s barf is worse than its bite Small office plant–dwelling hunters don’t bother injecting venom" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spider-toxic-barf-fangs-venom-vomit

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For the record, in Switzerland we use ' to separate thousands and it's very clear (also great #xkcd, made all the family laugh) http://xkcd.com/3102

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Exciting work led by Giulia Zancolli on the venomless Uloboridae spiders. They lost their venom glands and venom injecting duct, but wrap their prey in toxic digestive fluids. The paper: https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-025-02248-1 The press release (in 🇫🇷) […]

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Editorial @SIB by @dessimoz "we must ensure (Switzerland's) continued science leadership – including in data expertise and infrastructure" https://www.sib.swiss/news/switzerlands-science-future-continued-leadership-or-drift-into-decline #Switzerland #SwissScience #DataScience #bioinformatics […]

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Nice highlight of our recent work on the evolution of venom production in marine predatory snails https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02763-y #EvoDevo #MolecularEvolution #Venom

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"For staff across the National Institutes of Health (NIH), we dissent to Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe." #NIH #BethesdaDeclaration https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration

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By enshittifying search, google is driving people to chatbots. Alternative search engines should not rush to include ai features; there’s unprecedented opportunity to gain users by improving search results.

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Un magnifique exemple de la très longue "persistance rétinienne" des images naturalistes dans l'art et la culture visuelle : le Rhinocéros de Dürer ! https://www.festivaldelhistoiredelart.fr/le-rhinoceros-de-durer-une-image-iconique1/

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"we collect, curate, and release the Common Pile v0.1, an eight terabyte collection of openly licensed text designed for LLM pretraining … attain competitive performance to LLMs trained on unlicensed text with similar computational budgets" https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05209 […]

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"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and […]

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That madman @ZachWeinersmith predicted vibe coding 14 fucking years ago https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2362

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Ha! Someone sent me this comic of mine from about 15 years ago, predicting the TRUE THEORY OF VIBECODING www.smbc-comics.com?id=2362

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You can still apply: Postdoc job opportunity! We're looking for early career researcher in evolutionary genomics to study the relation between intra-specific gene expression variability, polymorphism, and macro-evolutionary rates. We have all of the data in 3 fishes and amphioxus, just waiting […]

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Registration is open for our @SIB course Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions! Orthologs, paralogs, non model animal genomes, comparison of gene expression and of function, and more! With OMA, BUSCO, @bgeedb and other bioinformatics resources […]

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😢🦋🐞🐝🐛🐜🪰🪲🪳🦟🦗 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe

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#archea #xkcd http://xkcd.com/3095

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My friend is in charge of the team that wrote the climate change adaptation plan for Switzerland and this is one of the things they expected. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/swiss-glacier-collapse-village-switzerland-blatten

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Climate change has consequences, chapter too many Une énorme partie du glacier du Birch s'est effondrée sur le village de Blatten […]

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Yep https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/crack @ZachWeinersmith

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WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update (2025-2029) 80% chance that at least one of the next five years will exceed 2024 as the warmest on record 86% chance that at least one of next five years will be more than 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 average 70% chance that 5-year average warming for […]

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A new study in Cell finds claims that when a variety of rice is subjected to cold stress, it generates adaptive cold tolerance. This tolerance is epigenetically mediated and is heritable for at least three generations. 🐋🌱🧠🗃🦋🦫🧪 #EvoBio

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When you're going over a 12 year old paper of yours and it includes a ref to a paper "in prep" which was never finished and submitted… 😢

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This is going into my undergrad teaching as "yes natural selection still affects humans" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09031-w

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Did I mention that I'm recruiting a postdoc? 😁 https://sifted.eu/articles/us-researchers-europe-salaries https://ecoevo.social/@marcrr/114501171015072958

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1- This is cool if true, but also 2- I'd like to remind everyone who worries that preprints lead journalists to comment on work that isn't yet peer-reviewed that they've been doing it forever based on conference presentations, as here: "The findings were presented on Wednesday at the joint 188th […]

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Une fois par an notre campus est envahi d'enfants. Ils sont là… https://mysteres.ch/2025/

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Excellent @dee_unil seminar by Mia Levine, showing adaptive co-evolution of specific subfunctions of telomere proteins in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.11.623029v1

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The race is on

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May 2025 WikiPathways release: 491 edits by 9 contributors and 8 new pathways. Accessible via #webservices, #rstats, Pathvisio, and Cytoscape. #biology #bioinformatics

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Postdoc job opportunity! We're looking for early career researcher in evolutionary genomics to study the relation between intra-specific gene expression variability, polymorphism, and macro-evolutionary rates. We have all of the data in 3 fishes and amphioxus, just waiting for your expertise and […]

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Which of the following are “appropriate uses” for an LLM?: 1. Brainstorming a list of titles for a short story. 2. Translating a product description. 3. Fixing grammar, spelling and formatting. 4. Making a list of hotels near a given address. 5. Checking a solution to statistics homework. 6 […]

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Combined Flu + Covid vaccine is more efficient than state of care individual Flu or Covid vaccines. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2833668

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Excellent: "More than 100 institutions and funders worldwide have confirmed that research published in #eLife continues to be considered in hiring, promotion, and funding decisions, following the journal’s bold move to forgo its Journal Impact Factor." […]

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Nice RNAseq atlas of small but important crustacean Daphnia pulex, and study of "selection operating on genes expressed in different tissues" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.01.651673v1 #EvoDevo #MolecularEvolution #RNAseq #Daphnia #Crustacean

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Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/neuro (this is one of those Zach-are-you-okay email generators, isn't it?)

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https://www.lexpress.fr/sciences-sante/non-au-remboursement-des-pseudotherapies-lappel-de-soignants-pour-une-sante-fondee-sur-les-preuves-7GAQGJF72VCOTFUZVPRJHXJZSI/ #pseudoscience #NoFakeMed

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https://bsky.app/profile/asociologist.bsky.social/post/3lbjzecqcqk2

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A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi

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Cover letters for manuscript submissions can go die in a fire. I don't care for them as editor, reviewer, or (especially) submitter.

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"Many of the events predicted for 2050 or 2070 are already happening. We underestimated the speed of change." #ClimateChange https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/30/india-and-pakistan-already-sweltering-in-new-normal-heatwave-conditions

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Great opportunity to join University of Lausanne as tenure-track professor of AI-oriented computational biology! Applications to molecular evolution are especially welcome 😃 […]

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Great to see this out in society journal @molbioevol @officialSMBE! Cone snails are venomous 🐚🍽️🐟 and have evolved from non venomous marine snails. We show how their venom gland evolved from homologous glands, and how this affected the evolution of their […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

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In early March, I wrote about the proto-authoritarian attacks on science and universities by the Trump administration and listed some warning signs to look out for in the coming weeks. Now six weeks later and those warning signs are being realised. christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...

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Interesting read What I’ve learned after 40 years as the Observer’s science editor https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/13/what-ive-learned-after-40-years-as-the-observers-science-editor

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#Wiley no license agreement with #swissuniversities in 2025 https://www.unil.ch/news/1744106269223 #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #NoDeal

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