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Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out! @neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex

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☕🌊 Coffee too weak? Pour more slowly A new study found that even a gentle water jet creates avalanches in coffee grounds, boosting mixing and extraction. Slower pours = stronger brews with less coffee. 🔗 doi.org/10.1063/5.02... #Coffee #SciComm 🧪

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Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released! (Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Featured image with Allan Carrillo-Baltodano This is an image of a larva of a phoronid worm. To swim, the larva propels itself using cilia 💃 Find out about @allancarbal.bsky.social and his #EvoDevo research on marine annelids: thenode.biologists.com/featured-ima...

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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

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Ecstatic to have played a small part in this, we find that the first aerobes predate the GOE by almost a billion years! Photosynthesis implications Lead by Adrián Davín, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @xrefugee13.bsky.social @tweethinking.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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New isolates from eukaryote's closest archaeal relative: ‘Hodarchaeales’!! Syntrophic microaerotolerant peptide-degrading anaerobic archaea w/ simple cell structure & protrusions. Features conserved across the phylum provide new insight into our ancestor’s biology! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Three-year postdoc in computational evolutionary biology at the University of Glasgow. Ideal for PhD holders in bioinformatics. Applications close on March 18, 2025. More info: https://vibelab.co.uk/ #postdoc

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Job Alert: Senior Research Associate in Phylogenomics @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social researching timing, sequence and phenotypic consequences of rediploidisation following whole genome duplication - comparative genomics, molecular clock and phenotypic disparity methods, with @jameswclark.bsky.social

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Job announcement: a four-year postdoc position in phylogenomics at the Milner Centre for Evolution, Bath, with James Clark and me (I'm moving to Bath later in the year...). www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

PDRA opportunity at Kew - chance to work on an exciting new project with a wonderful boss! (speaking from first hand experience ☺️)

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How may evolutionary rates vary on different planets? See our preprint where we think how temperature impacts the timings of the origins of major groups

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Are you interested in studying archaea with their diverse symbionts? We look forward hearing from you: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...

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Mark your calendars! Archaea power hour is back!

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New research on ancient Asgard archaeal ESCRT-III proteins reveals evolutionary secrets of membrane remodelling. Diorge Souza, Javier Espadas and Sami Chaaban, investigated the ESCRT-III proteins with Buzz Baum and Aurelien Roux. Read more: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/asgard-archa... #LMBResearch (1/2)

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Really cool project to work on, happy to see it out!

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Happy to share our paper’s final version on the evolution, structure, and membrane binding / remodeling of Asgard ESCRT-III proteins! And my first 🦋 post! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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January Editorial: We look back at papers published in NEE in 2024 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #1 Cited: 🔥 Extreme wildfires www.nature.com/articles/s41... #1 Accessed: 🦠 The nature of LUCA www.nature.com/articles/s41... #1 Altmetric: 🐘 Name-calling elephants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Delighted to have the first paper of my PhD out in Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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PhD project opportunity here in Manchester to do some cool inter-disciplinary stuff on the taphonomy and fossil record of collagen. Ancient, recent, modern, lab-work, theoretical, data, imaging, its all there! Deadline Jan 31st www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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These predatory journal email addresses are slowly getting scarier.

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New vacancy in my lab: explore microbial evolution in metagenomes in a 2 year post @TheQuadram @EarlhamInst , UK: quadram.ac.uk/vacancies/re... (closes 27th Jan) You will have access to unique software, 3rd gen deeply sequenced unique human cohorts.

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Wow! A real honour to be included on this year's list, thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social and of course all the vital collaborators involved in the work youtu.be/p9XHI_26cPE?...

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I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report: Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

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Fancy coming to work with @biogeo-josh.bsky.social and me looking at the impact of stress on evolution using simulations? This project is funded for four years, with a decent amount of spending money and includes cover for tuition fees no matter where in the world you are from ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

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Just because you can make all the citations in your LaTeX preprint internal links to the reference list, doesn't mean you should.

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THREAD So your Attention Score went down because people are rage-deleting their Twitter accounts. Why is that happening? Should I be worried? Should I see my doctor? Let's get into what the Attention Score actually is, how it's impacted by posts and deletions, WITH THE HELP OF MEMES. 1/20

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New short paper in GBE on the evolution of Pseudotrichomonas track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

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Discovered a new tune thanks to @altmetric.com introducing bluesky metrics, a success all round!

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BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

submitted 182 days ago • 39 comments

We loved making this illustration of LUCA for one of @emoody.bsky.social latest papers! Many congrats to all the authors- we loved working with you! 🩷 Artwork by EunJung and @mirantakouvari.bsky.social. 🐡🧪 Check out their paper here: https://buff.ly/4g9Onkv

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The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

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📢 Bluesky is emerging as the New Platform for Academia, but what's missing? 📊 Altmetric integration to track attention for articles 🔄 Share and ♥️ Like if you agree! 🙏 @altmetric.com please tell us it’s going to happen!

submitted 190 days ago • 2 comments

What did the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (#LECA) look like? Consensus View in #PLOSBiology; massive authorship including @AncestralState, @lauraeme.bsky.social, John Archbald, @andrewjroger.bsky.social, @dackslabecb.bsky.social, Jeremy Wideman. plos.io/4g0alq4

submitted 190 days ago • 6 comments

A women-led team of 20, working remotely, is showing up a trillion dollar megacorp. Truly inspiring.

submitted 195 days ago • 177 comments

Join the Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellowship Program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), one of the best places to do research in modern biology and develop your career. Great opportunities for statisticians, comp. biologists, AI experts, mathem. modelers! www.embl.org/eipod-linc

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