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Phylogenomics of the rarest animals: a second species of Micrognathozoa identified by machine learning royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Phylogenomics of the rarest animals: a second species of Micrognathozoa identified by machine learning https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39968621/

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Our paper describing the second species of Micrognathozoa, Limnognathia desmeti, is out: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... - big thanks to all coauthors, to Willem H. De Smet for finding this species, and to the Villum Foundation a.o. for supporting this project!

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Amanda Zurawski has been named one of TIME magazine’s Women of the Year. Amanda’s Story: Citing the state’s abortion laws, Texas doctors denied Amanda Zurawski emergency medical care when her water broke at only 18 weeks of pregnancy. It was September of 2021, and Amanda was miscarrying. Her…

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Get your #airDNA #airborne #eDNA 3D printed sampler here! Made by the amazing @erinhahn.bsky.social (who can tell you lots about the #ecology of airborne eDNA)

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Thinking about submitting that beautiful manuscript on #eDNA applications in #biomonitoring & #conservation, but you aren't sure where? Why not consider this collection in @springernature.com Discover Conservation that Eva Aylagas, John Pearman & I are editing? link.springer.com/collections/...

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Slashing federal funding for scientific research will have catastrophic impacts far beyond the laboratories where government research funds are spent. "How the Trump administration could end a century of American scientific dominance," by @adamsobel.bsky.social.

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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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We had an unexpected international student visiting the gardens of the Facultat de Biologia @biologiaub.bsky.social today.

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Did you know that #technology and #environmentalDNA can help us to protect our #ocean? 🌊🦈 Learn about new and scalable methods to tackle the global #biodiversity loss crisis from our CEO, Ethan Edson: oceandiagnostics.com/ocean-diagno... #EnvSci #environmentalhealth #eDNA

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Genome assembly of a living fossil, the Atlantic horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus, reveals lineage-specific whole genome duplications, transposable element-based centromeres and a ZW sex chromosome system. #AtlanticHorseshoeCrabGenome #ChromosomeLevelAssembly 🧬 academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

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This morning's reading in both the "everyone loves Lord of the Rings" and "everyone loves contrived acronyms" files: CELEBRIMBOR (Core ELEment Bias Removal In Metagenome Binned ORthologs), a snakemake-based workflow to better identify core genes for pangenomes from metagenomic assemblies. 🧪

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We’re searching for 8 unknown lineages closely related to animals, known only by their 18S rDNA. We call them the #Magnificent8. But who are they? See what the team says in the video! #multicellularity #protistsonSky @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es @erc.europa.eu youtu.be/4-MmnxR5Hig

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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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Breaking News! Code UFB!!! Global sea-ice area is now over 5 standard deviations below the 1981-2010 average, reaching yet another all-time record daily low. Graphics: @kevpluck.bsky.social Data: NSIDC

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The message states that NOAA employees must temporarily cease communicating with foreign nationals, and that the orders extend to participation in international commissions and even emails. www.wired.com/story/noaa-e...

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Our study on #lichen #symbiosis is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! How can multiple microbes create a large, 3D, and structurally complex organism? To answer this question, we used #metagenomics, #metatranscriptomics, and a bit of protein structure modeling 🧵1/7 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky

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This 👇. Specifically, for people in the quantitative sciences, I recommend: - Have a well-tended ORCID - GitHub/GitLab repository with some of your research outputs - Personal webpage (e.g. quarto) on a static hosting service such as GitHub/GitLab Pages, Netlify, Posit Connect, ...

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The EMBS is happy to join Bluesky! Follow us for news about the European Marine Biology Symposium. This year we will have the 58th edition in Bodø Norway! Abstract submissions are open! Check out details on our website www.embs-symposium.com #EMBS58

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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.

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Quién nos iba a decir que Chatgpt iba a ser el primero en perder el trabajo por culpa de una IA.

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Interested in how climate model projections have matched up to reality? RealClimate: Comparison Update 2024 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

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Latest pre-print led by Tim Noyes comparing #eDNA and BRUVs for monitoring #fish biodiversity in a subtropical coral reef. Combining methods added 90 species that use Bermuda's mesophotic coral ecosystem! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @blancobercial.bsky.social @marianilab.bsky.social

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Alberto Gennari's artwork here depicts a possible scene off the coast of South America around the Late Miocene, ~10 MYA. Killer sperm whales (Acrophyseter deinodon) are attacking semi-aquatic sloths (Thalassocnus natans), who were trying to forage on sea-grasses. Let's talk about them both!

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Wondering how #alpine organisms have been experiencing #microclimate change? So are we! Join our focus session at the International #Mountain conference #IMC25 in Innsbruck - now open for abstracts! tinyurl.com/36ky587t w/ @niittynen.bsky.social @jlembrechts.bsky.social @krystofchytry.bsky.social

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The preliminary program for the AquaEcOmics symposium is now available: https://aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr/program2 #eDNA #omics #metagenomics #metabarcoding #dPCR #marine #freshwater #ecology #biomonitoring #aquaecomics2025 Make sure not to miss out […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Os agradecería mucho que firmarais aquí para preservar LAS LAGUNAS DE VILLAFÁFILA, una reserva natural en Zamora que acoge a muchas especies de aves y que es uno de mis lugares favoritos del mundo. 🙏

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Are you a zoologist with a collection-based research profile, working on a taxon that is typically stored in a wet collection, and looking for a permanent job? Check out this job opportunity at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Calling all #EnvironmentalDNA people. The journal eDNA is now having a special issue on airborne #eDNA Do you have something interesting to submit? #AcademicSKY #WomeninSTEM 🧪 Details are found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

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I did it again! Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2 #jurassicpark #blender3d

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Who loves a #deepsea squid comparison chart! From this classic post #molluscmonday cameronmccormick.blogspot.com/2007/03/othe...

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