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Does the smell and flavor of strawberries depend on variations in gene-associated transposons? It seems so! Check out our new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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I'm super grateful for this FWF funding to explore the 'fossilized' transposon landscape of the axolotl genome! Thrilled to uncover how these ancient sequences helped sculpt many of our organs and structures!

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Polymorphic transposable elements contribute to variation in recombination landscapes (drosohila 🪰) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #TEsky

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New paper alert! Zombie fires overwinter, going underground to smolder through winter before reemerging. Until recently, we knew these fires occurred but knew little of their ecological or carbon impacts. Along with my amazing coauthors, we set out to change this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The election has just been called for April 28. If you are a Canadian living outside the country, get your mail-in ballot here ASAP: travel.gc.ca/travelling/l...

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Butterflies are a large, functionally important and charismatic invertebrate group. Here, Pinkert et al characterize global macroecological patterns of butterflies and project shifts in their bioclimatic niches under future climate scenarios🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Relaxed DNA substrate specificity of transposases involved in programmed genome rearrangement 🤯 #TEsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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🔬 My latest work w/ @immler.bsky.social et al: Env. stress alters sperm sRNAs, linking gene expr. + transposons in #zebrafish offspring. @heredityjournal.bsky.social 🧬 Social stress shapes RNA/TE activity across generations #Sperm #miRNA #piRNA #Transposons #TEsky @biouea.bsky.social rdcu.be/eeAwB

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I wrote a book about bureaucratic violence and if there’s one thing I wish everyone knew right now, it would be: The people most harmed can’t tell what’s happening or why. Their lives unravel and, more often than not, they are taught to blame themselves—or other victims.

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Important piece on how universities fought Orbán and can fight Trump today www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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Horizontal transfer of bacterial operons into eukaryote genomes academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-... #jcampubs

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Coming soon…..

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Exciting #FossilFriday as our preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social was picked up by @newscientist.com! You can read the prepint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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#TEsky The domesticated transposon protein L1TD1 associates with its ancestor L1 ORF1p to promote LINE-1 retrotransposition doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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It's One Health Affiliated Faculty Friday! Today, we feature Andreas Heyland whose research interests include environmental monitoring in aquatic ecosystems, impacts of nutrient release from agriculture & aquaculture, and harmful algal bloom analysis & mitigation: uoguel.ph/jf7f0 🧪

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While I won't be travelling to the USA, I have students who will be. It feels incredibly surreal to be developing check-in plans, worst case scenarios, and other such things because I'm so worried that the students won't be safe in the USA. On that note, any advice? #HigherEd

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Why can't these viruses be friends? In a new study from her PhD @cvrinfo.bsky.social, #AnnaSims shows that #SARS-CoV-2 infections segregate into distinct microdomains as they spread. But why? (1/N) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Naturally occurring variation in gene-associated transposable elements impacts gene expression and phenotypic diversity in woodland strawberry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.20.644342v1

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On this day in 1879, Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton, Ontario. In her work as a medical researcher, she became a leading expert in histochemistry and enzyme kinetics while fighting against sexism in her field. Let's learn more about her life! 🧵1/10

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Ontario is now reporting 440 measles cases in 2025 so far, compared to 64 in 2024, and 101 between 2013 and 2023. The vast majority of infections are in unvaccinated individuals. The measles vaccine is free, widely available, highly effective and backed by decades of safety data.

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#UofG | There is the real threat that bird flu could be the next human pandemic, write Drs. Evan Fraser and Shayan Sharif in this commentary for the @thestar.com. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Rapid emergence of hyperparasitic elements may stop P-element invasions in the absence of a piRNA-based host defence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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New preprint from the @arnausebe.bsky.social lab! 💐 Here @crisnava.bsky.social, @seanamontgomery.bsky.social & collaborators develop a novel ChIPseq protocol, and demonstrate its huge potential to study the evolution of chromatin function and regulation across the eukaryotic tree of life.

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BREAKING: U.S. and Canada video game worker are launching an industry-wide union with the Communications Workers of America. The @cwaunion.bsky.social, the American Federation of Musicians, and workers everywhere are creating this major new organization to build power across the industry.

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Some more cool stuff on the introners story! @russcd.bsky.social #TEsky Double-stranded DNA viruses may serve as vectors for horizontal transfer of intron-generating transposons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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you really ought to read this.

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They knew. They always knew. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulvb...

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If you have a federal grant, I highly recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

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Another paper from the Adamowicz lab from post doctoral fellow Dr. Jiaojiao Diao: Long-term impacts of peat-based soil amendments promote ecological recovery in a boreal forest mine site in northern Ontario, Canada #restoratio #boreal doi.org/10.1111/rec....

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Sturgeons have undergone multiple whole-genome duplications, making some species octoploid (8x their original genome)! A. stellatus is a “low-ploidy” sturgeon, but its DNA still carries echoes of ancient duplications. #2025MMM doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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The 229 chromosomes of the Atlas blue butterfly reveal rules constraining chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642909v1

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I'm looking for professors (current or active emeritus) working in Canada, in a broad range of fields, with experience supervising PhD theses. This is to help build a list of potential judges for the CAGS annual dissertation award. Are you interested? Past winners and info: cags.ca/proquest-dis...

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I am thrilled to share our story online at @cellpress.bsky.social . Big thanks to all authors: Zhiping, Bill, @lubanlab.bsky.social, Keith & bluesky-less! authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjdaL7PXu... How to tame a genome invader? It takes wild koalas 🐨🐨 to learn it. #Retrovirus #koala #piRNA More below 👇

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#TEsky Marine vs. terrestrial: links between the environment and the diversity of Copia retrotransposon in metazoans doi.org/10.1186/s131...

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1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

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Deciphering lung adenocarcinoma evolution and the role of LINE-1 retrotransposition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643063v1

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The modified announcements say that up to 15% of doctoral, and 20% of postdoctoral, awards can be held by international scholars.

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A lot of global academic conferencing is centered around the US, and US academic orgs have to be thinking very seriously now. You cannot continue to carry on with in person conferencing as if foreign scholars have no impediments to travel. I know we like to pretend everything is "normal" again but..

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Holy shit. This is the gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.

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Please RT Is anyone recruiting a B.S. level technician or M.S. student with microbiology (genetics/genomics, physiology, molecular biology) interests? An excellent undergrad in my lab, Tabitha, was just wait-listed from PhD programs due to the funding situation.

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Great news that increases funding levels and the number of awards and opens up PhD and postdoc awards to non-Canadians! Currently recruiting an MSc and a PhD in my lab - see www.tessgrainger.ca

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Looking for a postdoc in 🇨🇦? Liber Ero Fellowship liberero.ca * Applied conservation science * Leadership training * Open to int’l applicants * Due Nov 1 🌎🧪🦤

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It seems that the PhD and Post-doctoral fellowships from NSERC (Canadian Science & Engineering funding agency) and CIHR (Canadian health research agency) are now open for application by non citizens! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

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An update on the Ontario #measles outbreak. There are now a total of 350 cases reported across 11 health regions with 31 hospitalized. That compares to 177 across 4 regions two weeks ago (18 hospitalized). CBC article and CMOH statement in reply. ⤵️ #IDSKY www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docu...

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Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes? doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Pierre J Février and Timothy G Barraclough

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SAVE THE DATE The next seminar of our Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation virtual lectures series will be on Thursday, March 20 at 6pm Eastern. Talks from Elizabeth Ostrowski and Amy Boddy. Sign up and check out recordings of previous talks here internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

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Great to finally see this paper lead by soon-to-be Dr. Jessica Castellanos-Labarcena in print! Single specimen genome assembly of Culicoides stellifer shows evidence of a non-retroviral endogenous viral element doi.org/10.1186/s128...

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