Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment.
So here's a 🧵. /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One of biggest mysteries in biology: how did complex eukaryotic cells evolve from simple microbes? ~1.8 billion years ago, an archaeal cell likely merged with a bacterium to form the first eukaryotic cell, but can we ever find direct evidence of this transformative event? 🦠 🚶‍♂️

Have you seen this petition yet? The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University needs your support!

As our university is undergoing restructuring, its partnership with the natural history museum where I work, the Academy of Natural Sciences, is in jeopardy. If you value the involvement of science museums in the community, please consider checking out this petition. c.org/Db5WKdZSQ8

My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!!

Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior...

science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This technology is also eroding what it means to be human www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧪

Did you know that Evolution Letters now publishes reviews?! Our inaugural one is fantastic! Deep learning is opening new doors for evolutionary genomics, especially for nonmodel organisms with sparse or uncertain genomic data. doi.org/10.1093/evle...

A gente fica aguardando a foto

This is a cool story! 💪💪

Postdoctoral Researcher All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

LSU Museum of Natural Sciences is hiring a postdoc! Come join our very active and supportive museum community. Applicants can work with any of the major divisions: 🐀🦜🦎🐸🐠

Review begins February 15th, please share!

lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0119...

Brazil has now signed agreements with Springer-Nature and Elsevier for Brazilian researchers to read AND PUBLISH for free for 3y. Rest of the world, take note: THIS is how you support and promote open science.

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Um pássaro pequeno de coloração predominantemente marrom e preta repousa sobre um tronco coberto de musgo verde vibrante. Sua cabeça e nuca exibem um padrão intricado de manchas cinzentas e marrons, enquanto as costas e as asas são marrons com pequenas pintas amareladas. O peito é escuro, quase preto, contrastando com a barriga mais clara. Suas pernas finas e azuladas seguram firmemente o tronco, e o bico fino e alongado aponta para a direita. O olhar atento do pássaro sugere vigilância. O fundo é um borrão suave de tons verdes e marrons, indicando uma vegetação densa. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Formigueiro-de-barriga-cinza
🌎Ammonastes pelzelni
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

O formigueiro-de-barriga-cinza é uma ave da ordem Passeriformes, da família Thamnophilidae.

📷 Hiram Pereira

Thrilled to share our new review online with
@scottvedwards.bsky.social in @Trends Ecol & Evo! “pangenomics is rapidly transforming our ability to dissect the genetic basis of ecological and evolutionary change in natural systems.”

Pangenomes: new tools for ecological and evolutionary genomics Genomic structural variation is an important component of genetic variation in natural populations. By assembling and analyzing multiple high-quality genomes within a species or clade, pangenomes capt...

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

📢 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE OUT!

Excited to share a special issue I co-edited on bird–window collisions, a major yet overlooked source of bird mortality

Bringing together 8 papers, this issue advances methods, evidence, and solutions to inform bird-friendly(er) built environments

OA: tinyurl.com/yss5mvf2

This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

More work linking irregular iris pigmentation in gannets to prior HPAI infections: likelihood of NP antibody increased with iris pigment irregularity. Moderate correlations for H5 antibodies.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Deadline soon (end of Nov) for this PhD position in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics in my group.

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The Passing of the Tree of Life Web Project The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life and…

The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

Song complexity in suboscine birds: evolutionary drivers and ecological constraints www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

Genome Biology and Evolution October 2025 cover image with a photo of an Ethiopian White-eye.

Our paper on the temporal genomics of Ethiopian birds
has been highlighted (and gotten the cover) in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
Article: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf163
Highlight: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf175

w/ @bourgeoisyann.bsky.social, @lcampillo.bsky.social, and others not on bsky

Photo by Nash Turley

🌼 New paper showing that it's not just pollinators shaping flowers—abiotic factors like humidity and temperature also influence floral form and function. Check out this new paper on a more complex picture of floral evolution. 🌬️🐝
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Your regular reminder that plant genomes are messy. Good luck getting your shortbread data to recapitulate this:

The most important paper in evolutionary biology I'd never heard of:

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What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

GBE | From Trees to Traits: A Review of Advances in PhyloG2P Methods and Future Directions

In a new Review article in GBE, @scientific-arlie.bsky.social et al delve into the growing field of phylogenetic genotype to phenotype mapping (PhyloG2P), discussing advances and future directions for using phylogenomic data to map traits to genomes

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf150

#genome #evolution

A black vulture sits on a sign that says "black vulture notice."

Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️

1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist

Big news for everyone who makes use of museum collections, VertNet is back online!

www.vertnet.org