I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name
OAI: say no more
Blue tit perching on the entry hole to a nest box that has a sticker advertising said nest box as good for blue tits.
Have you ever seen a billboard that really spoke to you?
Además, si (como parece) dentro de Asgard el clado más cercano a las eucariotas son las Heimdallarchaeia, queda súper poético, porque en mitología nórdica Heimdall era el puente entre Asgard y el mundo de los hombres...
Phylogenomics of Asgard archaea reveals a unique blend of prokaryotic-like horizontal transfer and eukaryotic-like gene duplication www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
#Paper Our new study on #Asgard archaea is out in Nature Communications. We find a distinctive evolutionary pattern: widespread #HGT, but genome expansion mainly through gene duplication. An interesting window into the origins of #eukaryotic complexity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
'Asgard archaea' no solo sigue siendo un nombre chulo, además están mostrando más y más maneras en las que parecen una forma transicional entre procariotas y eucariotas
Si estás en Valéncia, aprovecha para pasar por el Jardí Botànic y disfruta de esta exposición fotográfica sobre Evolución
SESBE, trabajando por un futuro inclusivo para las mujeres y las niñas
Moisès Bernabéu from the group presented our work on the origins of the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor at #sesbe2026. Multiple interacting partners shaped our ancestor’s genome
Congratulations to @paucarazo.bsky.social and the other organizers of the #sesbe2026 meeting of the @sesbe-org.bsky.social . It has been a wonderful conference with nice talks, posters and networking, I the wonderful city of Valencia, my home town.
Bernabeu, @microbiobits.bsky.social and @tonigabaldon.bsky.social use simulations to test for the robustness of inferred relative timings of gene transfers in the lineage leading to the ancestor of eukaryotes
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf190
#genome #evolution
Phylogeny-aware simulations suggest a low impact of unsampled lineages in the inference of gene flow during eukaryogenesis
Excellent paper from @tonigabaldon.bsky.social and @microbiobits.bsky.social and Moisès Bernabeu.
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
We are very sad to hear of the passing of Dr Jane Goodall Hon FRSB. Dr Goodall’s work as a primatologist and conservationist was truly inspiring and, though her presence will be sorely missed, we are sure that her legacy will live on.
#ThankYouJane #RememberingJane
🍄New study reconstructs the evolutionary tree of fungi and dates key evolutionary transitions in this group using a large amount of fossil evidence.
🟢Published in @natecoevo.nature.com
➡ nature.com/articles/s41...
Our October issue is out now!
The images are negatively stained electron micrographs taken from archaella bundles isolated from the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.
Check the issue out here:
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
Amazing talk by @microbiobits.bsky.social from @tonigabaldon.bsky.social lab on another possible model of eukaryogenesis based on proteome evolution #ESEB2025
A pleasure and an honor to have been able to present such a keystone of my PhD with so many researchers I look up to 🥺
Closing the session, Saioa Manzano-Morales @microbiobits.bsky.social from the Barcelona supercomputing center, told us about their recent inferences of gene origins in the context of eukaryogenesis. Read more here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ESEB2025
Incredible session! Thank you so much for all that came, and for the ones that didn’t get the chance to, the preprint is on BiorXiv: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social Many thanks for the like 🙏
Penguins thank you too🐧🐧🐧
Casi 2.000 científicos en Barcelona para debatir sobre el origen de la vida
#eseb2025
www.elnacional.cat/es/sociedad/...
Surely one of the all-time best conference outreach activities: an evolution-inspired decorated street for Les Festes de Gràcia #ESEB2025
A narrow street decorated for a festival with large, colorful papier-mâché sea creatures hanging overhead, including several Nautilus figures with striped shells. Bright fabric shades in purple, black, and green are strung above, while additional decorations such as flowers and lizards adorn the sides. Apartment balconies and building facades line the street.
A man wearing a headset microphone is giving an outdoor science talk, pointing at a large screen showing an image of the flatworm Macrostomum lignano. The slide text reads "Separate sexes are not a given," with labels pointing to "Testes producing sperm" and "Ovaries producing eggs." Festival decorations, including colorful paper flowers and geometric designs, hang in the background, and people are gathered to watch.
Amazing evolutionary biology outreach at the Fiestas de Gràcia in Barcelona.
@rawwiberg.bsky.social explained that not everything we assume about sex is a given and that we can learn a lot from the exceptions.
#ESEB25
Interested in #AsgardArchaea? I know I am! Today at #ESEB2025 I will be at poster 082 explaining my work on how they got such huge genomes and what this can tell us about the road to eukaryogenesis
@eseb2025.bsky.social
Full capacity session, there is a wait to join session
People getting turned away from #museomics session! Full house! #eseb2025
The day finished off strong with loads of great talks in the Genomics of Evolutionary Innovations symposium!
I'm pleased to report that my talk went well ☺️ 🎨🖌️
#eseb2025 #eseb #esebconference
@eseb2025.bsky.social @jfenn.bsky.social @timothyfuqua.bsky.social
The first paper from my PhD is out now! doi.org/10.1111/jeu....
We describe a new photosynthetic #Paulinella species from a brackish beach in British Columbia 🇨🇦
Big thanks to the co-authors Maia Palka and @alive-in-the-ocean.bsky.social, and my supervisor @fburki.bsky.social
#protistsonsky
