CIPRES is shutting down at the end of June: www.phylo.org .
It's been such a good resource for the phylogenetics community. Thanks to #NSF and Simons for funding it and for all the people who have worked to grow and sustain this for so long.
Really excited to share our new paper from @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social protist team! 🎉
We dive into protist symbioses and show how these interactions shape ecosystems and have played a key role in the evolution of eukaryotes 🦠
GOOD NEWS! Our BRILLIANT Red-ALERT CDT (@redalertcdt.bsky.social) has funding for one more home studentship at the University of Bath so we're re-advertising this project!
New deadline: May 18th
Come explore protist and invertebrate diversity with us!
World Ocean Database 2023: A Foundational Data Resource for and by the Global Ocean and Coastal Communities www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
Yayy congrats!!! 🥳🥳
The first chapter of my PhD thesis is out: doi.org/10.1111/mec.... !!!
This comparative study explores the presence and maintenance of a joint contact zone among three important forest tree species (formed during recolonisation after the LGM). Trees, genetics and evolution, just a perfect combo!
How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism:
merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...
This is from 7 years ago (merenlab.org/2019/02/24/f...). We are talking about the same things today. We will be talking about the same things 7 years from now. There is no one to blame for this apart from ourselves. I find it very depressing.
Hot off the press!
We are sharing oligoN-design, an open-source tool to find specific probes and primers from large molecular datasets, without relying on specific databases, alignments or phylogenetic trees.
@mariescopy.bsky.social @rmassanam.bsky.social @beaplab.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1755...
Happy to be featured in this gallery of Swedish natural history #collectors portraits featured in the The Guardian! 😊 (You might recognize several others). #naturalists
Wow what an amazing study! Congratulations!!
We stumbled upon an unusual gene called 'rqua' in the genome of some freshwater sponges. In microbes, this gene confers the ability to make a ubiquinone analog - rhodoquinone - which can help the respiratory chain run without oxygen.
This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.
Every time I open my mouth in my Phylogenetics seminar it's just to say the exact phrase-
Yes, but ____ ITSELF is also evolving
Our new article on #protist global distributions combining the #Mixoplankton and #metaPR2 databases with newly revised functional annotations.
rdcu.be/fanlx
If you are a scientist, working on biology, wondering where to submit your manuscript given the current issues with the academic publishing system, check out wheretopublish.github.io!
We did this thinking change is possible. Let’s make it happen!
We tested the efficacy of semi-permeable capsules to capture protists from cultures and environmental samples using the Onyx from @atrandi.bsky.social. Tremendous effort from everyone in the lab and led by Marco Fantini and Nik Brask - check out the videos here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
In Rhizaria, 8-20% of protein-coding genes arrived via lateral transfer. Eukaryote-to-eukaryote transfers outnumber prokaryote-derived ones, and they're concentrated in nuclear/informational processes rather than the cell surface.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01....
New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia
www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
If you want to be part of this movement and make your own automated 3D microscope—sign up by TOMORROW and join us in #Roscoff in June for
"Smart DIY Microscopy for Marine Biology"
www.sb-roscoff.fr/system/files...
🤖🔬🌊
@sbroscoff.bsky.social
@gdrimabio.bsky.social
@embrc-france.bsky.social
🤖AI tools for peer-review?
I want to share my experience using q.e.d. science (www.qedscience.com), a reviewing tool with high-profile endorsements. I will report results and my impressions from the use /1
Fun workshop coming up in Roscoff. You can learn building your own low-cost microscopes.
Smart DIY Microscopy for Marine Biology
3-5 June 2026
🔬🌊🦠
Application deadline April 02
www.sb-roscoff.fr/en/workshop-...
@embrc-france.bsky.social @gdrimabio.bsky.social
@sbroscoff.bsky.social
#EnderScope
I am looking for short papers using phylogenetic trees to test alternative hypotheses regarding evolution that can easily be grasped by undergraduate students in biochemistry. Please RT and share your ideas.
That's amazing! Congratulations Ramon!! 🎉🎉
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
'The findings are uncomfortable. Students are submitting work they cannot fully explain, facing AI policies that do not function in practice, and responding strategically to assessment systems that reward production over understanding.' 1/3
In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own.
Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think.
We must not give away that gift.
doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Congratulations!!!
