A true trailblazer.

Just look at that beauty!
There is still so much we don't know about metamorphosis across teleosts. Hopefully we'll have some clarity in a few months 😜

The rarest of the rare! This holy-grail dream fish is a larval-stage #monkfish, aka #goosefish.

Shot in the wild, using scuba, while diving at night over water several thousand feet deep, several miles offshore from Kumejima, Okinawa.

#larvalfish #blackwater #gug #deepseafish

Many organisms, including humans, reshape their environments in ways that influence the conditions faced by future generations. We ask whether this can favour biological variation with @irisprigent.bsky.social in our new paper. Thanks to @dee-unil.bsky.social @snsf.ch
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

On the 30th anniversary of Pokémon, throwback to the time I gave a lecture to high school students in Okinawa as a part of the Okinawa Science Mentoring Program organised by graduate students @oistedu.bsky.social
#Pokemon. 😁
agneeshbarua.github.io/agneesh_websit…

Rapid and repeated evolution of pigmentation patterns in reef fishes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41724958/ #EvoDevo

Gonna refer to this every time to find the right journal. At a time when scientific funding is drying up everywhere, I think it is important to ensure that public funds to not get funnelled to for-profit publishers. Just another way to ensure public accountability.

Dear all, I'm happy to present you a side project done with @diegoharta.bsky.social @phylogenetrips.bsky.social & Lucas Baudouin regarding the publication landscape in Biology: wheretopublish.github.io 1/4

Hope you enjoy reading it David. CSUBST is excellent! Pretty much going to be a standard analysis to all my comparative genomics studies.

Our project on molecular convergence in teleosts is published in MBE. This study involved analysing over 2 million genes, and combining multiple data modalities to uncover some surprising insights behind the evolution of adaptations in teleosts. Thank you @hfspo.bsky.social for the funding!

5,500-year-old genome discovered for syphilis-related bacterium A bacterial genome found in the remains of an ancient hunter-gatherer shows that treponemal diseases were circulating far earlier in the Americas, and were more diverse, than previously known. Pu...

🦠🧬 A study published in @science.org today by SIB and other scientists used a new combination of bioinformatics methods to show that treponemal diseases were circulating far earlier in the Americas, and were more diverse, than previously known.

See more👇

@davidebozzi.bsky.social

What's the point? | The benefits of bioinformatics to science and society YouTube video by SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

In an increasingly data driven world, getting to the point is vital.

youtu.be/yjbv1WZcM2M

One week left to submit abstracts for the EMBO workshop on Molecular Mechanisms of Selfish Elements and Strategies!

In Bern (Switzerland), from 8 to 11 February 2026.

meetings.embo.org/event/26-sel...

#EMBOselfishElements #EMBOevents

If you have data from multiple tissues check if one of the copy is consistently expressed across tissues or if there is some variability in paralog expression. It can tell you which one is under a more ubiquitous regulatory regime. Hence functionally ‘more’ important.

In the age of multi-modal datasets, being able to incorporate the effect of millions of years of evolutionary tinkering will provide a particularly powerful signal for shortlisting gene candidates.

More like directed contingency.

Skepticism is fine, but this feels like outright denouncing a field based on a coarse understanding of the process, and is slightly sensationalist.

I’m afraid this is a misrepresentation of what actually goes on behind the scenes in AI assisted drug discovery. There are benchmarks and validations. No one will take the output of a model face value. It’s not the same as ChatGPT. Also, the article is just about using the technology. Nothing else.

From doctors and scientists of course. AI just streamlines the process of discovery, hopefully, to increase efficiency. I mean, that’s the goal. Implementing correctly is a function of the organisation and the people behind it. So it’s as flawed as the people behind it.

Don’t get the cynicism around this. This is something deep leaning would be good at and has been developed for such roles.

Such a disappointment from such a pioneering journal.

A Guided Tour of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods for Studying Trait Evolution Phylogenetic comparative methods are important tools in biology, providing insights into the way traits evolve. There are many technical resources describing how these methods work. Our aim here is to...

Neat paper: A Guided Tour of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods for Studying Trait Evolution
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

What can you do with a phylogenetic data tensor?

Congrats! Neat dataset!

I think Sir David has a substantial part in it.

“Invest in data resources to make FAIR a reality”, a correspondence penned by our director, @dessimoz.bsky.social, @francesarnold.bsky.social‬, Richard J. Roberts, and @timjph.bsky.social, published in Nature.

Just out - Genome of the Amazon Guppy (Poecilia bifurca) reveals conservation of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation. By @squarehare.bsky.social, with @idarolti.bsky.social and others not yet on Bsky.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve...

Glad to see scientific integrity and conscience prevail for a change.

www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Such pretty plots!

No matter how persuasive, they’ll never a be a match for reviewer 2. 😂