Considering I saw a bee disappearing into a hole in one of my balcony planters carrying a piece of leaf on two occasions, there are probably some optimistic bees around.

Really, really happy that our work on microsporidian genomes is now out in @plosbiology.org! A huge thank you to my coauthors, my supervisors @mblaxter.bsky.social & @marakat.bsky.social, the editors @roliroberts.bsky.social & Joseph Heitman, and the reviewers ❤️ plos.io/48HsAQJ

My parents were contemplating a holiday in Sweden in October, and pointed out it was recently 30°C in Abisko

Ah, köttbilar, the famous Swedish meat cars.

LLMs would make great conspiracy theorists though. I was trying to identify the the hashing function used to map an identifier to a directory path, and the model claimed that my system is compromised because the output didn't match the prediction. Nope, my guess about the input was wrong...

Wouldn't want anyone's PMDD to go away, so they can "feel their emotions".

I'm more bemused by the lack of exterior blackout shutters. My grandma's house in Germany was nowhere near as warm as my apartment in Cambridge last week, even though it had hit 36°C there. It's as though I never left my top floor Philly row house apartment that didn't have window AC in the kitchen

A ruby-tailed wasp sitting on a log

Shiny wasp

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A bee poking its head out of a hole in a log

Hymenopteran Hotel

Proud to have authored this review with brilliant people. Hope we inspire more attempts to sequence the #protist genomes that are within reach! Huge thanks to Alexandra Schoenle for leading. #ProtistsOnSky
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That's roughly how my maternal grandfather who was born in Transylvania pronounced it...

Myxozoan parasite genomes assembled from contaminated host data reveal extensive gene order conservation and rapid sequence evolution Abstract. Myxozoans are obligate endoparasites that belong to the phylum Cnidaria. Compared to their closest free-living relatives, they have evolved highl

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68-year-old men who are on gear?

Speckled Wood butterfly perching on a twig

First cooperative butterfly of the year

It's a bit of a theoretical one ;)

We wrote about encoding amino acids as ambiguous observations of codons (and the resulting loss of information) here: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic... @uperron.bsky.social

Old lettuce and no tomatoes.

I think you can keep the topology fixed in FastME if you tell it to only optimise the branch lengths

Our paper on myxozoan genomes is out now in G3! See thread below for a brief recap (slight change of title from the preprint, same content).

Thank you also to @arunsethuraman.bsky.social for handling the manuscript and @joannamasel.bsky.social for helpful comments.

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Our paper on myxozoan genomes is out now in G3! See thread below for a brief recap (slight change of title from the preprint, same content).

Thank you also to @arunsethuraman.bsky.social for handling the manuscript and @joannamasel.bsky.social for helpful comments.

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There was an edited extract from the O'Sullivan one in the Graun a few days ago (a bit too anecdotal for my personal liking).

'tis an enigma.

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Yep, I was watching thinking "Ah, I know who this reminds me of".

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