Coalition wages campaign for retractions of Richard Lynn's racist journal articles A coalition of researchers, historians, and journalists is urging that major scientific publishers, including Elsevier and Springer, retract the racist articles of academic Richard Lynn.

This is where we make that call: www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/r...

Based on Richard Lynn’s dodgy data, of course. This was the purpose of its creation, to masquerade racism as ‘science’ & thereby infiltrate mainstream politics. This is one reason why Co-authors & I have called for retractions of scientific articles that use this data - it’s effectively propaganda.

Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.

Like, AI literacy in any form will not protect black and disabled folks from the algorithmic bias, and the violence that emerges from it, of spicy autocomplete. Full stop. No amount of AI literacy can protect us in the deployment of the system because it is tracking the wrong problem.

I have my tickets to go to #SMBE2026 without flying #NoFlySMBE:
Lausanne 🇨🇭- Basel 🇨🇭
Basel 🇨🇭- Hamburg 🇩🇪 direct night train 😎
Hamburg 🇩🇪 - Copenhagen 🇩🇰
See you there! Do science, be sustainable!

Very cool work, congratulations!

Regulatory conservation of MAT and ZGA gene sets

Similarly, while ZGA expression was conserved only among specific clades (e.g. within mammals or within nematodes) and at low levels, MAT genes were broadly shared across taxa. Indeed, while we identified only 1 broadly shared ZGA gene, we found > 500 MAT ones! 13/15

Genomic conservation of ZGA and MAT gene sets

Finally, we studied the genomic and regulatory conservation of ZGA and MAT genes. At the genomic (G) level, ZGA genes were much less conserved and evolutionarily novel than other genes, whereas MAT genes were highly conserved. 12/15

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬

Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Photo of a low mountain side (Swiss Jura) with crocus flowers. In the distance there's a patch of snow.

#SilentSunday

These images show live embryos of animals (jellyfish, crustacean, worm, sea urchin, sea squirt, beetle) and one of animals closest single-celled relatives. They were captured taking advantage of fluorescent proteins localised on the outer membrane of cells, allowing us to observe cell outlines. 1/9

🔈 Heading to Euro Evo-Devo #EED2026 in Glasgow? Don't miss out our Fish Satellite Meeting! Co-organized with Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social, Ralf Schneider @ralfschneider.bsky.social, Laure Sanders @lsaunders.bsky.social and Joost Woltering, and with a list of outstanding speakers 👇

"Pourtant, dans le livre de Darwin, il est écrit (chapitre IV, verset 8): ces tortues présentaient des signes de…"
bouletcorp.com/notes/2015/0... @bouletcorp.bsky.social

I have my tickets to go to #EED2026 without flying #NoFlyEED:
Lausanne 🇨🇭- Paris 🇫🇷
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See you there! Do science, be sustainable!

Seconded.

There’s a place for the cloud for data, e.g. your device has limited capacity and are travelling, or as a backup, but I’d rather primarily use local external storage.

I’d prefer software to be local, to buy & own it, not subscribe to a service model. Also it means I can work offline.

With all the cuts to research funding in European countries, everyone is turning to the ERC...

The ERC should be a source of supplementary funding, not a substitute.

Every country in Europe must invest in basic research and increase its budgets!!!!

Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

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...

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked

from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...

“According to our observations over the past 24 hours, the vast majority of species on earth have pretty much just been holding steady and staying the course, gene-wise,” said biologist Clarice Abernathy

My quote of the day

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Subscription based academic publishing is a terrible model that has done a lot of harm.

I do find the decision by Cancer Research UK understandable, but I like Wellcome's decision not to pay for OA in hybrid journals better.

Peanuts panel, Lucy holds a piece of paper next to Snoopy with his typewriter. She says “that’s the dumbest thing ever written!”

Snoopy smiling “another first!”

My approach to posting.

I’m still looking for ecologists that would like to Zoom in with my students and me to talk about your research and ways in which you incorporate GIS sensors into your research 🌏🌍🌎

🌐 Participate in the 15th ISCB Student Wikipedia Competition! Improve or create Wikipedia articles in #computationalbiology and #bioinformatics until Friday, May 1, 2026.

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COST Open Call attracts record submissions - COST Last week we closed our Open Call (oc-2025-1) for new COST Action proposals. Discover an interim analysis of our latest call.

Success rates in the last call for COST Actions will be <7%. MSCA Doctoral Networks are <9%. Another call I submitted to last year had a rate <5%. So much of our time and expertise is spent writing lottery tickets. www.cost.eu/oc-2025-1-in...

On Martin Nowak, the evolution of cooperation, Jeffrey Epstein, and the corruption of mathematicians. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/n...

April 4, 2026 President Jonathan Levin Office of the President 450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 10 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 president@stanford.edu Dean Lloyd Minor Stanford University School of Medicine 300 Pasteur Drive, Grant Building Stanford, CA 94305-5110 deansoffice_som@stanford.edu Dear President Levin and Dean Minor: I am writing to you as an alumnus, the parent of an alumnus, and someone, as the child of a faculty member, who was literally born (in the old Hoover Pavilion) and raised (in Pine Hill I) on the Stanford campus. I am deeply concerned about the conduct of one of your former faculty, currently in Emeritus status, Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya. He is currently serving as Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and in some acting capacity (the legal status of which is unclear) as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

I am concerned about whether my alma mater will welcome back Jayanta Bhattacharya if he wanted to return from this federal service.

I wrote this a week ago and have received no response at this point.

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Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-...

So this happened
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#smbc #comics #math