I assume this should read "ineligible for visa sponsorship"??

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The Dialectics of Multi-Level Selection in Evolutionary Biology - Dialectical Systems Introduction Dialectical thinking in biology has famously been put forward by the eponymous book of Levins and Lewontin (1985). Much of the book was dedicated to the interpenetration between organisms...

The dialectical underpinnings of multilevel selection

Evolution isn’t flat: new levels arise through conflict and then reshape the very dynamics that brought them into being

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Great summary by @philipcball.bsky.social! Our findings certainly don’t invalidate the central dogma, but rather demonstrate an unexpected (and cool!) structural mechanism by which a sequence-specific DNA is created in a cell. (1/6)

This is just to say
I have let in
the duck
that was on the doorstep

and which
you were probably
hoping
would stay out

Forgive me
he was persuasive
so scary
and so loud.

Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment.
So here's a 🧵. /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A fair-skinned red-head person who has discovered he has a predisposition for melanoma only after unleashing AI agents on his genome.

I do feel like this is not protein sequence to DNA sequence, which I think is what the Crick diagram means. Still a very cool result

Yes, very cool!

Francis Crick Was Misunderstood The Central Dogma is not a 'dogma,' and it has never been broken.

Some here, but his Crick biography has a lot more (a great book, must read!!)

www.asimov.press/p/crick

If anyone wants a clear explanation of The Central Dogma, @matthewcobb.bsky.social has some good insights (hint: this ain't it)

Not the against central Dijksma anymore than Talens would also be??

Protein sequence (including tertiary structure) is not reverse transcribed here.

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...

HHMI CEO: "diamond funding should be deployed to sustain repositories [i.e. preprint servers] and connective infrastructure that focus on researcher-shared outputs" zenodo.org/records/1960...

Four UW researchers named AAAS Fellows Four UW researchers named AAAS Fellows

Nice of @thedailyuw.bsky.social to interview me and @bethbuffalo.bsky.social about becoming AAAS Fellows! www.dailyuw.com/article/fe9d...

I'm not looking forward to a future where all the tools are being vibe-rewritten into languages people don't want to learn. Who will maintain all this? The original maintainers won't. It's not the language they were comfortable with. Does the prompter understand the tool well enough?

PostDoc position available!
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I remember him from a BSc course on research methods. One of those professors that you always think back on fondly.

Fellows4FungiMSCA Postdoctoral Network - Leibniz-HKI

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CRUK: "we have decided to cease all funding for publishing costs". This is of course incorrect, indirects fund library subscriptions.

If cost is a concern, it seems like capping fees charged to grants (like recent moves from CAS) is a more direct solution? Or banning fees to hybrid journals?

Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.

Still this one (I hear the angel voiced as Samuel L. Jackson):

A TV Guide cover featuring Grover of the Muppets with his arms around a young, handsome Elliot Gould. The caption reads: Editor: You get those photos of Elliot Gould and Grover? Reporter: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what

This was a favorite on Irish Twitter.

Very cool work here!

A door with a name tag. The tag has a logo with the text SciLifeLab. Below is my name and text "Assistant Professor. Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences. Stockholm University". Through the glass wall you can see the office in a state of disarray

Still cannot fully believe it, but today is officially my first day as a PI at @scilifelab.se and Stockholm University! The lab is open, time to fill it with science..
#newPI

police lie, and have no duty to protect you

There is little to no evidence that trees communicate with each other through fungal networks

I’m so pleased to be named a AAAS Fellow! I remember opening the original email thinking wow, which of my awesome faculty won this nice thing (a perk of being chair is getting emails like that) but it was me! www.washington.edu/news/2026/03...