Open mouthed shark with head out of the water looking like it's gasping in pain

A rare image of a shark that just stood on a piece of Lego

Post the best photo you’ve ever taken of your pet

Excellent research led by @chownbioinf.bsky.social here. He's added to a strong body of pangenome research in the Aspergillus field (see @lotuslofgren.bsky.social and @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social) and hopefully convincing people to consider the pangeome more routinely in A. fumigatus research

More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote Experts say Labour’s ‘halfway house’ approach risks losing support from progressives and ‘red wall’ voters

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Names matter: the word ‘citizen’ carries legal, political, and cultural meanings that are not neutral, say @britishecologicalsociety.org. Instead, consider using the term ‘community science’.

It’s been a real week of triumph for JD; maybe we should try having him endorse cancer or something

Gave this a listen this morning as Vol 1 is a firm fixture in our household already

Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 EarlGrey ParTEA v0.1.6 is here! Huge thanks to everyone who's tried the pipeline and shared feedback — your suggestions directly shaped these new features. 🍵

#TEworldwide #transposableelements #bioinformatics #genomics

A brutal reminder of our shared humanity. Many of our students and scientists come from parts of the world where civilians endure unimaginable violence while being casually dehumanized as “animals,” “terrorists,” or worse.

Indeed, some realities should not exist.

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order.

Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not.

For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

Rice’s whales predate modern humans. Now Trump could make them extinct The US has invoked national security to remove protections for the endangered cetacean, of which only about 50 are left

Trump will be the first US president, in his pursuit of oil, to wipe out an entire species of whale www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy Easter!

Fellows4FungiMSCA Postdoctoral Network - Leibniz-HKI

📣 Check out this excellent #Postdoc opportunity @leibniz-hki.de which is part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #MSCA #COFUND. Consider applying to join my lab if you’re interested in opportunistic infections caused by #Fusarium (research area 5). Call ends 26 May 2026

www.fellows4fungi.eu

Just gonna add some more to this thread

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.

But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅

First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.

#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s

Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

Person carrying a rucksack standing in a clearing between trees, looking out at the view, with the text 'Kingdom Fungi' above the horizon.

🍄 🎥 Take a look at the trailer for KINGDOM FUNGI - a feature documentary by Josh Thompson that delves into the extraordinary world of fungi, following four dedicated field mycologists. vimeo.com/1165383027?f... www.instagram.com/reel/DVQ-Q27...

Two models for the nature of pleiotropy in adaptation. Left: Schematic of the environmental structure in this study. Environments can be mapped onto a multidimensional environment space characterized by chemical and physical compositions. The large green circle represents an environment where adaptive mutants evolved, and the large pink circle is a distant environment. Around each base, a set of identical environmental perturbations (arrows) is applied, generating clusters of similar environments around distinct base environments. Top right: Schematic of fitnotype map for adaptive mutants near their home base environment. By measuring fitness in each of the green environments, one can infer how many fitnotypes matter for this set of mutants in their home environment. Here, only four of the possible 8 fitnotypes matter. Bottom right: When the mutants are moved to the distant base environment, and their fitness is measured in all pink environments (base and perturbations), there are two possibilities. Either more fitnotypes become important and the space appears higher-dimensional (left, pleiotropic expansion), or the set of fitnotypes that matters remains low-dimensional, but shifts (right, pleiotropic shift).

Predicting the effect of a #mutation on #fitness is hard. @oliviamghosh.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social &co use fitness effects of adaptive yeast mutants to show that underlying genotype-phenotype-fitness maps are low-dimensional but context-dependent @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dLy2Ez

Seen on my daily walk. What is it?!

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Welcome to bsky @dfirer.bsky.social! And thank you for your involvement in this work. Hope you enjoyed #fungal26 and hope to catch up later in the year

I really, really need academic organizations to think more critically about travel (conferences, talks, and meetings) during the Trump administration. Sadly, most are not.

Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal adaptation Using a unique longitudinal sampling approach, Louw et al. demonstrate how a cheese-associated Penicillium population has adapted in an artisan cheese production facility in Vermont, USA. Adaptation i...

Fungal domestication in action - @benwolfe.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol... #Fungal26

"Work from home and drive more slowly to save energy, global body urges"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Or you know, STOP MAKING WARS.

And turn the AI crap off whilst you're at it.

Thank you so much! 🤗

Matt Fisher receives the new Fungal Spore award endowed by Jay Dunlap and Jennifer Loros before his lecture #fungal26

This looks great all!

UK may send ships and mine-hunting drones to strait of Hormuz, says Miliband Energy secretary says ‘any options’ to get crucial shipping lanes reopened are being looked at by the government

‘Any options’ - does that include condemning the US for starting this? Sanctions? Pushing to deescalate?

We did not vote Labour into power to be a pawn to US warmongering again

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

International Women’s Day website owners urged to stop ‘exploiting’ day Hundreds sign open letter calling for owner of website, from which UN has distanced itself, to ‘contribute meaningfully’

Step aside and stop exploiting #IWD

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...