SMBE Community Service Award - Aoife McLysaght
The SMBE Community Service Award for 2026 goes to Aoife McLysaght @ucddublin.bsky.social, who has served our society in many roles throughout the years.
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This paper is now out in @elife.bsky.social 🦀🦑🧪
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Arsinoitherium skull with two giant horns
We’re looking for researchers in any discipline of natural history: if you have a paper coming out and you want to pitch @pbseons.bsky.social on a potential episode about it, send me a DM! #scicomm #paleosky #FossilFriday
(Arsinoitherium says please and thank you!)
whoa. the colonial skeleton on this one is kinda surreal looking! and wotta name! Juxtacribillina annulata! #bryozoanstoday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Latvia 🇱🇻 and Poland 🇵🇱 have joined ELIXIR as Observers!
Observer status enables the Latvian and Polish bioinformatics communities to 🤝 strengthen collaboration with other ELIXIR Nodes and supports their transition to full membership.
Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/silnn-s
Marc A Mapalo et al., CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag056
Mapalo et al. (2026-04, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society)（オープンアクセス open access）
「太古からの『尾』：緩歩動物の後体部の発生への洞察」
A ‘tail’ as old as time: insights into tardigrade posterior trunk development
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
緩歩動物（クマムシ）の祖先は，体後方に尾のような伸長部を持っていたことを示唆．
Last day to register for Larwood 2026 1-3 June in Oslo!
#bryozoa #marineinverts
Looking to join a marine expedition - but need funding support? 🚢👇
The Ocean Census Expedition Awards are now OPEN for applications.
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A major milestone for biodiversity genomics: EBP-affiliated projects have now contributed over 6,000 genome assemblies toward the goal of sequencing all known eukaryotic life. 🧬
Thank you to all EBP-affiliated projects behind this work, from sampling and DNA extraction to sequencing and assembly.
Meet the 2026 Science Without Borders® Semi-finalists (ages 15–19) 🌊🎨
Selected from 450 entries, these young artists explored microscopic marine life through creative, thoughtful work.
Join us in celebrating their talent 💙
Learn more: www.livingoceansfoundation.org/announcing-2...
Pisani et al. (2026-04, Molecular Biology and Evolution)（オープンアクセス open access）
「ゲノム系統学的混合モデルは，均質モデルと分割モデルよりも優れている」
Phylogenomic mixture models outperform homogeneous and partitioned models
academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
I also love how I am absolutely sure that "making them appeal to men" will involve every marketing strategy possible that isn't "acknowledge they have been systematically undervalued and underpaid due to being 'women's jobs' and pay everyone doing them what they are worth"
If I see it and I'm feeling a bit cheeky I'll ask one of the shop assistants that are working, and explain the situation.
I don't think anyone has ever said no, haha!
Good timing! The feature on @biogeneurope.bsky.social that #CORDIS has just published is a great way to see where our 2nd act - Biodiversity Genomics Europe Plus (starting in May) comes from: cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4... @iboleurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org
Absolutely! Trying to keep up with the JP TRPG scene when I am not living there is tough - lots of cool stuff is always coming out!
Oh yeah, absolutely. There are a lot of intersectional elements of Anning that make her pretty compelling.
As a working class kid hunting in Lyme Regis in the summer, she was absolutely an inspiration from that angle, too.
My example of"Thought Leadership" for a job application was "Someone cited me in a Keynote talk at a conference I went to as a person who made him redo this slide".
To this day, I do not know if that counts, but I also didn't get an interview, so I never found out...
Almost every single one of these films is an absolute darling that you won't regret spending an evening watching. What a year!
Not you Mondovino
It did take a week in Texas for me to stop saying
Gwock O'Moley (presumably named after the O'Moley family from western Oaxaca)
The "no dogs in shops" thing is a US thing that stood out to me as a Brit. Not restaurants, but pubs and cafes have always been "animal-safe" spaces.
Like you say, maybe systemic too - if you can't afford rent for a large space, but want a pet, is that or the social contract going to bend first?
I think this is actually really important in part *because* it tells us a lot about the reality of sexism in 19th Century Science. Her relationships with De la Beche and (especially) Buckland were complex, and show a society willing to bankroll her, but unwilling to recognize her as an equal.
Javier Ortega-Hernández, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.31233/osf.io/nvfgw_v1
Ortega-Hernández (2026-04 preprint, PaleorXiv)（オープンアクセス open access）
「Deuteropoda提唱から10年：カンブリア紀の真節足動物の体系学，進化，動態への洞察」
A decade after Deuteropoda – insights into the systematics, evolution and dynamics of Cambrian euarthropods
doi.org/10.31233/osf...
A genomic step change for biodiversity knowledge cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4... #biodiversity #genomics
[New Paper] @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social presents the concept of the SOSA @oceanspecies.bsky.social project, pushing for the acceleration of marine conservation through the synergistic interactions among a "triad": Taxonomy, Red Listing, and Public Engagement!
OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Dornburg et al. (2026-04 preprint, bioRxiv) (open access)
Signal, noise, and bias in phylogenetic inference: potential and limits to the resolution of phylogenetic trees in the phylogenomic era
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
and they picked 1st April to do this⁉️
A research fellow post combining MESOZOIC PALAEOBOTANY and plant ecophysiology here at Nottingham with Barry Lomax. Fixed term to March 2029.
Please spread the word!
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#paleobotany #plantscijobs 🌍⚒️🌱🧪🔬
