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Well, I have to say: this clearly looks like a dinosaur to me

My newest preprint is available!

How many are you? Open data and bioinformatics reveal species misidentification and potential introgression in Chordodes (Phylum Nematomorpha) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...

How many are you? Open data and bioinformatics reveal species misidentification and potential introgression in Chordodes (Phylum Nematomorpha) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...

From pipeline to network: We need to redefine scientific success The traditional pipeline view of academia no longer reflects the reality of scientific careers. This Perspective reframes success as a network of paths recognizes excellence in its many forms, with th...

'(...) the combination of insecurity, workload & rejection takes a toll, significantly impacting the mental health and well-being of ECRs . In many systems, there are few permanent positions each year, and potential institutional hiring freezes or budget restrictions make opportunities even scarcer'

"Reclaiming academic publishing as a public good will require a return to not-for-profit models and sustainable open-access systems."
It will save us much funding that we could then really spend on research.

WTAF

If you want to know more details, reach me out! Basically, through open data, I show how one species ID in a study was wrong and how you can use open data for analyses regarding species ID and even potential hybridization.

(PDF) Open data for understanding potential issues in species identification in non-model species: a case study with the genus Chordodes (Phylum Nematomorpha, Class Gordioida) PDF | With more available genomic open data, we can try to recognize morphological similar species. Horsehair worms (phylum Nematomorpha) could be used... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

While I was in vacation, I was also able to present a side project of mine during the Young Systematists' Forum.

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It looks like an European or Western issue. Recently, a bus driver in Italy got killed by ultras after a 2nd tier basketball game. And I saw 3rd tier football games in Germany treated like potential terroristic threats...it looks bleak indeed.

Threat or opportunity: Biodiversity risk and corporate investment We investigate how biodiversity risk influences corporate investment. Using text-based measures of firm-level exposure, we find that higher biodiversi…

New research - firms with higher #BiodiversityRisk are actually increasing corporate investment, not reducing. More seen in competitive industries, driven by strategic, first-mover preemptive behavior. Policy uncertainty amplifies the effect 🌍

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#ESG

Incel GWAS

"Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA"

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Wonderful

Sounds like a conspiration against Hedonism !!

NCBI occasionally has some hiccups. I remember I had issues entering GenBank in a couple of days.

Phylogenomics of enigmatic crustacean y-larvae reveals multiple origins of parasitism in barnacles The deeper relationships of major thecostracan (barnacles sensu lato) groups remain contentious due to a lack of genome-scale data of enigmatic lineag…

This new paper on phylogenomics of crustacean y-larvae is super interesting! #crustacea #genome #invertebrate
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"1) You were a little pitchy at our karaoke team-building at the retreat…"

THIS HITS SO MUCH AT PERSONAL LEVEL IT HURTS

(PDF) Erste Meldungen von Gordionus violaceus (Saitenwürmer; Phylum Nematomorpha) für den Raum Trier, mit Kommentaren zur Systematik der Gattung Gordionus PDF | Saitenwürmer (Nematomorpha) sind eine noch wenig erforschte Tiergruppe, die sich durch einen komplexen Lebenszyklus auszeichnen. Um neue... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

I noticed you need barcodes for Gordionus violaceus: for a practical exam, I made some students produce them in Germany. They are now available in GenBank: PQ661175-PQ661178.
In case you need a reference (there is also an English translation if you need it):

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I am thinking to switch into industry also for stuff like that: academia pretends to be the holy grail of integrity, while stuff like this happens on a regular basis. At this point, if I have to be """less integral""" (n.b.: I am not saying industry is bad), at least I do it for a more stable job...

Italy's tax system under scrutiny as study shows it favours rich Italy's tax system is skewed in a way that lets society's wealthiest 7% pay proportionately less tax than low and middle-income earners, a new study shows, fuelling inequality and hurting public finances in one of Europe's most indebted nations.

It looks like an international classic: Italy also has heavily biased taxes...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Interesting 👇 The absurd “a conversation with my taxi driver proves lower income countries have low IQs” paper, which was swiftly retracted last year, was published in Springer’s Discover Education

@unitrier.bsky.social

(PDF) First report of Gordionus violaceus (Phylum Nematomorpha) for the Trier area, with comments on the systematics of the genus Gordionus PDF | English translation for "Erste Meldungen von Gordionus violaceus (Saitenwürmer; Phylum Nematomorpha) für den Raum Trier, mit Kommentaren zur... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

English translation here:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Erste Meldungen von Gordionus violaceus (Saitenwürmer; Phylum Nematomorpha) für den Raum Trier, mit Kommentaren zur Systematik der Gattung Gordionus PDF | Saitenwürmer (Nematomorpha) sind eine noch wenig erforschte Tiergruppe, die sich durch einen komplexen Lebenszyklus auszeichnen. Um neue... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

We found what morphologically would be called "Gordionus violaceus", although the COI data we got shows how polyphiletic Gordionus is. Still, it is the first official report of horsehair worms for the Trier area
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Congrats!

I got biology, is that enough?

💰🌍 Research by Sarah Schöngart et al. shows the wealthiest 10% caused TWO-THIRDS of global warming since 1990. The top 1% have an even bigger impact on extreme weather like #heatwaves and #droughts, hitting vulnerable regions hardest.

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