Let's GO!

I bet you could feel it in your chest!

How was the show? I thought about driving up to Omaha Sunday, but got wrapped up in stuff....

Coevolutionary interactions between transposable elements and host silencing factors in genome gigantism of Caeliferans (Orthoptera) Genome gigantism in Caelifera is accompanied by a reduction in KRAB-ZFP host silencing factors, a slower loss of transposable elements (TEs), and maintained by TE–host silencing coevolution. While sm...

🦗🦗Coevolutionary interactions between transposable elements and host silencing factors in genome gigantism of Caeliferans (Orthoptera)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am hiring a popgen postdoc!

Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed.

Job add & details 👇🏽

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social!

We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏

You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

NAPOLEON (returning from the dead after 200 years): You can prevent soldiers from getting WHAT????????????????

“Dube offers a whole bunch of ideas for how to combat monopsony power…for example, [he] argues we should adopt sectoral bargaining like other industrialized nations, where unions or policymakers set industry-wide minimum pay standards for the workers in whole industries or types of occupations.”

Impeach all the motherfuckers. Every single goddamned one.

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

CALS- Technician I- Molecular Biology and Genetics in Ithaca, New York, United States of America | Research & Instructional Support at Cornell University Apply for CALS- Technician I- Molecular Biology and Genetics job with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States of America. Research & Instructional Support at Cornell University

plz repost 🙏 we are looking for a technician to start this summer/fall for 1-2 years to work with me at Cornell in the labs of @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and Andy Clark, in collaboration with @corriemoreau.bsky.social on flies & termites 🪰🐜🧬🔬 Ithaca is gorges!

jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

Reminder: PhD position in my lab is open for two more weeks.
How do germ cells use their own private transcription factors? Come help us find out.
Fully funded. Deadline May 1.
Flyer attached — please boost! 🙏

orthogene
bioconductor.org/packages/rel...

Map your genes of interest across >700 species
Can do many:many

bioRxiv 2026
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A house sparrow with venom glands hatched, which could have been interesting, but it got eaten by a cat almost immediately, so that’s still a wash for evolution.

That early escape from stochastic loss is always a tough one.

That early escape from stochastic loss is always a tough one:

A house sparrow with venom glands hatched, which could have been interesting, but it got eaten by a cat almost immediately, so that’s still a wash for evolution.

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. ...

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today — theonion.com/biologists-c...

Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8 CHICAGO—Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review published Monday on Pitchfork Media, a well-known mus...

Darwin gives evolution a 6.8. theonion.com/pitchfork-gi...

I am so excited to share our new findings with you! We provide the structural evidence for a direct protein-to-DNA information pathway, showing how a bacterial enzyme 'reads' its own structure to 'write' DNA. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

wut. 😍

Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire

Tonight's #vinyl selection: #RageAgainstTheMachine #EvilEmpire
30 years ago today, @rageagainst.bsky.social released their 2nd album.
#BullsOnParade #DownRodeo #PeopleOfTheSun #Vietnow #WithoutAFace #YearOfThaBoomerang #RATM #Vinylsky #NowSpinning #VinylCommunity #MusicSky #NEOVC #MusicAlmanac

Our last manuscript is out! 🚨

We identify double stranded RNAs in embryonic stem cells - full of transposons, especially young LINEs and LTRs 🧐

🧬Happy Friday Reading🧬

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

I am so happy to share this new paper that I wrote with @cegamorim.bsky.social! We hope that it will help encourage dialogue and collaboration between archaeologists and geneticists trying to understand kinship in the past. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧬🧪

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

RESEARCH PAPER: The LINC complex component Kms1 and CENP-B protein Cbp1 cooperate to enforce faithful homology-directed DNA repair at the nuclear periphery in S. pombe
By Laffitte et al. and Megan King
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/40/7-8/456.full

Yale School of Medicine
#yeast #DNArepair

Swalwell That Ends Well

Measure for measure Eric Swalwell's tempest of a gubernatorial campaign has turned into a comedy of errors. But could his latest scandal be much ado about nothing? Maybe by midsummer this will be little more than a dream!

by Maureen Dowd

I never met Greg Hannon, but reading his papers was always a tremendous joy. Terribly sad.

Never could figure it out, but dude always seemed disingenuous.

Happy Birthday Q-Tip!

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