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First thrush I have seen in many years. Hampstead heath. These seemed very common when I was young. Have they declined a lot????
I’ve read all the biographies & Crick’s autobiography too, but I feel like I got to know the real person in this book. A masterpiece, because of the brilliant writing and research of @matthewcobb.bsky.social
Includes a cameo from Mnemiopsis leidyi 🤩
These images show live embryos of animals (jellyfish, crustacean, worm, sea urchin, sea squirt, beetle) and one of animals closest single-celled relatives. They were captured taking advantage of fluorescent proteins localised on the outer membrane of cells, allowing us to observe cell outlines. 1/9
Thanks so much @rogerhighfield.bsky.social it was such a pleasure to talk to you. Book out in paperback on Weds.
Tho the fantastic new passport requirements are not making things easy. #brexitbenefit.
Looking forward to talking to you too @rogerhighfield.bsky.social ! Currently hotfooting my way back from Naples.
Look forward to talking to Max Telford about his book The Tree of Life at the mighty new #BarnesburyBookFestival tomorrow at 2pm! www.barnsburybookfestival.org
It's less than a week until Barnsbury book festival 2026 where I will be talking about my book The Tree of Life. (Saturday, April 18 14:00-15:00.)
Lots of great talks! Tickets available here... www.barnsburybookfestival.org/whats-on
From Pisani et al: CAT-GTR is one of the most flexible models in the phylogenomic arsenal.
Phylogenomic mixture models outperform homogeneous and partitioned models
academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
What a pleasure to be in conversation about flowers and their many meanings with Daphne Chouliaraki Milner in @atmosmag.bsky.social, with marvelous art by Max Attila Bartsch
atmos.earth/art-and-cult...
Three temples (two hoopoes)
Picture of Hoopoe.
Photo of Greek temple at Paestum.
My first Hoopoe. Seen at the extraordinary Greek temples at Paestum, south of Naples. Best preserved in the world and there are three of them.
On 10 April the world celebrates Ctenophore day! (Meanwhile in the USA they are celebrating Ophorecten day.)
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity as part of DFG Research Training Group "GönomiX" at the University of Göttingen!
We are seeking a bioinformatician/scientist to study cross-species comparison of Gene Regulatory Networks using our "Göttingen Zoo" of emerging model systems.
#GoenomiX
@bucherlab.bsky.social
Nearly full, but some seats remain. Join me for tales of floral revolution 🌼 Reception celebrating Vitis and yeast following
Searching the Guardian for an April fools joke but there's nothing remotely funny to be found. Grim news from top to toe.
Like a well endowed lizard.
Looking for a post-doc in macroecology or paleobiology? Work with the fabulous Erin Saupe in @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology :
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Interested in big flowering plant genera? Come work with the exciting global Solanum group - based at @nhm-london.bsky.social - phylogenomics, diversification, nightshade fun! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Screw the far right. Very moving to hear Michael Rosen and others today. A LOT of people.
A virtual wasp flying through a reimagined rewilded Grant Museum.
We are excited to share that we have been shortlisted for Best Use of Digital in the 2026 @museumsandheritage.com Awards for our work on the World of Wasps exhibition. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
Interested in joining a dynamic, interdisciplinary research department? A call is open for Group Leaders at the UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology.
Please submit your expression of interest by April 13, 2026.
Further details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Well yes I am.
A reminder that there is one week left to apply for our post (Professor / Assistant Professor) in Computational Genomics in Health and Disease here at UCL Genetics Institute (UGI) funded by the UCL @ucl.ac.uk Health Strategy.
Details 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/....
I have a Smiths joke but It's too close to home, And it's too near the bone, More than you'll ever know.
Opinion: Given the models currently implemented for protein phylogenetics in widely used phylogenetics tools, we should be more concerned about the biases induced by overly simple models that are misspecified than problems associated with overparameterization.
