Postdoc in Evolutionary Systems Biology - VIB About us The VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology (PSB, www.psb.vib-ugent.be) is a world-leading plant science institute with the mission to unravel the biology of plants and use the in

The VIB-UGent Center is seeking a postdoc in evolutionary systems biology to study whole-genome duplication impacts on plant evolution. Apply here: jobs.vib.be/j/133506/postdoc-in-evol... #postdoc

Convergent evolution of aerobic fermentation through divergent mechanisms acting on key shared glycolytic genes
@hittingerlab.bsky.social , @linder-surprise.bsky.social et al show how distinct genetic routes can converge on the same genetic outcome
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Same.

The indirect — and sometimes surprising — benefits of vaccines Many vaccines confer surprising knock-on, or indirect, health benefits when they have been put into widespread use.

Multiple vaccines offer benefits beyond protecting the vaccinated individual from the disease the vaccine targets. Some protect fetuses in the womb, some protect people who are immunocompromised, some protect seniors. As vax rates fall, these benefits are threatened. www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/v...

"My name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past. And it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear"

Happy birthday to John Snow! His name & his work is not forgotten.

'Virtual cell' captures most-basic process of life: bacterial division Researchers simulated nearly every molecule in a bacterial cell — and then watched the cell grow and reproduce.

For the first time, researchers have simulated nearly every chemical reaction in a living bacterial cell

go.nature.com/4lrAulM

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

We've just posted a new analysis of nine species that share the salmonid genome duplication (Select version="NineSpp"): wgd.statgen.ncsu.edu

April Fools’ Day is coming early this year, but really, any day is a good day to poke fun at the system.
Well done @russcd.bsky.social

Call for applications, pls share!

2026 Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute (EMSI) advances research in a frontier of evolutionary medicine. They provide training in methods needed to address cutting edge questions in that frontier.

2026 focus: Climate Change and Health

sites.duke.edu/emsi/

I finally got around to reading "Jurassic Park." I was interested to learn that "only 10 percent of the [DNA] strands were different" when comparing humans and bacteria. Probably Spielberg was wise to leave that line out of the movie...

Footage of a southern sleeper shark was captured in January 2025 by a baited deep-sea camera in a trench at about 490 meters beneath the sea surface off the South Shetland Islands.🦈 spklr.io/6003DUXG3

📷: Inkfish/UWA/Kelpie Geoscience
🎵: Current Clouds

The Guerrero Lab at NC State University seeks a postdoc in computational evolutionary genetics. Ideal candidates have quantitative skills. Apply by March 10, 2026, via rfguerre@ncsu.edu. More info: rguerrer.org #postdoc

My book is available for pre-order!
www.routledge.com/Quantitative...

Or you can request an inspection copy here:
www.routledge.com/textbooks/ev...

The Qbio website (qbio.statgen.ncsu.edu) is now ready to support my quantitative biology text. HT to @caseywdunn.bsky.social for directing me to Web Assembly!!

Douglas Adams Quote: “The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes...” “The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders wat...

The name for what bothers me about chat-bots finally clicked: they are electric monks: quotefancy.com/quote/309784...
(This was a shower-thought that I subsequently confirmed to have been made by many other people...)

Now accepting applications for SFI’s 2026 CSSS program, a 3-week experience for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professionals to explore foundational theory, engage in collaborative projects, and connect with a global research community.

Apply by Feb 4, 2026
www.santafe.edu/csss

Quantitative Biology: Life from the Numbers Biology at all scales has become a data-driven science, with large-scale datasets driving fields from population genomics to ecology. Practicing biologists have no choice but to use computational appr...

Returning the page proofs for my quantitative biology textbook, out in February: www.routledge.com/Quantitative...

Our new dataset modeling the polyploidy shared between Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives (aka At-alpha) is now in the POInT browser: wgd.statgen.ncsu.edu

Just choose "AtAlpha", Version="TenSpp" and your favorite gene (OBP2, EST1, AGO1...)
#polyploidy

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/

LLMs excel at programming—how can they be so bad at it? My explanation for the mystery of why LLMs can be both exceptionally good and quite terrible at programming.

I think I understand how it can be that LLMs are both exceptionally good and quite terrible at programming. It's because there are two entirely different skillsets that we both call "good at programming." LLMs have only one of them.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/llms-excel...

‘Teenage T. rex’ fossil is actually a different species The discovery of smaller predator Nanotyrannus could prompt a re-think of tyrannosaur evolution.

Congratulations to Lindsey Zanno of NC State and her collaborator for showing that what was thought to be a juvenile T. rex is actually a new species!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A logo for the CAMBIUM NRT featuring stylized rings.

An organ pipe cactus in the moonlight with a starry sky above.

The CAMBIUM NSF NRT is recruiting PhD students @uarizona.bsky.social! Fellowships for interdisciplinary training in biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, plant adaptation, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎

Applications for the Department of Energy's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship are now open:
www.krellinst.org/csgf/
#doecsgf