Brooke Weinstein @brookesloci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026freedcproject.org/sign-up?sour...freedcproject.orgSign Up — Free DC 000 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinDr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Do you like snailfishes? lumpsuckers? clingfishes? New phylogeny dropped, and to toot our own horn it's really good! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 38938 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinMax Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Important paper by @kaplipa.bsky.social and colleagues. Advocating for the importance of Natural History museum collections in genomics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comSpecies-dense genomics through natural history collections - Nature Reviews GeneticsLarge-scale genome initiatives are transforming biodiversity genomics, but genomes remain taxonomically sparse and difficult to compare across species. Kapli and colleagues argue that natural history ... 04830 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinTom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 29/08/20261/11 🐟 2nd new preprint today from @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social We investigated how losing the swim bladder, the organ that most fishes use to control their buoyancy, has shaped the diversity of ray-finned fishes over 90 million years of Earth history. The results surprised us. 🧵 110943 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinGraham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Excited for @gabrielesgarlata.bsky.social’s new preprint on the Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgThe Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single GenerationThe relative importance of genetic drift versus selection to evolutionary change has long been debated. This debate has mainly focused over long-time-scales (e.g. hundreds of thousands of generations)... 211562 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinEvgeny Kvon @evgenykvon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A really cool preprint from Joanna Wysocka's lab showing that housekeeping genes use distal enhancers as dosage buffers against TF fluctuations, but only during critical cell fate transitions. Makes so much sense! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgEnhancer buffering protects dosage-sensitive housekeeping genes during vulnerable developmental transitionsHousekeeping genes maintain robust expression across cell types despite dynamic transcription factor fluctuations, yet their haploinsufficiency is associated with many tissue-specific developmental di... 15721 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinGraham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026More coverage of @jeffgroh.bsky.social's work on avocado flower mating morphs polymorphism 02410 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinMatthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Very cool pair of papers demonstrating little link between amount of additive genetic variation and amount of nucleotide variation within species: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...journals.plos.orgLevels of additive genetic variation vary substantially between speciesAdaptive potential determines how populations respond to environmental change. This study compiles evolvability estimates from over 170 multicellular species, revealing substantial variation across th... 112261 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This is what fighting fascism looks like. 1272287775536 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinTJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." -Albert Einstein 13977011824 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinPawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Our News & Views article “Body-plan organizer in comb jellies hints at animal ancestry” now published in @nature.com 🎉 We discuss fascinating work revealing organizer activity in comb jellies & the evolution of animal development. rdcu.be/fsLWq @ruthstyfhals.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social 16323 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinStephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Very cool new pre-print from @rmash.bsky.social and team “…parental care shapes the storage, expression and release of genetic variation…” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgParental care is a genetic capacitorParental care is widespread across the animal kingdom and plays a critical role in offspring development. Yet, its broader genetic and evolutionary impacts remain underexplored. Here, using the bipare... 01813 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinCtenophores Rock! @ctenophoresrock.bsky.social · 17/06/2026What is the evolutionary origin of the organizer? New work from @kremnyovs.bsky.social, @tclebedeva.bsky.social & Hejnol Lab @uni-jena.de reports the blastopore lip of the #ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, a member of the evolutionary sister group to all other metazoans, exhibits organizer activity.nature.comA blastoporal organizer in a ctenophore - NatureExperiments using the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi and the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis reveal that the emergence of a core signalling pathway may have been a key innovation enabling the transit... 38842 0
Brooke Weinstein @brookesloci.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Omgeee, what a cutie! Dogs are the best! I just adopted this handful three weeks ago, and am similarly smitten. She looks a lot like yours (even more so before she was groomed)! Dread Pirate Frankie says, "Hi"! 020 0
Brooke Weinstein @brookesloci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026The broader story of disconnect between leadership and the people doing the day-to-day work feels familiar. The Academy was built by generations of aquarists, scientists, educators, and volunteers who cared enormously about what they did. Very depressing. 020 0
Brooke Weinstein @brookesloci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Skeletons in the closet: Inside the unraveling of the California Academy of Sciences sfstandard.com/2026/05/26/c...sfstandard.comLavish bonuses, first-class flights, and a ghost mansion: Inside the unraveling of The California Academy of SciencesFor years, insiders sounded the alarm about mismanagement. Now, after mass layoffs, a ballooning deficit, and a director’s resignation, one of San Francisco’s crown jewels is fighting for its life. 120 0
Reposted by Brooke Weinsteinc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/06/2026There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR. 612338618 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 13/05/2026My goodness this is cute. Short & Harasti (2026) named a new pipefish species after Snuffleupagus (the giant elephant muppet) Image of Solenostomus snuffleupagus sp. nov. by David Harasti. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 113155 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/04/2026“They’re just saying, ‘We’re getting rid of all the science.’” How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A. Gift link: nyti.ms/4ugMo59nyti.ms 13519 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinVincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 17/04/2026What would cause evolution to stop‽ 🧪 12375 0
Reposted by Brooke WeinsteinGraham Larue @glarue.bsky.social · 19/02/2026media.tenor.coma woman is playing a piano on a street with the words " making my way downtown " below herALT: a woman is playing a piano on a street with the words " making my way downtown " below her 001 0
Brooke Weinstein @brookesloci.bsky.social · 09/02/2026To clarify the scope: we didn’t test GS–TE relationships ourselves, but we discuss animal studies showing that GS differences often reflect lineage-specific TE dynamics not predicted by Ne (e.g., elifesciences.org/articles/100...; link.springer.com/article/10.1...).elifesciences.orgEffective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animalsA large-scale survey across animals reveals no general association between genome size expansion and the relaxation of natural selection. 020 0
Brooke Weinstein @brookesloci.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Hello Bluesky! Does Nₑ really explain mutation rate (μ) or genome size (GS) in vertebrates? We find the apparent Nₑ–μ link in Bergeron et al. (2023) is a “back-door” path via generation time, and GS is decoupled from both Nₑ and life-history traits. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #evobio #PNAS 24718 0
