Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 2hCell Press giving a rather biased, pro-eugenics platform to self-proclaimed "Biotech Barbie", former a Thiel Fellow who briefly married He Jiankui, and fails to properly frame the debate on germline editing. Partly bonkers, partly important, check out this thread 🤯 0118
Reposted by Arnaud MartinJoe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 2hI'm sorry, but there's no way to describe this but as a pro-eugenics Op-Ed disguised as a scientific review, and is a complete failure of editorial and ethical standards at @cellpress.bsky.social . This article should be retracted. 5/5 2137
Reposted by Arnaud MartinJoe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 2h@cellpress.bsky.social has just released an.... interesting new 'short review' on pre-implantation gene editing, in which author Cathy Tie argues for the ethical imperative of pushing for this technology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... There are, to put it mildly, a few issues here. 1/ 187
Reposted by Arnaud MartinTessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain. 13329110
Reposted by Arnaud MartinZhaoqi Leng @zhaoqileng42.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The amazing mimicry of Uropyia meticulodina, Qinling mountain, 2026-7. 032
Reposted by Arnaud MartinJoe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Very pleased to share that we just released a new ref genome for Colias eurytheme and added the first genome for C philodice to NCBI. Both chrom-level, made with pacbio hi-fi and ci-fi (=pac bio chromatin reads). Both from MD. Please use and share widely, I’ll have a citable source preprinted soon. 2134
Reposted by Arnaud MartinJoe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I hate to do this with real data, but this is a persistent data vis issue in chromosome synteny riparian plots that we Need to get better at. Left, a synteny plot published today. Right, a rearranged version with exactly the same gross arrangement but with reordered chromosomes: 29639
Reposted by Arnaud MartinNicolas Di-Poi @nicolasdipoi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Our collaborative paper on snake coiling is now out in the latest issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on the cover! 🎉 Delighted to see our work highlighted this way. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ni9h3QW8S... @helsinki-biotech.bsky.social @helsinki.fi 15918
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Barfbow in-the-browser app is now available at this URL evolvwing.github.io/barfbow/ Fun tool to create custom color palettes, give it a try! 021
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Such an essential piece. To share with students, trainees, and colleagues all around. (from 7 years ago) www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comNovelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paperThe Pulitzer prizewinner shares his advice for pleasing readers, editors and yourself. 13314
Reposted by Arnaud MartinEllen O. Martinson @waspvenom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The Martinson lab is looking for new PhD students! We have so much cool data and need help making sense of it all! If interested please contact me! 14026
Reposted by Arnaud MartinJason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026There’s a new weapon in the fight against spotted lanternflies! (Word on the street is also that @bsky.app has upgraded their video capabilities. Shall we go for a spin? 🧪) 13518
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Great quote. In a recent piece Morizot also reminds us that "environment" is a derivative of "environ" : french / old french for "surroundings". Our language tends to make nature a foreign entity, at the skirts of civilization, when it actually permeates us. 020
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026#dataviz example of how brighness shifts w/ Barfbow can craft more readable & accessible color palettes If you rotate this palette (initial hue, h1), most of these 4-color palettes are neat and colorblind friendly 01a02046-79f7-61d5-c91b-740e77c7a252.share.connect.posit.cloud?n=4&h_orbits... 111
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Here is a very decent replacement to the 16 ggplot2 default colors that plague the literature. And if you don't love them you can tweak it with Barfbow. Varying brightness (Luminance) is key 01a02046-79f7-61d5-c91b-740e77c7a252.share.connect.posit.cloud?n=16&h_orbit... 160
Reposted by Arnaud MartinPLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 25/08/2026What are the genetic mechanisms for the #evolution of novel traits? This study by @brhopkins92.bsky.social &co links #Drosophila sex comb teeth to expression changes within ancestral cells, leading to diverged metabolic/developmental rates, and a novel structure. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4gQOnZK 04119
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Check out the Barfbow app for a little promenade on color domes. Save your custom color palettes. Use variable brightness and colorblind-simuations to improve effective com, accessibility and scientific accuracy in figures. 01a02046-79f7-61d5-c91b-740e77c7a252.share.connect.posit.cloud 150
Reposted by Arnaud Martinnapari @napari.org · 20/08/2026Sizzling Summer Series 4 - global 🌍️ napari 0.9.0 is about ready to fly out the door! ✈️ We would be grateful if you tried out the pre-release: Install into an environment with `pip install "napari[all]>=0.9.0rc1"` or try with uv in a temp environment with `uvx "napari[all]>=0.9.0rc1"`. 1199
Reposted by Arnaud MartinRebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026We will be hosting DC Area research talks on Evolutionary Genetics at GW starting this Fall. First Tuesday of the Month at 3pm, Science and Engineering Hall. Co-founded with Manus Patten at Georgetown University. Please help spread the word. 32614
Reposted by Arnaud MartinMohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Yahooo 🎉 We got the cover! Meet our cute cover girl 🥰: the naked mole-rat Queen! 👑 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 419632
Reposted by Arnaud MartinSteven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 12/08/2026Latest crazy story from the frontiers of math and AI -- a neurosurgery resident, with no training in advanced math, uses ChatGPT 5.6 to solve a major open problem in numerical linear algebra. alextownsend.net/essays/SIAMN... 14114
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 09/08/2026the "epic quest" map magnets there are mandatory upgrades to any lab freezer imo www.redbubble.com/people/redpe... by @redpenblackpen.bsky.socialredbubble.comredpenblackpen Shop | Redbubbleredpenblackpen is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases. 131
Reposted by Arnaud MartinRedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Tag yourself with your current location! 1210037
Reposted by Arnaud MartinIsabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026What happens when evolution adds an extra pair of eyes? Male mayflies evolve an extra pair of dorsal compound eyes, the Turbanate eyes, thought to help males detect females during mating swarms. we have investigate how this remarkable evolutionary novelty develops. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 623493
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Some essential insect embryology tricks in this! by @marchalfon.bsky.social 010
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 06/08/2026How come do I get to learn about this now, I feel so left out. www.mccrone.com/mm/making-re...mccrone.comTechnique Video: Making and Repairing Tungsten NeedlesIn this Hooke College of Applied Sciences video, you will learn how to create and sharpen a tungsten needle. 1105
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Was Odysseus' holy moly antidote properties based on the counteracting effect of snowdrops on Datura poisoning www.ovid.com/jnls/clinica... 130
Reposted by Arnaud MartinbioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Evolution of compound eye cell types shapes visual behaviors across Heliconius butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 1104
Reposted by Arnaud MartinJeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgBalanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNASIn avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ... 22721274
Reposted by Arnaud MartinMax Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026🚨 I am very happy (and relieved!) to announce that I secured Emmy Noether funding by the @dfg.de to start my own group at @unimainz.bsky.social , hosted by Marion Silies & Jakob von Engelhardt in August! 🚨 Website coming soon - open for name/logo suggestions. They better be funny tho!static.klipy.comSophia Petrillo with Megaphone in Golden GirlsALT: Sophia Petrillo with Megaphone in Golden Girls 179722
Reposted by Arnaud MartinMark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Hi all, putting feelers out: folks looking for a job ASAP in the 🇬🇧 in Cornwall, or willing to move? Collaborating group hiring a couple roles with skills in any of: - insect injections (incl. gene edits) - machine learning for image analysis - experience with 🦋 a plus! Can email me at link below.experts.exeter.ac.ukDiscovery 01424
Reposted by Arnaud MartinPhillip Cleves @pcleves.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Our work on the symbiont-containing organelle that supports coral reefs is published today. Also, new genetic tools to study symbiosis in both corals and Aiptasia. Great work by Shumpei Maruyama, Cat Henderson, and the rest of the fantastic team. #SymbioSky www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...cell.comCo-option of lysosomal machinery shapes the evolution of the intracellular photosymbiosis supporting coral reefsCorals harbor intracellular algal symbionts in specialized organelles that enable them to build diverse reef ecosystems. Corals and other cnidarians have repeatedly evolved this symbiosis through the ... 66423
Reposted by Arnaud MartinAintzane Santaquiteria @asantaquiteria.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Happy to share our new paper in Nat. Comm. on the evolution of planktivory in surgeonfishes and relatives 🐠🧬 Combining fossils and genomics, we find multiple independent origins of planktivory, plus convergent positive selection in key genes linked to planktivory. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 22912
Reposted by Arnaud MartinVincent Debat @vincentdebat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Repeated evolution of iridescence and hindwing tails is associated with morphometric flight proxies in skipper butterflies academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...academic.oup.comRepeated evolution of iridescence and hindwing tails is associated with morphometric flight proxies in skipper butterfliesAbstract. Phenotypic evolution is shaped by phylogenetic history, ecology and biomechanical constraints. Butterfly wings offer an ideal system to explore t 045
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Slippery Slop : liberally using AI tools without gauging the layered consequences of their implementation 040
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 24/06/2026NO NO NO NO NO NO Ranking science with AI-based metrics is a slippery slope. Everyone should reject it right now. 1275
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 22/06/2026"The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran." 041
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 22/06/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=347t...youtube.comVincent Le Masne et Bertrand Porquet - Guitares Dérive (1976) [FULL ALBUM]YouTube video by Kacy Cyryn 111
Reposted by Arnaud MartinPeter Mulhair @petermulhair.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Latest paper lead by Asia Hoile with @peterhox.bsky.social is out! 🦋 Nymphalid butterflies have reduced forelegs. Gene expression patterns show support for more palp-like genes involved in sensory processes in the forelegs relative to the walking legs. doi.org/10.1111/imb....doi.orgDistinctive gene expression in the reduced first thoracic legs of a nymphalid butterflyTranscriptome analysis reveals that the small non-walking front legs of a butterfly have distinct gene expression to the four walking legs. Reduced front legs express a gene with putative mechanosen... 1239
Reposted by Arnaud MartinJessica Foley @jessicafoley14.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Very excited to finally have this out in the world! The first paper from my PhD (and my first first-author publication) makes the case for a new entrant to the world of long-lived animal models: Heliconius butterflies. Out now in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/10)nature.comEvolution of increased longevity and slowed ageing in a genus of tropical butterfly - Nature CommunicationsStudying long-lived species across the animal kingdom could provide insights into healthy ageing in humans. This study reveals long lifespans and slowed ageing in Heliconius butterflies, identifying t... 29225
Reposted by Arnaud MartinPooja A. Anilkumar @poojaavinipully.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Velvet worm under SEM! #onychophora #peripatidae #peripatus 08923
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Google Scholar Labs has recently transformed how I look for literature, highly recommended scholar.google.com/scholar_labs... 3141
Reposted by Arnaud MartinPlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Amazing! This report suggests that a gall aphid injects into their plant host an enzyme that manipulates auxin levels in the host and thereby induces galls. #plantscience #plantsci www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 16927
Reposted by Arnaud MartinVincent Debat @vincentdebat.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Super nice podcast by Violaine Llaurens on the evolution of Morpho butterflies (in french!) www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur... 165
Reposted by Arnaud MartinJessica Tollkuhn @tollkuhn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026wow, neuroscientists are just gonna use FindMarkers and claim DEGs in their snRNA-seq just like they claimed p<0.05 was a legit cutoff for bulk RNA-seq for like a decade. 021
Reposted by Arnaud MartinJosh Jahner @jpjahner.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Our new paper documents highly variable hybridization outcomes across years in sulphur butterflies academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...academic.oup.comTemporal dynamics of color polymorphism and hybridization in Colias butterfliesAbstract. Investigations into the genetic basis of color polymorphism have played a key role in our understanding of genetic architecture and the evolution 054
Reposted by Arnaud MartinSteffen Scholpp @scholpplab.bsky.social · 06/06/2026After months of experiments, failed injections, unexpected results, and those rare moments when everything suddenly works - our manuscript is finally submitted. Read our newest story about a journey of tiny vesicles carrying big biological messages, now in bioRxiv. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1279
Reposted by Arnaud MartinTom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 04/06/2026#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead— 332111633
Reposted by Arnaud MartinStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 31/05/2026What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ 13478281
Reposted by Arnaud MartinMatthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social). We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT) 1/n 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 49467