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Aide Macias-Muñoz @aidemm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please share! My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in evolutionary development. For more details feel free to email me.

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monteirolab.bsky.social @monteirolab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looking for a PhD student to help uncover whether our arms and legs, and those of insects, share the same core gene-regulatory network. If interested, please contact antonia.monteiro@nus.edu.sg. Graduate Program application deadline is 15 Nov 2026 (www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/education/gr...)

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wow, agreed, what a powerful visual metaphor! The inversion of the idiom makes it witty rather than gimmicky indeed

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maybe the idiomatic type is ok if it really fits, for example "beauty is in the eye of the beholder:" for a paper about a perceptual/visual aspect of sexual selection in evol bio.

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trying to think about what makes a good, catchy hook There is a "all that is gold does not glitter:" title that is used as an extended metaphor in a paper about genetic architectures I like, it's the backbone. (maybe a bit like "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm:"

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

from @chriswheat.bsky.social's comment I agree that general:specific can be effective. I think my issue is when they are dissonant. Idiomatic, pop-culture, puns or anything trying to be catchy can be a double-edged sword

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Erik van Nimwegen @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey, I heard about Bonsai, but now I heard there is another method called MILK that also visualizes scRNA-seq on trees. And it is much faster! Should I just use that then? A tree is a tree, right? TLDR: No. #methodsmatter Not even close. On realistic synthetic data MILK performs worse than UMAP.

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The ones that use a song earworm are just cruel. "Another one bites the dust" etc

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How do people feel about "colon titles" for science articles? I find them increasingly gimmicky and often vacuous. I recommend against them to students and mentees but maybe I am too old-school?

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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Amazing work and videos! Massive advance in our integrative understanding of "what the heck are wing patterns for"

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social please don't give a platform to school drop-outs pushing a biased, selfish agenda. Let's keep the science out of financial interests, and avoid giving credibility to non-experts about complex issues, especially w/o a tribune with other experts providing counterpoints!

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cell 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 🤯

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'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

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@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/

Medicine has a responsibility to develop interventions that safely reduce human suffering. Therapeutic germline gene editing should be judged by the scientific evidence supporting it, not by the history of the field. If rigorous clinical evaluation demonstrates that it is safe and effective, continued prohibition would itself require ethical justification.

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you might dig this, check out the divergent presets evolvwing.github.io/barfbow/

evolvwing.github.io

Shiny App

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'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.

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Zhaoqi Leng @zhaoqileng42.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The amazing mimicry of Uropyia meticulodina, Qinling mountain, 2026-7.

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very 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.

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I 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:

chromosome synteny riparian plot in which every chromosome has crossing lines

chromosome synteny plot in which no chromosomes have crossing lines. The underlying structure is identical.

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Nicolas Di-Poi @nicolasdipoi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our 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

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The 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!

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Ellen O. Martinson @waspvenom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The 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!

Flyer for position in Plant Genome Manipulation by Insects "We are looking for new members of our team to work on the molecular mechanisms behind gall induction. A gall is an abnormal growth on a plant that is induced by another organism (i.e., bacteria, fungi, mites, insects). Insect-induced galls are the most complex type, creating structures and pigments not seen in the normal development of the host plant. The insect evades host defenses and co-opts control of plant development redirecting resources away from the plant to create a structure comprised of multiple tissues that both provide nutrition to the insect’s offspring as well as protects them from harm. While some progress has been made in individual systems, we still do not understand how any insect induces a gall to form or whether the mechanisms behind this complex manipulation are conserved across galling species. The Martinson lab works in three independent galling systems to try to understand molecular toolkit used to hijack plant development is shared across distantly related gall-inducing insects or whether each lineage has evolved its own unique suite of effectors and signaling strategies. " If interested email emartinson@unm.edu.

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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There’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? 🧪)

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Awesome, do you have a video link for Facebook, I'd like to amplify more broadly

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Great 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.

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

here is a nice example with 8, slightly muted colors (chroma 40%) Normally, should avoid yellow-green for accessibility but here the brightness contrast makes it potentially ok 01a02046-79f7-61d5-c91b-740e77c7a252.share.connect.posit.cloud?n=8&h_orbits...

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

for example, a slight clockwise rotation results in a palette that has significantly more chromatic contrast for "green-blind" (deuteranopia/nomaly) readers. There is red and yellow, but VARYING BRIGHTNESS IS KEY

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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...

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

a bit friendlier to the colorblind: 01a02046-79f7-61d5-c91b-740e77c7a252.share.connect.posit.cloud?n=16&h_orbit...

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Here 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...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 25/08/2026

What 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

Graphical abstract on the gain of a novel trait in Drosophila. The teeth of the recently evolved, male-specific Drosophila sex comb evolved from a more ancient organ, the mechanosensory bristle. We show that changes in the expression of genes that are shared between mechanosensory bristle and sex comb teeth cells lead to changes in a variety of fundamental cellular processes that together enable the morphological transformation.

The photo, phylogeny, general design are those of the corresponding author(s). They made the bristle schematics in biorender and the fly silhouette is their modified drawing of D. melanogaster from SciDraw (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925939).

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's also on GitHub github.com/evolvwing/ba... Largely made with Codex / Sol 5.6 Try it, it's kind of relaxing and fun.

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Check 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

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napari @napari.org · 20/08/2026

Sizzling 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"`.

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Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We 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.

The Inaugural Meeting of DC Evolutionary Genetics
Tuesday Sept 1st, 3pm-4pm
The George Washington University
SEH 8750

Rapid Divergence across Short Geographic Distances in Fireflies
Rebekah Rogers
The George Washington University

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How organisms cope with selfish genetic elements
Manus Patten
Georgetown University

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Mohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yahooo 🎉 We got the cover! Meet our cute cover girl 🥰: the naked mole-rat Queen! 👑 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the page 3 of this essay is an absolute delight

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 12/08/2026

Latest 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...

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

we've been shortcutting these by taking the Doors of Zotero and Mines of GoogleDocs But beware of the Balrog of Collaborator Edits there

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

snapshot here bsky.app/profile/redp...

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🎶Rabbithole Fields foreeeeever 🎶

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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tag yourself with your current location!

A map in the style of Tolkein titled 'The Map of Manuscript Earth'. This is something I'm calling 'artography' - and it lists lots of geographic locations on the way to submitting a (scientific) manuscript.

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Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What 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...

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Some essential insect embryology tricks in this! by @marchalfon.bsky.social

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh My Oh My What an incredible resource, Marc!

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