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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Asking editors to do a semblance of their job seems kind of extremist these days, but is it too late to save peer review?

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Midgely is generally a great read

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 22/12/2025

That toxic waste will then pollute the data sets used to train the next generation of AI models, leading to ‘model collapse’ as the AI tries and fails to model incoherent garbage, vomiting out yet more incoherent garbage in the process. Meanwhile repositories of scholarly information are destroyed.

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

PhD position available at the University of Bern in Prof. Claudia Bank's lab. Application deadline: Jan 9, 2026. Ideal for candidates with a strong math and programming background. More info: banklab.github.io/positions #phd

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Positions | Theoretical Ecology and Evolution

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This looks nice. Thinking of going back to grad school so I can sign up...

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

>dev/null I am repeating myself, but I think this should be the standard treatment for ai slop like this. End of file and send to the abyss as soon as possible.

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Heather Hendrickson @drhhnz.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027! See you there!! @wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social #microsky #mevosky

Screenshot from GRC portal confirming microbial population biology meeting June 27, 2027 in Andover, New Hampshire.

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Good advice to beginning graduate students (and others, maybe everybody): "good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand." --Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This is an interesting distraction driven by @jessicacalarco.com. The comment below misses the point that human-support (and art) wage rises are a lagging effect. It seems that what needs to happen is to accelerate the effect to counteract inequality. UBI perhaps? Decrease educational costs?

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

These two have made a difference. This prize will help them make even more of a difference.

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

"The digestive systems of carnivorous plants" This looks really cool. 👌 Work from Matthias Freund, Dorothea Graus, Rainer Hedrich & Kenji Fukushima et al. academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... #PlantScience

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The digestive systems of carnivorous plants

A comparison of the forms and functions of digestive and absorptive glands in carnivorous plants sheds light on their convergent evolution.

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

recent protein language models can extract embeddings from protein sequences reflecting high-order features, developed statistical tests to evaluate the adaptive convergence of such features. Interested to see how people will use this (I edited it, not an author). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Language models reveal a complex sequence basis for adaptive convergent evolution of protein functions | PNAS

Convergent evolution, or convergence, refers to repeated, independent emergences of the same trait in two or more lineages of species during evolut...

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Jon Puritz @jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com · 10/11/2025

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 13/11/2025

My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have. apply.interfolio.com/177547

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Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Super piece.

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Tanja Stadler @tanjastadler.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/... I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and

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Director, Center for Pathogen Bioinformatics

The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) is a unit of SIB which offers expertise and services in pathogen bioinformatics, computational molecular epidemiology and related multi-site project manage...

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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 05/11/2025

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Genome Biology. We are particularly interested in researchers investigating the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying genome function and regulation. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3t7vvdct

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Now accepting proposals for the Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach, which provide up to $1000 USD for a variety of evolution education & outreach projects, workshops, and events. Submit your proposal by March 2, 2026! shorturl.at/I8HqO

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach, Deadline: March 2.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/11/2025

I'm super stoked that Colorado voted to fund free meals for kids for schools. (I've been saying lunches, but the program includes breakfasts, too.)

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Please register for BAPG at Stanford 12/6, especially if you want to give a talk or a poster. The deadline is Nov 16. bapg2025.github.io/bapg2025stan... And please reshare on bsky!

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BAPG Fall 2025

Bay Area Population Genomics Conference @ Stanford

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Oh, the dreadful onions and mustard. Should be pun trigger warning on link.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution' organised by James Hombría & Antónia Monteiro Deadline 5 Dec. biologists.com/workshops/ju... @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @jlopezrios.bsky.social

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Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution

Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution Recent studies on the evolution of novel traits provide a window of opportunity to understand how existing gene-regulatory networks (GRN...

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Surely we can agree that p-value jokes only have a low prior probability of being funny.

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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

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The Passing of the Tree of Life Web Project

The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life and…

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I keep telling my dog it is only just after 5 pm but she is pretty sure it is dinner time and I am just gaslighting her.

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Champi @jpascualanaya.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch! 📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility. 🙏Please, RT!

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵

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Claudia Bank @cbank.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩‍💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/ Please share widely! #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Sitting around after sessions at evolutionary biology meeting, we thought to start a journal called PoLLoS Done*. It had to be a great idea when you started it, you put a bit of work into it, but now, for reasons explained in the abstract, you promise you are just plain <<done>>. Maybe it's time.

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David Enard @denard.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Come join us in beautiful Britanny, France in May 2026 for a workshop that I am organizing with @lucievirevolte.bsky.social and @psudmant.bsky.social on Rapid host adaptations to infections: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

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José Aguilar-Rodríguez @jaguilarrod.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Massively parallel interrogation of the fitness of natural variants in ancient signaling pathways reveals pervasive local adaptation

The nature of standing genetic variation remains a central debate in population genetics, with differing perspectives on whether common variants are almost always neutral as suggested by neutral and n...

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I talked about why the replication/reproducibility crisis is, and has always been, rhetoric, rather than fact. Masking scientific progress in general in favor of a simplified crisis narrative has caused a lot of epistemic, ethical, and practical harms so far. We can and we must stop feeding it.

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Blocking this site for producing what looks to be AI-generated nonsense, despite human-looking names that supposedly wrote and edited. Acetylcholinesterase *inhibitors* are the medicine, not acetylcholinesterase. The article, mixing words together, produces the exact opposite of true explanation.

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"my AI says its trending toward significance" is enough reason to throw your AI out the window (let alone all the other reasons). It is painful to realize that the nonsense phrase "trending towards significance" was found often enough in the training data to make the AI parrot repeat it.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")? Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event. Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

No deployment of the military in our cities. No illegal mass racial profiling. No kings in America.

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Also just thank you to everyone out there who is able to show up, and please be safe.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Please remember that many disabled people won’t be at the No Kings rallies tomorrow. A lot of the planned events are not accessible and/or disabled people are not safe or well enough to attend. Anything you can do to increase accessibility and inclusion will help the resistance!

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

"it is a tunnel to nowhere on both sides"

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I hope this will be fixed. Doesn't seem to agree with their "about" page: they "actively promote development of novel research tools for analysis of genomic data and helping developers facilitate the integration, or connection of their tools to analyze gisaid data."

screen shot from gisaid about page saying they actively promote development of novel research tools for analysis of genomic data and helping developers facilitate the integration, or connection of their tools to analyze gisaid data.

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