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John Soghigian @jsoghigian.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Colleagues and I address a recent phylogenetic & evolutionary hypothesis on mosquito evolution (from Pierce et al. 2025), namely that the two subfamilies of mosquitoes were not reciprocally monophyletic, and that Culex and Anopheles were sister to one another. We do not agree.

A phylogeny of mosquitoes, showing synapormorphies as thatched lines, and comparing divergence time results among different publications.

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Registration closes at the end of this week! bsky.app/profile/jlst...

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Andrea Gloria-Soria @agloriasoria.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

First genome assembly of wild #Aedes mosquitoes. Paper coming soon! Pre-print is out! Thanks to our collaboration with @jsoghigian.bsky.social, @ird-fr.bsky.social, @yale.edu and #CT_CAES.

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John Soghigian @jsoghigian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Wow... This thread (and original plos post) are really interesting

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John Soghigian @jsoghigian.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

It's really good to see an alternative social media platform rapidly expand! Time to get back to checking here more often 🙂

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hello Less Hateful World

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 11/03/2024

Because folks liked my latest pigeon comic so much, here's another pigeon piece! I made this a couple years ago for a sadly now defunct publication called Pipe Wrench. I hope this piece helps spread more pigeon love. #pigeon #bird #comic #cartoon #science 🪶

A comic titled "What is a City Pigeon? By Rosemary Mosco." There's a small pigeon shouting through a megaphone. Panel 1: A banner says "It's a Dinosaur. Like all birds, pigeons descended from dinos." A pigeon roars "coooo" over the silhouette of a dinosaur yelling RARR. Panel 2: The banner says "It's a Dove. A city pigeon or Rock Dove is a member of the pigeon and dove family." A pigeon stands in glorious rays of sparkling light, with a halo over its head. Panel 3: The banner says "It's a Domestic Animal. Pigeons were domesticated millennia ago for meat and fertilizer (poop)." A cow stands in a farmer's field, saying "moo." A pigeon looks up at it and says "coo." Both have just pooped. Panel 4: The banner says "It's a Purebred Pet. Like dogs & cats, pigeons come in fancy breeds." There are three fancy pigeons: A Birmingham Roller, with rusty feathers and splotches of white. A Fantail, with its head pushed back and a huge fanned out tail. A Saxon Fairy Swallow, with a crest and huge fan

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 29/12/2023

Hmm. The statistics in the first brain shrinking study seem screwy. Nonhospitalized (386) vs. Control (384) was not even close to significant, but all cases (401) vs control was just barely significant? Sorry, I don't buy this result as meaningful. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

#academia I recall getting a handwritten note from my VD for Research when I got my first NIH R01 funded. A very nice gesture. We need more of this!

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John Soghigian @jsoghigian.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Join us for an excellent symposium on some of the "other sides" of vector biology research!

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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Attending @entsocamerica.bsky.social meeting? Join @jsoghigian.bsky.social and myself for our symposium, Beyond the Bite: Natural History, Systematics, and Ecology Enhance Knowledge of Our Most Deadly Foe, cdmcd.co/B8PqPW #EntSoc23

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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Known of this work for a while now so really happy to see it out in print. Work by @jsoghigian.bsky.social and others, Phylogenomics reveals the history of host use in mosquitoes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

A Bluesky quick primer 🧵 for recent arrivals: 1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.

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Twisteddoodles @twisteddoodles.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

The ghostest with the mostest

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

We serve classrooms with connections to scientists for free. We put science into people's lives with public art & pop-ups. We help scientists connect with their creativity to communicate science. We rely on YOU to do this work. Monthly support keeps us alive ❤️ www.patreon.com/SkypeAScient...

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Skype a Scientist | Patreon

Connecting people with science through conversations & art

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Get your Kleenex out. A group of Chicago area Rabbis attended the funeral of Wadea Al-Fayoume, the six year old Palestinian-American boy who was brutally murdered by his landlord due to his ethnicity and religion. Rabbi Ari Hart explains why the Rabbis attended the funeral in the screenshot below.

Rabbi Ari Hart, the Imam at the boys’s Mosque, and Rabbi Hodi

"The Jerusalem Talmud teaches that the Jewish people are obligated to comfort the mourners of our people and of all people because of darchei shalom - the paths of peace.
Today, a group of rabbis of us went to the funeral of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a six year old Muslim boy who was killed in his home by his depraved landlord because he was Palestinian and Muslim.
This picture is with the imam of the mosque where the funeral was held. We met with the Imam, heard from the father, and stood with the boy's community as they mourned this horrific loss. We witnessed the pain. We expressed our shock and condemnation of the attack. We wept.
I can't say that it was simple to be there.
These are not simple times.
But the murder of a six year old because of his faith and his identity is not complicated. It is a heinous crime. And that's why we went today.
These days it really feels like the world has l These days it really feels like the world has lost its way.
But I can't give up on trying, yearning,

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John Gilleard @johngilleard.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Hi Bluesky community My first post here after years on Twitter. Interests include all things science & Higher Ed. In particular Parasitology, drug resistance, molecular epidemiology/diagnostics, genetics/genomics genomics and veterinary medicine. Thanks for the invite @jsoghigian.bsky.social !

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 13/10/2023

Just published on our blog: Bluesky for Journalists FAQ This page also includes a link to a waitlist form for journalists, so members of the press no longer have to email our press inbox for a code. We appreciate everyone's help sharing this information!

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Bluesky for Journalists

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Amy J. Rutenberg @amyjay401.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

(Pls repost) Folks who majored in history, english, or something else “useless,”what was your first job out of school? What are you doing now? I know there are plenty of online resources about jobs but I’m trying to show my students that careers are often not straight lines.Thank you!!!!

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 12/10/2023

Some halloween costume ideas. 🪶🧪

A four-panel comic with some couples' costume ideas for Halloween. In panel 1, there's a male and female magnificent frigatebird, and the male has his throat pouch inflated. In panel 2, there's an elegant bridal veil stinkhorn and a flesh fly. In panel 3, there's a scarab beetle and a dung ball (just a huge brown ball being rolled by the beetle). In panel 4, there's a leopard sea cucumber and the pearlfish that lives in its anus.

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John Soghigian @jsoghigian.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Exciting for this to finally be online! Was a privilege to be part of such a great international team. Excellent phylogenetic comparative work by @genmorinaga.bsky.social to cap it all off!

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Nicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

👋 Hi genetics/statgen/gen-epi trainees! 🧬 🧪 If you are interested in reviewing please let me know! We (HGG Advances, eLife) are constantly in need of knowledgeable reviewers and would be more than happy to work with you. Please feel free to email me (or other editors) if you're interested!

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Jack Maynard(he/him) @jhmsparky.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Pete, the Townsend's Warbler back again. ( I like to think this is the same guy who visits every year around now). Just so happy we didn't miss him as we fly east tomorrow. #birding

Townsend's Warbler splashes in my fountain

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

It's Thursday. You need some eels in your life, right? And some otters? Here you go! A scene of otters & eels, from an early 15th C. copy of Gaston Phoebus's Livre de la chasse. Eel blood is toxic to mammals, but otters don't care. They love them some eels. Can you blame them? 🧪🗃️

A medieval painting of otters playing in a pool, chasing and catching eels and other fish. There are 10 adult otters, and what look to be 2 younger otters in a den at the base of a tree. The otters are doing serious otter things: playing, eating, cavorting, eating, gamboling, eating, swimming, and eating. They are having a good time. For now.

It can't last, though. This pond seems way too small to support all of these otters, and the painting has a border around it. They can't leave, and soon they will turn on each other in a bloodbath that will make the Donner Party look like a tea time at the Rotary Club. If you check back with these otters in two weeks, I suspect you'll find only carnage.

That, though, is a problem for Future Otters. Today's otters are carefree, with spotless souls.

Source:
Morgan (MS M.1044 fol. 28r)

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Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

In need of a new postdoc for our work on evolution of genetic novelty. Multiple datasets in hand for Drosophila and other organisms. Email for more detail before applying. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/52545

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Postdoctoral Fellow - Bioinformatics

The employee will report to Professor Rebekah L. Rogers and will be a senior member of Professor Rogers’s research group, supporting projects through original research, collaboration with other team...

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 04/10/2023

It's mushroom season! Here are all the types you will see. My mailing list: buttondown.email/rosemarymosco

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Bad working conditions for nurses literally mean bad patient care. Endless solidarity for every health care worker striking for better.

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Blue sky over blue lupine and arrowleaf balsamroot above the Blue River🌿

A hillside of yellow and blue flower in front of snowy mountains

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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

How about a Lava heron and sally lightfoot crab from the Galapagos for a bedtime photo (i.e. bedtime on the east coast of the US). #birds #evolbiol #ecoevo

Lava heron and sally lightfoot crab, Galapagos

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

A common feature of ships going back to ancient times was the 'Ship's Cat.' #Cats were great for keeping rat populations low, preventing loss of stores, damage to ropes & rigging and in modern times, electric lines & reducing risk of disease spread.

Three sailors admire and pet a small black and white cat.

Simon The Cat
Simon, the ship’s cat aboard HMS Amethyst during the Yangtze Incident of 1949, was awarded a posthumous PDSA Dickin Medal for his devotion to duty despite suffering terrible injuries when the British warship was shelled by the Chinese Communist forces. During the 101 days HMS Amethyst was held captive on the Yangtze River, Simon devoted his time to catching the rats that threatened the crew’s dwindling rations.

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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Those of us in public health know that the impact that Travis Kelce has by promoting vaccination is much bigger than doctors or scientists promoting it, so thank you Travis. Vaccines are rad. 🧪 EpiSky IDSky

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 03/10/2023

Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year using the first 6 months of data: • NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside • Full-time employment increased • Fewer visits to the ER • Fewer nights spent in jail

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

A common yellowthroat. (Close-ups and depth of field are lovely, but I really like photos that capture animals in their context.) 🪶

A common yellowthroat perching over some water

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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics: web.stanford.edu/group/pritch... "An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"

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An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome

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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Little-known PNW secret: fall hiking > summer hiking. Fewer bugs, fewer crowds, perfect temperatures, more color. Perfection.

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Sheril Kirshenbaum @sheril.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but Watson & Crick received the Nobel Prize. Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their model. They never acknowledged her contribution til after her death.

Rosalind Franklin at age 25. Elliott & Fry/National Portrait Gallery, London

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I don't want to make a zillion money selling space to advertisers for my follower count, but I do want to know that other people also love and connect with things and places I found interesting and beautiful

A phalarope father brooding over his chicks

Portrait of a green jumping spider from Queensland, Australia

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John Soghigian @jsoghigian.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

For those on NSF or NIH sections/panels, just a heads up - the portals will possibly/probably (definitely?) be down during the government shutdown, so...

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

I'm on an NSF grant panel later this year - we were just told access to proposals will not be available during a shutdown. FYI, if you're reviewing right now - download!

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Awesome new work out by @erikenbody.bsky.social on the genetic architecture of Darwin Finch beak evolution over time. Instant classic that will likely become part of textbook material for Evolution Courses going forward. Congratulations Erik! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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