Reposted by Oscar SilvaGustavo Acosta @cyber_gusy @cybergusy.bsky.social · 10hLas izquierdas siempre tienen algo que las derechas nunca tendrán: diseño. Y más en la época del techno-facismo donde la IA es la que les hace unos diseños y videos feísimos a las derechas. Bora Lula 021
Reposted by Oscar SilvaWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/10/2026#OtD 2 Oct 1968 the Tlatelolco massacre took place in Mexico City when police murdered hundreds of students demonstrating peacefully, just prior to the start of the Olympic Games in the city stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9228... 15323
Reposted by Oscar SilvaMark Bitter @markcbitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New Perspective w/ @petrovadmitri.bsky.social and Paul Schmidt! We ask what evolution-in-action studies tell us about an old question: what genetic variation matters for fitness, and what maintains it? ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...ecoevorxiv.orgCommon, consequential, and actively maintained: a neo-balance view of genetic variation 14126
Oscar Silva @oscar-silva.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comDevelopmental contexts of gene-regulatory evolution following whole genome duplication in salmonids - Nature Ecology & EvolutionA comparative analysis of multiomics data from embryonic and adult tissues of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout reveals developmental and tissue-specific constraints shaping regulatory evolution follo... 000
Reposted by Oscar SilvaChemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 30/09/2026‘How, after all, can replicators make copies without something to power that process?’, asks Phil Ball in his latest for Chemistry World. Read here: @philipcball.bsky.social #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/auto...chemistryworld.comAutocatalytic networks could lie at the beginning of evolutionNew modelling suggests how compartmentalised cross-catalysing networks can evolve adaptations that are passed on through chemical states 051
Reposted by Oscar SilvabioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On the mapping between evolutionary scenarios and governing rules in state-dependent speciation-extinction models www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 021
Reposted by Oscar SilvaJosef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New preprint led by grad student Caleb Charpentier that I'm very excited about! This is a hefty review & perspective on how we can close the gap in trust between new "Deep comparative methods", and the biological meaning & inferences that systematists want. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...ecoevorxiv.orgOn the Promise (and Practice) of Deep Comparative Methods: Expressivity, Limitations, and Design 21713
Reposted by Oscar SilvaAndrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dynamical [chemical] systems view on the emergence of heredity in evolution: "This paper proposes that early chemical systems could preserve and pass on differences through stable chemical states rather than through stored sequences like DNA or RNA" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪 #Complexity #EvoBio 0177
Oscar Silva @oscar-silva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comEvolution by natural selection can be complex yet predictable - Nature Reviews BiodiversityEvolution by natural selection is a well-evidenced and well-understood process, but predicting the course that it will take in the future is less clear. In this Perspective, Nosil and Gompert argue th... 001
Reposted by Oscar Silva📑 EvoDevo Papers @evodevo-papers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Directional Internal Selection onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002… #EvoDevo 022
Reposted by Oscar Silvaepithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Can mathematics explain how biological patterns are formed? Alan Turing thought so. Join me, @benswedlund.bsky.social , as we explore his reaction-diffusion theory and how it transformed our understanding of pattern formation and self-organisation. 0149
Reposted by Oscar Silva📑 EvoDevo Papers @evodevo-papers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The evolution of novel floral organs from an evo-devo perspective pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42799330 #EvoDevo 041
Oscar Silva @oscar-silva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026El argumento que muchos votantes de partidos de extrema derecha en Europa dan para justificar su elección es que están “cansados de no poder expresar su orgullo nacional”. Por lo general, la “expresión del orgullo nacional“ luce así: 001
Reposted by Oscar SilvaPlant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🌱🧬Plant defense chemicals serve more than defense. Non-defense functions arise via pleiotropy, shared regulation or correlated selection, shaping genetic constraints Understanding their evolution requires linking multifunctionality to genetics & selection nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.comNondefense functions of plant specialized metabolites: ecological phenomena, molecular mechanisms, and evolutionary implicationsNonexhaustive overview of empirically validated nondefense functions caused by or correlated with variation in four well-studied classes of plant specialized metabolites (PSMs) – glucosinolates (gree... 054
Reposted by Oscar SilvaRicard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What if the origin of life was not a single transition, but a cascade of them? This paper by J. Aguirre & co offers a systems view of how complexity may have emerged across chemical, informational & ecological levels. @manlius.bsky.social @brionesci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1285
Reposted by Oscar SilvaBrian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A good reminder "Data science" isn't Science..."Without models, mathematical or conceptual, data are just noise...science advances only if it can provide explanations...there is an area where petabytes of information can be used...But don't call it science" link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🌐link.springer.comThe end of theory in science? - EMBO ReportsEMBO Reports - 45516
Reposted by Oscar SilvaSasha (Alexandra) Khristich @khristich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’m excited to share our preprint with @oliviamghosh.bsky.social, where we explore what it takes to ‘win’ in long-term evolutionary competition: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgAdaptive evolution can overwrite initial natural fitness variation only in highest-fitness yeast isolatesThe fitness of an organism determines its likelihood of succeeding in short-term competition, but many other factors can influence its long-term success. In this study, we investigate the relative con... 13929
Reposted by Oscar SilvaNew Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Adaptation in mixed-ploidy populations Grünig et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 053
Reposted by Oscar SilvaMolecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Gaut et al. synthesize key lessons and outstanding challenges concerning the action of natural selection on plant genomes, revealing the power and some of the limits of population genomics to infer the dynamics of selection on plant genomes. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #societyjournal 11310
Reposted by Oscar SilvaPetra Levin @redrockcity.bsky.social · 19/09/20264 years (!) in the making, in this review Jade Wang and I detail the fundamental processes underlying growth, the cell autonomous nature of homeostatic control, and the contribution of stochasticity to both. TL;DR Bacteria are more like teenagers than you think. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comBacterial growth rate in populations and single cells - Nature MicrobiologyIn this Perspective, Levin and Wang give a brief history of bacterial growth rate and discuss how it is connected to nutrient availability and macromolecule synthesis, with a focus on (p)ppGpp as a ce... 17430
Reposted by Oscar SilvaSandra Álvarez @sabifo4.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Keen on learning how to use Bayesian model selection to test different hypotheses of diversification? 🦴🧬🕰️ Check our latest work in Molecular Biology and Evolution! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... With @zihengyang.bsky.social, @phil-donoghue.bsky.social, and @mariodosreis.bsky.social 💫 (1/2)academic.oup.comOn the origin of animals and placental mammals: a critique of literalist readings of the fossil recordAbstract. The fossil record is incomplete, as evidenced by the pervasive presence of ghost lineages throughout the Tree of Life. For example, across placen 13923
Oscar Silva @oscar-silva.bsky.social · 19/09/2026www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...theguardian.com‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western biasEqual Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display 010
Reposted by Oscar Silva📑 EvoDevo Papers @evodevo-papers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Mechanisms of Phenotypic Evolution from Molecules to Organisms: Integrating Evolutionary Biochemistry and Evolutionary Developmental Biology pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42751651 #EvoDevo 084
Reposted by Oscar Silvaagenciasinc.es @agenciasinc.es · 18/09/2026Tres de los mayores expertos españoles en IA advierten de que el discurso apocalíptico sobre la superinteligencia y el “riesgo de extinción” sirve como cortina de humo para ocultar problemas reales e inmediatos de la tecnologíaagenciasinc.esDistracción, ‘marketing’ y cero responsabilidades: expertos analizan los verdaderos riesgos tras el pánico por la IATres de los mayores expertos españoles en inteligencia artificial advierten de que el discurso apocalíptico sobre la superinteligencia y el “riesgo de extinción” sirve como cortina de humo para oculta... 03137
Reposted by Oscar SilvaDaohan "Rex" Jiang @rexjiang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New work from my former labmate Mark Kim on the origin of multicellularity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgUnicellular and Multicellular Modes of Selection Impose Distinct Constraints on Cellular Phenotype EvolutionSingle-cell sequencing data have revealed that cellular phenotypes, such as gene expression states, are often low-dimensional, suggesting that cellular variation may arise from combinations of a small... 031
Reposted by Oscar SilvaGenetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026🧬🌱 Using QTL mapping, a new study characterizes #Sorghum diploid and tetraploid interspecific families to understand how polyploid-derived chromosomes behave when returned to diploidy. Find out more in the September issue of #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/BpWEuP8 022
Reposted by Oscar SilvaRob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Today in @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Sequencing & Assembly Committee meeting with a presentation from Dmitry Antipov! TTT www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666979X26001850 - Automatic generation of model sequences for complex regions in assembly graphs with TTT #biodiveristy #genomicssciencedirect.com 043
Reposted by Oscar SilvaWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2026#OtD 16 Sep 1973 Chilean communist folk singer and musician Victor Jara was murdered by Pinochet's troops following his US-backed coup a few days before. He was brutally tortured and shot over 40 times in the Chile Stadium stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8846... 312969
Reposted by Oscar SilvaWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2026#OtD 16 Sep 1874 (or 1873) Mexican anarchist communist Ricardo Flores Magón was born in an Indigenous Mazatec community in Oaxaca. He was one of the major thinkers of and activists in the Mexican revolution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8835... 111036
Reposted by Oscar SilvaSystematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Join us Nov 13th for #YSF2026, a completely free, online conference where postgraduate students (and other early career researchers) present their work on systematics, taxonomy and/or phylogenetics. Abstract submission closes Oct 24th! REGISTER: tinyurl.com/bdzxt2ht systass.org/young-system...tinyurl.comYSF2026 Registration FormWelcome to the YSF2026 Registration and Abstract Submission form. This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 13th 2026. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t... 067
Reposted by Oscar SilvabioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026An explicit birth-death-reticulation model for studying the diversification of phylogenetic networks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 032
Reposted by Oscar SilvaEd Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/ 271618359
Reposted by Oscar SilvaTrends in Genetics @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"The Study of Evolvability in Gene Regulatory Networks" by Alger Jorritsma, Aaron Kiggen, Steven Van Belleghem, & Pieter van den Berg FREE till Oct 27th at authors.elsevier.com/a/1nkTMcQbJI... 065
Oscar Silva @oscar-silva.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Es cierto que el equipo aéreo, naval y terrestre de las fuerzas armadas de México pide a gritos por su reposo en el museo; pero no olvidemos que su función no es resistir una intervención extranjera, sino la contrainsurgencia*. *Y dar pena en cada desfile militar del 16 de septiembre. 110
Reposted by Oscar SilvaHarim B. Gutiérrez @harimbgutierrez.bsky.social · 16/09/20261- 🧵No fue don Porfirio Díaz, no fue Maximiliano de Habsburgo; el iniciador de la tradición de celebrar el grito de Independencia fue don Ignacio López Rayón. repositorio.inah.gob.mx/o-7016repositorio.inah.gob.mxIgnacio López Rayón. 1119
Reposted by Oscar SilvaBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026From the new issue: Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection – Zhixiang Cheng Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky 054
Reposted by Oscar Silvain silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · 15/09/2026🧬 Comparative analysis of gene regulatory networks identifies conserved regulators in seed plants by @donat.bsky.social and @andreabraeutigam.bsky.social buff.ly/O5G8I3I #PlantScience #genetics #modeldoi.orgValidate UserAbstract. Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) based on transcription factors (TFs) control development and environmental responses. In this study, GRNs were in 053
Reposted by Oscar SilvaPlant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 11/09/2026🌱🧬Single-cell & spatial omics reveal cellular heterogeneity in plants but data integration & interpretation remain challenging Embedding these data in evolutionary models & moving from atlases to mechanisms could unlock their potential for crop improvement #plantsci academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...academic.oup.comDecoding plants cell by cell: opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biologySingle-cell and spatial biology techniques present new opportunities for plant research but also come with methodological considerations, technical limitat 1115
Reposted by Oscar SilvaJoelle Lafond, PhD @joellelafond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026🚨Our new preprint is out! 🤩 🌟 Mutation rates vary widely across taxa, and decades of research have sought to explain why. ♀️♂️ Reproductive modes, and evolutionary shifts between them, could help explain some of this variation. ❓ So what does the evidence tell us? 👀 Read our preprint to find out!doi.orgReproductive mode and the evolution of mutation rate 11713
Reposted by Oscar SilvaWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/09/2026#OtD 14 Sep 1867 volume one of Karl Marx's Capital first appeared in Germany. Since then it has been studied widely by workers around the world wanting to understand capitalism. While long, it is definitely worth reading for all working-class militants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8625... 06629
Oscar Silva @oscar-silva.bsky.social · 14/09/2026www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgRethinking the origin of life at seafloor hydrothermal vents | PNASAlkaline vents have dominated a class of hypotheses for the origins of life since their discovery a quarter of century ago, but advances in underst... 000
Reposted by Oscar SilvaEvgenii Protasov @evgenii-protasov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Eras of bioinformatics technologies from command-line interfaces to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots #bioinformatics #AI #MicroSky doi.org/10.1093/bib/...doi.orgEras of bioinformatics technologies from command-line interfaces to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbotsAbstract. Over the past 75 years, especially the recent quarter century, bioinformatics has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from a specialize 011
Reposted by Oscar SilvaChuliang Song @clsong.com · 10/09/2026A wonderful review by Stefano on 100 years of Lotka–Volterra models. Don’t miss the incredibly detailed Supplement, truly the “War and Peace” of LV models. I really wish it had existed when I was a grad student! doi.org/10.1146/annu...doi.orgOne Hundred Years of Lotka–Volterra ModelsOver the past century, the generalized Lotka–Volterra (GLV) model has grown from a mathematical curiosity to a cornerstone of theoretical ecology. Here we celebrate the enduring legacy of Lotka and Vo... 08337
Reposted by Oscar SilvaChuliang Song @clsong.com · 04/09/2026Very grateful to the editorial board for the opportunity to write about a topic I care deeply about. This review is deliberately opinionated, a personal view of where theory in community ecology stands and where it might go next. Pushback and disagreement are very welcome! doi.org/10.1146/annu...doi.orgToward a Conceptual Commons for Theory in Community EcologyCommunity ecology has developed a rich and increasingly diverse body of theory, but its rapid expansion has outpaced efforts to compare and synthesize competing frameworks. As a result, semantic ambig... 15213
Reposted by Oscar Silvachris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Very excited for this guide to the history of Darwinian evolutionary biology from David Depew. It sheds great light on the creative power of natural selection, while offering characteristically insightful analyses of Darwinism's profound implications for science, society, philosophy, and politics.cambridge.orgDarwinismCambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Darwinism 0174
Reposted by Oscar SilvaProfesor Ego (Maik Civeira) @maikciveira.bsky.social · 11/09/2026El 11 de septiembre de 1973: El golpe de Estado que derrocó a Salvador Allende y llevó a Augusto Pinochet al poder en Chile. youtu.be/6nOaPrXceFs?...youtu.beEl golpe militar de Chile- Bully Magnets - Historia DocumentalYouTube video by Bully Magnets - Historia Documental 011
Reposted by Oscar SilvaJournal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Can selfish genetic elements get away with their selfishness? This depends on ecology of their host organisms. Under certain conditions, selfish genetic elements may spread virtually unopposed by selection: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @martijnschenkel.bsky.social @arvidagren.bsky.social & M. Pattendoi.orgThe ecological theatre of selfish elementsAbstract. Some selfish genetic elements enhance their transmission to the next generation by interfering with and eliminating competing variants within the 0188
Reposted by Oscar SilvaYann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The LBGB team at @genoscopeumr.bsky.social, led by @jm-aury.bsky.social, recently released Hobrac, a tool to investigate synteny between genomes! Can be used for assembly validation or comparative genomics. doi.org/10.64898/202... github.com/Genoscope-LB... See below for what Hobrac can do: 12218
Reposted by Oscar SilvaEvgenii Protasov @evgenii-protasov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Alternative genetic codes in bacteria and archaea identified with a fast k-mer–based algorithm #microbiology #genetics #archaea #bacteria #MicroSky @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 175
Oscar Silva @oscar-silva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Should we take Richard Goldschmidt’s ideas about evolution more seriously from now on? 010
