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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

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Grill Lab @ MPI-CBG @grill-lab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

In our latest preprint we show that Lifeact::mKate2 can reverse the chirality of active torques in the actomyosin cortex. This results in cortical flows with opposite handedness during left-right symmetry breaking, leading to the formation of situs inversus worms. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Cool! Has anyone properly mapped the dex and sin forms within and across species?

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Corolla aestivation is easier to see on a large flower. Here is Muenchhusia moscheuta 'Balhiwhi' Luna™ White (#Malvaceae) with dextrorse contorted aestivation. But in other cultivars of this species, I see sinistrorse contorted aestivation (📷: Steve Law CCBYSA2). #aestivation #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a large, white hibiscus flower. The right margins are innermost. An inset diagram shows the corolla aestivation. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

Photo of a large, pink hibiscus flower. The left margins are innermost. An inset diagram shows the corolla aestivation.

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

That snail is living a life in R4 without me these days 😀

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naturepoker @binomicalabs.org · 04/06/2026

Hey IQTree3 paper is out. Bread and butter for tree building anything in my workflow. They have a pretty standout documentation too. 🖥️🧬 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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IQ-TREE 3: phylogenomic inference software using complex evolutionary models

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih

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Jitka Polechová @polejit.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

New #ecoevo paper @pnas.org: Evolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments. I show that feedback between evolutionary and population dynamics can create a tipping point where genetic variance erodes, and species’ ranges contract or fragment www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #popgen 🧬🧪 🌎

Drawing shows a group of chimeric species at the center, from which three spirals of diversity loss lead to a single form: a bird, a fish, or a fox. Image credit: Tereza Nekovarova.

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

At a number of town halls, the VC has spoken about “excellence.” Someone asked her how she defined it. Her answer, and I paraphrase: “I know it when I see it.”

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hope you also have your "book map" with you too 😉

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Field work in one of the smallest countries, Sao Tome, looking for one of the largest snails, unfortunately also endangered. Success! Giant Obo snail 🐌, bigger than your regular Giant African land snail - and sinistral coiling. Just born baby = garden snail size 😮 #snails #saotome #chirality

Very large snail, held in hand, looking at camera. Man in blue t-shirt behind

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Field work in one of the smallest countries, Sao Tome, looking for one of the largest snails, unfortunately also endangered. Success! Giant Obo snail, bigger than your regular Giant African land snail - and sinistral coiling. #snails #saotome #chirality

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Cuba is heading for a humanitarian disaster, because the US is using starvation to promote regime change. Read more here: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte.... Help here: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... #Cuba #BloqueoACuba #CubaEmbargo #USCuba #JustGiving

El Yunque mountain viewed from Baracoa, Eastern Cuba

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The Malacological Society of London @malacsoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🙏Please share🙏 🐌Applications are open for MSL travel grants!🐌 ⭐Deadline = 1st March (for travel between 1st June and 30th November) ⭐£500 available for members ⭐£300 available for non-members malacsoc.org.uk/awards-and-g...

Image of two snails on leaf matter. Euglandina tenella (Strebel, 1875) and Helicina sp., with kind permission to MSL to use image from Tadeo De Jesús Esquivel Blanco and Luis Armando Navarro Zarco

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I need to insure a snail shell - the remains of "Jeremy the shellebrity snail" - for international travel. It is going to be the centrepoint of Netherlands museum exhibit! But what value do I put on a one in million snail?! #snail #snaillove

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"With free bar stocked with local beer" I think I meant 🍺

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I've been sitting on this for over a month...but given how cross I am with @royalsociety.org at their ongoing inaction over #Elon #Musk I thought I'd share this. They invited me to serve on their Public Engagement Committee; I could have been more eloquent, but I had to give a firm "no"...

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Reporting back from the frontline of the 59th iteration of PopGroup conference in Lille, only the 2nd ever outside the UK. With a free bar stocked with local bar, excellent frites for the poster session and top quality food, why would we ever hold it anywhere again?! 😁 #pgg59 #popgroup59 #conference

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Shades of blue and red in a slice through an immuno stained brain showing some deliciously lovely looking mushroom body lobes - ripe for investigation during a funded PhD - and the central complex. Image credit: Dr Max Farnworth

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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina. One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st Please share among potential students!

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 02/12/2025

In time for the festive season, my latest paper charts the 25 million year story of how mistletoe and songbirds somersaulted across the Americas, diversifying as they went. Strap in for an epic ecological tale #MistletoeMunchersFromWayBack 1/12 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Evolutionary dynamics of dietary specialisation – insights from Neotropical mistletoe‐dependent frugivores

Mistletoes occur worldwide, with most relying on birds to disperse their sticky seeds to suitable hosts. There has been considerable ecological research on these interactions, emphasizing those birds....

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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

"Rediscovery of the greater chestnut #weevil highlights the power of digital platforms in biodiversity research and conservation" spkl.io/63326Ad07u @Michael A. Charles & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

Charles et al. rediscover the presumed - extinct greater chestnut weevil (Curculio caryatrypes) in the eastern US via iNaturalist, and genomic data and field surveys confirm identity and active reproduction, revealing persistence despite American chestnut collapse and underscoring the power of digital platforms for biodiversity research and conservation

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Apparently "Nottingham has evolved into one of the largest university estates in the country ..." Blame "evolution", not themselves, eh? No apologies, of course, but at least they are selling Castle Meadow, which has cost nearly £100m and is not fit for purpose. At a huge loss, of course. #UoN

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Two days of demos and inspirational speeches outside Trent building - while university council decide our future but without our consultation, or consideration of the local and East Midlands community. #UoN promotes #WeAreUoN hashtag but does not listen. #University #eastmidlands @ucu.org.uk

UCU union demo outside university of Nottingham building. Lots of pink!

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

BREAKING The University of Nottingham has decided to lead the way in being the first 🥇 Russell group university to NOT do modern languages. Music is also gone! 🗡️ Apparently, neither are necessary for a world "top 100" university with charitable status. ENDS #UoN #Russell @ucu.org.uk #UCU

Image shows planned course closures in the Faculty of Arts, including the whole of modern languages and music. This will inevitably lead to closure of the whole departments and multiple job losses

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Alison Wright @alielw.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬 We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies. Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science. I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The world needs more Polymita 🐌 This one is Polymita sulpurosa, superb pic by Julio Larramendi. We now have a genome sequence! 🌝 #snails #polymita

Beautifully patterned and colourful snail and shell

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Problems and progress in getting molluscan 🐌 genome assemblies, new paper out. Although the publication was much delayed, we recently redid the analysis, finding that actually not much ahs improved 😔 academic.oup.com/mollus/artic... 🧬 & 🖥️ #genomics #snails #molluscs

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Molluscan genome assemblies—problems and progress

A reference genome assembly is a starting point for research (Davison & Neiman, 2021) in a wide variety of subdisciplines of biology, including mollusc

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/11/2025

How does a single cuckoo species evolve eggs that mimic those of many different hosts? In a new Science study, researchers report genomic data that reveal a complex geographic mosaic of cuckoo-host coevolution. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4nEZIfY

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Jamie Dunning @j-dunning.net · 28/10/2025

We are still interested in any found twite feathers for a study on the relationships and genetic diversity between the British groups - particularly now for birds of Scottish origin in the NE of England or, birds on the Avon. DM me for me more info. #birdringing

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Science Magazine @science.org · 27/10/2025

Talk about an in-flight meal. For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: scim.ag/3Jqldmn

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Angus Davison @snaildoc.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Registered - looking forward to it 🐌🍷🧀

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POPGROUP59 @popgroup2026.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

If we act quickly, a massive public outcry could convince Ofgem to reject it. More than 25,000 people have signed in the last 24 hours. Add your name now: 38d.gs/MuskEnergy_b...

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I thought this headline was a joke when I first read it, but no…it's real.

I've signed a petition telling Ofgem to reject Musk's application to supply electricity to British households. Will you join me and add your name?

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

RFK has announced that he is developing a vaccine against all viruses. Yes, every single one. The whole, uh, "phylum"

RFK Jr: “We're developing a universal vaccine at NIH which is a vaccine that addresses the entire phylum of viruses.”

“It's a vaccine that mimics natural immunity and it is effective against any kind of mutation.”

“We believe it's gonna be effective against not only coronaviruses but also flu.”

“And it's gonna be a much safer and a much more effective vaccine.”

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Elisa Zhang, Ph.D. @elisazhang.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Check out this awesome study from my phenomenally talented colleague @accorsi-alice.bsky.social ! Apple snails can regrow their eyes! How do they do this? 👀 Read below ⬇️ to find out more! #regeneration

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