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Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Our last preprint and the first paper of our lab on pure cytogenomics 😍

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Cytogenomic signatures of hybridisation in the genus Carpobrotus reveal biased parental dominance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Our beloved Pepi (Josefa González) at the @ibb-botanic.bsky.social is one of them! The sixt in the second row. Congrats @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social !!

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Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Agreed, but in that specific case would the overall (human+AI) diagnostic power improve?

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

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InvAdapt Lab @invadapt.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Today at the session on invasive species organised by prismàtic

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Excited to be part of the amazing team behind our upcoming symposium on Sex Evolution at #SMBE2026! 🔹 Daniel Jeffries 🔹 Paul Jay 🔹 @sphaeromeria.bsky.social 🔹 @astridboehne.bsky.social 🔹 @cbenvenuto.bsky.social Join us in Copenhagen for cutting-edge discussions on #sex #evolution

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Physalia-courses@ONLINE @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This week we're running the Transposable Elements course with @valentinapeona.bsky.social and @ritarebollo.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #TE25 #Bioinformatics #Genomics

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 25/10/2025

‼️ À Punt emite un programa de corridas de toros “históricas” mientras miles de personas se manifiestan contra Mazón un año después de la dana. La televisión valenciana ha emitido la feria de toros de Alicante de 1997 en lugar de las masivas protestas que tienen lugar en la capital

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À Punt emite un programa de corridas de toros "históricas" mientras miles de personas se manifiestan contra Mazón un año después de la dana

La televisión valenciana ha emitido la feria de toros de Alicante de 1997 en lugar de las masivas protestas que tienen lugar en la capital por el aniversario de la dana

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Sociedad Botánica Española @sebot.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

"ADN repetitivo, intersección entre la citogenética y la genómica", con Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social, Institut Botànic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social. 📺 youtu.be/FNP6dfxMhkA?...

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Pepi (Josefa) González @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Nuestro instituto @ibb-botanic.bsky.social ha propuesto una tematica, contactame si estas interesada/o

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David Peris @davidperis.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#LabPaleoecology from the @ibb-botanic.bsky.social visited ALBA synchrotron for the first time to scan fossil insects embedded in amber. Results are very promising!

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Organizing the National Course of Genetics 🧬 by @segenetica.bsky.social and Conexion Genoma @csic.es alongside @dariloops.bsky.social has been a blast! A great opportunity for young researchers to learn and interact with leaders in the filed of #genomics during a whole week - the future is bright!

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Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Interested in repetitive DNA? We are organising a free workshop on Oct 2nd at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona! All organisms included - not only plants ;-) Last chance for registration, don’t miss it! bit.ly/repetitiveDN...

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IBB-UAB @ibb-uab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🧐 El grup de recerca de la Integritat i la Inestabilitat del Genoma, liderat per la investigadora Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, demostra que els canvis en la temperatura ambiental poden alterar els processos genètics per a la reproducció i l’evolució de les espècies. @aruizherrera.bsky.social #IBBpapers

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Lucia Campos @luciacamdom.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Interested in repetitive DNA? We are organising a free repetitive DNA workshop this Oct 2nd at the Botanical Institute in Barcelona! Registration is open until September 7th :) bit.ly/repetitiveDN...

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Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Family photo of the 2025 Workshop of the @treeofsex.bsky.social ! Thanks everyone for attending and see you soon!

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Tree of Sex @treeofsex.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Tree of Sex annual workshop started today. It will be two days packed with reproductive biology.

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Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I can see they are doing quite well! Great!

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Mireia Querol Rovira • Biologueando • Divulgación científica @biologueando.com · 09/05/2025

Esta es Pepita, la salamanquesa🦎 Como todas las salamanquesas,Pepita: ❌NO es venenosa💀 ❌NO te muerde👹 ❌NO se come tu ropa👕 ❌NO entra por ningún orificio de tu cuerpo para comerte desde dentro👃 😍Es preciosa 🦟Come bichos Sé responsable. No la mates y repostea para proteger a Pepita.✌️

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🌱🌎 Join us to learn about the newly published paper ‘The winner takes it all: a single genotype of Kalanchoe ×houghtonii is a global invader’ in @annbot.bsky.social by @joanperepd.bsky.social and co-authors. 🧵(1/7) 👉 doi.org/pjvs @sphaeromeria.bsky.social @ibb-botanic.bsky.social #AoBpapers

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Lisa Pokorny @calyptrochaeta.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

¿Te interesan las áreas megadiversas? En ellas el paisaje puede estar dominado por muy pocas especies (hiperdominancia). Te proponemos un TFM en el RJB @csic.es para explorar este fenómeno en el género de leguminosas 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 DC. (JAEINT25_EX_0917) @sebot.bsky.social @jovenesbotanica.bsky.social

Fruiting 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 by the Tormes in Barco de Ávila, Spain.
With minor modifications from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adenocarpus_hispanicus.jpg Author: Xemenendura (2018/07/18). Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Flowering 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 in Valverde del Camino, Spain. Image downloaded from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adenocarpus_telonensis_en_flor.jpg Author: FRANCISCOR (2014/04/15). Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘴 leaves, Roque de los Muchachos, Canary Islands, Spain. With minor modifications from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adenocarpus_viscosus_02.jpg Author: Syrio (2023/10/18). Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 DC. in GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-04-03.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Massive canary in the coalmine moment

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada. Jason Stanley who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939 says US may become a 'fascist dictatorship'

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Maya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A paywalled article from @nature.com bemoaning the exploitation of scientists' unpaid labour. Chef's kiss. Perfection. No notes.

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Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is so destructive and idiotic. mRNA vaccines are one of the most exciting opportunities to tackle diseases - from infectious disease to cancer and beyond - and these morons want to shut it down.

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naturepoker @binomicalabs.org · 15/03/2025

The letter contains some fascinating insight into workings of a society operated paper vs a for-profit one, and mentions figures specific to operation of MBE. Well worth a read if you're interested in academic publications landscape.

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The world’s richest man cries because his stocks fell and uses the White House for a Tesla advert. Meanwhile thousands of Americans he made jobless have no food. Power only cares about itself. Which why the only real power is PEOPLE POWER. Time to bring the oligarchs down

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

One of these things is not like the others

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Can we stop talking throwing around words like "autocracy" and "oligarchy" when talking about America's uncertain future? According to history, political experts, and a little-known book called "a dictionary," America is ALREADY in the throes of fascism.

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The 'Threat to Democracy' Is Over

It's time to admit that the fascism we feared is already here.

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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Matthias Benoit @mattbnt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!

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Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering - Nature

Gene duplication and subsequent paralogue diversification are major obstacles to genotype-to-phenotype predictability.

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Join us on Wednesday, March 5, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month features Maya Wilson Brown on Capsella genetic variation and Nomar Waminal on the Crocus panrepeatome! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

Flyer for the March 5, 2025, Polyploidy Webinar that will take place at 11 AM PST. This webinar feature's Maya Wilson Brown from Michigan State University presenting "Genetic variation of allotetraploid Capsella bursa-pastoris in introduced range" and Nomar Waminal of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research presenting "The Crocus panrepeatome: duplication, dynamics, and dysploidy".

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Europe, Canada, and the rest of the free world need stronger alliances right now to face the threat of the rogue USA.

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Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺 @plantepigenetics.ch · 03/10/2020

Current state of EU legislation on crop breeding summed up in one picture. Note that all plants carry the same mutation! One does not need to be a scientist to understand the this legislation makes no sense. #GMOs #CommonSense @testbiotech

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Sri Kosuri @srikosuri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

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Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Yes, it can be very beautiful! This one is "our" K. tubiflora indeed (systematic name changes)!

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It turns out that when an embryo finds itself in an inhospitable environment, it can... go dormant. In many species this is not reversible, the embryos die. But in 130 species of mammals, embryos can reverse and start developing again pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Molecular Regulation of Paused Pluripotency in Early Mammalian Embryos and Stem Cells
Vera A van der Weijden 1, Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu 1,*

PMCID: PMC8353277 PMID: 34386497
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The energetically costly mammalian investment in gestation and lactation requires plentiful nutritional sources and thus links the environmental conditions to reproductive success. Flexibility in adjusting developmental timing enhances chances of survival in adverse conditions. Over 130 mammalian species can reversibly pause early embryonic development by switching to a near dormant state that can be sustained for months, a phenomenon called embryonic diapause. Lineage-specific cells are retained during diapause, and they proliferate and differentiate upon activation. Studying diapause thus reveals principles of pluripotency and dormancy and is not only relevant for development, but also for regeneration and cancer. In this review, we focus on the molecular regulation of diapause in early mammalian embryos and relate it to maintenance of potency in stem cells in vitro. Diapause is established and maintained by active rewiring of the embryonic metabolome, epigenome, and gene expression in communication with maternal tissues. Herein, we particularly discuss factors required at distinct stages of diapause to induce, maintain, and terminate dormancy.

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Grainger Lab @graingerlab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

If you're interested in chromosome biology (DNA folding, gene regulation, replication, polymer modelling and more) we're organising the below this autumn. It'd be great to see you there. Please share if you can. :-)

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Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Desde el proyecto CytoGenLAB en el Instituto Botánico de Barcelona (CSIC-CMCNB), estamos buscando candidatos para solicitar un contrato predoctoral de Formación de Profesorado Universitario (FPU) para trabajar en la genómica de las invasiones de plantas. Más detalles 👇

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Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Des del projecte CytoGenLAB a l'Institut Botànic de Barcelona (CSIC-CMCNB), estem buscant candidats per a sol·licitar un contracte predoctoral de Formació de Professorat Universitari (FPU) per a treballar en la genòmica de les invasions de plantes. Més detalls 👇

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Julio Rozas @jrozasub.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

@segenetica.bsky.social Empezamos 2025 con muchas ganas de seguir creciendo, este año celebramos nuestro XLIV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Genética en la preciosa ciudad de Cartagena👏 🗓️Reserva las fechas 8-11 Julio 2025 ¡Te esperamos! 🌐Mantente al día de las novedades: seg2025.segenetica.es

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SEG2025 – XLIV Congreso Sociedad Española de Genética

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