New paper out in MBE! 🧵
"Genomic Perplexity and the Evolution of Context-Dependent Function"
The big idea: genes don't have fixed functions. Function emerges from context - genomic, cellular, environmental. And we can quantify this. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
I'm excited to announce the 2027 Gordon Research Seminar on Consciousness, Anesthesia, and Evolutionary biology, which I am co-chairing!
It's a fantastic GRS/C, and this year we're making a concerted push for more participation from evolutionary biologists.
Please RT!
www.grc.org/consciousnes...
Are you a Drosophila researcher & member of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social (at any level of training)?
Please vote in the Flyboard elections (we have an amazing slate of candidates) before Feb 20, 2026. Please check your email or go to this website to vote: genetics-gsa.org/2026-fly-boa...
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The way to accelerate science is to SLOW it down.
Fewer papers please! We’re drowning in meaningless text.
One GREAT paper per lab per decade is more than enough.
q.e.d 👇
We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Zuckerkandl Prize! Read the announcement here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Congratulations to our winners, Chun Wu, Nicholas Paradis, and Khushi Jain, from
@rowanuniversity.bsky.social !
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Why do I so often feel that suggesting this is tantamount to a revolutionary act? I think there's something in here about it not /feeling hard enough/ and our idea of Good Science entailing painful levels of sophistication...
Wow!
What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.
Wow. This really hits hard. I'm sorry.
I love this! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome!
Interested in consciousness? Join the club. And join us tomorrow (noon on Zoom) for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club.
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
The Journal of Molecular Evolution's 2025 European meeting kicks off today in Madrid! Follow @jmolev.bsky.social for updates. #JME2025
In her final comments, @caraweisman.bsky.social wisely urges us first to exhaust simple explanations. Francis Crick said something similar about his method for deducing the structure of DNA. I'll try to find the quote later.
Posts will continue over on X, despite its other nefariousness, at @JMolEvo.
Well, this didn't last long - Bluesky marked the account as spam. Guess I posted too much science?
Fly labs — Now is the time to show some solidarity and chip in support for this vital resource!
I'm semi-live tweeting the 2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, @eseb2025.bsky.social, over at @jmolev.bsky.social !
Hello, Bluesky!
It's an action packed couple weeks for JME. We're in Spain for
@eseb2025.bsky.social and our very own Journal of Molecular Evolution Advances meeting #JME2025, happening a few days afterward in Madrid. We'll be tweeting highlights from both meetings. Follow us to stay updated!
I am really stoked for this.
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NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
