With this new position in Barcelona, I am now only missing Hawai'i and (soon) Indonesia on the list of Pokemon locations I have worked in.
So if anyone has any jobs going there.
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Considering my book "The Tree of Life" for introductory evolution class? I have a few complimentary copies to evaluate. Please DM me. And please repost.
Review in Science described it as "..a fantastic informal introduction to a course on evolution.. recommended it to my first-year students".
I was never more elated than when my journalist partner told me that the metrics on our piece about how we mathematically model evolution got "above average" traffic.
Our tardigrade articles were obviously more successful, but those risky small successes feel so much better.
[New Paper] is on the COVER of @RSocPublishing
Royal Society Open Science! We name 5 new species of hot vent limpets from Indian Ocean -- phylogenetics indicate this family used Indian Ocean as a corridor to disperse from Pacific to Atlantic.
OPEN ACCESS: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science?
The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....
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#biodiversity #bioinformatics Summer School ... 21-26 June in Siegen, Germany co-organised by @sib.swiss & @denbi.bsky.social
www.sib.swiss/training/cou...
🟢 eDNA & ecosystems
🟣 pangenome diversity
🔵 population genetics
🟡 comparative genomics
Register to apply, selections will start from March 16th
Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!
After the conclusion of the second Jurassic World, that is kind of what I wanted for the third. A Shin Godzilla style Bureaucracy Movie with senators rushing from room to room trying to work out how sauropod crop destruction affects agricultural subsidies and insurance premiums.
On the way to the Embassy!
Marc Mapalo & Javier Ortega-Hernández, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8911114/v1
Marc Mapalo & Javier Ortega-Hernández, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8911114/v1
Mapalo & Ortega-Hernández (2026-02 preprint, Research Square)（オープンアクセス open access）
「カンブリア紀中期の巨視的な緩歩動物の祖先」
A middle Cambrian macroscopic tardigrade ancestor
doi.org/10.21203/rs....
カンブリア紀中期のバージェス頁岩の葉足動物Aysheaia pedunculataを，ステム緩歩動物（クマムシ類）として支持！！
I just received an email from Avanti West Coast that, as I have not used my Delay and Repay account in 2 years, they will be closing it.
I haven't lived in the UK for 8 years. I have had that account since 2009.
This is not the flex you think it is.
There is a reason FigTree has become such an industry standard. It's a great piece of kit, and I'm excited to try out PearTree too!
Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.
So the description on the website calls it the Little Bean Pokemon, and I wonder if it might be the Javan Eagle because it'll become more coffee-inspired as it grows up. Browt has that kind of raw coffee bean pale green colour, too... so maybe they'll roast it as it evolves?
Be part of the global biodiversity genomics community 🌍🧬🚀
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Looks can be deceiving: discordances in phylogeny and morphology within loricate choanoflagellates royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/article... | #OpenBiology #CellularBiology #Genomics #Microbiology
Always pleasing to see Goodwin suffer a Bad Loss
This is a really cute idea for the 30th Anniversary.
But I can't just choose 1. All 3 of these deserve the top spot.
www.serebii.net/pokemon30/#a...
Circular snail plot showing assembly statistics with 1,000 size-ordered bins representing 0.1% each of a 493 million base pair assembly, dark grey bars indicating sequence length distribution, concentric rings for scaffold count, scaffold length, longest scaffold, N50 and N90 lengths, a pie chart for BUSCO completeness, and a composition legend for GC, AT, and N content percentages.
High-quality genomes help us study evolutionary uniqueness, population history and conservation needs: A new ERGA–BGE reference genome for the Pyrenean “milky worm” sheds light on the evolution & conservation of little-known soil biodiversity. #LIBresearch
© Novo et al., CC BY 4.
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Been having some issues with some important post that appears to have disappeared, and genuinely can't thank An Post and Japan Post for how generous, helpful and accommodating they have been trying to help me find it.
(the *senders* of aforementioned missing post, on the other hand...)
Khakurel & Höhna (2026-02, Systematic Biology)
A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
Packing up the house, checking all the documentation, making sure i's and dotted and t's crossed.
Quasi-Final Tax Return Submission tomorrow!
2000-1600 I could read in my head, 1500 onwards I was forced to read aloud but I managed to make it to 1100 in the end, with my Norwegian and German lessons doing a lot of the heavy lifting on that penultimate paragraph.
Highly successful retreat of the CEG (comparative and Evolutionary Genomics) research group to Kongsberg. The main aims was to update and upgrade the group's webpage as well as social activities such as a ski tour.
www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
I feel like this is the Big Tension of the shift between the two head writers. It turns up a lot in Stormblood (see: Fordola) but then evens out in tone in Shadowbringers, where it becomes a game that doesn't care about politics anymore.
It just has the Ick in the conflict between their priorities..
The few observations that I have made are necessarily imperfect, but I send them, as they afford a method which might lead a naturalist to notice habits otherwise difficult to observe, and so to arrive at conclusions which I in my ignorance of natural history must leave to others. C. V. Bovs
We just don't end papers like this any more. Maybe the world would be better if we did?
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Photo of the 2026 DMV Games Catalog cover. It has a yellow, red, and blue colored map of the DC, Maryland, Virginia area with the Designed in the DMV logo in the middle. Other text says "Human Made with Love. Spring 2026. Locally-crafted zines, ttrpgs and other delights from DMV Tabletop designers"
The latest edition of the DMV Games Catalog is nearly ready!
This one features 22 (!!!) local ttrpg and board game designers.
We will be getting this out to stores and @ipr.bsky.social soon!
The cover of the Ghost in the Shell RPG, an illustration of the Major in a bodysuit, plugged into a machine.
Finally announced! I co-designed and co-wrote The Ghost in the Shell Roleplaying Game alongside Alessio Cavatore.
It was a real pleasure to write and design for such a beloved world and story. I loved delving deep into the complex characters who occupy this dark world. GitS fans are in for a treat!
I was going to skip it (as I liked 8 but haven't really enjoyed a JJ Abrams thing since the first season of Lost), but I went because it was a friend's birthday party.
Movie and dinner? What could go wrong?
The sourness in the whole group afterwards was palpable for the whole night.
in honor of the late great Tom Noonan, i want to encourage everyone to watch (or rewatch) one of my favorite things: They're Made Out Of Meat, an underseen sci-fi short film directed by Stephen O'Regan, starring Noonan and Ben Bailey. Worth the 7 minutes!
