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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 16d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 23d

🇧🇷Saí-de-perna-amarela
🌎Cyanerpes caeruleus
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante

A saí-de-perna-amarela é um Passeriforme da família Thraupidae.

📷 Ester Ramirez

Um pequeno pássaro azul brilhante com pernas e pés amarelos brilhantes está empoleirado em um galho. Ele tem uma mancha preta no peito e no abdômen. O fundo é verde borrado.
Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · 26d

Important heads up! This is crazy

James Bonfield @jbonfield.bsky.social · 26d

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.

Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

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Paulo Moreira @paulomoreira.bsky.social · 29d

PODE JÁ!!

depois de dois anos da primeira tira, completando agora com o personagem abrindo a latinha de cerveja que deve tá quente já mas fodase, bolsonaro condenado cuida pai sextou

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Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · Sep 10

Jasmin Rees PhD chapter as a paper just out at the AJHG @ajhgnews.bsky.social, with Sergi Castellano, who first envisioned the study. Jas investigated signatures of human local genetic adaptation in hundreds of micronutrient-associated genes.

The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · Sep 10

📣New from @aidaandres.bsky.social & co
📄Global impact of micronutrients in modern human evolution

Global impact of micronutrients in modern human evolution

In this study, Rees et al. evaluate the role of dietary micronutrients in driving local genetic adaptation and population differentiation in humans. The authors find evidence that micronutrient-associ...

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · Sep 11

SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...

Robust and accurate Bayesian inference of genome-wide genealogies for hundreds of genomes - Nature Genetics

SINGER is a method for creating ancestral recombination graphs to understand the genealogical history of genomes. The method has increased speed, and thus scalability, without sacrificing accuracy.

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.

🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3

More information: smbe2026.org/symposia

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Laura Vilà Valls @lvilavalls.bsky.social · Sep 3

Excited to share our new preprint🙌
It's the first human WGS study in Sudan. We uncover one of the strongest selection signals to date, pointing to post-admixture adaptation to malaria in Copts. Huge thanks to all co-authors. @aidaandres.bsky.social @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social @ebosch1972.bsky.social

medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sudan's complex genetic admixture history drives adaptation to malaria in Sudanese Copts https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.25334828v1

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ah I see… I’m joining the “it’s all epistasis” team. Thanks!

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes, I prefer locus=SNP (or indel etc) and so defining this as epistasis. I think there’s always more information if you deal with the “smaller” loci and know the haplotypes. But I guess if you don’t have that level of detail the locus=gene works, no? And I wouldn’t say it’s wrong to treat it as dom

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ah then I think I would be fine with WT dominant to m2, m2 dominant to m1. And I agree it comes down to how you define what is the locus. But also agree with others that if a 4th double mutant allele exists, locus=whole gene doesn’t work well

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · Sep 1

But with two mutations wouldn’t you have 3 alleles (with locus=whole gene)? So if I understood the example wt=AA, and the double mutant BC would be same as AA. I wouldn’t call it dominance either…

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · Aug 22

SMBE2023 vs #ESEB2025
#momademia

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · Aug 19

So infuriating!!

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social · Aug 14

... and here's a second #ESEB2025 starter pack!

go.bsky.app/DnUAnt5

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · Aug 15

Great idea, thanks!

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · Aug 11

OH COME ON

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 11

«GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team.» 🫠

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

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Stefano Bettinazzi @stefanobettinazzi.bsky.social · Aug 4

New Evolution-Digest out! 🎉
Intergenomic discordance should reduce fitness, especially in older males. Well, @martingarlovsky.bsky.social et al., showed that it might not always be the case. 🪰
@sse-evolution.bsky.social

Digest: Sex-specific benefits of mitochondrial introgression

Abstract. Disrupting mitochondrial and nuclear coadaptation is expected to reduce fitness, especially in males and with age. But is that always true? Garlo

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Atila Iamarino @atila.bsky.social · Jul 19

Quem tá no lockdown agora, né

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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · Jul 29

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

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Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · Jul 22

Outstanding work by @dcsoto.bsky.social @jmuribescr.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social (and other collaborators) that massively advances identification of human gene duplicates, with links to important traits and our evolution. So happy to have contributed a bit to this fantastic paper.

Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · Jul 21

Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Jul 16

The University of São Paulo seeks a Professor Doutor in Zoology, specializing in Bioinformatics and Phylogenomics. Applicants should promote research, teaching, and outreach. Details: https://academica.ib.usp.br/concursos/zoologia/edital-19-2025 #job

Instituto de Biociências - Edital 19-2025

EDITAL IB/AAcad/19/2025 (Português)

academica.ib.usp.br

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · Jul 16

And today I learned this

data <- c()

for (d in 1:200){
for (n in 1:d){
data <- c(data, n/d)
}}

tabd <- table(data)
plot(as.numeric(names(tabd)), tabd, type='l')

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · Jul 15

Yes, there are theorems and proofs about this, which "every computer scientist should know about". Luckily (?), I'm not a computer scientist :)
docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01...

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

docs.oracle.com

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Débora Y C Brandt @deboraycb.bsky.social · Jul 15

I learned this today

>>> round(0.5)
0
>>> round(1.5)
2
>>> round(2.5)
2
>>> round(3.5)
4

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