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Michael Matschiner
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Professor of Systematic Zoology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Director of Bavarian State Collection for Zoology
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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tanjastadler.bsky.social
Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics:
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
Director, Center for Pathogen Bioinformatics
The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) is a unit of SIB which offers expertise and services in pathogen bioinformatics, computational molecular epidemiology and related multi-site project manage...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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nicrodemo.bsky.social
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
Picture of MEME students on the beach
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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@snbogan.bsky.social @notothentoma.bsky.social @scotthotaling.bsky.social @paulbfrandsen.bsky.social et al. explore the evolution of type III antifreeze proteins in deep sea zoarcoid fishes.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf219

#evobio #molbio
MBE | Temperature and Pressure Shaped the Evolution of Antifreeze Proteins in Polar and Deep Sea Zoarcoid Fishes A graphic visualizing the finding by Bogan et al. that antifreeze protein (AFP) genes increased in copy number among shallow-water, polar species of Zoarcoidei fishes. Top left: Pholis gunnellus photographed by Chris Isaacs (CC-BY-NC). Top right: Cebidichthys violaceus photographed by Alex Heyman (CC0 1.0). Bottom left: Lycenchelys sp. photographed by Julien Savoie (CC BY 4.0). Bottom right: Lycodes sp. photographed by Julien Savoie (CC BY 4.0).
October 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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@notothentoma.bsky.social @arcolon14.bsky.social & @jpostlethwait.bsky.social show how Antarctic white-blooded icefishes, the only vertebrates without hemoglobin, independently lost hemoglobin cluster genes, driven by TEs and repeats.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf184

#genome #evolution #TEsky
GBE | Hemoglobin-Gene Cluster Deletions in Antarctic White-Blooded Icefishes Facilitated by Transposable Elements Analyzing numerous genome assemblies of notothenioid fishes, Desvignes et al. demonstrated that in Antarctic white-blooded icefishes, the only vertebrates living without hemoglobin, the two hemoglobin gene clusters were lost independently from one another by different genomic mechanisms, although both mechanisms incriminate transposable and repeat-like elements.
October 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005
How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.
A mosaic of modular variation at a single gene underpins convergent plumage coloration
The reshuffling of genomic variation from multiple origins is an important contributor to phenotypic diversification, yet insights into the evolutionary trajectories of this combinatorial process and ...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Happy to share the latest publication from our labs on the Apennine brown bear, a relict population not far from Rome, Italy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2504409122
Thanks to great co-auths, we moved beyond our "genomic" comfort zone incl. cellular experiments and molecular dynamics simulations.
A fixed mutation in the respiratory complex I impairs mitochondrial bioenergetics in the endangered Apennine brown bear | PNAS
Effective conservation genomics of endangered species requires realistic understanding of the fitness consequences caused by the accumulation of de...
www.pnas.org
October 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.
October 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Congrats CD on your well-earned achievement!

(This is _actually_ on the "journal" website)

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Screenshot from journal website. There is a picture of of Count Dracula. Text: BEST AUTHOR Of The Month Professor Thomas Count Dracula, MD, PhD Distinguished Professor of Haematology Head — Experimental, Historical & Sensory Haematology Vlad the Impaler University, Wolf’s Lane, Wooden Stakes Grove 666, Transylvania.
September 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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evomics.bsky.social
The 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics will take place between the 25th of January and 7th of February, in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. 🧬🌳 Applications are now open! Deadline: 15th of November, 2025. Do not miss the chance to attend! Spread the word among colleagues! 🤗 evomics.org/apply-worksh...
September 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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friedmanlab.bsky.social
Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.
Multicolored CT model of a fossil cichlid skeleton. Image credit: Austin Babut (project technician).
September 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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lovedalen.bsky.social
I'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!
cpgsthlm.bsky.social Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Sep 2
🚨JOB ALERT!🚨

Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!

Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬

Apply here:
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September 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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notothentoma.bsky.social
While trying to see if two populations of the Antarctic longfin icedevil fish Aethotaxis mitopteryx were genetically differentiated, we uncovered a clear sex signal demonstrating that in this rarely encountered species males are the heterogametic sex!
🧪🐟🌎🐧🧊🧬

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Sex Differentiation and Long‐Distance Gene Flow in the Elusive Antarctic Fish Aethotaxis mitopteryx
This genetic study of a rare Antarctic fish, the longfin icedevil (Aethotaxis mitopteryx) investigates population connectivity across the Weddel Sea, revealing little to no differentiation even over ...
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August 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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millanek.bsky.social
Want to make recombination maps from sperm/pollen/gametes? There is an easy way, based on Hi-C sequencing.

Full details in the Hi-reComb paper now in Genetics:
doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Thanks to Richard Durbin and Ed Green and a great group of co-authors for contributions.
Hi-reComb: constructing recombination maps from bulk gamete Hi-C sequencing
Abstract. Recombination is central to genetics and to evolution of sexually reproducing organisms. However, obtaining accurate estimates of recombination r
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August 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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'Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation' - now published online in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social‬
August 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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naturalselection.bsky.social
*PhD position* 🦉

Would you like to do a PhD with Indo-Pacific birds and evolutionary genomics? Join us in Stockholm:


05 September 2025, 23:59

PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds
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PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds
The Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics is offering a four-year PhD position focused on analyzing population-level genomic data from museum bird samples. The project will employ cutting-edge gen...
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August 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology!

Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions.

(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)

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Postdoctoral Researcher
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August 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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1/16 🚨🚨 New paper!! I am thrilled to share our study that uses fossils, genomes, and a bit of geology to investigate how many times cavefishes evolved, and how they can help us figure out the ages of caves themselves! Link: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
August 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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friedmanlab.bsky.social
University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology in the "news" again 🤣
theonion.com The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 1
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt
August 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Happy to share our latest paper in which we use a new big phylogeny of birds to analyze the relationships between dispersal, geographic range size and diversification rates across all birds. See also post by
‪@sheardcat.bsky.social‬ and @josephtobias.bsky.social
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A new time tree of birds reveals the interplay between dispersal, geographic range size, and diversification
Flight may affect the dispersal and evolution of birds. Using a new evolutionary tree, Claramunt et al. find that efficient fliers have broader geographic ranges, and speciation reduces range size, bu...
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July 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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joanameier.bsky.social
Despite the rearrangements, we find evidence of past hybridisation throughout the evolutionary history of these radiations. Multiple species show strongly admixed ancestries, indicating that hybridisation may have facilitated their evolution. This is something we are currently investigating more.
July 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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jlsteenwyk.bsky.social
Excited to share that I will be a co-director for the upcoming Workshop on Phylogenomics @evomics.bsky.social, alongside the amazing main team lead @rosafernandez.bsky.social and Erin K. Molloy

We are putting together an amazing workshop with details to come - can't wait to share it with everyone!🥳
July 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM