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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 1d

🎉!

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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 1d

Quite surprising!

Michael Tress @michaeltress.bsky.social · 10d

So, our definitive paper on the human reference gene set is out this week in Database (Oxford).

We merged and compared @ensembl.org / @gencodegenes.bsky.social , RefSeq and UniProtKB coding genes and investigated the agreements and discrepancies.

Details of what we found in the thread ...

Counts of the merged Ensembl/GENCODE, RefSeq and UniProtKB coding genes with the most likely explanations for the outliers for each gene set. For example, most Ensembl/GENCODE singletons are readthrough genes.

Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 2d

This is lovely!

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Iana V. Kim @ianakim.bsky.social · 2d

Really grateful to see our work featured by @quantamagazine.bsky.social in this piece on the evolution of genome regulation. Huge thanks to @philipcball.bsky.social for such a beautifully written article.

Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 2d

I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous.
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...

Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 5d

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 5d

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des dels familiars i amics de Franco i la Falange fins a ministres i governadors civils, passant per l’Església Catòlica, els militars, la policia i els funcionaris de presons i camps de concentració i, evidentment, els grans, mitjans i petits empresaris afins.»

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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 5d

«El ciment per a construir aquest sistema que per a milers i milers de persones va ser mortal –principalment, a les regions del sud: Múrcia, Andalusia i Extremadura– fou la immensa corrupció del règim, el robatori i l’estraperlo a gran escala dels rics i càrrecs polítics:

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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 5d

Dos-cents mil morts a la postguerra per la fam de Franco

www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/dos...

Dos-cents mil morts a la postguerra per la fam de Franco

La propaganda franquista i els pactes de silenci de la transició espanyola ens han fet creure que la fam de la postguerra era conseqüència de la guerra del 36-39 i els factors internacionals. No és ve...

www.vilaweb.cat

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 7d

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

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Yehu Moran @yehumoran.bsky.social · 7d

My first ever non-peer reviewed science-related piece. Together with Howard Wolinsky and Holger Breithaupt @embopress.org

It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics: Several academic scientists critical of de-extinction projects have become the targets of anonymous smear articles and weaponized copyright infringement claims:...

EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

www.embopress.org

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 9d

🌊 Andrew Garrett's Fische der Südsee
Hamburg: L. Friederichsen & Co., 1873-1910.

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Illustration from Andrew Garrett's "Fische der Südsee," depicting two Antennarius commersonii anglerfish from the Pacific. The top fish is yellowish with numerous black spots, a broad body, distinctive fins, and a lure extending from its head. The bottom fish is darker with similar black spots and irregular lighter markings. Both fish display a textured, rough skin and prominent spiny fins. The detailed, scientific style captures the unique morphology and coloration variations of this species in the South Pacific.

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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 9d

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 12d

Calling early-career developmental biologists!

Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution.

Application deadline: 5 December

www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...

#DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking

Workshop: Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution. Organisers: James Hombría and Antónia Monteiro. 14-17 June 2026, Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK. Early-career researchers apply for funded places.

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David Fernàndez @higiniaroig.bsky.social · 13d

Avui fa 50 anys Jon Paredes 'Txiki' era afusellat a Collserola per un escamot de guàrdies civils voluntaris. Ahir nit, al pati de la presó Model, on Txiki esperava les darreres hores, passava això. Amb la veu de l'actor Sergi López posant veu a la darrera carta d'en Txiki directa.cat/50-anys-de-c...

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Varsha Mathur @varshamathur.bsky.social · 15d

woweee 🤩

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 16d

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Anamaria Elek @aelek.bsky.social · 15d

BCA is a project to look out for — charting the diversity of cell type transcriptomes across the tree of life. Not only will it empower evolutionary studies, but also drive advances in biotechnology, biomedicine, and ecology. Kudos to the relentless, meticulous, and persistent team doing this work!

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 16d

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 15d

Gold of amber,
red of ember,
brown of umber,
all September.

(Autumn, Six Quatrains, @ursulakleguin.com)

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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 15d

If you want to learn more, feel free to check out the website and (demo) data portal here: www.biodiversitycellatlas.org

Biodiversity Cell Atlas

BCA is a global effort to molecularly profile cell types across eukaryotes, enabling rapid creation of cell atlases for hundreds of species worldwide.

www.biodiversitycellatlas.org

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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 15d

Can we catalogue all the diversity of cell behaviours across the whole tree of life?

Well, modern single-cell 'omics' certainly give us the chance to try!

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 16d

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 17d

Ah, that makes much more sense! :_)

If nothing else, having the SM makes it so much easier to try to guess where the paper's being submitted, based on how they arrange it… (cf NPG's "Extended data figures", etc.)

Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 19d

What's wrong with releasing preprints with SM? I wasn't expecting that one.

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Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat @irbio-ub.bsky.social · 24d

#NotíciaIRBio
🐉✨ El drac blau arriba a la costa catalana!

S’ha confirmat la presència del Glaucus atlanticus a la costa del Tarragonès.

🔬 Els exemplars seran estudiats pel grup de recerca del Dr. Ballesteros de l’IRBio i @biologiaub.bsky.social

🔗https://shorturl.at/7bYau

📷AgentsRurals

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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 24d

… painting gentleness as weakness, the truth as “fake news,” violence in word and deed as markers of masculinity. I hope some of these kids […] were watching Patel’s speech and could see it for what it was: getting the job and playing the part doesn’t mean you’re the man.»

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Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾 @xgrau.bsky.social · 24d

«One of Trumpism’s worst characteristics is its open warfare on the malleable psyches of young men. It tells them to act big, talk bigger, take out their aggression on anybody who seems softer or more thoughtful than themselves. [It] perverts moral categories…

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www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

Kash Patel Plays a G-Man on TV

In his press conference announcing the capture of Charlie Kirk’s killer, the F.B.I. director revealed himself.

www.newyorker.com

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25d

O, understand my drift.

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