A beautiful opportunity to enrage a copy-editor by (a) alternating between the two, or even better, (b) using the cursed "deletion-born(e) fusions."

I really enjoyed the paper! It left me wondering how many pseudogenes are actually due to beneficial deletions. We (meaning @gmdouglas.bsky.social & I) tend to assume that pseudogenes (decaying genes) are roughly neutral, but of course some could be adaptive!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Full points for eye protection, but the pipetting technique needs work.

For example, my current postdocs don’t know how to put semi-colons at the end of each line of code. I’ll never lose that skill.