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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 29d

I’ll be advertising a post-doc position (up to 3 year) soon. It will be for somebody that is a good programmer, interested in evolution & is keen to learn new machine learning & AI approaches. I don’t have a link to a job advertisement yet. The post will be hybrid working and based at U of Liverpool

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Elias Dohmen @drdomain.bsky.social · Sep 8

Going into my last week @uni-muenster.de and was really happy to have a final meeting with so many awesome people from @gevol.bsky.social . Good luck to all of you for your second phase projects, a great time and hopefully I'm crossing paths with some of you in the future! ☺️

SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Sep 5

Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.

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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Sep 1

Only 10 days left to apply:

We are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical ecology and evolution.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · Aug 19

Robert Waterhouse at #ESEB2025 - PIs/Profs please give your students a break when they're doing orthology, ancestral state reconstruction, gene/species tree reconciliation work - it's not an overnight process, there are no push-button tools, and fast doesn't equal correct! Love this :-)

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Elias Dohmen @drdomain.bsky.social · Aug 19

Grantham is Grandchamp actually (doi.org/10.1101/2025... ), but really nice to get some updates of the ESEB and what's happening although I can't be there, thanks! ☺️

Detect de novo expressed ORFs in transcriptomes with DESwoMAN

Motivation De novo gene emergence refers to the process by which new genes arise from mutations in previously non-coding genomic regions. Prior to becoming fixed in a species, newly expressed open rea...

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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Aug 18

Me and my group are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical/ computational biology.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Deadline: 11/09/2025

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv

116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück

shorturl.at

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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · Aug 8

If you want to discuss #networks in #evo-devo, you should join this year's satellite symposium of the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social organized by the developmental biology section (@marketa-kau.bsky.social, Benjamin Naumann, Alexander Klimovich). I will talk about gene regulatory networks.

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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Aug 8

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv

116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück

shorturl.at

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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · Jul 16

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update

It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes

Let’s break it down (1/10)

github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · Jul 11

BUSCO v6.0.0 has been released. busco.ezlab.org

BUSCO - from QC to gene prediction and phylogenomics

from QC to gene prediction and phylogenomics

busco.ezlab.org

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨 Abstract deadline approaching!
🧬 Are you passionate about decoding life through genomics and cutting-edge science?
📅 Don’t delay—register today and submit your abstract!
🚨LINK to apply 👉 bit.ly/4n9AuqN

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Elias Dohmen @drdomain.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧬 Reports mutations that give rise to coding potential & key properties of neORFs.
🛠️ Developed by Anna Grandchamp
🐳 Easy to run via Docker or Apptainer — no messy installs!

📄 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
💻 GitHub: github.com/AnnaGrBio/DE...
🐋 DockerHub: hub.docker.com/r/edohmen/de...

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Elias Dohmen @drdomain.bsky.social · Jun 12

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨

🔬 Ever wondered how new genes emerge from scratch? Meet DESwoMAN, a fully automated pipeline to detect and analyze newly expressed ORFs (neORFs) from transcriptome data — giving us a window into the earliest stages of de novo gene emergence!

(Thread 🧵👇)

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · Apr 18

📖 SMBE journals on Bluesky

Interested in learning the latest advances in evolutionary biology, genomics, and molecular biology? Follow the SMBE sister journals MBE and GBE here on Bluesky and get updates on new articles coming out.

MBE: @molbioevol.bsky.social
GBE: @genomebiolevol.bsky.social

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Gregg Thomas @gwct.bio · Jun 4

Recently I developed several Snakemake workflows for tasks related to Cactus and HAL files, including whole genome alignment and pangenome inference. The goal was to perform these tasks efficiently on SLURM-based (or possibly other) clusters. I hope they are useful!

github.com/harvardinfor...

GitHub - harvardinformatics/cactus-snakemake: Snakemake workflows for performing whole genome alignment with Cactus efficiently on SLURM clusters

Snakemake workflows for performing whole genome alignment with Cactus efficiently on SLURM clusters - harvardinformatics/cactus-snakemake

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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · Jun 1

YUP. Made an error in the very first post. Correct link is: github.com/mol-evol/gcua

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · May 24

The WorkflowHub registry has a global reach, with hundreds of research organisations involved, and more than 800 workflows registered. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #bioinformatics #FAIR

WorkflowHub: a registry for computational workflows - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - WorkflowHub: a registry for computational workflows

www.nature.com

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iGEM Community @igemcommunity.bsky.social · May 16

Welcoming @lassemiddendorf.bsky.social as Mayor of iGEM’s Biomanufacturing Village.

This Village explores how we can grow the medicines, materials and commodities of the future using synthetic biology- powered by shared tools, scalable ideas and practical roadmaps.

villages.igem.org

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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · May 15

RAxML-NG v2.0 beta is here

github.com/amkozlov/rax...
Features
1. Difficulty prediction
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
2. Adaptive search academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
3. Early Stop
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
4. Model selection
5. Rapid bootstrapping academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Release RAxML-NG v2.0-beta2 · amkozlov/raxml-ng

Main new features Adaptive tree search heuristic (Togkousidis 2023) , (Togkousidis 2024) Multiple fast branch support measures Integrated model testing Full Changelog: 1.2.2...2.0-beta2

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Claudia Alvarez Carreño @claudiaalcar.bsky.social · May 1

We are pleased to announce that the next speaker in the ProSE seminar series will be Dr. Klara Hlouchova with a talk on "Protein Structure Before LUCA"
May 13, 4PM CET
Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar4
Please share!

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Elias Dohmen @drdomain.bsky.social · Apr 25

Could you elaborate what InterPro-N matches are or point me to where I find more info about it? I associated it first with the former DL-based Pfam-N motifs, which don't exist anymore I guess...?

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · Apr 24

⏩ Is your institute part of the @elixir-europe.org Network?
⏩ Do you work with #biodiversity #data?

The ELIXIR #Biodiversity Community
🟢 Recommendations: f1000research.com/articles/10-...
🟦 Goals: elixir-europe.org/communities/...
🟢 Community: f1000research.com/articles/12-...

F1000Research Article: Recommendations for connecting molecular sequence and biodiversity research infrastructures through ELIXIR.

Read the latest article version by Robert M. Waterhouse, Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon, Donat Agosti, Petr Baldrian, Bachir Balech, Erwan Corre, Robert P. Davey, Henrik Lantz, Graziano Pesole, Christian...

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Jos Kramer @joskramer.bsky.social · Apr 24

🎓 #PhD in Evolutionary Ecology @UniBayreuth 🇩🇪

Parental care vs microbe communities in burying beetles 🪲🧫
ERC-funded | 3 years | behavioral ecology & metabarcoding

Details: tinyurl.com/CareVsMicrobes

Apply by May 16, start in September

#AcademicSky #Microbiome #SocialEvolution #Insects

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Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social · Feb 24

Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.

Darwin Tree of Life Impact Assessment

This form is used to share information within DToL about case studies, ongoing research, and funding awards that demonstrate the impact the Darwin Tree of Life consortium project has had on Global and...

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · Apr 9

A trove of new termite genomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #biodiversity #genomics

Unravelling termite evolution with 47 high-resolution genome assemblies

Termites are a lineage of social cockroaches abundant in tropical ecosystems where they are key decomposers of organic matter from wood to soil. Despite their ecological significance, only a handful o...

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