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Marcela Uliano-Silva @marcelauliano.bsky.social · 5d

Preprint Alert! 🦥
We produced complete genomes for 2 Xenarthra and placed them in a mammalian comparative framework. We found that Xenarthra harbour the largest number of retrocopies in mammals! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Retrocopy formation and domestication shape genome evolution in sloths and other xenarthrans

Xenarthrans, comprising sloths, anteaters, and armadillos, represent one of the most morphologically and physiologically specialised mammalian clades, yet the genomic basis of their adaptations remain...

www.biorxiv.org

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 5d

What an achievement. I am so excited ATLASea is going strong!

Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · 5d

The ATLASea program is releasing its 100th genome assembly - cephalopods fans rejoice, it is for a Nautilus species.

Article in French:
www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...

Une 100e espèce séquencée dans le programme DIVE-Sea !

Le projet DIVE-Sea, qui a débuté en mars 2023, représente le premier volet du programme ATLASea qui vise à constituer un atlas des génomes d’espèces marines (algues, coraux, poissons, coquillages…) de...

www.mnhn.fr

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 5d

We have a new small GenomeScope based on @jgrg.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy's pull request. Thanks James!

Main new feature --json_report will generate a json formatted list of all the inputs and outputs which will make automatic processing of genomescope results easier.
github.com/tbenavi1/gen...

Release v2.1.0 · tbenavi1/genomescope2.0

This version have small improvements to niceness of the code (removing global variables) and minor improvements to the installation script. The biggest improvement is the option to generate reports...

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 11d

This is getting a bit awkward. Anyone else feels like chipping in?

American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 11d

Of course it helps. I confess that I don’t understand the logic that society journals with nonprofit publishers should have less right to recoup our costs than corporate publishers have to do so *and* take a cut in profit (which often takes the form of burdensome APCs)...

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 11d

I don’t see how is that “of course”, how many individual old paper accesses people buy a year? Also, do you really need 22$ to recoup costs for providing a 58 year of paper online?

What is the point of societies if they are not holding higher standards than profits? Of course you should do better!

KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 12d

Does this practice help? How much money you get out of access to individual papers that are 10+ year old? I know I did not purchase an access to old paper… well, ever.

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks for the response, do you think it’s a reasonable threshold? MS from 1919 will possibly have lapsed copyright anyway. What I don’t know, 5 or 10 years?

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Peter Mulhair @petermulhair.bsky.social · 14d

Last chance to join us next month for the #Biodiversity25 conference.

A fantastic set of speakers, mix of talks & focused workshops, and the chance to meet others in the field of biodiversity genomics 🧬

In-person registration closes next Monday 29th September!

Registration 🔗: bit.ly/4j3vAZ9

Understanding Life: Using Largescale Biodiversity Reference Genomes — 20251027

Understanding life: Using largescale biodiversity reference genomes

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 14d

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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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 14d

I mean, it's a society journal and a univeristy press... If those behave like this, what do we expect from commercial subjects? Is there a way we could push societies to make responsible publishing decisions?

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 14d

@asn-amnat.bsky.social Did you consider releasing older papers? Asking money for nearly 60 year old papers is a bit... (lacking a good word here) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Am I the only one weirded by this?!

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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marilou boddé @mariloumercedes.bsky.social · 19d

Our paper Genomic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles funestus was published in Science today! It features inversions, selection in action, museum specimens and putative new ecotypes. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 20d

It's that time of the year again... Soon the applications for 12 PhD positions at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social will open. Interested in genomics and thinking about doing a PhD? Join us at Sanger. www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...

4-Year PhD Programme

The Wellcome Sanger Institute have a 4-year PhD programme and a Clinical PhD programme in genomics and genetics, registered with the University of Cambridge, which are open to UK and overseas applican...

www.sanger.ac.uk

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Charlotte Wright @charlottewright.bsky.social · 27d

How many chromosomes can an animal have?

In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly

The genome of the Atlas blue butterfly contains ten times more chromosomes than most butterflies, and more than any other known diploid animal. Wright et al. show that this extraordinary karyotype is ...

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 27d

Mind blowing chromosomal fragmentation of … everything but sex chromosomes in blues. Great piece by
@charlottewright.bsky.social at al👏

Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · 27d

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly

The genome of the Atlas blue butterfly contains ten times more chromosomes than most butterflies, and more than any other known diploid animal. Wright et al. show that this extraordinary karyotype is ...

www.cell.com

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 29d

Rather interesting thread, I always wondered why we don’t peer review preprints more.

James Fraser @fraserlab.com · Sep 8

Why hasn't Preprint Peer Review caught on more?

I discovered a small, but simple reason - authors are missing out on the JOY of getting feedback because they aren't notified when feedback occurs.

more in thread below!

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 29d

Maybe there is a way that does not compromise bioRxiv ways of not sharing email addresses to email parties through API - why if they notified authors themselves about the peer review comments?

KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · Sep 5

at this point it’s like 4:5 on what is the weird Hymenoptera taxon. Social chromosomes, hybridogenesis for workers, cell mosaicism etc vs all the meta gall paraticism, chromosomes with no euchromatin, Sex ratio altering B chromosomes… I did not even know about this succidal larvae system.

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Jonathan Romiguier @selfishmeme.bsky.social · Sep 4

You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

www.nature.com

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · Sep 3

Very nice thread on a big Logan update. This very much looks like the future of querying genomic data.

Rayan Chikhi @rayanchikhi.bsky.social · Sep 3

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · Sep 2

You can always go for @peercomjournal.bsky.social which is completely free OA journal.

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · Aug 24

We had productive 2 days of defining some hard bits of the database as well as figuring out the next steps forward. We will send around notes in the upcoming days. ToS folks are the best, thank you all for taking part and @aruizherrera.bsky.social and @sphaeromeria.bsky.social for organising!

Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social · Aug 24

Family photo of the 2025 Workshop of the @treeofsex.bsky.social ! Thanks everyone for attending and see you soon!

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · Aug 24

It was a super nice workshop Aurora, thank you so much for organising it!!

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · Aug 24

Great, I like how ToS members took on our branding (look at the shirt and laptop stickers)

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Tree of Sex @treeofsex.bsky.social · Aug 24

The day 2 of the #TreeOfSex annual workshop started with a great talk by @yannguiguen.bsky.social about B chromosomes and their role in sex determination in fish. Next up, Sònia Garcia is giving an update on the works of the Literature team.

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