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Tim Coulson @timcoulson.bsky.social · 4h

Omar Yaghi has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with 2 of his colleagues for his remarkable work on the remarkable materials produced through the MOFs and COFs he pioneered. His story is inspiring. Want to know what MOFs and COFs are? Last week's episode scienceofthetimes.transistor.fm

Science Of The Times

Do you want to learn a little more about topical science findings? Do many of the science stories you hear leave you with unanswered questions? Syma and Tim will discuss in non-technical language and ...

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 1d

see also this amazing story... www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...

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Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social · 1d

This is very sad news… an outstanding scientist and experimentalist, a superb writer and mentor. He will be greatly missed…

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College

Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.

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Patrícia Beldade @pbeldade.bsky.social · 1d

The annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Evolutionary Biology will be in beautiful Bragança, on December 18 - 19. Save the date and "vinde" !!

enbe2025.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt

XXI ENBE – The International Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology – 18th-19th December, 2025

XXI ENBE – The International Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology

enbe2025.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic work. Super interesting.

Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 3d

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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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 5d

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale

apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · Jul 13

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 9d

Tractor traffic jam. Dorset. Yesterday.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 12d

And here we are. Another damn’d thick, square book. A real wrist-sprainer. UK edition (pictured) has endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard and colour plates. Both U.K. and US editions have sections heralded by a double page photo as here. Loads of illustrations. Out in November!

Cover and spine of CRICK, my biography of Francis Crick

Double page photo of Crick at blackboard with section title The Central Problem

Colour plate showing Crick at Cold Spring Harbor in 1954.

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Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · 13d

Publication day! My book on the Knights Hospitaller, 'Warrior Monks: Politics and Power in Medieval Britain' is now out. Available in all good and evil bookshops: www.amazon.co.uk/Warrior-Monk...

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Tim Coulson @timcoulson.bsky.social · 12d

@scienceofthetimes.bsky.social is back after the summer break! We talk to @joanstrassmann.bsky.social about her fabulous new book "The Social Life of Birds". If you like the podcast: subscribe, like, share! We enjoy making it but have no idea how many folk listen!
scienceofthetimes.transistor.fm

Science Of The Times

Do you want to learn a little more about topical science findings? Do many of the science stories you hear leave you with unanswered questions? Syma and Tim will discuss in non-technical language and ...

scienceofthetimes.transistor.fm

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Christopher B. Cameron @invertevo.bsky.social · 13d

Apply now & work with me during your Post-doc. The FRQNT postdoc deadline (for Quebec residents) is October 8 & the NSERC postdoc deadline is October 17. Approximately 20% of the NSERC budget will be allocated to non-Canadians.

frq.gouv.qc.ca/en/program/p...

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

NSERC - Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca

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David G Haskell @dghaskell.bsky.social · 13d

Join me and Nick Dangerfield, founder of Oda oda.co Saturday morning.
Oda makes paper sculptures/speakers that bring live sound of regenerating Costa Rican forests to our ears. The project provides funding for forest stewardship.
We'll be talking about the joys and brokenness of sound in our worlds

Doors 10:30am, talk 11am
Oda, 295 R 8th St, New York, NY 10009

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 13d

VERY cool!

Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud @chercheurjuteux.com · 13d

Intercompatibility of eukaryotic and Asgard archaea ribosome-translocon machineries

www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Intercompatibility of eukaryotic and Asgard archaea ribosome-translocon machineries

In all domains of life, the ribosome-translocon complex inserts nascent transmembrane proteins into, and processes and transports signal peptide-containing proteins across, membranes. Eukaryotic trans...

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Tannis Davidson @tannisdavidson.bsky.social · 15d

Wondering why @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social is closed this week? Case refurbishments and new displays on the way!

UCL Grant Museum from above showing empty vertebrate cases.

Empty fish case looking through to museum.

False gharial skeleton on newly-painted base.

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 15d

The Japan Environment and Children’s Study found that birthing parent’s autistic traits were associated with a higher degree of antenatal pain.

Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 15d

Unrelated to anything, just a cool recent paper

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

jamanetwork.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 16d

Come and work with us!
Assistant Professor in Psychology (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover)
Please share!

jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/c54c4570...

Assistant Professor in Psychology Ref: 40866 (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search

jobs.sussex.ac.uk

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Gaurav Diwan @gddiwan.bsky.social · 15d

- Placing new #Biodiversity #Genomics genomes (e.g.) in this framework gives context to which gene functions already exist in that clade and what is new/unknown for the new one

Big thanks to Rob Russell, Paschalis, JC, Mu-en, @maxjtelford.bsky.social @guigolab.bsky.social John Colbourne!

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 19d

Delighted that my book "The Tree of Life" has been selected as one of "The Next Big Idea Club’s November 2025 Must-Read Books". Out 11th November in USA. UK hardback version currently half price on Amazon - cheaper than the paperback will be!

nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...

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David G Haskell @dghaskell.bsky.social · 20d

Somehow, somehow the knowledge of where to go and when to leave is encoded in the genes of the green darner dragonfly.
I found this one, a male judging from his neon blue abdomen, sitting on the concrete outside a store in a strip mall in Atlanta. He likely hatched in a pond in Quebec or NY 🧵...

dragonfly on concrete. green head, bright blue abdomen

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 20d

Don't know if there is a link but browser has slowed RIGHT DOWN after installing new MacOS (Tahoe). Suggest you dont rush to upgrade!

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Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 22d

We are nearly ready to announce this year's Founders' Lecture speaker!

In the meantime time check out @maxjtelford.bsky.social's 2024 lecture: 'Are we really more closely related to starfish than to earthworms?'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSR5...

Founders' Lecture 2024 | Are we really more closely related to starfish than to earthworms?

YouTube video by Systematics Association

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 22d

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 22d

Douglas et al. challenge common amino acid substitution models that assume a constant coding alphabet over time. Their analyses indicate that ancient proteins dating from before the last universal common ancestor support a two-alphabet hypothesis.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf197

#evobio #molbio

Reduced Amino Acid Substitution Matrices Find Traces of Ancient Coding Alphabets in Modern Day Proteins

Abstract. All known living systems make proteins from the same 20 canonically coded amino acids, but this was not always the case. Early genetic coding sys

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 22d

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