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Seçkin et al. review the evolution of orphan genes in animals and fungi, detailing discoveries on orphan gene prevalence in genomes, their origins as well as their roles in different biological contexts.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf220

#genome #evolution
January 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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SMBE2026 Symposium L01 | Insights into the past through the lens of palaeoproteomics

📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts

📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026
January 5, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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The call for abstracts for #SMBE2026 is now open.
If you are working on palaeoproteomics, we've got you covered!
We are having a symposium dedicated to it! (L01)
So, send your abstracts and remember, you can also apply for an award to attend the meeting.
Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open!

Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal.
📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts

And symposium selection is now finalized!
👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026
December 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Gevol Job alert: 2 New PhD positions. You want to do Bioinformatics 💻, please check the job Mario Stankes lab in Greifswald, or maybe work on ant venoms 🐜, please check the job in Simon Tragust lab in Halle. These and more open jobs can be found g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...
Open Positions – GEvol – DFG SPP 2349
g-evol.uni-muenster.de
January 7, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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I am extremely proud and happy to announce that another paper from my PhD days has just been published in @natecoevo.nature.com on evolution of genome and gene regulation thanks to all the amazing people involved.

Check the paper out at:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Analysis of the 3D chromatin architecture and cis-regulatory elements in a sea urchin and a sea star reveals mechanisms of 3D chromatin organization in echinoderms and the long-term evolutionary dynam...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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📣 The 25th HFSP Awardees Meeting is coming!
Three days of science and collaboration at the heart of Geneva’s innovation hub. What a joy! 🙃 Save the Date:
📅 8–10 July 2026
📍 Campus Biotech Geneva, Switzerland

zurl.co/jip5N
#HFSPmtg2026 #sts 🧪
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Greetings from Prague!
The HFSP Masterclass is in full swing 🇨🇿 — welcoming early career researchers from Central Europe to explore HFSP funding, frontier science, and international collaboration.
#HFSPmasterclass #HFSP #GlobalScience #ScienceWithoutBorders
🧪 #sts
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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my friend Coral

Coral is a young goliath grouper, resident to a reef in the Florida Keys.

There were once countless groupers here, of all different species. They’ve been hunted nearly to extinction.

Like the few living coral formations on her reef, she survives here in spite of us.

#MarineLife
July 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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July 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Colored droplets in corn syrup seemingly blended together can be returned to their original state by reversing the direction of mixing, a form of laminar flow called "Stokes flow".

Credit: UNM Physics & Astronomy
July 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM