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Tony Gamble @tonygamble.bsky.social · 2d

This is a great idea!!!

Tony Gamble @tonygamble.bsky.social · 5d

Great job! Good luck on the reviews!

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Living Colour @livingcolour.com · 5d

Watch us perform Cult of Personality on Jimmy Kimmel Live! livingcolour.com/home/blog/76...

Cult of Personality on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Living Colour began in Brooklyn. It was a special honor to be here at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, to share the famous BAM stage w/ Jimmy Kimmel for h...

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 6d

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · 9d

New today: We're petitioning NSF to revert GRFP eligibility criteria to last year's terms, to avoid pulling the rug out from under the earliest of early-career scientists who had every reason to think they'd be able to apply this year. Sign and spread the word!

laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 11d

Hello #fish 🐟 🐠 researchers and PIs of tomorrow! We would be excited to sponsor you for an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) Presidential #Postdoc Fellowship application @michiganstateu.bsky.social. Application deadline is Nov 10, so get in touch soom!

#EndlessFishMostBeautiful

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Aaron Griffing @aaronhgriffing.bsky.social · 13d

I was collecting #quail #embryos this morning and found an individual with albinism! Look at the lack of pigment in the retinal epithelium! Reminds me of finding a leopard #gecko embryo with the same condition during my PhD.

Two quail embryos. The individual on the left has dark pigment in it's eye while the individual on the right has no visible pigment in the eye.

Two leopard gecko embryos. The individual on the left has dark pigment in it's eye while the individual on the right has no visible pigment in the eye.

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Tony Gamble @tonygamble.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations!!!!!!!🎊🎈🍾

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 14d

#PhyKIT now supports Python 3.12 and 3.13.

#Optimizations are also included in the latest release -- more details to come :)

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Tony Gamble @tonygamble.bsky.social · 14d

Gojira brought their heavy metal spectacle to Madison last night! What a performance! @thesylvee.bsky.social
#HeavyMetal #Music

Photo of a guitarist (Joe Duplantier) and drummer (Mario Duplantier) on a stage with red and white lights. In the foreground a person is crowd surfing.

Photo of a concert stage bathed in red light. The silhouettes of the musicians (Gojira) are visible against this red background.

Photo of musicians (Gojira) on a concert stage. Plumes of fire are shooting into the sky. The crowed is visible in the foreground.

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Dan MacGuigan @dmacguig.bsky.social · 16d

Check out our new preprint! We compare sequence versus synteny approaches for resolving a challenging #phylogenetic problem. In this case, synteny is far more informative! Also includes the first chromosome-level #genome for the enigmatic #fish family Gyrinocheilidae. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 19d

@tedmorgan.bsky.social, as requested, here's an impromptu EDGE PI meeting of @tonygamble.bsky.social and @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social in our Ancient Fish Facility @michiganstateu.bsky.social. Gars 'n Geckos - great combo!

Thnx, Tony, for a great talk on squamate sex chromosomes @ MSU IBIO Seminar.

Two science nerds of which the one to the left holds a fish that the other one on the right raised from an egg.

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Tony Iommi @iommi.com · 20d

55 years since we released the second Sabbath album: Paranoid 🛡️🗡️

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 20d

Nothing screams "First day back on the job", like urging colleagues everywhere to delete their Academia Dot Edu pages.

Which I'm about to do myself as soon as I got coffee in me.

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Physalia-courses@Online @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 21d

Join our online course on Sex Chromosome Evolution (6–10 Oct) with @astridboehne.bsky.social & @idarolti.bsky.social to gain hands-on experience in genomic and transcriptomic analyses.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#SexChromosomes #GenomeEvolution #Transcriptomics #ComparativeGenomics

Sex chromosome evolution

Dates 6-10 October 2025 To foster international participation, this course will be held online

www.physalia-courses.org

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Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · 24d

I'm recruiting two PhD positions in my lab for Fall 2026. 1) evolutionary genomics that will focus on constructing and utilizing pangenomes; 2) conservation genomics focused on pop structure and adaptation of Pacific coast Am. black bears.
Details: puckettresearch.org/people/posit...

Positions in the Lab – Puckett Research Lab

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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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Bill Ryerson @billryerson.bsky.social · Jul 30

New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access!

doi.org/10.59319/YHF...

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 29d

Feeling the incalculable loss of Mark Norell (1957-2025): wonderful scientist and cherished friend. His influence will continue through his many mentees and the science he did and inspired.

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · Sep 7

🔖Last review from the lab👇

'Male meiosis at the helm: shaping genomes and sex chromosomes in emerging vertebrate models'

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Male meiosis at the helm: shaping genomes and sex chromosomes in emerging vertebrate models†

Abstract. The generation of haploid gametes is a hallmark of sexual reproduction achieved through a complex, albeit tightly regulated, reductional cell div

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Aaron Griffing @aaronhgriffing.bsky.social · Sep 5

New preprint from some of my postdoc work on lungs! Co-led with Kaleb Hill, we studied smooth muscle and epithelial development in lizard lungs. Stay tuned for more!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

brightfield images of three lizard embryos of approximately the same developmental stage. Below each embryo image is an immunofluorescence image labeling E-cadherin (green) and alpha-smooth muscle actin (magenta) of their developing lungs

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · Sep 2

A comprehensive survey of scientists across ecology, evolution, and marine science has revealed significant disruptions to federal research programs following executive branch actions that began January 20, 2025.

www.firsthandaccounts.org/home

Impacts on Science

This website hosts information about the impacts of federal and state policies since January 20, 2025 on the fields of ecology, evolution, marine science, and environmental science in the USA. Partici...

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Tony Gamble @tonygamble.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is a new venue (the meeting has historically been held in Hawaii) and the organizers have set up a survey to gauge interest & help in planning & such. Please fill it out, before September 8th, if you think you would attend:
forms.gle/zoUZi4L4K2M7...
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Follow-up Survey for 2026 International Symposium on Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination

Based on the responses from the first survey, we have decided to move the 2026 symposium to Crete, Greece. The date remains the same on March 23-27, 2026. The estimated cost for the room, board, and a...

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Tony Gamble @tonygamble.bsky.social · Sep 2

One of my favorite meetings, The International Symposium on the Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination, is happening March 23-27, 2026 in Crete, Greece.
Learn more here: biology-of-vsd.my.canva.site
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International Symposium on Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination

10th International Symposium on the Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination, Kona, Hawaii, March 23-27, 2006

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Sep 1

New paper led by @yadirapga.bsky.social!

Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations

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Low mutation rate but high male-bias in the germline of a short-lived opossum

Abstract. Age and sex have been found to be important determinants of the mutation rate per generation in mammals, but the mechanisms underlying these fact

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