Joanna Malukiewicz
@arcova.bsky.social
Senior post-doc at Uni-Hamburg. Marmosets and other Primates,
Evolutionary Genomics, Hybridization, Speciation, Immunogenetics, Nanopore Sequencing Geek, Microbes, Polish-born and Brazilian by heart https://callithrix-omics.github.io/
Evolutionary Genomics, Hybridization, Speciation, Immunogenetics, Nanopore Sequencing Geek, Microbes, Polish-born and Brazilian by heart https://callithrix-omics.github.io/
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New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
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COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
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Deforestation in Colombia appears to have declined in 2025.
Officials attribute the trend to collaboration with Indigenous communities and environmental zoning in rural areas, as well as ecotourism and a program providing financial incentives for communities involved in forest conservation.
Officials attribute the trend to collaboration with Indigenous communities and environmental zoning in rural areas, as well as ecotourism and a program providing financial incentives for communities involved in forest conservation.
Colombia poised for another drop in deforestation in 2025, data show
Deforestation in Colombia appears to have declined in 2025, with notable reductions in several departments that have historically struggled with forest loss. An estimated 36,280 hectares (89,650…
news.mongabay.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Deforestation in Colombia appears to have declined in 2025.
Officials attribute the trend to collaboration with Indigenous communities and environmental zoning in rural areas, as well as ecotourism and a program providing financial incentives for communities involved in forest conservation.
Officials attribute the trend to collaboration with Indigenous communities and environmental zoning in rural areas, as well as ecotourism and a program providing financial incentives for communities involved in forest conservation.
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Nothing to see here... 👀
2024 National Wildlife Photo Contest Honorable Mentions 📲: https://ow.ly/pcsz50XUab2
📸 Yuan Minghui
📝 Hunstman spider on bark lichens in Xishuangbanna, China
2024 National Wildlife Photo Contest Honorable Mentions 📲: https://ow.ly/pcsz50XUab2
📸 Yuan Minghui
📝 Hunstman spider on bark lichens in Xishuangbanna, China
January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Nothing to see here... 👀
2024 National Wildlife Photo Contest Honorable Mentions 📲: https://ow.ly/pcsz50XUab2
📸 Yuan Minghui
📝 Hunstman spider on bark lichens in Xishuangbanna, China
2024 National Wildlife Photo Contest Honorable Mentions 📲: https://ow.ly/pcsz50XUab2
📸 Yuan Minghui
📝 Hunstman spider on bark lichens in Xishuangbanna, China
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Nature research paper: Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus
go.nature.com/4pA9hNZ
go.nature.com/4pA9hNZ
Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus - Nature
Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich areas and potentially limiting broader scientific exploration.
go.nature.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Nature research paper: Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus
go.nature.com/4pA9hNZ
go.nature.com/4pA9hNZ
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
January 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
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🧪 Thousands of special issues are stained with PISS (>33% of articles authored by the guest editor). See @hansonmark.bsky.social's thread below for a brief summary, read our preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563), explore our ShinyApp to see where it occurs (paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...).
January 13, 2026 at 12:24 PM
🧪 Thousands of special issues are stained with PISS (>33% of articles authored by the guest editor). See @hansonmark.bsky.social's thread below for a brief summary, read our preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563), explore our ShinyApp to see where it occurs (paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...).
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“First things first... We're having fish every Friday."
December 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“First things first... We're having fish every Friday."
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Florida professors, university faculty, and teaching assistants could soon be able to openly carry firearms on campus, thanks to a sweeping new measure filed by a Republican lawmaker.
via @floridaphoenix.com
via @floridaphoenix.com
‘Sadly-timed’: New bill would allow professors, TAs to open carry on campus
Florida professors, university faculty, and teaching assistants could soon be able to openly carry firearms on campus, thanks to a sweeping new measure filed by a Republican lawmaker.Sen. Don Gaetz…
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Florida professors, university faculty, and teaching assistants could soon be able to openly carry firearms on campus, thanks to a sweeping new measure filed by a Republican lawmaker.
via @floridaphoenix.com
via @floridaphoenix.com
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Population-scale long-read datasets, involving sequencing and de novo assembly of multiple individuals within a species, are better at capturing the full spectrum of structural variants, but such datasets are rare outside of humans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics
Multispecies pangenomes reveal a pervasive influence of population size on structural variation
Structural variants (SVs) are widespread in vertebrate genomes, yet their evolutionary dynamics remain poorly understood. Using 45 long-read de novo genome assemblies and pangenome tools, we analyze S...
www.science.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Population-scale long-read datasets, involving sequencing and de novo assembly of multiple individuals within a species, are better at capturing the full spectrum of structural variants, but such datasets are rare outside of humans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics
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A good time for a reminder that the BIO Directorate will hold a Virtual Office Hour on Thursday www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...
December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A good time for a reminder that the BIO Directorate will hold a Virtual Office Hour on Thursday www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 15 - have an octopus! #SciArt
December 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar day 15 - have an octopus! #SciArt
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Otters have the thickest hair of any mammal, up to a million hairs per square inch.
Theoretically their skin doesn’t even get wet in the water because the water can’t penetrate their superb dense oiled hair.
And that Ihow they stay warm in the water (as opposed to blubber).
Theoretically their skin doesn’t even get wet in the water because the water can’t penetrate their superb dense oiled hair.
And that Ihow they stay warm in the water (as opposed to blubber).
We otterposting? We're otter posting. Yes. That's it.
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Otters have the thickest hair of any mammal, up to a million hairs per square inch.
Theoretically their skin doesn’t even get wet in the water because the water can’t penetrate their superb dense oiled hair.
And that Ihow they stay warm in the water (as opposed to blubber).
Theoretically their skin doesn’t even get wet in the water because the water can’t penetrate their superb dense oiled hair.
And that Ihow they stay warm in the water (as opposed to blubber).
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Well, scientists, I have good news and I have bad news for you.
The good news is now you only get one reviewer.
The bad news is that it's always Reviewer 3.
The good news is now you only get one reviewer.
The bad news is that it's always Reviewer 3.
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
🧪
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Well, scientists, I have good news and I have bad news for you.
The good news is now you only get one reviewer.
The bad news is that it's always Reviewer 3.
The good news is now you only get one reviewer.
The bad news is that it's always Reviewer 3.
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NEW: Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us that Trump is a schmuck. (He was also a friend, and I'll miss our very long lunches.)
Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us Trump’s a schmuck.
The president's remarks about the murder of the filmmaker and his wife cast him as petty and callous.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
NEW: Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us that Trump is a schmuck. (He was also a friend, and I'll miss our very long lunches.)
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Opinion: Women (and some men) have been driven to the gender-swap stunt by a suspicion that the LinkedIn algorithm has changed in recent months, causing it to 'suppress' posts from women. It seems that being a man gets you seen by a lot more people. on.ft.com/499tfKq
December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Opinion: Women (and some men) have been driven to the gender-swap stunt by a suspicion that the LinkedIn algorithm has changed in recent months, causing it to 'suppress' posts from women. It seems that being a man gets you seen by a lot more people. on.ft.com/499tfKq
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Excited to be organizing this symposium for SMBE2026 and looking forward to receiving your abstract submissions!
SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
December 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Excited to be organizing this symposium for SMBE2026 and looking forward to receiving your abstract submissions!
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SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
December 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
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Spillover of #influenza A viruses from animals to humans represents a threat to our health. In this Perspective, Silke Stertz @virology.uzh.ch discusses emerging research that suggests some influenza A viruses can enter host cells via MHC-II receptors across species 🧪 #virology plos.io/4pP3Gnq
A new path to spillover: MHC-II entry of influenza A viruses
Spillover of influenza A viruses from animals to humans represents a threat to our health. This Perspective discusses emerging research that suggests some influenza A viruses can enter host cells via…
journals.plos.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Spillover of #influenza A viruses from animals to humans represents a threat to our health. In this Perspective, Silke Stertz @virology.uzh.ch discusses emerging research that suggests some influenza A viruses can enter host cells via MHC-II receptors across species 🧪 #virology plos.io/4pP3Gnq
Excited to be organizing this SMBE symposium and looking forward to SMBE 2026!!
Organisers
- @jcwinternitz.bsky.social | @uni-hamburg.de
- @arcova.bsky.social | @uni-hamburg.de
- @michalvinkler.bsky.social | @sciencecharles.bsky.social
- Diyar Hamidi | @uni-hamburg.de
Invited Speaker
- Katherine Belov | @sydney.edu.au
- @jcwinternitz.bsky.social | @uni-hamburg.de
- @arcova.bsky.social | @uni-hamburg.de
- @michalvinkler.bsky.social | @sciencecharles.bsky.social
- Diyar Hamidi | @uni-hamburg.de
Invited Speaker
- Katherine Belov | @sydney.edu.au
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Excited to be organizing this SMBE symposium and looking forward to SMBE 2026!!
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"Diversity dynamics do not appear to be governed by clade-level processes expected from adaptive radiations or diversity dependence."
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"Diversity dynamics do not appear to be governed by clade-level processes expected from adaptive radiations or diversity dependence."
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cornetto v0.2.0 is now released for using programmable selective nanopore sequencing for genome assembly.
GitHub: github.com/hasindu2008/...
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
Datasets: hasindu2008.github.io/cornetto/doc...
... and a banner made by Ira Deveson referring to ‘no boring bits’.
GitHub: github.com/hasindu2008/...
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
Datasets: hasindu2008.github.io/cornetto/doc...
... and a banner made by Ira Deveson referring to ‘no boring bits’.
December 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Cornetto v0.2.0 is now released for using programmable selective nanopore sequencing for genome assembly.
GitHub: github.com/hasindu2008/...
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
Datasets: hasindu2008.github.io/cornetto/doc...
... and a banner made by Ira Deveson referring to ‘no boring bits’.
GitHub: github.com/hasindu2008/...
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
Datasets: hasindu2008.github.io/cornetto/doc...
... and a banner made by Ira Deveson referring to ‘no boring bits’.
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I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building.
medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building.
medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...
ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re…
medium.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building.
medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building.
medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...