Marc Robinson-Rechavi
@marcrr.bsky.social
He/Him. Evolution and Bioinformatics. Posts mine alone, in English (mostly) & French. Chair of @dee-unil.bsky.social, Prof at @fbm-unil.bsky.social, group leader at @sib.swiss. PI of @bgee.org
🦣 Main account: https://ecoevo.social/@marcrr
🦣 Main account: https://ecoevo.social/@marcrr
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi
@marcrr.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
Given the afflux of new science peeps here, and the lack of a similar increase of users at Mastodon, I'll post both here and there for the time being. Although I'm not convinced this place can escape the issues which affect any corporate owned social media pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/u...
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Philosophy and anxiety is the worst mix because I can always win the argument with the therapist and by which I mean, anxiety wins
February 11, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Philosophy and anxiety is the worst mix because I can always win the argument with the therapist and by which I mean, anxiety wins
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Abstract submission and registration for the *10th Euro Evo Devo Meeting 2026* at University of Glasgow (June 8-12, 2026) is open. Early bird deadline: March 5, 2026. More info: https://www.evodevoconference26.com/ #conference
February 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Abstract submission and registration for the *10th Euro Evo Devo Meeting 2026* at University of Glasgow (June 8-12, 2026) is open. Early bird deadline: March 5, 2026. More info: https://www.evodevoconference26.com/ #conference
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@grundrza.bsky.social is also great on the chilling effect this censorship in Florida is having on classes. The haphazard and random nature of who gets targeted is designed to make everyone terrified.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
@grundrza.bsky.social is also great on the chilling effect this censorship in Florida is having on classes. The haphazard and random nature of who gets targeted is designed to make everyone terrified.
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And here is the course announcement: www.sib.swiss/training/cou...
February 6, 2026 at 3:49 PM
And here is the course announcement: www.sib.swiss/training/cou...
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A snapshot of ERGA’s community—people, collaboration, and the leadership behind scaling biodiversity genomics.
📬 Read the full spotlight in EBP Life.
🔗 gqr.sh/eDgx
Image descriptions: attached to these uploads.
#GenomicsAtScale
#ScalingScience
#GenomeInfrastructure
📬 Read the full spotlight in EBP Life.
🔗 gqr.sh/eDgx
Image descriptions: attached to these uploads.
#GenomicsAtScale
#ScalingScience
#GenomeInfrastructure
February 4, 2026 at 12:41 AM
A snapshot of ERGA’s community—people, collaboration, and the leadership behind scaling biodiversity genomics.
📬 Read the full spotlight in EBP Life.
🔗 gqr.sh/eDgx
Image descriptions: attached to these uploads.
#GenomicsAtScale
#ScalingScience
#GenomeInfrastructure
📬 Read the full spotlight in EBP Life.
🔗 gqr.sh/eDgx
Image descriptions: attached to these uploads.
#GenomicsAtScale
#ScalingScience
#GenomeInfrastructure
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Scientific Committee Spotlight – #Biocuration2026
Meet Dr Frederique Lisacek (SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 🇨🇭), Head of the Proteome Informatics Group, working at the intersection of AI, proteomics & glycoscience.
Honoured to have her on board!
#IBC2026 #ScientificCommittee #Bioinformatics
Meet Dr Frederique Lisacek (SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 🇨🇭), Head of the Proteome Informatics Group, working at the intersection of AI, proteomics & glycoscience.
Honoured to have her on board!
#IBC2026 #ScientificCommittee #Bioinformatics
February 5, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Scientific Committee Spotlight – #Biocuration2026
Meet Dr Frederique Lisacek (SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 🇨🇭), Head of the Proteome Informatics Group, working at the intersection of AI, proteomics & glycoscience.
Honoured to have her on board!
#IBC2026 #ScientificCommittee #Bioinformatics
Meet Dr Frederique Lisacek (SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 🇨🇭), Head of the Proteome Informatics Group, working at the intersection of AI, proteomics & glycoscience.
Honoured to have her on board!
#IBC2026 #ScientificCommittee #Bioinformatics
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arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874
6: Provide cultural and historical context
7: Build a safe, inclusive, and welcoming community
8: Use checklists to focus and facilitate peer learning
9: Teach students to work collaboratively
10: Have students do projects
6: Provide cultural and historical context
7: Build a safe, inclusive, and welcoming community
8: Use checklists to focus and facilitate peer learning
9: Teach students to work collaboratively
10: Have students do projects
February 5, 2026 at 9:24 AM
arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874
6: Provide cultural and historical context
7: Build a safe, inclusive, and welcoming community
8: Use checklists to focus and facilitate peer learning
9: Teach students to work collaboratively
10: Have students do projects
6: Provide cultural and historical context
7: Build a safe, inclusive, and welcoming community
8: Use checklists to focus and facilitate peer learning
9: Teach students to work collaboratively
10: Have students do projects
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Ten simple rules for teaching data science arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874
1: Teach data science by doing data analysis
2: Use participatory live coding
3: Give tons of practice and timely feedback
4: Use tractable or toy data examples
5: Use real and rich, but accessible data sets
1: Teach data science by doing data analysis
2: Use participatory live coding
3: Give tons of practice and timely feedback
4: Use tractable or toy data examples
5: Use real and rich, but accessible data sets
February 5, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Ten simple rules for teaching data science arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874
1: Teach data science by doing data analysis
2: Use participatory live coding
3: Give tons of practice and timely feedback
4: Use tractable or toy data examples
5: Use real and rich, but accessible data sets
1: Teach data science by doing data analysis
2: Use participatory live coding
3: Give tons of practice and timely feedback
4: Use tractable or toy data examples
5: Use real and rich, but accessible data sets
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Neil H. Shubin has been elected as the next NAS President! A leading evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin will succeed Marcia McNutt on July 1. The Academy also named Cherry Murray as International Secretary and elected new councilors. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/2026_pr...
February 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Neil H. Shubin has been elected as the next NAS President! A leading evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin will succeed Marcia McNutt on July 1. The Academy also named Cherry Murray as International Secretary and elected new councilors. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/2026_pr...
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Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful!
here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments
here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments
February 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful!
here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments
here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
✅Poulpe en Bretagne : simple curiosité… ou signal d’alarme ?🐙
Longtemps absent des radars, #poulpe refait aujourd’hui entrée remarquée sur côtes bretonnes. Depuis quelques années, apparaît de +en+ souvent dans les filets, les criées et les témoignages de pêcheurs.
👉 www.nhu.bzh/poulpe-en-br...
Longtemps absent des radars, #poulpe refait aujourd’hui entrée remarquée sur côtes bretonnes. Depuis quelques années, apparaît de +en+ souvent dans les filets, les criées et les témoignages de pêcheurs.
👉 www.nhu.bzh/poulpe-en-br...
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
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I started offering career advice to two junior colleagues today in separate meetings, and both times I caught myself thinking that, if I'm honest, I don't have very good advice on navigating the current funding and job climate. I think it's important to say that no one does.
February 3, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I started offering career advice to two junior colleagues today in separate meetings, and both times I caught myself thinking that, if I'm honest, I don't have very good advice on navigating the current funding and job climate. I think it's important to say that no one does.
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Responsible publication of your research!
To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology
Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R
doi.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Responsible publication of your research!
To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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A new paper on the genetics of fluctuating asymmetry... An old collaborative work finally published!! Thanks to Fred Peronnet and co and reviewer Ian Dworkin academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
January 28, 2026 at 5:42 PM
A new paper on the genetics of fluctuating asymmetry... An old collaborative work finally published!! Thanks to Fred Peronnet and co and reviewer Ian Dworkin academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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I've seen fossils in some remarkable places, but this takes the prize: the benthic foram Nummulites in the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive blocks were quarried from the Eocene Mokkatam Formation when a relictual population of woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island.
February 2, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I've seen fossils in some remarkable places, but this takes the prize: the benthic foram Nummulites in the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive blocks were quarried from the Eocene Mokkatam Formation when a relictual population of woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island.
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I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
February 2, 2026 at 12:01 PM
I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
Great talk at Lausanne Genomics Days presenting this work
Thrilled to see our revised preprint now published in Nature Ecology & Evolution!
If you’re curious about how to build a bat wing by re-using existing gene programs, check out the link or the tutorial below. Big congratulations to all co-authors!! Thanks to reviewers!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you’re curious about how to build a bat wing by re-using existing gene programs, check out the link or the tutorial below. Big congratulations to all co-authors!! Thanks to reviewers!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 2, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Great talk at Lausanne Genomics Days presenting this work
Network Medicine GPT trained on PrimeKG which used @bgee.org expression knowledge: curated data is useful data.
First talk of "Al in Biology & Medicine" #lgd2026 session:
Jan Baumbach "Network Medicine GPT -A knowledge-graphs based foundation model for drug repurposing"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.04.697552v1.full
I see with pleasure that the knowledge graph they trained on, PrimeKG ( […]
Jan Baumbach "Network Medicine GPT -A knowledge-graphs based foundation model for drug repurposing"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.04.697552v1.full
I see with pleasure that the knowledge graph they trained on, PrimeKG ( […]
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ecoevo.social
February 2, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Network Medicine GPT trained on PrimeKG which used @bgee.org expression knowledge: curated data is useful data.
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Amazing first talk of #lausanneomicsdays #lgd2026 by @firefoxx66 presenting @pathoplexus
A master class in open science and enthusiasm about making data useful in biology and medicine.
A master class in open science and enthusiasm about making data useful in biology and medicine.
February 2, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Amazing first talk of #lausanneomicsdays #lgd2026 by @firefoxx66 presenting @pathoplexus
A master class in open science and enthusiasm about making data useful in biology and medicine.
A master class in open science and enthusiasm about making data useful in biology and medicine.
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CAMK1D is "mostly expressed in the central nervous system within mammals" as seen through Bgee's integration and comparison of data in 25 mammals
www.bgee.org/analysis/exp... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social
www.bgee.org/analysis/exp... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social
Bgee Expression Comparison
www.bgee.org
February 2, 2026 at 11:05 AM
CAMK1D is "mostly expressed in the central nervous system within mammals" as seen through Bgee's integration and comparison of data in 25 mammals
www.bgee.org/analysis/exp... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social
www.bgee.org/analysis/exp... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social
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I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”