Paula Escuer
@pescuer.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at Uni Neuchâtel 🏔
Interested in Evolutionary Genomics and Epigenetics in Lepidoptera 🦋
Interested in Evolutionary Genomics and Epigenetics in Lepidoptera 🦋
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📢 Today marks the start of the 2nd Genome Curation Workshop, organised by #10kLepGenomes and @projectpsyche.bsky.social
From Feb 16–27, seventeen participants will learn how to interpret and edit Hi-C maps alongside senior curators at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Stay tuned for updates! 🦋🧬
From Feb 16–27, seventeen participants will learn how to interpret and edit Hi-C maps alongside senior curators at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Stay tuned for updates! 🦋🧬
February 16, 2026 at 3:42 PM
📢 Today marks the start of the 2nd Genome Curation Workshop, organised by #10kLepGenomes and @projectpsyche.bsky.social
From Feb 16–27, seventeen participants will learn how to interpret and edit Hi-C maps alongside senior curators at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Stay tuned for updates! 🦋🧬
From Feb 16–27, seventeen participants will learn how to interpret and edit Hi-C maps alongside senior curators at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Stay tuned for updates! 🦋🧬
Reposted by Paula Escuer
MSc student Paula Tajada Lostao gave a fantastic talk today about her gut-brain axis work in honeybees and fruit flies at #Biology26. We are proud of you!
February 12, 2026 at 3:15 PM
MSc student Paula Tajada Lostao gave a fantastic talk today about her gut-brain axis work in honeybees and fruit flies at #Biology26. We are proud of you!
Inspiring talk by Mark Blaxter today at #Biology26 Neuchâtel!
February 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Inspiring talk by Mark Blaxter today at #Biology26 Neuchâtel!
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Mark Blaxter from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social describes the ambition of the @ebpgenome.bsky.social to #Biology26 in Switzerland
February 13, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Mark Blaxter from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social describes the ambition of the @ebpgenome.bsky.social to #Biology26 in Switzerland
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Hoy se celebra el #DarwinDay para conmemorar el nacimiento del naturalista británico Charles Darwin.
February 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Hoy se celebra el #DarwinDay para conmemorar el nacimiento del naturalista británico Charles Darwin.
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ERGA-CH #Switzerland @ergabiodiv.bsky.social symposium with a great selection of presentations of diverse study systems using reference #genomes
#biodiversity #genomics
#biodiversity #genomics
February 12, 2026 at 11:34 AM
ERGA-CH #Switzerland @ergabiodiv.bsky.social symposium with a great selection of presentations of diverse study systems using reference #genomes
#biodiversity #genomics
#biodiversity #genomics
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Hi everyone!
The talk I had the chance to give with @fnucleosome.bsky.social last October is now out on Youtube!
If you like evolution, 3D genomics, biodiversity and/or fungi, I think you might like it! 🧬🧪🍄
The submission of this paper has never been that close!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plez...
The talk I had the chance to give with @fnucleosome.bsky.social last October is now out on Youtube!
If you like evolution, 3D genomics, biodiversity and/or fungi, I think you might like it! 🧬🧪🍄
The submission of this paper has never been that close!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plez...
February 3, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Hi everyone!
The talk I had the chance to give with @fnucleosome.bsky.social last October is now out on Youtube!
If you like evolution, 3D genomics, biodiversity and/or fungi, I think you might like it! 🧬🧪🍄
The submission of this paper has never been that close!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plez...
The talk I had the chance to give with @fnucleosome.bsky.social last October is now out on Youtube!
If you like evolution, 3D genomics, biodiversity and/or fungi, I think you might like it! 🧬🧪🍄
The submission of this paper has never been that close!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plez...
Happy to be part of this amazing project!!
I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level
reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found
in Europe. Here, we describe t...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Happy to be part of this amazing project!!
Reposted by Paula Escuer
I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level
reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found
in Europe. Here, we describe t...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Sharing some pictures of last week in Roscoff at the Jaques Monod conference of speciation. I enjoyed the amazing talks and posters and I had the opportunity to meet very inspiring people, also remarkable food!
October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sharing some pictures of last week in Roscoff at the Jaques Monod conference of speciation. I enjoyed the amazing talks and posters and I had the opportunity to meet very inspiring people, also remarkable food!
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A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat.
This caterpillar wears the body parts of insect prey
Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.
buff.ly
August 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat.
Reposted by Paula Escuer
Genome Size Reduction Under Non-Adaptive Evolution: How Evolution Halved Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Radiation. Today talk by Sara Guirao-Rico in @eseb2025.bsky.social congress, and accepted ms. in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
August 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Genome Size Reduction Under Non-Adaptive Evolution: How Evolution Halved Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Radiation. Today talk by Sara Guirao-Rico in @eseb2025.bsky.social congress, and accepted ms. in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
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FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲
@gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
@csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
@csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...
FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life
Communications Biology - FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and...
www.nature.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲
@gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
@csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
@csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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On Thursday at #ESEB2025 I will be giving a talk on "Cryptobiosis is associated with rapid chromosome restructuring in Panagrolaimus nematodes", and here is a little teaser of what to expect. For the rest, come to symposium S28.03 room 113 at 16:15. The last slide might make you fall off your chair!
August 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
On Thursday at #ESEB2025 I will be giving a talk on "Cryptobiosis is associated with rapid chromosome restructuring in Panagrolaimus nematodes", and here is a little teaser of what to expect. For the rest, come to symposium S28.03 room 113 at 16:15. The last slide might make you fall off your chair!
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Epigenetics and #chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera #eseb2025
August 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Epigenetics and #chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera #eseb2025
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One of the best talks so far by the star @pescuer.bsky.social !!!
Epigenetics and #chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera #eseb2025
August 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
One of the best talks so far by the star @pescuer.bsky.social !!!
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How did evolution drive massive genome contraction during oceanic island colonization? A new paper from our lab.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
How did evolution drive massive genome contraction during oceanic island colonization? A new paper from our lab.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I had an amazing time helping with organization of the first conference on holocentric chromosomes
@holocentricity2025.bsky.social, where I talked about methylation in Leps 🦋 and Carex 🌾Amazing experience!
@holocentricity2025.bsky.social, where I talked about methylation in Leps 🦋 and Carex 🌾Amazing experience!
May 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I had an amazing time helping with organization of the first conference on holocentric chromosomes
@holocentricity2025.bsky.social, where I talked about methylation in Leps 🦋 and Carex 🌾Amazing experience!
@holocentricity2025.bsky.social, where I talked about methylation in Leps 🦋 and Carex 🌾Amazing experience!
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Such an honour to host the first conference on Holocentric Chromosomes at the University of Neuchâtel! What an amazing group of people, big thank you to everyone who participated! Looking forward to seeing you all again next time!
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🦋🌱🪱🕷️🧬
April 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Such an honour to host the first conference on Holocentric Chromosomes at the University of Neuchâtel! What an amazing group of people, big thank you to everyone who participated! Looking forward to seeing you all again next time!
🦋🌱🪱🕷️🧬
🦋🌱🪱🕷️🧬
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A brilliant time was had at @holocentricity2025.bsky.social in the beautiful Neuchâtel - hopefully the first of many such meetings! Thank you so much to the amazing team of organisers @camillecornet.bsky.social @pescuer.bsky.social @crazychipkali.bsky.social @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social 🌱🕷️🦋🪱
April 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A brilliant time was had at @holocentricity2025.bsky.social in the beautiful Neuchâtel - hopefully the first of many such meetings! Thank you so much to the amazing team of organisers @camillecornet.bsky.social @pescuer.bsky.social @crazychipkali.bsky.social @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social 🌱🕷️🦋🪱
One is mine 😌💜
#Moths and #butterflies hold a special place in the hearts of #ProjectPsyche members, and some have chosen to carry them on their skin forever! 🦋
Check out this collage of Lepidoptera-inspired tattoos from our community, featuring real species and artistic interpretations alike 🎨
Check out this collage of Lepidoptera-inspired tattoos from our community, featuring real species and artistic interpretations alike 🎨
April 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
One is mine 😌💜
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Only one week left to register to the first conference on holocentric chromosomes, from cells to species! 🧬🪱🦋🌱
Join us in Switzerland on the 25-26 April 2025
Travel grants available!
Register here: holocentricity.ch
Join us in Switzerland on the 25-26 April 2025
Travel grants available!
Register here: holocentricity.ch
March 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Only one week left to register to the first conference on holocentric chromosomes, from cells to species! 🧬🪱🦋🌱
Join us in Switzerland on the 25-26 April 2025
Travel grants available!
Register here: holocentricity.ch
Join us in Switzerland on the 25-26 April 2025
Travel grants available!
Register here: holocentricity.ch
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Do you want to rapidly predict bootstrap values via machine learning? You can now use our Educated Bootstrap Guesser: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
Predicting Phylogenetic Bootstrap Values via Machine Learning
Abstract. Estimating the statistical robustness of the inferred tree(s) constitutes an integral part of most phylogenetic analyses. Commonly, one computes
academic.oup.com
October 20, 2024 at 5:51 AM
Do you want to rapidly predict bootstrap values via machine learning? You can now use our Educated Bootstrap Guesser: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
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🌍 #científiques2025: "Necessitem més científiques i científics per fer front als reptes ambientals!"
🔬 Ainhoa Salcedo i Laura Vallvé són ambientòlogues a Provital, on treballen per reduir l'impacte ambiental de la indústria. Ciència i sostenibilitat van de la mà! ♻️
👉 tuit.cat/jizfM
#11F
🔬 Ainhoa Salcedo i Laura Vallvé són ambientòlogues a Provital, on treballen per reduir l'impacte ambiental de la indústria. Ciència i sostenibilitat van de la mà! ♻️
👉 tuit.cat/jizfM
#11F
February 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🌍 #científiques2025: "Necessitem més científiques i científics per fer front als reptes ambientals!"
🔬 Ainhoa Salcedo i Laura Vallvé són ambientòlogues a Provital, on treballen per reduir l'impacte ambiental de la indústria. Ciència i sostenibilitat van de la mà! ♻️
👉 tuit.cat/jizfM
#11F
🔬 Ainhoa Salcedo i Laura Vallvé són ambientòlogues a Provital, on treballen per reduir l'impacte ambiental de la indústria. Ciència i sostenibilitat van de la mà! ♻️
👉 tuit.cat/jizfM
#11F