Check out the Views & News piece that Joiselle Fernandes and I wrote for @nature.com on the recent work from @amarques.bsky.social and colleagues about one of the most bizarre ways to do meiosis rdcu.be/euabu.

Explained for non-experts!

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🚨 My first PhD preprint is out on bioRxiv!
We show how tiny mutations—point mutations and kb-level indels—can shape the massive structure of Arabidopsis centromeres.
📄 Read it here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧵 A short thread 👇

How does cryptic genetic variation influence the long-term fate of gene duplicates (paralogs)?
Our new study addresses this question by dissecting the evolutionary potential of redundant myosin paralogs in yeast nature.com/articles/s41... (1/12)

This week on the pod:

🥔 A potato pangenome
📄 The top cited twenty-first century research papers
https://go.nature.com/4j9z50Z

📢 Excited to share our work out now in @nature.com! 📢

We present the phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato, based on 10 historical cultivars representing 85% of European potato diversity.

Learn more below!

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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PhDs are paid positions, enough to live comfortably even in a big city like Vienna, and include all health insurance, social benefits, pension contributions. Usually with low to no teaching requirements (but opportunities to get involved if interested!). Main focus is your research.

Perhaps if helps at this point to outline how the academic path works outside the US. I can speak for Austria, but many EU countries are similar. Students usually do a BSc (3 yrs) then an MSc (2 yrs) then apply for PhD positions (range 3-5 yrs, average around 4).

I worked in Max-Planck Institute for seven years and loved every day of it. For anyone getting affected by the current changes, I can strongly recommend @maxplanck.de

@maxplanck.de President @patrick-cramer.bsky.social is on it already.

www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

Congratulations to Koneru Humpy for winning the FIDE Women's World Rapid Chess Championship 2024 - for the second time after 2019! 🎉 https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-world-rapid--blitz-championships-2024--rapid-women/round-11/0eCc1imU/sJNJUFmi

Not checking nuclear markers like MALAT1 or intronic reads in your scRNA-seq data?🚨
We show their power to flag low-quality cells—even in top public datasets. It’s time to prioritize better QC for cleaner, more reliable genomics research!
Read more: bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Long-context xLSTM models of DNA, proteins, and chemicals.
@smdrnks.bsky.social @phseidl.bsky.social @gklambauer.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2411.04165