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Vincent CASTRIC
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Evolutionary biologist @CNRS - European citizen 🇪🇺.
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sciencenlucia.bsky.social
It's Friday. This means it is time for a new post on #Autism : The Evidence. If you missed last week, I discussed what is TRULY behind the rise in prevalence. Today I am going to talk about what it is not: #VACCINES . They are SAFE and EFFECTIVE, but where did this idea come from?
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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sashagusevposts.bsky.social
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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lmchev.bsky.social
I was quite impressed and humbled yesterday to give a talk at the @linneansociety.bsky.social, in front of this very portrait and plate!
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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📌 Appel à propositions pour les mini-#symposia à #JOBIM2026

📅 #JOBIM aura lieu à Strasbourg du 30/06 au 3/07/26

ℹ️ Sessions thématiques afin de favoriser les échanges autour de sujets émergents, interdisciplinaires ou particulièrement dynamiques en #bioinformatique et #biologie #computationnelle
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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maxvcg.bsky.social
Fun week for DNA methylation research! Here is a thread of three cool papers that came out, all with an evolution angle. And a bonus 4th that examines DNAme/PcG interplay (certainly an interest for our lab!) #Epigenetics
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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yawaguchi.bsky.social
I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees!
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/

Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
PhyloWeaver – Interactive phylogenetic tree editor
Edit and visualize phylogenetic trees directly in your browser. PhyloWeaver lets you interactively rearrange tree topologies and export high-quality figures for publications and presentations.
yawak.jp
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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stephenturner.us
gggenomes: A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics thackl.github.io/gggenomes/ #Rstats
A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics
An extension of ggplot2 for creating complex genomic maps. It builds on the power of ggplot2 and tidyverse adding new ggplot2-style geoms & positions and dplyr-style verbs to manipulate the…
thackl.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
We are growing our first #Arabidopsis accessions!! Thanks to Nacho and colleagues at CRAG @uab.cat and Sònia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social @ibb-botanic.bsky.social!!
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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thomaslenormand.bsky.social
Un poste d’IE en bioinformatique est actuellement ouvert au CEFE à Montpellier pour travailler dans le cadre de l'ERC RegEvol.

Détails ici:

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Début 01/01/2026 pour 18 mois potentiellement renouvelable.

candidature jusqu'au 29/11

N’hésitez pas à diffuser largement
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Ingénieur d'études en bioinformatique (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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joannarifkin.bsky.social
I'm really glad I moved to Canada in 2017.

Most of the time it is very normal to live here.

But then sometimes there is a 5-gallon bucket labeled "SAUCE TRADITIONNELLE | TRADITIONAL SAUCE | poutine Québécoise | 180 litres" in my office.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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wake-botany.bsky.social
Don’t get a boring job.
Get a fun job.
Be a botanist.
#botany #WakeBotany
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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lizhao.bsky.social
Our NY area population genetics meeting is back and "upgraded", as Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org generously agreed to host. Please save the date: March 9, 2026. Look forward to seeing many of you from NY and beyond.
mollyprz.bsky.social Molly Przeworski @mollyprz.bsky.social · 8d
SAVE THE DATE: the yearly NY Population Genetics meeting will be back on March 9 2026, generously hosted by the
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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jennifermandel.bsky.social
🌻 Sharing this preprint where we assembled 3 new chromosome-level genomes, including the first for Asteraceae's South American sister Calyceraceae! Asteraceae uses all the tricks when it comes to being the most ecologically successful family of flowering plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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filipruzicka.bsky.social
Modestly, we decided to review a century's worth of theories of balancing selection :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A century of theories of balancing selection
Traits that affect organismal fitness are often highly genetically variable. This genetic variation is vital for populations to adapt to their environments, but it is also surprising given that natur...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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greally.bsky.social
A handy translation guide for non-academic speakers.
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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ibensens.bsky.social
🥁Out on @science.org
👉Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
🔗 www.science.org/doi/full/10....
👏Congratulations to @pierrebaduel.bsky.social, Vincent Colot, and all authors and collaborators!
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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rm0sher.bsky.social
Genuine question:
Can anyone explain why Surani & Solter are credited with discovering imprinting in 1984 when we already had evidence of parent-specific behavior of chromosomes & genes for >20 yrs? I assume they redefined "imprinting" to exclude prev. phenomenon, but can't find their justification.
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
vincentcastric.bsky.social
If you're in Ghent tomorrow ! I'll be sharing our recent progress deciphering the sRNA-based dominance/recessivity interactions at the self-incompatibility locus in Arabidopsis 🌱
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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lukasgroschner.bsky.social
Come join us in July 2026 for the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Graz, Austria!

Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org

#ECMTB’26
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social
European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology 2026
ECMTB is coming to Graz, Austria in July 2026. Registration and Call for Contributions are open!
ecmtb2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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devoevomed.bsky.social
I will forever end essays/reviews/perspectives with “In this paper I settle the matter once and for all, by showing which elements of each side are correct.”
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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labschneeberger.bsky.social
🌱 Postdoc position in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics!

Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf.

More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position
Career – Schneeberger Lab
schneebergerlab.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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sandraduharcourt.bsky.social
Excited to share our new preprint on BioRxiv!
A collaborative effort spanning many years and several labs to uncover what the germline chromosomes of Paramecium really look like. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The tiny germline chromosomes of Paramecium aurelia have an exceptionally high recombination rate and are capped by a new class of Helitrons
Background. Paramecia belong to the ciliate phylum of unicellular eukaryotes characterized by nuclear dimorphism. A diploid germline micronucleus (MIC) transmits genetic information across sexual gene...
www.biorxiv.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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tairnews.bsky.social
Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few examples...

What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪

#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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sinamajidian.bsky.social
Nicole Brown gave a fantastic talk on Identifying introgressions across pangenomes with Panagram

It uses k-mer conservation to annotate genomic variation across hundreds of genomes, followed by normalization of k-mer profiles to identify introgression events
github.com/kjenike/pana... #GI2025
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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c-jake-harris.bsky.social
Very excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3…

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A short thread:
CRISPR targeting of H3K4me3 activates gene expression and unlocks centromere-proximal crossover recombination in Arabidopsis
Nature Communications - Binenbaum et al. demonstrate that precise CRISPR-based targeting of a key chromatin mark (H3K4me3) can switch on genes, boost disease resistance, and unlock meiotic...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM