YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable

Watch Prof. Nick Lane on the Dwarkesh podcast, talking about the principles that govern life on Earth and potentially across the Universe.
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On measures of influence and discordance in phylogenomic analyses Abstract. As models are approximate descriptions of real biological processes, and data are collected often with errors and contamination, sensitivity or r

Special Issue on Phylogenomic Discordance in the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society. REVIEW PAPER from Ziheng Yang👉 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Genomic Data Reveals Cryptic Diversity in the Soda Lake Cichlid Oreochromis amphimelas The cichlid fishes of East Africa are renowned for their rapid and species-rich adaptive radiation; however, some lineages have not undergone extensive diversification, and it is plausible that these...

NEW PAPER! Genomic Data Reveals Cryptic Diversity in the Soda Lake Cichlid Oreochromis amphimelas doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Persisting at the Edge of Ecological Collapse: The Impact of Urbanization on Fish and Amphibian Communities From Lake Xochimilco Freshwater ecosystems are globally threatened by habitat loss, pollution, and invasive species, all of which are particularly acute in urban areas. To assess the impacts of urbanization on freshwater....

NEW PAPER- Persisting at the Edge of Ecological Collapse: The Impact of Urbanization on Fish and Amphibian Communities From Lake Xochimilco, in Environmental DNA dx.doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

Is the deuterostome clade an artifact? There is a long-standing consensus that the animal phyla closest to our own phylum of Chordata are the Echinodermata and Hemichordata. These three phy…

Fresh off the presses in @currentbiology.bsky.social : Is the deuterostome clade an artefact? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We (yours truly, Paschalis Natsidis, Laura Piovani and co-leads Paschalia Kapli and @maxjtelford.bsky.social) set out to try to answer this question.

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A primer by Sergio Latorre @smlatorreo.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ye8zwcrc on the paper by Jigisha et al. "Popgen and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew" @plosbiology.org tinyurl.com/357nkey8 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social

New publication! Sherlock, MB, Wilkinson M, Maddock ST, Nussbaum RA, Day JJ, Streicher JW (2025) Submerged corridors of ancient gene flow in an island amphibian. Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.17742.

An elusive worm: the salinella is shrouded in mystery A 19th-century zoologist found the ‘little salt dweller’, which could be a portal to the past – if only we could locate it again

"For someone interested in the beginnings of the animal kingdom, Salinella is a kind of time machine": Prof @maxjtelford.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social writes in @theguardian.com about his hunt for a highly elusive worm that may shed light on the origin of all animals

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