Giacinto De Vivo

As a reminder, single-copy orthologs identified using OrthoSNAP are largely indistinguishable from traditional single-copy orthologs across multiple dimensions of phylogenetic information bsky.app/profile/jlst...

Above 94, not 95

25% scored above 95? Well we got AI, and it show it is all about writing, and more people from other countries, including americans, competing. But that mooved the line of about 1.5 points, not 3...
The topic here should be the lack of research founding anywhere, the % of success, not the scores...

For what I see, the % of success rate is the problem, due to the huge increase of applicants and the limited budget available. People with more than 95.6 would getting founded if the same success rate % remained the same of the other years.

Yes, we got valid alternative with the seal of excellence, but it is still a ridiculus system. It shows that we (Europe) have many excellences but we are not able to cultivate them.

Scored above 96 for my MSCA Fellowship. Result: Rejection.
Apparently, 96% isn't excellent anymore, but a polite "no". If such a score is a fail, we aren't evaluating science, we're playing a lottery where the ticket costs months of work. Academia is failing us. #MSCA #MSCA2025 #Research

Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.

Maybe that is stupid, but i would retry to do the synteny analysis using the only the genes you identified, since as far i have understood, they are more reliable as true orthologous.

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳

Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?

For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.

We provide new evidence suggesting that...

🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

GBE | An Ocean of Opsins

@xodroont.bsky.social et al. explored the diversity and evolution of opsins using meta-omic data from the Tara Oceans and Tara Polar Circle expeditions, identifying opsins across the different metazoan groups.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf189

#genome #evolution #opsins

An Ocean of Opsins Abstract. In this study, we explored the diversity and evolution of opsins using meta-omic data from the Tara Oceans and Tara Polar Circle expeditions, one

Thrilled to share our new paper in Genome Biology & Evolution! 🌊
We discovered an ocean of opsins in marine zooplankton — unveiling how these animals evolved to sense light across the world’s seas.
🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

#MarineBiology #Evolution

Genomic constraints shape the evolution of alternative routes to drug resistance in prokaryotes Background Variation within the prokaryotic pangenome is not random, and natural selection that favours particular combinations of genes appears to dominate over random drift. What is less clear is wh...

New preprint reveals bacteria can't just collect all resistance genes like Pokemon cards.
We found mutually exclusive evolutionary pathways to multidrug resistance in E. coli & P. aeruginosa - some resistance mechanisms actively prevent others from coexisting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great job @xodroont.bsky.social at #ESEB2025 !!!

An ocean of opsins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.07.622103v1 In this study, we explored the diversity and evolution of opsins using meta-omic data from the TARA

An ocean of opsins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.07.622103v1

Something geeky outside the science geek.
The constume was designed by me starting from the in game Alakazam 3-D model! I am quite proud of it!
Thanks to @GMennellla for the amazing interpretation!
#Pokemon #cosplay #luccacomics #luccacg24 @PokemonIT @Pokemon @LuccaCandG