Kenny

amazing things are happening in the shrimp rodeo community

www.reddit.com/r/ShrimpsIsB...

Crested Triassic Reptile Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away by a new fossil discovery.”

Proud to make my National Geographic debut with this incredible discovery: an extremely weird little guy with independently-evolved "feathers" that solves a longstanding Triassic mystery and makes one of the period's oddest families even stranger

A spotted lantern fly hatches out of its former body, all white and pink and red

Ever see a spotted lantern fly entering their final form?

Fantastic keynote by @marcrr.bsky.social at the joint EvolCompGen-Function session of #ISMBECCB2025 on the power of (curated & FAIR) gene expression data from @bgee.org to study functional retention and innovation across animals, summarising 15+ yrs of work

Paper:
www.unil.ch/dee/en/home/...

Visual information in the dark: Bioluminescence and perceptual design through evolution Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Visual information in the dark: Bioluminescence and perceptual design through evolution - Oakley - Functional Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Trilobite fossil likely used as amulet/jewelry by the Romans, found in Spain! Original article at doi.org/10.1007/s125...

🧪 #science 🏺 #Archaeology #anthropology #paleo

BUSCO v6.0.0 has been released. busco.ezlab.org

Tracing the evolution of key traits in dorid nudibranchs Reconstructing trait evolution is critically important for elucidating the processes generating biodiversity. However, this work is in its infancy in non-model clades for which we lack a basic underst...

Check out our recent paper “Tracing the evolution of key traits in dorid nudibranchs”! 🧬🐌 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Nudibranchs are a fascinating and diverse group of molluscs, unique and interesting systems in ecology and evolutionary biology.
@molluscular.bsky.social

Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions Overview The aims of this biodiversity bioinformatics course are to (i) explore key evolutionary concepts, (ii) examine different methodological appro

Registration is open for our @sib.swiss course Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions! Orthologs, paralogs, non model animal genomes, comparison of gene expression and of function, and more!
www.sib.swiss/training/cou...

#NewSpecies!
New isopod from the #paracelislands just came in:

Bathynomus paracelensis

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8CC82366-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
#BiodiversityDataJournal #BathynomusParacelensis

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #nature #conservation #arthropods #crustacea #isopods

I enjoyed Carl Bergstrom's @carlbergstrom.com talk today @unswbabs.bsky.social on the current 'Peer review meltdown' phenomenon. Misery loves company, so I was glad to find out I'm not the only editor struggling to find reviewers. Carl et al. have narrow it down to a few factors including ->

Happy International Horseshoe Crab day!!

An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids - Nature Ecology & Evolution An analysis of annelid genomes reveals massive reshuffling of chromosomes in the ancestral lineage leading to clitellates, a clade composed of non-marine annelids, with potential implications for the ...

Glad to see this paper finally out! An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids
@natecoevo.nature.com @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @erc.europa.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This spider’s barf is worse than its bite Most spider species subdue dinner by injecting venom from their fangs. Feather-legged lace weavers swathe prey in silk, then upchuck a killing brew.

"This spider’s barf is worse than its bite
Small office plant–dwelling hunters don’t bother injecting venom"

www.sciencenews.org/article/spid...

#TCTeAC

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

🚨We’re proud that The Genetics Society @gensocuk.bsky.social supports the upcoming UK EvoDevo meeting. Register for only £5 and submit your abstracts before June 1st!

Link to register: eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...

red eyed fruit fly

Hidden virus harboured by fruit flies may influence experimental accuracy.
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#AskAnEntomologist #Entomology #Insects #AskAnExpert #InsectIdentification

A photo, vertical orientation, of a just-emerged cicada still clinging to its shed nymphal skin. The cicada is clinging to three vertical grass stems, and out of focus greenery is in the background. The cicada is mostly brown/orange, but there are a few pale green highlights on the wing veins, indicating it still has its teneral, or just-molted colors, and will darken as the new exoskeleton hardens.

A newly-emerged cicada, I think Platypedia sp., in the Pryor Mountains of Montana a week ago. It still has a bit of its teneral (just-molted) coloration - note the turquoise highlights on the wing veins - but the overall colors will darken as the exoskeleton hardens. #insects 🐙🌿📷

Germany to create an alternative to PubMed. Isn't that what EuropePMC is supposed to be? www.infodocket.com/2025/05/15/r...

47 million-year-old bug is the oldest singing cicada fossil from Europe | CNN Two fossils of singing cicadas, one of which was remarkably well preserved, reveals that the insects dispersed in Europe millions of years earlier than once thought.

When insect fossils are this intact, just looking at them makes you go WHOA. Plus, preserved body structures reveal how their group evolved! In my latest for @cnn.com, I wrote about how a truly stunning cicada fossil from Germany's Messel Pit places singing cicadas in Europe earlier than expected 🧪

Postdoc job opportunity! We're looking for ECR in evolutionary genomics to study the relation between intra-specific gene expression variability, polymorphism, and macro-evolutionary rates. We have the data in 3 fishes & amphioxus, just waiting for your expertise and enthusiasm!
tinyurl.com/3aewk286

Cell type resolved expression of duplicate genes retained from whole genome duplication in Atlantic salmon Abstract. The functional and evolutionary outcomes of whole genome duplication (WGD) events are driven by global remodelling of gene expression. Most inves

📝 New Publication 🧪

Congratulations to team members Richard Taylor and Dan Macqueen for their paper exploring the functional and evolutionary outcomes of whole genome duplication using single cell transcriptomics!

@genomebiolevol.bsky.social

#WGDip

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Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies Neural circuits have evolved to produce cognitive processes that facilitate a species variable behavioural repertoire. Underlying this variation are evolutionary forces, such as selection, that operat...

Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out!
@neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex

Looking for a post-doc?

In the frame of the #MSCA-PF 2025 program at @sorbonne-universite.fr , the #DEEVA team (biom.obs-banyuls.fr/presentation...) from @biom-banyuls.bsky.social and @obs-banyuls.fr in #WindyBanyuls proposes a research project (www.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/defaul...).

Postcards from Paris

Mesolimulus walchii Desmarest, 1817 Empreinte et contre-empreinte Jurassique, Tithonien, - 152,1 à - 145 Ma Solnhofen, Bavière, Allemagne

Mesolimulus walchii
Desmarest, 1817

Jurassic, Tithonian, 152 - 145 Ma

Check out our latest work on the evolution of animal genome regulation out today in @nature.com. Nicely summarized below by @ianakim.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu