Kenny Kim

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.

Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.

When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.

Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

Predictors of protein evolution in the drosophilid immune system The evolutionary dynamics of immune genes are shaped by diverse selective pressures, yet the relative roles of gene-level traits, functional specialization, and pathway context remain poorly understoo...

Another preprint from @pankajd.bsky.social !
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.

Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

X-Mapper 🦠🧬🧪 - a sequence aligner developed for microbes, now on Bioconda! 🚀
• 11–24× fewer suboptimal alignments (same for human genome)
• 3–579× lower inconsistency
• improves on ~30% of reads aligned to non-target species
github.com/mathjeff/map...
bioconda.github.io/recipes/x-ma...
#microsky

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

Three Armadillidium vulgare individuals

Our annotated chromosome(ish)-scale assembly of the genome of the terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare, the common pillbug, is available on NCBI: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...

Work carried out at Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions (EBI) lab in Poitiers.

⚠️ We’re excited to announce our invited speakers for the #PalAss Annual Meeting! 🎉
🔗 Registration link ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

#conference #uk #palaeontology #meeting

Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

Lunar eclipse

Lunar eclipse seen from Switzerland🌒

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.

Our MoultDB project, which combines fossils, phenotypic, and genomic data about arthropod moulting, highlighted on the @sib.swiss Expasy page: www.expasy.org

Like for #ismbeccb2025, I'll be live-posting #ESEB2025 from my Mastodon account, which you can follow there or on the bridging account quoted (the "live" will sometimes be a bit delayed).

I am announcing an open PhD position involving bioinformatics, genomics and machine learning to work on functional prediction of adaptive genetic variation in krill and herring!

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Going to #ESEB2025 @eseb.bsky.social ?

Find me in poster session 1 for a chat!

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate.

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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...