Check out our new review in Nature Reviews Genetics on de novo emerged genes and proteins. How they emerge, are lost and persist - and how de novo emerged proteins relate to randomized proteins! @bornberglab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emergence and evolution of protein-coding de novo genes Nature Reviews Genetics - De novo gene evolution entails the birth of new genes from previously non-coding DNA. In this Review, Bornberg-Bauer and Eicholt overview how protein-coding de novo genes...

New review out in Nat Rev Genet: Emergence & evolution of protein-coding de novo genes by Erich and Lars Eicholt @lacholt.bsky.social. How non-coding DNA becomes translated, persists or is lost in populations, and can yield structured/functional proteins—plus methods & open questions! rdcu.be/e09SM

GBE | Orphan and de novo Genes in Fungi and Animals: Identification, Origins and Functions

Seçkin et al. review the evolution of orphan genes in animals and fungi, detailing discoveries on orphan gene prevalence in genomes, their origins as well as their roles in different biological contexts.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf220

#genome #evolution

SMBE2026 Symposium L01 | Insights into the past through the lens of palaeoproteomics

SMBE2026 Symposium L01 | Insights into the past through the lens of palaeoproteomics

📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts

📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026

The call for abstracts for #SMBE2026 is now open.
If you are working on palaeoproteomics, we've got you covered!
We are having a symposium dedicated to it! (L01)
So, send your abstracts and remember, you can also apply for an award to attend the meeting.

Gevol Job alert: 2 New PhD positions. You want to do Bioinformatics 💻, please check the job Mario Stankes lab in Greifswald, or maybe work on ant venoms 🐜, please check the job in Simon Tragust lab in Halle. These and more open jobs can be found g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes - Nature Ecology & Evolution Analysis of the 3D chromatin architecture and cis-regulatory elements in a sea urchin and a sea star reveals mechanisms of 3D chromatin organization in echinoderms and the long-term evolutionary dynam...

I am extremely proud and happy to announce that another paper from my PhD days has just been published in @natecoevo.nature.com on evolution of genome and gene regulation thanks to all the amazing people involved.

Check the paper out at:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Watch to the end! The last sheep seems to caper with a jolt of joy upon leaving. Looks like they paid in kind, though!

📣 The 25th HFSP Awardees Meeting is coming!
Three days of science and collaboration at the heart of Geneva’s innovation hub. What a joy! 🙃 Save the Date:
📅 8–10 July 2026
📍 Campus Biotech Geneva, Switzerland

zurl.co/jip5N
#HFSPmtg2026 #sts 🧪

Greetings from Prague!
The HFSP Masterclass is in full swing 🇨🇿 — welcoming early career researchers from Central Europe to explore HFSP funding, frontier science, and international collaboration.
#HFSPmasterclass #HFSP #GlobalScience #ScienceWithoutBorders
🧪 #sts

my friend Coral

Coral is a young goliath grouper, resident to a reef in the Florida Keys.

There were once countless groupers here, of all different species. They’ve been hunted nearly to extinction.

Like the few living coral formations on her reef, she survives here in spite of us.

#MarineLife

Colored droplets in corn syrup seemingly blended together can be returned to their original state by reversing the direction of mixing, a form of laminar flow called "Stokes flow".

Credit: UNM Physics & Astronomy