Max Telford

What an excellent book. “In pursuit of the gene.” James Schwartz.

Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6

A friend (works at Porton down) saw Boris Johnson arrive, get out of his limo, mess up his hair and untuck his shirt.

Time to let go @matthewcobb.bsky.social. There, there, there.

I’d never wear budgie smugglers – but I did once help smuggle a budgie | Adrian Chiles Tight swimwear is for the likes of Ronaldo, and, I can imagine, Robert Jenrick. But when my aunt and uncle needed to get their beloved Timmy out of the country, it was a different matter …

A typically important contribution from Adrian Chiles. Brave and original reporting and earning its space in the Guardian (coincidentally edited by his missus) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky

Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!)
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Find out deadlines TODAY.

Congratulations Pedro! Well deserved.

A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensive

Everyone needs to see this.

The home of 2 million people turned to dust.

While the world looks away. Or cheers on.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Evolutionary Tempo, Supertaxa, and Living Fossils Abstract. A relationship between the rate of molecular change and diversification has long been discussed, on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Howev

Our covariant model of evolution is now out in @systbiol.bsky.social. In it, rates of diversification and molecular and morphological evolution all covary governed by a “tempo” variable which itself also varies at a rate equal to its own value. @richardpmann.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

Coming March 17, 2026!
Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.

If we liked wasps more, we could learn from them Wasps have a terrible image problem but, after seeing an exhibition that highlights their design abilities, Will Wiles thinks we could learn from them

Love the thoughtful, erudite reflections by @willwiles.bsky.social on #WorldOfWasps exhibition @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social.

Thank you Will, for such a fabulous piece.

#WoW is free to the public, open until 26 Jan - the world’s first immersive wasp experience!

apollo-magazine.com/wasps-nests-...

Compensatory Evolution Following Deleterious Episodes of GC-biased Gene Conversion in Rodents Abstract. GC-biased gene conversion (gBGC) is a widespread evolutionary force associated with meiotic recombination that favors the accumulation of deleter

Riffis, Saclier & @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social analyzed coding sequences in murine rodents, finding that GC-biased gene conversion episodes caused deleterious AT→GC substitutions, followed by rapid compensatory evolution.

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#evobio #molbio

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Please RT!

We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets.

Deadline: 30/09/25👇

Anyone else devastated that the Tour de France is over. AND will never be the same again for uk viewers with ITV dropping out with their amazing team. They’ve been part of my summer every year since mid 1980s. Sad indeed. Thanks guys!!!

Fair by Jen Calleja review – on the magic of translation A highly original book from the author of Goblinhood explores the art and work of translating fiction

✨ FAIR is Book of the Day in The Guardian ✨

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

@prototypepubs.bsky.social @theguardian.com

Watch giraffe at Dickerson Park Zoo kick around a giant soccer ball Caley the giraffe kicks around a giant soccer ball at the Dickerson Park Zoo.

eu.news-leader.com/videos/news/...

Type II fun (climbing a mountain) is better than Type I fun (sun lounger).

Ben Jennings on starvation in Gaza – cartoon Hamas sends a ceasefire proposal to the Israeli government as famine threatens Palestinians’ lives

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dog called Max number 8. Another sweet looking dog!

Number seven in my collection of dogs called Max. Good boy.

Norway José.

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

showyourstripes.info/c/europe/uni...

a gorilla is standing in the woods with trees in the background and looking at the camera . ALT: a gorilla is standing in the woods with trees in the background and looking at the camera .

Another pathetic DMCA takedown by @dailyimagesde, for figs published under CC-BY 4.0; so silly because they only had to attribute the images to use them. Again, I can't prove this was at the bequest of #ColossalBio co-founder Ben Lamm but lets this opportunity to learn about gorilla sperm! 🧪

Faced with a choice between saving his own skin and the lives of others, Netanyahu always chooses himself | Jonathan Freedland If Israel’s prime minister accepts a ceasefire deal soon, it will only be because the timing suits him. He, like his country, will face a reckoning, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Pas encore.

My book 'The Tree of Life' will be available in Spanish translation in October. Other languages coming too. (Uk version here... www.amazon.co.uk/Tree-Life-So...)

‘Unputdownable’ @thebookseller.com on Other People’s Fun by @harrietlane.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social (out in October)

scanning electron micrograph of a Platynereis larva showing a close-up of the prototroch ciliary band

Happy to be involved in UNICIL, our new Wellcome Trust Discovery project coordinated by @micromotility.bsky.social

We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […]

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