Really interesting ideas here. Taking context dependence of evolution/mutation, which we all happily illustrate with our favourite example (lactase persistence and phenylketonuria are my human examples) and giving it a quantitative framework called "genomic perplexity".
The always excellent @lucielaplane.bsky.social will give an online talk at 17:00 (Paris time) next Tuesday: "How Much Should Philosophers of Biology Engage with Biology?"
Zoom link at philinbiomed.cnrs.fr/event/lucie-...
No ivermectin??
Is it those anglo saxon boxes of bones at Winchester Cathedral that they are studying?
The Tidyverse Is Not Enough
Je n'ecris pas vite en francais, desole!
Or MRC Units of that time, too. I don't agree with the article about that model lauding individuals over collaboration. Time, willingness to take a risk, and flat hierarchies facilitates collaboration rather than hinders it.
With Palin, it seemed much less about him. It wasn't a celebrity vehicle.
"Chained to the mirror and the razor blade" is about shaving and the morning routine...
This is great, but just because you can predict where the enhancers are likely to be, you can't really predict their function.
For me, not even subtly different, but often completely different! Very often, rows of lights can be controlled independently, but perpendicular to the direction of teaching. So can dim left lights but not front lights...
BYD cars are a common sight on the roads here in the UK.
Out here in the provinces, literally thousands of em in a field. Dead crows littered beneath them. Not turning now, it being Ramadan.
So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
I predate MMR too (or it was later arriving in Norfolk...) but had MMR 25 years ago when I was working in Notts as there was a mumps outbreak amongst the students. As far as I remember I just asked for it and got it.
The growing number of sequenced #genomes provides a positive feedback loop, in which database searches become more effective and shared sequence patterns emerge more clearly www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biodiversity #genomics
Amazing peppered moth story from Saccheri lab - same locus, but different structural variants, underly parallel evolution of industrial melanism in the UK and across continental Europe.
Another one for Warwick? Here our colour is red, probably in homage to the cheese.
Purple seems to be quite popular - see Manchester. I'm sure you have tone of voice guides too.
Synergy, going forward... or something like that.
"It looks like socialism, Justin!"
One for the merch.
Today in
@science.org:
We are pleased to present our last work entitled:
"Concurrent L1 retrotransposition events promote reciprocal translocations in human tumorigenesis"
by Zumalave et al.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hours of fun.
Preparing for UEA Kazakhstan...
Can safely way this is the craziest and coolest study I have led. We chart the evolution of sheeppox virus, finding it in the Eurasian steppe ~3700 years ago, and also in a LOT of parchment from medieval Europe (made from a range of animals skins!) #aDNA
Because the only reason to understand something is to be exploited for that understanding...
#rstats Here's a useful guide to creating publication-ready #ggplot figures to journal specifications, which is often quite fiddly.
jaquent.github.io/2026/02/crea...
PopGeneJS is a free web platform for teaching population genetics with 32 interactive modules on various topics. It offers real-time visualizations and requires no installation. Explore at https://popgenejs.bioinformat.org.
Lest ye think that only humanities profs need to worry about this, remember what Stalin did to the geneticists.
600 years since the parliament of bats was held in Leicester historyofparliament.com/2026/02/18/p...
