Please join me for this free online event. Book launch! March 24th, 5pm PT/8pm ET
Register for the event with the marvelous @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social. While you're on their site, you can order a copy of my book or others from their amazing collection.
ptreyesbooks.com/event/2026-0...
What a cool video!
In animals with large genomes, finding cis-regulatory elements can be very challenging. Enhancers can be located tens/hundreds of kb away from their target promoters. We face this challenge in Parhyale, with >3 Gbp genome.
We just published a preprint describing how we are tackling this problem. /1
Inviting anyone who is interested to come to my inaugural lecture, 'Why the Cambrian Explosion happened', on March 24 at the University of Leeds eps.leeds.ac.uk/faculty-engi...
Considering my book "The Tree of Life" for introductory evolution class? I have a few complimentary copies to evaluate. Please DM me. And please repost.
Review in Science described it as "..a fantastic informal introduction to a course on evolution.. recommended it to my first-year students".
Congratulations Matthew!!!
Cover image of paperback edition of the Tree of Life book by Max Telford.
On world book day might you be tempted to preorder the paperback edition of The Tree of Life?
Out in pb on April 23rd.
www.amazon.co.uk/Tree-Life-So...
Happy #WorldBookDay. For those who like to dress up for it, here's Daisy Edgar-Jones rocking The Jewel Box look a few years back...
I’m beyond excited to see our work published in Science Advances! 🎉
Deeply grateful to everyone involved — and especially to @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social for the great mentorship ✨
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The first version of FigTree was released nearly 20 years ago and it is still widely used (including by me). But there are currently 85 issues on the GitHub repo (github.com/rambaut/figt...) and some of them I don’t really like the look of.
This is so important. BHL is absolutely brilliant.
YES!
Meanwhile somewhere there is a rival group organising a Poriferapalooza.
Happy 38th birthday to the #LTEE!
#BOTD in 1988.
Keep on evolving!
#science #evolution #microbiology
Ils sont fous ces Québecois!
Fabulous!
Blimey!
It was a great pleasure to be interviewed by #NDTV on the #Tech360 show by the brilliant host #AayushAilawadi where I discussed my new book #OnTheFutureOfSpecies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWHv...
The sponge / ctenophores debate reaches Le Monde. www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
📄 No evidence that haplodiploidy favors the evolution of eusociality 🐝🐜
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www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
With a nice shout-out for our Genomic Code paper proposing that the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations to @arnausebe.bsky.social, Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 2025 in the category of Life Sciences and Medicine. The award ceremony will take place today at the historic Saló de Cent and was presided over by the Mayor of Barcelona. Full story: www.crg.eu/en/news/arna...
Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨
#UCL200 #LoveUCL
Naser-Khdour et al. (2026-02, Systematic Biology) (open access)
Phylogenetic Accuracy Under Non-Stationary and Non-Homogeneous Conditions: A Simulation Study
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
THE WONDER OF LIFE ON EARTH - published today www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...
Generous praise (in passing) for The Tree of Life in the TLS.
If you're in Manchester this afternoon and fancy listening to me chuntering about Francis Crick and why it sometimes matters who does science, come along! Details here:
Wormception:
Veneriserva pygoclava is a worm with a name that translates into "Venus' servant" - but the truth is quite the opposite.
It is a polychaete worm that has evolved to live as a parasite inside the body of other polychaete worms.
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/03/vene...
