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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 2d

We had an amazing @official-smbe.bsky.social satellite meeting in Puerto Varas. Great science, colleagues & Patagonian experience. Thanks the organizers @pablo-villa.bsky.social et al & SMBE for putting this together!

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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 2d

As a Montrealer, this makes me so proud! 🙌
“Though other cities offer bike-sharing programs, “Montreal revolutionized the trend,” TIME wrote, calling Bixi’s technology “the backbone” of bike-sharing services in cities including London and New York.”
montrealgazette.com/news/bixi-bi...

Bixi bike-sharing program among the top 25 inventions in 25 years, TIME Magazine declares

The list also includes the iPhone and the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator.

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 3d

Want to be our colleague? We have a faculty position in microbial systems biology looking for candidates. Please share. www.rh.ulaval.ca/emplois-disp...

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Omics Data Analysis in the Field of Microbial Systems Biology | Ressources humaines | Université Laval

www.rh.ulaval.ca

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 5d

Hard to stay focused on the talks with this beautiful background!

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 6d

The meeting has started and the venue and science are just perfect! Happy to see old colleagues and meeting new ones!

SMBE Chile Adaptation & Evolution Meeting @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social · Dec 6

🚨 Keynote Announcement! 🚨

We’re excited to welcome @christianlandry.bsky.social as a keynote speaker at the @official-smbe.bsky.social Satellite Meeting!

Join us in exploring Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution.

📍 Puerto Varas, Chile 🌿🗻
🗓️ October 6-8 2025

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 17d

PS: we were not on the same bike :)

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 17d

I would have needed that this morning while biking and being nearly hit by a Tesla whose driver was eating a croissant rather than holding the wheel!

trick van treat @derek.bike · 17d

tired: defensive walking

wired: offensive walking

photo of a white car driving on a road. obscuring the car is a service pole with a sign on it that says: "BE SEEN - GRAB A BRICK! 1. GRAB 2. LOOK 3. WAVE 4. CROSS" the sign has an illustration of a person holding a brick and standing in a confident pose. beneath the sign, there is a yellow basket full of bricks mounted on the service pole

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Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 19d

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics

Job #AJO30607, WDR-00055221 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

academicjobsonline.org

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 20d

Will Sidney Crosby come back with the Habs to Montreal? #please

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 24d

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year.

ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year

Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks.

ourworldindata.org

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 24d

People are shortsighted. All the physical infrastructures would be cheaper and a better investment if we had invented and created them. Same for everything else we are going to spend money on in the next decade.

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 24d

Massive investment in science in the upcoming Canadian budget would send a strong message that rationality and reason should lead the world, not charlatanism. People will return to science-based policies and health measures, and countries that have not given up will have a strong economic lead!

Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 25d

“Antiscience has gone beyond U.S. borders to Europe, Australia, and Africa. Defeating it will require unprecedented commitment and international cooperation, not only between scientific organizations, but also their host governments.”
🧪 #Disinformation #AntiScience
time.com/7317436/scie...

Antiscience Is an Existential Threat

The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.

time.com

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 29d

Same here. Also for all other expenses :)

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · Sep 12

New grant season, new CV formats. Thanks #CCV

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Sep 10

Adaptation is less accessible through mutations in promoters than in coding sequences when large effect sizes are needed https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675213v1

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · Sep 10

We have a manuscript that looks at something like what you are referring to, specifically for oligomeric proteins. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paralog interference preserves genetic redundancy

Models of gene duplication often assume that loss-of-function mutations neutrally promote the return to the ancestral singleton state. They thus ignore the potential functional interference between du...

www.biorxiv.org

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is something we are working on!

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · Sep 10

Yep. Adaptation to antifungal drug treatment. It would probably be the same in the other direction, though. Flux through enzymes can change several-fold by coding mutations, rarely so with minor changes in protein abundance.

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · Sep 10

Really excited to share our latest paper led by @simonaube.bsky.social. Fascinating results examining whether regulatory mutations can lead to adaptation as fast as coding mutations do. #mevosky #evobio #evoSky

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Adaptation is less accessible through mutations in promoters than in coding sequences when large effect sizes are needed

Mutations within promoters and coding sequences are both involved in adaptation, but their relative contributions remain to be compared directly. Using the fungal enzyme cytosine deaminase, we examine...

www.biorxiv.org

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Hanna Johannesson @hannajohannesson.bsky.social · Sep 7

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet

Jobb

su.varbi.com

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · Sep 5

How can this be achieved? By surgery? :)

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · Sep 4

The richest country in the world turning its back on knowledge and rationality. Now, the richest province in Canada looking in that direction too.

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · Sep 2

Doug Ford is barking up the wrong tree with a ban on animal research. Nobody likes the idea of cute little puppies being killed. But populist pandering to emotion is anti-science rhetoric that serves no one, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com

Opinion: Doug Ford is barking up the wrong tree with his ban on animal research

The Ontario Premier’s populist pandering in the wake of a report over beagles used in research is knee-jerk, anti-science rhetoric

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · Sep 2

Issues with a plasmid. The coding sequence optimized for one species works fine but not the one optimized for another (no expression here, just construction in E. coli). The company also had trouble synthesizing this particular one.

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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · Sep 2

Pls share: Distributing this advertisement from EMBL for a group leader position at their Hamburg, Germany site:

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Group Leader - EMBL Hamburg

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Infection Biochemistry? Join us at EMBL Hamburg! We are recruiting outstanding scientists to establish independent research groups tackling fundamental...

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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is what I meant. I think we agree. Biochemistry does not care how alleles are transmitted.

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