Mesquite 4.02 update released! It fixes a few bugs and adds Codon Alignment and various other improvements. Also, much faster with genomics files with 1000s of loci. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio
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October 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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OTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthus’s Principles of Population “for amusement.”
The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow.
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The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow.
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September 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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1/3🧵Kicking off on #bugsky today & introducing Wood Wide Ants, aka WWA! We're researchers studying the #evolbio of the #ant Formica paralugubris and its kin, through #genomics, #SciComm & #CitizenScience📚🐜🧪🧬🖥️ #insects #mirmecology @sib.swiss @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology
21-23 January 2026, Valencia, @sesbe-org.bsky.social
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🧪 #ecoevo #evosky #evolbio
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21-23 January 2026, Valencia, @sesbe-org.bsky.social
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September 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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“We must therefore try to establish a new standpoint which … takes account of organic wholeness, but … treats it in a manner which admits of scientific investigation.”
🐋🌱🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci #evolbio #STS 🧪
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September 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Ludwig von Bertalanffy—the architect of “General System Theory”—was born OTD in 1901.
Mechanism “provides us with no grasp of … organic 'wholeness,’ … of organic 'teleology,’ or of the historical character of organisms.…”
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Mechanism “provides us with no grasp of … organic 'wholeness,’ … of organic 'teleology,’ or of the historical character of organisms.…”
🌱🐋🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci #evolbio #STS 🧪
September 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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OTD in 1854, Charles Darwin began sorting his notes in preparation for writing a treatise with the working title “Natural Selection.”
He would never publish the book, instead publishing a short “abstract”—titled “On the Origin of Species”—in 1859.
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He would never publish the book, instead publishing a short “abstract”—titled “On the Origin of Species”—in 1859.
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September 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Jakob von Uexküll was born OTD in 1864.
Each animal inhabits its own individual "umwelt," comprising only those aspects of the world that are relevant to its survival and flourishing.
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Each animal inhabits its own individual "umwelt," comprising only those aspects of the world that are relevant to its survival and flourishing.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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CEB seminar late post: PhD candidate Andrea Piccinini shared the first observation of post-copulatory mate guarding behaviour in a WA wishbone spider (Aname sp.)—a rare insight into mygalomorph mating behaviour.👏
#EvolBio #SpiderBehaviour #SexualSelection #UWA #Mygalomorphs
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September 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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🐸 Last week at CEB, Shengyao discussed the population genomics of the Howard River toadlet (Uperoleia daviesae), a short-range endemic frog threatened by urbanisation near Darwin.
Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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August 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Moreno, @lionelguy.bsky.social et al. applied experimental evolution to identify genes conferring host specificity to L. pneumophila, highlighting the importance of mutations targeting the LerC protein and the LPS synthesis cluster.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf161
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Host-Specific Adaptation of Legionella pneumophila to Single and Multiple Hosts
Abstract. Legionella pneumophila is an endosymbiotic bacterial species able to infect and reproduce in various protist and human hosts. Upon entry into hum
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August 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Phylogenomics processing of locus-by-locus files with inconsistent taxon names in Mesquite 4, a short video (3 minutes). youtu.be/YdSWQMkW92k (Channel: bit.ly/4eM2SLZ) 🧪 #evolbio @bembidion.bsky.social
Processing of locus-by-locus files with inconsistent taxon names in Mesquite 4
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July 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Reading and viewing tree files output by different programs in Mesquite 4, a short video (3 minutes). youtu.be/MVk4aira8A8 (Channel: bit.ly/4eM2SLZ) 🧪 #evolbio
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Reading files with different tree dialects in Mesquite 4
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July 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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A two-minute video showing how to export geographic localities and trees from Mesquite 4 into Google Earth. youtu.be/tdOVmR122ts 🧪 #evolbio
Exporting to Google Earth
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July 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Update! — Mesquite 4.01 released, fixing a few small and one substantive bug (for details see response post). New: NINJA (for neighbour joining), new merge taxa options, node spots, Google Earth mapping. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio
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July 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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A short video showing how to infer gene trees in Mesquite 4. youtu.be/xkAHBRIJ4CU 🧪 #evolbio #phylogenomics
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Inferring Gene Trees in Mesquite 4
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July 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Naiveté: Hoping people will follow your polite recommendation when defining a standard. When we defined the NEXUS file format in 1997, we considered DATA blocks to be already archaic, and recommended strongly against them. 38 years later, prominent programs still depend on them. 🤦 🧪 #evolbio
July 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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A short Quick Tip video showing how to concatenate and deconcatenate matrices in Mesquite 4. youtu.be/1etP6D3SrdE 🧪 #evolbio
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Concatenating and deconcatenating matrices in Mesquite 4
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July 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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A short video with a Mesquite tip showing how to display chronograms from a BEAST divergence dating analysis. youtu.be/CvxX8GauqLo 🧪 #evolbio @waynemaddison.bsky.social
Displaying Chronograms in Mesquite 4
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June 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Mesquite 4.0 released! A major update — many new features, small and large (phylogenomics, visualizations, workflow management, &c). Check out the trailer video: www.mesquiteproject.org.
Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social 🧪 #evolbio
Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social 🧪 #evolbio
June 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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1/2 Wonderful week at @sbroscoff.bsky.social for the meeting on the origin of metazoa @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social
Had a poster on my new #postdoc project in the Feuda Lab about the #evolbio of #vision and #phototransduction in #ctenophores w/ #phylogenomics #singlecell
Had a poster on my new #postdoc project in the Feuda Lab about the #evolbio of #vision and #phototransduction in #ctenophores w/ #phylogenomics #singlecell
June 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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🌍❄️ Why do we stop wearing masks when cases drop? New research from the MPI EvolBio shows:
fewer infections → less caution → winter surges of flu & COVID-19. Smarter prevention needed!
🦠🔄 Read more: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3827501/the-...
#Science #PublicHealth
fewer infections → less caution → winter surges of flu & COVID-19. Smarter prevention needed!
🦠🔄 Read more: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3827501/the-...
#Science #PublicHealth
June 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Attending this week the #originOfMetazoa conference at @sbroscoff.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social!
So stimulating to hear wonderful works in #evolbio #bioinformatics #phylogenomics and #singlecell 🪸🪼🦠🧬
Also can't way to explore those tide pools👀
Stay tuned for updates
So stimulating to hear wonderful works in #evolbio #bioinformatics #phylogenomics and #singlecell 🪸🪼🦠🧬
Also can't way to explore those tide pools👀
Stay tuned for updates
June 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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