Jeff Dean (the Biochemist) @jeffdean@qoto.org

UMN EEB is hiring at the Assistant Professor level in any area of ecology, evolution or behavior. Join us! https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/352255 https://twitter.com/snellroodlab/status/1582776572343246851?s=46&t=yKPh5_0K82uWTVUffIYUqg

Building an aggregator for #ScienceMastodon. Let's you view multiple servers at once. Creating a list of all the science servers I know of. Please let me know of any others!

genomic.social
ecoevo.social
mstdn.science
fediscience.org
scicomm.xyz
scholar.social?

Any others?

"These peptides are translated from the same bicistronic transcript and share sequence similarities, suggesting that they encode paralogs. Yet, Sloth1 and Sloth2 are not functionally redundant, and loss of either peptide causes animal lethality, reduced neuronal function, impaired mitochondrial function, and neurodegeneration." https://elifesciences.org/articles/82709

So let's see how this site does. 😃

I am looking for two PhD students to study the evolution of hot rocky exoplanets at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, with a focus on magma ocean interiors and atmospheres. 🌍🌋🔭 Application deadline is 1st December. Details at: https://formingworlds.space/post/phd-positions-october-2022. Please boost. 🙂

From the Washington Post: "Part of Trump’s urgency comes from wanting to get ahead of a potential indictment, the logic being that a declared candidacy makes a prosecution look more political."

It's the all-new, never-before-used "you can't prosecute me because I announced I'm running for president" defense.

Kidding. There is no such defense.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/07/trump-spooks-republicans-with-talk-presidential-launch-eve-vote/

Cool new paper.

There's been a lot of work on how "unprecedented" (or not) the recent #mountain #pine #beetle #infestation in BC (and the nearby region) has been. Using #pollen #records and contemporary calibration, this paper says "perhaps not as unprecedented as we might think."

Quote: "The occurrence of one of these #outbreaks at ~8200 cal yr BP is coincident with 2 other records from the Northern Rockies, suggesting a large regional outbreak at this time."

Link: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/vol82/iss3/8/

Nice piece on supergenes by Carrie Arnold for Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-supergenes-fuel-evolution-despite-harmful-mutations-20221108/# #supergene #evolution #popgen

Effect of dietary protein on honey bee #pollen foraging behavior

Presented by:
Katherine Burke, @ProvidenceCol@twitter.com UG ’24 (5/n)

How many host proteins do mitochondria-related organelles (MROs), which lack a genome, import? Not many. Here is a super cool paper that uses spatial proteomics to show that the MRO of an oxymonad has only 31 proteins in it! They all seem to be involved in providing small C compounds to the cytosol. (No Fe-S synthesis!) Cool stuff from Vladimír Hampl and colleagues.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01673-6

#endosymbiosis #organelles #protists #SpatialProteomics #LOPIT #metabolism

A thread on fun musings on corn. To be added to sporadically, but easily found with #CornFax 1/k

I have recommended an interesting preprint in #PCIGenomics on the detection of #somatic #mutations:
https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.genomics.100024
@TiBoLeroyInEn tooted about it:
https://ecoevo.social/@TiBoLeroyInEn/109308683003654264
The authors and editorial board agreed to use a picture of mine to illustrate it. Let me explain 👇 1/3

Hey all, I am recruiting Ph.D. students interested in studying Evolutionary Genomics 🧬 in my lab at UC Riverside 🍊🌴 . Start date is September 2023, and domestic and international students are welcome to apply. Would love to hear from you! More details in 🧵 1/3