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Wining against Trump, Rubio and CIA meddling. Meta, X and antropic active interference. Against our own media oligarchs and a fascist clan only to defend our sovereignty and our constitution. Brazil is not anyone’s backyard! Latin America is not anyone’s backyard.

🇧🇷 Lula wins fourth term as #Brazil president after historic upset over far-right Flávio Bolsonaro www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Gigantesco, São Paulo. Histórico. Vamos juntos, Brasil. Amanhã é 13! 🇧🇷 📸 Ricardo Stuckert

I’m very happy to share that part of my postdoc work is now out in Science Advances! We find that a chimp-specific endogenous retrovirus (PTERV1) insertion silences LINC00662 and that silencing this lncRNA alters neuronal maturation in neural organoids 🧬🧠🐒 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Brazil is now at the forefront of the global fight against the far right. Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly young, are taking to the streets across the country to defend democracy, social justice and the environment. Don't look away 🇧🇷🚩

“O PT quebrou o Brasil” Será mesmo? O Professor Elton Freitas, da UFS, checou com base em dados econômicos

Ao lado de Flávio Bolsonaro, Daniella Marques afirma: “Só vai ter eleição daqui oito anos”: A coordenadora do plano econômico de Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), Daniella Marques, afirmou, durante entrevista a um podcast, que só haverá uma nova eleição em oito anos, caso o senador vença a… #revistafórum

Botou na mesa, mandou medir e falou pra trazer mais mesa que nao coube

A recém-eleita deputada federal Rosa Amorim (PT-PE) respondeu às declarações do parlamentar Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG) sobre a região Nordeste. A fala ocorreu durante manifestação nesta terça-feira (20) em Petrolina (PE).

Até Lulinha, que abriu o seu sigilo bancário e telefônico, é mais CORAJOSO do que Flávio Bolsonaro. Se até o cara que toda a imprensa hegemônica desse país ataca diariamente teve coragem de deixar essas informações à disposição, o filhote do Bolsonaro não ter coragem diz muito sobre ele.

Já debati com muita gente importante, do Brasil e do resto do mundo. Me senti muito incomodado de debater com um miliciano que foi preparado para mentir e desrespeitar a sabedoria do povo brasileiro. O Brasil não merece retrocessos. E nós não vamos abandonar nosso país. Dia 25, é 1️⃣3️⃣✅

@joethorntonlab.bsky.social and I are thrilled to co-organize the 2027 Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution GRC, June 13–18, in beautiful Portland, Maine! See our ⭐stellar⭐ lineup of speakers ⬇️ spanning evolutionary biochemistry, cell biology, development, behavior... www.grc.org/molecular-me... 1/n

Meta is a fascist enterprise.

🚨 EXCLUSIVO: a campanha de Flávio pagou R$ 600 mil a uma empresa que tentou vender nos EUA um sistema de IA para manipular eleições. Documentos obtidos pelo Intercept Brasil revelam que a tecnologia oferecida incluía criação de contas falsas, desinformação e técnicas de guerra psicológica.

📘🇧🇷 Presidente Lula levanta a Constituição Cidadã durante promulgação do Fim da Escala 6x1 no Brasil

Must-see new tool from me and Alex! I hurt my back a few weeks ago and was confined to the couch. I used my "break" to play around with webassembly and ended up vibe-coding an AMAZING interactive dotplotter. Passed my prototype to Alex to clean up and extend. Check out his release thread!

Mark Zuckerberg’s big Brazilian campaign contribution

Meta has censored more than 1,000 pro-Lula accounts during the Brazilian Presidential Election. Evidence shows that the social media giant clearly interfered in the election. paydayreport.com/meta-censors...

Johns Hopkins Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational genetics and genomics. Applications due Nov. 8th: apply.interfolio.com/194924 In my experience, this has been an incredibly supportive environment to build a lab. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

Flávio Bolsonaro esteve na frente de uma eleição no primeiro turno. Bastou isso para a universidade pública sofrer ataques. No caso, seus apoiadores queimaram um prédio da UFPE. É deprimente como toda metáfora destrutiva se encaixa como luva nas mãos sujas desse indivíduo e do que ele representa.

An atlas of eukaryotic centromere architecture reveals recurrent evolutionary dynamics #protists www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Read the science behind the headline "Scientists identify new penguin species for first time in more than 100 years" 🐧👇

Delighted to see that @plosbiology.org has a feature of our guppy paper on their landing page. The real star is the guppy photo by @vdbijl.bsky.social, and I am at peace with this. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Hello 👋 🌈 rainbowR is a community that connects, supports, and promotes LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and spreads awareness of LGBTQ+ issues. We run monthly online meet-ups, a Slack group, a buddy scheme, a book club and a repo of LGBTQ+ datasets. rainbowr.org

Chromosomal breakage in Arabidopsis thaliana neo-polyploids occurs preferentially at candidate fragile sites colocalized with ancient genome rearrangements https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.21.753295v1

Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Retrotransposon has gained viral-like cell-to-cell transmission capability, further blurring the conventional boundaries between transposons and viruses www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... (Tiukkaa tekstiä, vaikka ois joskus tehnyt gradunsa retrotransposoneista niin kuin mä)

Proibido colocar pedro doria na timeline alheia, sujeito à paulada

Out today in Nature: sex without crossovers. Rhynchospora tenuis makes pollen, fertilises and sets seed, yet 0 crossovers in 10,997 pollen nuclei. Chromosome drive and ~87% seed abortion rebuild the mother's genotype, so the offspring are clones. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #TESky

We have a tenure-track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in Columbia's E3B Department. Application deadline is October 15. Come be our colleague. Please RT! apply.interfolio.com/193016

Nao que faça diferença pra efeitos praticos, mas tem muito mais evidencias de corrupçao do flavio do que ja teve do Lula.

Researchers have described a new Amazonian frog species, Adenomera varcena, set apart not by appearance, but by an unusually slow "lazy" song. Unlike its dry-land relatives, this tiny brown frog inhabits seasonal floodplains in Ecuador and Brazil. Learn more in this story by Shanna Hanbury.

He Chose Violence. Violence Chose Him Back. #LifuX #Cat #Cats #Catsofbluesky #Caturday

Academics: chatbots are like grad students— you can pass their work as your own AI companies: hold our beer

Dolphins are known to "pass around" pufferfish, lightly envenoming themselves with its narcotic-like tetrodotoxin Debate continues on whether this constitutes animal recreational drug use, but I want to ask a DIFFERENT question: What's up with the pufferfish's skeleton?

Pangenome alignment reveals global diversity and evolution of human centromeric regions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.03.749043v1

Advice for new PhD students: choose a mentor who is committed to your training, not just your project. The most important product of your PhD - even more important than the science - is YOU, a newly trained scientist.

We are getting VERY close 13,000 silhouettes! www.phylopic.org/images

it's important to stay busy

Junior faculty position in Basic Sciences @fredhutch.org! Please repost!

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About 6 months ago, we learned the passing of our former mentor and colleague Pierre Capy at only 69. Together with my colleagues, we wrote an obituary that summarizes his career and contribution to the transposable element community, now pubished in Mobile DNA: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thrilled to share that I'll be starting my lab at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm as a DDLS Fellow in November! 🧑‍🔬🧬🎉 Of course, we will be delving into all things mobile DNA & evolution, as well as developing AI approaches for biodiversity genomics #newPI #TEsky #TEworldwide