Looking at #SMBE23 content here and "there" and seeing how funny it is that our discipline have mixed views between "what gets measured gets done" and "this one metric does not do justice"

I hope people really integrating the nuances in every view as we move the field forward.

Thanks to @officialSMBE for making space for climate activism and to @SanjaHakala, @gaston and @AudreyBras for facilitating an engaging workshop yesterday.

It was great to be able to chat openly about #ClimateBreakdown and #DirectAction together with a room full of evolutionary biologists, geneticists and ecologists yesterday.

See you on the streets!

#SMBE23 #SMBE2023 #EcoEvo #ScienceMastodon @ScientistRebellion

We've started very preliminary discussions with a few people about European mirrors for #SMBE2024 and #SMBE2025, to limit plane travel ✈️ to Puerto Vallarta 🇲🇽 or Beijing 🇨🇳. If you're interested, please follow the hashtag #SMBE2024. #SMBE2023 #SMBE23 #NoFlyAcademics
(to follow hashtags: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hashtags-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/)

Ancient DNA HMM, this is not a drill: ancient DNA HMM!
Genuinely happy to have been able to attend Xinyi Li's lightning talk #smbe2023 #smbe23

Great talk by @vsbuffalo at #SMBE23. Using covariance of allele frequencies to quantify drift and selection in temporal data. Surprised to see that the famous results of seasonal variation of alleles frequencies in Drosophila from Bergland et al. 2015 was invalidated.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1919039117
#SMBE2023

Learning about tons of ancient things #smbe2023 #smbe23

So many interesting fish genomics talks at #SMBE2023 😍
RIP my paper TBR
#SMBE23

Eduard ocana-pallares: Reconstruction of the fungal tree of life. Using ML-tree for phylogenetic inference.
Solving the fungal tree of life proveabto he extremely difficult and is a question that scientists have been sealing with for a very long time. Eduard and team used very intricate methods (too long to explain here), using pectin as a root in the fungal tree, thus making huge leaps in understand in the phylogeny of fungi.
#fungi #SMBE23 #SMBE2023 #evolution #fossils #paleo

Guillia Camply of @rmwaterhouse lab about #moulting genes in #arthropods. The most diverse group shares the trait of moulting. We can see it in the fossils record and every where around us but it is largely understudied. Trying to understand the history and the diversity of gene families and expression of this trait around all arthropods. Doing exceptional work of comparing between 150 proteomes and 65 gene families. How do change occur in arthropoda?
#SMBE23 #SMBE2023 #evolution #moulting

#SMBE2023 #SMBE23 #evolution #MolecularBiology #carcinisation #arthropods #fossils #paleo

Definitely the session we've all been waiting for- Integrating fossils and molecules to reconstruct the evolution of life in deep time!
#SMBE23 #SMBE2023 #paleo #evolution #MolecularBiology

Excellent talk by
Pierre Lesturgie
on a chromosomal inversion that contains a genetic determinism of size in the thorny skate (*Amblyraja radiata*). #SMBE2023 #SMBE23
https://isyeb.mnhn.fr/fr/annuaire/pierre-lesturgie-6784

I enjoyed presenting my poster at the Ferrara #SMBE23 poster session. Lots of great conversations with interesting people and possible collaborations with people interested in #terrestrialization #evolution of #isopods.
#SMBE2023 #genomics #MolecularBiology

It's hot-hot-hot 🥵 so on your way to the #ERGA #European Reference #Genome Atlas event (today 19:00-20:00 Venue: AD-A1) why not stop at Pam on the corner to pick up some refreshments 🥤🍺🥃 #SMBE2023 #SMBE23 #OneForaFriend

I'm loving my choice to have an ancient DNA afternoon at #SMBE2023 #SMBE23

And then check out poster 794 by Svenja Wulsch on the ZW sex determination system in oribatid mite Hermannia gibba #SMBE2023 #SMBE23

Science is hot at San Paolo Cloisters 🔥 Don't miss poster 866 from Viktoria Bednarski on transposable elements in sex&asex oribatid mites, who received an undergrad travel grant for #SMBE2023 #SMBE23! And she is open to PhD opportunities...

Sandra Goutte: Anuran color polymorphism is common.
Single foxD3 locus is associated with dorsal coloration in P. robeensis. It's involved in neural crest differentiation and irridophore differentiation in fish as well.
Frogs with green phenotypes express higher levels of foxdD3 than brown frogs.
Green and brown skins are different at subcellular level!
#SMBE23 #SMBE2023 #frogs

Ricardo Papa- Predictability of evolution by studying butterfly wing patterns.
Using wntA KO, they found out that this gene is responsible for different phenotypes in different species of butterflies of the same genus.
Optix regulatory network is divergent between these species. They found an element that exists in only two members of this group.
#SMBE23 #SMBE2023 #evolution #EvoDevo

I did not expect to almost cry from Audrey Lin's talk on wolly dogs but this was devastating. #SMBE2023 #SMBE23