Q: What could GO WRONG with a major cancer genomics study in which tumours are sequenced to only 15x depth?

A: An awful LOT! 😟

Our detailed reanalysis now out in Royal Society Publishing:
tinyurl.com/RSOSrebuttal

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Itai Yanai 💔 Christopher Wheat That was exactly the consideration why I gave up my research on rapidly evolving and de novo genes in 🪰 after my 1st postdoc.

At least my PhD work laid the foundation for the longest running research program of my now retired PhD advisor (Diethard Tautz). Made me proud!

Can not studying popular genes cost you your career?!
Check out how the probability of a junior scientist to transition to a principal investigator is lower if the genes they research are less studied. The overall decreasing probability is also really depressing! (from Fig. S10)

Scientific research needs to slow down. What passes as science these days is shoddy, unreliable, empty glitter. Mark Zuckerberg said 'move fast & break things.' Sadly by following his dictum, we have zillion retractions that broke science & public trust.
scientificamerican.com/article/the-da…

Friendly request to journals and grant agencies asking for reviews: if you send your first request late on Friday, please don't follow up on Saturday or Sunday with an email that says you are still waiting for a reply. Surely you can set up reminders to go out on workdays only?

Time to ditch BioRender? I had no idea they were claiming copyright to the figures we make with it, even after we pay for use of the service.

Despite a high number of suspected hybrid lizards, we found low genetic hybridisation between the Critically Endangered Aeolian wall lizard and the invasive Italian wall lizard. But, the Aeolian wall lizard shows extremely low genetic diversity and an Ne/Nc ratio of just 0.05 🦎

This is a reminder that I have an open PhD position in my group 🦋🐝🧬

Join us at Centre for Palaeogenetics and Department of Zoology to investigate the genomic consequences of pollinator declines by sequencing loads of historical specimens!

Deadline: 30th April

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RT pls 🙏

Watching the first horizontal girder placed over the freeway tonight, surrounded by our “championship team” of partners who helped make the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing a reality, was cathartic. With that first concrete beam across the freeway, this bridge is starting to

Cross-kingdom RNA interference mediated by insect salivary microRNAs may suppress plant immunity | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

“All authors responsible for research misconduct in Sweden.”
researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe…

Ugh. Yet another confirmation that the tool used to preprocess single-cell RNA-seq really matters. In this case a comparison of some split-seq quantification tools. Ugh. bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I once did a latent discriminant analysis of the content of all NatureEcoEvo papers, and when specifying 2 clusters the discriminating words were “chromosomes, snps, mutations” for one, and “richness, biodiversity, ecosystem” for the other

So it should rather be NatureEcoGen?

Dan Baldassarre Also DevoEvoMed on 🦋 True for some, but not all. But, compared to $12k USD:

Evolution Journal and American Naturalist are free for members ($25 for students). I believe Ecology also has grants for members ($40 student memb.).... I believe Ecology Letters is also free of page charges...

Dan Baldassarre Also DevoEvoMed on 🦋 Alternatively, one could submit to and publish in a conceptually oriented society journal? You know, academic societies that fund grad students and undergrads to go to meetings, give out mini research and travel grants, put on symposia, enrich the intellectual life of our field?

Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Insects are helping us understand how animals use medicine. It was fun to write this review with great colleagues. Dalial Freitak Dr. Sheena Cotter Hauke Koch HMG Lattorff and others.

Insects' essential role in understanding and broadening animal medicat... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

During the past 60 years, a diatom species in the Baltic Sea has increased its temperature optima by 1 °C - evidence of adaptation to warming nature.com/articles/s4155…

Things aren’t always what they seem! Arnaud Martin, Robert D. Reed, Antonia Monteiro & colleagues discover that the lncRNA ivory and its microRNA mir-193, not cortex, drive melanic scale identity in butterflies 🦋

Brilliant preLight from Isabella Cisneros !🤩⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/a-l…

#ProcB welcomes new Associate Editor Danai Papageorgiou! In this blog post, we find out more about her background, current research and motivation behind joining the journal’s editorial board: ow.ly/tAWH50R92V2