#smbe2023 — Public Fediverse posts

Anyone interested in a #game of … whatever is on those tables in the lobby? #SMBE2023 (or in the #SMBEeverywhere venue?)

Nobody seemed very talkative in #GatherTown during the #conference but the #games might make a good conversation starter?

Preferred times
East Asia ≈ Late night
Europe + Africa ≈ Lunch Time
Americas ≈ Early Morning

cc @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @quinsibell @TashTaylor

Post #smbe2023 bone and fossil sketching at the natural history museum in Ferrara #smbe23

Our symposium "Entangled histories: insights into the evolution of humans and their domesticates through paleogenomics" attracted great attention at the #SMBE2023 meeting in #Ferrara last Tuesday. Thanks to all presenters and participants! #SMBE23
@officialSMBE

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.

See you on the streets!

#SMBE23 #SMBE2023 #EcoEvo #ScienceMastodon @ScientistRebellion

E Lau shows very nicely how bioluminescence in ostracods, fireflies and sea pansies can use very different structures yet convergently recruited homologous enzymes. The number of functional genes varies according to lineage-specific duplications. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.12.536614v1.abstract #SMBE2023 #ConvergentEvolution #paralog #bioluminescence

Taking the opportunity to advertise that we have an ontology of #homology related concepts since 2010, which tries to formalise many of the related concepts, with references and relations between the concepts
https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HOM/?p=classes&conceptid=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.obolibrary.org%2Fobo%2FHOM_0000004
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2009.12.012
#SMBE2023

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

If you too like #opsin evolution, check our new #bioinformatics tool #Matreex to visualize the evolution of complex gene families, illustrated by the evolution of vertebrate red-sensitive visual opsins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.18.529053v1.full #SMBE2023

Marjorie Liénard: method to express invertebrate opsin proteins in vitro, allowing to show spectral shifts in opsins in butterflies, with notably 2 paralogs of LW providing differentiation in function between the dorsal and ventral parts of the eye https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2008986118 #SMBE2023 #opsin #GeneDuplication #paralog

Learning about tons of ancient things #smbe2023 #smbe23

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

I'm having an absolute blast at #SMBE2023
If you want to get in on the Palaeovirology, Palaeoepidemiology and Ancient DNA work I am doing, I am looking for a lab and an institution to host me while I finish up current projects and write a grant due in November. #SMBE23

G Campli: chelicerates 🕷️🦂 have very dynamic evolution of gene families involved in moulting, with more duplications and losses than other arthropod lineages #SMBE2023 #ArthropodEvolution

One of the talks at #SMBE2023 was referring to history's famous plagues - of #BubonicPlague - as #pandemics but most seemed to be in just Europe and nearby regions?

I'm not sure if I've heard those plagues called pandemics before?

I thought #pandemic meant global, but maybe it just means very big?

I vaguely recall West African #Ebola in the 2010s being called a pandemic, when only half a dozen cases got to any other continents?

(cc @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] other mes)

Did you miss monday's #CivilResistance roundtable discussion by @ScientistRebellion at #SMBE23 #SMBE2023?

Are you worried the Antarctic sea ice shelf is currently going through a six-sigma event?

Are you considering that maybe there's more we can do than drink aperol under the heat dome and chat about the latest method for evolutionary inference?

You can still join our info session on #DirectAction and strategy TOMORROW (Wed) at 13:30 in Polo degli Adellardi (AD-A1). All are welcome!

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

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

Antoine Fages: impressive dataset of intestine #singlecellRNAseq in 25 cichlid fishes #SMBE2023

Reminder #SMBE2023 #SMBE23
to not hesitate to come and talk with me about our open position of #TenureTrack assistant professor of evolutionary ecology https://www.unil.ch/dee/home/menuinst/open-position-in-evolutionary-ecology.html
I wear a mask indoors and look like this outdoors https://www.unil.ch/dee/home/menuguid/people/group-leaders/prof-marc-robinson-rechavi.html

Carlos Cortez shows how a single mutation was sufficient to evolve Hb from a tetramer to a dimer. How does specificity of heterotetramer evolve? 2 deletions and 1 substitution in one of the 2 paralogs are sufficient. Overall, evolving heterotetramer complex from identical at birth paralogs is remarkably simple. #SMBE2023 #paralog #duplication

Good morning #SMBE . Are you interested in annotating your genome? Or want to learn more about what we are doing? Come see me at the #ERGA corner today during the second coffee break in BC Belvilacqua Costabili! #smbe2023 #smbe23

Good morning #SMBE . Are you interested in annotating your genome? Or want to learn more about what we are doing? Come see me at the #ERGA corner today during the second coffee break in BC Belvilacqua Costabili! #smbe2023 #smbe23

Good morning #SMBE . Are you interested in annotating your genome? Or want to learn more about what we are doing? Come see me at the #ERGA corner today during the second coffee break in BC Belvilacqua Costabili! #smbe2023 #smbe23

I saw an EVE poste at SMBE. My life is complete. #SMBE2023 #SMBE23

The first poster session of #smbe2023 is tonight, in person in 2 venues (Estense castle and San Paulo cloisters), and also online in gathertown. I’m presenting my work on an active learning activity I use to teach #evolution to undergraduate students. It is in Session 21- Science For Everybody: Education and Outreach in Molecular Biology and Evolution. Poster 17 in person and poster 1 within session 21 on Gather! #ActiveLearning #DBER #TeachingAndLearning

If you missed today's @ScientistRebellion session at #SMBE2023 #SMBE23, you can still attend our info session on Wed at 13:30 or come chat with me at today's poster session in Estense Castle (poster #24)

I hear there's a last minute change to the #SMBE23 #SMBE2023 conference program: a whole new poster session has emerged impromptu in Pollo degli Adelardi AD-A1, featuring @ScientistRebellion groups and campaigns from around the world.

If you're concerned that it's 35+ degrees outside and crops across Italy are boiling in the heat, then come meet scientist-rebels TODAY at lunch time and find out how you can help !

#EcoEvo #ScienceMastodon @officialSMBE #PopGen #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

And more general conclusion: fossil and molecular data can be integrated, not in conflict, using careful methods #SMBE2023 #MethodsMatter

In just 1 week, I'll be in Ferrara, Italy, for #SMBE23, together w/fellow @ScientistRebellion members. We'll be hosting a set of workshops on #CivilResistance by scientists during the conference. If curious about what it's like to participate in #DirectAction, you're welcome to attend! Details in the #SMBE website or in the poster below.

All are welcome! After all, there will be no molecular or evolutionary #biology on a dead planet.

@officialSMBE #SMBE2023
#ScienceMastodon #EcoEvo #evolution

Looking forward to attending this year's #SMBE2023! https://www.smbe2023.org

In addition to the research symposia, I'm particularly excited about the parallel events (https://www.smbe2023.org/parallelevents), which include a timely discussion on #EthicalPublishing and #diamondOA systems, and a workshop on non-violent #CivilResistance by @ScientistRebellion (special thanks to @SanjaHakala for orchestrating this!).

#ScienceMastodon #PopGen #Evolution #Ecology #EcoEvo #BiodiversityCrisis