Climber & Biologist, dog-and-cat-person, NLMC social sec, works @ UCL
London, England
Joined May 2009
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The coolest bad-ass wormies made it into Nature 🏹🪱. This is the tale of how genes evolved to give rise to one of the strangest creatures that writhe underwater. Thanks @Ferdix for brining it with him from Marseille to Okinawa to London.
A genome sequence and single-cell atlas of a marine worm species point towards bursts of gene emergence, duplication and loss as the drivers of lineage-specific body traits
go.nature.com/3HuQlAl
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1st year PhD student showing up at the 8 am panel with 25 expertly crafted slides, 57 backup slides, and print-outs prepared four weeks in advance
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Tenured professor giving the keynote with two slides of mood pictures clicked together in the hotel lobby 15 minutes earlier
Level of swearing in TTPD is just on point.
Inflation is out of control... when it comes to the quantity of swearing on Taylor Swift albums resolutionfoundation.org/com…
"Several said that they actively didn’t respond to emails, *or acted in an exaggerated disorganised manner*. This meant they were assigned fewer tasks, but were also less frequently asked, and thus got away without doing service."
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Finally MORE wormy worms single cell by the greatest @helen_r0berts0n. Not JUST my bestie but also the best ♥️ Looking forward to celebrate with piles of pancakes!
Really cool work 🤩
First major work fully made in the laboratory is out in @biorxivpreprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…. We found that DNA methylation allows recurrent endogenization of giant virus in a protist🦠 closely related to animals, large scale virus and eukaryotic host genomic mixture.🧵 1/10
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The year 2023 is drawing to a close, and again this year Italian politics has not disappointed us with its crazy moments.
Twelve months, twelve crazy moments.
A thread 🧵
Went to Blink182 concert last night. Probably the best concert I've ever been to. Never seen so many pregnant women at a concert before. What's my age again really hit home.
Our review (with @Ferdix) on Single cell sequencing in Spiralia just came out as part of a wonderful special issue (lead by @Chema_MD) on the bestest group of animals there is - shhhhh don't tell Bonny and Clyde - 🪱🦪🦑academic.oup.com/bfg/advance… 1/5
academic.oup.com/bfg/advance… by @YJ_Luo &co about Spiralian phylogeny and genomics 4/5
academic.oup.com/bfg/advance… by @VS_Marine about Spiralian biomineralisation 5/5
PS: I hope these tags are all correct!