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We’re recruiting a PhD student to use comparative omics to investigate why some viruses can efficiently infect both human and mosquito cells, but lead to different infection outcomes. Fully funded position by EvoMG Program at UPF-CRG with the Molecular Virology lab. crg.eu/en/content/tra…

New paper with Megan Smith❗️ You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction! This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A partnership programme -UCL's Research Opportunity Scholarship (UCL-ROS) supports Black, Asian, and minority ethnic postgraduate research degree students at the start of their academic career. The application is now opening! Deadline: Friday 10 Jan 2025 shorturl.at/rr9q5

Instant classic of the macroevolution and geobiology: "Cryogenian glaciations appear to define this shift toward greater extinction and diversification rates" science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Out now in Nature Reviews Genetics! rdcu.be/d5AY2 We show how phylogeny-based methods can resolve the problem of non-independence in genomic datasets. These methods must be considered an essential part of the comparative genomics toolkit. Dr Laurie Belcher Stuart West

HELP! Palaeontological terminology/spelling help please!! Eon or Aeon for geological Eon? Aeon is correct in English English but is there an international agreement that 'Eon' is correct when talking about Hadean etc? Or can I use 'Hadean Aeon'? THANKS!

Leaving X now. Should have gone a while ago. Hateful Man.

Latest podcast episode now out: scienceofthetimes.transistor.fm/episodes/quest…. This week Syma Khalid and I answer listener questions about previous #science topics. #Football #quantum #chemistry Streaming Spires Podcast Network . .

Wonderfully kind and fulsome review of my book 'The Tree of Life' in the TLS by Charles Foster. "breezy, scholarly, whimsical, rigorous and companionable…" "extraordinary, adventurous book." I am absolutely THRILLED. John Murray Press UCL Biosciences the-tls.co.uk/science-techno…