He/Him. Evolution and Bioinformatics. Posts mine alone, in English (mostly) & French. Chair of @dee-unil.bsky.social, Prof at @fbm-unil.bsky.social, group leader at @sib.swiss. PI of @bgee.org
🦣 Main account: https://ecoevo.social/@marcrr
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
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One of the most striking patterns from today’s historic vote:
The higher the share of non-Swiss residents in a municipality, the *lower* the support for the far-right SVP initiative to cap Switzerland’s population at 10M.
The contact hypothesis holds up well!
Plot (c): @marcokistler.bsky.social
I wrote something about Epstein’s gifting relationship with 3 different scientists. This is the first part, which investigates how Epstein leveraged his connection with public intellectual Steven Pinker.
When the location of a conference is announced, can we take the habit of first highlighting accessibility by train rather than starting by highlighting airports?
::looks at the draft blog post::
- It is 5,000 words long.
- It is also maybe 2/5ths done.
Part IIa it is, I guess.
Now it's just a question of where to break the two parts.
Just want to take the opportunity to remind people that Frontiers in Zoology is not a “Frontiers” journal. It existed long before they stole the name.
We crossed the path of those masked all in black fascists on our first evening in Glasgow (evo-devo conference), they were scary. I'm very glad to see Glasgow reacting.
“Epstein was a central node in a toxic gift network that included celebrities, politicians, and billionaires. Academic scientists of the Epstein class covered for his crimes, laundered his reputation, and legitimized his pseudo-intellectual pursuit of eugenics, racism and sexism.”
My recent chat with @carlzimmer
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/s...
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Less obvious one: writing a book, in my experience, often requires you to just dip out of the world for long periods. Like, if you're trying to write something complex or develop a complex plot structure, you have to have total focus. Kelly and I started calling this "burning down the house."
Made it back to Switzerland 🇨🇭 ⛰️🌞uneventfully, win for #NoFlyEED #NoFlyAcademics
#NoFlyEED made it to London 🏴by sleeper train from Glasgow 🏴, next leg Paris 🇫🇷then Geneva 🇨🇭. 🤞Hope there won't be disruptions from the G7 to get home.
Thanks to all the organizers and speakers of #EED2026, a wonderful conference, a 1-week sabbatical 😄.
