Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, SUNY | 1st Gen | Extinction is forever | DevoEvo & EvMed | Science & Society | Friend of Corvids and swans | Science Nerd | I❤️Biology! Lives with Epilepsy
Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍
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The new OrthoFinder paper is out now!
In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
github.com/OrthoFinder/...
The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.
Mutation rates per generation are strikingly similar across germlines of animals and across at least one somatic cell type, suggesting a key role for natural selection in shaping mutation rates. This ...
Happy to highlight an essay I wrote together with @marcdemanuel.bsky.social,
@natanaels.bsky.social and Anastasia Stolyarova, trying to think through what sets the mutation rate of a cell type in an animal species: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n
Truth! There is so much confirmation bias in comparative oncology data that's known, but unspoken. We pick the species we study b/c they fit the #PetosParadox model, rather than doing the much harder inductive logic thing of getting lots of data and having it talk to us 🐋🌱 🧪
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Germline mutation rates per generation are strikingly similar across animals, despite vast differences in life histories. Analogously, in at least one somatic cell type, mutation rates at the end of l...
From biochemistry in our cells, which dates back to the first single-celled creatures living in the ancient oceans, to our arms and legs, which evolved when amphibians crawled onto land, our bodies are far older and more animal than we like to think. Alice Roberts explains more.
Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍
In my latest @nytimes.com, honeycreepers are adapted to the most unforgiving of ecosystems, at high elevations where mosquitoes can’t go, equipped with curved bills suited to forage on native flowers. Now. researchers have pinpointed another evolutionary trick
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/s...
Physically, Homo sapiens isn't that special in the animal world. Bu...
Genomics Aotearoa (postdoctoral) Fellowships -- closing date is 17 June 2026:
www.genomics-aotearoa.org.nz/about/fellow...
Tandem repeats, often thought to be functionless by products of replication error, do stuff…
Ha! The cis-regulatory paradigm is dead! And eyespots are 2D legs, which is super cool… #DevoEvo #EvoDevo
I’ll post a short 🧵 on the inevitability of this #DeExtinction #DisInformation graft in a bit. In the meantime my fav gif…
New Scientist
Call for Expressions of InterestGenomics Aotearoa is establishing a Fellowship scheme to lift the capability building initiated during the first funding period to the next stage.
