Dear @dfg.de in light of these rates, I really think it’s worth starting a scheme like @fwf-at.bsky.social www.fwf.ac.at/en/funding/p... many grants that are positively evaluated by ~10 reviewers won’t get funded 😔

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News: millions of years ago, hybridization gave rise to a tetraploid #fish with two distinct parental subgenomes & this is fascinating: as young barbels develop, they switch from using opsins from one subgenome as larvae to those from the other as adults, fine-tuning their colour #vision! 👁️🌈.

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I've complained on here a few times about synteny plots that are harder to read than they need to be. I decided it was time to actaully do something about it: introducing SynTangle, a tool for untangling whole-genome synteny plots github.com/Hanliconius/... 1/

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This is a truly startling paper. It shows that mRNA can perform regulatory functions *in addition to* its role in encoding a protein. In other words, the distinction between protein-coding RNA and noncoding regulatory RNA is fuzzy. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Excited to share this bioRxiv where we identify another host target for a Magnaporthe effector. Here we characterise the interaction between the zinc finger fold effector (Tie1) to a conserved family of transcription factors called the Tubby-like F-box proteins (TLPs) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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