Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology. Out now in PLOS Biology: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Are you interested in developmental biology? Then we have news for you: #EESDevelopment is coming to EMBL next year which will explore how emerging technologies and transformative concepts are reshaping the field. 🧪 Submit your abstract by 2 March: s.embl.org/ees27-02-bl

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Happy to share a new preprint, led by Corinna Breusing with Shawn Arellano, Caitlin Plowman, and others, looking at convergent and divergent processes shaping the inter- and intraspecific evolution of cold-seep mussels and their chemosynthetic bacterial symbionts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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🪱 Descubiertas tres nuevas especies de gusanos «devoradores de huesos» en el Cantábrico, el golfo de Cádiz y el Mediterráneo 🌊 Estos anélidos transforman restos orgánicos y devuelven nutrientes al ecosistema marino 🔬Un trabajo de @mncn-csic.bsky.social e @ieo.es ➡️http://tiny.cc/tdzb101

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New preprint! Mesophotic octocorals live on isolated banks along the continental shelf. How do their populations stay connected? Using genomics and dispersal modeling, we mapped connectivity in 𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘢 𝘦𝘹𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢, a species injured by the Deepwater Horizon spill. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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