1/ New paper: doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🐜🧬 Ants exploded into >15,000 species just after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth. We think we've found one catalyst behind that radiation: transposable elements. With @jannelrinke.bsky.social, @esthervandenbos.bsky.social & others not on here. 🧵1/11

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📢 Paper alert. Please check the new paper by our GEvol student @jannelrinke.bsky.social and GEvol PI @shaggyschrader.bsky.social about TEs in 🐜 macrodiversity published in Science Advances! Congratulations👏. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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🎓🪲We would like to offer our warmest congratulations to Dr Zoe Länger on successfully completing her PhD. We were delighted to have you as a PhD student in our GEvol Group. We wish you all the best for the future.🐞

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Join us next Tuesday, 5PM CET for our first ProSE after the summer! Betül Kaçar @kacarlab.bsky.social will talk about the origin and early evolution of ancient proteins! 📜🧬 tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

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Two years ago @lassemiddendorf.bsky.social and I noticed that structure and disorder predictor are discordant for de novo emerged and randomized proteins. We now identified which sequences drive these discordant predictions and what properties they have. 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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