1/10 ⏰⏰ New stuff from me & @TJNear! We show that sharks themselves might not be a natural group ... it depends on what spots in the genome you analyze!
Preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
Introducing The Structural History of Eukarya (SHE): The first proteome-scale phylogeny constructed entirely from 3D structure.
We computed 300 trillion alignments across 1,542 species to map the tree of life. 🧵👇 (1/5)
A species of lungfish found in South America has claimed the title of the animal with the biggest genome sequenced so far. scim.ag/3XPlMdf#ScienceMagArchives
Releasing a new "Agentic Reviewer" for research papers. I started coding this as a weekend project, and @jyx_su made it much better.
I was inspired by a student who had a paper rejected 6 times over 3 years. Their feedback loop -- waiting ~6 months for feedback each time -- was painfully slow. We wanted to see if an agentic workflow can help researchers iterate faster.
When we trained the system on ICLR 2025 reviews and measured Spearman correlation (higher is better) on the test set:
- Correlation between two human reviewers: 0.41
- Correlation between AI and a human reviewer: 0.42
This suggests agentic reviewing is approaching human-level performance.
The agent grounds its feedback by searching arXiv, so it works best in fields like AI where research is freely published there. It’s an experimental tool, but I hope it helps you with your research.
Check it out here: paperreview.ai
I just attended a conference this week; the 80th Korean Association of Biological Sciences (Hanyang Univ, Seoul, Korea).
The first one is my poster, and the others are presentations that interested me.
A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by @Rosamygale et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.
Exon Capture Museomics Deciphers the Nine-Banded Armadillo Species Complex and Identifies a New Species Endemic to the Guiana Shield academic.oup.com/sysbio/article…@systbiol
Our article about the adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants is now out in Cell!
We analyze 163 ant genomes to explore the evolution of these amazing social insects 🐜
Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…
Just published - Researchers have discovered that five large chromosomal inversions contributed to Lake Malawi cichlid diversity, akin to finding Mother Nature's cookbook for a "Quick Colourful Fish Salad!"
🔒 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Sci-comm post - myscience.org/en/news/2025/h…
Our new paper is out! Two new species of Paleoophiocordyceps.
Cretaceous entomopathogenic fungi illuminate the early evolution of insect–fungal associations | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences #purchaseArea" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.10…