Månedens gruppe: Loricifera
I månedens gruppe i april tar vi for oss en hel fyla!Loricifera er en av de nyere gruppene, og ble først oppdaget i 1983. Siden den gang har 44 arter blitt na... Read more.
Group of the month: Loricifera
For April’s group of the month, we’re tackling a whole phylum! As phyla go, Loricifera are one of the newer kids on the block, having been first discovered ... Read more.
Stories from Slime Eels: How the Hagfish Helps Us Understand Humans
Hagfish, or “Slime Eels” (Slimåler in Norwegian, helpfully), are a group of deep-sea living fish that are most famous for the truly apocalyptic amo... Read more.
Day 15: What’s coming next year!
December is a time to reflect on the year that has passed, both the happy and sad, the success and the failures. But it’s also a time to look forward to the y... Read more.
Day 14: When is a Larva like a Birthday Present?
For my second advent calendar entry this year, I would like to highlight one of the most exciting papers I’ve read recently. It came out just last month in Or... Read more.
Day 8: Working in Phylogenetic Methods
As we open day 8 on our Advent Calendar, I bring an urgent message. Maths Can Be Fun, Too! The Christmas period and the advent calendar gives us a great chance ... Read more.
On Pre-Prints, Publishing and Peer Review
Hallo readers, it’s James here again to announce the release of another new manuscript written by the FEZ group! This one is something we’ve been wo... Read more.
Group of the Month: Placozoa
They may look a bit like bacteria, but Placozoans are actually animals! These microscopic blobs might, in fact, be key to understanding our own deep evolutionar... Read more.
Writing a Review: Introducing Your Field
A few weeks ago, the FEZ group produced another new paper, this time in Evolutionary Applicat... Read more.
The measure of our reach: understanding evolution when our models break down.
Last week I was lucky enough to have another paper come out, this time in BMC Bioinformatics: “nRCFV: a new, dataset-size-independent metric to quantify compo... Read more.