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Dirk Metzler
@dirkmetzler.bsky.social
stochastic modelling in biology, evolutionary bioinformatics, theoretical population genetics, evolutionary (epi)genomics and transcriptomics
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Compartmentalization reduces conflict in multipartner plant-insect symbioses | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Compartmentalization reduces conflict in multipartner plant-insect symbioses
Many symbioses involve one host species having several mutualist partners, yet theory predicts that unrelated symbionts lead to destabilizing conflict through competition for host resources. We combin...
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With his program, Vipsania, Richard Krieg has shown, that it is possible to do unsupervised deep gene finding with masked language modeling
The trick: use an HMM in the middle of the deep-learning architecture that knows the grammar of gene structures.
preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
September 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Po, Rhein, Loire 2026.
August 10, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Congratulations to Priscilla and many thanks for the great collaboration!
July 30, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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Uuund die 200.000-Marke ist locker geknackt! 🤩 Großartig! Da geht noch mehr, oder? 💪 #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz @fragdenstaat.de
July 5, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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Looking for a postdoc opportunity in evolutionary genetics? Join the Wolf Lab at LMU Munich.

job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genetics (m/f/x)
job-portal.lmu.de
June 17, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly
www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
June 24, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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One of the good things about the AI co-scientist brouhaha is that it makes us discuss what science *is*, and how to measure its value, impact, quality. — Questions that have been there all along, but many preferred to gloss over.
June 10, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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Sequential origin of an alternative colony founding strategy driven by two supergenes in Temnothorax ants academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Sequential origin of an alternative colony founding strategy driven by two supergenes in Temnothorax ants
Abstract. Recent discoveries reveal that many complex intraspecific polymorphisms are shaped by a single supergene that maintains coadapted genetic variant
academic.oup.com
May 27, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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Da hat jemand die Aufklärung nicht verstanden, der wir unser liberales System der Wahrheitsfindung verdanken
May 3, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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April 24, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it.

Anyway: fund basic research.
GPS satellites move at 1/100000 the speed of light, causing their clocks to tick slower by 7 microseconds per day, and orbit at a height that makes their clocks tick faster by 45 microseconds per day. Two relativistic effects, both at the 1 part in 10 billion level, both essential for GPS accuracy 🧪
April 23, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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"Wir unterrichten bereits in den ersten Semestern, dass Verbrennungsprozesse viel ineffizienter sind als die Erneuerbaren. Und was man jetzt momentan vorhat, ist ungefähr so, als wenn jemand zu euch nach Hause kommt & sagt: Der Induktionsherd, muss raus. Jetzt wird wieder auf offenem Feuer gekocht."
April 18, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Harald Lesch bringt es auf den Punkt:

Viele sind “geschockt, dass wir demonstrieren müssen für den gesunden Menschenverstand, für erneuerbare Energien.”

Aber angesichts von Reiches fossiler Lobbypolitik müssen wir das tun - und das werden wir morgen bundesweit.

Erneuerbare Energien verteidigen!
April 17, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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LMU-Professor Harald Lesch wird Ehrenbürger von München 🎉 Auszeichnung für Wissenschaft, Aufklärung und Engagement. #HaraldLesch #München #Wissenschaft
Harald Lesch wird Ehrenbürger der Stadt München
Die LMU gratuliert ihrem langjährigen Professor Harald Lesch zur Verleihung der Ehrenbürgerwürde, die am 16. April 2026 im Rahmen eines feierlichen Festakts überreicht wurde.
www.lmu.de
April 17, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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¡Contento de compartir nuestro nuevo artículo sobre el forrajeo de polen en Heliconius himera en @behavecol.bsky.social! 🦋🌼 Exploramos cómo hembras y muchos de H. himera difieren en el forrajeo de polen y rasgos sensoriales. 1/6🧵👇https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/37/3/arag014/8490681
April 15, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Excited to share our new paper on pollen foraging in Heliconius himera @behavecol.bsky.social! 🦋🌼
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
We explored how female and male H. himera differ in pollen foraging & sensory traits. 1/6🧵👇
Sexual dimorphism in pollen foraging and sensory traits in Heliconius butterflies
Male and female butterflies often face different ecological and sensory demands, yet how this shapes their foraging behaviour remains unclear. In Heliconiu
academic.oup.com
April 15, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Ich radle durch die sonnige Stadt und möchte am liebsten jede Person, die ich sehe, fragen, ob sie schon wählen war.

Wenn ihr das als Münchner*innen lest, wart ihr bestimmt schon, oder geht gleich, richtig?

#govote
March 22, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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New publication alert! 🥳🍾 With Prof. Dr. Kraiczy's lab, we asked how natural genetic variation affects the function of immune modulatory Borrelia proteins and if this could influence how pathogenic the populations are to humans. Out now in Scientific Reports:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Natural genetic variation impacts complement inhibitory activity of PFam54 orthologs of Asian Borrelia bavariensis - Scientific Reports
European and Asian populations of Borrelia (B.) bavariensis, a causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, substantially differ in their infection dynamics. This is argued to be a byproduct of the unique dem...
doi.org
March 19, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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Help us find ticks in Germany! NABU has launched a nation wide effort to understand the range expansion of ticks in Germany. With changing climates, tick species have been able to extend their ranges. You can help by reporting tick images as explained below:

www.nabu.de/tiere-und-pf...
Zecken melden - NABU
In den letzten Jahren haben sich Zecken in Deutschland weiter ausgebreitet und es sind neue Arten hinzugekommen. Gemeinsam mit Ihnen möchten NABU|naturgucker und wir mehr über das Verhalten und die Ve...
www.nabu.de
March 19, 2026 at 5:40 AM
This sounds so great that I just have to re-repost it, even though it is competing with our masters program EES at LMU!
Applications for our international Master‘s programme in Evolutionary Biology open again soon!
We offer teaching and exciting research in molecular and experimental evolution, behaviour, ecology to genomics, bioinformatics and modelling.
Come join us at JGU Mainz!
March 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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You want to work on Transcriptional Regulation in Beetles 🐞? Join our GEvol Community and work with many great people ➡️ Two open PhD positions in @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social lab in Frankfurt: g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...
Open Positions – GEvol – DFG SPP 2349
g-evol.uni-muenster.de
March 9, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Two exciting PhD positions for biologists or bioinformaticians in Barbara Feldmeyer's lab at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute in Frankfurt, one on transcriptional regulation of odorant perception in hymenoptera and...

g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...
Open Positions – GEvol – DFG SPP 2349
g-evol.uni-muenster.de
March 10, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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3/ Wir kennen alle die Lösung: Erneuerbare Energien! Sie…
☀️ …machen unabhängig von Autokraten
🏭 …schaffen jede Menge Jobs
💶 …bringen langfristig niedrigere Strompreise
🌍 …sind die beste Antwort auf die Klimakrise.
March 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Excited to see our FML Research Group Leader
@luisapallares.bsky.social
in the latest Max Planck Research! 🎉
The article follows her journey from Colombia to Germany and her work on how genes and environment shape complex traits using fruit flies.

Read the full story: www.mpg.de/26180374/W00...
March 5, 2026 at 2:10 PM