Evolution enthusiast and explorer of the dark genome | scicomm advocate | sometimes also artist | she/they🇿🇦🇮🇹 Postdoctoral researcher at MPIMG https://darkgenomevo.wordpress.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.social/post/3mitcrljgak2dAfter a long hiatus, I finally managed to write a short piece again. With an Easter egg (topical) for Asimov fans. https://darkgenomevo.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/born-in-the-dark-the-origin-of-life/06 Apr 2026 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:ody6dd7emjqvuqsl6jadywpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitcrljgak2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.social/post/3m5dm5rddc22gGo join Ivano and Ale!!! Great people and great science 🧫✨ [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Nov 2025 07:23 +0000at://did:plc:ody6dd7emjqvuqsl6jadywpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5dm5rddc22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.social/post/3m4ixf3g6722dIt’s Halloween 🎃 which means spooky skeleton time! ☠️ And what is spookier than making us entirely re-think our concept of cell type? Learn how each domain of bone is shaped by its own pressures, answering to its own ancestral ghosts 👻 tinyurl.com/mt8cwdvk https://tinyurl.com/mt8cwdvk31 Oct 2025 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:ody6dd7emjqvuqsl6jadywpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ixf3g6722dhttps://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.social/post/3m3en4243v22dTo all ERCs looking to dip their toes in data analysis: I cannot recommend this enough! [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Oct 2025 06:23 +0000at://did:plc:ody6dd7emjqvuqsl6jadywpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3en4243v22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.social/post/3m3azk2jcbs2uHow your email finds me15 Oct 2025 19:54 +0000at://did:plc:ody6dd7emjqvuqsl6jadywpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3azk2jcbs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.social/post/3m2hnvgbpjs2gI’d like to distract you from The Horrors™️ with what I’m pretty sure is a spotted sea hare (Aplysia dactylomela). I found this beauty and 6 of their friends while staring into tide pools like the goblin I am.05 Oct 2025 17:50 +0000at://did:plc:ody6dd7emjqvuqsl6jadywpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2hnvgbpjs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.social/post/3lzokjo4jr224I usually write about what fascinates me, but this time it had to be about my concerns. This took a long time to write, I had a lot of thoughts, feelings, and literature to work through. There is still much more I’d like to say, but for now I leave you with this read. tinyurl.com/y6hx838y https://tinyurl.com/y6hx838y25 Sep 2025 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ody6dd7emjqvuqsl6jadywpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzokjo4jr224https://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.social/post/3lyabpvdqwk2sA bit late, but I finally got around to writing an accessible piece about @julianeg.bsky.social 's cover article from July. In case you needed something else to worry about in this day and age! 🦠 tinyurl.com/mrx5tfre #scicomm #devbio #transposons https://tinyurl.com/mrx5tfre07 Sep 2025 08:33 +0000at://did:plc:ody6dd7emjqvuqsl6jadywpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyabpvdqwk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.social/post/3lxvysnvydk2hI can’t believe I missed this! Yet another amazing work by Brent on deep regulatory homology in vertebrates and the fin-to-limb transition. An absolute must read 🐠🐟🐡 [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2025 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:ody6dd7emjqvuqsl6jadywpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxvysnvydk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.social/post/3lwvgfjw5qc2tThe peppered moth is a textbook example of natural selection, its colours shifting with the soot-darkened trees of the Industrial Revolution. But the genetic secret behind its “dark” form took 150 years to uncover: a new “jumping gene” that rapidly took over the population. 🦋 tinyurl.com/4zrc4e93 https://tinyurl.com/4zrc4e9321 Aug 2025 07:32 +0000at://did:plc:ody6dd7emjqvuqsl6jadywpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwvgfjw5qc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/annaamonaco.bsky.social/post/3lv4fle4ofc2y🦇🦇🦇 https://darkgenomevo.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/the-molecular-remix-of-bat-wing-evolution/29 Jul 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:ody6dd7emjqvuqsl6jadywpb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv4fle4ofc2y