Writing a book about horizontal gene transfer and non treelike evolution. Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology. Pangenomes. https://profmcinerney.substack.com/ 🇮🇪 https://mol-evol.github.io/https://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mv4e2vyuc224https://profmcinerney.substack.com/p/the-biology-of-we?r=xx9b9&utm_medium=ios09 Sep 2026 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4e2vyuc224https://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mp4tqfvczc2eThe latest in my “what has four billion years of evolution taught us” series. Always free. Always about evolution. Take a look. https://open.substack.com/pub/profmcinerney/p/drift-and-luck?r=xx9b9&utm_medium=ios25 Jun 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4tqfvczc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3msdnwsfws22vContinuing my writing on evolutionary biology and life. Another 6-ish minute read. Always free. "Never Bet It All" https://open.substack.com/pub/profmcinerney/p/never-bet-it-all?r=xx9b9&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web05 Aug 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdnwsfws22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mrepqqiq5k2wTake a few minutes to read. This is the next in my series about what we learn from evolutionary biology. Free to read, as always. https://open.substack.com/pub/profmcinerney/p/niche-construction-selection-running?r=xx9b9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true24 Jul 2026 06:24 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrepqqiq5k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mrmmxxwyo22pI’ve seen trees you people wouldn’t believe. Deep branches collapsing off the shoulder of a saturated site, unresolved. I watched long-branch attraction glitter in the dark near the root of the Archaea. All those topologies will be lost in time… like tips in a polytomy.27 Jul 2026 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrmmxxwyo22phttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mrepqqiq5k2wTake a few minutes to read. This is the next in my series about what we learn from evolutionary biology. Free to read, as always. https://open.substack.com/pub/profmcinerney/p/niche-construction-selection-running?r=xx9b9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true24 Jul 2026 06:24 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrepqqiq5k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mraaxylytk2dInteresting study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300?via%3Dihub22 Jul 2026 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mraaxylytk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mr6js2upvk2gPaul Nurse responds to the changes in scientific leadership in the uk today: https://royalsociety.org/news/2026/07/changes-to-government-science-department/21 Jul 2026 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6js2upvk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mqtony2yhs2cAnother Friday slow read. Modularity and what it could mean. As always it is free, so please subscribe. https://open.substack.com/pub/profmcinerney/p/modularity?r=xx9b9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true17 Jul 2026 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqtony2yhs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mqtony2yhs2cAnother Friday slow read. Modularity and what it could mean. As always it is free, so please subscribe. https://open.substack.com/pub/profmcinerney/p/modularity?r=xx9b9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true17 Jul 2026 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqtony2yhs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mp4tqfvczc2eThe latest in my “what has four billion years of evolution taught us” series. Always free. Always about evolution. Take a look. https://open.substack.com/pub/profmcinerney/p/drift-and-luck?r=xx9b9&utm_medium=ios25 Jun 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4tqfvczc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mnu5f2p6o22dI'm mostly doing "Slow Reads" over on substack (it's always free), so you might get through a cup of coffee reading this one. Make sure you read to the end. profmcinerney.substack.com/p/good-enough https://profmcinerney.substack.com/p/good-enough09 Jun 2026 11:57 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnu5f2p6o22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mnjsejwark2dNew Post: Genomes are models of the world. Click here -> https://open.substack.com/pub/profmcinerney/p/genomes-are-models-of-the-world?r=xx9b9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true05 Jun 2026 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnjsejwark2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mnhoyz74pk2rin case you missed it: https://profmcinerney.substack.com/p/the-pangenome-is-not-a-parts-list "The Pangenome Is Not A Parts List"04 Jun 2026 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhoyz74pk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mnhoyz74pk2rin case you missed it: https://profmcinerney.substack.com/p/the-pangenome-is-not-a-parts-list "The Pangenome Is Not A Parts List"04 Jun 2026 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhoyz74pk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mmwymswhz22uI took this photo of E. O. Wilson on this day in 2013, when he gave a short talk in Harvard (I was a visitor there for a year). It was a fun evening, though he was clearly in ill health, he was lovely and charismatic.28 May 2026 21:45 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmwymswhz22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jomcinerney.bsky.social/post/3mleozdksn22wSir David Attenborough is older than horizontal gene transfer. Well, he was born before the first experiments that demonstrated HGT. #clickbait #NotTheSameThing08 May 2026 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:rhkp2onvwl3rc7t2bcsqmspx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mleozdksn22w