I’m a terrible YouTuber — uncharismatic, dull, lacking in visual skills, and incapable of maintaining a consistent schedule — but heck, I’ll try again. Tomorrow (Saturday, 20 December), I’ll go live around 3pm Central time. I’m open to talking about just about anything, but will center the discussion on this paper:
Christopher J. Kay, Anja Spang, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Davide Pisani, Tom A. Williams & Philip C. J. Donoghue (2025) Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes. Nature, 3 December 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09808-z.
If you don’t want to read an 11 page technical paper, just contemplate this figure:
Or you can just tune in and maybe I’ll explain it.
is this an attempt to untangle the tree of life’s lateral gene transfer root snarl?
Speaking of science, contemplate the wonders of the tRUMP fusion reactor:
https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/3222.png
Not really relevant: the authors assemble a tree of patterns of descent, which they wouldn’t be able to do it there was a great deal of horizontal gene transfer.
i didn’t even read the abstract before asking. still, cool stuff. i love patterns of descent.