EvoDevo journal rebranding I saw today that EvoDevo, one of the key journals in the field of evolutionary developmental biology, has been rebranded as Developmental Biology Advances. The announcement frames it in a positive light: This change marks an exciting new chapter, continuing to highlight the integrative research that has defined EvoDevo while expanding the […]
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Posts about software that I wrote myself or that I use often. From small commands to scripts to full-stack applications.
I deposited the codebase that powers EvoDevo Papers on Zenodo. It is now citable: Vellutini, B. C. (2026). EvoDevo Papers: a literature bot for evolutionary developmental biology. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18238617
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LiSIAW 2026
The Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop organized by LiSIUM took place last week at Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile. There were 24 participants from all over Latin America—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay! Marina Cuenca, Agustin Corbat, and I (the instructors) gave lectures and practicals ranging from the basics of digital images to advanced workflows […]
I would like to share with you a minimal set of principles that I’ve been using to organize my research papers. These principles aren’t new or revolutionary… in fact, they’re basic, even boring. However, they are the ones that stood out to me over the years as the most fundamental; the ones that nudge me […]
I’ve released a major update to EvoDevo Papers. The database now has all the papers posted since 2015 and a new search form for swiftly exploring the contents. Full archive In the previous update, I improved the website by creating separate pages for feeds, posts and individual papers to make the database contents accessible to […]
This is a wonderful project mashing images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) with data from Wikidata and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). BHL Image Explorer: https://bhl-gallery.toolforge.org/ It enables us to explore the figure plates present in BHL’s catalog (also on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons), links with other databases, and keeps track of their […]
The newest version of EvoDevo Papers is online, and it’s the biggest update since the last codebase refactoring. I’ve made several additions and improvements to the website and implemented cross-posting to Bluesky. Why have a website? For many years, EvoDevo Papers’ posts were only on Twitter. Everything was well—until it wasn’t. When I moved it […]
The Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop is a five-day intensive course that will take place in Santiago, Chile, from January 5–9, 2026, designed for students and researchers who wish to gain foundational skills in the processing and analysis of light-sheet microscopy imaging data. The application deadline has been extended until August 8, 2025! The workshop is […]
I have several WordPress-based, legacy websites hosted in my subdomains. They won’t get any new posts or content updates, but I still want to keep them online. The problem is, running a full WP installation with dynamic PHP pages and SQL databases is too complex and costly for a retired website. As a solution, I […]
I took some time this weekend to experiment with just—a modern, make-inspired command runner. I’m interested in using it for managing the routine tasks of the Cifonauta database (a Django-based app), which are currently handled by Fabric. Fabric is a Python library for running shell commands locally or remotely via SSH. I use it for […]