🎉🐚🦪We have secured a HFSP grant to study how novel traits evolve in molluscs 🦪 🐚 🎉 abdn.ac.uk/news/25787/ Jessica Goodheart (American Museum of Natural History), Manabu Bessho‑Uehara (Tohoku University) and I will all be hiring at the post-doc level - please get in touch!

⚠️Calling ECRs looking to advance your career and transition to research independence⚠️ We've launched an ECR travel bursary to support you to come to Aberdeen to workshop and develop your fellowship proposals! Get in touch asap to develop ideas: www.abdn.ac.uk/sbs/blog/ear...

🐌Become an MSL member!🐌 Membership gets you: ⭐Our journal - Journal of Molluscan Studies ⭐Our bulletin - The Malacologist ⭐Society meetings ⭐Likely coming this year… exclusive funding 🙏Please support us to advance molluscan research & education!🙏 malacsoc.org.uk/membership/

Congrats @djsnails.bsky.social!! Check out this lovely thread outlining the first pre-print from Danielle Jordan's PhD work 🐚🐌🐚and official first Sleight Lab output 🥳 For any keen beans who want to join us on our mollusc journey, I'm advertising a PhD position: sleightlab.com/phd-vacancy-2/

🔔 Please share 🔔 I have two open developmental biology/genetics/evo-devo PhD project vacancies for October 2026 start. 1 = 🐚 🐌 🔬(embryos!!) ⏱️📆 DEADLINE 15th DEC 📆⏱️ (competition) sleightlab.com/vacancies/ 2 = 🦪 🐌 🧬 ⏱️📆 DEADLINE 14th JAN 📆⏱️(fully funded) sleightlab.com/phd-vacancy-2/

🎄 Day 1 of the 24 Days of Development ✨🧬 This study shows how different fixation methods (PFA vs. TCA) change what researchers can visualize in chicken embryos using HCR or IHC. 🔍🐣🔬 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

Please share mollusc friends 🐌🐙🐚🦪 Now the World Congress of Malacology 2025 is over 😢time to plan for the next mollusc meeting😀 The Molluscan Forum! ⏰Wed 5th Nov 2025 🏟️Natural History Museum ⚠️Deadline for applications = 19th Sept Follow link for more information malacsoc.org.uk/molluscan-fo...

@uniofaberdeen.bsky.social is looking for a new Principal - please send visionary leaders our way! abdn-future.co.uk