Three jobs in our shiny new building:

Kicked off a series on #Drosophila TE discovery and naming. The first post covers elements that predate the term "mobile element", and more. artemilin.dev/posts/te_nam...

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

Very happy to have contributed to this review on "non-CG" #methylation in animals now out in @natgenet.nature.com. Working again with @obog.bsky.social and Tirsa is always a pleasure. We think this not so well studied form of methylation should be more widely considered, please read: rdcu.be/eFAEk

We're hiring (again)! We are looking for an associate professor in cell and molecular biology, with a particular focus on immunology (defined broadly) If you have a great record and exciting plans, consider joining our thriving and welcoming department www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

This, from @anthonymoser.com, is outstanding. (H/t @lecagle.bsky.social.) "The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals."

🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Having spent significant time here, the environment and support are truly amazing, and in my opinion, the best you can have in Oxford.

Our new review is out in Trends in Cancer. We had fund writing this :) We discuss the roles of retrotransposons in immune modulation in normal and malignant hematopoiesis. www.cell.com/trends/cance...

If you've had a half-finished Node post draft in the back of your mind for a while, now there's some incentive to get it finished & out there for the community. Remember that the Node is for all #devbio & #stemcell researchers. Register & you're free to post anything relevant without intervention.

Delighted & excited to share our latest preprint on non-canonical enhancers in human pluripotent stem cells, the result of a fantastic and fun collaboration with @guenesdoganlab.bsky.social‬: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 below

New paper from Bin Cao, showing that placenta-specific KO of ADAR1 is embryonic lethal.

🥂Congrats to Gao, Li & co for their new @natcellbio.nature.com study: they derive #trophectoderm stem cells from 32-cell mouse #embryos. These cells represent an early trophectoderm state, develop into #placenta cells and organoids and contribute to blastoid generation. rdcu.be/eAKzp bit.ly/4fyZ9Sg

🚨🚨🚨 Please RT! We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets. Deadline: 30/09/25👇

Happy to see our latest work out in @molbioevol.bsky.social. We revisit the evolution of 5-methylcytosine across neglected eukaryotic supergroups, establishing an ancestral repressive role silencing genome invaders, both transposons and viral elements👾: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... 🧵 1/7

Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!

How the complex issue of delineating #Transposons families plays out in the interpretation of epigenetic experiments. Congrats Xun Chen and @guilbourque.bsky.social for leading this work, and thank you for having me on this! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #TEsky

Come and work at the Royal Society! We have several roles open including Fellowship Officer in our Central Secretariat, and Senior Designer in our Communications team. Find out more on our careers page: #RSCareers careers-royalsociety.icims.com/jobs/search?...

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 I am excited to share our new work on epigenetic enhancer priming in early mammalian development genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Fantastic collaboration with Wolf Reik’s team, with key contributions from many others, led by the excellent Chris Todd. Short 🧵

Haig Kazazian (in memoriam), delivered by Jef Boeke and John Moran at FASEB meeting. A giant in the field. #TEs #ForgotTheMeetingHashtag

Are you bravely deciding to do a postdoc in the US? And also interested in some combination of genomics, immunology, and transposons? If so, consider applying to my lab at the BioFrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... 🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky

Exactly two weeks left to submit your abstract to the EMBO Mobile Genome Workshop. ☝️this year we will select from abstracts 2 “long” talks to highlight last minute breakthrough from early career scientists. Apply! July 29th

Attended our Annual Meeting last week? Any thoughts or reflections? Jump over to our LinkedIn to let us know! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Interested in developmental epigenetics? So are we! Apply now to join us for your postdoc! Multiple positions across multiple groups @mrc-lms.bsky.social Projects spanning germline demethylation, gene regulation, genome architecture in development & disease 👇👇 lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

🌍 Lund University is hiring! Join top research environments like ours at Lund Stem Cell Center. Faculty roles in life sciences & biomedicine are now available. #AcademicJobs 📢 Positions across immunology, neuroscience & more: 🔗 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 🔗 www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund...

This might not be an impartial opinion, but I think she's extraordinary in a lot of ways.

This is insane and amazing in equally high measures

Finally out! 🥳 Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁 Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5

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We wrote a review on Transposable Elements (TEs) and almost all aspects of TE silencing and their roles in biological processes & disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Chromatin And Development lab are hiring a postdoc! Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Dear Mobile DNA Researchers, The 8th Woods Hole Mobile Genetic Elements meeting will be held Aug 28 to Aug 30, 2025, at the MBL in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Info, registration, and abstract submission: www.eventsquid.com/event/28372 #MobileDNA #MobileGeneticElements

To that there London in my shorts, to give my Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture to the Royal Society (not in shorts). Will be live-streamed on YouTube and later uploaded. Details:

Happy that our preprint from early this year, uncovering the regulation a somatically "hot" endogenous retroelement locus, has now found its home in @narjournal.bsky.social. "TEsky" doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Join us in the #institutcurie exceptional environment to explore the mysteries of X chromosome regulation in early human development

We are #hiring! Join the Bioinformatics Services team as a Staff Bioinformatician and contribute to our mission of advancing bioinformatics-driven research, built on cutting-edge computational infrastructure. Apply below!

LINE-1 ORF1p is a shared and immunogenic antigen in cancer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.11.659092v1

Congratulations @emiliebrasset.bsky.social and colleagues! Great work.

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

Barbara McClintock was born OTD in 1902. “I start with the seedling, and I don't want to leave it. I don't feel I really know the story if I don't watch the plant all the way along. So I know every plant in the field. I know them intimately, and I find it a real pleasure.” 🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci

🧬Happy Transposon Day! 🎉Each year on the 16th of June we commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable element research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992). #TransposonDay2025 #MobileDNAjournal

@helenzsci.bsky.social interviews @retropz.bsky.social, Research Integrity & Training Advisor @cruk-mi.bsky.social. They discuss Andrew’s career path; what research integrity means & its link to mental health; & Andrew’s thoughts on generative AI. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/06/16/a...

Trophoblast and endometrial stromal cells fuse?! I had no idea. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40509769/

Are you @ the late stages of your postdoc ? Want to pursue a PI career ? Then this 👇👇 is for you ! Apply for a spot @ our Talent Forum www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/stem-cell... Peer-networking / Career orientation and more !!! Please distribute :) 🙂

Our next guest speaker webinar is happening on Friday, June 20th at 15:30 GMT. Parinaz Mehdipour @parinazmehdipour.bsky.social will give a talk on 'Triggering anti-viral immune responses against cancer through epigenetic and epitranscriptomic modifications' teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

We're hiring a postdoc! Come join my lab @Novartis Oncology in Basel 🇨🇭, and employ genome engineering and functional genomics approaches to study how oncogenic Transcription Factors function at the molecular level (and how to drug them) 3+1 years! Apply! Please RP www.novartis.com/careers/care...

Postdoc post in my lab from Autumn this year @lsiexeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk #Chromatin #StemCells #Enhancer #NeuralCrest #Transcription #CellFate #NuRDIsTheWord Apply and/or get in touch!

1/3 So pleased to have this latest installment of “the retrotransposon storm” submitted and on biorxiv. This work was driven by Shreevidya Korada, an amazing PhD student in Roger Sher’s lab, co-mentored by me. @mollygale.bsky.social was an awesome collaborator. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

2nd Meeting on Epigenetics & Epigenomics - 24th - 26th September, Brussels 🇧🇪 Speakers Line-up looks fantastic including @adelmanlab.bsky.social @kjarmache.bsky.social @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social @tinekelenstra.bsky.social @lucianodicroce.bsky.social www.xcellsconferences.com/epigenetics2...

REFEREE 1: “I conclude with a simple, direct statement - this is the best paper I have read all year!” #TransparentPeerReview Co-evolving infectivity and expression patterns drive the diversification of endogenous retroviruses @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social et al www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....