Everything you always wanted to know about TE classification ! @nico971.bsky.social and @johannconfais.bsky.social present RepetDB a TE database to support your science at GDR #MobilET meeting.

Bravo Anaïs!

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Hi! Florence Hommais, @nicolasparisot.bsky.social , and I are looking for a postdoctoral candidate to investigate the molecular dialogue between three weevil species and their endosymbiotic bacteria #symbiosis! Please see the #post-doc offer for more information. #SymbioSky #Bioinformatics

Had to draw a cartoon for this fascinating finding! Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SymbioSky

How do pluripotent stem cells resist harmful interferon responses to safeguard development? Through total epigenetic lockdown of ligands, sensors and effectors of IFN-I. In our preprint, James Holt shares his PhD discoveries on the ground state of immune evasion 😊: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Internship position open at INRAE-URGI for 2026, more details available here www.sfbi.fr/emplois/offr...

📣 #OurLastPaper is out! And it's a major breakthrough that we're publishing in @cp-cell.bsky.social l: we've discovered architect bacteria that build complex structures to feed themselves better! #SymbioSky 1/5

1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005 How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.

🚀 The next edition of Bioinformatics of Transposable Elements with @valentinapeona.bsky.social & @ritarebollo.bsky.social is just around the corner! 🧬 Jump into the world of #transposons and level up your #bioinformatics skills ⏳ Seats are limited: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

🧑‍🔬 The fête de la science Symbiosis walk was a success! Thank you all the school and families that have shared a bit of their curiosity with us 🪲🦠

Come talk Symbiosis with me! 😍

Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky @hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org

Yesterday @ritarebollo.bsky.social brilliantly obtained her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in front of a jury composed of L. Teysset, C. Vitte, F. Hommais, N. Nègre, Z. Haichar & N. Kremer. A summary of 20 years of research in 3 labs & 2 countries with a common theme: interactions! 👏

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...

Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Mais pourquoi faut faire des HDRs? Pourquoiiiiii? 🤢

Hi! We are looking for a PhD to work on the cross talk between transposable elements, insects and intracellular bacteria on the bioinformatics side. The PhD would be supervised by @mariefablet.bsky.social and myself along with @nicolasparisot.bsky.social Deadline December 2025! Please share! #tesky

📣 #OurLastPaper is out! A quantitative metabolic model of the obligate #aphid symbiont, #Buchnera aphidicola. This work also provides a model of the life stage-specific provision of nutrients from the bacterium to the host. #SymbioSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 #OurLastPaper is out! This study explores the functional specialization of the symbiont-bearing organ in the rice weevil. Using microdissection coupled with dual RNA-seq, we revealed different cell types, each with distinct host-symbiont molecular dialogues. #SymbioSky doi.org/10.1186/s401...

A little late to share, but still thrilled 🤗! What started as two independent stories, one in Clermont-Ferrand (@igred.fr) and one in Cambridge (Hannon’s group @cruk-mi.bsky.social ), turned into a joint adventure to decode how Rhino picks its favorite piRNA clusters. When forces unite… 👇👇👇

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...

A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by @rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.

🧬🌽 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

@mirimerenciano.bsky.social @sianalarue.bsky.social et al. review recent discoveries showing that TE activation can be both a cause and a consequence of ageing, emphasizing the importance of studying these genomic elements. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf088 #genome #evolution #TEsky

Join us for a week of hands-on experience in the computational analysis of transposable elements with @valentinapeona.bsky.social & @ritarebollo.bsky.social Check it out 👇

Now this is really cool! Double-extreme #genome reduction in #endosymbionts from #planthoppers. They go all the way down to ca. 50 kbps!!! 1/2 doi.org/10.1101/2025... Work by @annamichalik.bsky.social, @sympiotr.bsky.social, and others not here #SymbioSky

The June cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features the work of @mirimerenciano.bsky.social @sianalarue.bsky.social et al., who explore the relationships between transposable elements and aging in a new Review article. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf088 🖌️ Merenciano et al. #genome #TEsky

Today sees the close of the REID - IMMUNINV conference (reid2025.sciencesconf.org) at @insa-lyon.fr Many members of @inrae-umr-bf2i.bsky.social were involved in organizing the congress, and some of our PhD and post-doctoral students were able to present their research work brilliantly 👏

The rest of Mendel's alleles characterized! So, out of 7 traits, 3 caused by TE insertions!!! (though apparently there are two different green alleles, one cause by a TE insertion, but another a promoter deletion allele) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in the analysis on Transposable elements? 🧬 Have a look at our course with @valentinapeona.bsky.social & @ritarebollo.bsky.social We'll cover everything from TE biology to de novo library construction, quantification, & transcriptomic analysis. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

We have a PhD profil open for concours at GAIA doctoral school on #pangenomics. You are M2 student in info or bioinfo ? You want to work in #biodiversity and #graph ? Come to see us! adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Excited to share our latest preprint 🥳 Historic transposon mobilisation waves create distinct pools of adaptive variants in a major crop pathogen @danielcroll.bsky.social #TESky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint from our lab! Why is not everyone working on Transposons? Loss of H3K9me3 maintenance in human neural progenitor cells leads to transcriptional activation of L1 retrotransposons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A long, long time ago, we started this review project during the first Coron lockdown, but if finally made it out into the world - Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects! @naturerevmicro.bsky.social

Hi! Here is a PhD opportunity at Montpellier, IGH institute with Séverine Chambeyron to study endogenous retroviruses ! #TEsky #PhD

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs

A great opportunity in a nice place 👇

Hi BlueSkyers! I'm an evolutionary biologist, microbiologist, entomologist, lover of nature, and long-time researcher on symbiosis. I'm realizing that BlueSky is useful and generally non-toxic so here I am (having quit Facebook in Jan 2017, and Twitter in Oct 2022).

🚀 Registrations are open: 2025 SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses, Oeiras (Lisbon), Portugal 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... Please help us sharing this announcement 📣 @gimmfoundation.bsky.social #CBR @moorefound.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR

Stand up for science Lyon / Grand Est : *Lyon* 16h00 – Rassemblement place des Terreaux. *Nancy* 10h00 – Débats. Amphithéâtre de la présidence Léopold, 34 cours Léopold, Nancy. 12-30-13h30 – ronde des obstiné·e·s. Place Stanislas, Nancy.

Interested in the contribution of TEs to the evolution of regulatory pathways in plants? 2-year post-doc position open in URGI in Versailles! jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-23441 @johannconfais.bsky.social

My alma mater, the University of British Columbia, Dept of Medical Genetics, is hiring for a tenure track junior faculty position specializing in chromatin regulation / gene regulatory mechanisms. Beautiful city and vibrant epigenetics research. Please share! medgen.med.ubc.ca/assistant-pr...

Ah, when you see a beautiful offer for a UBC assistant professor, your heart skips a bit ! 😍 Wonderful department, amazing city, best sushi ever, oh to be back in Vancouver #dreamjob #Epigenetics

Feels awkward but necessary to celebrate scientific progress in this imperiled time for US biomedical research. Proud of our latest paper out today exploring the role of transposable elements in antiviral resistance to HIV 🦠 genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🧵1/n

🚨Urgent: 12-month Postdoc in Paris-Saclay on the INCREASE project! 🫘 Dissecting genetic mechanisms of environmental adaptation in common bean Project: [https://www.pulsesincrease.eu/] 📄 Click on Job for description [https://moulon.inrae.fr/] Please share! #Postdoc #JobOpening #INCREASEProject

Hey everyone! I’m a functional microbial genomics researcher who loves symbiosis and cocktails :) follow if interested in either!

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