Excited to share our new preprint led by Fred and me in collaboration with the archaeal community! We found that the molecular foundation of histone-based chromatin has pre-eukaryotic roots in Asgard archaea. (1/4) #ArchaeaSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Digging into the roots of chelicerates - paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What is the evolutionary origin of the organizer? New work from @kremnyovs.bsky.social, @tclebedeva.bsky.social & Hejnol Lab @uni-jena.de reports the blastopore lip of the #ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, a member of the evolutionary sister group to all other metazoans, exhibits organizer activity.

Bye-bye Glasgow and #eed2026 ! I had the pleasure to present our last story in the Evo-Devo of Complex Life Histories: Agametic Development, Regeneration and Clonality symposium! Thank you @cnidevo.bsky.social ans Stefano for the invitation and to the local organizers @chemamd.bsky.social and co !

Inspiring plenary talk on variation in water striders by Abdou Khila at the EuroEvoDevo conference in Glasgow. #EED2026

The @chemamd.bsky.social lab says goodbye to Glasgow after a fun and productive #EED2026. Great to have met old friends and made new ones. Thank you Glasgow for the hospitality and the whiskey 👌🏽 #DevBio #EvoDevo

BIOM's delegates at the 10th #EED2026 meeting in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Heading home from a great #EED2026 meeting in Glasgow. Thanks to the local organizers @chemamd.bsky.social and team! Glasgow offered some of the most beautiful and history-breathing lecture halls in EED history. And special thanks to the EED programme/scientific committee, esp. Sylvie Retaux.

Our story about the poising and connectivity of human developmental enhancers is out! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Safe travels to those making their way to Glasgow for #EED2026 😊 While you are stuck in transit, you can check out this special collection of #EvoDevo papers compiled by @dev-journal.bsky.social ⬇️

Check out our 2026 subject collection, showcasing recent papers in @dev-journal.bsky.social on evolutionary developmental biology: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti... It has been curated to support the 2026 Euro-Evo-Devo conference in Glasgow, UK. #EED2026

Being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society is a tremendous honour. My deepest thanks go to the hundreds of students and postdocs who have passed through my lab over the last 30+ years. They have been the soul of the lab, and this recognition belongs as much to them as it does to me.

EuroEvoDevo #EED2026 in Glasgow starts next week! I am organizing Symposium S08: Craniofacial Evo-Devo on 10 June from 9:00. Hope to see you there!

Please repost !! SANTA CRUZ DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026. Deadline to register your abstracts for the meeting is Monday June 1. Please get those abstracts in ! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

🚨 Excited to share a new manuscript from the lab. Here, we have developed a new method, HiCPotts, to identify significant interactions in 3D chromatin data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...; package bioconductor.org/packages/HiC.... Big shoutout to an amazing previous PhD in the lab Godwin. 1/n

Only few days left to apply! This event is relevant both for wet lab biologists who want to learn more about spatial OMICs and get initiated to data analysis and for bioinformaticians who want to learn about the latests developments in spatial OMICs.

Two weeks to go before #EED2026... We’re organizing the #Platynereis satellite meeting, featuring 27 talks on all things spiralian. I can’t wait to be in Glasgow! #ManIsButAWorm

Super cool story. Glad to be a part of it ☺️

🚨 We discovered a new mode of Hox gene regulation in annelids! 🪱 A distal enhancer acts as a "global control region", lifting Hox genes from Polycomb repression. This is reminiscent of Hox gene control in vertebrates, but the two modes likely evolved convergently. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣 10 days left to register for our workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology and Phylogenetics Questions? Reach out to any of the organisers: @rachelwarnock.bsky.social @niklashohmann.bsky.social More information and registration 👉 www.lorentzcenter.nl/site/index.p...

Please help us to promote the next version of the Developmental Biology course (Quintay Chile). More information in: biodesarrollo.unab.cl

Hox #genes from 40 xenacoelomorph transcriptomes and four #genomes academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Pleased to share our study on brachiopod genomes and bilaterian dorsal–ventral patterning, now out in Nature Communications. doi.org/10.1038/s414... We present the first chromosome-level genome of a brachiopod and show that the core patterning mechanism is deeply conserved across bilaterians.

I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Bruno Vellutini - Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil 🔬 @bruvellu.bsky.social Webpage: brunovellutini.com EvoDevoPapersDatabase: evodevo.brunovellutini.com

Did you know that fully half of the talks at the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting this year will be chosen from submitted abstracts? It's true! Great opportunities for trainees and PIs, too! @socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@hector-escriva.bsky.social , @arnausebe.bsky.social , @enricodanielloszn.bsky.social , @jpascualanaya.bsky.social , @clytia-vlfr.bsky.social , @isabelalmudi.bsky.social , @chemamd.bsky.social , @arburga.bsky.social and SD'Aniello! 15c/15

The version of record is here @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🥳 Happy for this collaboration with @emmanuelhaillot.bsky.social and Stephan Schneider At #EED24 in Helsinki we met. Instead of competing, we got our 2 stories togheter into a bigger one #EvoDevo #DevBio

From our UK side, we thank the @erc.europa.eu , the BBSRC and @qmulsbbs.bsky.social for the funding and support. And to all the help from our lab members in @chemamd.bsky.social , Schneider lab and Ferrier lab @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Now we can celebrate at #EED26 in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥳 #Shai-Hulud 🪱

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... “Management consultants are ruining UK universities”. No, fleecing.

📢📢 join us for this edition of the “Quantitative biology to molecular mechanisms” EMBO workshop Gene regulation, cell dynamics & systems biology 17th - 20th November More info: s.embl.org/omx26-01-bl

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost

We are excited to be recruiting into 3 Associate Professorship's in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Come join us as a colleague and benefit from our vibrant and multidisciplinary environment. Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! (tinyurl.com/48deybuu) (tinyurl.com/4pdvjaft).

We’ve also released the Capitella Genome Project Portal, integrating genome annotation with RNA-seq, ATAC-seq & mitochondrial data, along with an interactive JBrowse genome browser and custom BLAST interface. @abhinavsur.bsky.social @kguynes.bsky.social @neva-meyer.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social

📢 We've just published a chromosome-level nuclear and mitochondrial genome assembly for Capitella teleta (~243.6 Mb). Despite a highly conserved gene family repertoire, both genomes show extensive rearrangements, revealing a decoupling of gene family and chromosomal evolution.

Davies et al. assemble the genome of polychaete Capitella teleta, a model for evolutionary developmental biology, comparative genomics, conservation, and ecotoxicology, generating a 243 Mb chromosome-level genome, and publish a genome browser. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag041 #genome #evolution

New from @chemamd.bsky.social lab @qmulsbbs.bsky.social Collab with Elaine Seaver, @baxevanislab.bsky.social @neva-meyer.bsky.social @abhinavsur.bsky.social New chromosome-level assembly for Capitella teleta 🪱 academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-... #DevBio #WormWednesday @genomebiolevol.bsky.social

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

The tiniest and most complete alvarezsaur from South America reveals many routes to miniaturisation in this intriguing dinosaur group www.nature.com/articles/s41... - paper in @nature.com

🚨 Happy to see that my PhD work is finally published! We present METALoci, a tool that integrates #3Dgenome and #Epigenetics to identify regulatory hubs. Applied to #sexdetermination we uncover: ✔️ Non-coding regulatory region controlling Fgf9 ✔️ Meis genes as key players 👉 rdcu.be/e5sm2

It was fantastic welcoming back Chema Martin @chemamd.bsky.social from @qmulsbbs.bsky.social at the Centre today 👏 He shared with us his latest work on spiralian larvae evolution, with fascinating insights on the timing of gene expression during development. Thank you for visiting us!

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

I am in awe of the beautiful and weird genomics of chaetognaths. Extreme levels of genetic innovation, trans-splicing, and much more. So much to learn! Extraordinary work @ferdix.bsky.social‬, Laura Piovani, @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and @chemamd.bsky.social!

After nearly twenty years in the making, our attempt at understanding what makes the chaetognath phylum so unique has finally been published! www.nature.com/articles/s41... with #LauraPiovani @dariagavr.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social and others /1

Calls to run REF 2029 on old rules intensify. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Exciting new work on developmental system drift! #EvoDevo Allan (@allancarbal.bsky.social) and Chema (@chemamd.bsky.social) are making key contributions to our understanding of the evolution of developmental system drift.

After welcoming we jumped imidiatelly into Chris Lowe @stanford.edu followed by Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social, Rory Cooper @rorylcooper.bsky.social, Bassel Arnaout @cam.ac.uk

Tomorrow we'll welcome the EvoDevo community from UK and beyond @qmulsbbs.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social , organised by @chemamd.bsky.social @margaridamcm.bsky.social @ferdix.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social , Roman Arguello and James Difrisco. Poster by former lab member Giacomo Mogglioli

A great way to end the week with some evo devo! A one day meeting hosted by @qmul.bsky.social #UKEvoDevo @biologists.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social