New @maxplanck.de study: We looked for left-right differences of gene expression and cell-type abundances in the brains of MICE 🐭using Xenium @10xgenomics.bsky.social. Possible clues to how functional brain asymmetry is supported !! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Short thread below ⬇️

The Department of BioSciences at Rice U invites applications for an open rank tenure-track position to begin July 1, 2026. We seek candidates with research programs in theoretical and computational neuroscience, including candidates 1/2 apply.interfolio.com/172558

🔥 A variety of Octopus Species 🐙 hand sculpted from clay 🎨 #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

Check out our new preprint! We compare sequence versus synteny approaches for resolving a challenging #phylogenetic problem. In this case, synteny is far more informative! Also includes the first chromosome-level #genome for the enigmatic #fish family Gyrinocheilidae. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Authors can now include a translation of their submitted manuscript’s abstract in their chosen language, which will be published directly following the English language abstract. We also enable the display of non-Western character author names. Read more: journals.biologists.com/dmm/pages/news

"Roughly three-quarters (73%) of H-1B workers whose applications were approved in fiscal 2023 were born in India. A majority of approvals every year since 2010 have gone to workers born in India." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

For those who aren't familiar, H1B visas aren't just used in the tech industry. They are also widely used by universities, hospitals, engineering firms, and other industries that rely on extensive training. Fees were previously under $5k -- still high, but doable, and many employers would pay them.

Do you know someone who has contributed to strengthening the evolutionary biology community by promoting inclusion and diversity? Nominate them for the IDEA award! More info: www.systbio.org/idea-award.h... You may self-nominate!!!

162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health. www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

The NSF GRFP deadline is posted and I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026. Please share with senior undergraduate students. Come join us in beautiful Santa Cruz! 🧬 macias.sites.ucsc.edu

A bit late, but I finally got around to writing an accessible piece about @julianeg.bsky.social 's cover article from July. In case you needed something else to worry about in this day and age! 🦠 tinyurl.com/mrx5tfre #scicomm #devbio #transposons

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

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

🔴 Only two weeks left to apply for the Presidential Membership Initiative! As a member of PMI, you'll earn a free 2026 GSA membership, discounts through 2027, access to special networking opportunities for early career scientists. 🔗 Apply by September 30: buff.ly/0cmmIc8

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

Congratulations @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social, @rnadoctor.bsky.social & team for a new publication in @plosbiology.org 👏🧪 Their work shows a conserved pathway for neuromuscular junction development between tunicates and vertebrates 🧠 Read the article below ⤵️

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Our paper on central complex evolution in Heliconiini butterflies is now available as reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social 🎉🎉. Please check out the helpful and constructive reviews which we are going to address in the next weeks 🤗 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... @ebablab.bsky.social

“HSIs enroll over 5.6 million students nationwide, including two-thirds of all Latino undergraduates in the country.” hacu.net/cutting-350m...

This child was infected with measles before they were able to be vaccinated (under 12 months), likely from someone unvaccinated. They survived the infection but years later they’re dead. The risk of SSPE for an infant infected with measles is 1 in 600, & it’s 95% fatal. Your vaccine protects others

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

And yes, now is the right time. New for @undark.org "The fundamental problem with the tenure process is that it has struggled to recognize that knowledge is curated, created, and consumed differently today than even a decade ago." undark.org/2025/09/11/o...

❤️ this! "If you want strong teaching evaluations, betray your integrity and do not impose anything resembling high standards. And definitely do not build an ambitious new course that cuts across disciplines, forces you to explore a new literature, or potentially makes your students uncomfortable."

Just one more week left to get an application in! Starting my lab at the Perutz and the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social has been a fantastic opportunity that shaped me as a scientist!

Love it when women step up for each other! www.forbes.com/sites/moiraf... @amwadoctors.bsky.social @500womensci.bsky.social @womeninmedicine.bsky.social @acog.org @womensurgeons.bsky.social @womensupportwomen.bsky.social

Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline? We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨ 🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks #NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship

📢 Call for proposals - SMBE IDEA 2026 @smbe-idea.bsky.social invites all SMBE members to propose initiatives for 2025/2026 to reduce inequities in our field. Categories: 💡 IDEA ($25k) 🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k) 🗣️ Outreach ($10k) Deadline: Oct. 10 2025 More info: smbe.org/idea-initiatives

Thank you @stemcellreports.bsky.social for featuring our work on the Neural Stem Cells Special Issue cover! www.cell.com/stem-cell-re... Kudos to lead author Sriivatsan G. Rajan for designing the image. Check out the wide array of interesting papers in this packed issue: www.cell.com/stem-cell-re...

The NSF GRFP deadline is posted and I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026. Please share with senior undergraduate students. Come join us in beautiful Santa Cruz! 🧬 macias.sites.ucsc.edu

'Overall, the message from this survey is positive– evolutionary biologists are readily employable outside of academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction in their non-academic careers.' #Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Evolution Meeting 2026 logo contest! The winner will receive meeting registration and an Evolution 2026 t-shirt. www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

If you like transcription regulation and its mechanisms, this WIP list is for you. I'm sure I've forgotten lots of people, so don't hesitate to let me know so I can add you to the list. go.bsky.app/8vTgeXB

This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

Amazing opportunities in Toronto 👇

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!! 30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing. Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

First, many thanks to Dr. Natasha Picciani, @aidemm.bsky.social , and @ostratodd.bsky.social for their contribution and mentorship. I learned and grew a lot as this project progressed (since my 1st year undergrad!!). Your time and expertise were vital to this process.

Important nuance: As with all bioinformatic projects, functional testing is needed to make any firm claims on what exactly opsins are or are not doing in Hydra. These results highlight some great candidates for such studies.

What can this mean? Opsin gene expression patterns in Hydra are more temporally and cellularly broad than expected. Some cell types may express opsins for purposes other than light sensation, or for light sensation in non-canonically light sensitive cell types (gland cell, stinging cells)

(In short) We found: 1) Opsin expression in neuronal and non-neuronal cell types (including gland cells and stinging cells) 2) Opsin expression across multiple states of cell differentiation 3) Putative co-regulatory relationships between opsins and genes associated with developmental patterning

Hydra are freshwater relatives of jellyfish that sense and respond to light, despite lacking eyes. To understand how, we asked: 1) What types of cells express opsin (light sensitive protein) genes? 2) When in cell differentiation are opsins expressed? 3) What genes are opsins co-regulated with?

Congratulations Marina! 🧬🧪 an important contribution to understanding opsins in Hydra.

First, first-author paper alert! “Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below! 🦑🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Cool paper by @emmanuelhaillot.bsky.social et al. from Uli Technau's group. @tclebedeva.bsky.social and I were also involved 🙃

How does the alvinellid worm Paralvinella hessleri survive the toxic extremes of deep-sea #HydrothermalVents? A new study shows that it detoxifies its environment by forming orpiment minerals inside cells; this unique #biomineralization is a novel adaptation to toxic environments.🧪 plos.io/3HtVCZ6