Join the PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics🧬 🇸🇪 www.trippus.net/summerschool... and learn data integration -Single-cell multiome -ATAC-seq+3Dgenomics -Non-coding variants+Transcription Factors -Large-scale epigenomics -Spatial @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social @remeseiro-lab.bsky.social

🚀 Interested in a postdoc in computational biology & AI for neuroscience? The NOMIS Synergy Fellowship offers a great opportunity to develop such a position in my lab within the interdisciplinary Synergy excellence cluster. 🔗 www.synergy-munich.de/news-events/...

We're pleased to announce that our next webinar series is now live. Decoding spatial transcriptomics through sequences, pixels, and bioinformatics will run from 18 February – 8 April 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Coordinated by: @ajaymishra24.bsky.social, Kristy Ou, and Flaminia Zane. 🧬🖥️📊

Institut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!

Applications for our summer internship program are open. This is a paid, 9 week experience designed to provide research experience to undergraduates interested in the neurosciences, especially as related to the molecular and cellular basis of neuropsychiatric disorders www.libd.org/summer-inter...

Transcriptomics and functional genomics implicate WNT3 in hemispheric lateralization of speech production: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

From glowing neurons to newborn memories, here are the most fascinating brain discoveries of 2025

I used this pic. today as part of my intro to adaptation in my UG class. I get students to guess what the pic shows and what it's for. I've done this w. other traits in prev. years to highlight how adaptation get us asking about function/purpose of traits in ways we dont do with nonliving things.

MPI-PL Colloquium: Prof. Mehmet Somel www.mpi.nl/events/mpi-c... Mehmet will visit Nijmegen on Feb 17 to give a talk on his and his team's findings on social practices and gender roles in prehistoric Anatolian communities. 🧬🦴 Come for the ancient DNA, stay for the ancient matriarchal societies! ✊

📢 I would be happy to host a 2-year DDLS Postdoc at my group using museum genomics to look at recent adaptation in insect pollinators 📉🐝🦋🧬 If you are interested in this (or have other project ideas) get in touch ASAP! The application deadline is March 31. INFO 👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

🐜 4-year #postdoc position in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab @camzoology.bsky.social investigating metabolic cooperation between bodies in a BBSRC-funded project. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc... #ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)

📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷 Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs. Start May 2026 (flexible). Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

Lee et al. used B-lymphoblastoid cells from three great ape species and humans to show that human ZEB2 is distinct in regulating a larger repertoire of genes implicated in neuronal development. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf318 #evobio #molbio

🚨 Our year-long, post-bacc internship positions are now open for application! 🚨 This new program is designed to provide mentorship and on-the-job experience for recent grads. Full list of open roles: https://alleninstitute.org/careers/internships-and-postbac/

Looking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...

Absolutely agree. The genetic makeup of a species does explain what sets it apart from other species, but the explanation is usually complex, and not reducable to the isolated effects of single variants. IMO, this work provides further evidence for the existing view of combinatorial evolution.

While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪 Explainer🧵👇1/n

“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠

Cross-species consensus atlas of the primate basal ganglia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.694496v1

Chul et al. leveraged Bird 10K genomes to explore convergent amino acid variants across phylogenetically matched control sets of bird species; they find convergent genes in six vocal learners significantly enriched in learning-related functions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf112 #genome #evolution

On World Monkey Day, @peopleprimate celebrates Barbary macaques. SHPI supports #conservation through coexistence with monkeys & other #primates. human-primate-interactions.org Barbary macaques are captured for the pet trade. Visit barbarymacaqueconservation.org Art credit: @Lydialehman on X

New preprint from our lab: ‘Retroviral insertions contributed to the divergence of human and chimpanzee brains’. Very proud of this piece which took almost a decade to finish. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is an excellent piece: embryo selection isn’t necessarily eugenics but the founder of Herasight is openly advocating for eugenics, largely without pushback from academics or academic societies

Only a few weeks left to apply for our 4-year PhD position, using human brain organoids & multi-omic methods to study genes implicated in speech disorders. Application deadline 5 Jan 2026. Fellowship is embedded in the International Max Planck Research School. More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...

🚄✈️🐒 EFP2026 Mobility Grants are open! Funding available for students, PhD, and postdocs to join the conference. Deadlines: – 15 Jan 2026: primate-range countries – 13 Feb 2026: Europe Apply here: Primate-range countries: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri... Europe: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri...

Single-cell spatiotemporal #transcriptomic and #chromatin accessibility profiling in #developing postnatal #human and #macaque prefrontal #cortex doi.org/10.1038/s415...

How did DNA changes that alter protein structures impact evolution on the branch that led to modern humans? As we demonstrate today in Science Advances, biobanking initiatives offer ways to directly assess biological effects of rare archaic variants in living people, & (re)evaluate their roles. 🧬🧪

The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge is seeking a talented Postdoctoral Research Associate to work in the group of Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira (www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-gro...) ➡️For Further details see the link www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Hiring: PostDoc in Tissue Clearing & 3D Histopathology 🧪🖥️ My lab at Helmholtz Munich is seeking a highly motivated PostDoc/Scientist to strengthen our efforts in advanced imaging of cancer tissues. More info: www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-ma...

Interrogating the Regulatory Function of HAQERs during Human Cortical Development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.30.691411v1

Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open! Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal. 📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts And symposium selection is now finalized! 👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

New in Science, Macaques tap to the beat. Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!

PhD position available for theoretical and statistical modeling in my joint @gevol.bsky.social project with @luisapallares.bsky.social on the evolution of transcriptional variability and its role in adaptation and evolutionary innovation. See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...

"...These features may be related to the metabolic demands of human cognition and would be predicted to differ in language‐associated regions of the brains of language-trained apes as a reflection of adaptive neurobiological changes in response to heightened communicative demands."

🚨 Palaeo jobs alert!! 🚨 Two(!!) postdoc positions available in Cambridge! 1. Human Evolutionary Anatomy: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... 2. Evolutionary Biomechanics: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... As part of the @erc.europa.eu funded STEPS project!

Please check out and RT this new position for an exciting collaborative project with @boninlab.bsky.social and @franckp.bsky.social on the links between human-specific mechanisms and neurodevelopmental disorders in cortical circuits.

Out now: we’re happy to share our new preprint on CroCoNet (Cross-species Comparison of Networks), a framework for robust comparative network analyses. 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Join us on Dec. 2 for a webinar on the major advances in basal ganglia mapping, including cross-species cellular mapping and open-access visualization tools. 📅 Dec. 2, 9-10:30am PT 📍 Online 🔗 Register: https://alleninstitute.org/events/neuroscience-cell-types-webinars/ #studyBRAIN #neuroskyence

Comparative Analysis of FOXP2 Expression in the Thalamus of Mice, Rats, and Macaques: Implications for the Evolution of Language Circuits. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.23.689322v1

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Putting aside the deeper issues of why this analysis was done and how it has been promoted, the choice to broadcast a tv show before releasing a preprint should make people skeptical of the results. How can one be sure of their scientific claims?

Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...

Which human brain circuits are implicated in neurodevelopmental conditions? We bridged human genetics, spatial transcriptomics and neurodevelopment to discover the convergence of autism-associated genes in the developing human thalamus! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new manuscript, led by Emily Corrigan, examines inhibitory neuron diversity across approximately 160 million years of evolutionary divergence, as part of BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) developing brain atlas package: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest collaboration with @rongfan8.bsky.social, spatial triomics to investigate myelin and cortical brain development, and demyelination, spearheaded by Leslie Kirby in our lab @ki.se and Di Zhang in Rong's lab! Check it out @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...