1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Complex behaviour is not limited to animals! Here we map the entire spectrum of waveforms dynamics on a quadriflagellate single cell with 4x 70um (!) #cilia, to a low dimensional behavioural manifold with surprising structure! #protistsonsky All revealed in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Check out our latest issue to read a Q&A with @thibautbrunet.bsky.social, who studies the evolutionary origin of animal morphogenesis at the Institut Pasteur. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Looking forward to speaking at the next TIBBE seminar!

🤩 Join us for the next TIBBE seminar: Evolution of brain cell types. September 10, 2–3pm UTC This event brings together 2 outstanding evolutionary and developmental neuroscientists who will present their work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience: www.crowdcast.io/c/evolution-...

Excited for the upcoming TIBBE online talks &discussions with the amazing @matosches.bsky.social & @pkatz.bsky.social around How can we define homologous cell types across vertebrates and invertebrates? Next Wednesday, September 10, 2pm UTC, 4pm Paris 🧠🦎🐣🐭🌊 Join us www.crowdcast.io/c/evolution-...

The first of Jessie Foley’s work on the #evolution of #ageing in #Heliconius for your reading pleasure. Come for the 348 day old butterfly, stay for the evolved slower rate of ageing, species*diet effects, and weightlifting for elderly butterflies 💪🏻👵🏻 🧪

Animals don’t just live in their environments—they transform them. And in doing so, they may also shape their own evolutionary trajectories. Our new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution introduces a framework for zoogeochemical niche construction. A thread 👇

Mixtopagurus are nearly symmetrical hermit crabs. But they don't use worm tubes or wood like others in their family. No, it's these weird Xenophora shells that stick stuff to themselves that have a whole exhibit: www.zymoglyphic.org/exhibits/xen... 🦀🧪🦑 double? triple? #InverteFest

Buckling. Sounds ominous, doesn't it? Think bridges. But buckling can be a positive force and is common in nature. Marc Suñé's research may enable us to use it in many more applications. Case study and full video: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72526

This is such an interesting story about brain morphology and cognitive traits.

Please RP. We are thrilled to announce that our lab’s first preprint is out! ”Whole-genome single-cell multimodal history tracing to reveal cell identity transition” We report HisTrac-seq, a multiomic single-cell molecular recording platform. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

It was great meeting @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social at #eseb2025 and learning about his fantastic research. Check his paper showing the interaction between micro and macro evolution! 🔥

One of the people I'm indebted the most for creating stunningly beautiful #mesoSPIM samples was Martina Schaettin - who tragically passed away in March this year. To honor her memory, Elkhan Yusifov created an award - submit your best #microscopy images & videos! www.linkedin.com/company/mart...

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Great to see so many people at our symposium om the origin of eukaryotes. Thanks to all the speakers! #ESEB25 @julianvosseberg.bsky.social

Evolution has produced an incredible array of ways to be male & female. In some tiny cave-dwelling insect species, the female is the one with a penis. She uses it to hook into the male's vagina-like structure (for up to 70hrs) while "voluminous & probably nutritious semen is passed to the female"🧪🧬🪲

Aurelien Tellier presenting the details of #eseb2027 which will be a hub meeting, with connected and local sessions in 4 hubs (Gothenburg, Munich, London, Istanbul) eseb2027.org #eseb2025

As expected, the scientific content of the meeting is being truly outstanding, we will have over 600 talks and over 1000 posters on display. Plenty to choose from and many opportunities for unexpected eye-opening discoveries for anyone. #eseb2025

Fantastic talk by @aigverte.bsky.social on genomic & developmental foundations of adaptive tooth shape evolution. One ancestral developmental rule along which phenotypes evolve&converge; rule is broken when colonising new ecol. niche #ESEB2025 Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates @r3rt0.bsky.social

Next, @evazaffarini.bsky.social showing how prenatal hormones shape maternal–fetal morphological integration in a model of cephalopelvic covariation. #ESEB2025 Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates symposium @r3rt0.bsky.social

Ricardo Ely continues our journey through bird beak diversity with a great talk showing high influence of morphological integration on evolutionary rates and disparity of bird beaks, and no effect of degree of modularity. #ESEB2025 Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates symposium @r3rt0.bsky.social

Carmen Sánchez Moreno giving a fantastic talk showing how reconciling stemness and specialization in neural crest cells drives avian beak diversification. Beaks are made by long-distance travelling stem cells. #ESEB2025 Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates symposium @r3rt0.bsky.social

Next at Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates symposium, great talk by Quentin Horta-Lacueva showing that neural crest biology shapes evolutionary dynamics of lacertid skull across evolutionary scales. Face diversity of 170 species aligns w/ axis of shape green to brown #ESEB2025 @r3rt0.bsky.social

Great symposium on Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates at #ESEB2025 kicked off with fantastic talk by ‪@grumpydrfabre.bsky.social on the metamorphic blueprint,how life cycle type shapes salamander skulls. Is there an advantage of complex life cycle to create novel morphologies? @r3rt0.bsky.social

These gorgeous origami shapes - an entirely new family called bloom patterns - could be used to design new, more effective space telescopes or solar panels. www.newscientist.com/article/2493...

Elizabeth presenting her cool data and papers at a big conference. 🥳🤩

@ornellabertrand.bsky.social keynote talk on the evolution of brain structures in placental mammals to interpret fossil ecology @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #ESEB2025 SYMPOSIUM 17.02

Alex Kirschel talk on how ecological pressures driving body shape changes also drive change in bird song @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #ESEB2025 SYMPOSIUM 17.2

Fyi this will be an exciting paper

Amazing evolutionary biology outreach at the Fiestas de Gràcia in Barcelona. @rawwiberg.bsky.social explained that not everything we assume about sex is a given and that we can learn a lot from the exceptions. #ESEB25

Fantastic keynote by @zombieantdoc.bsky.social at #ESEB2025 taking us on a journey through zombie-making strategies of Ophiocordyceps fungi to hijack ant behaviour, with lots of amazing new data, behaviour, functional genetic essays.. @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Fantastic keynote by @lovedalen.bsky.social taking us on a ride through evolutionary insights from deep-time palaeogenomes. Recalibrating the molecular clock, range dynamics, ghost lineages; collared lemmings, mastodons, mammoths, at #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

@k4tj4.bsky.social on the evolution of brain folding as a strong indicator of function @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #ESEB2025 SESSION 17.2

‪Next, @posnienlab.bsky.social taking us on a beautiful journey showing that ‬heterochrony in orthodenticle expression is associated with ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species. at #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

@borreroja.bsky.social shows how ecological divergence & post-eclosion brain dev shape visual performance in Heliconius butterflies. Speciation often related to transitions closed /open forest #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Amaia Alcalde Anton sharing her insights on How to build a bigger brain–cellular basis of expanded mushroom bodies in Heliconius butterflies. Beautiful images. Proliferating cells into adulthood! #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Francesco Cicconardi presenting how Single-nuclei transcriptomics reveals neural cell type innovation associated with mushroom body expansion in Heliconiini Butterflies,+ link to cognitive innov. #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

🐟 Zebrafish (Danio rerio): Clear as glass, zebrafish embryos let you watch organs form in real time. A powerhouse for studying organogenesis and regeneration, they’re also champions of transgenic expression of fluorescent proteins 🌈 image from Gopi Shah 🧪 #ModelMonday #DevBio

Fantastic talk from @k4tj4.bsky.social at @eseb2025.bsky.social on this work. Finds that the pattern into which the cortex folds is better predicted by just brain size than the folding patterns of evolutionary neighbors!

Alex Kirschel taking us to African song birds, showing how genetics and environment shape vocal frequency variation in birds, including the effects of temperature, body size and beak length. At #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Ximena Leon continues our sound journey into birds showing the evolution of diversity in rhythm & assessing evolutionary dynamics of rhythm and syntax in birdsong. Females prefer regular songs. #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Now @emilylbehrman.bsky.social exploring the genetic basis of neural circuit evolution for Drosophila mate preferences, including what their interested song & their disinterested song sounds like #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Francesco Dionigi taking us back to water, counting neurons in fish brains for evol insights to comput. power, including amazing electric fish with its gigantic cerebellum #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @kkverkova.bsky.social

Alizée Delarue taking us on a journey through Chemosensory evolution at the origin of inquilinism in the bee louse fly at #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Now @mendezaranda.bsky.social showing us Convergent evolution of pain insensitivity in a new(?) species of African mole-rat #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Roman Arguello presenting his work on evolution of taste neurones &behaviour, showing divergence of cell populations, accelerated rates mostly in chemosensory neurones; and sex-biased expression #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

I was amazed to learn that Greenland sharks, despite living in very deep waters, and having often parasites hosted in their eyes, have retinas that should still allow vision in dim light. "Use it or loose it" versus 'El que guarda siempre tiene' (who saves always has?) 🤔