This is what "success" looks like in 2025 for @fortune.com. Reassess your goals. Life is fragile and fleeting. fortune.com/2025/12/04/n...

"Como podem as instituições de ensino superior afirmar que cuidam das pessoas, quando mantêm centenas de docentes num limbo contratual, sem estabilidade, sem progressão e sem reconhecimento formal do seu mérito académico?" www.publico.pt/2025/10/19/p...

John Gurdon, yr beloved @germcells.bsky.social first and foremost scientific reference has passed away. Here's to a person who was told he couldn't make it and decided to make it on his own terms 🥂 Rest in power, John!

Great work from Aurora's lab! 👌

Semester's off to a promising start. Histology student in a Clash T-shirt asks what's my favorite Descendents record 🙌

👏👏👏 www.publico.pt/2025/09/26/c...

👏👏👏 Truly well-deserved @needhibhalla.bsky.social 🏆

Notes on method by Hayao Miyazaki.

Mais um dia normal na #Fertagus. Homem com duas crianças tem ataque de pânico em carruagem com lotação máxima excedida e ativa abertura de porta de emergência (com comboio prestes a iniciar marcha). Vai ser preciso morrer alguém para este serviço funcionar com um pingo de humanidade?

'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...

Neste novo paradigma da educação, ciência e inovação, dar e devolver são conceitos fundamentais. www.publico.pt/2025/09/05/s...

Só deixar isto aqui...

Back in the 90s every so often I would ride this tram to go to punk rock shows in a dive bar on top of the hill. Lisbon (or whatever's left of that once fabled city) is coming apart. Peace to those who have fallen and to their loved ones 💔

Last week to submit your abstract! Don’t miss the chance to share your work with us at the next #POHaD GdR Symposium @gdr-reproduction.bsky.social @juliecocquet.bsky.social #epigenetics #sperm #andrology #offspringhealth #dohad

Mas afinal é para devolvermos à sociedade ou à economia?

"This story shows that it is possible to establish a multibillion-dollar industry purely by letting scientists communicate their research, exchange information and share materials." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Peepz, it's #Tbt of that mytical #GRC on fertilization in NH. Here's the #Drosophila dream team: Yukiko Yamashita (r) and Benjamin Loppin (c), with yr beloved water boy @germcells.bsky.social on the left 😅

🤬 www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

À atenção do Governo de Portugal.

Agosto na #Fertagus é sem ar condicionado e connosco, o proletariado, a bombar (que remédio) ♨️

"Sutanjang was a line of division on the road that separated the incarcerated from their children. The patients were allowed to see their children once a month from a distance at this line, because of fear of infection." hekint.org/2020/12/30/t...

Essential reading 👇 "Seeing patients as consumers has become essential to health care organizations’ quest for greater economy, efficiency, and productivity. But neither physicians nor patients share this understanding of their interactions." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

I wrote up the financial summary for EMBO Press, which makes an effort to be transparent. The largest cost category is staff salaries (admin staff and the scientific editors). I dont know if there are mo re recent numbers, but here's 2021 www.embo.org/features/fin...

🎻🎶🎶 www.publico.pt/2025/08/11/o...

My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships. This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria. Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Interested in pursuing a PhD to study the epigenetic functions of the meiotic synaptonemal complex? This research position offers an excellent entry point! The application deadline is 15 September. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/365827

I often criticize the World Mosquito Program. ~10 years ago I was approached by PR firm representing competing control organization. Offered me 10s of thousands of $ to put my name on ghost-written articles & do interviews trashing WMP. Turned them down & they approached my grad student w same offer

Like there weren't enough red flags already regarding this company...

My most ambitious pet project is to test the hypothesis that "In utero" and "Live Through This" are in fact a diptych on marriage and parenthood.

It was a delight to write a Spotlight about the most recent paper from @sadiewignall.bsky.social’s lab in @jcb.org

Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of? 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

When they said "harnessing of the basic power of the universe", what they actually meant was "war crime". 80 years of one of the most heinous lows in the history of humankind. #Hiroshima #Nagasaki

To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.

Caramba, um tipo acorda e é só old farts a dançar na campa da FCT.

A comprehensive guide for your eLife submission ⬇️ buff.ly/zMKqZ0U

Meanwhile, in the Portuguese government cabinet: Yes, but can we make toasters out of that?

Would you like to be the Node’s new Community Manager? If you're interested in #SciComm and passionate about #DevBio, apply to join the @dev-journal.bsky.social & @biologists.bsky.social team. Find out more about what the role entails: bit.ly/4otQ2GL #JobOpportunity

Just to be clear, am I being asked to side with a multi-billion dollar venture capital-backed company's claim that a dog with 20 genetic edits is a de-extinct species, instead of with multiple independent experts who have no financial interest in the matter?

Critics of #ColosalBiosciences, including myself, are not angry, or getting meaner and meaner, we are being intellectual honest about what Colossal is up to 1/n

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

"A ABIC apela à comunidade científica e académica e às instituições de ensino superior e ciência para que se mobilizem contra este ataque à ciência pública. Exigimos um debate sério, transparente e participado sobre o futuro do sistema científico e académico nacional." www.publico.pt/2025/08/01/c...

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

bioRxiv bat signal going up. We have a big backlog of submissions. If any affiliates have time to do some screening, we (and all the authors) would be immensely grateful! 🙏

🚨Young scientist at #GRC alert!🚨 Here is @virginiasavy.bsky.social presenting her latest results on post-fertilization epimetabolism.

Now it's Sara Olson on how nematode eggs build their vitelline layer. #GRC

Last session of #GRC on Fertilization 😢 Co-chair Luca Jovine introduces the topic of stem-embryology.

Matteo Allegretti on stage telling us about some quite unexpected deposits in the human sperm nucleus. #GRC