Si estás en Valéncia, aprovecha para pasar por el Jardí Botànic y disfruta de esta exposición fotográfica sobre Evolución

Lamentamos profundamente el fallecimiento de nuestro socio Máximo Ibo Galindo, investigador de encefalopatías del desarrollo, como el síndrome de Dravet y pionero en la utilización de #Drosophila en la investigación de enfermedades humanas en España. DEP

Come to Alacant!! #Drosophila @droseu.bsky.social

I've started my own lab 🎉 PhD/postdoc positions available - reach out if curious about cerebellum evo-devo and autism spectrum disorders. We’re based at Uni Tartu, Institute of Genomics (home to Estonian Biobank), and funded by @simonsfoundation.org @embo.org, and the Estonian Research Council.

This paper marks the end of a long but rewarding project - and the start of something new (more below👇). Massive thanks to @kaessmannlab.bsky.social, @ioansarr.bsky.social, @tyamadat.bsky.social, our amazing collaborators @steinaerts.bsky.social, Stefan Pfister, Rüdiger Behr and the entire team! 💙

We are thrilled that our study on the evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development – led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social – is now out in @ScienceMagazine! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our latest: Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history, led by @meleonora-rossi.bsky.social with help from friends @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social including @anariesgo.bsky.social @evopalaeo.bsky.social Davide Pisani and many others

Back from the amazing #sesbe2026 meeting, congrats to @paucarazo.bsky.social & the other organizers! Excellent science, meeting colleagues & sharing our work with a great talk by @biomanu1998.bsky.social SESBE is the place to be! @irbio-ub.bsky.social @sesbe-org.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social

Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money 1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI @manuelansede.bsky.social english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Thrilled to be part of the Spanish #EvoDevOmics network. The amazing talent within it shows how strong evo-devo is in Spain. Exciting and fruitful collaborations ahead!

Then #sesbe2026 meeting, with great time discussing the latest on EvoBiol in Spain, presenting our work on mayflies by María Morán, who won best poster prize @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social

Back in BCN after an great week in Valencia, 1st meeting of #EvoDevOmics network with @mirimiam.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social @jpascualanaya.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social @fany-real.bsky.social @imaeso.bsky.social & Nuria Flames

#sebd #sebdjobs

Spanish EvoDevo at its best. Congrats to the team on this cool work 🥂🍾 Turns out that “deep conservation of CREs across hundreds of millions of years is far more widespread than previously recognized” Check it out👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

We are pleased to announce our next #SEBD2026 meeting! The meeting will take place in El Rompido, Huelva, from the 28th to the 30th of October 2026 #savethedate @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social @ijdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @devdynamics.bsky.social

Our work on the evolution of the regulatory genome of echinoderms is now out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Led by my former PhD Marta Magri, Danila Voronov & Saoirse Foley. Great collaboration of Arnone, Hinman & Maeso labs, started long time ago with our missed José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta: rdcu.be/eXX8l

This has been my last meeting as president of @sesbe-org.bsky.social and I wish all the best for the new board, led by the excellent newly elected president @isabelalmudi.bsky.social . I am sure they will do amazing things.

Congratulations to @paucarazo.bsky.social and the other organizers of the #sesbe2026 meeting of the @sesbe-org.bsky.social . It has been a wonderful conference with nice talks, posters and networking, I the wonderful city of Valencia, my home town.

Very happy to share that I have been awarded an ERC CoG to build predictive and mechanistic models of pigment pattern development and evolution across cichlids!! 🐠🎨 I've been dreaming about this for a long time, and I’m incredibly excited that we can now pursue it in full. #ERCCoG @erc.europa.eu 1/3

#ERCCogG granted!!! Immensely grateful for this opportunity. Thanks @erc.europa.eu . Many news coming soon. New lab opening and will be posting positions. 🦈🧠🤍 Go sharkies!

I'm very happy to become a member of #SEBD Board. Thanks a lot to my colleagues for their support. Looking forward to contributing to our community!

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch! 📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility. 🙏Please, RT!

We are thrilled to share our new preprint entitled “The origin and molecular evolution of the mammalian liver cell architecture” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Did transposable elements shape brain evolution — and if so, which ones, and in which cell states and lineages? Led by @tyamadat.bsky.social, we explored this question in cerebellum development using sequence-based deep learning models! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our study on a male-essential microRNA and the evolution of other dosage compensation mechanisms in birds is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Zapatero: "El PP de Andalucía tendría que hablar menos de Puigdemont y dedicarse más a la sanidad pública" www.eldiario.es/1_c121ca?utm...

La UEFA abordará la expulsión de los equipos israelíes de sus competiciones la semana que viene

In case you've ever wondered, I talked with @amjeve.bsky.social about science, myself, and the future of #DevBio as part of the Pathway to Independence Fellowship @biologists.bsky.social 🧪 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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In Japan, Anti-Establishment Parties Resonate With Young Voters www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...

No new genes needed to fly - just rewire what you have! 🦇🧬 Great new paper from the labs of @fany-real.bsky.social @stemundi.bsky.social @dariloops.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415... #EvoDevo #SingleCell #BatWings

Shark embryos of four different developmental stages, growing outside of their eggcases 🦈 🧪

Yesterday my student Anita and I visited Tatsuya Hirasawa’s lab @utokyoofficial.bsky.social together with Wataru Takagi (AORI, Uni Tokyo). We had an afternoon full of fruitful discussions w/ everyone in his lab. Very excited by the new collaborative projects on the #hagfish we just started

BUSCO v6.0.0 has been released. busco.ezlab.org

RT. Fully funded PhD position in my lab to investigate the origin, composition and function of Ambulacrarian ossicles.

This month's ERGA BioGenome Analysis & Applications Seminar will feature a talk by speaker Pío Sierra about a new tool, pantera, which allows faster identification of Transposable Elements in genome assemblies. www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/faster-...

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Just noticed that Stavros has put out another 'solid' paper last month. 🔥 Impressive given what he has to deal with these days. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper describing the Range Extender element which is required and sufficient for long-range enhancer activation at the Shh locus is now available at @nature.com. Congrats to @gracebower.bsky.social who led the study. Below is a brief summary of the main findings www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Getting the message across from a distance: 🧬REX🧬 is a “Range EXtender” element that can turn short-range into looooooooooooong-range enhancers Great collaboration led by @gracebower.bsky.social and @evgenykvon.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... @biosci.lbl.gov @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

In our new preprint we describe the synaptic #connectome of the nerve net in the ctenophore gravisensory organ. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661250v1 #biology #neuroscience #ctenophore #vem

When you see convergent phenotypes do u wonder about their genetic basis? Did they re-invent some genetic element to construct the phenotype? The mammal placenta-a pretty important organ-has a lot of convergent phenotypes & this paper helps explain how they come about www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Always impressive to work on evo-devo questions using this wonderful animal. One more year visiting my colleagues and friends in Japan during the spawning season of the Arctic lamprey, Lethenteron camtschaticum. Thank you, Takagi-san and Sugahara-san!

I’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This year I'll be teaching early vertebrate evolution and basic phylogenetics analysis at the II International Summer School on Systems Biology, organized by Valeria Di Dato, @szndohrn.bsky.social Check what's all about, and share the info with your students! isssb2022.wixsite.com/isssystemsbi...

It was a pleasure to write a N&Vs on @danielibrahim.bsky.social's latest paper in @natgenet.nature.com. Enhancers tend to stay put even if their sequence changes beyond recognition. Quoting Il Gattopardo, everything must change so that everything can stay the same: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Los docentes de la Universidad de Málaga claman contra los recortes en pleno desembarco de universidades privadas www.eldiario.es/1_bb7484?utm...

Watch our new video (in Spanish!) to learn why we are focused on searching the #Magnificent8 – eight lineages that remain unknown and that may be key to understand the origin of animals. 🧬🦠 #multicellularity @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @prbb.org youtu.be/RMJ_5xtZvmI?...

Cell type-specific intronic RNAs shape genome architecture during neuronal lineage specification https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.13.641826v1