🚨 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

Simultaneous measurement of intrinsic promoter and enhancer potential reveals principles of functional duality and regulatory reciprocity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643265v1

Very glad of having been part of this fantastic collaboration now available at Nature Communications! congrats especially to @hrhorkan.bsky.social and @drsalamander.bsky.social !! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW: Level up your #RNA sequencing with IDT xGen™ Target Capture, powered by #PacBio Kinnex. Check out our tech note on this robust workflow for isoform characterization in targeted genes & connect with us at #AGBT Lanai Suite 289 to learn more! bit.ly/4133tCG 

I've posted benthic survey video/photos lately like this one from East Antarctica in 2023 w Astrotoma! Wanted to show how we get those...using this YoYo camera/video setup that amazing ETs/MTs (A. Brett in particular!) constructed Even had live video feeds to the control room! #Antarctica 🧪🦑🌎🇦🇶🐧

🐦 Calling all Early Birds! ​ ​ Hurry up and seize the opportunity to participate in the upcoming ESEB Congress, set in the vibrant city of Barcelona 🌟​ ​ 🎟️ Secure now your place at the best possible price 👉🏻 eseb2025.com/registration... ​ #ESEB2025 #Biology #Evolution #Genomics

Happy to share our Slow cooked work together with @mcgregorlab.bsky.social, @posnienlab.bsky.social , @nuneslab.bsky.social sky.social and Saad Arif and the collaboration of @maikekittelmann.bsky.social, Fernando Casares & @laurensr.bsky.social and many other friends rdcu.be/d8whP

Job alert! We are seeking a research technician and lab manager to join our lab and an ERC funded project. If you'd like to work with beautiful insects in beautiful Barcelona, don't hesitate and contact us: www.mayflyecoevodevo.com/joinus

New paper about molting in nematodes. 🙂https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.27.634690v1

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Thrilled to see #choanoflagellates on the cover of Science Advances🤩. Our latest work "Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals" out now. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👏 @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Monod Conference "Origin of metazoans": fossils, genomes, cell biology, gene regulation, development, and more. Join us in Roscoff for an exceptional speaker line-up and stunning venue! 🗓️Abstract deadline: March 4. Register and share! www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/origin-me...

Paper #2 - we generated 10 new chr-level genomes for hornworts covering all families and most genera. Also the first look into their U/V sex chromosomes! 3/4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two new #hornwort papers from our group out in Nature Plants @natureplants.bsky.social today - a great way to celebrate the new year! 1/4

Delineating the effective use of self-supervised learning in single-cell genomics https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-024-00934-3 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/theislab/ssl_in_scg

Readvertising a PhD opportunity in my group investigating molecular mechanisms of biological patterning by studying mollusc shells. Based at St Andrews, Scotland, and co-supervised by @vs-marine.bsky.social! Deadline 17/01/25. More details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A new #evolution #EvoDevo #devbio #amphioxus #invertebrate paper this week @ScienceAdvances | Single-cell profiling of the amphioxus digestive tract reveals conservation of endocrine cells in chordates www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Pdx regulation of insulin might be a vertebrate thing.Nice evo-Devo paper on insulin like peptides in amphioxus with a good scRNA-Seq application 🧪#devbio www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Join us in a beautiful location for this multidisciplinary experience. Top speakers linking topics such as organoid modeling, synthetic biology, gene regulation or genetics with disease mechanisms & new therapies for T1D, T2D, and MASLD meetings.embo.org/event/25-liver-pancreas

My Tidyverse local synteny visualizer is up on GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Tidy... GitHub page contains 2 example datasets, as well as step-by-step instruction & explanations on how it works. Details on required input data are discussed in the GitHub page. Let me know if you run into issues.

We’re recruiting a PhD student to use comparative omics to investigate why some viruses can efficiently infect both human and mosquito cells, but lead to different infection outcomes. Fully funded position by @evomg-bcn.bsky.social at our lab at UPF-CRG and the Diez lab. www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

Interested in working with 🐸, 🐭, stem cells, or computational methods 🖥️ to delve into the unknowns of regeneration in our new lab? Looking forward to enthusiastic and ambitious applicants! PhD program applications open! 🔗 www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/14722/phdpro... Please RT! 🙌

We are hiring a lecturer in Biochemistry. This is an attractive position which is permanent and I would love to see another chromosome or evolutionary biologist join us! Drop me a message if you have questions :) t.co/4XhvY7k0Qy