Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social

A new #UExM probe for #Actin! Fun times thinking/developing/testing with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @lreymond.bsky.social ! Congrats to all ! If interested in #UExM, or #HAK-Actin, feel free to reach out ! Soon available at @spirochrome.com #Expansion #Microscopy #ProtistsOnSky

Agree! If you come from outside EU (yes, that includes UK) then getting the single permit admin done already takes 5 months+ 😫

🚨 PhD opportunity! Join our group at @AchucarroNeuro (Bilbao, Spain) for a 4-year bioinformatics PhD on brain evolution 🧠🧬 Work with scRNA-seq & spatial transcriptomics to uncover how the THALAMUS diversified across amniotes! 📩 Apply: [email protected]

📢We're #hiring Group Leaders! Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹5-year renewable appointment 🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches 🔹Collaborate across disciplines Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

BIG NEWS!! We will be hiring a new professor with 25 years of endowed funding at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch, focused on using biophysics and structural biology to explore climate-related fundamental science topics. Come start an innovative research cluster with us! 🧪🔬🧶🧬🌾🌍

Open Team Leader position @embl.org to head & reshape our Genomics Core facility. Interested in providing & developing state-of-the art omics tech to a wide community? A very vibrant, dynamic place to work with fantastic colleagues. Closing Sept 30th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Our career section offers a mix of possibilities for those of you looking for a new position! Take a look: www.viennabiocenter.org/career/open-... #viennabiocenter #hiring #lifescience #biotech

We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠 Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels. Take a look at these four open positions 👇

We’re growing @arcadiascience.com & are on the lookout for talent to run new pilot projects contributing to our broader goals. Seeking computational + wet lab fluency to iterate independently on new projects. If you’re a creative scientist w/ ambitious ideas, apply! jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien...

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

Please pread the word. We have just launched the Hubrecht International PhD Program (HIPP). Are you looking for a PhD position in molecular and developmental biology or related subject in an international, very supportive and collaborative environment? Then apply to the HIPP!! 👇

Hello microscopy and imaging experts and enthusiasts! We are looking for a staff scientist to join us here in Geneva to work on microscopy and image analysis projects! See the link for the job announcement (in French and in English). Please apply and/or repost! jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

A single-cell ATACseq atlas of our favourite sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis! By @aelek.bsky.social @martaig.bsky.social

Inspired by visits to Woods Hole @mblscience.bsky.social and Roscoff, we hope to welcome folks in #SunnyBergen to foster exchange and spark discoveries in Marine Life Sciences.

I am looking for a new postdoc to join the lab. Interested in pluripotency, germ cells, and in investigating these in a genetically tractable cnidarian? Get in touch! We offer a long-term contract, excellent research environment, and a lovely city #Galway. www.urifranklab.org

Perfect day for the inauguration of our new Leuven Bioscience building.. still one year before we can finally move in but the red carpet was at least keeping our feet clean.

I spoke with Jade Hindmon, host of @kpbssandiego.bsky.social Midday Edition, about the consequences of the current administration’s cuts to science funding. Please share to help spread the word and raise awareness. www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...

Octopuses Use Microbial Signals to Guide Complex Behaviors 🧠🧪 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social

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A new method called MagIC-Cryo-EM allows scientists to use powerful #CryoEM techniques to examine proteins that have been difficult to study so far.

Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included. training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...

You still have one week to apply to this position! Take your chance to do your postdoc on alien critters 🐙🦑 in a vibrant yet cosy - walkable!- town in Europe. Pls RT

Wonderfully inspiring interview with an amazing scientist - thanks @dudinlab.bsky.social for sharing your vulnerability ❤️

I join in thanking the organisers for a lovely conference and yes, 🐠 + 🍄 = amazing developmental biology! #ShapingLife3

This is so beautiful it makes me happy :)

Do you want to join us to work in neurodevelopmental biology? Please apply 👇 #SEBD

Getting ready for my talk at #ShapingLife3 - amazing conference location that might be somewhat distracting…

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

RBSCDB member and early career scientist? There is 1 day left to apply for a travel grant for conferences between June 1 and August 31st! Check out our website www.bscdb.be/membership-g...

📣 Phd fellowship opportunity! A fantastic project at @szndohrn.bsky.social with Enrico D'Aniello and @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social 👏 Apply before June 14! 🔗 tinyurl.com/29u343t9

We—Nicolas @rohner.bsky.social, Lauren @lsaunders.bsky.social, Arica @abeisaw.bsky.social & Sepand @rastapopolus.bsky.social—are planning the first German #fish ( #zebrafish, #medaka, #killifish, others) #meeting for September 2026. If you're a PI & want info, get in touch!

Feel like you’re stuck in an endless postdoc? I can relate! I bet you do not beat my record… even then I did manage to find my dream PI position. Thanks to @the-node.bsky.social for the interview on my unusual career path.

So nice having @theafrogers.bsky.social visiting us and sharing her work on 3D genome topology and gene regulation in cephalopod evolution. 🐙

Out @nature.com: Clonal tracing with somatic epimutations 🧬 Single cell methylome encodes cell state & clonal identity 🔨 EPI-Clone reads out both (+mutations, +RNA) at scale 🩸 Clonal expansions of HSCs are universal from age 50, not driven by CH mutations doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵

It was fun collaborating with Dr. Giovanna Ponte and Martina Zinourov Roncalli di Montorio to write this review on #octopus #glia: go check it out, it is finally out in Brain, Behavior and Evolution by @kargerpublishers.bsky.social! #GliaEvolution karger.com/bbe/article-...

Some exciting news! NCBI has finished the annotation pipeline for our new #zebrafish reference sequence GRCz12tu: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/annot... This is a big step up in data depth and quality and should be super helpful going forward.

Have you ever spent your research funding on grant consultants? Was it money well spent? Is this where research funding should be spent on? Help Kasper and Thor in their investigation on this topic by sharing your story! Please RT

African turquoise killifish are short-lived & their CNS exhibits human-like ageing. Zandecki @eveseuntjens.bsky.social & co reveal the cellular diversity during the explosive growth of the telencephalon, uncovering specific progenitor signatures for each neurogenic region. 🧠 doi.org/10.1242/bio....

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

We have open PhD positions in the lab to work in the Neuroscience of #Cephalopods #Cnidaria and #Drosophila- please RT www.sprecherlab.com

I am looking forward to the carillon cantus tonight. To celebrate the 600 anniversary of our #KULeuven thousands of alumni will join in singing student songs. I dug up my old codex - sure this will be epic!

This republican govt is casting its reactionary net wide: Flemish Unis are asked if projects include DEI ..whether they're committed to climate justice, have links w China, Russia, Iran or Cuba..They must confirm they protect women from “gender ideology” www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Over 100 scientists gathered in Alicante for #ECCN2025 to explore how nervous systems evolve across species. The 11th European Conference on Comparative #Neurobiology featured cutting-edge research from around the world 👇 in.umh-csic.es/en/over-200-... #BrainEvolution @borrell-lab.bsky.social

Even including statistics of football players! ⚽️

Dr. 🐙, I vote for Tenerife. After attending the #ECCN2025 last week, I am coming to the market this morning with a different perspective

Many thanks to @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social for organising #ECCN2025 and bringing together such a variety of research and species! I truly enjoyed the experience! Stay tuned for the next edition #ECCN2028 in Leuven! (Or Tenerife, still have to decide hehe)

Now you can also read all about @idoiaeu.bsky.social beautiful work on catshark brain development and the enigmatic origin of cajal retzius cells in their preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...