Applications are now being accepted for the MSU EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship. We’d be happy to sponsor your application so please get in touch! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

F1 racing through the foothills today. #NoWritingToday

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

This only happens to you once

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Looks like the solicitation finally posted! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Abstract deadline for the International Research Integrity Conference in Sydney, 16-18 November, is September 29! researchintegrityconf.com Speakers: Jennifer Byrne, Cyril Labbé, James Heathers, Ben Mol, Ivan Oransky, David Vaux, Annie Butler, and many more (me!).

Necessary/sufficient.

Check this out: This is what the human fallopian tube looks like as one travels through its different sections. We have developed a new 3D single-cell tissue mapping workflow to automatically/accurately detect ovarian cancer precancerous lesions (STICs). More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very pleased to share this long term (nearly 20 years) study of yeasts isolated from vineyards and forests, now up on biorxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stripey fixer-upper that finally gets to see the work bench 🇯🇵: electronics, trem adjustment, fretboard cleaning, polishing of the worst scratches, setup, et al. #Ibanez #OthersDoYoga

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

Only mammals have a diaphragm. Weirdly, it's attached to your heart. #MammalPride

The place to be for all things #zebrafish & #zerbafish!

this exists it is called thinking

The luxury of having friends/neighbors with a bakery. #HappySunday

This. #evodevo

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

Raising curious/concerned questions from visitors to my office since 2013. #PILife #TurnItTo11 #Marshall

Great to contribute to this wonderful initiative by @biologists.bsky.social!

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Others do yoga. Hope you all got to play a bit this week, guitar frens! @slewzeus.bsky.social @burgesslab.bsky.social @benoitbruneau.bsky.social @lucksmith.bsky.social @docdellaire.bsky.social @fish4walking.bsky.social @daphsci.bsky.social @mads100tist.bsky.social @thelovelylab.bsky.social

The world is crumbling BUT new Slow Horses

bioRxiv partners with Dryad to enable easier, better linking to curated datasets connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/09...

💥OUR LAB IS HIRING!!💥 We are hiring a research assistant/lab manager to assist with managing our axolotl colony and enabling some kick-ass science! Looking for high levels of organization, collaboration, problem solving and curiosity. Application link: tinyurl.com/3tpvphpm #SciJob #JobAlert

Be part of the conversation on how avian models are transforming multiple fields of #research at #AvianModels25 in person OR virtually. 💻 🔬🧠 Register today: bit.ly/3ZBw2qS

Did flatness evolve twice? #flatfishes #kampelat #genomes #phylogeny Lü et al. 2021 www.nature.com/articles/s41... (OA) #GoHomeEvolutionYouAreDrunk

CALL FOR PAPERS! 🧪 DB Special Issue highlights new insights into receptor tyrosine kinase signaling during development, with a focus on cell-cell interactions & signal transduction in the regulation of cell growth and division, differentiation & morphogenesis. Submit here: tinyurl.com/RTKDevBio

Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. Photo by Anik Grearson. #evolution #symbiosis. #cellbiology. @cellpress.bsky.social

Could already add papers from the 2010s and after. Buzz at release does not equal *actual* impact on the field. Especially apparent with hyped tools. YMMV. #devbio #PILife

T-minus 14 days for registration opening for the Annual #Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago next March. Looking forward to seeing all our meeting support staff from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social . Ditto for our valued curators @flybase.bsky.social . #genetics genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

Congratulations @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social, @rnadoctor.bsky.social & team for a new publication in @plosbiology.org 👏🧪 Their work shows a conserved pathway for neuromuscular junction development between tunicates and vertebrates 🧠 Read the article below ⤵️

New fish room shoes, whodis? 🐟🧬 #PILife #zebrafish #zerbafish #ZebrafishRock @cudevbio.bsky.social @cuanschutz.bsky.social

Timeline cleanse from our front yard this morning. #Colorado #chordates #devbio #evodevo

This. Also for grants. #PILife

In symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, aficamten improved oxygen uptake and heart function and decreased symptoms more than metoprolol, with a similar incidence of adverse events. Full MAPLE-HCM phase 3 trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/45zDWo3 #MedSky #CardioSky

Very excited to share an excellent review from @teresa-urli.bsky.social, published one week before her PhD defense! We did a deep dive into the fascinating biology of the variant Polycomb complex, PRC1.6 (1/5) journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

#BlueSky problem: no images, videos, etc. load for me in my feed on certain days. Been observing this since months. Does anyone else have this issue? Cannot seem to find any documentation about this (Opera browser)

PSA: When you get letters of support/recommendation/collaboration for your grant, job application, etc., do let your letter writers know about the outcome, positive or negative! #PILIfe

2025 #LaskerAward winner Lucy Shapiro asked: How do living organisms translate information from a linear genetic code into three-dimensional structures? And with that, she broke open a new field. 🧪 @pnas.org #Lasker2025 #systemsbiology

Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG

We're hiring! 5 tenure track assistant professors. 2 #microbiology, 2 #Evolution, 1 #biologicalclocks jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675062/f...

Protip: if you write "we have shown" in a grant proposal, think about citing the person who showed it years before you did. That person just might end up as a reviewer of your proposal.

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to [email protected]. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

An apt comment from Harold Varmus in this piece: ‘Running a lab is not like running a clothing store, where if your sales are down you can bounce back. You are dealing with highly trained people and projects which, when stopped for a short time, are ruined.’

The Cambrian marked the beginning of a fantastic flourishing that set the basis for life as we know it today. In my latest for Smithsonian, I take a peek at how everything from sea level changes to who ate whom underwrote life’s biodiversity burst.

Necessary/sufficient.

So it begins. Happy Friday! 🍂🍁

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889