After a long journey, I'm happy to share that my PhD work is finally published in Nature Communications. Grateful to all my co-authors!

🚨Our story is published! Same bones but + dissection of MERVL’s role integrating signals from #ZGA factors, & + about pathological DUX4 activation of NOXA #TEsky. Thanks to all revs for their helpful comments improving the ms. Even #rev3 - until they ghosted us 😜 www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Exciting new paper out! @allanaschooley.bsky.social and Sergey Venev led this project that let to the discovery of two chromosome folding programs: one inherited via mitotic chromosomes and one mitotic inherited through the cytoplasm! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Apply for Development's Pathway to Independence programme The programme aims to support a small number of researchers in the fields of developmental biology, stem cells and regeneration as they transition from postdoc to group leader. Read more ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/apply-for-de...

I recommend any Developmental biologists planning to start the road to becoming a PI next year to apply! The help and guidance you will receive are valuable but being a part of a cohort of people living through the same experiences is worth its weight in Gold!

Join us at SMBE26! We are in a golden period for understanding the evolution of gene regulation.

A major output of the 4D Nucleome project appeared today. This is the joint effort of many scientists working together and (publicly) sharing data and results for several years. We hope this is of interest to many genome biologists! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just got back to Munich after a wonderful Pathway to Independence retreat to the @biologists.bsky.social @dev-journal.bsky.social headquarters. Highly recommend applying to the program; you will find an amazing group of peers and get training + support throughout your transition to independence!

We were delighted to welcome our most recent Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows to our offices at @biologists.bsky.social for leadership training. Find out more about our PI fellows and how to apply here: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi... Application deadline: 2 February 2026.

Great day with these certified knuckleheads that are absolutely the best (and future) of their fields 🧪 @ethanewe.bsky.social @marliesoomen.bsky.social @giuliapaci.bsky.social @amjeve.bsky.social @maxfarnworth.bsky.social @anzymiller.bsky.social Martina and Toshi

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel... Application deadline: 2 February 2026.

Thrilled to share our new review in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development on TE driven innovation in gene regulation🤘. I am honored to be part of this with two major TE aficionados @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and @trono-lab.bsky.social #TEsky #TEworldwide authors.elsevier.com/c/1m6MC,LqAZ...

Having a lot of fun at #EMBOMobileGenome 😃 Perfect timing for our paper from the lab of @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social to be out @natcomms.nature.com!! …and I’m currently on the job market looking for a new scientific home! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to see our paper published online natcomms.nature.com. Thank you to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this work during my time with @robklose.bsky.social and David Booth! Thanks also to collaborators @garcialabms.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and the other authors!

📣 New preprint from the Jakobsson lab! We describe a detailed protocol to inhibit the expression of transposable elements in human pluripotent stem cells, developed thanks to @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org funding. Special shoutout to @anitaada.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🤩Join the Sci.STEPS 2026 Mentor Cohort! We invite #mentors from varied backgrounds and stages of their #scientific careers to apply and share their knowledge and expertise with our #mentees. ✏ Register here: lnkd.in/edZggY32 🗓 Deadline: November 10th 2025 👀more about #SciSTEPS: www.scisteps.org

Our collab w. V Goel, @nicholas-aboreden.bsky.social , J Jusuf, G Blobel, L Mirny, @irate-physicist.bsky.social out in @natsmb.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Was co-submitted with @allanaschooley.bsky.social @jobdekker.bsky.social whose paper should also come out soon Brief thread 👇

So excited to see this out on bioRxiv! Huge thanks to @kaessmannlab.bsky.social and the amazing cerebellum team (@marisepp.bsky.social and @ioansarr.bsky.social) for all the support and insightful discussions that made this work possible!!

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...

Are you enthusiastic about stem cell biology and developmental biology and looking to start a PhD in 2026? Funded opportunites now available. Contact for more infomation. Links below! @lovegrovelab.bsky.social @veronicabiga.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk @ukri.org

Interested in understanding how new cell types evolve? Consider joining our group for a PhD!

Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology In this Perspective, each of our 2025 Pathway to Independence Fellows discuss future outlooks for #DevBio and how their work will contribute to this exciting new era. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

⚡⚡Excited to announce I'll be starting my lab at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics (@molgen.mpg.de) in Berlin in December! Leaving sunny California to join a fantastic environment with colleagues who do super cool work. 🔬🦠I'm hiring at all levels! 🔬🦠Check: www.molgen.mpg.de/fueyo-lab

Today in @nature.com, we present our work leveraging functional genomics and human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism in preimplantation development driven by the endogenous retrovirus HERVK. Special thanks to the reviewers whose comments improved our manuscript a lot! rdcu.be/eI3tD

Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

So glad to be among these good eggs, as @mads100tist.bsky.social once called us!

If you want to know why we should care about protein expression dynamics have a read of the perspective piece I wrote for @dev-journal.bsky.social. While you're there check out my fellow Pathway to Independence fellows' interesting pieces! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Together with my other wonderful 2025 PI fellows @biologists.bsky.social @dev-journal.bsky.social, I offer a perspective about the future of my respective field. Have a read - spoiler alert: its about brain evolution and neural lineages (I know - SHOCKER). journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

In need of a positive outlook on the future (of developmental biology)? Read our perspectives by my fellow @dev-journal.bsky.social PI fellows and myself. I'm hoping my future will contain much more TE biology and mammalian genome regulation! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

With perspectives from my esteemed colleagues @ethanewe.bsky.social @maxfarnworth.bsky.social @anzymiller.bsky.social @marliesoomen.bsky.social @giuliapaci.bsky.social @sonyawiden.bsky.social and Toshimichi Yamada 🧪RNAs of all kinds, junk, jumping, and fluctuating genes, cells&tissues with opinions!

New work from my lab with the Brown lab on how genome folding changes during motor neuron maturation, and how this process goes awry in ALS motor neurons. Led by Dr. Ozgun Uyan. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to post my first #JobOffer! I am looking for a research technician to help me build new projects from the grounds up at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social We will use medaka to study how organs can be reprogrammed! Details on how to apply below 👇 #JobOffer #ScienceJobs #EvoDevo #GeneRegulation

ICYMI, the recordings of our #DevPres webinar on gene regulation are now available. Check out the talks from @dev-journal.bsky.social PI fellows Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social. thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-... #devbio 🎥

💥 New preprint! 💥 We show that transposons are directly linked to a cell-type and region specific inflammatory state in Parkinson’s Disease 🧠🦠 What a team @jakobssonasap.bsky.social! Funded by @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org #Parkinsons #Neuroinflammation #TEworldwide #singlecell #TEs

Very proud of our paper on "scrambling-by-hopping" LADs, which was just published: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Congrats to Lise Dauban and the rest of the team – this was a real tour-de-force!

Thank you for the interview @dev-journal.bsky.social! Very excited to be part of the Pathway to Independence program Interested in my research? I'll be presenting my postdoc work at the 'Development presents' webinar, tomorrow afternoon: thenode.biologists.com/development-...

Excited to share our latest work!! 🌟🌟 Thank you for all the amazing work and congratulations to @anitaada.bsky.social and all the coauthors! 🍾

Interested in transposable elements in mammalian preimplantation development? It's not too late to register for the 'Development presents' webinar next Wednesday. Together with Anzy @anzymiller.bsky.social who will talk about her postdoc work as well!

Two of Development’s PI fellows, Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social, will be giving talks in our upcoming #DevPres webinar on gene regulation. 🗓️Wednesday 27 August, 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Our featured article: Epigenome dynamics in early mammalian embryogenesis by Adam Burton & Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla go.nature.com/45UA8Ob

Interested in how cells read biological time? Next week I'm talking about my recently published work on how protein expression oscillations are read by cells and their impact on the timing of cell differentiation. Link below to register!

Our next #DevPres webinar focusses on gene regulation with talks from 2025 Development PI fellows Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social, chaired by James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social. 📆 27 August, 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I spoke with @reinierprosee.bsky.social about my journey in science, and my hope and dreams. Thank you @dev-journal.bsky.social for this oppotunity! I'm looking for a home for the Ewe lab. Let's talk if you're hiring! :) journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

My Pathway to Independence interview is now live on @dev-journal.bsky.social ! I had a great time speaking with @amjeve.bsky.social about my research journey and what's ahead journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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/...

My interview as part of @dev-journal.bsky.social Development's Pathway to Independence is live! I had a great time chatting to Saanjbati Adhikari - thank you. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Very happy that this (last?) piece of my PhD time in the Dekker lab is now out in Genome Research! genome.cshlp.org/content/earl... @jobdekker.bsky.social @pablonavarrolab.bsky.social @genomeresearch.bsky.social

Is the annotation of viruses in the human genome accurate? We think not. Take a look at our new paper and let us know if you agree! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📖 Happy to share our recent preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We discovered how SINEs are kept silent: the ChAHP protein complex acts as a molecular brake on POL III transcription retrotransposons. A 🧵: