UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Edith Heard our new CEO shares ten lessons from her life in science, from curiosity, courage and coffee to the secrets of our genetic code. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

Happening tomorrow! 👀

Read more about @sermenchero.bsky.social 's work in this PNAS Journal Club. #opossums!

Chaetognaths have lost gene body methylation and shifted #5mC back to Transposable Elements. This reversion to the ancestral state is coupled with a simplification of DNMT3 architecture. We posit that trans-splicing might compensate. It is an honour to have contributed to this 20y struggle ⛰️.

I am in awe of the beautiful and weird genomics of chaetognaths. Extreme levels of genetic innovation, trans-splicing, and much more. So much to learn! Extraordinary work @ferdix.bsky.social‬, Laura Piovani, @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and @chemamd.bsky.social!

Some parts of the Drosophila olfactory circuit have evolved more than others, according to a new comparison of two fruit fly species’ connectomes. By @martajhill.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/c...

My "Crash Course in …Immunology" is now posted on YouTube youtu.be/nBC9vvlTxF8. Taken from a public lecture @crick.ac.uk on history and basic concepts in immunity. Aimed at the lay public and those seeking an introductory overview.

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections? We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & ‪@bturner-bridger.bsky.social‬ in collab w/ ‪@petrznam.bsky.social‬ @crick.ac.uk www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very beautiful new work 🚨

Become our colleague! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. unil.ch/cig/en/home.... More details for how to apply are here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Exciting new work on developmental system drift! #EvoDevo Allan (@allancarbal.bsky.social) and Chema (@chemamd.bsky.social) are making key contributions to our understanding of the evolution of developmental system drift.

Cool new paper alert!

We are looking for a student to continue our work on chromatin evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The project with @seanamontgomery.bsky.social will focus on chromatin state readers across eukaryotes. More info: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

I loved collaborating on this work. @amir-f.bsky.social and @kaessmannlab.bsky.social discovered that a microRNA (!!!) is key for dosage compensation in birds. The biology is beautiful, and the implications far-reaching. As with all great work, it generates fascinating new questions.

🧬🇬🇧 UK Evo-Devo Starter Pack go.bsky.app/SgRdF9T

Hello from London! #UKEVODEVO

I had a great time speaking at the UK EvoDevo meeting yesterday. Great curious community! Such incredible systems! Thanks @chemamd.bsky.social @margaridamcm.bsky.social and the rest of the organising team

It was an excellent meeting and such fun talks. It's not everyday that you can show up to meeting and learn about social regurgitation 😂

Tomorrow we'll welcome the EvoDevo community from UK and beyond @qmulsbbs.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social , organised by @chemamd.bsky.social @margaridamcm.bsky.social @ferdix.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social , Roman Arguello and James Difrisco. Poster by former lab member Giacomo Mogglioli

Who were the ancient Egyptians? It is expressed in the extraordinary historical and archaeological record, but what about ancestry links to other ancient individuals? Today we report the successful sequencing of the whole genome of an individual who lived in Egypt about ~4700 years ago.

We are delighted to share our new preprint “The evolution of gene regulatory programs controlling gonadal development in primates” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I wish I could be there for this. It’s going to be a great symposium! Don’t miss it if you go to #SMBE2025

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Impressive work by @santoslab.bsky.social creating a 3D model of human amnion from hESCs! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

We're excited to publish our latest study led by Bryony Leeke @bryonyleeke.bsky.social and Wazeer Varsally, now out in @nature.com 🍾This study focusses on the epigenome of marsupial embryos 🦘 mapping DNA methylation in embryo development to specific embryo events www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

I found Kseniia Petrova's account of immigration detention (recommended in yesterday's Nature Briefing) chilling & incredibly moving www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

As tighter immigration policies are announced today, scientists continue to stress the importance of attracting international talent. Our director Paul Nurse spoke to the Observer about how this affects science in the UK: observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Very excited (and honored!) to be part of this amazing group of scientists! Looking forward to going through the Pathway to Independence program together

Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Building AI models or the data to train them? Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30. www.nature.com/naturecareer... acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... pls RT!

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

Jailed for killing her children, freed after twenty years by advances in genomics - Kathleen Folbigg joins experts to explore what can be learnt from her case. Register now for free tickets to our event discussing genomics in criminal trials: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/falsely-ac...

I’m thrilled to share I’ve been selected as a 2025 Schmidt Science Fellow @schmidtfellows.bsky.social Looking forward to starting my next research adventure, investigating how organs and organisms measure and regulate their sizes 🐟🧠🫁🫀 www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

Congratulations to Rory Maizels delivering the @bsdb.bsky.social Beddington Medal lecture at #Biologists100

🚨Registration for the UK #EvoDevo meeting is open! Join us on July 11th in London to enjoy an exciting day of talks, posters, friends, and superb science! -Registration (only £5!): shorturl.at/9cQGL -More info: londonevodevo.ac.uk

Lab’s latest: (mouse) mums grow their guts during pregnancy and lactation: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Last Friday, I became a PhD! 💐 I could not be more thankful to my supervisor @PhyloBrain, the thesis committee @margaridamcm.bsky.social @AinaraCastellanos @JoseLuisFerrán and everyone who made possible this journey (colleagues @achucarro.bsky.social and collaborators @kaessmannlab.bsky.social ) 🥰

How does gene regulation shape brain evolution? Our new preprint dives into this question in the context of mammalian cerebellum development! rb.gy/dbcxjz Led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social

Applications for our Future Leaders in Biomedical Sciences scholarships are now open. These scholarships are aimed at students of Black or mixed Black heritage who wish to undertake a PhD in biological or biomedical sciences. Learn more and apply. ⬇️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

I was recently interviewed by Maia Garde for #UppTalk, the @uu.se outreach program. We talked about the spectacular work of @axeljensen.bsky.social on guenons, the true Rebel #Monkeys, and a bit about tracking mountain gorillas. Listen in if you like #primates & #genomics youtu.be/91zFERdT3oQ?...

Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My lab is participating in this call at the Crick. It is an exciting opportunity for postdoctoral clinicians to advance their research careers within a world-leading multidisciplinary biomedical discovery research institute. Apply now for a fully funded 1-year fellowship in London!

"Here, we track the development of balancing selection theory over the last century and provide an accessible review of this rich collection of models." #evobio

Three fantastic @science.org papers on convergent development & evolution of neurons + their connections in the bird & mammalian pallia, by @kaessmannlab.bsky.social @steinaerts.bsky.social & Fernando García-Moreno. Expertly synthesised by @giacomogattoni.bsky.social & Maria Antonietta Tosches 🧪🧠

So excited to announce that our study on the development and evolution of pallial cell types and structures in birds, led by @bassi-z.bsky.social, is now out in @science.org! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thank you, Loke CTR (‪@loke-ctr.bsky.social‬), for the most wonderful day. It was so exciting to learn about the cutting-edge placental research your researchers are doing. Inspiring.

Attention evolution afficionados!! A new European Conference of Comparative Neurobiology (ECCN) is coming up in beautiful Alicante (Spain). Join us with a spectacular list of speakers, highlighting our keynotes Gilles Laurent, Alain Chedotal, Laura Fenlon and Henrik Kaessmann.

Very excited to share our paper on Gene and Transposable Element expression in mammalian preimplantation development, online today! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... A short thread to highlight some of our findings 🧵

Our very own Professor Ashley Moffett of Reproductive Immunology was awarded the prestigious CMP for Women’s Reproductive Health. The foremost international authority on the immunology of human reproduction, her work has helped explain high rates of pre-eclampsia and maternal mortality in Africa.