🪰🧬 What a fantastic start! Yesterday kicked off #DrosEU2026 at #Genopolys in Montpellier, France 🇫🇷 Exciting discussions on #Drosophila research, #genomics, #evolution, and #CitizenScience.

Day 1 of the #Drosophila #Suzukii Meeting kicks off today in #Montpellier, France 🇫🇷 (15–17 April 2026)! #DrosEU2026

Save the date! 🗓️ #GoenomiX is back with another SPIRIT Summer School: “Frontiers in Molecular Zoology.” Hands-on genome editing, RNAi, and transgenesis. 🧪🦎 📍 Göttingen, Germany 📅 Sept 21–25, 2026 🔗 Details: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/summer+sc... #MolecularBiology #Zoology #Genomics #PhD #Postdoc

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity as part of DFG Research Training Group "GönomiX" at the University of Göttingen! ​We are seeking a bioinformatician/scientist to study cross-species comparison of Gene Regulatory Networks using our "Göttingen Zoo" of emerging model systems. #GoenomiX @bucherlab.bsky.social

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to [email protected] + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

🧬New preprint from @arjunbhattac.bsky.social’s group at @mdanderson.bsky.social, led by @taylorhead.bsky.social ! Transcript annotation is not just a technical detail, it fundamentally shapes what regulatory mechanisms you find when studying cancer risk. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you'd be interested in a postdoc with us using CT scans of trilobite eyes to model their visual abilities, watch this space...!

📆TODAY! @baharpatlar.bsky.social will present her work on "The genetics and function of the male reproductive tract from ejaculate to producing tissues in Drosophila" as part of our #Goenomix series. Join us via Zoom. More: pad.gwdg.de/s/a_5KCo2cq & www.uni-goettingen.de/de/624201.html

Coming back from a very cool visit to @uni-goettingen.de We visited the @forumwissen.bsky.social and the @mpi-nat.bsky.social Amazing people, amazing science! Thank you @cblei.bsky.social @mtaguado.bsky.social @helmlab.bsky.social @posnienlab.bsky.social for hosting us #EvoDevo #DevBio

Excited to share the latest work from the lab: rdcu.be/eRWuD Great team effort, led by @enriberti.bsky.social first at @unil.bsky.social and now @unifr.bsky.social; with fantastic collaborators @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and @dahaniel.muench.bio.

📢 Job alert: Post-Doc Position in the project "Functional annotation of genomic🧬 innovations in a densely populated clade🪰 with deep learning 💻" Join the GEvol community in a collaborative project between @bornberglab.bsky.social and @katharinahoff.bsky.social lab. 👉 bornberglab.org/post-doc-pos...

PhD position available for theoretical and statistical modeling in my joint @gevol.bsky.social project with @luisapallares.bsky.social on the evolution of transcriptional variability and its role in adaptation and evolutionary innovation. See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...

***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)

Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp

These weasels have locally adapted their winter coats to varying snow cover thanks to a million-year-old mutation 🌿 buff.ly/TnOfYWt

📢 PhD Position Alert! 🪲 Fully funded PhD position (65% TV-L E13) at @uni-goettingen.de to study the evolution of morphological novelties in a darkling beetle. You will join the interdisciplinary "GönomiX" graduate school: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/home/6242...

🧬 10 @dfg.de-funded PhD positions at @goettingen-campus.de 🧬 ❗Focus: Evolution of gene regulatory networks & Wnt signaling in emerging models (insects, snails, flatworms, cnidarians). 💻 Methods: 'Omics, Bioinformatics, CRISPR/RNAi & Imaging. 📌Start: June 2026. #EvoDevo #Genomics #Bioinformatics

🧬 PhD Position: Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics 🕷️ Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13). We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes! More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY #Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics

Big news last week, our project within @gevol.bsky.social got funded! 🤩 @nturetz.bsky.social @pechmannm.bsky.social @posnienlab.bsky.social, Niko Prpic-Schäper and myself will look into molecular mechanisms and phenotypic consequences of paralog divergence in insects and chelicerates. Stay tuned!

#Drosophila rules! Help us spread the word @drosospain.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @alliancegenome.bsky.social

To learn more about #DrosEU visit droseu.net and join us!! DrosEU has been funded by a @eseb.bsky.social Special Topic Network (7/7)

All the data is available in @github.com (6/7) github.com/esradm/DrosE...

Phenotypic divergence among European populations was assayed in 173 isofemale lines, spearheaded by Esra Durmaz Mitchell and Thomas Flatt, we show that populations differed markedly in multivariate trait structure @evolletters.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... (5/7)

This community effort includes sampling by high school students part of the #citizenscience project #MelanogasterCTF, a joint project between @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social and @lcatmon.bsky.social in collaboration with Sònia Casillas @uab.cat, @droseu.bsky.social and #FECYT melanogaster.eu (4/7)

DESTv2 analyses show that the spatial genetic structure of populations is stable over time; identify signatures of adaptation that vary between continents; and provide new evidence for seasonal adaptation @molbioevol.bsky.social @official-smbe.bsky.social : academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (3/7)

An expanded release of the community-generated population genomics resource DEST, spearheaded by Marta Coronado-Zamora @geneticament.bsky.social and Joaquin Nunez @jcbnunez.bsky.social, is now available at dest.bio (2/7)

We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)

We often talk about what signals does the organiser release. But have you ever stopped and asked what does it mean to be the organiser? What cells make up the organiser? Where do they go? What do they do? Well this review by Claudio Stern may give you the answers: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman 1/3

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

Would be excited to chat with folks looking for a postdoc in AI to develop models for genomic prediction... A great opportunity for funding coming up soon is the Schmidt AI in Science fellowship, due October 13th! apply.interfolio.com/173322

Long time no see...But we are back with a real firework 🎆. Join us tomorrow at noon for the first #Goenomix talk of the semester by Cassandra Extavour from Havard University. Talk: "One two three: developmental counting mechanisms in reproductive output and evolution". PM for Zoom details.

I'm a bit late to the party over here. I'll be advertising a BBSRC-funded postdoc position soon. So if anyone wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development - please get in touch. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to sharks). towerslab.weebly.com

#DBfeature #Drosophia 🪰 Spatiotemporal control of cell ablation using Ronidazole with Nitroreductase in Drosophila by Gary Teeters, Christina Cucolo, Sagar Kasar, Melanie Worley, and Sarah Siegrist tiom33.short.gy/DB520,31-40

Molecular evolution of dietary shifts in ladybirds 🐞 expansions of digestive & detoxifying #gene families in the herbivorous ladybirds, & absence of most plant cell wall-degrading enzymes in the ladybirds from the transition to carnivory link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.

Red devil spiders from the Canary Islands have a genome half the size of mainland counterparts - Pisarenco, @jrozasub.bsky.social et al. show how purifying selection against slightly deleterious DNA and TE insertions is the primary mechanism. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf206 #evobio #molbio #TEsky

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'Overall, the message from this survey is positive– evolutionary biologists are readily employable outside of academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction in their non-academic careers.' #Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Size matters—but maybe not how we thought. Most chromosomal inversions are just a few hundred bp. Ignoring these “small players” could mean we’ve misunderstood how genomes evolve -out in TREE authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljL1cZ3X3...

Nice presentations by our PhD students Chetan and Dugcar at the final meeting of phase 1 of @gevol.bsky.social. Great omics results on #spider #genome duplication. Great collab with @pechmannm.bsky.social, @nturetz.bsky.social, @mcordellier.bsky.social and Niko Pripc-Schäper

Pls. share widely Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025 → Vibrant & friendly community → Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology → Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating) submit abstract by July 29

At long last, the version of record of our paper on the #platynereis #connectome "Whole-body connectome of a segmented annelid larva" is out. Explore the rich online presentation with all the videos, figures and source data here: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97964 @eLife @biology […]

Finally, the excellent postdoc work of Emmanuel Haillot is out, where he dissected the integration of Wnt, MAPK and Notch signaling in defining mesoderm and endoderm identities in the diploblast Nematostella. Strikingly similar to sea urchins. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 We are hiring! 🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project 🔬 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English 📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025 📧 [email protected] 🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom

Look at this crazy thing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice to see @droseu.bsky.social here on Bkuesky! Welcome!

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...