#CABDseminars "From DNA Damage to Translation Shutdown" by Pedro Ortega @pedroorteg.bsky.social , @cabimer.bsky.social 🗓️ July 17th ⏰12 pm 📍Rosalind Franklin Auditorium, CABD Hosted by Peter Askjaer

🤔¿Cómo se estableció el "arriba y abajo" de las extremidades en los vertebrados hace más de 400 millones de años? 💡Un estudio internacional coliderado por el @ibbtec.bsky.social y el @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social explica el interruptor genético que lo hizo posible ➡️ tiny.cc/2de6101

This new study estimates the risk of triggering an #AMOC shutdown as >10% if the world ramps down emissions to net zero by 2060, and 80% for a high emissions path. 🌊 It’s based on ensembles with one model, but plausible based on overall knowledge on how fragile AMOC is. e360.yale.edu/digest/amoc-...

Los españoles que han votado a favor del ChatControl (votan en contra de la derogación), los que votan contra ChatControl (voto a favor de la derogación) y los que no votaron (ojo no es abstención, nadie se abstuvo, simplemente no trabajaron)

🇪🇸 🇪🇺 El Parlamento Europeo deja pasar el #chatcontrol 1.0 pese a que una mayoría votó en contra (314:276), permitiendo el escaneo masivo de chats privados hasta 2028. Las víctimas advierten de sus riesgos. Mi análisis 👇 […]

🚨 #ChatControl 1.0 HAS PASSED - despite a majority voting against it (314:276) 🚨 After the EU parliament has rejected #ChatControl TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. TODAY the EU parliament has voted YES for #ChatControl 1.0😡

More than a decade since CRISPR-Cas9 knock in came on the scene, it's remained underutilized in emerging models. Using transposase, and a split-FP system, we built an optimized knock in system for use in the genetically-enabled urchin, Lytechinus pictus. bit.ly/4wswLsd

FENS 2026 - the only file format the organisers accepted was pptx. I offered html, pdf - did not get far. In the end I gave a chalk talk (there was no chalk). Not good for #digitalindependence "The Document Foundation, creators of #libreoffice and promoters of the OpenDocument format (ODF), has […]

The first preprint from my PhD is out! :thread: How does an animal choose between two completely different reproductive fates? Here’s how one planarian does it :point_down: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What if an embryo made immune cells before it finished building the tissue they usually come from? In our new preprint, we show that annual killifish embryos specify neutrophils before germ layers are fully resolved. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to my PI, @ohnolog.bsky.social ! 🧵

All tram service suspended in Leipzig, Germany due to the extreme heat, the bitumen grouts on the rails are melting. Please tell me how heat is a problem that can be fixed with ACs www.yahoo.com/news/weather... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Planetary instability unleashed by burning fossil fuels. But Reject Surrender. Reject false tradeoffs bw mitigation & adaptation, AC vs no AC. All climate scientists have the same take as Holdren: 'We need enough mitigation to avoid the unmanageable, enough adaptation to manage the unavoidable"

"Era of saving the planet by not building things or by stopping things from being built is long over"-@joshdr83 ONE LAST BOOM to Green,Electrify,Modernize & Adapt everything in our fossil civilization. Infrastructure is the hottest word on a heating planet

And if a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side Is such a heavenly way to die - Smiths Look now is not the time to quote Morrissey lyrics but to please please let me get what I want - an AC, cooler cities, welfare checks on elderly, & cutting carbon with green technologies!! Thread

Sales of AC are skyrocketing in Europe - the fastest warming continent, with the most vulnerable elderly... And from where? "Chinese AC manufacturers work around the clock as European heatwaves drive booming demand for cooling products" Just dont tariff these ok www.globaltimes.cn/page/202606/...

"Wealthy societies are complacent. The deranged idea—as Amitav Ghosh describes it—that we are safe, that things are under control, that bad things only happen to people who are far away, persists. Anticipating future ruin, we fail to act in the here and now." phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

This, not polar bears, is what climate crisis means. Cascading infrastructure breakdowns. Can't get around coz roads have buckled; power plants shut down coz rivers are too hot & shallow Never forget that the "economy" is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

How will Europe's homes & elderly adapt to heat? "Millions of families are struggling in hot houses & apartments across the UK & Europe, the world’s fastest-warming continent" Most at risk? "Recently built homes with a lot of sealed floor-to-ceiling windows bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Heatwaves are an extraordinary silent killer. We've gotten good at preventing deaths from 'charismatic megafauna' of climate extremes - hurricanes, floods. 2003 European Heatwaves led to 70,000 ppl suddenly dying. Must prepare now for 2026 summer heatwave phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

"Where will Europe’s heatwave be most deadly? We analyse 854 cities to see which will be worst affected" Source is excellent analysis by Economist team that will help save lives as societies wake up to magnitude of danger that heat poses ht www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Imagine if hundreds of people died in hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many ppl. They are a silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear. Hope this by @economist.com helps save lives as Europeans wake up to danger bsky.app/profile/eate...

First pre-print from the lab, a collaborative effort led by Jess Bourn @bournsupremacy.bsky.social, a fantastic PhD in my group. We resolve a key problem in development + evolution: how do we quantify heterochrony and link temporal variation to phenotype? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very saddened to learn that @wellcometrust.bsky.social has decided to no longer fund Irish researchers through their discovery grants. This is a major blow for those who do truly blue skies research in Ireland as the ecosystem (i.e. @researchireland.ie) only funds research with perceived "impact"!

Do you work with scRNAseq data in non-model organisms that have less-than-stellar gene annotations? ✨ 🧬 You might be interested in GeneExt, a nifty little tool by @zolotarg.bsky.social in @arnausebe.bsky.social's lab, published in #Bioinformatics earlier this year. #singlecell #transcriptomics

Nature research paper: Whole-genome duplication shaped cell-type evolution in the vertebrate brain go.nature.com/4uyh9C1

"The students who cannot read a 20-pg article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow." The most important argument against AI in education is that it's incompatible with a free society. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

Gene body methylation suppresses intragenic transcription and permits epigenetic inheritance in a cnidarian www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/23 New preprint! Been thinking about the origin of cellular life. Specifically, how protocells (or *any* compartments) just aren't enough to support the evolution of increasingly complex cells. You gotta de-Darwinize the parts! The ribosome/genome do this. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🐟 La lamprea marina aún vive en el Guadalquivir 🔎 Se consideraba prácticamente extinta en el gran río andaluz 🔬 Ahora, un equipo de la @ebdonana.bsky.social ha localizado un ejemplar adulto en la Rivera de Huelva, uno de sus principales afluentes 👉 http://tiny.cc/fd23101

(1/15) Thrilled to share new Evo-Devo work where we address the molecular, cellular & morphometric basis of an extreme axis segmentation program in the Japanese eel — an animal that forms 120 vertebrae.

(9/15) Eels achieve 120 segments not by altering the core clock machinery (conserved) or its rate (similar to zebrafish) — but by heterochronically extending the duration of segmentation & decoupling it from overall developmental progression. Modularity in action !

Exhausted but extremely happy for the two past days of very exciting Science! The EvoDevOmics Spanish Network gathered together in BCN to discuss about evodevo & omics, lots of great talks, discussions and future collaborations. 🤩 #evodevo

Great representation of #CABD at the ‘1st General Meeting of the Spanish EvoDevOmics Network’ in Barcelona 27-28 April 2026 (1/3)

Thank you so much Champi and the @univmalaga.bsky.social for this opportunity! It was truly a pleasure, and above all I hope it was useful for the attendees!

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am so excited to share our new findings with you! We provide the structural evidence for a direct protein-to-DNA information pathway, showing how a bacterial enzyme 'reads' its own structure to 'write' DNA. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Chromatin plays a central role in gene regulation, but chromatin systems are only known for a few model species. This study analyses chromatin regulatory landscapes in brown algal lineages to elucidate their structural organization and evolution 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to the new PhD #CABD: Ana Maria Burgos Ruiz @anaburgos.bsky.social ! Dr. Burgos presented and discussed her PhD work online on March 3rd! Ana's thesis was done with @pablodeolavide.upo.es’s PhD program supervised by Juan Tena

Excited to share this preprint that describes my latest work on using GPUs to accelerate processing of RNA-seq data. The title says it all: "RNA-seq analysis in seconds using GPUs" now on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and github github.com/pachterlab/k... Figure 1 shows they key result

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

After years of work, the centerpiece of my PhD is published in @natmethods.nature.com! Read it to learn about the biophysical insights we can get from single-cell data! But first, I would like to talk a bit about RNA velocity and normalization. 1/

🎮 pokemon tree of life for pokémon's 30th anniversary, explore a visualization and field guide to 1,000+ pokémon. what inspired them, where they came from, and how they connect. 포켓몬 30주년, 1,000개 이상의 포켓몬을 시각화했습니다! ➡️ str.sg/viz-poke30

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

Hello from Barcelona! Thrilled to announce my recent joining of the @arnausebe.bsky.social Lab at CRG with the support of a Beatriu de Pinós fellowship. Glad to be back in the city that saw me grow as a scientist. More more single cell omics, more evo-devo, more weird organisms... coming soon!

Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a FIS-3 Advanced Grant (ERC-inspired) to study the evolution of neurogenic GRNs. Recruiting soon: 4 postdocs + 3 PhDs Press release in Italian — to decolonise scientific language 😄 magazine.unibo.it/it/articoli/... Email me if interested in joining the lab

🧬 We’re #Hiring a #Bioinformatician/ Computational Biologist! #Single-cell genomics, #Epigenomics & #3Dgenome biology in #Zebrafish #DevBio 🐟 📍 @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social, CABD, Seville (Spain) 🕒 Full-time, 3-year position (start March 2026) 📅 Apply by Feb 15, 2026 👉 drive.google.com/file/d/1M8rp...