Nice Coprinus comatus found this weekend 🤗 Not edible at this stage 🥲 #FungiFriends #nature

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social rdcu.be/exBSp

⚠️ Closing soon! 2 x Postdoctoral Research Associate roles in Infectious Disease Modelling #JobOffer #PDRA 🧪 Develop data-driven mathematical models for modelling avian influenza outbreaks in Great Britain #IDSky #EpiSky 🗓️ Application deadline 12:00 noon BST on Friday (04 July 2025) More details👇

The first paper of my PhD is now available as a preprint! 🎉 Transposable elements (TEs) don't just jump within fungal genomes, they also move extensively between species. In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events.

Biodiversity is in crisis—so let's act smarter 🌍 💧🍄 Aquatic fungi are key yet overlooked. Help us bring them into conservation & monitoring plans. Take our quick survey (10–15 min) 🔗 forms.office.com/e/UjCrG1L8YV #biodiversity #conservation #monitoring #aquaticfungi

The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery – a long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces the special issue on ‘The Fungi’. www.cell.com/current-biol...

final version of our study "Dating the Bacterial Tree of Life Based on Ancient Symbiosis" doi.org/10.1093/sysb... particularly thx to haiwei luo for his guidance during my postdoc! see sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/a... for a brief summary and comparison w/ others #phylo #molecular_clock

📣 We have a postdoc position in fungus-microbiota interactions! Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2197 ⁩ For more details, visit: bewerbungsmanagement.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Latest #CDlab paper out now in Nucleus: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... This short article sketches the state of the art of the field that studies the structure and dynamic gating mechanism of the nuclear pore complex

Starship giant transposable elements cluster by host taxonomy using k-mer-based phylogenetics. #TransposableElements #TEs #Kmer #Phylogenetics #Genomics #Bioinformatics #G3 🧬 🖥️ academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

How to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭 Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!! We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers! rdcu.be/enVDN github.com/tobiaszehnde...

stTrace: Detecting Spatial-Temporal Domains from spatial transcriptome to Trace Developmental Path https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654812v1

New preprint of @trono-lab.bsky.social and my PhD work! By modulating SWI/SNF remodeling at ancient transposable elements - LINE/L2s and SINE/MIRs, a "noncanonical" KZFP called ZNF436 protects cardiomyocytes from losing their identity. 🫀heartbeat on 🔁 repeat www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #TEsky

Excited to share the first PhD preprint of @iglavincheska.bsky.social — now on bioRxiv! We explored the 3D genome of Zymo and found: 🧬 Rabl-like conformation 🧩 Accessory chr tethered to core centromeres 🏰 Self-interacting domains and boundaries with insulator motifs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

⚡ Attn anyone interested in algal genomics and lichen symbiosis! ⚡ New preprint: a near chromosome-level assembly of Trebouxia sp. A48 (member of T. decolorans species complex), the photobiont of Xanthoria parietina. 1/5 #lichen #alga #genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New vacancy in my team! PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture. Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #MEvoSky #MicroSky

🌍What's on in Neuchâtel? 🗓Wednesday, May 21 – 19h 🇫🇷 📍Moonshinners - Rue des Fausses-Brayes 1 🧫Fungi, 🧬 chromosomes & 🌿 agroforestry: Avec et contre les micro-organismes Program: pintofscience.ch/event/avec-e... @pintsworld.bsky.social #PintCH #Pint25 @alicelaigle.bsky.social

Last year, I had a lot of fun doing DNA extractions with children and speak about fungi at the Museum of Natural History of Neuchâtel during the Museum Days, but this year, I am super happy to discuss fungi and 3D chromosome organization at Pint of Science!! 🍺🍄🧬🧪 pintofscience.ch/event/avec-e...

🚨 Preprint 🚨 Ever wondered how cells prepare their genomes to enable new cell-fates? In this team up with the Kind lab, we show that genes are repositioned in the nucleus to get ready for future activation and tissue formation. Read 🧵👇 to find out how and when this happens! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

“Proportions of species gains and losses were greater where temp increased most. … climate and biotic drivers act in concert to alter plant composition, which could precede future biodiversity changes, affect ecosystem function, wildlife habitats and livelihoods” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses! 🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb 🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath #SymbioSky #PlantPathology

I'm Nicole, a wildlife artist and designer looking to use my skills for science, education, and conservation. I'm available for hire! Here's how to find me: http://thornwolf.com http://patreon.com/thornwolf http://thornwolfart.tumblr.com http://instagram.com/thornwolfart http://t.me/thornwolfart

A strategy co-developed by @sib.swiss will guide work across 21 European countries to harness diverse data types that support research on #biodiversity, food security, and #pathogens www.sib.swiss/news/advanci...

Our paper is just out www.nature.com/articles/s41... from the Jacobsen, Doudna, and Banfield labs on viral delivery of a tiny CRISPR system for transgene free germline editing in plants, tinyurl.com/3k223r3x. Looking for postdocs to join the team for the next phase of this work!

It's been so many months that I have been postponing the publication of my poster's comics since I wanted to translate it (which I did not officially...), so why not doing it on the Labour Day ? 😅 It is now on Zenodo (French): doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🐡🎨 (1/2)

Such an honour to host the first conference on Holocentric Chromosomes at the University of Neuchâtel! What an amazing group of people, big thank you to everyone who participated! Looking forward to seeing you all again next time! 🦋🌱🪱🕷️🧬

We have 3 openings for ambitious postdocs or PhD students in our #CDlab - for exciting single-molecule biophysics research on nuclear pores, peroxisomes, or archaeal divisomes. Check it out and apply: ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us/ RT=nice!

I am recruiting for a postdoc in my lab at @blizardinstitute.bsky.social @qmulepigenetics.bsky.social to work on explainable AI/ML and epigenetics with a focus on enhancers. 3-year BBSRC funded position. A collaboration with @a-radzisheuskaya.bsky.social qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/.... Pls share.

For decades, how methanogenic archaea activate the MCR complex to produce methane remained a mystery. Today in Nature, we report the high-resolution cryo-EM structure of the MCR activation complex! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New interview on the value of exploratory research. "My brief explanation of this crisis is that researchers didn't say ‘I found something interesting’, but ‘I found exactly what my fantastic theory had predicted, heureka’. And then they gave a TED talk." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧪

Learned about it at the Paris-Munich Epigenetics 2025 symposium thanks to the amazing Irina Solovei, such a important aspect to take into account when doing microscopy 😱

New study with @petrollromy.bsky.social @borglab.bsky.social traces the evolution of epigenetic silencing in plants. Deep conservation of PRC2-mediated H3K27me3 marks across green algae suggest ancient, conserved networks of gene repression. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb... #evobio #molevol #plants

Super happy to see it out with all the hard work of everyone ! Such a nice story ! 🔥

American friends: here are some resources on how to seek asylum in Spain as a trans person under the Trump admin. help.unhcr.org/spain/en/sol... Even if your application is denied, if by then you have a legal residency permit (work, studies...), you can stay. www.igualdad.gob.es/wp-content/u...

Interested in New Frontiers in Genome Diversity and Evolution? Join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social in beautiful & sunny Barcelona 🌞 Submit your abstract to Symposium #38 Organized by Thea Rogers (University of Vienna), Rui Faria (Rui M) (University of Porto), and myself (UAB) 👇

New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!

I'm searching for nice Arabidopsis Col-0 chromatin datasets (modification agnostic), eg MNase-seq, DNase-seq, ATAC-seq. Does anyone have any favourite datasets you could point to?

New post doc opportunity in our team at Kiel University in the north of Germany. We are looking for a motivated molecular biologists to unravel plant-microbe interactions in grasses. Please see: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de

Earnshaw, Goloborodko, Dekker & Mirny labs are excited to present our latest work, "Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation" - now accepted!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A short clip describing the key results: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmvO...

Job alert: Join us in Mainz as Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) in Molecular Design ...and make your own research dreams happen on de novo design, generative models, proteins, materials ... tinyurl.com/r2xjxnuk @mpip-mainz.mpg.de

Excited to share our preprint on the molecular architecture of heterochromatin in human cells 🧬🔬w/ @jpkreysing.bsky.social, @johannesbetz.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social 🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv

Reminder!! The Eco/Evo Catalyst Fund mini-grant closes tonight! BWEEMS members can apply for $1,000 mini-grants to support ecology and evolution research! Applications close TONIGHT (March 25th, 2025 11:59 PM EST) Last call!

Our new findings on how chromosomes get ready for cell division are now published in @cellpress.bsky.social! Congratulations, Kai, @andibrunner.bsky.social and everyone else involved! 🤩 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...