🔬 Free microscopes + teacher training! 📅 Applications are now open. To apply, visit www.foldscope.com or scan the QR code (video) ✉️ Any questions? Email us at [email protected] #stem #education #science #teachers #training #free #microscopy #educators #professionaldevelopment #microscope

I was on H-1B after my J-1. This new fee is terrible. Forget going home for a family emergency. Forget fieldwork. Forget conferences. Living abroad on a job-tied visa is stressful enough already. I hardly recognize the country that was my home for 9 years.

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...

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

"Bluesky has been suggested as a good alternative to Twitter, but the phenomenon of academics switching social media platforms has not previously been studied." What do you think about this study from Integrative & Comparative Biology? oxford.ly/4mjq5XR @sicbjournals.bsky.social

✨Exciting news: the main story of my PhD is out in Science! Together with Christine Moene @cmoene.bsky.social, we explored what happens when you scramble the genome—revealing how Sox2’s position shapes enhancer activation. 📖 Read the full story here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

Dear colleagues, positions at CNRS (and INRIA) will (in all probability) be announced this winter. By then it will however be too late to properly prepare an application. Recent PhDs, postdocs etc interested in such positions should get right now in contact with teams who would like to recruit them.

Our paper on central complex evolution in Heliconiini butterflies is now available as reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social 🎉🎉. Please check out the helpful and constructive reviews which we are going to address in the next weeks 🤗 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... @ebablab.bsky.social

Really excited to share our latest paper led by @simonaube.bsky.social. Fascinating results examining whether regulatory mutations can lead to adaptation as fast as coding mutations do. #mevosky #evobio #evoSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Notre dernier article montre que le mode de développement des dents a influencé des millions d’années d’évolution des campagnols, menant à des molaires très complexes. Qu’est-ce que ça nous apprend sur l’évolution ? 🧵👇 1/21 #evodevo #vulgarisation 📷 Hanna Knutsson (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)/Lafuma et al.

Après plus de deux ans de travail, et grâce à l'implication de près de 30 collègues chercheuses et chercheurs de presque tous les champs des sciences, voici enfin dans toutes les librairies "Le Grand Livre de l'Exobiologie". @lisa-ipsl.bsky.social @upecofficiel.bsky.social @ipsl.bsky.social @cnes.fr

First time in Japan!!! (finally) 🌸 From exciting science and JAXA in Tsukuba to brainstorm our crazy space biology ideas to Tokyo nights, temples and retro gaming in Akihabara, this is truly a dream come true

Issue 16 is complete! On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

More on the ancient foundation of animal development. Coyle & King illustrate how core regulatory modules were present in our pre-animal ancestors. The key was not invention, but recycling & new protein interactions. #CellBiology #multicellularity #protistsOnSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

We are recruiting an enthusiastic engineer to work on the core project of our lab: identifying Hox protein-RNA networks in Drosophila @igmm-montpel.bsky.social Interested in BioID, UV-RIP and muscle development? Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Please share! #jobOffer #RNA #hox #Drosophila

New preprint from some of my postdoc work on lungs! Co-led with Kaleb Hill, we studied smooth muscle and epithelial development in lizard lungs. Stay tuned for more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This study describes the oldest microbial DNA ever sequenced go.nature.com/4nfIzcU

‘Our Ancestors the Fish’, a course by Prof. @neilshubin.bsky.social, Univ of Chicago, invited Prof @college-de-france.fr. in Paris @psl-univ.bsky.social. Four conferences, free access, open to everyone, with Tiktaalik as a guest star. Friends, colleagues and fossils in Paris and around, please RT🥁

What appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being eaten away by the blistering winds and ultraviolet light of nearby, massive, infant stars. What else did #NASAWebb find in Pismis 24? https://bit.ly/4mr3cmt

Thrilled to share 🎉 I’m starting my lab at University of Zurich, DMLS as Assistant Professor (tenure track) from Jan 2026! The Neural MorphoGenomics & Developmental Dynamics Lab will be exploring how genes + morphogenesis shape brain development with organoids, imaging & spatial genomics 🧠🔬🧬

The moral of the story is that building the #bridge between #evolution & #morphogenesis is hard. I still think it needs a concerted push, because, to paraphrase the classic: "Everything in biology, even the #CF, starts making sense in the light of evolution." I add, it is #stuff_that_matters (12/12)

Decision or collision? Two papers in @Nature show how the cephalic fold in developing fruit flies acts as a crumple zone between head and trunk @thibautbrunet.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

How is this possible? This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother

For everyone working on teeth (and others) ^^ 🦷

We take for granted that our hands have two sides and can articulate in an endless number of ways. But what about a fish’s fin? Can a fish know something “like the back of its fin,” or have its future told with a fin palm reading? Check out this bluetorial to find out 👇🧪🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Many years in the making but now finally online! What determines the temperature scaling and thermal limits of cell cycle duration in embryos? We tackled the question using a combination of dynamical systems analysis and experimental measurements in embryos and in cycling Xenopus extracts.

Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Sauvez une chauve-souris, éteignez un lampadaire ! 🦇 👉 https://l.sciencesetavenir.fr/3Sv

Double the discovery, double the momentum 🚀 Europe doubles down on research competitiveness with a major boost to #HorizonEurope: €95.5 billion foreseen for 2021-2027 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 €175 billion proposed for 2028-2034 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰

It’s finally out! Our work addressing the origins of reptiles is published in PCJ! peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... We use novel info gleaned from the scan data of dozens of stem reptiles to substantially revise our understanding of early reptile evolution #paleontology #herpetology

Time flies, so if you're an early-career researcher that is eligible to apply for one of our junior faculty grants, start thinking about your application now because the next deadline is 28 November @biologists.bsky.social www.biologists.com/grants/kicks... www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-v...

Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!

When spirits are low, there is nothing more satisfying than samples flying through customs like a breeze

This is so cool! (especially as a retro gamer and evo-devo scientist).

"The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse" #gaming https://doi.org10.1017/ehs.2025.10015

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Importance of Regulatory Network Structure for Complex Trait Heritability and Evolution academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Final year PhD students, I know you’re desperately trying to finish experiments/revisions/submissions/write a thesis & just survive - but please spare a few minutes to apply to your dream postdoc labs. It easily takes A YEAR from first contact, even if everything goes to plan on both sides.

Friends, I am offering a free online 2-hour crash course in how to write and publish a scientific paper, perfect for early career scientists and students considering writing their first paper soon. All information can be found in this link: www.southernfriedscience.com/im-offering-... 🧪🌎🦑

Wind turbines kill a massive number of bats. These animals seem to be unusually attracted to turbines, and researchers have long puzzled over why. 🦇🧪 For @science.org, I wrote about a new study that suggests they might be responding to a visual cue. www.science.org/content/arti...

My feather cell type paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/ede.... We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!

Only got a minute? Learn about our study on how tooth #development shaped the #evolution of vole molars with a bite-sized summary on @growkudos.bsky.social. Something to chew on for #ToothyTuesday 🤓🐭🦷 link.growkudos.com/1e27am025fk

Caudal fins show great variation in shape between diverse fish species. New research reveals that #developmental cues in embryonic tissues involving the Sonic hedgehog pathway imprint fin #morphology, highlighting a critical window for modulating appendage morphology. 🧪 plos.io/4mydLnA

🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!

🌡️ Rares voire rarissimes en France au XXe siècle, les températures dépassant localement les 40 degrés sont devenues fréquentes depuis l’an 2000. Voici une carte animée localisant chaque année où les stations de Météo-France ont relevé ou dépassé 40 degrés (données au 17 août).

@rawwiberg.bsky.social et al. test fundamental questions on the role of constraints on gene expression evolution arising from the mode of selection and genetic architecture using body size selection lines in the seed beetle. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf178 #evobio #molbio