Vertebrate Genome Evolution. Annual Symposium of the @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social Foundation in Geneva. Free access on site and on line. Great speakers for a super interesting topic. #SvantePaabo #HenrikKaessmann organisers 🙏 See you there! @biology-unige.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social

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I add that earlier and later diagnosed autism are not valid diagnostic terms and what we are looking at is (one) gradient. Also genetics explains only a fraction of the variance, with most studied factors explaining < 10%. We have FAQs in the Supplementary where we address common questions.

CORTICAL EVOLUTION - 15-17th June 2026 - Bilbao Spain Organizers: Verónica Martínez Cerdeño, Fernando García Moreno, Elena Vecino, and Stephen Noctor Early registration until 1st May 2026 ventricular.org/corticalevol... @veronicamartinez.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social

Last days to apply! Cool project, cool cities! :-) (Please repost! 🙏)

🚨 PhD opportunity! Join our group at @AchucarroNeuro (Bilbao, Spain) for a 4-year bioinformatics PhD on brain evolution 🧠🧬 Work with scRNA-seq & spatial transcriptomics to uncover how the THALAMUS diversified across amniotes! 📩 Apply: [email protected]

What a beautiful story, Idoia. Congratulations!

🦟 Mosquitos invasores 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 El @ceabcsic.bsky.social y @mosquitoalert.bsky.social presentan el primer mapa municipal de la distribución de tres especies invasoras en España: mosquito tigre, de la fiebre amarilla y del Japón 🔎Más de 1.800 municipios han sido colonizados  👉 http://tiny.cc/ia5s001

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...

Lamentamos profundamente el fallecimiento del académico José Manuel García Verdugo, catedrático de la Universitat de Valencia. Referente internacional en Neurocencia y Microscopía Electrónica. Su última charla en la #raciencias puedes recuperarla aquí: www.youtube.com/live/g7nPBVo...

Incredible diversity of #pollen grains! Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth #microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday

Really happy to see our work on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) microglia published in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... A great work at IBiS from Manuel Sanchez-Garcia, Nieves Lara-Ureña, Rosana March-Diaz, @alicielena.bsky.social , and all our collaborators.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Amazing differences within the EU. Via prof. Marco te Brömmelstroet on LinkedIn. NB: 2019 data.

Hot off the press: The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience: rdcu.be/ek010

Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇

Why does the forebrain expand dramatically while other neural regions grow less? Our new publication reveals progenitor metabolism critically shapes region-specific brain growth. Thread below. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-udL7PXu...

El próximo Viernes 9 de Mayo, a las 12:30 hrs. en la Sala Washington Buño del #InstitutoCajal, seminario presencial del Dr. Diego García González, @ibis_sevilla @CSIC, con el título: "How to make a newron". Organizado por: Dra. Aixa V. Morales

🔴 ENTREVISTA | Óscar Marín, neurocientífico: “Están en marcha los primeros trasplantes de neuronas 'viajeras' para tratar el cerebro” www.eldiario.es/128_bace79?u...

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

I could go on with more examples but instead here’s a message to take home. If you’re curious how your genome helps make you unique, don’t expect neat & tidy answers. Indeed, the richness of this tapestry is one of the reasons why human genetics is such a dynamic & exciting field of science. 11/n 🧬🧪

La UE debe hacer "un poquito más" que doblar su presupuesto para investigación para abandonar la categoría de "simpática anécdota" a nivel global. De lo contrario, nos vamos por el desagüe. @eloisadelpino.bsky.social @dianamorantr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So... Can be animals without #scutoids? This a difficult question to answer, you cannot get mutants without scutoids. So we designed a computational model to demonstrated that it is not possible to form epithelial tubes without apico-basal intercalations. www.csbj.org/article/S200...

#Cancer research needs #neuroscience and neuroscientists. Sharing some thoughts on #CancerNeuroscience, together with Frank Winkler. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Science under attack: a growing list of statements from journals @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @plos.org theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos... @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... @embopress.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

This piece of work is truly amazing, hats off to you! Massive congrats to all authors! 🥳

elpais.com/ciencia/2025... Mirad esto!!!

And please check out the wonderful Perspective by Maria Tosches and Giacomo Gattoni on our paper and the two related ones by the groups of @steinaerts.bsky.social and Fernando Garcia-Moreno!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Beautiful story!! Congratulations, Henrik!!

Interesting: following hemispherotomy – this is typically performed for severe intractable epilepsies, where one hemisphere is fully disconnected but left in place – there remains "islands of awareness" although most activity is sleep-like. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Empieza la semana del #11F, con mil eventos para dar visibilidad a la mujer en la ciencia Pues estaría bien que también sirva para reivindicar salarios y horarios razonables, estabilidad y corresponsabilidad en los cuidados Basta de fomentar vocaciones que abocan al abismo de las triples jornadas

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Get somebody in this room who knows that the word “transgenic” does not mean “transgendered”

How long does PubMed have? How long will BLAST be up? Genome browser? We have the funding to keep these tools up, we have the expertise, we have the people. Loss of these tools would cost billions to replace by the private sector and academia. Inefficient destruction with no upside

New paper alert! ‼️‼️ Super happy to share that my postdoc paper is finally out! 1/3 We looked at scaling of chromosome separation during anaphase in zebrafish embryos.

The US paperback of How Life Works is now out. Buy it now, before books mentioning evolution are banned! (Sorry for the gallows humour - I know that is not even beyond the realms of possibility.)

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.

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

Final poster for the second edition of the #EvoDevoTempo meeting is finally ready! Great lineup and 3x more social activities: meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev... @bassemh.bsky.social @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social

Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze? Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage. Left: yesterday. Right: today.

This is not hyperbole. This is an unmitigated disaster for biomedical science and reflect how central to American life and productivity NIH funding is. This funding drives the economy and contributes to the health and wellbeing of the entire country.

Congratulations to @mpibrain.bsky.social director Gilles Laurent for being awarded the 2025 Louis-Jeantet prize for Medicine! The @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social recognizes Laurent's pioneering work on the operations of #neurons and dynamics of neuronal networks. More infos 👉 bit.ly/4hqk6ie

Have you ever wondered what role motile #cilia and cerebrospinal fluid (#CSF) play in brain development and physiology? If yes, please check out our latest article now published in Cell Reports and spearheaded by the newly minted Dr D'Gama www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

By reexamining 3D images used to map the connections between brain cells, researchers @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @alleninstitute.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social & UT Southwestern are uncovering new insights about cilia - the elusive & often overlooked cellular appendages. https://hhmi.news/3PAhkuy

Congratulations!!! 🥳🥳

Our second preprint, which was spearheaded by @thomasdwkim.bsky.social, uses single-cell multiomic analysis to identify gene regulatory networks controlling neurogenesis and cell fate specification in mouse hypothalamus and prethalamus./1 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

We begin the New Year with two preprints on hypothalamic development. The first, part of a long-term collaboration with Marysia Placzek’s group, investigates the organization of the developing forebrain, and show that current models are (mostly) incorrect./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...