Super interesting ! Of what use is collinearity in annelids ?

This is the reason why Aliens don’t talk to us ...

Some early-career disruptive researchers may see their careers stop early. Academic careers are often about becoming increasingly specialized over time. One remains creative well beyond 40, but creativity and risk-taking are not part of the job’s core incentives or requirements, past this age.

🦈🧠2 JOB OFFERS in the brand-new Neuroshark group starting at the Institute of Neuroscience Paris-Saclay (NeuroPSI)? Lab manager: www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-... Bioinformatician: www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-... Curious about the lab but not your profile? Feel free to contact me

What if you got to work with some of your best friends on a science project? I can't publish how fun this was, but I can show you the data (🧵)! Last week, we posted our second neutrophil swarming paper to bioRxiv and I wanted to post my favorite videos here~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to share this work is now in Science Advances! Congratulations to the outstanding Areej Said-Ahmad for leading the work, and to the rest of the team! Distinct mechanisms decommission redundant enhancers to facilitate phenotypic evolution | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 Great success for our 2nd SFBD-SBCF science outreach day in Ivry-sur-Seine, with the support of the city! Over a thousand children came to take part in our workshops, led by around fifty researchers from institutes in Paris and Gif-sur-Yvette! Thank you all for your enthusiasm! 🔬🧬

#DBfeature #InHoxWeTrust 🪲 Divergent Hox cluster arrangement in horned beetles retain conserved embryonic and adult expression patterns. by Erica Nadolski, Isabel Manley, Sukhmani Gill, Armin Moczek @ericanadolski.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycxabrh5

A new mechanism for “RNA memory”! This time in Planaria! (Here's a video of a Planarian with mulitple heads, one of the heritable phenotypes we studied). This work summarizes >10 years of research and is an amazing collaboration with the labs of Jochen Rink and Omri Wurtzel labs. Read thrad below👇

🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

One of the wildest things I learned about planarian flatworms: you can isolate their pharynx (throat) and it will autonomously engage in feeding behavior. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

A new strain of transgenic Platynereis. At this stage, this is still a great joy. Hopefully, several more will follow soon ... I hope other teams are making progress with this notoriously resistant species. Let's make Platy the marine D melanogaster ! #platynereis #wormwednesday #evodevo

Ok, serious face. Female ejaculation ("squirting") might make it easier to get knocked up. Maybe. It's a hypothesis at this point, but in this paper, the authors outline reasonable rationale and outline some testable experiments. 🧪 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Est ce que j'ai fait craqué et fait une série de memes @pintofscience.fr #ProjectHailMary ? Peut-être 😅

I2BC is recruiting group leaders in several disciplines. Don’t miss the chance to launch your team at Paris-Saclay. Information : www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/wp-content/u... Applications and enquiries : [email protected] Deadline: April 22, 2026

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Seeking a substitute for Angine de Poitrine addiction rehab, I’m foraging for live soul/funk gems from the past, resurrected by the magic of the internets. So let’s get Rufus-ized. Not #MusicForNerds , #MusicForNormalPeople . #GetDown! <Once You Get Started> 👉 youtu.be/7fgKhuqNtxw 👇

Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them. We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢 Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded. Aarhus University 🇩🇰 Deadline May 1 👇 Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Lisa’s picture (@lisma-ulb.bsky.social), named “Where Science meets Art,” shows a transgenic line of the annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii. These worms were kindly provided by Guillaume Balavoine (@balavoinelab.bsky.social). #PlatynereisDumerilii #Annelid Photo credit: Yourong Frank Wang

Neural crest cells beginning their long trek out of the neural tube in a quail embryo. Beautifully captured by the fantastic @siewzhuan.bsky.social 🧪🐣🔬

Please check out our new preprint! Using single cell analysis paired with HCR to visualize transcript localization we have identified cell and tissue-specific expression of various genes encoding tubulins, kifs, and dyneins during neural crest development!

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

In animals with large genomes, finding cis-regulatory elements can be very challenging. Enhancers can be located tens/hundreds of kb away from their target promoters. We face this challenge in Parhyale, with >3 Gbp genome. We just published a preprint describing how we are tackling this problem. /1

Applications are open for a 3-year funded PhD position at the Finnish Museum of Natural History, focused on dung beetle evolution. Deadline: March 16. … https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Doctoral-Researcher-in-Macroevolution-and-Phenotypic-Diversification-of-Dung-Beetles/1352799257/ #gradstudent

In this review we map the journey to animal multicellularity and define three extinct ancestral stages: 🔹 LUAA: Last Unicellular Animal Ancestor. 🔹 FACA: First Animal Common Ancestor. 🔹 LACA: Last Animal Common Ancestor. Check it out: bit.ly/4azuLVY @embojournal.org

Institut Jacques Monod Seminar Friday, Feb 27 Institut Jacques Monod Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social (EMBL, Heidelberg) Evolution and diversity of mitosis Exciting evolutionary cell biology: bridging genomics, experimental evolution, and stunning imaging across diverse protozoans buff.ly/uCSfjgQ

Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Banger cormorant eye footage today 🪶

I resisted the growing hype for ten days before clicking, but now, I must share. It is so ... joyful. #musicfornerds #anginedepoutine youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so

At the request of the authors !

Selon une étude, l’être humain n’utiliserait que 10% de son smartphone https://www.legorafi.fr/2026/02/12/selon-une-etude-letre-humain-nutiliserait-que-10-de-son-smartphone/

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This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

My wife tells me I totally missed this one: Cambrian chordates were nerds !

Welcome to the Institute, Stern Lab! @hhmi-science.bsky.social Investigator David Stern studies how insects hijack plant development. His lab’s discoveries could reshape how we think about pest control and food security. He & his team arrived from HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. bit.ly/4np96Fb

Think of it: Physics, stuck at the relativity/quantics incoherence, baffled by quantum entanglement. Biology, we are incapable of modeling even the simplest cell. Paleontology, human evolution is a mess , the more we unearth, the less we understand.

So far, the scientific 21st century is very disappointing compared to the same years of the 20th century. Am i wrong ?

Back then, i wanted to be a paleontologist 🫠

The weirdophile can no longer resist the uncontrollable urge to share his love for DEVO, so let’s <Whip it> ! 👉 youtu.be/bDVuQyzDECs #MusicForNerds #BoojiBoy 👇

"Network analysis reveals close faunal connections between the Huayuan and Burgess Shale biotas, indicating transoceanic dispersal. Dated shortly after the Sinsk event..." 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

This developing quail embryo looks like it's thinking fiery thoughts for #FluorescenceFriday 🐣🔥🧪. Imaged by the fantastic @vanderspuy.bsky.social

The evolutionary extrapolations in this study struggle to account for empirical cases like Trump’s two election wins. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Got stripes? 🧬🕷️🔬 @mcgregorlab.bsky.social #EvoDevo #Biology #PhD #FluorescenceFriday

I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!

If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the "Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples" at Stazione Zoologica in Naples. WIth great teachers from Naples […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Continuing my streak of bands that don’t sing in English and don’t step on stage in shredded jeans and with questionable personal hygiene … Here’s Wagakki Band <Senbonzakura> 👉 youtu.be/Xjwe9WyO8Qs #MusicForNerds #Jrock #日本のロック 👇

Bilaterian guts share embryonic patterning, but what about the adult gut? This study of 5 species reveals conserved TF modules that define A-P #gut compartments, with lineage-specific modifications, illuminating #bilaterian gut #evolution & diversification @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/49pgpH3

Koliss’ d’hivaère !

A giant #Pteropod #seabutterfly, Corolla spectabilis, cruising through the nighttime open ocean. Shot in the wild, using scuba, while drifting out over the deep abyss, at night, off Okinawa. #corollaspectabilis #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #kumejima #okinawa #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater