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!

Ok, last of the day, good conclusion.

Click at your own peril: this is the most complete ode to teenage poetry and creativity I know. rateyourmusic.com/list/Ollie/t... I would have added Psychedelic P*rn Crumpets and Viagra Boys too. Bands I love but I can’t really wear their shirts in public 😅 #MusicForNerds #BandNames

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

Burrp !

Natural chemistry

A film director who went up to eleven 😢 #RobReiner

Dëh antzïk Köhntarkösz Kreuhn Köhrmahn Stöht ẁurdah Melekaahm Uz, dëh ᴧërkbaahn Kreuhn Köhrmahn Zëbëhn Straïn dë Ğeuštaah ẁortsiš <Hhai> 👉 youtu.be/QTpM9-nOZRY #MusicForNerds #Zeuhl #MusicForLinguisticScholars 👇

Kīlauea is showing off : the main fountain reaches 300m high, and 800m laterally 🌋⚒️

first author, second author, corresponding author

Segment polarity genes in Alitta, the big brother of Platynereis, by our Russian colleagues. Very similar to our (prehistoric) Platynereis results. We need more studies like this in phyllodocidae, syllidae, eunicidae, echiuridae, opheliidae, ...

Comme chaque année au premier coup de froid, pensez à vos sous-vêtements… radioactifs ! Une publicité des années 1920-1930, à une époque où la radioactivité et le radium étaient perçus comme des produits miraculeux, censés soigner tous les maux et apporter vitalité et bien-être.

Proud to have been part of this very nice piece of work and this great collaboration. Congratulations to all. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Arachnophobia meets claustrophobia meets nyctophobia.

In my relentless efforts to inspire young scientific minds to embrace intemporal #RockMusic, here is another obscure, unfortunately late artist from the UK, named David Jones, who really deserved more recognition <Moonage Daydream> 👉 youtu.be/RPUAldgS7Sg #MusicForNerds and #MusicForLabOddities 👇

Another mammoth manuscript from the Arendt team. People who doubt molecular signatures of ancestry will again have to face some hard facts 😉

And here is a Halloween wyvern, courtesy of my favorite touring band. Wyverns (called vouivres in French) are tetrapods, which makes them much more plausible than those ridiculous hexapod dragons. #HalloweenForNerds

In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween! 🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social

Can't believe it — my first‑author paper is out and my image graces the cover of @dev-journal.bsky.social 🎉 Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain #zebrafish gill architecture throughout life 🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15... #FluorescenceFriday #LifelongDevSI

Happy Halloween !