Mario Cuomo Bridge is now Mahmood Mamdani Bridge, that’s how it works 🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽

LFG NYC!

New preprint! We unexpectedly discovered that some Caenorhabditis species delete parts of their somatic genome early in development, which fragments their chromosomes and eliminates key germline genes. Multiple lines of evidence suggest this bizarre process was present in the ancestors of C. elegans

For what it’s worth, The Wyoming Worm lab has funding for 5 years along with exciting projects with solid foundations. We are is still looking for capable, dedicated, and fun-to-work-with lab members at all career stages. [email protected] scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Another amazing Open House New York weekend full of usually-hidden art

No Kings filling up Times Square

Congratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Incredible new paper from @schacherer.bsky.social et al rdcu.be/eLcTH

This is my first time seeing alive lernanthropid copepod (possibly Lernanthropus latis)!

Sea urchin metamorphosis is maybe one of the most radical event in developmental biology. In just about an hour, these little pluteus larvae completely reorganize their entire body plan. Very happy that this video got awarded an honorable mention by #NikonSmallWorld 😃

We're on a roll: Super proud of this paper lead by Dr. Megan Frayer & GS Hagar Soliman (with a major contrib from GS Pia Schwarz): Introgression and Parental Conflict Shape Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation @hybridzones.bsky.social @hagarsoliman.bsky.social @pfschwarz.bsky.social

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

Preprint teaser! Keep an eye out for our forthcoming paper on the Caenorhabditis nematodes of Pohnpei, Micronesia, and their implications for biogeography and ecology.

Ithaca is gorges

The Braendle Lab in Nice, France is hiring two postdocs to study nematode genetics, evolution, and ecology. Start Jan–Jul 2026. Deadline Nov 30, 2025. Apply: [email protected]

Her name is MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome. Pictures from a visit yesterday

New #postdoc position focused on ALS/FTD available in the Hart lab! Join the collaborative Brown Univ. #neuroscience community! Experience with invertebrate genetics (like #Celegans) and/or neurodegenerative disease is welcome, but not required. Details at apply.interfolio.com/172914

The Church Evolution Laboratory (CEL@NYU) will be official as of Sep 1st: shchurch.github.io. We are recruiting at all levels, including a postdoc to work on evolutionary patterns and processes via comparative genomics in Hawaiian Drosophila. Please share widely!

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

! Evolution of developmental bias explains divergent patterns of phenotypic evolution in two nematode clades www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

My colleague Paul VanRaden, who recently retired after a very distinguished 37-year career at USDA is documenting the attacks on the Agricultural Research Service by the people who are supposed to be its stewards. (Shared with permission.) paulvanraden.com/DefendYourGo...

A PhD position is open at the Teotónio lab in Paris to study genetic assimilation in C. elegans. Applicants with a master's in evolutionary biology are preferred. Apply by 19 Sept 2025. More info: https://www.ibens.bio.ens.psl.eu/?rubrique28 #phd

I am thrilled to announce that in January 2026 I will be starting my own lab at NYU Biology! Soon enough I will be recruiting postdocs and students! Please reach out if you are interested with a CV and description of your research interests, or if you know of people who could be interested! 🧬🗽 🦊

Beautiful work, proving once again that worms are unbeatable evolutionary models

No Kings New York

Exciting new study showing extensive Argonaute protein family gain, loss, neofunctionalization + more among species, by PhD student Daniel Fusca with @katjakasimatis.bsky.social + Hongyu Zhu; Now out @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #celegans #rna doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Elisabeth Vrba obituary www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... My thanks to Georg Vrba, Elisabeth’s husband, for information and photos on her life and work in South Africa.

This cool #speciation work characterizing many kinds of post-zygotic reproductive isolation despite undetectable pre-zygotic isolation is now out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Great work by current Toronto grad students Maia Dall'Acqua and Amanda Peake #celegans doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Beautiful work showing how PEEL-1 gets away with murder Congrats @lewsiferase.bsky.social et al!

Latest needlepoint creation. Made for a friend & colleague Prof Annalise Paaby whose lab studies genetics and evolution using C. elegans. Will post the figure it’s based on below. 🪱🧬

Thanks for the shout out @meera-sundaram.bsky.social ! This was such a fun project! 101 knock-ins and counting and they all had such cool and unique localization pattern and substructures!

Delighted to share this timely article in Boston magazine on our local C. elegans community and the effects of NIH freezes. "There might be no group more enthusiastic, self-aware, or life-affirming than the worm people." www.bostonmagazine.com/news/c-elega...

Incredible scene, happening right now

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

My lab at NYU is hiring a postdoc interested in RNA biology and local translation in neurons following axonal injury/neurodegenerative diseases!! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/165681

New paper from postdoc Tuc HM Nguyen! Mitochondria have their own weird little genomes that evolve weirdly, all the while sharing a home with the buttoned-down conservative nuclear genome. Tuc used C. elegans to figure out what happens when genomes stop being polite and start getting real. 🧵

Sunset tonight in New York (Part 1 from my 1-part series, “things that are not horrific right now”)

Job advert - Please share! Mark Viney (lnkd.in/dwkZf7mG) and I are seeking a motivated postdoctoral fellow to work on drug treatment responses of soil-transmitted helminth and hookworm genomics in Southeast Asia. Do reach out if you are keen! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR456/p...

Happy to join a few thousand friends in midtown today. Free Mahmoud Free Rumeysa Free Kilmar and everyone at Cecot Due process No kings

#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894

Hitchhiking in facultative sexuals e.g. baker's yeast: can reduce diversity across the genome and contribute to Lewontin’s paradox. Results relevant to anyone (e.g. me) who has looked but found few if any strong sweeps. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is the most enjoyable thread I’ve read in weeks. A solvable problem has never been more welcome!

Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

My lab at NYU is hiring a postdoc in microbial ecology and evolution! We are looking for someone interested in both wet and dry lab techniques, including experimental evolution, genome editing, bioinformatics, and some modeling. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/164683

🚨If you fancy evolutionary genomics, theory, my lab now offers *two* fully-funded #PhD #genomics #popgen #evolution ℹ️One on sex-asex transitions with Christoph Haag bit.ly/4hp1q1A ℹ️One on allele-specific expression with Sylvain Glémin bit.ly/4iuKLuQ Part of #ERC RegEvol In #CEFE lab, Montpellier

<stares in Buck v Bell>

JUST IN: A federal judge clarifies that his order barring enforcement of Trump EO on "DEI" funding applies to *all* federal agencies, not just those named in the lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Not just students— hundreds of faculty are on visas or green cards

Lots of people at the rally in New York! Josh Dubnau from Stony Brook gave the speech the moment demands: attacks on science funding are bad, but they’re downstream of fascism, and we need to fight the fascism even when we’re not the targets