🧪 Happy @sciencecharles.bsky.social that this study made it to @pnas.org , it was a real conundrum to solve and it all begun with poster by @abalosaurus.bsky.social 🦎🦎🦎. Good job @premdaguilar.bsky.social and many thanks to @evolgen.bsky.social and Ethology Lab @uv.es. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to share the final published version of our work on the evolution of dorsal-ventral patterning in fins and limbs, now up on @currentbiology.bsky.social In review we added new single LARM element deletions to assess their impact on dorsality. Take a look! 🔬🧪🐟🐁 www.cell.com/current-biol...

For this #FluorescenceFriday we have something a bit different. An SEM image of a sterlet sturgeon neurula embryo labelled with SOX9 which decorates the cranial neural crest - a transient embryonic tissue that shapes vertebrate faces. 🔬 #DevelopmentalBiology 📸: Jan Štundl

Please repost !! SANTA CRUZ DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026. Deadline to register your abstracts for the meeting is Monday June 1. Please get those abstracts in ! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Our lab website is live! 🚀🐟 www.vasilevalab.com We use genetic #zebrafish models and molecular oncology approaches to study pediatric cancer and discover new therapeutic strategies. We’re growing and recruiting postdocs and research technicians! #PediatricCancer #Zebrafish #PostdocJobs

🔔 Please share 🔔 I have two open developmental biology/genetics/evo-devo PhD project vacancies for October 2026 start. 1 = 🐚 🐌 🔬(embryos!!) ⏱️📆 DEADLINE 15th DEC 📆⏱️ (competition) sleightlab.com/vacancies/ 2 = 🦪 🐌 🧬 ⏱️📆 DEADLINE 14th JAN 📆⏱️(fully funded) sleightlab.com/phd-vacancy-2/

“Fish” can refer to a single individual, or multiple individuals from the same species. “Fishes” refers to multiple species. 🐠 Fish 🐠🐠🐠 Fish 🐠🐟🐡 Fishes

Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG

Oh man, I am so excited and happy to have been given this huge opportunity by the @erc.europa.eu It is by no exaggeration - a dream come true. An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)

EARLY BIRD PRICING ENDS TODAY! #Science takes flight at the XII Avian Model Systems Meeting, and you can save by registering early! #AvianModels25 🐥 Secure your early bird rate today: bit.ly/3ZBw2qS

Looking for a #postdoc opportunity? Funded positions available @cuanschutz.bsky.social to advance our #zebrafish transgenesis tools - and to look into developmental origins of congenital disease! #devbio

My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined). Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions. apply.interfolio.com/171625

EMBL is an amazing place to start a lab and bring new direction to your research program (ask me how I know) - come join us in Heidelberg !

Excited to announce that our new paper is now published in Science Advances 🚀🧠 ‘Acquisition of neural crest promoted thyroid evolution from chordate endostyle’ — check it out here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Job alert: associate professor (universitetslektor) at the program in Human #Paleogenomics and #Population #Genomics. Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 1st. #vacancy @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

🎉 Big news! 10 postdoc fellows from 5 Latin American countries have joined the 2025 class of #PewLatinAmericanFellows, and we’re proud to share that one is our own @mary-flores.bsky.social! Learn more: bit.ly/45rgN5L @cumedicalschool.bsky.social @cuanschutz.bsky.social @chrmosimann.bsky.social

Totally unexpected — but incredibly exciting🎉 My K99/R00 application has been awarded! I can’t wait to dive deeper into exploring the “ancient” developmental program of the neural crest in dermal bone formation.

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

One week left for early-'bird' (pun intended) registration...Join us @stowersinstitute.bsky.social @saukaspengler.bsky.social this fall for all the bird talk!! www.stowers.org/events/avian...

This postdoc position is still open! Apply if you want to come work with us on asymmetric cell divisions in spiralian embryos! postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

Delighted & excited to share our latest preprint on non-canonical enhancers in human pluripotent stem cells, the result of a fantastic and fun collaboration with @guenesdoganlab.bsky.social‬: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 below

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Since 2018, we have been delighted to announce the shortlist for our outstanding paper prize. As ever, it’s been a true challenge for our Editors to choose the winners. 🏆 In this thread 🧵, we announce the remaining Research Article shortlist.

Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

Ray is a rockstar 😎 he deserves this a lot 👏

It's out! We describe probable reptile tracks from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia. This pushes the amniote record back by some 35-40 million years and implies that the tetrapod crown group originated deep in the Late Devonian. The paper is Open Access. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very nice to see all the Bronner lab members at the GRC!

Thomas F. Rosenbaum, the ninth president of Caltech, will retire on June 30, 2026, after 12 years in the position. He will remain at the Institute as a member of the faculty. Read more here: www.caltech.edu/about/news/r...

I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa

NEW #RESEARCH: Researchers in the @aussiebiologist.bsky.social Lab have uncovered a new mechanism that some neural crest cells take during development, deepening our understanding of craniofacial conditions & potentially #cancer metastasis. Published in @pnas.org. www.stowers.org/news/stowers...

The registration for Pan Am EvoDevo meeting 2025 will start very soon. Bring your exciting research to U of Miami and meet many folks this July. Stay tuned! panamevodevo.org

On Valentine’s day, 15 Assistant Professors at NIH who had started their research labs in the last 2 years were fired. Their scientific expertise was built over 10-12 years of training, most if not all of which was supported by NIH. The start up funds for their laboratories were paid by NIH

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Multiple group leader positions in developmental biology in @ibdm.bsky.social Marseille, at an institute that produces some great work.

Postdocs going on the academic job market, check out the Society for Developmental Biology's fantastic course www.sdbonline.org/gethired, suitable for all molecular/cellular basic scientists. Applications due March 21. I am excited to announce that I will be co-directing.

Published in the Chicago Sun Times today

In honor of #WorldHearingDay, explore the focus of the Piotrowski Lab – understanding the development & regeneration of the #zebrafish lateral line & the potential applications for promoting mammalian hair cell #regeneration to restore #hearingloss or #deafness.

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Venice Evo Devo Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems Aug 27-22, 2025 Centro Cultural Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice Register at: meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... Deadline is March 31, 2025. #VeniceEvoDevo

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...

If you're in the US, considering Europe for your PhD, and you identify as a minority, I will chat with you and review any application documents you need 🧪

We're growing and recruiting! Please share this open position in our lab at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (www.torninilab.org) for a Staff Research Associate I (SRA I) position - jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/6546

NIH council meeting (NIDCR)scheduled for today, where our R01 grant (3rd percentile) was supposed to be discussed, was postponed indefinitely as a consequence of Trump's executive order which ordered pausing of all communications from all federal agencies. Not good.

All study section and council meetings suspended until at least 2/2

NIH withdrew several funding opportunities related to diversity. They’re not going to review the ones already in, and apparently they’re not going to pay the ones that have just been awarded.

They have also suspended all NIH travel including for study sections

Here it comes #science folks: Trump has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts including officials at the National Institutes of Health

The neighborhood in Altadena I lived in for 6yrs burned down in the #EatonFire. Like many in SoCal, my next door neighbors, Skip & Martha, lost everything. You can support them here: smahangar.com 100% of the “I skate for Skip” sales goes to helping Skip & Martha rebuild their lives.

It's heartbreaking to read messages from our friends about how they lost their homes in Altadena because of the Eaton fire 🔥 stay safe