Pls. share widely Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025 → Vibrant & friendly community → Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology → Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating) submit abstract by July 29

Just finished reading this amazing work from @WeingartenShira et al. A real tour de force to reveal the “dark matter” of viral genomes in high throughput: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dr. Wild's Big Gallery of Bug Sex

Fantastic!! www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience...

🥼A new tissue expansion method developed by researchers in the Wang & Tillberg labs & collaborators @uwmadison.bsky.social enables scientists to use mass spectrometry imaging to simultaneously detect hundreds of molecules at the single cell level in their native locations ➡️ hhmi.news/4ixHOZZ

Absolutely CRAZY study from the brilliant @leahhouri.bsky.social in @leslievosshall.bsky.social lab ✨ What restricts mosquito mating between species, how some species "break" this barrier and become dominant, and how that shift can reshape the landscape of mosquito-borne disease. Don't miss Leah's 🧵

Thanks Oded!!!!!

✨🦟✨HOW DO MOSQUITOES HAVE SEX? ✨🦟✨ Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Sorrells Lab is hiring a recent college graduate interested in neurobiology of mosquitoes! The position is ideal for someone interested in gaining skills for graduate school. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/164849

BIG NEWS! The Mosquito Cell Atlas preprint is live! 🦟🧬 My first senior author paper! Massive and accessible snRNA-seq dataset and a lot of cool mosquito biology. A true collaborative achievement! #MCA biorxiv.org/content/10.1... See @oliviagoldman.net thread here

I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research. Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

I'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested.

Happy Holidays, and for a new year full of light ✨✨✨

The greatest poem ever written, by Nael, aged 6. Nael would be at least 14 today. He said that tigers made him happy. #ThingsThatMakeMeHappy #JoinIn

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: I was submitting files to the SRA

This is so cool! I love these little aliens and realizing how the adult-to-be mosquito is compacted inside them is just super satisfying

Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.

Science in Bluesky these past couple of weeks

Here it is! Our best paper ever, by far. Have you ever wondered how complex traits have evolved repeatedly across the tree of life? May be we have some answers... t.co/n0HoWi36T7

Could the brain’s computational abilities extend beyond neural networks to molecular mechanisms? Listen to Paul Middlebrooks's latest "Brain Inspired" podcast, in which he talks with @thehessam.bsky.social about how universal computation may have evolved via RNA mechanisms: bit.ly/4eQ4Idc

Super clever.. repurposing arrays for spatial transcriptomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seeing all my old friends on here again