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Go Fish!

Cellular Interfaces reloaded: Join us for the @sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on „Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces" in Münster from May 27–29, 2026. Registration opens in February! Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w @uni-muenster.de

Dream Job alert!

🐟 Exciting News! 🐟 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting : 🔗 Submit your abstract and register today: www.germanfishmeeting.org 📅 When: September 16–18, 2026 📍 Where: Center for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg, Germany #germanfishmeeting2026 #fish #research #zebrafish #science

Motto for 2026: Yes, We coelaCANth! Thanks @drheathheckman.bsky.social for the nice Fishmas present!

Apply soon: Full professorship in Systems #Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de See shorturl.at/VczFp

Maybe we should revise policies that push postdocs out of academic research too early. It selects for early achievers that remain in one field and risks losing the highest impact people

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

ICYMI by @rohner.bsky.social et al.

I am thrilled to share that my PhD work is published. Here, we uncover the conserved evolutionary principles of eukaryotic cell-substrate adhesions. A huge thanks to Prof. Dr. Carsten Grashoff. Do check out the article and I look forward to get in touch! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Die Präsidentin der Universität Osnabrück, Prof. Dr. Susanne Menzel Riedl, wird zum 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin der Universität Münster. Sie tritt damit die Nachfolge von Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels an, der seit 2016 im Amt ist.

New work from @rohner.bsky.social & @alexckeene.bsky.social 🐟

Elevated DNA damage without signs of ageing in the short-sleeping Mexican cavefish offers a unique model to study sleep, DNA repair, and ageing. buff.ly/6VrO19l

Come join us in Heidelberg for the first German fish meeting 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧬🔬🐟🐠

Please share widely! This is an amazing opportunity. Beautiful new building, great colleagues, cool science, fantastic city. There are not that many opportunities like this!! Apply, if you can! Feel free to DM me if you have questions, I am on the search committee.

Want more bat content? Check out this recent NPR feature with Hanna Gray Fellow Jasmin Camacho, who studies wild bats using cutting-edge metabolomics to identify and map the mechanisms that protect against the damaging effects of sugar consumption: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

1. Map evolutionary diversity to hack biomedical innovation 2. Revolutionize cancer therapy 3. Target the development of antimicrobial resistance 4. Address Anthropocene-related diseases 5. Support healthier behaviors 6. Improve pandemic responses by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Dan Blumstein!

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"Much as granaries and refrigeration transformed food markets, storage will turn electricity from perishable to persistent, unlocking a new era of energy abundance." In the future we will look back on the oil & gas era the way we look at hunting and gathering.

Bon Appetit

« … Un Français consomme en moyenne plus de 10 000 animaux au cours de sa vie alors qu’il en utilise indirectement seulement 2,5 en moyenne pour la recherche scientifique et biomédicale … »

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Turns out cavefish don’t mourn their dead — they season them. 💀🍴 Congrats on that ‘killer’ preprint #cannibalism #dinnerplans

Super cool work on metabolism and regeneration! Congrats

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

Mexican tetras living on the surface (left) look dramatically different from populations that were washed into caves generations ago (right) – and not just on the outside. Featuring @rohner.bsky.social‬ and others. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Reminder: Tariffs aren't paid by other countries, no matter what Trump says. A tariff is an import tax, raising the price of almost everything we buy. Tariffs are also regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Best Postdoc Symposium Oral Presentation award - Jasmin Camacho @stowersinstitute.bsky.social ! Congratulations! Evolutionary rewiring of insulin signaling in Nectar bats #PASEDB2025 #nectarbats #sweettooth

I am beyond thrilled to present my PhD paper with @rohner.bsky.social. We phenotyped a mutation in the circadian regulator Cryptochrome-1 that has evolved repeatedly in subterranean lineages. Now online at @cp-iscience.bsky.social: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... @stowersgrad.bsky.social

The MPI for Biological Cybernetics is seeking two independent Max Planck Research Groups working in scientific disciplines relevant to the institute. Applications should be sent no later than 15th August 2025. Visit our call for applications on the website of the institute for detailed information!

Awesome! Welcome to the dark side! 😈

Are inversions the (re)new "locus of evolution"?

Couldn’t agree more. Plus it’s actually really healthy! #Move #10000steps

Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.  It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

We developed CrossFilt, a read-level, cross-species filtering approach that avoids these errors without sacrificing usable data. It outperforms all existing strategies and exposes just how much signal in comparative genomics has been misread. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We—Nicolas @rohner.bsky.social, Lauren @lsaunders.bsky.social, Arica @abeisaw.bsky.social & Sepand @rastapopolus.bsky.social—are planning the first German #fish ( #zebrafish, #medaka, #killifish, others) #meeting for September 2026. If you're a PI & want info, get in touch!

Researchers at @scrippsocean.bsky.social and @gpsucsd.bsky.social are comparing methods of carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, discovering that genetically enhanced crops could be the best way to meet CO2 removal at the scale it needs. ➡️ bit.ly/4d3u48f

If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant and ECR Visiting Fellowships Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb The next application deadline is 6 June Please repost

Happy to share our latest paper, dealing with the long-standing question of how cave fish adapt their reproduction to nutrient-poor environments. #EvoDevo #ReproductiveBiology Congrats to lead author and doctoral student: Fanning Xia! doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

I am happy to share a paper that is finally accepted after (way too many) rounds of revision: Further insights into regulatory evolution: we identified >600 miRNAs in cavefish putatively contributing to cave adaptation. Great work by Tatha Biswas! nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I posted about this study last year on X, but it doesn’t hurt to remind folks here how cool #bats are and about the kinds of physiological adaptations that evolved to process sugars effectively. Great work by J. Camacho @rohner.bsky.social et al www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Be careful online today. This is the one day a year when people post false information on the internet

I would be disappointed in Harvard, but I never expected better.

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I'm sorry, but if it takes me more than 30 min to log in to have the honor of reviewing a paper for your journal, I probably won't get around to finishing it. I don't understand why you make me jump through so many hoops to do work for free for you

Was die #Wissenschaft jetzt braucht – 10 Punkte für die neue Bundesregierung. #Forschung kann Wege aus vielen Krisen aufzeigen. Was sie dafür braucht? Richtige Rahmenbedingungen: weniger Bürokratie, mehr #Investitionen & eine starke #Wissenschaftspolitik. www.mpg.de/24266790/fue...