The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

When transposons jump, genomes diverge - even in cultured cells. I am happy to share our new preprint: a chromosome-scale genome assembly for Drosophila OSC cells, one of the key model systems in the piRNA field, especially for nuclear piRNA biology. 🧬🧵 (1/12)

The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Great opportunity to do a PhD with me through the ILESA PhD programme in Oxford with #Drosophila #Microscopy #Genetics. Check out what the programme is about below and DM me for more information! www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

Very proud of our paper on "scrambling-by-hopping" LADs, which was just published: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Congrats to Lise Dauban and the rest of the team – this was a real tour-de-force!

attention 🪰folks. many of you received a survey from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social about potential future sites of the US Fly meeting. We are excited for #Dros26 Chicago, but future sites are in question, for many logistical reasons. GSA is hard at work planning, but we need to hear from you. please RT!

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space. 2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Buzzing to see this published! Before selecting my PhD, I spent three months in the Flashman lab working on this project. Since then, this novel tool has been extensively and beautifully characterized - well done to all the authors!

Join our team as a postdoc and explore the exciting world of transposable elements and developmental biology with us! @imbavienna.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social

Join us to investigate the evolutionary-developmental basis of genital co-evolution between sexes! Strong candidates will have an interest in #EvoDevo & #SexualSelection and Skills in #Drosophilagenetics, Transgenesis or Bioinformatics DM for details. tinyurl.com/yesyjyfd

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

Happy to share our Slow cooked work together with @mcgregorlab.bsky.social, @posnienlab.bsky.social , @nuneslab.bsky.social sky.social and Saad Arif and the collaboration of @maikekittelmann.bsky.social, Fernando Casares & @laurensr.bsky.social and many other friends rdcu.be/d8whP

A scorpion embryo to brighten your day. Purple: Pax2A. Yellow: Pax2B. Blue: nuclei.

Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.

PhD Opportunity: Last few days to apply to join my lab to explore the co-evolution of male and female genitalia in Drosophila. Feel free to DM me for more details! 🧬🐝 #PhDposition #EvolutionBiology #Genetics tinyurl.com/PhD-Drosophila

At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics! Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics. Please spread the word! www.su.se/english/sear...

Fantastic work!

Excited to share the major work of my dissertation, out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We use Drosophila genetics to dissect the evolution of phage-derived toxins that were horizontally transferred to insects and now function as potent anti-parasitoid defenses (1/n): tinyurl.com/2k9ypyxr

Love this preprint, beautiful work

Join us in Cambridge! This evolutionary genomics professorship (lecturer/reader level) has an emphasis on introgression and gene flow. If you study any aspect of evolutionary genomics then please apply! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/

Do you need to curate a Transposable Elements library for a new genome 🧬 or a new species 🐜🦟🦖? Try MCHelper.! Very proud of my (small) contribution here. Gracias a @simonorozcoa.bsky.social y @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social! genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

My graduate student shashank and I wrote this cool review on the evolution of transposon defense. Come for pirna cluster evolution stay for wild theories!

Happy to share our latest work, together with the Casares lab, studying the outstanding regenerative capabilities of mayflies royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social

New review on the evolution of insect male terminalia I wrote with Daniela Nunes: www.cell.com/trends/genet...

@mcgregorlab.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of writing a dispatch article discussing the latest work from @gavinrrice.bsky.social and @rebeizlab.bsky.social. You can find it over on this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Drosophila and IF staining folks: any recommendations for antibody generation companies? I would also be looking to get the company (or a different company) to express and purify the target antigen too. Thanks in advance!!

Would love to know who I'm missing here. Only have 42/150 filled. For insect molecular folks, and I know there are lots of us, here's a Starter Pack! Also see my Insect Genetics and Mol Bio #Feed. I think I've found a nice set of hashtags now :) #SymbioSky #Drosophiila #Insect go.bsky.app/4EuqSbc

Such a wonderful piece of research! Great work yet again by @gavinrrice.bsky.social and the @rebeizlab.bsky.social lab

Here is a Tuesday treat for your eyes. During my PhD, I stumbled across the gene C15, which not only generated the most beautiful stains in Drosophila developing terminalia but, importantly, pinpointed a fascinating example of ventral appendage diversification…

What a week!! Defended my thesis and I am now Dr Ridgway (don’t think it’s settled in just yet) and our paper has been published today in Current Biology! Thank you @mcgregorlab.bsky.social for an incredible PhD experience and all authors who helped shape this paper into a great story 🪰🪰

Two more weeks to apply for this PhD supervised by me and Darren Williams! Want to work in a supportive and friendly environment using Drosophila genetics and state-of-the-art imaging and sequencing techniques? Come join us at Oxford Brookes!