Comparative gonadal histology reveals complex reproductive traits in Cubozoa (Cnidaria: Medusozoa) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2026.1825604 #EvoDevo

Bilaterian BMP signaling gradients suggest an ancestral anti-neural role. Study of #cnidarians shows that #BMP signalling promotes neurogenesis; its "anti-neural" function is a side effect of its role in the DV axis @paulknabl.bsky.social @genikhovich.bsky.social @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dJHoiR

It was an incredible conference. Happy that I could share my work on jellyfish metamorphosis!! #CJM26

Worm people HELP!! Any idea what this beauty might be? Collected in a tide pool in Eastern Taiwan.

Worm people HELP!! Any idea what this beauty might be? Collected in a tide pool in Eastern Taiwan.

In animals with large genomes, finding cis-regulatory elements can be very challenging. Enhancers can be located tens/hundreds of kb away from their target promoters. We face this challenge in Parhyale, with >3 Gbp genome. We just published a preprint describing how we are tackling this problem. /1

Calling all Ocean-Inspired Photographers! We are inviting photographers from around the world to enter the Ocean Image Collection Photography Competition 2026. Find out more and enter - https://www.mba.ac.uk/ocean-image-collection/ #OceanImageCollection

Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Postdoc Opening! 🚨 Thrilled to (belatedly!) share that I’ve received @hfspo.bsky.social grant in collaboration with @KatherinaPetrou "Plant-like solar tracking in a photosymbiotic animal." We are hiring a Postdoc to join the team @bristolbiosci.bsky.social! Apply👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO766/r...

Group Leader Call at the @cbitoulouse.bsky.social in Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :) cbi-toulouse.fr/wp-content/u...

How resilient are tissues to cell mispositioning and loss, and how do they restore their cell numbers? Check our latest work, from @ybellaichelab.bsky.social Congratulations to all authors. Artwork from the artist @lale-alpar.bsky.social (lalealpar.com) www.cell.com/developmenta...

Un poste de Professeur des Universités va être ouvert lors de la campagne d’emploi 2026 à l’université Claude Bernard Lyon1 - Profil Recherche : Biologie Moléculaire des Eucaryotes. Profil Enseignement: Biologie Moléculaire. Profil ci-joint. Merci de diffuser dans vos réseaux.

Sign up date coming quickly! Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

📝 The anteroposterior (AP) molecular blueprint of adult guts is shared across bilaterians doi.org/10.1371/jour... Here, Stefano Vianello et al. used comparative transcriptomics to deconstruct the AP organization of adult bilaterian guts, and propose a model of the gut of the bilaterian ancestor 🍽️🐛

I always love watching this video! It's a great start for the year to be reminded of the wonders of the universe and nature around us, and the joy there is in sharing the experience of discovery. Happy New Year ! 🥳 @theatlantic.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV89...

An excellent opportunity to join the amazing faculty at the Whitney Labs as a tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Applications due December 1! explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

🚨🚨🚨 The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to [email protected] by December 4th Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th Please share the info

Lophophorata is monophyletic! Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata. A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social! More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...

I am very excited to announce the opening of the submission site for the upcoming Conférences Jacques Monod on Developmental Biology, May 18-22, 2026 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc... @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.

How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵 Check our latest preprint

Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology! Please apply no later than 31 October! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social 🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement. Check out the details! 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience

Apply Now! Tenure-track Faculty Position in Marine Bioscience at the University of Florida's Whitney Lab. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

How do epithelia regulate cell number upon cell loss? Check it out our new preprint! THX to @b-tesson.bsky.social, Eric van Leen, Sam Amirebrahimi, Raphael Thinat and @ybellaichelab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am proud to be a member of the #ISSCR2026 Program Committee and to have helped develop the outstanding program, taking place in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026. Register to hear the excellent science presented! invt.io/1bxbi6gtbsl @isscr.org

Starting Monday!!! If you are in Paris, feel free to drop in for this exceptional course!

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx! www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

"Postdoctoral and research assistant positions, Plant and Microbe Interaction at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan *Application Deadline: 11/30/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf #PlantSciJobs

The PhD work of @bboumard.bsky.social officially out in print! Happy to share this issue with our downstairs colleagues in the BDD @frelab.bsky.social @robinjournot.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...

Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science. Pls repost 🙏 www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...

Just came back from a great meeting in Tutzing on the biology of basal Metazoa. Excellent talks, fantastic posters and very kind and vital community. Thanks also to our keynote speaker, Cassandra Extavour. She was the highlight of the meeting. Thanks everyone for contributing.

First, first-author paper alert! “Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below! 🦑🧪

Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study led by @tomlewin.bsky.social now out in Genome Biology @bmc.springernature.com! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians. doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Cnidarian-Microbe Interactions Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred. Contact Matt Gibson: [email protected]

Thanks for sharing our paper 😊🪰!

Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE JUST RELEASED! Sex unfolded: sex, asex, sexes. Read the introductory editorial by Guest Editors D. Roze, S Glemin, @thomaslenormand.bsky.social & K. Van Doninck here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/7 Fantastic cover art by Caroline Blanc.

Socially regulated developmental plasticity in the color pattern of an anemonefish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666690v1

Une dynamique évolutive complexe se cache dans la relation entre les poissons-clowns et leurs anémones-hôtes. Plongez dans l’évolution adaptative des poissons clowns 🌊 🤝 @cnrs.fr @oistedu.bsky.social 👉 Lire l'article dans @currentbiology.bsky.social buff.ly/FpaaYKG

#ResultatScientifique 🔎| Découvrez la dernière publication d'Allison Bardin et de ses collaborateurs ⤵️ 🤝 @cnrs.fr @cnrs-paris.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @bardinlab.bsky.social @bboumard.bsky.social 📕 @cp-devcell.bsky.social | buff.ly/kIfPI0E

We'll be looking for a postdoc to bring these approaches together, funded for 3+ years. If you are interested please get in touch; if you know someone who might be interested please share this message. 3/3

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

🪼 How did the animal body plan evolve? This ‘fundamental’ study in Clytia sheds light on how Wnt3 coordinates both gene expression and planar cell polarity during axis formation, offering key insights into the origins of morphogenesis. buff.ly/e1Un958 #DevBio

Interested in visiting Villefranche, Roscoff or Banyuls marine stations? The EMBRC-France (www.embrc-france.fr) 8th Call for Projects is open. Deadline Sept 19 for stays by end of June 2026. Up to 42 person-days per project are covered, with access to EMBRC-France services, accommodation & catering.

A transcriptomic approach to understand genetic networks of regeneration, cell plasticity, and longevity of the Immortal Jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.02.660568v1

The deadline is approaching for this fantastic course! Apply now! Free to attend!

Book your calendars for the 2026 ISSCR meeting in Montreal in 1 year! An exciting speaker line up! @isscr.org www.isscr2026.org/overview

This month marks the 3-year anniversary of En Quête de Bio outreach launch, created with @bardinlab.bsky.social and the support of the @sfbd.bsky.social ! By the end of the week, we'll have passed the 4,500-child milestone, done it in 16 cities, with the help of 72 volunteers! www.eqd-bio.org 1/2

Calling all established #MarineResearchers! 🌊 Applications are now open for the Ray Lankester Investigatorship. Open to established researchers (10+ years post-PhD), this is your chance to pursue independent marine research at the MBA. Apply here 🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/ray-lankeste...

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