plz repost 🙏 we are looking for a technician to start this summer/fall for 1-2 years to work with me at Cornell in the labs of @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and Andy Clark, in collaboration with @corriemoreau.bsky.social on flies & termites 🪰🐜🧬🔬 Ithaca is gorges!
jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...
I’m looking to hire a postdoc. We’re interested in the evolution of organs and cell types, and evolutionary and developmental genetics more broadly. Please reach out if you’re interested and please pass on to any folks that you know who might be! 🪰🧬
🪰 #Dros26 has come and gone—and what a week it was. From a guitar-fueled opening to buzzing poster sessions, researchers shared advances in fly biology, behavior, and beyond. Thanks to all who joined us for another incredible year!
Read a recap by @gnemeth.bsky.social on G2G: buff.ly/x31gZFt
We’re recruiting!
Exciting opportunities in our lab supported by a
@wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award.
• Postdoctoral researchers
• Research assistant/PhD students
Join us to study how neural circuits drive decision-making.
Deadline 26/04
Learn more and Apply here: rezavallab.org
Postdoc position in Evolutionary and Developmental Genetics at the University of Florida's Hopkins Lab. Candidates study organ evolution with computational and experimental methods. Contact Ben Hopkins at br.hopkins@ufl.edu. More info: [Hopkins Lab](https://www.genetics.ufl.edu #postdoc
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
The Fishman and Finseth Labs seek a postdoc to study genome evolution in monkeyflowers, focusing on centromere variation. Interested candidates should contact Lila Fishman at lila.fishman@umontana.edu. More info: www.fishmanlab.org. #postdoc
Nice to see our work featured in The Guardian — showing that sperm quality can decline the longer it is stored. @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social @itchyshin.bsky.social
Congratulations Maitreya!
We have an opportunity to join our team at @arcadiascience.com jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien...
We're looking for an evolutionary biologist who thinks a lot about protein evolution. If you have experience investigating genomic and amino acid sequence evolution and protein structural evolution, apply!
We’re hiring!
Our lab is seeking a research technician interested in neurobiology. This position is ideal for recent graduates looking for a 2‑year research experience before their next academic chapter. Experience with Drosophila is a plus.
Please share.
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Fontan et al. show that sequence divergence within introns can disrupt essential gene expression through defective splicing, providing a mechanistic link between rapid Y chr. evolution and hybrid sterility.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag045
#evobio #molbio #drosophila
@jullienflynn.bsky.social
Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!
Our undergrads are out in force at #Dros26, and all our presentations are today! Grace kicks things off at 8:30 am with a talk (PrgNm 38) in the Evolution session on the functional consequences of adaptive evolution in an essential, orphan spermatogenesis gene.
Annual Drosophila Research Conference 2026 Friday, March 6 8 to 10 PM Workshop - Superior, Level 2 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know ...
#Dros26 community — we’d love to see you at our workshop this Friday! [1/8]
Organizers: @ritamgraze.bsky.social @marbeitman.bsky.social @lydiagrmai.bsky.social @gavinrrice.bsky.social @brhopkins92.bsky.social Artyom Kopp
A card announcing the call for papers stating 'Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction Guest Editors: Etya Amsalem, Tony D. Williams and Kathryn Wilsterman. Submission deadline: 30 June 2026' with the Journal of Experimental Biology logo and the logo for the Special Issue containing an egg cell surrounded by eight sperm cells. The eighth sperm, on the top right, is penetrating the egg.
We are calling for Reviews, Commentaries or research papers for our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction, covering the entire reproductive process, from mate selection, mating and egg-laying or pregnancy through to parental care
bit.ly/3ZT42hY
These days, it's more like:
Cleary
Barrows
Lin
Willems
Berenstain
for me. ;)
Adaptive evolution of Topoisomerase II triggers reproductive isolation in Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...
Time-calibrated phylogeny of the family Drosophilidae showing major species groups, surrounded by representative adult flies that highlight the remarkable morphological diversity of this model insect group. The composite image was created using Microsoft PowerPoint. Fly photographs were taken by Darren J. Obbard and are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License with permission.
The #fly community aims to achieve a comprehensive genomic study of the Drosophilidae family. @pankajd.bsky.social @bernardkim.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social @darrenobbard.bsky.social present a comparative gene annotation for 301 #Drosophilidae species @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4c3pyrI
Join us to teach in our cell and gene therapies program at Northeastern northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
How did life arise from simple chemical building blocks?
New #LMBResearch led by @edogia.bsky.social in @philholliger.bsky.social group has identified a small self-replicating ribozyme that could be the answer.
Read more: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/...
Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved.
It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪
Another announcement! 📣 Our work on hybrid incompatibility in cohesin protection in 🐭oocytes is published!! Congrats Warif El Yakoubi and Eddie Pan!!🎉 We found hybrids with cohesion errors in two distinct genus.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Smallpox: when was it eliminated in each country? World choropleth map showing, for each country, the decade when smallpox was eliminated. Legend categories shown are: Before 1900; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s. Subheading notes that smallpox was declared globally eradicated in 1980. Key pattern: most countries in Europe, North America, and Australia eliminated smallpox earlier in the 20th century, while many countries in Africa, South Asia, and parts of South America eliminated it later, concentrated in the 1960s to 1970s. Data source: Fenner et al. (1988).
William Foege, the physician who saved many millions from smallpox—
William Foege, who sadly died this week, is one of the reasons why this map ends in the 1970s.
De novo genes arise from previously non-coding sequences. This evolutionary path — when randomly expressed sequences become folded and active proteins — challenges our understanding of genetic innovation. New Review by @bornberglab.bsky.social and @lacholt.bsky.social out now!
🧬 What does the starting material from which genes could emerge #denovo look like?
🌱 We used #RiboSeq to investigate the landscape of translated de novo ORFs in 3 #Arabidopsis species, and how they might be linked to gene birth!
📝 Check out our preprint here:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🚨 Requesting help:
I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists
I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️⚧️🧬
Please signal boost?
An important study maps how nerves control the Drosophila male reproductive tract, revealing two types of glutamatergic neurons that also release serotonin or octopamine.
🔗 buff.ly/3PV2YQW
Vibrant color portrait of Jane S. Richardson, the visionary biophysicist and artist who revolutionized structural biology with her invention of ribbon diagrams. She gazes warmly at the camera with a bright, knowing smile that radiates quiet brilliance and decades of curiosity. Her silver-blonde hair woven with gentle waves. Large, elegant dangling earrings catch the light, and she wears a richly patterned brown blouse embroidered with intricate turquoise paisley motifs and delicate beadwork that echoes the molecular elegance she has spent her life depicting. Behind her floats a luminous, dreamlike backdrop of glowing molecular structures--interlocking hexagonal and ribbon-like forms in electric blues, teals, and greens--blending science and art in a single, living canvas.
Hand-drawn and hand-colored (by Jane Richardson) scientific artwork known as a Richardson ribbon diagram (or “ribbon model”), one of the iconic visual inventions of Jane Richardson that transformed the way we see and understand protein structures. A graceful, three-dimensional tangle of protein backbone ribbons twists and spirals through space, rendered in soft pencil lines and luminous watercolor hues. Smooth golden-brown coils represent α-helices that curl like elegant ribbons, while broad teal-green arrows trace the flat, pleated strands of β-sheets slicing through the molecule with directional purpose. Thin, looping golden threads connect the secondary structures, creating a delicate, almost dance-like choreography of biology’s hidden architecture. The entire form is framed by a simple olive-green mat and dark border, giving the drawing the quiet dignity of both fine art and precise scientific illustration—a timeless bridge between molecular reality and human imagination.
Jane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941
+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012
#WomenInSTEM
