I am hiring a postdoc for scRNA-seq research in Lund, Sweden on the visual systems of non-model inverts as part of an ERC project on the evolution and ecology of advanced color and polarization vision. Apply here or share the link with someone who may be interested! 🧪
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social!
We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏
You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net
Obrigado 🙏🏽
Interested in miRNAs, early animal evolution, and RNA biology? We’re recruiting a BBSRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Associate @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #Postdoc #microRNA #RNAbiology
Apply by 14 May 2026. 👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in...
@totsese.bsky.social , @perievodevo.bsky.social , @allancarbal.bsky.social , @kguynes.bsky.social , @martaig.bsky.social , @jorgecorbacho.bsky.social , @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social , @arnonelab.bsky.social , @mcgregorlab.bsky.social , @jrmarmor.bsky.social 15b/15
Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬
Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A (non-realistic) „sticker“ I drew in procreate of Eulalia sp., a green paddle worm of the family Phyllodocidae.
If life hands you a deadline, draw polychaete stickers!
(Am supposed to be working on velvet worm nephridia, but oh well…)
#polychaete #worm #art #marinelife
Finding molecular tags that localise fluorescent proteins to the cell membrane was the goal of our latest paper, now published in Development @dev-journal.bsky.social. The tags act as address labels, sending proteins to the cell membrane, where they highlight the shape and arrangement of cells. 2/9
Wonderful zooms on a large Tomopteris! A little less than a meter probably.
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 903 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife
Midwater worms >> terrestrial worms. 😍 #tomopteris 🦑🧪🌊 #DesigningtheFuture3 @mbarinews.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social
read more comics: safelyendangered.com
Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment.
So here's a 🧵. /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
From our UK side, we thank the @erc.europa.eu , the BBSRC and @qmulsbbs.bsky.social for the funding and support. And to all the help from our lab members in @chemamd.bsky.social , Schneider lab and Ferrier lab @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Now we can celebrate at #EED26 in Glasgow 🏴🥳
#Shai-Hulud 🪱
After very positive, but laborious revisions, we pulished the preprint and did a lot of new experiments.
We thank the two great evodevo scientists Néva Meyer and Detlev Arendt, plus a third anonymous reviewer for all the suggestions and comments.
The version of record is here @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🥳
Happy for this collaboration with @emmanuelhaillot.bsky.social and Stephan Schneider
At #EED24 in Helsinki we met. Instead of competing, we got our 2 stories togheter into a bigger one
#EvoDevo
#DevBio
Very proud of my 2nd PhD student, Pedro Romero Charria, who defended his viva yesterday. Big thanks to @michael-imbeault.bsky.social and Roman Arguello for the discussion. Pedro's main work on #6mA in protists was published late last year (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), but there's more to come!
🔈 Heading to Euro Evo-Devo #EED2026 in Glasgow? Don't miss out our Fish Satellite Meeting! Co-organized with Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social, Ralf Schneider @ralfschneider.bsky.social, Laure Sanders @lsaunders.bsky.social and Joost Woltering, and with a list of outstanding speakers 👇
Félicitations à Luis BEZARES-CALDERON @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social lauréat d'une bourse « Research Grant » de Human Frontier Science Program Organization @hfspo.bsky.social pour le projet Tracing the Evolutionary History of Sensory Perception via TPR Channels
www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
Rory, after a PhD defense, on his phone
Congratulations to Rory 🎊 , newest lab member from @chemamd.bsky.social lab to defend his thesis on head regeneration in Owenia 🪱
Examined by Isabel Palacios and Patricia Álvarez-Campos
#EvoDevo
#Regeneration
#DevBio
#InWormWeTrust
These wondrous worms build their homes directly on the rocky vent chimneys where temperatures can reach up to 105 degrees Celsius (221 degrees Fahrenheit). 🔥
Pompeii worms (Alvinella pompejana) live on hydrothermal vent “chimneys,” where superheated water belches from within the Earth’s crust.
Back at the microscope, getting some data for #EED26 in Glasgow 🏴🪱
#WormWednesday
#EvoDevo
#DevBio
#InWormWeTrust
From Costa Rica 🥲🇨🇷
What is the PhD actually for, especially now that AI can do increasingly more of what we train scientists to do? compbiologist.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
A response to @pracheeac.bsky.social's thought-provoking essay "Free the PhD".
GLOW WORMS IN LONG BEACH HOLY SHIT!!!
🚨Save the Date: CEE Spring Symposium 2026, Thurs 28th May afternoon, ‘Molecular Frontiers in Wildlife, Ecology and Evolution’. How emerging 🧬 and 💻 tools are transforming our ability to study eco-evo in wild systems
Please sign in to our free Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/Ceespring and share!
A Spionidae larva (polychaete) under UV light. So pretty!
#marineplankton 🦑
Last day to submit an abstract! This is a meeting aimed at all career stages, but especially geared on early career scientists (PhD/postdoc), don't feel you need to have a perfectly polished story to present!
photo of Yiqun Wang
Tubulin, membrane, nuclei & total RNA staining in a 12-cell stage marine slipper snail embryo
Yiqun Wang of @ucsandiego.bsky.social will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Asymmetric mRNA partition mediated embryonic patterning in spiralian development revealed by spatial transcriptomics" Image: Tubulin, membrane, nuclei & total RNA in a 12-cell stage marine slipper snail embryo
🏅 Fifth Place – DevBio Art Contest 🎨 “The Leech Family” 🪱 Helobdella austinensis, a very dorky segmented worm that’s taught us decades of developmental biology! 🧬 This clay piece by @biyolokum.bsky.social captures their quirky life as hermaphroditic parents carrying babies on their belly 💚
A new strain of transgenic Platynereis. At this stage, this is still a great joy. Hopefully, several more will follow soon ...
I hope other teams are making progress with this notoriously resistant species. Let's make Platy the marine D melanogaster ! #platynereis #wormwednesday #evodevo
