My barrel cactus bloomed last night

#FlowerPower #BloomingBeauty #FloralVibes

Sao hirsuta, chlupáček skryjsky

🎓 Martina Roeselová Memorial Grant 2026 from @nf-iocbtech.bsky.social supports 15 young researchers, 4 from our faculty! 👩‍🔬🌱🌿👧 Balancing science & parenting, they advance social geography, plant biology, genetics & botany.

Congrats! 🎉👏

For more info check: 1url.cz/1JOCg

Ilustration of evolution in ecological communities, feuturing Drosophila

PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026

Happy to present TOGA2, developed by Yury Malovichko @ymalovichko.bsky.social, the faster, memory-efficient & more accurate TOGA1 successor (github.com/hillerlab/TO...). And annotations, orthologs & gene loss/dup data generated with 4 references for 883 placental mammal and with 5 refs for 676 ...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology (M/F) In accordance with the The Competitive Hiring Process Code of Charles University, the Dean of the Faculty of Science of Charles…

Hiring time! We're looking for experimentalist (ideally in polyamorous relationship with pipette and terminal) interested in synbio, genome engineering and fundamental biological questions, more in the link:
www.researchjobs.cz/job/postdoct...

🧬 #Thymus has more “teachers” than expected! T cells learn self-tolerance with help from diverse dendritic #cells & macrophages. Research by Matouš Vobořil (@unikarlova.cuni.cz opens new paths for autoimmune prevention & #immunotherapy. 🔬💡

🔗 1url.cz/WJgHx

Fingers crossed for me 😂 and for everyone applying. Nice that @sciencecharles.bsky.social gives this opportunity to restart the carrier after the (parental) break.

Pathway-level convergence: an underexplored aspect of convergent evolution The extent to which evolution is repeatable at the genetic level remains a central question in biology. Convergent adaptations can arise through mutations in homologous genes, changes in different gen...

I’m very surprised that the frequently discussed topic of repeated adaptation through the same molecular pathways hadn’t been summarised in a review before. But that has now changed, and that’s a good thing. Thank you @siribirkeland.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/genet...

Come to beautiful Copenhagen for the SMBE conference next summer! Call for symposia is now OPEN!
smbe2026.org 🧪

Agreed 👍

So, so, so, so much excited to read this review!!!

Uni Bern: Assistant Professor with tenure-track for Quantitative Cell Biology Start date of employment: anticipated for August 2027

Please spread the word! 10 days left to apply for this #sciencejobs as Assistant Professor Tenure Track in Quantitative Cell Biology 👩‍🔬
@izb-unibern.bsky.social @unibe.ch! ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5

su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Very cool!

7. How to write consistently boring scientific literature.

“Hell – is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications”
Erik Ursin, fish biologist

Thanks @fattebertj.bsky.social

Open Access
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The best way to reconnect with colleagues after a year of parental leave is a seminar 🧬 🎤
(in the afternoon before my return to my MSCA fellowship)

😂 😂 Finally we are ahead of Max Planck, I think that our corridors are full of various pieces of conceptual art, just unlabeled..

The deadline is slowly coming, do not forget. Postdoc at the transdisciplinary institute of CTS.

Biology is crazy 🤪

Photo taken in the greenhouse of the botanical garden at @sciencecharles.bsky.social

Can you guess which group this fascinating plant belongs to? Its species name is ‘medusa,’ which I think is quite fitting.

Look at this rainbow hematite 🌈 🪨!
The collection of minerals of the National Museum in Prague is just amazing. We always spend more time there than I expect.

Alpine vegetation of Georgia is just incredible ❤️ 🌸

Proud that this is my mom ❤️

Lilium martagon from Slovakia. Did you know that it's toxic to cats?

I ❤️ my localities
#ArabidopsisArenosaIsTheBestModelSpeciesEver

How much do flowers heat up on sun ☀️? And which part of the light spectrum contributes the most? We will hopefully know soon 💡
@janmartinek.bsky.social @svosolsobe.bsky.social

A high-resolution two-step evolution experiment in yeast reveals a shift from pleiotropic to modular adaptation Evolution is expected to involve mutations that are small and modular in effect, but recent findings suggest that mutations early in an adaptive process can have strong and pleiotropic effects. This s...

Having a great time at #smbe2025! So many great talks and conversations. Thank you again to @iamphioxus.bsky.social for the opportunity to present our work! Much of it is from the paper by @grantkinsler.bsky.social and @yuping-li.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/n

If Filip weren’t too lazy to set up Bluesky, he could have reposted this himself :D. Still, I’m proud of him and Patrick Mairmans for this piece of work.