A developmental switch in the piRNA pathway ensures stage-specific transposon silencing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.28.747770v1
Aide Macias-Muñoz
@aidemm.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist at UCSC | Assistant professor | Interested in genes, genomes, and #evolution of complex traits 🧬 | EvoDevo Regeneration https://macias.sites.ucsc.edu/ 📸 IG: @cnidolab_ucsc
🧪The Brooks Lab is looking for an Assistant Project Scientist! The person hired to this role will engage in the planning and execution of research that uses computational genetics approaches to understand gene regulation and driver mutations in cancer. Apply by Sept 14: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF...
Collagen remodeling supports Hydra vulgaris head regeneration and stem cell invasion Read this Research Article from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by Ben Cox, Celina E. Juliano and colleagues. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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IOB "This course meets once a week, with extra homework in lieu of additional class time. The first part of the course teaches #paleobiology content through interactive lectures, carefully selected readings, and short videos..." from doi.org/10.1093/iob/... Price #science #database #education
Researchers are exploring how generative AI might be homogenizing both culture and cognition. go.nature.com/3V5EfE1
Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same?
Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition.
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Generative AI tools are increasingly being used in science. This raises a question: what counts as human authorship when some of a researcher’s work is mediated by AI? go.nature.com/3T22v9D
Who is responsible when AI helps to write science?
As generative AI becomes embedded in research and publishing, the deeper challenge is preserving accountability for scholarly work.
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We are looking for a research assistant to join our team. brain.mpg.de/brand Apply using the link below if you are interested in doing research on the neural and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. jobs.brain.mpg.de/jobposting/6...
Over the next 18 months, California voters will have two chances to approve spending billions of dollars to bolster the state’s scientific enterprise in the wake of cuts to federal research by President Donald Trump. https://scim.ag/4df0lKy
California to vote on spending $16 billion to boost research after Trump cuts
State initiatives this fall and in early 2028 will gauge voters’ appetite for science, but controversy has grown around one proposal
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Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪
We're hiring a Curator of Marine Invertebrates either at the Assistant or Associate level. Please spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested. Applications due October 15th! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
Recruitment
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What does it take to evolve a new trait? We have a new paper out that uses the Drosophila sex comb—a male-specific grasping structure found in a subset of drosophilids—as a model to answer this question 1/11
PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · last wk.What are the genetic mechanisms for the #evolution of novel traits? This study by @brhopkins92.bsky.social &co links #Drosophila sex comb teeth to expression changes within ancestral cells, leading to diverged metabolic/developmental rates, and a novel structure. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4gQOnZK
Recognition and silencing of a new transposable element. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Recognition and silencing of a new transposable element - Nature Communications
Genomes must defend against transposable elements, but how cells detect newly invading elements remains poorly understood. Here, the authors show that a newly invading transposon in S. pombe is recogn...
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The first of a three-chapter series from my work on cnidarian innate immunity in @daviesswphd.bsky.social lab has been published. Thanks to my mentors Sarah and Tom Gilmore for making this possible!!! (1/) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Algae-specific immune modulation influences responses to heat and pathogen challenge in a symbiotic coral
The role of symbiotic algae in coral life history and host health is well documented, but the immune and physiological trade-offs of hosting these symbionts remain less explored. While association wit...
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@jkdaanoy.bsky.social does a much more elegant job showcasing his integrative work here! Working with him has been so fun!
-JK@jkdaanoy.bsky.social · 7d agoThe first of a three-chapter series from my work on cnidarian innate immunity in @daviesswphd.bsky.social lab has been published. Thanks to my mentors Sarah and Tom Gilmore for making this possible!!! (1/) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
UMass Amherst Dept of Biology is hiring a TT faculty member in Evolutionary Biology! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista... We have a diverse and wonderful dept - please consider joining us!
Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A...
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#SICB Pittsburgh Abstract submission is open for SICB 2027! www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/abstrac... Come share your research and learn about the most exciting areas of integrative, comparative, & organismal #biology in Pittsburgh, PA on January 3-7, 2027. The deadline is August 28 at 11:59 PM HST.
The Department of Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Ecology. Come join our lively community, in a fantastic city!! apply.interfolio.com/192136
Most basic science departments at UCSF are having faculty searches this year. Biochemistry & Biophysics, Microbiology & Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and more. We're looking for new and exciting science and nice people. You'll find them all at aprecruit.ucsf.edu
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Oh damn. This looks sick "Here, we show that transcriptional regulatory activity is an intrinsic property of transposases (TPases)"
bioRxiv Genetics@biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · last wk.Evolution of transposons as controlling elements https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.24.746577v1
New collaborative paper from the lab on gecko sex chromosome and genome evolution! 🧪🦎 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Genomic predisposition is associated with the direction of sex chromosome evolution
Sex chromosome evolution is among the most dynamic genomic innovations in vertebrates, yet why some lineages evolve XY while others evolve ZW remains unclear. Using chromosome-level genomes from 19 ge...
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Come be our colleague!!! TT position in Evolution careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A...
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NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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The newly established Department of Systems Biology (systems.bio.uci.edu) @UCIrvine is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Systems Biology. Great science, incredible faculty support, and beautiful, sunny SoCal weather! ☀️🌴 Details: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10377. Please share.
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Happy to see Ashley's paper out @natphys.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Decaying and expanding Erk gradients process memory of skeletal size during zebrafish fin regeneration
Nature Physics - Zebrafish can regenerate amputated fins back to their original size. It is now shown that gradients in extracellular signal-regulated kinase activity act as rulers during fin bone...
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📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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Delighted and very proud to see our study (and Anna-Maria's first first-author paper) recently out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @cambiochem.bsky.social @cruk-ci.bsky.social 1/5
Lifestyles of Gypsy-family transposons shape their regulatory mechanisms | PNAS
Transposable elements (TEs) are a highly diverse group of selfish genomic elements, prevalent across the tree of life, whose uncontrolled propagati...
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New NSF BIO solicitation is live.... this replaces the previous IOS, MCB, DEB solicitation www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...