The chromosomal genome sequence of a shovel-head worm, Maea johnstoni (Fiege, Licher & Mackie, 2000) (Spionida: Magelonidae) and its associated microbial metagenome sequences wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/11-... @chemamd.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

Very happy to have this work finally published! How do embryos sculpt their shape? We map the contractile & adhesive forces shaping early C. elegans embryos. With K. Yamamoto @ittoku04.bsky.social G. Charras' lab @gcharras.bsky.social & my team @turlierlab.bsky.social shorturl.at/xv7G5 1/6

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk

Please share, I am hiring an evo devo postdoctoral research fellow! 📍: The Sleight Lab, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (5th oldest University in UK & English-speaking world) 📅: start after 1st December 2026 🐌: Evolution and Development (molluscs) ⌛: 3 year contract sleightlab.com/vacancies/

🚨 Job Alert - Please share 🙏 Interested in 3D gene regulation in development & evolution? 🤓🧬 💥 Our lab at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social is expanding! ✅ 4 years fully funded PhD position 💻🧪 Experimental or computational backgrounds welcome 👇 Details below #PhDPosition #PhDOpportunity #AcademicJobs

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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🎨 job alert 🐠 Come join us! We have two positions open! These are part of our @erc.europa.eu funded project on the mechanisms underpinning convergence of colour patterns in cichlid fishes! Closing date: 16th August. Postdoc: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Technician: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell

ALT: Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell

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How does an embryo generate the right cells in the right place? Delighted to share our latest findings on how neural crest cells acquire vagal or trunk identities Spoiler alert: The timing & combination of CDXs preconfigures cell identity & distinct HOX states www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Temporally distinct CDX programmes preconfigure vagal and trunk neural crest

Neural crest cells (NCCs) are progenitor cells vital in establishing the head, heart, gut and peripheral nervous system of vertebrate embryos. Disruptions to NCC development underlie neurocristopathie...

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Excited to share our new preprint led by Fred and me in collaboration with the archaeal community! We found that the molecular foundation of histone-based chromatin has pre-eukaryotic roots in Asgard archaea. (1/4) #ArchaeaSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Emergence of histone-based chromatin complexity in Asgard archaea

The emergence of the eukaryotes coincided with the diversification of histone proteins and their post-translational modifications by enzymes that constitute the core of eukaryotic chromatin. Yet the e...

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Digging into the roots of chelicerates - paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Urokodia sheds light on the origin of chelicerae and book gills of Chelicerata - Nature

Microtomography reconstructions and phylogenetic analyses of Urokodia aequalis from the Chengjiang biota of China provide an updated interpretation of the evolution of anatomical structures in chelice...

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What is the evolutionary origin of the organizer? New work from @kremnyovs.bsky.social, @tclebedeva.bsky.social & Hejnol Lab @uni-jena.de reports the blastopore lip of the #ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, a member of the evolutionary sister group to all other metazoans, exhibits organizer activity.

A blastoporal organizer in a ctenophore - Nature

Experiments using the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi and the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis reveal that the emergence of a core signalling pathway may have been a key innovation enabling the transit...

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Bye-bye Glasgow and #eed2026 ! I had the pleasure to present our last story in the Evo-Devo of Complex Life Histories: Agametic Development, Regeneration and Clonality symposium! Thank you @cnidevo.bsky.social ans Stefano for the invitation and to the local organizers @chemamd.bsky.social and co !

Inspiring plenary talk on variation in water striders by Abdou Khila at the EuroEvoDevo conference in Glasgow. #EED2026

The @chemamd.bsky.social lab says goodbye to Glasgow after a fun and productive #EED2026. Great to have met old friends and made new ones. Thank you Glasgow for the hospitality and the whiskey 👌🏽 #DevBio #EvoDevo

BIOM's delegates at the 10th #EED2026 meeting in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Heading home from a great #EED2026 meeting in Glasgow. Thanks to the local organizers @chemamd.bsky.social and team! Glasgow offered some of the most beautiful and history-breathing lecture halls in EED history. And special thanks to the EED programme/scientific committee, esp. Sylvie Retaux.

Our story about the poising and connectivity of human developmental enhancers is out! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Safe travels to those making their way to Glasgow for #EED2026 😊 While you are stuck in transit, you can check out this special collection of #EvoDevo papers compiled by @dev-journal.bsky.social ⬇️

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out our 2026 subject collection, showcasing recent papers in @dev-journal.bsky.social on evolutionary developmental biology: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti... It has been curated to support the 2026 Euro-Evo-Devo conference in Glasgow, UK. #EED2026

Check out our 2026 subject collection, showcasing recent papers in @dev-journal.bsky.social on evolutionary developmental biology: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti... It has been curated to support the 2026 Euro-Evo-Devo conference in Glasgow, UK. #EED2026

Being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society is a tremendous honour. My deepest thanks go to the hundreds of students and postdocs who have passed through my lab over the last 30+ years. They have been the soul of the lab, and this recognition belongs as much to them as it does to me.

EuroEvoDevo #EED2026 in Glasgow starts next week! I am organizing Symposium S08: Craniofacial Evo-Devo on 10 June from 9:00. Hope to see you there!

Please repost !! SANTA CRUZ DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026. Deadline to register your abstracts for the meeting is Monday June 1. Please get those abstracts in ! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

🚨 Excited to share a new manuscript from the lab. Here, we have developed a new method, HiCPotts, to identify significant interactions in 3D chromatin data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...; package bioconductor.org/packages/HiC.... Big shoutout to an amazing previous PhD in the lab Godwin. 1/n

Only few days left to apply! This event is relevant both for wet lab biologists who want to learn more about spatial OMICs and get initiated to data analysis and for bioinformaticians who want to learn about the latests developments in spatial OMICs.

Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢Join us for the Spatial-Cell-ID #spatialOMICs Summer School, September 13-18th 2026, at the Centre Paul-Langevin in Aussois, in the French Alps! You can find the full scientific program, our speakers, and the application form on our website: spatial-cell-id.github.io/scid2026/ Please share!

Two weeks to go before #EED2026... We’re organizing the #Platynereis satellite meeting, featuring 27 talks on all things spiralian. I can’t wait to be in Glasgow! #ManIsButAWorm

Super cool story. Glad to be a part of it ☺️

Chema Martin@chemamd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 We discovered a new mode of Hox gene regulation in annelids! 🪱 A distal enhancer acts as a "global control region", lifting Hox genes from Polycomb repression. This is reminiscent of Hox gene control in vertebrates, but the two modes likely evolved convergently. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨 We discovered a new mode of Hox gene regulation in annelids! 🪱 A distal enhancer acts as a "global control region", lifting Hox genes from Polycomb repression. This is reminiscent of Hox gene control in vertebrates, but the two modes likely evolved convergently. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣 10 days left to register for our workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology and Phylogenetics Questions? Reach out to any of the organisers: @rachelwarnock.bsky.social @niklashohmann.bsky.social More information and registration 👉 www.lorentzcenter.nl/site/index.p...

Please help us to promote the next version of the Developmental Biology course (Quintay Chile). More information in: biodesarrollo.unab.cl