Somatic mutations and single-nucleus transcriptomics reveal uniquely human properties of neuronal aging https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.22.753624v1

We're hiring! PNI is recruiting an assistant professor of neuroscience working with non-human primates in any area. Review begins Oct 19: apply.interfolio.com/192521 #NeuroJobs #Neuroskyence

Really honoured to join @martinowk.bsky.social and @kr-maynard.bsky.social at the LIBD for the next few months! Looking forward to working on this exciting project and learning from such a great group of scientists! And a special thanks to @profsimonfisher.bsky.social for making this all possible!

Keri Martinowich@martinowk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Super excited to have @gokberkalagoz.bsky.social joining our teams @lieberinstitute.bsky.social as a Visiting Scientist for a few months to work on a collaborative project with @profsimonfisher.bsky.social lab on a cross species spatial transcriptomics project related to language processing.

If you are interested in learning computational population genetics and ancient genomics, I have curated my list of workshops and online tutorials (and will continue to do so) indicating suitability for self-learners and status. You find the list [here](www.stephanschiffels.de/resources.html).

For the past 30 years, “whole-genome sequencing” has been a misnomer. Today the T2T Consortium publishes a dozen papers heralding a future of truly complete genomes for humans and nearly any vertebrate 👨‍🔬🐒🐦🐀🦒🐎🫏🐹🐟 (sorry, no salamanders): www.cell.com/consortium/t... 🧵[1/15]

Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.com

New opportunity: fully funded PhD position within the Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS Investigate experimentally the evolutionary significance of transformative Stone Age techniques in this project on cognitive demands, and explore the probability of their success. Deadline: 15 September 2026.

What transforms a novice into an expert? Research shows expertise relies on domain-specific knowledge, but a neural account of this transformation has remained fragmentary. Low-dimensional and optimised representations of high-level information in the expert brain🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

Looking for a postdoc opportunity in evolutionary genetics? Join the Wolf Lab at LMU Munich. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Join @palevoprim.bsky.social as part of the #ReVol project (@cnrs.fr & Wits Joint PhD Programme)! Spend 3 years investigating the southern African fossil cercopithecoids to reconstruct past ecology and behavior through skeletal morphology and dental microwear.

📢 Our July issue features a Focus issue on Evolutionary Innovation go.nature.com/4evCAhg Read about it in our Editorial "Genetic origins and constraints of evolutionary innovation": go.nature.com/4eDfHbL

#Opportunity for #MA and #PhDstudents: University of Turku organises an #Erasmus+ #BIP course: Finding a Common Ground: Reducing the Gap between #Linguistics and #Genetics. More info in the flyer. @haam-community.bsky.social

New paper! How do RNAs "know" where to go inside a cell? We dug into the sequence elements that route RNAs to the right place. It turns out that, in mammals, they're surprisingly massive (>200 nt), multipartite, and wonderfully complicated. 🧵

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"While the number of biallelic SNVs alone dwarfs SVs by ~380-450-fold, SVs were 170-260-fold more likely to exhibit high impact effects across species..."

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A Pan-pangenome illuminates complex structural variation and selection in humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.06.730619v1

Outstanding new study tracking the changes in Purkinje neuron dendritic architecture during primate evolution, documenting an increase in dendritic compartmentalization in the human lineage Study by @auroraferrell.bsky.social @neurosilas.bsky.social & colleagues 🧪🧠 #cerebellum

Cerebellar Purkinje cells change dendritic architecture during primate evolution

Vertebrate evolution has driven adaptive remodeling of brain regions impacted by changing sensorimotor demands. The cerebellum--a hindbrain area mediating associative learning and predictive coding--i...

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Great postdoc opportunity for folk into morphology, biomechanics and human/primate evolution: pliodis.github.io/opportunitie...

PDRA Opportunity: Modelling the functional adaptations of the primate masticatory apparatus at VUB

2-year renewable Post-doctoral Fellowship at Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry Research Group, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium to study the functional adaptations of the prima...

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The meritocracy strikes again: 'Overseas students starting at the University of Cambridge this autumn will pay at least £450,000 for a medicine degree as England’s top-ranking universities plan a 29 per cent rise in international undergraduate fees over four years.' www.ft.com/content/36e2...

The £450,000 degree: how English university fees for overseas students are surging

Top-ranking universities plan a 29% rise in international undergraduate fees

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Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

Happy to share a short article I wrote for @theconversation.com , where I highlight our recently published EVApeCognition Dataset (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and discuss how it can help advance research into great ape cognition and behaviour theconversation.com/great-apes-w...

Great apes: what we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research

A database of great ape research promises to unlock deeper understanding of their cognition, intelligence and social behaviour.

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TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

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Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

🚨One week left! Applications for our Postdoctoral Fellows Program will close on 20. May! We offer numerous benefits: ✅ 3-year funded position ✅ Core research funding to cover travel, publishing, and project costs ✅Mentorship from 2+ PoL PIs ..and much more! Apply now: tud.link/y3djda

🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

The ontogeny of vocal rhythms in a non-human primate. New paper by Lia Laffi & al. with @andrearavignani.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/desc.70189

The Ontogeny of Vocal Rhythms in a Non‐Human Primate

Rhythm is a fundamental aspect of human behaviour, and musical rhythm provides one of its most elaborate instances. Unlike speech, this rhythmic behaviour is characterized by the production of tempor...

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🚨Fully funded PhD-position🚨 in our Genotype-Phenotype Evolution in Space (GPS) Lab. Interested in the question on how climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations? Come work with us in Tübingen! uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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Very good @natneuro.nature.com review by @janetsong.bsky.social M. Greenberg D. Reich & C. Walsh, capturing progress made by genomic approaches to understand the evolution of the human brain 🧪🧬🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genomic approaches for understanding the evolution of the human brain - Nature Neuroscience

This Review describes how an approach that starts from genetic changes under selection during human evolution and integrates comparative and functional studies can reveal adaptive phenotypes across di...

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Comparative lifespan trajectories of brain energy metabolism in human and macaque https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.16.719061v1