'To avoid the paralysis of the blank page that often torments writers, this column describes literally how I do it. It is brutally concise and heavily functional. I use this process when I know in my head what my study design is and how that design solves a specific knowledge gap.'

Start Here to Write a Research Introduction Section

A step-by-step guide to writing a concise introduction to a clinical research manuscript

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3/3 🎉 And finally, we had a few days to learn more about our projects and to coordinate the first data generation and analyses. The kick-off of our graduate school could not have been more productive. Make sure to learn more about us and our mission here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/home/6242...

2/3 ... followed by the 2-day Symposium “Frontiers in Molecular Zoology” with exciting talks by @isabelalmudi.bsky.social, Mathilde Paris, Benjamin Prud'homme, Matteo Rauzi, @johnnyds.bsky.social, @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social & @verabiol.bsky.social and some of our students.

1/3 🧗‍♀️Finally set to dive deep into our #GoenomiX projects! Since most of the team members arrived, we started with a wonderful ☀️Summer School on “Molecular Genetics in Zoology”. 🧬💻🔬We had three days of lectures and hands-on training in #RNAi, genome editing, #transgenesis, #omics and #imaging...

Thanks for putting a spotlight onto our upcoming work! Exciting times ahead...

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz@unimainz.bsky.social · 3w ago

@dfg.de fördert neue Emmy Noether-Forschungsgruppe zur Evolution neuronaler Schaltkreise an der #UniMainz mit rund 1,8 Millionen Euro 👉 presse.uni-mainz.de/evolutionsneu… #Neurobiologie #Evolutionsbiologie #DFG #EmmyNoether

@dfg.de fördert neue Emmy Noether-Forschungsgruppe zur Evolution neuronaler Schaltkreise an der #UniMainz mit rund 1,8 Millionen Euro 👉 presse.uni-mainz.de/evolutionsneu… #Neurobiologie #Evolutionsbiologie #DFG #EmmyNoether

2/2 🐞 Model system: Red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum 😃 Non-scientific interests: bouldering, hiking, travelling Sibora will work with @bucherlab.bsky.social. 2/2

1/2 And a new addition to our #GoenomiX team. 🥳 Welcome, @sibora-teta.bsky.social! 🔬 Research: evolution, morphogenesis, transgenesis 🔭 Looking forward to: Learn comparative approaches to understand how development evolves across species.

Apply, apply, apply (till Monday!)

Max Farnworth@maxfarnworth.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

2/2 🪱 Model systems: Annelid Syllis malaquini 😃 Non-scientific interests: Gym, crocheting and playing video games Varuni will work with @mtaguado.bsky.social

1/2 And yet another new face in our #GoenomiX team. 🥳 Welcome, Varuni Mishra! 🔬 Research: Polychaetes, Syllid biology and evolution, regeneration and transcriptomics 🔭 Looking forward to: Learn new techniques (e.g. RNAseq & in-situ hybridisation) to study the Wnt pathway in Syllid regeneration.

You can finally edit any Markdown file without moving it into your vault! 🤗 Works for all formats Obsidian supports. Available with Obsidian 1.14.2 (early access).

2/2 Model systems: 🪲 🐌🪱🪼 (basically our entire zoo) 😃 Non-scientific interests: Hiking, writing poetry, cooking 🇵🇪 cuisine Johnny is our postdoc and he will work with @bucherlab.bsky.social

1/2 Our #GoenomiX team is growing. 🥳 Welcome, @johnnyds.bsky.social! 🔬 Research: Metazoan evolution, regulation of gene expression 🔭 Looking forward to: Testing evolutionary hypotheses cross-phyla!

Alternative splicing and gene expression repurpose ancestral genes through distinct evolutionary routes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.05.749416v1

🏀 🇩🇪93:74🇧🇪 Amazing demonstration of team play and dedication! The German coaching staff manages exceptionally well to highlight the individual strength of each player. 🎉 Top 4 teams of the FIBA Woman's World Cup! 🗺️World, accept the truth: Germany is a #Basketball nation.

#DZG2026 is starting in Münster. We look forward to an amazing week at the annual meeting of the German Zoological Society with all facets of #Zoology.

Our #SysBioDiv keynote speakers truly impressed yesterday at #DZG2026! Thanks to Daniela Mera-Rodriguez (Uni Hohenheim) and Sven Rossel (Senckenberg am Meer) for their excellent talks on leaf-cutting ant #biodiversity #socialparasitism 🐜🌿 and #proteomics species identification 🧬🦐🪼

Flamingo at #DZG2026 in Münster: Torben presents cleared tissue imaging of crustacean heart #morphology. @tgoepel.bsky.social @morphonews.bsky.social #Flamingo #LSFM #light-sheet

Vor dem Saisonstart veröffentliche ich hier mal häppchenweise meine ProA-Vorschau, die in einigen Tagen auch im lokalen Saisonheft in der Samtgemeinde Artland erscheint. Zum Auftakt dran sind Heidelberg und Kirchheim. Lasst gern Meinungen und Diskussionspunkte zu den Teams da. #ProABaby

Vor dem heute startenden BBL-Pokal habe ich anbei eine Preview zu den beiden ProA-Teams, die heute einsteigen: Crailsheim und Bremerhaven. Beide hatten eine an sich starke Vorsaison, verloren aber ihre Erfolgstrainer. Gebt wie immer gern Meinungen, Feedback, Einwände, Fragen und Co ab. #ProABaby

Lukas Feldhaus@veilchenfeuer.bsky.social · last mo.

Vor dem Saisonstart veröffentliche ich hier mal häppchenweise meine ProA-Vorschau, die in einigen Tagen auch im lokalen Saisonheft in der Samtgemeinde Artland erscheint. Zum Auftakt dran sind Heidelberg und Kirchheim. Lasst gern Meinungen und Diskussionspunkte zu den Teams da. #ProABaby

2/2 🪼 Model system: Cnidarian Clytia hemisphaerica 😃 Non-scientific interests: Cinema/film festivals, reading, drawing/art, rock climbing, indie video games Sarah will work with @plenart.bsky.social

1/2 And here we go, a new member of our #GoenomiX team. 🥳 Welcome, @sassaf.bsky.social! 🔬 Research: Evo-devo, high resolution imaging, transgenic and genome editing approaches 🔭 Looking forward to: Learn how to integrate data into a 3D virtual model

The final three #Dros27 plenary speakers are here! 🧬 @shimlab.bsky.social 🪰 @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social 🔬 Paul Schmidt From stem cells and tissue homeostasis to injury response, evolution, and adaptation, they complete an exciting lineup. 🔗 buff.ly/VviXmNk

#DZG2026 news: The detailed programme, guidelines & abstract book are out. If you haven't checked out already: dzg-meeting.de/en/programme... Now that everything is set, we are looking forward to an exciting meeting, big thanx to the Münster organising team!! Have a save trip and see you you soon!

Very happy to announce that my first paper is officially out in Evolution & Development. In this article, we showed that species from two major annelid clades with similar fate maps have conserved mechanisms of specification of their central nervous system. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Patterns of Autonomous and Conditional Neural Specification for the Brain and Ventral Nerve Cord in Annelida

Diagrams of blastomere isolations in Capitella teleta and Platynereis dumerilii showing autonomous head neural tissue (from 1q) and trunk neural tissue (from 2d) as well as a decoupling of D–V axis f...

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Our book chapter from 7 (?!?!) years ago, is now also available as protocols.io version! That's pretty neat. www.protocols.io/view/the-red...

The Red Flour Beetle as Model for Comparative Neural Development: Genome Editing to Mark Neural Cells in Tr...

The Red Flour Beetle as Model for Comparative Neural Development: Genome Editing to Mark Neural Cells in Tribolium Brain Development. . Read full protocol, s...

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I am also advertising a 4 year (!) PhD student position. The PhD student will design developmental brain atlases and help establish comparative projectomics in key cell groups of the central complex and mushroom bodies. See details in the ad.

I am advertising a 3 year postdoc position. This person is going to focus on cell type development and evolution across key integration centres of the insect brain in four insect species. See details in the ad.

🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

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