📢 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...

Did transposable elements shape brain evolution — and if so, which ones, and in which cell states and lineages? Led by @tyamadat.bsky.social, we explored this question in cerebellum development using sequence-based deep learning models! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 I am very happy (and relieved!) to announce that I secured Emmy Noether funding by the @dfg.de to start my own group at @unimainz.bsky.social , hosted by Marion Silies & Jakob von Engelhardt in August! 🚨 Website coming soon - open for name/logo suggestions. They better be funny tho!

Sophia Petrillo with Megaphone in Golden Girls

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2/2 🐞Model system: Broad horned beetle, Red flour beetle 😃Non-scientific interests: Watching movies, reading, hiking Mariam will work with @posnienlab.bsky.social

1/2 And here we go, our next #GoenomiX student arrived. 🥳 Welcome, Mariam! 🔬Research: Gene-environment interactions, evolution of gene regulatory networks, evolution of exaggerated traits 🔭Looking forward to: Learning how to use single-cell omics in non-traditional model species

📣 📣 📣 📣 To all Drosophilists: the call for Workshop proposals at the 2027 European Drosophila Research Conference in Bonn (20-23 September 2027) is OPEN! Go to link below for instructions. Closing date: 30 September 2026. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 tinyurl.com/45y8trzd

📣 #JobAlert The Faculty of Biology of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics. ❗ Application Deadline: 15 August, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/roi8 #Biology #Bioinformatics #MolecularGenetics

Introns have a hidden regulatory role! 🧬🎉 Delighted to share our latest paper showing that inefficiently spliced introns and spliceosomal proteins direct RNA methylation, engaging RNAi to silence retrotransposons and regulate gene expression nature.com/articles/s41...

This is serious and all the voters should be aware of these plans! We researchers must talk to as many people as possible to make sure that voters understand the severity of the plans. doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Scientists fight back against far-right plans to restrict academic freedom in Germany

With the far-right Alternative for Germany leading in polls for national and state elections, institutions are facing up to proposed restrictions on academic freedom.

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🏃‍♀️ @bucherlab.bsky.social, @posnienlab.bsky.social and our new #GoenomiX PhD student Kevin represented our Research Training Group at the Göttinger Altstadtlauf. ☀️ Perfect weather for running 5k and fun experience to be supported by so many people in the city center.

👟 @siddharth-murali.bsky.social and I represented our team during the Göttingen Altstadtlauf. Always great to see thousands of sports fans running or supporting.

This Special Feature from #ProcB showcases research from scientists, countries and regions underrepresented in the scientific literature, while addressing inequities in publishing and "helicopter science". Discover the collection: buff.ly/RjnbPC7 | #Ecology #GlobalSouth

The formatted paper is now out in MBE - describing OPTICS software to predict color sensitivy based on opsin sequence alone: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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🧵 New paper! We’re excited to release OPTICS: software that immediately predicts color sensitivity from any opsin protein sequence. In other words: give OPTICS any opsin sequence, and it predicts the wavelength of light the pigment is most sensitive to 🌈👁️ academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Evolution isn’t always a simple family tree. By applying genomic mixture models, researchers unraveled the long-standing evolutionary puzzle of the butterfly genera Calisto and Llorenteana, revealing a more complex history than previously recognised. #LIBresearch © Núñez et al., CC BY 1/3

Submit your abstract! Deadline for abstract submission tomorrow. Join us for exciting talks and networking!

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New paper out today! @sternarchella.bsky.social and I review how modularity and integration influence adaptive radiations and diversification. Read it here: rdcu.be/fpcSX

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Repeated evolution of iridescence and hindwing tails is associated with morphometric flight proxies in skipper butterflies

Abstract. Phenotypic evolution is shaped by phylogenetic history, ecology and biomechanical constraints. Butterfly wings offer an ideal system to explore t

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Hard work can't have a great view? 🏔️🔬 Of course, it can! Our retreat in Braunlage is in full swing! We're spending our time exchanging our research, new ideas, but also networking, and bonding over volleyball in the evenings. 🏐✨ #PhDLife #IMPRSGS #ScienceRetreat #TeamBuilding #Harz

2/2 🐞Model system: Red flour beetle 😃Non-scientific interests: Beach volleyball, swimming, football, running, to learn German Kevin will work with @bucherlab.bsky.social. 🔗LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-cas...

1/2 And our second #GoenomiX student arrived. 🥳 Welcome, Kevin! 🔬Research: Understanding how gene functions diverge during evolution 🔭Looking forward to: Establish a new tool to restrict RNAi to certain tissues

#SMBE2026 S22: Evolution of gene regulation: insights from novel molecular and statistical approaches 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 1:20pm - Part 1 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 3:50pm - Part 2 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

This, times a thousand. In EVERY conversation I have with non-scientists, they ask "What is the benefit of your work?" We need to spread the word: Basic science is the roots of the great tree that provides applications. You see the tree, but the tree needs the roots. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack

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⏲️ Time is ticking! One week left to register for our #GoenomiX Summer School "Molecular Genetics in Zoology". If you work on emerging model systems and want to establish #genetic, #molecular and/or #genomic methods, this is your course! Register here until June 30: events.gwdg.de/event/1457/r...

SPIRIT - Summer School "Molecular Genetics for Zoologists" (incl. Symposium)

The 3-day hands-on summer school will take place before the symposium. During the training, we will discuss how RNAi, genome editing, transgenesis, omics and imaging can be applied to your specific pr...

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⏰Deadline for abstract submission approaching: Our #GoenomiX Symposium "Frontiers in Molecular Zoology" will happen on Sept 24-25 at @uni-goettingen.de. Submit your abstract until June 30: events.gwdg.de/event/1458/

Göttingen SPIRIT - Symposium “Molecular Genetics in Zoology” (Symposium only)

In this 2-day symposium will bring together international scientists working on understanding the function of genes underlying a wide range of zoological phenomena. Some contributed talks will be sele...

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Dass mit Justin Bean und Jonas Mattisseck zwei Rollenspieler deluxe Berlin die Meisterschaft sichern, ist vielleicht dann doch bezeichnend für Berlins Identität. Und dass München in zwei Closeout-Spielen mit einem 2:26- und 0:17-Lauf einbricht, ist v.a. für ein EuroLeague-Team extrem enttäuschend.

"Taking this job is a bet, or maybe a hope, that the best science will drive the conversation over the long run." Incoming NAS President @neilshubin.bsky.social spoke with @nytimes.com about the state of American science and his hopes for his 5-year term as president: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/s...

Neil Shubin on Trusted Science in a ‘Deeply Partisan Age’

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First pre-print from the lab, a collaborative effort led by Jess Bourn @bournsupremacy.bsky.social, a fantastic PhD in my group. We resolve a key problem in development + evolution: how do we quantify heterochrony and link temporal variation to phenotype? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Quantitative mapping of heterochrony to species-specific phenotypes

The genetic program of animal development is conserved, but its rate of execution varies across species. Heterochrony, shifts in the relative timing of developmental events, generates phenotypic varia...

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Do you work with scRNAseq data in non-model organisms that have less-than-stellar gene annotations? ✨ 🧬 You might be interested in GeneExt, a nifty little tool by @zolotarg.bsky.social in @arnausebe.bsky.social's lab, published in #Bioinformatics earlier this year. #singlecell #transcriptomics

GeneExt: a gene model extension tool for enhanced single-cell RNA-seq analysis

AbstractMotivation. Incomplete gene models negatively impact single-cell gene expression quantification. This is particularly true in non-model species whe

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Our central complex paper with Yi Peng Toh, Theodora Loupasaki, Basil el Jundi, @eahodge.bsky.social & @ebablab.bsky.social has now emerged, like a butterfly, in it's final form. Some heavy grant-writing induced heterochrony has delayed eclosion, but...finally done. elifesciences.org/articles/107...

Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies

A cognitive adaptation in Heliconius butterflies, accompanied by strikingly divergent changes in two principal insect integration centres, reveals that neural circuits can differ strongly in their pro...

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A small contribution to an important topic, in Nature Reviews Biodiversity. I highlight @howbrainsevolve.bsky.social and Harvey's work in 2000 and illustrate it's pivotal role in our understanding into the principles of brain evolution. Have a read - it's short! www.nature.com/articles/s44...