Reiser Lab @hhmijanelia.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc. Fly connectomes give more hypotheses than we can test. Help us fix that by automating behavior and two-photon experiments. Apply: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... reiserlab.org Want to meet at @sfn.org? Email me your CV.

Staining and imaging RNA and proteins in heavily sclerotized arthropod tissues can be challenging. Here is our protocol for this, combining sample permeabilization and clearing: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Efforts to develop this protocol were led by MD/PhD student Daniel Pastor.

40 years since the first #connectome! A privilege to stand on the shoulders of these giants at the MRC LMB, Cambridge and very proud of a decade of amazing progress in #Drosophila #connectomics with partners including @camzoology.bsky.social, @janelia-flyem.bsky.social #flywire and #GoogleResearch.

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology@mrclmb.ac.uk · 2d ago

🧠 Today marks 40 years of #Connectomics. On 12 November 1986, The Mind of a Worm revealed the world's first neural wiring diagram. Those 302 neurons laid the foundation for a field that is transforming #neuroscience. Watch the story of how it all began at the LMB.

Know any good students with a passion for evolutionary biology? Encourage them to apply for the excellent double-degree MSc programme between LMU, Groningen, Montpellier and Uppsala. Please share widely! More information here: www.evobio.eu

Thrilled to share with y'all our next generation high-resolution light sheet microscope, purpose-built for expansion microscopy. Most importantly, using high NA objectives for both light sheet generation & for detection. ASLM technology inside for optical sectioning. 🔬🧠 www.panluminate.com/panoptix

3i@the.3i.social · 3d ago

We are excited to announce our partnership with panluminate to manufacture and deliver the new panoptix light sheet microscope system purpose-built for the pan-ExM ecosystem. Learn more: www.panluminate.com/panoptix Test drive @sfn.org #SFN26 in booth 2126!

"We generated single-nucleus RNA- and ATAC-seq data from cortex across nine mammalian species and identified cell-type-specific candidate cis-regulatory elements" www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Single-cell multiomics across nine mammals reveals cell-type-specific regulatory conservation in the brain

Anderson et al. compare brain gene regulation across nine mammals, revealing that enhancer conservation extends beyond DNA sequence to include cell-type specificity and gene targets. Functional assays...

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Sonya is a fantastic scientist and an incredibly kind person. Apply apply apply 😊

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology@imbavienna.bsky.social · 3d ago

From IMBA to Denmark! 🎉 Sonya Widen will launch her lab at Aarhus University this December with a €1.67M Novo Nordisk Foundation grant to study how genes move between animal species. She’s recruiting at all levels: https://imba.science/4evoc9G

Anyone fancy spending a month in Bologna in 2027? UniBo has 20 visiting professor spots. If you’re based abroad and interested in working with my lab on evo-devo, neurobiology or single-cell genomics, get in touch! The deadline for UniBo hosts to apply is 4 December. Link in reply 👇

Bando di selezione per 20 posti di Visiting Professors per lo svolgimento di attività di didattica e ricerca promosso dall'Istituto di Studi Avanzati periodo 15/02/2027-31/12/2027.

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A Monarch butterfly that was fitted with a tiny radio tracker near Toronto 🇨🇦 has now made it all the way to the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico!

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Bruce Hamilton@bahome.bsky.social · 6d ago

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I want to scream everytime I see red-yellow-green microscopy images. Enough. AAAARRRGH!!!! Please share widely to colleagues and trainees journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... Oh, Monty. Thanks for everything (so far). Gardeners World, many TV series and the books. 🙏

‘It’s the final goodbye’: Monty Don bows out with a blissful last Gardeners’ World

TV’s most soothing gardener bids viewers farewell in his own inimitable style: poetically, and with barely a hint of fuss

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I am hiring a PhD student for a project exploring color and polarization vision in the firefly squid and alciopid worms. Have these amazing marine invertebrates evolved color vision systems similar to those in arthropods and vertebrates? Learn more and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

A little late to this, but I am very happy to share that in a few weeks I will be starting as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at BiRC, Aarhus University @au.dk! I will soon be recruiting postdocs and PhD students, so please reach out if you're interested in joining my group!

If you are in Paris* and wanna hear about this very cool story and (hopefully) also what Philipp is cooking in his own lab, join us at the @ijmonod.bsky.social next week Friday November 13th at 11:45! *hell, even if you are not, it's worth the travel and you're more than welcome 😜

Philipp Brand@pbrand.bsky.social · last wk.

Very excited about our latest paper showing how important environmental conditions can be for mating behavior - and how this varies across evolution In Drosophila erecta food odor gates sexual arousal - and motion cues by other flies enhance the drive to court. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Something I never thought I would be doing: I am going to give a career talk at my alma mater, @uni-goettingen.de as part of the GGNB career talk series. 😱 If you're in Göttingen and want to heckle, join! news.uni-goettingen.de/gauss/2026/1...

Massive congratulations to @pbrand.bsky.social and team. Check out his lab at the @mpibrain.bsky.social

@tomtom-auer.bsky.social · last wk.

Do flies need dinner to get in the mood? @pbrand.bsky.social et al. show that Drosophila erecta males become sexually aroused only when they smell host odours. A striking case of ecology re-tuning conserved courtship circuits. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Check out our new paper on the genetics of moth camouflage! Excellent explainer thread by @evolvwing.bsky.social below. Check out the video for an overview of the study. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3k...

Hyperdivergent haplotypes control melanic camouflage in a polymorphic moth

YouTube video by Luca LIVRAGHI

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Arnaud Martin@evolvwing.bsky.social · last wk.

How to disappear? New paper by wizard @lucalivraghi.bsky.social Camouflage polymorphism explained by hyperdivergence of the ivory:mir-193 locus. Large haplotypes tune how moths hedge their bets on how to hide. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

theyre going to vaccinate rfk live on television

Scientists pay tribute to Marta Shahbazi Alonso and Tamara González Costa who died on their way to a developmental-biology meeting go.nature.com/4A7joiW

‘A perfect scientist, a perfect mum’: researchers mourn two biologists’ deaths in Spanish train crash

Scientists pay tribute to Marta Shahbazi Alonso and Tamara González Costa who died on their way to a developmental-biology meeting.

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Jungle: Tiny Desk Concert

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We are deeply concerned to hear that 2 of our colleagues, Tamara González Costa & Marta Shahbazi, remain officially missing following the tragic train accident in Spain on Wednesday. Our hearts & thoughts are with their families, friends & colleagues during this painfully difficult & anxious time.

Follow this account. 🫶🏻

Picard Tips@picardtips.bsky.social · 2w ago

Picard management tip: When you make a mistake, apologize right away. Embrace humility over defense.

Updated and much improved preprint on post-embryonic EvoDevo of metamorphosis in teleost fishes! New results: conserved post-embryonic gene network is - distinct from embryonic networks - responsive to thyroid hormone - ecologically plastic doi.org/10.64898/202...

Agneesh Barua@agneeshbarua.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How can a shared developmental programme generate the extraordinary diversity of teleost fishes? Our study suggests that the answer lies in the combination of conservation of network architecture, coupled with evolutionary flexibility in gene copy number. (1/8) doi.org/10.64898/202...

Join our 🏛️ museum @smnstuttgart.bsky.social 🇩🇪 as Curator & Research Group Leader for Hymenoptera 🐝🐜! Leverage >500k specimens to understand & conserve biodiversity 🧬 🔬 Collection research (NGS, micro-CT) 📌 path to tenure + habilitation 🤝 supportive community 🗓️ Apply by Nov 30 🔁 Please repost

Research Group Leader (m/f/d) for Hymenoptera Systematics – Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

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Richard Benton @bentonlab.bsky.social is speaking at the #PopGen Seminar tomorrow on "Niche specialisation in nervous systems and beyond". Our PhD students are looking forward to the seminar and discussions! Schedule and streaming info: popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution #genetics

Seminars

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Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Lula wins fourth term as Brazil president after historic upset over far-right Flávio Bolsonaro

Leftist incumbent Lula stages unprecedented comeback weeks after narrowly losing first round of election to Bolsonaro

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Barbara Finlay, who died on 12 September, championed the idea that developmental constraints dictate how evolution sculpts brains, which she used to model the timing of hundreds of events and align them across mammalian species. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/re...

Barbara Finlay, ‘maverick’ of evolutionary neuroscience

Finlay, who died on 12 September, championed the idea that developmental constraints dictate how evolution sculpts brains.

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Call for a group leader in Evolutionary Biology The IGFL @igflyon.bsky.social in Lyon, France, is recruiting a group leader in Evolutionary Biology. An exciting place for exploring the interfaces of evolution with physiology and development. #EvolBiol #ecoevo #evodevo tinyurl.com/evolbiol