For those of you enjoying your summer vacation, as I am, here's a little something for your tantric meditation while watching the sun set over the Mediterranean. <Rubycon, pt 1> 👉 youtu.be/BVkRl0sXjjY #KosmischeMusik #MusicForNerds #LAvenirduFutur 👇
Guillaume Balavoine
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Animal evolution and development. Rock and Folk phylogeneticist in my spare time. Opinions my own.
For #FossilFriday, abundant Eocene (~50 mya) shorebird tracks from the Green River Formation, WY; seen last week in the Tellus Museum of Science, Cartersville GA. 🧪🪨⚒️🐾🐦
Bio-metal isn't just a thing in comic books, its apperently a real thing referring to biomaterials with metallike properties. They're not that common, but you can find them, for example, in the jaws of the sea worm Perinereis cultrifera. 🧪 Link: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0325367
How could I forget ? #musicfornerds
Guillaume Balavoine@balavoinelab.bsky.social · 4w agoContinuing the paleontology-in-music series: the mastodon (Mammut americanum) was a North American proboscidean, likely driven to extinction by dudes around 10,000 BC. It is also the name of an equally titanic and ferocious US band. <Blood and Thunder> 👉 youtu.be/ybSwJLj8Ktw Fan-made video … 👇
Bathyopsurus @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 944 #deepwonders #MarineLife
Continuing the paleontology-in-music series: the mastodon (Mammut americanum) was a North American proboscidean, likely driven to extinction by dudes around 10,000 BC. It is also the name of an equally titanic and ferocious US band. <Blood and Thunder> 👉 youtu.be/ybSwJLj8Ktw Fan-made video … 👇
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder - Moby Dick
YouTube video by Krutov Metal Tributes
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Happy International Polychaete Day! I made a new story for Wormly Speaking. 🧪 🎨 🐡 Title: Breaking free! Topic: Schizogamy in Syllidae. #WormWednesday #polychaete #marinelife #reproduction #regeneration
Wow. We live in an age where LIVE VIDEO of priapulids is possible! From Antarctica I believe.. #wormwednesday youtube.com/shorts/lxbMG...
The Cactus Worm
YouTube video by The Naturalist Project
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Full spectrum of multi-colored "zebrabow" larvae. Credit to @jhenninger.bsky.social. #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈🐟 #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Persistent rumors have been circulating that I took advantage of #EED2026 in Glasgow to buy myself a kilt. I would like to state publicly that these rumors are entirely, unequivocally, and gloriously true. #EED2026 #EvoDevo #Platynereis
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
Our work on Trichoplax locomotion and mechanosensing capabilities is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Congrats Marvin Leria & all co-authors! authors.elsevier.com/c/1n8Ig3QW8S...
I usually cook while listening to music, and this song is perfect for it. Amazingly, I still have all my fingers. Bloodywood is a band from New Delhi, established 2016 <Tadka> 👉 youtu.be/nihFu0YjkcE #MusicForNerds #NineInchNaan #SystemOfABrown #RajAgainstTheMachine (Not my jokes, theirs!) 👇
Bloodywood - Tadka (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Bloodywood
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Super interesting ! Of what use is collinearity in annelids ?
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...
Some early-career disruptive researchers may see their careers stop early. Academic careers are often about becoming increasingly specialized over time. One remains creative well beyond 40, but creativity and risk-taking are not part of the job’s core incentives or requirements, past this age.
Nature@nature.com · 3mo agoExperienced researchers are less likely to produce ‘disruptive’ science than are those just starting their careers, finds an analysis of the scientific papers published by 12.5 million researchers over 60 years. go.nature.com/4uUvMk3
🦈🧠2 JOB OFFERS in the brand-new Neuroshark group starting at the Institute of Neuroscience Paris-Saclay (NeuroPSI)? Lab manager: www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-... Bioinformatician: www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-... Curious about the lab but not your profile? Feel free to contact me
Lab manager job | Idoia Quintana Urzainqui
JOB OPPORTUNITY 🦈 🧠 🔬. We are looking for a Lab Manager to help establish a new group studying shark embryos to understand the origin of the vertebrate brain. Reach out if this motivates you. We’re ba...
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What if you got to work with some of your best friends on a science project? I can't publish how fun this was, but I can show you the data (🧵)! Last week, we posted our second neutrophil swarming paper to bioRxiv and I wanted to post my favorite videos here~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Happy to share this work is now in Science Advances! Congratulations to the outstanding Areej Said-Ahmad for leading the work, and to the rest of the team! Distinct mechanisms decommission redundant enhancers to facilitate phenotypic evolution | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Distinct mechanisms decommission redundant enhancers to facilitate phenotypic evolution
Robust regulatory systems yield to evolutionary change via distinct mechanisms of enhancer elimination.
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Ella Preger 🎗️@ella-pbn.bsky.social · 9mo agoCheck out our new preprint on the evolution of enhancer loss. Turns out there are 50 ways to lose a function. We found four of them. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🎉 Great success for our 2nd SFBD-SBCF science outreach day in Ivry-sur-Seine, with the support of the city! Over a thousand children came to take part in our workshops, led by around fifty researchers from institutes in Paris and Gif-sur-Yvette! Thank you all for your enthusiasm! 🔬🧬
#DBfeature #InHoxWeTrust 🪲 Divergent Hox cluster arrangement in horned beetles retain conserved embryonic and adult expression patterns. by Erica Nadolski, Isabel Manley, Sukhmani Gill, Armin Moczek @ericanadolski.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycxabrh5
A new mechanism for “RNA memory”! This time in Planaria! (Here's a video of a Planarian with mulitple heads, one of the heritable phenotypes we studied). This work summarizes >10 years of research and is an amazing collaboration with the labs of Jochen Rink and Omri Wurtzel labs. Read thrad below👇
🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo
Species-specific oxygen sensing governs the initiation of vertebrate limb regeneration
Why mammals cannot regenerate limbs like amphibians do presents a long-standing puzzle in biology. To uncover the underlying differences, we compared amputation responses of embryonic mouse (Mus musculus) and Xenopus laevis tadpole limbs. Lowering ...
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One of the wildest things I learned about planarian flatworms: you can isolate their pharynx (throat) and it will autonomously engage in feeding behavior. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
A new strain of transgenic Platynereis. At this stage, this is still a great joy. Hopefully, several more will follow soon ... I hope other teams are making progress with this notoriously resistant species. Let's make Platy the marine D melanogaster ! #platynereis #wormwednesday #evodevo
Ok, serious face. Female ejaculation ("squirting") might make it easier to get knocked up. Maybe. It's a hypothesis at this point, but in this paper, the authors outline reasonable rationale and outline some testable experiments. 🧪 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Est ce que j'ai fait craqué et fait une série de memes @pintofscience.fr #ProjectHailMary ? Peut-être 😅
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