A full-circle moment: I gave a talk at #SOCOLEN, the conference where I delivered my first presentation as an undergraduate student! And I was able to see so many cool butterflies with new friends <3

Thinking about a #Postdoc and interested in writing a competitive fellowship proposal? Are you interested in developing independent research in #EvoDevo, functional #Genomics, and adaptation in #Lepidoptera? Let's talk! 🦋

There is a straightforward mechanism for the public to comment. Former NIH program office Elizabeth Ginexi has written an exceptionally helpful guide on how to so, with detailed suggestions. 3/n elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

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Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...

White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

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Adding the “Eco” to the “Evo‐Devo”: A New Special Issue on Latin America Evo‐Devo https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.70022 #EvoDevo

Thanks @evodevopanam.bsky.social for the shout out, very happy to be part of this community.

EvoDevo PanAm@evodevopanam.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Anyi Mazo-Vargas - Duke University, USA 🦋 @anyimv.bsky.social Webpage: anyimv.weebly.com

The Butterfly Science World Cup is going to be in Latin America! 💃💃💃 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 #BOB

BoB / Elen 2027@bobelen2027.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🦋 SAVE THE DATE / RESERVA LA FECHA X Biology of Butterflies + IX Encontro de Lepidoptera Neotropicais 📅 30 Mar–3 Apr 2027 📍 Unicamp, Campinas, BR #bobelen2027 #lepidoptera #science #unicamp #butterflies 🇧🇷 Mais informações em breve / 🇪🇸 Más infos pronto / 🇺🇸 More informations soon

If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT

Excited to share my first preprint from my PhD w/ @justinmcrocker.bsky.social. We show that cell type-specific regulatory dominance promotes robustness and evolutionary innovation through interallelic transcriptional hubs, potentially expanding the mutational paths available to diploids. (1/18)

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Interallelic cis-regulatory dominance promotes robustness and evolutionary innovation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.17.712157v1

PASEDB community 🤩 We are excited to announce our first Research Webinar series called: ⭐️EvoDevo Mondays⭐️ Save the date - April 13 With our amazing speakers @luiza-o-saad.bsky.social and João Francisco Botelho Session chair Professor Natalia Pabón-Mora #PASEDB #EvoDevoMondays #EvoDevo

This #InternationalWomensDay I want to tell the story of Lilian Vaughan Morgan. I learned of Lilian this past year - what a badass. Lilian was a leading scientist when women weren't welcome in the lab, nor even the department. But she contributed immensely to the genetics of sex determination 1/n

🦋✂️🧬 🧪 New preprint! Led by @donyaniyaz.bsky.social CRISPR‑Cas9 knockouts of ABCG transporters across butterflies & moths reveal how pigment pathways shape color during development. #CRISPR #Lepidoptera #pigmentation Feedback welcome 👩‍🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬 To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain). 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy

Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies

Mulhair et al. uncover a functional bicoid in non-cyclorrhaphan flies, pushing the gene's origin back by ∼20 million years. Reassessing the Diptera phylogeny using the largest dataset to date permits ...

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EvoDevotees, if you are at #PASEDB2025 and interested in either of these job opportunities for Fish Facility Manager or Presidential Postdoc at Michigan State U, let’s grab a coffee and chat #EndlessFishMostBeautiful @evodevopanam.bsky.social

Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT! For more information see here: gahanlab.com tinyurl.com/34xke35d

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her)@liebschutz.bsky.social · 2y ago

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

🔔Apply now!🔔 January 22 is the last day to apply to the MBL's 2025 Embryology course! This comprehensive overview of modern developmental biology is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and senior researchers. Learn more: bit.ly/3DKPMjH #ScienceStartsHere

New preprint by butterfly wizard @lucalivraghi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression

Our miRNA story is now in @science.org ! We found a microRNA, not a protein, that finally solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery of wing coloration in butterflies and moths. (1/n) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A microRNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus

In Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the genomic region around the gene cortex is a “hotspot” locus, repeatedly implicated in generating intraspecific melanic wing color polymorphisms across 100 mi...

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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Venice Evo Devo Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems Aug 27-22, 2025 Centro Cultural Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice Register at: meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... Deadline is March 31, 2025. #VeniceEvoDevo

Venice Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems

Biological systems comprise multiple levels of organization , from molecules, organelles, and cells, to the multi-cellular structures that form whole tissues, organisms, and ultimately societies and …

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📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2024-25

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Evodevo folks! This is the official account of the PASEDB. The top image is by Nikolay Kovalenko. www.panamevodevo.org

Pan-Am Evo Devo (PASEDB)

Our next meeting will be July 22-25 at the  University of Miami in summer 2025, with satellite meetings on July 21. More details will be forthcoming!

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The flowers in the greenhouse 🦋🌱🧪

@mcgregorlab.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of writing a dispatch article discussing the latest work from @gavinrrice.bsky.social and @rebeizlab.bsky.social. You can find it over on this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌟 Introducing the Mazo-Vargas Lab @DukeU. 🌟 🧬 We employ #genetics, #functional-genomics, and #evodevo approaches to untangle the genetic basis of morphological adaptive traits.

7 years ago, I met a junior fellow named Jason Buenrostro who blew me away with a vision of futuristic genomic technologies Today, we (Ajay Labade, Caroline Comenho) are excited to share our first steps into that future: Expansion in situ genome sequencing 1/

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

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Joyce Yu@joyceyu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Do you work in #DevBio and want to introduce the fascinating world of developmental biology to your family and friends? You can show them this science documentary, produced by the British Society for Developmental Biology, The Company of Biologists and Cambridge Filmworks! 📽️ youtu.be/avrmIs3vPUQ?...

🚨Job alert 🚨 Come and join us @DukeBiology Cohort hiring of 3️⃣ assistant Professors in Ecology, Evolution or Organismal Biology, with a focus on plant 🌴and/or fungal 🍄 biology. More info: biology.duke.edu/about-us/jobs