🦈🧠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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Thank you The Company of Biologists for the important role you play supporting us. You certainly helped me in key steps in my career. Both with grants and visibility. And I know maaany other examples. ❤️

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Throughout the year, our community has been sharing stories with us about how The Company of Biologists has supported you over time. Your stories were heartfelt, and we feel grateful and humbled that we have been able to be part of your journeys. bit.ly/4q7C0Ki

Thank you @fredcauseret.bsky.social and @dev-journal.bsky.social for such a nice highlight of our work and @matosches.bsky.social on the evolutionary origins of Cajal Retzius cells. 🦈 🦎 🧠

Frédéric Causeret@fredcauseret.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We're happy to highlight two very exciting preprints from @idoiaeu.bsky.social and @matosches.bsky.social about the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells. Find our perspective in @dev-journal.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Really happy to join NeuroPSI at Paris Saclay to lead a research group funded by an ERC Consolidator grant #ERCCoG . We'll study the origins of the vertebrate brain using shark embryos. 🦈 🧠 Reach out if you are interested in joining the team 🤍

Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience@neuropsi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🙋‍♀️ We are welcoming Idoia Quintana Urzainqui to NeuroPSi as a junior Professor! In her new team, she will research the Mechanisms that shaped early vertebrate brains, thanks to funding from a 2025 ERC Consolidator grant. ➡️ Learn more here: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/en/idoia-qui...

🎓 Congratulations to Victoria Witte from the Arendt group @embl.org who has defended her PhD thesis titled “A single cell transcriptomics investigation of the adult Platynereis dumerilii mushroom bodies” #DevelopmentalBiology

#ERCCogG granted!!! Immensely grateful for this opportunity. Thanks @erc.europa.eu . Many news coming soon. New lab opening and will be posting positions. 🦈🧠🤍 Go sharkies!

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 8mo ago

The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣 349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG! 👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV #FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch! 📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility. 🙏Please, RT!

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠🦈Excited to present our latest work🧠🦈Interested in brain evolution? And shark embryos? Then read on… Our work sheds light on the deep origins of our brain’s most complex regions.

We are searching for an enthusiastic scientist to join our team and establish annual killifish as a model system for early developmental biology and biophysics! @embl.org @embldbunit.bsky.social Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei... Please re-post 🙏

John Philip Trinkaus, a student in the 1939 Embryology course, left us with his drawings of 'presumptive regions' in Trout, Fundulus, Dog fish, and Urodele; development of circulatory system of Teleost; and a squid spermatophore. bit.ly/4eZWxfU

Couldn’t agree more! Evolutionary perspective is a guiding principle for most projects in our lab.👇🏽

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last yr.

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

ERC 2026 Grants: Applications are open! Relevant information attached. ERC values the full spectrum of your research—make every output count. Research Agora helps you showcase diverse contributions for a stronger application. Questions? Contact us.

Last week I had the pleasure to visit beautiful Banyuls, run some fun experiments and enjoy the sea 🌞 ⛵ . Thanks @biom-banyuls.bsky.social for hosting me, especially bluesky-less Sylvie and Ronan 🦈 😊 and @hector-escriva.bsky.social

After 50 years, Jaws still shapes our view of sharks. @whysharksmatter.bsky.social spoke to Nature about how Jaws influenced the public perception of sharks and the importance of protecting marine life. 🎬 🌊 🧪

Happy birthday Jaws! How the movie changed shark science

Half a century after its cinematic release, Jaws is still shaping how we view — and protect — the ocean’s top predators.

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🚨 We’re recruiting PhD students! 🚨 Join the Stem Cell Biology and Evolution lab at @lsiexeter.bsky.social to study planarians, stem cells & evolution. 2 projects available - 1 week left to apply! Interested and no PhD yet? Apply now. Or help us spread the word! 🙌 www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

LSI PhD programme | Living Systems Institute | University of Exeter

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"Try to identify what gives you energy and where your intrinsic motivation can be found" 😊. Good advice from @eveseuntjens.bsky.social

the Node@the-node.bsky.social · last yr.

"Because I had a long incubation time, I’m more resilient to the stress that comes with an academic career" Thank you Eve Seuntjens @eveseuntjens.bsky.social for sharing your career journey and your advice to people currently in the endless postdoc period #AcademicLife Read our interview with Eve:

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

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I'm still processing all the amazing interactions and possibilities this meeting brought. Different fields and expertise converging in a common interest: brain evolution. It was fantastic. Thanks to the organizers @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social ( Nerea Moreno, Fernando and Zoltan)

Houart Lab@houartlab.bsky.social · last yr.

It has been an absolute pleasure for our lab to attend #ECCN2025 for the first time this year. We had meaningful discussions and learned a lot from a vibrant community tackling tough questions on brain evolution and development! Super excited for what lies ahead!

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology

Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.

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It has been an absolute pleasure for our lab to attend #ECCN2025 for the first time this year. We had meaningful discussions and learned a lot from a vibrant community tackling tough questions on brain evolution and development! Super excited for what lies ahead!

Modern sharks as our best mirror to our jawed common ancestor – @idoiaeu.bsky.social talks about the catshark embryo as a model to study the origin and evolution of the vertebrate telencephalon at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Two days to speak at this interesting conference. Looking forward to exchange and keep learning about brain evolution. And share what sharks are teaching us! 🦈 🧠 eccn2025.umh.es

New Pre-Print Alert! "Teeth Outside the Jaw: Evolution and Development of the Toothed Head Clasper in Chimaeras." We use fossil evidence, development and CT scans through ghost shark ontogeny to describe the emergence of the tenaculum! 👻🦈🦷 @karlycohen.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived

Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.

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Always a pleasure to go diving in the cold but vibrant waters of Galicia‼️ 🦈🐟🐙

Amazing! So much still to explore about these incredible beings

David Grimm@david-grimm.bsky.social · last yr.

It's not quite the John William's theme, but sharks do make sounds--and scientists have recorded them for the first time. Cool story by @erikstokstad.bsky.social for @science.org

The beauty of embryogenesis. Can you see the blood flowing in rhythm with the heartbeat? #sharkembryo 🦈

Time to apply to the DevBio summer school at EMBL Heidelberg! Hands on and interdisciplinary!

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · last yr.

You only have until 26 Mar to apply for #EMBLDevBio! 🦠 Join and explore how biological systems transition between states, integrating developmental biology, physics, and big data. Get hands-on training with cutting-edge methods and learn from top scientists. 🔗 s.embl.org/ptd25-01-bl

This is a lovely paper that I handled at @plosbiology.org, showing that our nifty synovial joints were already there in the common ancestor of jawed fish. Thanks to @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social as AE, and to first author @neelimasharma.bsky.social for this stunning pic of a little skate pelvis!

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · last yr.

When did synovial joints evolve? @neelimasharma.bsky.social @neilshubin.bsky.social &co reveal that stable, mobile & lubricated joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fishes but lacking in jawless ones 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3CTC8La