We're hiring 4 postdocs at @unibo.it to study nervous system evolution. Seeking expertise in single-cell genomics, molecular or developmental biology in ctenophores, cnidarians, echinoderms, flies or human stem cells. 2+2 yrs contract. Deadline: 26 Aug. Please share! bandi.unibo.it/s/apos7/proc...

Procedura di valutazione comparativa per titoli e colloquio per il conferimento di n. 4 contratti di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali - SSD BIOS-04/A - GSD...

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Very cool paper about the #neurogenetics of parenting and age-related behavioural changes in #ants! 🧬🖥️🐜 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #bugsky

Ancient feeding-related neuropeptides regulate alloparenting in ants - Nature

Pharmacological screening and behavioural assays in ants identify two specific neuropeptides that have key and opposite effects in regulating brood care, and that link nutritional state to age-depende...

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Spatiotemporal transcriptome atlas of human embryos after gastrulation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spatiotemporal transcriptome atlas of human embryos after gastrulation - Nature

A spatiotemporal transcriptome atlas of whole-human embryos after gastrulation and previously transcriptionally undescribed stages of human development are reported.

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Thank you to everyone who visited our booth at #EED26 and congratulations to our lucky prize draw winner, @filonico.bsky.social from the University of Leicester! 🎉 If you’re looking for a home for your research, we invite you to explore our latest content: royalsociety.org/journals/pub...

Check out our 2026 subject collection, showcasing recent papers in @dev-journal.bsky.social on evolutionary developmental biology: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti... It has been curated to support the 2026 Euro-Evo-Devo conference in Glasgow, UK. #EED2026

I will be giving a talk tomorrow during the #EED2026 symposium c10 @11:47. I am excited to share my work on a new myriapod lab tractable model and arthropod tracheal evolution. If you stop by make sure to find me after to chat and get a sticker!

#EED2026 @marcrr.bsky.social talking about the Bgee database for curated animal gene expression patterns. The database is manually curated, freely available. Collects data from published papers.

Not only is this Sphaerodromia brizops adorable, it is a totally separate carcinization event from "regular" crabs 🦀 Btw this one is not a newly described species, but they probably featured it for cuteness reasons onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Scientists discover 149 new marine species off Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands

#EED26 is proving again to be a great congress! If you are around, want to know about the #evolution of phototransduction (n also grab some #ctenophore iridescent stickers 👀) come find me at poster 55 or somewhere in the venue 🫶🦑🖥️🧬 #marineLife #evolsky Link to the poster pdf: shorturl.at/eZVmx

Where's the Sorting Hat? ⚡ Loving this venue for the #EED26 in Glasgow 🧬🖥️🦑

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Does anyone have experience with the Gilson PipetMax 268 or 278, or any liquid handling robot, for combinatorial barcoding sci-RNA-seq/SPLiT-seq style workflows? We are interested in buying one for library prep automation. Any feedback welcome! #singlecell #labautomation ➡️ Reply or DM me!

A couple of weeks ago WWA landed in the UK 🇬🇧 to present our story at @pintofscience.uk @filonico.bsky.social talked bout the importance of #DNA in todays world, bringing examples from #ants and #ctenophores altogether! 🐜🦑🧬🖥️🍻 So many interested people were there enjoying our science 🥹 #SciComm

💡 #KnowledgeHighlight | Bioinformatics basics for trainee students - UNIX and bash basics by @filonico.bsky.social @unibo.it 🧬 🖥️ github.com/filonico/UNI... Explore open-access training materials in the ERGA #KnowledgeHub ➡️ knowledge.erga-biodiversity.eu #unix #bash #genomics #bioinformatics

GitHub - filonico/UNIX_and_bash_basics: This repository contains bash basics and other useful resources intended for beginner bioinformaticians 🐧💲

This repository contains bash basics and other useful resources intended for beginner bioinformaticians 🐧💲 - filonico/UNIX_and_bash_basics

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I'm not a high-level education teacher, but I'm not a student anymore: just right in between. As such I find myself empathising both with the "lazy" new generations & with the "boring" old school This offers interesting POVs for communication #SciComm www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/dear-...

Dear educators, Gen Z here. Could you please teach us like it’s 2026?

Learning has changed drastically in the past five years, but teaching practices haven’t caught up. From your students’ perspective, here’s how to adapt

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Do you know how Feulgen densitometry works? Cos we don't 😶‍🌫️ Thats why our master student visited prof Flot's lab at Université Libre de Bruxelles Basically it is a technique to estimate genome size from microscopy images & we couldnt help but to try it out on our #ant samples 🖥️🧬🐜 #bugsky #evolsky

Something's in the making for the upcoming #EuroEvoDevo2026 meeting in Glasgow 👀 can wait to see this done! #evolsky #marineLife I'll be presenting a poster, so make sure to visit me 🎁 can't wait to meet old and new friends!

Entomology is for everyone - and we’re here to help make that a reality. The RES EDI Grant supports projects that break down barriers and create opportunities for more people to engage with #InsectScience. Apply for funding 🔽 buff.ly/mzUEw45 📅 Deadline: 17 July

Your idea could inspire the next generation - Apply for funding

📸 Damselflies on parade (c) Paul Dibben 2016. The RES EDI Grant is here to fund initiatives that: 🌱 Reach new audiences 🤝 Engage diverse communities 🔬 Open up access to insect science and more. If your project can make an impact, we want to hear from you.

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If only I knew this when I started my PhD! Nothing really ground-breaking or innovative, but this is just one of those "untold rules" of academia that we may want to start telling young scientists, instead of letting them understand in the hard way. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A step-by-step guide for scientists who hate conference networking

If the thought of ‘working’ a room packed with strangers fills you with dread, academic careers coach Caroline Dunne has some advice.

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Want to work on mosquitos nervous system🦟🩸? This is your chance! #bugsky Hate mosquitos and want them to go extinct, but love sea critters🪼 🧽? This is also your chance! #marineLiife Don't miss the opportunity to get a fully funded PhD working on #genomics, #SingleCell & #phylogenetics! 🖥️🧬 #evolsky

RobertoFeuda@robertofeuda.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are recruiting 2 PhD students @ the University of Bologna to study neuron evolution in mosquitoes and non-bilaterian animals using single-cell genomics, evo-devo and computational biology. Plus, Bologna is hard to beat scientifically and gastronomically. More info: www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

Been training for this moment my whole life.

You ever wondered what happens to a trait after its loss? Dollo's law predicts that it can't be reinstated in its original form. Actually true (partially)! #evolsky Happy to see this published: we have reviewed the LOSS, PERSISTENCE & REVERSAL OF PHENOTYPIC TRAITS 🖥️🧬🦑🐜 doi.org/10.1002/brv....

The spark in their eyes never gets old and is truly priceless 🥹 Wood Wide Ants is back in schools sharing the world of #ants with students—from #biology & #systematics to #genomics Their enthusiasm is so inspiring, and we're hoping this keeps going for a long time 🐜🧬🖥️ #SciComm #bugsky

Well that's impressive!! They just published the first massive phenomics dataset spanning the #ants tree of life, with 2,000+ whole-body 3D scans! Can't wait to use this to integrate molecular and phenotipic studies! #bugsky #phylogenetics #genomics 🧬🖥️🐜 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

High-throughput phenomics of global ant biodiversity - Nature Methods

Antscan is a publicly accessible database of synchrotron X-ray CT images of ants. The database covers almost 800 species from more than 200 genera and is coordinated with genome sequencing projects th...

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NEW PAPER OUT 🖤 another one of pure comparative #genomics We investigated the molecular & genome #evolution of tadpole shrimps, a group of #crustaceans with a sharp morphological stasis. Also sequenced 2 new genomes 🧬🦐 (the jackdaw picture is unralated) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

The elusive genomic signature of tadpole shrimps’ ancient morphology

Abstract. The tempo of evolutionary change varies widely across the tree of life, with some lineages undergoing extensive morphological diversification whi

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Haplodiploidy has been repeatedly reported as one of the factors promoting altruism & eusociality in #insects 🐝🐜🪳 Well apparently it's not! Different statistical approaches find no relationships between the two, in this brand new phylogenetic work! #bugsky #phylogenetics doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Kosakyan et al. sequenced mitogenomes of species from the two main lineages of the Gastrotricha; they found stable mitogenomes in the mostly freshwater Chaetonotida, but a dynamic pattern in the the marine Macrodasyida. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag001 #genome #evolution #mtDNA

The cover of February's issue of Genome Biology and Evolution features the work of Kosakyan et al. on the evolution of mitochondrial genomes in the Gastrotricha. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag001 #genome #evolution #mtDNA

A gigantic work by some Italian colleagues on how ants have been used as biological control agents all around the globe: more than 180 published papers have been reviewed! Guess what, also the story of our beloved red wood ant is mentioned 🫶🐜 #bugsky doi.org/10.1007/s103...

Ant-mediated biological control: a global meta-synthesis of antagonistic interactions against pests - Journal of Pest Science

Ants’ deep and pervasive ecological impacts on terrestrial ecosystems also translate into several meaningful services and disservices for human activities, whose balance can often be complex to assess...

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Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a FIS-3 Advanced Grant (ERC-inspired) to study the evolution of neurogenic GRNs. Recruiting soon: 4 postdocs + 3 PhDs Press release in Italian — to decolonise scientific language 😄 magazine.unibo.it/it/articoli/... Email me if interested in joining the lab

Un viaggio all’origine dei sistemi nervosi

Il nuovo progetto GRNevo, finanziato con un grant FIS-3 Advanced da 1,9 milioni di euro, studierà come si formano i neuroni durante lo sviluppo in specie animali molto distanti tra loro: dal moscerino...

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