🧬 The ZooCELL team series is back! 🇬🇧 Meet our Recruiting Associated Partner, UCL! Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, UCL is a leading multidisciplinary university, bringing together a diverse community of staff and students from around the world. Want to know more? 🧵👇

🔬 New publication from BIOM in Science Advances! How did the vertebrate kidney evolve? Comparing catshark, lamprey & amphioxus embryos, Sylvie Mazan's team & collaborators show the primitive kidney arises from a somitic compartment. 👏 Congrats to all authors! 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am advertising a 3 year postdoc position. This person is going to focus on cell type development and evolution across key integration centres of the insect brain in four insect species. See details in the ad.

I am also advertising a 4 year (!) PhD student position. The PhD student will design developmental brain atlases and help establish comparative projectomics in key cell groups of the central complex and mushroom bodies. See details in the ad.

Why not every ant helps: Recent study of #MainzUniversity shows that rescue behavior in ants is linked to differences in gene activity in the nervous system 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/why-not-every… #Biology

If you're an #ECR or know someone who has recently published a paper/preprint/manuscript in the field of #devbio, #cellbio, #compbio, #mechanobiology, #evodevo, and would want to get the words out there, our DM is always open 🥰! We think all #ECRs deserve the recognition for their hard work.

📸 L’équipe Évolution & Développement des Chordés, dirigée par Stephanie Bertrand et @hector-escriva.bsky.social, est à l’honneur dans ce reportage photo réalisé par Alain Tendero et CNRS Occitanie Est. Une belle occasion de rentrer dans les coulisses de la recherche menée au BIOM. lnkd.in/eZZjRM_f

Fantastic news!!! My project ECHINODEV has been awarded an ERC starting grant 🥳🥳⭐ We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution! Reach out if you are interested, we will be looking for PhD students and postdocs 😀

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 5d ago

📣 Good news! 📣 Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out! Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN 🧪 #ERCStG #FrontierResearch #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Choanoflagellates reorganize their global cytoskeletal architecture within seconds to explore confined microspaces. This is the main PhD work of the amazing @maitefreired.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A tread 🧵⬇️

Rapid repurposing of microvillar content drives a flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest relative of animals

Animal cells extensively remodel their cytoskeleton during differentiation and can notably switch between two major motility modes: flagellum-based swimming and actin-based crawling. We previously sho...

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New paper alert: making use of 40 years of measurements of POPs and mercury in eggs of oystercatchers and terns breeding in the Wadden Sea, we investigated whether pollutant levels differed between the two species and 17 sampling locations, and how they changed over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

RESEARCH ARTICLE These Boots Are Made for Walking: Sex‐Specific Physiological and Metabolomic Strategies Reflect Male‐Skewed Vulnerability to Ocean Warming in a Keystone Amphipod 🔗 buff.ly/FrPNkDA

🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

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We’re hiring! Experimental #Postdoc and computational and/or experimental #PhD positions in evolutionary genomics are available in our lab in Heidelberg: home.kaessmannlab.org/openPositions Please repost and spread the word!

Do wild-caught embryos develop in the same way as embryos cultured in the lab? This summer, Beke and Mette visited Luis at IMEV in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, to start exploring this question in the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii. #Platynereis #annelid #Flamingo #lightsheet #cell-lineage

This new article describes the historical collection of #molluscs at the marine biological station at Inhaca Island in southern #Mozambique. It is a valuable baseline and among the few such collections in the Global South. With @iolives.bsky.social and other colleagues.

@jconch.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The historical collection of molluscs of the Estação de Biologia Marítima da Inhaca, southern Mozambique" has been published in #JournalofConchology #Jconch #conchsoc #conchologicalSociety #malacology #biodiversity #Africa doi.org/10.61733/jco...

Super proud and excited to share this incredible paper led by @jkdaanoy.bsky.social "Algae-specific immune modulation influences responses to heat and pathogen challenge in a symbiotic coral" published in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Algae-specific immune modulation influences responses to heat and pathogen challenge in a symbiotic coral

The role of symbiotic algae in coral life history and host health is well documented, but the immune and physiological trade-offs of hosting these symbionts remain less explored. While association wit...

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Our OYSTER Member Mar Roca Mora, PhD is currently attending the International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species (ICAIS) #ICAIS2026. She will be presenting the EuroMarine Early Career Researcher Cooperation RugOBSS project results and representing OYSTER. Reach her out to know more!

We are still seeking a postdoc experienced in dev bio to join our lab for a project investigating the epigenetic regulation of cell fate in the early face. Deadline for this call is in few days, so please share this post. www.su.se/download/18....

Come join us, PhD and postdoc positions! Please spread! Supervisor @patricepottier.bsky.social (patricepottierlab.com), me as co-supervisor. Impacts of climate change on different life-stages in fish.🐟🧪 PhD web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Postdoc web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

Nice technology feature in @natmethods.nature.com on how physical measurements in embryos are changing how we understand development and morphogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The physics of sculpting a living creature - Nature Methods

Cell biologists have long known that mechanical forces, such as tension and compression, influence tissue differentiation. Now, advanced methods are letting them observe and manipulate these forces in...

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As part of the #B10K project, a gull-billed tern from Neufelderkoog is one of the birds of 350 species that has recently had its genome assembled. These genomes have now been released in Gigascience: doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Find out how RNA control your immune system! The Renshaw Lab (Sheffield) are hiring TWO PDRAs to study RNA-binding protein ELAVL1 in neutrophils using human cells, #zebrafish, multi-omics. Closes 26/8 Wet lab-based: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSK873/r... Bioinformatics-based: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSK931/r...

BMP signaling regulates dorsal skeletal growth in the sea urchin embryo Read this Research Article from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by William Douglas & Charles Ettensohn from @cmu.edu. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The molluscan family Ovulidae has relatively dull shells, but look at the beauty of the animals!

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#バニーの日 ウミウサギのなかま🐚

🪼Jellyfish and anemones sting using some of the most complex cell-based venom systems in the animal kingdom. @mgstowers.bsky.social Lab postdoc @gelatinoussting.bsky.social is decoding how these stinging cells form, work rooted in 500+ million years of #evolution. 🔗Read more: bit.ly/3SsB74n

"Pick a small field, one you are excited about. It can be challenging, but you get to discover new things all the time & make important contributions to broader scientific knowledge. For me, it has made my work fulfilling & a lot of fun." Lovely Q&A with @gelatinoussting.bsky.social 🪼🪸 #cnidaria 🦑

Stowers Institute@stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 3w ago

🪼Jellyfish and anemones sting using some of the most complex cell-based venom systems in the animal kingdom. @mgstowers.bsky.social Lab postdoc @gelatinoussting.bsky.social is decoding how these stinging cells form, work rooted in 500+ million years of #evolution. 🔗Read more: bit.ly/3SsB74n

PhD opening to study the Genomics of Adaptation in globally invasive ragweed. It will be a cross-continent venture, co-supervised between @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social at Toronto and us at Melbourne. Please circulate! findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/...

Genomic evolution of adaptive traits in the globally invasive weed Ambrosia artemisiifolia : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne

<p> Ragweed is native to North America and is now a globally invasive weed whose pollen is extremely allergenic. Australian ragweed populations are restricted to parts of Queensland and New South Wales, potentially limited by the extent of genetic variation available for local adaptation that could facilitate its spread. Our modelling suggests that the supply of genetic variation from North America could dramatically help colonise Australia further. </p> <p> However, we have no empirical understanding of how functional variation is acquired by Australian ragweed and whether North American source populations might supply such variation in an ecological context. </p> <p> This project will connect field experiments in Toronto and genomically-informed niche modelling in Melbourne to assess the risk of ragweed becoming a superweed, able to combine multiple sources of genetic variation to expand its range. Ragweed plants from multiple origins, including Australia, planted at the University of Toronto’s field station will be characterised phenotypically and genomically to measure functional differentiation between ranges. </p> <p> Genetic mapping will identify adaptive loci, or regions of the genome involved in adaptive traits. A newly drafted pan-genome will be used to assess if these adaptive loci are found in genomic regions with high levels of structural variation, such as copy number variants or inversion, likely to reduce the effectiveness of gene flow between populations and ranges. </p> <p> This analysis will shed light on the process of adaptation to novel environments using a weed as model of accelerated evolution, and inform biosecurity models in the context of globalisation and enhanced invasion risk. </p>

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We’re seeking highly motivated MSc and PhD students to join the Animal Cognition Research Group at the University of Alberta in Fall 2027! 🐦 All positions are funded: MSc: 2.3 years PhD: 5 years Applications: Sept. 1–Dec. 1, 2026 sites.psych.ualberta... PsychUAlberta 🧪 1/2

What happens when you make an organism transparent & use AI to map every cell? 🔬 An incredible @nature.com paper by @dorie00.bsky.social & @erturklab.bsky.social mapped metabolic stress—revealing damage far beyond the usual suspects. Watch: youtu.be/RfNoEu9_VJ8 #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy

The Mind Body Systems (MBS) Lab Website is officially live! It’s been a long time coming and this nascent lab is here to grow! Tailored to both the general public and researchers, this site was structured with intention. Come check it out! #neuroscience MindBodySystems.org