We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

One year ago, The Radiant Sea appeared in print! Still super happy with how it turned out. Our mission to share a different view of ocean life seems to have succeeded.💙 Named a top ten photography book of 2025 by @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, and many anecdotes from people who appreciated it. 🙏 🌊🧪🦑

Steve Haddock@stevehaddock.bsky.social · last yr.

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!! 30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing. Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

New findings mark a potential use for heparin as a safe, accessible treatment to relieve people suffering from painful sea nettle stings. Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4zSZZ63

🚨 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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This was a complete treat! My first Beroe sp. Ctenophore (comb jelly). What an animal! #marineplankton 🦑

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!

My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

MBARI hosted experts from around the world for Ctenopalooza Ctwo. Researchers shared discoveries and sparked exciting collaborations, while @montereybayaquarium.org shared new developments in culturing these dazzling drifters. 🌊🌈🌊 Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-h...

MBARI hosts workshop to share latest research on comb jellies • MBARI

This week, MBARI welcomed experts from a wide range of scientific disciplines to discuss the latest research on ctenophores, also known as comb jellies. The Ctenopalooza Ctwo workshop helped foster ne...

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When stressed, this comb jelly reverts to a larval form, then matures again when favorable conditions return. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4gmdt2J #ScienceMagArchives

@hhmi-science.bsky.social has several upcoming competitions for scientists at various career stages. Here is a list (pl share whatever you feel will be useful): 1) Rising college juniors & seniors in summer 2027 can apply to the Cech Fellows program (www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...) Deadline: Nov 10

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (REU) | Cech Fellows | HHMI

The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

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Beautiful & absolutely mesmerizing 🤩

@voigtvision.bsky.social · 3w ago

🤩 It's time for some invertebrate eye candy! 🤩 Here's a ctenophore (or comb jelly) stained with phalloidin by John Alexander Salazar Hernandez & imaged on an exaSPIM built by Kaelin Wulf of the team of @adamkglaser.bsky.social as part of the FHL Functional Biodiversity course #microscopy

Our new paper in Science Advances asks how animals' genomes have changed since their origin from a common ancestor over 600 million years ago, and what patterns in their DNA have arisen in the churn of speciation and extinction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm thrilled to share that I've started as an Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences and the Oceans Research Center at Lehigh University! I'm building a group in evolutionary genomics to study the origin of animals, and to use those concepts to better understand human disease. More: evogeno.me

🦋 I’m recruiting a fully funded PhD student at the University of Helsinki: understanding how butterflies respond to climate change across Europe. Apply by 30 Sept: Full details: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/5... Please share! #ecology #job #phd

Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe

Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe

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Thank you for highlighting our work Urvashi Goswami & @prelights.bsky.social

preLights@prelights.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sensing before specialisation: a diverse and spatially organised TRP channel toolkit in the unicellular ancestor of animals. #preprint by Simen Mannsåker, @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social & @jeffcolgren.bsky.social Read the #preLight prepared by Urvashi Goswami ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/d...

Our team is recruiting a PhD student to investigate the evolution of pressure sensation in Zooplankton! The project will use marine invertebrate larvae to explore the molecular, cellular, and neuronal mechanisms behind this fascinating sensory system. More details here: bit.ly/3TTeF4Q

If you'd like to learn more about reverse development in Mnemiopsis leidyi, check out @the-node.bsky.social post by @joanjsoto.bsky.social & @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social on their documented discovery: thenode.biologists.com/reverse-deve... 🦑

Reverse development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi - the Node

Joan and Pawel show us a timelapse video of reverse development of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, and tell the story behind it.

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MORE glass sponge shaped like a mushroom, 3500ish m #okeanos Cook Islands, Pepe seamount #spongeThursday

Cilia alert! Last year Juyeon Hong described a new domain in 9+2 cilia called the EDT, the extreme distal tip. Now, she's found a new protein required for its assembly, but only in non-mammalian vertebrates. A cool evo-cell / protein evolution story in @cellreports.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2xvdskx6

ANNOUNCEMENT: All our sundials will be out of order this evening between about 6pm and 8pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal service will resume tomorrow. In unrelated news, enjoy the eclipse later... Photos: Mike Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Chris Davies, John Millar

Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.com

Postdoc opportunity in Copenhagen! Interested in marine bioluminescence, comb jellies & experimental biology? A great 2-year postdoc (possibility of 1-year extension), working with CRISPR, imaging & EM in the labs of Anders Garm & Cornelia Jaspers. Deadline: 16.08 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Postdoc in Marine Bioluminescence - re-advertisement

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The new SDB shirt designs! Seeing the shirts in person is magical. Amazing work by Sarah Paramore. sdb-store.printify.me @parahsaramore.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social #SDB2026 #SciArt

New research from #ProcB: A morphological phylogenetic approach to the evolution of symmetry in animals doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #Ecology #Evolution #Palaeontology

Shining stars! 🌟 🎉 Our latest preprint is out, led by postdoc Beverly Naigles and research assistant Brian McGonagle, two amazing members of the lab and @mblscience.bsky.social community. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Come join us at ETH!

Pedro Beltrao@pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My department @eth-dbiol.bsky.social at ETH Zurich is hiring for a tenured professor in mol cell bio and biochemistry (associate/full). The position is within the Institute of Biochemistry (www.bc.biol.ethz.ch) and it is fairly open within their scope of research. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Who knew predators could be this pretty? 🩷✨⁠ ⁠ The abyssal comb jelly (Beroe abyssicola) patrols the midnight zone searching for its favorite food—other comb jellies. When Beroe finds their next meal, rows of tiny cilia lining their mouths act like teeth, helping them grip onto their prey.

Very pleased to finally share the main story from my PhD, now published in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🎉 Using a sea anemone we discovered and characterised epithelial cell extrusion as the mechanism underlying starvation-induced cell loss. 🔗 Open-access article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epithelial cell extrusion underlies starvation-induced cell loss in a sea anemone - Nature Communications

Epithelial cell extrusion in a sea anemone shares key hallmarks with bilaterians and is dynamically regulated by nutritional status. During starvation-induced body shrinkage, extrusion likely contribu...

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Very happy to share our new review on visual computation in the cephalopod brain, with @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social, out now! We discuss exciting recent advances in understanding how the radically different brain of cephalopods processes the visual scene. 🐙🔬👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Dispatch "Evolution: Ancient monoamines in a neuron-less animal" out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Monoamine signaling and behavioral responses in placozoans suggest this system predates bilaterians. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYJl3QW8S... @annaferraioli.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social