We have a postdoc position available in the lab and would like to spread the word. Please apply if you are interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk

Please share, I am hiring an evo devo postdoctoral research fellow! 📍: The Sleight Lab, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (5th oldest University in UK & English-speaking world) 📅: start after 1st December 2026 🐌: Evolution and Development (molluscs) ⌛: 3 year contract sleightlab.com/vacancies/

Hello World ! We have another postdoc position open in the lab! Are you a freshly minted Ph.D. with a passion for chromatin and evolution ? Come join our ERC project #EvoEpi ! Inclusive environment + cool people + great science = success details 👉 tinyurl.com/3r6zk54n Repost are always appreciated

Our new paper is out in @nature.com! We uncovered how a naked mole-rat queen 👑 controls an entire colony: a natural contraceptive scent that suppresses reproduction in other females! A remarkable mammalian parallel to bees and ants! 🐝🐜 @garyrlewin.bsky.social youtu.be/enfv3zJrWKM?...

Naked mole-rats are ruled by a queen: this chemical puts her in power

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The Spanish National Research Council, established under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, has published the stories of some 500 researchers and support staff purged after the civil war. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Rq5EiJ

New preprint 📢 Thrilled to share our long-awaited work on the role of RSX in marsupial X-inactivation. This was a huge team effort over the years, led by @aureliencourtois.bsky.social @sermenchero.bsky.social Sugako Ogushi and Waz Varsally, that allowed us to set up genome editing in opossum embryos

Genome editing of marsupial RSX reveals conserved and divergent principles in mammalian X-inactivation

X-chromosome inactivation balances X-gene dosage between the sexes in eutherians and marsupials. The lncRNA Xist mediates X-inactivation in eutherians but is absent from marsupials. An evolutionarily ...

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The 2nd part of my postdoc is now out as a preprint! A challenging but fulfilling team effort to perform genome editing in opossums. We found that the lncRNA RSX is essential to initiate X-inactivation in marsupials 🦘 A long-standing question since the discovery that Xist is absent in marsupials 👇

Turner Lab@lab-turner.bsky.social · 4w ago

New preprint 📢 Thrilled to share our long-awaited work on the role of RSX in marsupial X-inactivation. This was a huge team effort over the years, led by @aureliencourtois.bsky.social @sermenchero.bsky.social Sugako Ogushi and Waz Varsally, that allowed us to set up genome editing in opossum embryos

The power of cross-species comparisons 🎏 A quantitative definition of heterochrony comparing the transcriptome of (fast) zebrafish and (slow) medaka embryos. And no, not everything in medaka is slow!

Mike Dorrity@mwdorr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

First pre-print from the lab, a collaborative effort led by Jess Bourn @bournsupremacy.bsky.social, a fantastic PhD in my group. We resolve a key problem in development + evolution: how do we quantify heterochrony and link temporal variation to phenotype? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Capolavoro 🎨 alert 🚨! What is the role of gene body methylation in invertebrates? Despite extensive speculation linking it to plasticity and environmental responses, its mechanistic effects and heritability remain unclear. Our take out in @natecoevo.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Gene body methylation suppresses intragenic transcription and permits epigenetic inheritance in a cnidarian - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Experiments in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis show a role of gene body methylation in transposable element suppression and that epigenetic inheritance is constrained by chromatin context and tra...

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The YEN conference is around the corner! You can still register and participate in the YEN 2026 Image Competition. More details here: thenode.biologists.com/yen-2026-con...

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We hope you are looking forward to the Young Embryologist Network Conference 2026! The meeting will be held at the Francis Crick Insitute on the 15th June

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We are recruiting PhD students! With @surfinnurd.bsky.social and others @exeter.ac.uk ! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... Join us at the Living Systems Institute @lsiexeter.bsky.social Deadline: 8 June 2026 Please repost or forward to prospective students that might be interested!

LSI PhD programme | Living Systems Institute | University of Exeter

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(1/15) Thrilled to share new Evo-Devo work where we address the molecular, cellular & morphometric basis of an extreme axis segmentation program in the Japanese eel — an animal that forms 120 vertebrae.

We’re looking for a technician to join our lab in Dresden - help manage the lab and work with us on a cool 'stem cell zoo' comparison projects! 🐁🚶‍♀️🦏🐒 Apply by May 21! tud.link/wbqrwm

Physics of Life Dresden@poldresden.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 #JobAlert: Lab Technician. Please share with your colleagues! 👩‍🔬The Ebisuya lab @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social is looking for an experienced technician in molecular & cell biology to join their interdisciplinary team. Apply now! Learn more here 👉 tud.link/wbqrwm 🗓️Application deadline: May 21.

Join us for the 2026 YEN conference on the 15th of June at the Francis Crick Institute! Only two weeks left for the abstract deadline!

Marta Perera@martaperera.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Don't forget to register for the Young Embryologists Network (YEN) Conference 2026! Francis Crick Institute, London June 15th, 2026 Abstract Deadline: May 13th, 2026 Lots of opportunities for talks from abstracts! Link: forms.gle/fxtmNHjEziVTFprN6 #DevelopmentalBiology #ReproductiveBiology

Join us at the Mammalian Reproduction GRC conference next August in Maine! We have a fantastic line of speakers and free slots for talks selected from abstracts. Don't miss it! www.grc.org/mammalian-re...

I am giving a "Crash Course in Embryo Development" for the general public (no science background needed! pitched around GCSE-level) in London on 21st May www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri... We'll dip into development, with a splash of embryo models, and a pinch of ethics. And it's free! Book online 👍

Crick Crash Course: Embryo development

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Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Last day to submit an abstract! This is a meeting aimed at all career stages, but especially geared on early career scientists (PhD/postdoc), don't feel you need to have a perfectly polished story to present!

Alex de Mendoza@alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 5mo ago

May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk

This is so cool!

Alex Neaverson@alexneaverson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I illustrated my way through the @bsdb.bsky.social Spring Meeting a couple weeks ago - here's my illustrated summary of the conference! I sketched (almost) all the speakers and glimpses of the science that made it such a great few days.

📢 We are #hiring! #GroupLeader positions open at #IRBBarcelona in #ChemicalBiology and #StructuralBiology. Application deadline: May 22, 2026 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 ➡️ shorturl.at/1tE3n 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 ➡️ shorturl.at/eKiJn #IRBJobs #Jobs #AcademicSky

The time has come for another round of QBMM - we have a fantastic lineup of speakers in genomics, systems biology, and modeling cell dynamics. Check it out! Co-orgs @elowitzlab.bsky.social @tinekelenstra.bsky.social @trayon.bsky.social @savitski-lab.bsky.social and I look forward to seeing you

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 5mo ago

Join #EMBOOmics which aims to showcase new technologies and formulate questions to move the systems biology field forward 👉 s.embl.org/omx26-01-bl 📥 Abstract deadline 11 September

Excited to share our new #preprint uncovering how early human forebrain is patterned. Compared to mouse, human dorsoventral and anteroposterior telencephalon patterning is strikingly delayed, which is correlated with SHH and FGF signalling differences. Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🥳 I am happy to share our latest manuscript published in @natcellbio.nature.com We use #Gastruloids to study #CellCompetition during early mammalian development and find not only that this is highly pronounced in our system but also tightly restricted in time. (1/12) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mosaic gastruloids reveal a temporal restriction for developmental cell competition - Nature Cell Biology

Frenster et al. utilize mosaic mouse gastruloids as a model of cell fitness and competition, identifying a temporal window between primed pluripotency and early gastrulation during which cell competit...

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Crick evolutionary biologist @margaridamcm.bsky.social is working with conservation charity ZSL to investigate an enduring mystery: how the placenta has evolved with incredible variation across species. Read the full story: www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

The Cooper lab is hiring a postdoc with a strong background in mouse genetics and molecular biology to advance.our gene drive work. Must be extremely organized, engineering-minded, and outcomes-oriented. Spread the word and have interested candidates email me directly.

Honoured and grateful to receive the 2026 BSDB Dennis Summerbell Award. This was the cherry on the cake of a fantastic meeting. Thank you @bsdb.bsky.social and the whole DevBio community for being so inspiring

British Society for Developmental Biology@bsdb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🏆 We’re delighted to announce the winner of the 2026 BSDB Dennis Summerbell Award! This year’s award goes to Sergio Menchero @sermenchero.bsky.social, recognised for exceptional contributions to developmental biology and for carrying forward the curiosity and rigour that Dennis championed.

🎉 We are thrilled to announce the very first winner of the BSDB Marie Johansson Prize! This year’s award goes to Giulia Boezio @giulia-boezio.bsky.social, recognised for outstanding contributions to developmental biology and for embodying Marie’s scientific originality and rigour.

🧬 Placental Biology Course 2026 – Open for Booking! 📅 14–18 September 2026, 💻 Online 💷 2026 fees (held at 2024 rates): • £125 – Students • £150 – Post-docs • £300 – Medical & Vet Health Professionals & Group Leaders • £500 – Industry colleagues www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/placentalbio...