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Maike Kittelmann @maikekittelmann.bsky.social · 14d

Great opportunity to do a PhD with me through the ILESA PhD programme in Oxford with #Drosophila #Microscopy #Genetics. Check out what the programme is about below and DM me for more information!
www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

DPhil in Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science |

About the courseThe DPhil in Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science provides innovative training for graduates from a wide range of academic backgrounds who wish to conduct leading-edge

www.ox.ac.uk

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Bas van Steensel lab (NKI) @basvansteensellab.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very proud of our paper on "scrambling-by-hopping" LADs, which was just published: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Congrats to Lise Dauban and the rest of the team – this was a real tour-de-force!

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · Aug 6

attention 🪰folks. many of you received a survey from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social about potential future sites of the US Fly meeting. We are excited for #Dros26 Chicago, but future sites are in question, for many logistical reasons. GSA is hard at work planning, but we need to hear from you. please RT!

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Amber Ridgway 🪰 @amberridgway.bsky.social · Jun 19

Huge congrats Ben, that’s incredible news!!

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Jun 3

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 3

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · Jun 3

My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Jun 2

Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space.

2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026.

www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Amber Ridgway 🪰 @amberridgway.bsky.social · May 9

Buzzing to see this published! Before selecting my PhD, I spent three months in the Flashman lab working on this project. Since then, this novel tool has been extensively and beautifully characterized - well done to all the authors!

Emily Flashman @emilyflashman.bsky.social · May 9

And now formally published, a chemical probe that can detect hypoxia in plants - congratulations to all authors! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Hypoxia‐activated fluorescent probes as markers of oxygen levels in plant cells and tissues

Low oxygen signalling in plants is important in development and stress responses. Measurement of oxygen levels in plant cells and tissues is hampered by a lack of chemical tools with which to reliab...

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Joanna W Jachowicz @jjachowicz.bsky.social · Apr 6

Join our team as a postdoc and explore the exciting world of transposable elements and developmental biology with us! @imbavienna.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social

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nuneslab.bsky.social @nuneslab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Join us to investigate the evolutionary-developmental basis of genital co-evolution between sexes! Strong candidates will have an interest in #EvoDevo & #SexualSelection
and Skills in #Drosophilagenetics, Transgenesis or Bioinformatics

DM for details.
tinyurl.com/yesyjyfd

Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Male-Female Genital Co-evolution at Oxford Brookes University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Male-Female Genital Co-evolution at Oxford Brookes University, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Maya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social · Mar 17

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇

Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte

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Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social · Feb 4

Happy to share our Slow cooked work together with @mcgregorlab.bsky.social, @posnienlab.bsky.social , @nuneslab.bsky.social sky.social and Saad Arif and the collaboration of @maikekittelmann.bsky.social, Fernando Casares & @laurensr.bsky.social and many other friends
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Heterochrony in orthodenticle expression is associated with ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species

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Prashant Sharma @prashantpsharma.bsky.social · Jan 29

A scorpion embryo to brighten your day.

Purple: Pax2A. Yellow: Pax2B. Blue: nuclei.

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Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social · Dec 17

Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.

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Amber Ridgway 🪰 @amberridgway.bsky.social · Jan 21

This one was always a favourite of mine during my PhD studies: www.nature.com/articles/nat...

Chance caught on the wing: cis-regulatory evolution and the origin of pigment patterns in Drosophila - Nature

Changes in gene regulation are thought to be central to the evolution of form, but the molecular bases for such changes remain elusive. Analysis of the genetics of a wing spot that arose in the Drosop...

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nuneslab.bsky.social @nuneslab.bsky.social · Jan 15

PhD Opportunity: Last few days to apply to join my lab to explore the co-evolution of male and female genitalia in Drosophila. Feel free to DM me for more details! 🧬🐝 #PhDposition #EvolutionBiology #Genetics tinyurl.com/PhD-Drosophila

Nigel Groome Studentship: Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Male-Female Genital Co-evolution at Oxford Brookes University

Explore a Nigel Groome Studentship: Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Male-Female Genital Co-evolution. Apply today and discover more PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · Jan 7

At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics!

Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.

Please spread the word!

www.su.se/english/sear...

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Jeffrey Dean @jeffdean-uga.bsky.social · Dec 27

www.earth.com/news/fruit-f...

Fruit flies have a new weapon to defend against parasitic wasps

Fruit flies use a bacterial gene to protect against wasps, which threaten their larvae.The gene produces a toxin that kills wasp eggs.

www.earth.com

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Amber Ridgway 🪰 @amberridgway.bsky.social · Dec 21

Fantastic work!

McGregor Lab @mcgregorlab.bsky.social · Dec 21

New preprint from our lab. Great work by @maaseremedios.bsky.social in collaboration with Ralf Janssen looking at gene regulation and expression after whole genome duplication by comparing a spider and harvestman:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Assessing the impact of whole genome duplication on gene expression and regulation during arachnid development

Whole genome duplication (WGD) generates new genetic material that can contribute to the evolution of the regulation of developmental processes and phenotypic diversification. A WGD occurred in an anc...

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Rebecca Tarnopol @tarnopol.bsky.social · Dec 20

Excited to share the major work of my dissertation, out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We use Drosophila genetics to dissect the evolution of phage-derived toxins that were horizontally transferred to insects and now function as potent anti-parasitoid defenses (1/n): tinyurl.com/2k9ypyxr

Experimental horizontal transfer of phage-derived genes to Drosophila confers innate immunity to parasitoids

Metazoan parasites have played a major role in shaping innate immunity in animals. Insect hosts and parasitoid wasps are excellent models for illumina…

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Amber Ridgway 🪰 @amberridgway.bsky.social · Dec 18

Love this preprint, beautiful work

mara lawniczak @marakat.bsky.social · Dec 18

very proud of this work -- if you are into malaria or popgen or evolutionary biology or genomics, have a read. and congratulations to the whole team behind this progress to understanding of malaria mosquito genomic diversity and population structure!

marilou boddé @mariloumercedes.bsky.social · Dec 18

Preprint is out! We investigated the genomic diversity and evolutionary history of Anopheles funestus mosquitoes, one of the main species transmitting human malaria across Africa. Here’s a visual summary. Art by @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social . 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Chris Jiggins @chrisjiggins.bsky.social · Dec 18

Join us in Cambridge! This evolutionary genomics professorship (lecturer/reader level) has an emphasis on introgression and gene flow. If you study any aspect of evolutionary genomics then please apply! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/

Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Pío Sierra @piosierra.bsky.social · Dec 13

Do you need to curate a Transposable Elements library for a new genome 🧬 or a new species 🐜🦟🦖? Try MCHelper.!
Very proud of my (small) contribution here. Gracias a @simonorozcoa.bsky.social y @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social!

genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

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Dr. Sarah Signor @signor-molevol.bsky.social · Dec 12

My graduate student shashank and I wrote this cool review on the evolution of transposon defense. Come for pirna cluster evolution stay for wild theories!