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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 22h

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 3d

I probably watched/read too much cyborg sci-fi a la Blade Runner ;-)

metabolism --> "distinctively biological purposiveness"
but this is not impossible to imaging it for machines.

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 3d

I enjoyed Yogi's writing on this in the past. Thought Experiment
If we were giving AIs a body and metabolism + the need to forage their own energy to sustain their hardware and energetic balance...

Would that make them agents?
(they would need to acquire autopoiesis, would live in the large world)

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 5d

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lake Superior, 2003, silver gelatin print

Photograph of the horizon over a lake in black and white

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Francesco Cicconardi @fcicconardi.bsky.social · 5d

New paper out! A nice collaboration.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.

Evolution of the olfactory system during the radiation of Heliconiini butterflies

Abstract. Sensory system evolution plays a crucial role in shaping species’ interactions with their environment, yet the extent to which olfactory system d

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 10d

My entry for today’s #FluorescenceFriday: a pupal #Drosophila testis with muscles expressing
🔵 lifeact &
🔴 RFP-nls

Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨

🔗 www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

#NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt

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David L. Stern @gallseeker.bsky.social · 12d

It's official! We are moving to Stowers!
Very exciting opportunity to expand our studies of insect-plant interactions. We have many opportunities available in biochemistry, development, behavior, genetics, evolution, genomics, AI, and even pest control. Interested in any of these things? Reach out!

Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 12d

NEWS🎉 We’re excited to announce @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Investigator David Stern will join the Institute from Janelia Research Campus. His lab studies how aphids transform plants at the genetic level, uncovering secrets of #evolution & new strategies for pest control. @hhmi.org bit.ly/4np96Fb

Stowers Institute recruits renowned developmental and evolutionary…

David Stern, Ph.D., brings groundbreaking research on insect–plant interactions for next-generation pest control to the Institute.

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 12d

Fantastic news, good luck in this exciting transition and next chapter

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 14d

Calling early-career developmental biologists!

Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution.

Application deadline: 5 December

www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...

#DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking

Workshop: Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution. Organisers: James Hombría and Antónia Monteiro. 14-17 June 2026, Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK. Early-career researchers apply for funded places.

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Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 18d

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our lab is 2.5 years into #ERC funding✨

Grateful for the support that enabled us to uncover the syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore - a discovery reshaping our understanding of nervous system evolution. Stay tuned for more exciting discoveries to come @erc.europa.eu

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DAE...

Flying into sensory and mesogleal neurons from a ctenophore (comb jelly).

YouTube video by Pawel Burkhardt

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 17d

up-to-date Youtube link here
youtu.be/Kunvn2GDq8o?...

The genetic basis of silver polymorphism in Speyeria mormonia butterflies

YouTube video by Arnaud Martin

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · Jun 3

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Drosophila Genetic Database

The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 25d

hurry up! there is competition
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P83B...

Two Hairy Frog-Fish Take a Walk

YouTube video by Storyful Viral

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 25d

There is a fish somewhere who wrote "Your Inner Tetrapod"

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 25d

this : 🤗

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26d

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.

When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.

Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · Sep 11

this :

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · Sep 3

Look at this crazy thing!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

www.nature.com

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