Christopher B. Cameron
@invertevo.bsky.social
Marine invertebrates, Hemichordata, eco-evo-devo, fluid mechanics, paleontology, extracellular matrix structures. Telling people 'Once we were worms' since 2000.
http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/cameroc
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An excellent opportunity to join the amazing faculty at the Whitney Labs as a tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Applications due December 1!
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
University of Florida - Details - Assistant/Associate Professor in Marine Bioscience
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November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
An excellent opportunity to join the amazing faculty at the Whitney Labs as a tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Applications due December 1!
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
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If you are looking for a postdoc, here is a chance to join for one year the @cnrs-insu.bsky.social in France (and more locally @cerege.bsky.social / @climatecerege.bsky.social group) www.campusfrance.org/en/mopga-2026
MOPGA 2026: Visiting Fellowship Program for Early Career Researchers | Campus France
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November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If you are looking for a postdoc, here is a chance to join for one year the @cnrs-insu.bsky.social in France (and more locally @cerege.bsky.social / @climatecerege.bsky.social group) www.campusfrance.org/en/mopga-2026
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This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature
The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Want to do a PhD linking palaeontology, ecological modelling and polar ecosystems? Look no further than this NERC GW4+ DLTP funded project with @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social at @bas.ac.uk & @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social and others (inc me).
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November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Want to do a PhD linking palaeontology, ecological modelling and polar ecosystems? Look no further than this NERC GW4+ DLTP funded project with @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social at @bas.ac.uk & @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social and others (inc me).
www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...
www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...
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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
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jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
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The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
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Great collaboration between @paulbump.bsky.social and @planaria1.bsky.social lab. Some really surprising findings for cell type turnover during hemichordate metamorphosis.
Excited to share our recent work from @lowelab.bsky.social on the intersection of life history and cell type evolution: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Great collaboration between @paulbump.bsky.social and @planaria1.bsky.social lab. Some really surprising findings for cell type turnover during hemichordate metamorphosis.
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I am beyond excited to share that my postdoc project @szndohrn.bsky.social and the @arnonelab.bsky.social is now available in #ScienceAdvances @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I am beyond excited to share that my postdoc project @szndohrn.bsky.social and the @arnonelab.bsky.social is now available in #ScienceAdvances @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The website for the 12th European Conference on #Echinoderms (London, July 2026) has gone live today. I am pleased to be involved as a member of the organising committee. Please spread the word: www.euroechino.net
12th European Echinoderm Meeting 2026
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November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The website for the 12th European Conference on #Echinoderms (London, July 2026) has gone live today. I am pleased to be involved as a member of the organising committee. Please spread the word: www.euroechino.net
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New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
Integrative biodiversity discovery | Natural History Museum
An introduction to field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics.
www.nhm.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
@lowelab.bsky.social @laurentformery.bsky.social on whole-body single-cell RNA sequencing of the acorn worm Schizocardium californicum (Cameron & Perez, 2012). #Hemichordate
"Our tissue-level atlas reveals ectodermal & endodermal cell types in larvae & adults occupy distinct transcriptional spaces"
"Our tissue-level atlas reveals ectodermal & endodermal cell types in larvae & adults occupy distinct transcriptional spaces"
Major cell type differences between larval and adult hemichordate body plans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685866v1
November 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
@lowelab.bsky.social @laurentformery.bsky.social on whole-body single-cell RNA sequencing of the acorn worm Schizocardium californicum (Cameron & Perez, 2012). #Hemichordate
"Our tissue-level atlas reveals ectodermal & endodermal cell types in larvae & adults occupy distinct transcriptional spaces"
"Our tissue-level atlas reveals ectodermal & endodermal cell types in larvae & adults occupy distinct transcriptional spaces"
My most effective exam question? I ask students to provide an example of something (eg, heterochrony, heterotopy, heterometry or heterotypy) from the literature. Then, discuss their findings with me before exam day. It's a fun method to engage in critical thinking & composition. 🚀 #pedagogy
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October 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My most effective exam question? I ask students to provide an example of something (eg, heterochrony, heterotopy, heterometry or heterotypy) from the literature. Then, discuss their findings with me before exam day. It's a fun method to engage in critical thinking & composition. 🚀 #pedagogy
I neglected to add that, though anyone can apply, French and Belgian students pay the same tuition fees as Quebec residents.
Fully funded PhD position in my lab on the origin of the echinoderm skeletal ossicles. Join us in Montreal!
mapageweb.umontreal.ca/cameroc/Pubs...
mapageweb.umontreal.ca/cameroc/Pubs...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I neglected to add that, though anyone can apply, French and Belgian students pay the same tuition fees as Quebec residents.
Fully funded PhD position in my lab on the origin of the echinoderm skeletal ossicles. Join us in Montreal!
mapageweb.umontreal.ca/cameroc/Pubs...
mapageweb.umontreal.ca/cameroc/Pubs...
mapageweb.umontreal.ca
October 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Fully funded PhD position in my lab on the origin of the echinoderm skeletal ossicles. Join us in Montreal!
mapageweb.umontreal.ca/cameroc/Pubs...
mapageweb.umontreal.ca/cameroc/Pubs...
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🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Joseph Botting (& his partner Lucy Muir) discovered the Castle Bank Biota (middle Ordovician, Wales), which shows exceptional preservation of very small animals. Wonderfully knowledgeable people. See for yourself.
Enigmatic animals from the Cambrian -- the Chancelloriids
Sponges, slugs, something else entirely?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWNX...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
Sponges, slugs, something else entirely?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWNX...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
Chancelloriids: slugs or sponges?
YouTube video by Life Through Time
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October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Joseph Botting (& his partner Lucy Muir) discovered the Castle Bank Biota (middle Ordovician, Wales), which shows exceptional preservation of very small animals. Wonderfully knowledgeable people. See for yourself.
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Happy #HagfishDay! We found this #hagfish inside a sponge while exploring Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 2018. The #Pacifichagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) is a slender, slimy, primitive fish found in cold waters worldwide.
October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Happy #HagfishDay! We found this #hagfish inside a sponge while exploring Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 2018. The #Pacifichagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) is a slender, slimy, primitive fish found in cold waters worldwide.
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2758m First time I have seen an acorn worm with a head like that. Awesome!!! @nautiluslive.org dive L1012 #CookIslands #MarineLife
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
2758m First time I have seen an acorn worm with a head like that. Awesome!!! @nautiluslive.org dive L1012 #CookIslands #MarineLife
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Come join us in beautiful vibrant Montréal! Job opening for a CRC position in Applied Synthetic Biology at Concordia University. www.concordia.ca/jobs/artsci/... #ASHG25 #ASHG2025
Canada Research Chair Tier II in Applied Synthetic Biology | Faculty of Arts and Science - Concordia University
The Department of Biology in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University invites applications for a tenure track faculty position and Tier II Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Applied Synthet...
www.concordia.ca
October 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Come join us in beautiful vibrant Montréal! Job opening for a CRC position in Applied Synthetic Biology at Concordia University. www.concordia.ca/jobs/artsci/... #ASHG25 #ASHG2025
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Bacteria 🦠 🧫 play a crucial role in how animals become fossils!
Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The relationship between microbial community succession, decay, and anatomical character loss in non‐biomineralized animals
A fundamental assumption of hypothesis-driven decay experiments is that, during decay, the loss of anatomy follows a sequence broadly controlled by the intrinsic compositional properties of tissues. ...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Bacteria 🦠 🧫 play a crucial role in how animals become fossils!
Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ferricrete fossils show “individual pigment cells in fish eyes, internal organs of insects and fish, and even delicate spider hairs and nerve cells…” 🤯
October 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Ferricrete fossils show “individual pigment cells in fish eyes, internal organs of insects and fish, and even delicate spider hairs and nerve cells…” 🤯
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If anybody is interested in (or knows someone interested in) doing a postdoc at Oxford on topics aligned with marine connectivity or oceanic forcing of coral reefs, I'm happy to discuss ideas and funding routes. One option is the 1851 Royal Commission fellowships (3 years, deadline Jan 2026)!
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
If anybody is interested in (or knows someone interested in) doing a postdoc at Oxford on topics aligned with marine connectivity or oceanic forcing of coral reefs, I'm happy to discuss ideas and funding routes. One option is the 1851 Royal Commission fellowships (3 years, deadline Jan 2026)!
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Reminder, we’re hiring 2 PhD students for next year!! I’m extending the deadline to Nov 1, but please get your app in soon if you’re interested in joining us! More info is on our webpage. 🦠🦑
Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)
Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)
🚨🚨We’re hiring graduate students!🚨🚨
We are hiring 1-2 PhD students to start sometime in 2026 (Fall start dates preferred). Opportunities to work on a diversity of eco-evo-immuno and symbiosis projects!
Deadline Oct 15! Please share broadly!
Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem
We are hiring 1-2 PhD students to start sometime in 2026 (Fall start dates preferred). Opportunities to work on a diversity of eco-evo-immuno and symbiosis projects!
Deadline Oct 15! Please share broadly!
Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem
opportunities – Symbiommunity Lab
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October 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Reminder, we’re hiring 2 PhD students for next year!! I’m extending the deadline to Nov 1, but please get your app in soon if you’re interested in joining us! More info is on our webpage. 🦠🦑
Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)
Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)
Articulating Labrador Inuit governance through crafting a seasonal calendar.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Articulating Labrador Inuit governance through crafting a seasonal calendar.
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