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Maria Sachkova @mariasachkova.bsky.social · 23h

Really amazing!! Congratulations Oceane!!!

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Maria Sachkova @mariasachkova.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing news! Congratulations!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · Jun 26

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Michael Sars Visitors Program! ✨🧪 To spark new connections, we are opening our doors to visiting researchers who wish to conduct a project in #SunnyBergen. Applications are open, help us spread the word!

Introducing the Michael Sars Visitors Program

The Michael Sars Centre is launching a Visitors Program designed to foster scientific exchange and collaborations across disciplines.

tinyurl.com

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Vengamanaidu Modepalli @venky-vnm.bsky.social · 25d

Exciting news to share! I have started my new role as a Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology / Director of MSc Bioinformatics program at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · Aug 6

We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky

Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!)
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Jordi Solana @jordisolana.bsky.social · Jun 1

🚨 We’re recruiting PhD students! 🚨

Join the Stem Cell Biology and Evolution lab at @lsiexeter.bsky.social to study planarians, stem cells & evolution.

2 projects available - 1 week left to apply!
Interested and no PhD yet? Apply now. Or help us spread the word! 🙌

www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

LSI PhD programme | Living Systems Institute | University of Exeter

www.exeter.ac.uk

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James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · Apr 8

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT!
For more information see here:
gahanlab.com
tinyurl.com/34xke35d

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Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social · Feb 15

Job! 2-year postdoc position in EVElab, Bristol UK on nutrition and infections in pregnancy (FLF-funded)
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r...

Apply if you are enthusiastic about:
- experiments on insects which get pregnant
- relevance of evolution to public health
- a vibrant city & research environment

Pacific beetle-mimic cockroach and her newly born nymphs

Overview of project on Nutrition and immunity in pregnancy: picture of pregnant woman on one side, viviparous insects on the other; 3 boxes linking project components (evolutionary models, insect experiments and human cohorts)

View of cormorant drying its wings by the Bristol harbour: light reflecting off the water

Researchers at an insect outreach event, standing at the stall

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Maria Sachkova @mariasachkova.bsky.social · Feb 11

Awesome news! Congratulations!! 🎉

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Vengamanaidu Modepalli @venky-vnm.bsky.social · Feb 11

Sea anemones track the suns position?! 🤯 So thrilled to share our paper is finally published in @J_Exp_Biol! 🎉
Congrats to my student leads Eliska Lintnerova and Callum Shawn.
Check it out: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · Jan 8

Thrilled to see #choanoflagellates on the cover of Science Advances🤩. Our latest work "Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals" out now. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👏 @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

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Yehu Moran @yehumoran.bsky.social · Dec 22

1/3 I am very excited to tell you about our latest work where we looked not only into sea anemones but also 🪸
We find in #Nematostella that stress induces not immunity, but also viral replication, actually much faster than the immune response! 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Heat stress drives rapid viral and antiviral innate immunity activation in Hexacorallia

The cnidarian class Hexacorallia, encompassing stony corals and sea anemones, plays a critical role in marine ecosystems. Coral bleaching, the disruption of the symbiosis between stony corals and zoox...

www.biorxiv.org

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Bristol Palaeobiology @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social · Dec 13

We've got a number of PhD projects up for grabs with competitive funding, but apply asap because they have Jan 13 and Jan 20 application deadlines!!

Check out the list below......

www.bristol.ac.uk/earthscience...

Postgraduate research projects

www.bristol.ac.uk

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Lionel Christiaen, PhD (he/him/his) @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social · Dec 13

We’ve extended the deadline to Jan 6 2025. Come join us in #SunnyBergen

Lionel Christiaen, PhD (he/him/his) @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social · Nov 10

At the Michael Sars Centre, 📢 We are hiring Group Leaders! 🌊
Come join our team @UiB to lead innovative research in molecular, cellular and organismal biology using marine/aquatic organisms! ⌛️ Application deadline Dec. 15. Share this exciting opportunity ⤵️
tinyurl.com/4bwn8u3n @embl @EMBRC_EU

Group Leader Positions (Researcher I, code 1110) (270380) | University of Bergen

Job title: Group Leader Positions (Researcher I, code 1110) (270380), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, December 15, 2024

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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · Nov 26

We are seeking to appoint a Pathway 3 Lecturer as the operational lead of our highly successful Bioinformatics taught Masters programme!

More info:

bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?nPostingId=185735&nPostingTargetId=368795&id=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=newuobext

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James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · Dec 11

Very exciting meeting next year bringing together multiple areas of expertise to discuss early animal evolution!
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

Origin of metazoans | CNRS - Conférences Jacques Monod (CJM)

cjm.sb-roscoff.fr

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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · Dec 11

The mysterious comb jellies are the stars of the latest episode of Science Sessions, a podcast by @pnas.org 🤩🧪 Listen to @joanjsoto.bsky.social & @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social explain their fascinating ability to become young again.
🔊 www.pnas.org/post/podcast...
📖 tinyurl.com/yj2xjsx3

The curious case of the comb jelly

Joan Soto-Angel and Pawel Burkhardt describe a comb jelly with the ability to reverse its development to an earlier stage of life.

www.pnas.org

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · Dec 11

📢 18-month postdoc in my lab doing drought modelling with either the UK land surface model JULES or machine learning. Up to you which. Please share widely (thanks)

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Closes: 18th January

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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · Dec 10

#Multicellularity enthusiasts! Mark your calendars! EMBO Workshop on "Evolution and Origins of Multicellularity Across the Tree of Life"
📅 October 9-11, 2025, Barcelona

🔗 Pre-register here: coming-soon.embo.org/w25-102

@csic.es @embopress.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxKj...

EMBO meeting

YouTube video by Multicellgenome Lab

www.youtube.com

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Harry Siviter @harrysiviter.bsky.social · Dec 8

This Black Heritage PhD position is still available in our lab at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social if anyone is interested (or knows someone who might be). Please re-post #blackinStem 🐝

Harry Siviter @harrysiviter.bsky.social · Nov 18

PhD position at Bristol in my research group. Please can people share with their networks 🐝

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal behaviour, physio...

PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal beh...

www.findaphd.com

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Lionel Christiaen, PhD (he/him/his) @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social · Dec 8

A few days left to apply 🙌🏻

Lionel Christiaen, PhD (he/him/his) @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social · Nov 10

At the Michael Sars Centre, 📢 We are hiring Group Leaders! 🌊
Come join our team @UiB to lead innovative research in molecular, cellular and organismal biology using marine/aquatic organisms! ⌛️ Application deadline Dec. 15. Share this exciting opportunity ⤵️
tinyurl.com/4bwn8u3n @embl @EMBRC_EU

Group Leader Positions (Researcher I, code 1110) (270380) | University of Bergen

Job title: Group Leader Positions (Researcher I, code 1110) (270380), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, December 15, 2024

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · Nov 20

Spread the word! Lots of exciting PhD studentships open under the SWBio scheme (doctoral landscape award) www.swbio.ac.uk

Including this one with our group @lsiexeter.bsky.social on programming cyanobacteria motility
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Apply by 11 Dec 2024 (email/DM for details)!

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Christoph Grüter @chrisleduck.bsky.social · Nov 15

🐝 We're currently advertising three PhD projects to study bees at Bristol University, UK. Two focus on foraging behaviour, ecology & nutrition, one on parasitic bees and their impact on indigenous stingless beekeeping in Peru.

Feel free to share: www.socialinsect-research.com/opportunitie...

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · Nov 14

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
M. leidyi, or the sea walnut
💚can self-fertilize and produce 2,000 eggs daily
💚has a TRANSIENT ANUS (it appears only for 💩, then is gone)
💚belongs to the oldest taxon with a nervous system
💚is bioluminescent
💔is one of top 100 worst invasives (IUCN)
🧪🌏

Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · Nov 14

You're once
twice
three times a leidyi
And I love you...🎶
[well, maybe not love, but I do find you incredibly impressive]

Comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi can *undergo reverse development*, essentially rejuvenating itself. It's also a scarily successful invasive species.
🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Photo of Mnemiopsis leidyi, by Bruno C. Vellutini (Wikimedia Commons)

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Maria Sachkova @mariasachkova.bsky.social · Mar 13

Awesome! Congratulations Sinead!!