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Matt Rockman
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Evolutionary zoology & quantitative genetics
Biology Professor, New York University
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dpromislow.bsky.social
We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
wormsrock.bsky.social
Cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see
A one story L-shaped building in San Antonio Texas. The right side is 1950s International Style including signage reading Rico’s Products Co., but the left side is clad in preposterous fake white stone and somehow the whole thing is impossibly beautiful? The Tower of the Americas sticks up from behind the building, and power lines cross from middle left side to top right corner.
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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molbioevol.bsky.social
Aharonoff et al. show that dosage compensation mechanisms continue to evolve in species with shared X chromosome ancestry, and that the process of evolving chromosome-wide gene regulatory mechanisms is constrained.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf270

#evobio #molbio #celegans
Parallel Evolution of X Chromosome-Specific Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes Complexes in Two Nematode Lineages
Abstract. Mechanisms of X chromosome dosage compensation have been studied in model organisms with distinct sex chromosome ancestry. However, the diversity
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November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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davidlowry.bsky.social
I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...
careers.msu.edu
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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jychoi.bsky.social
I am looking to hire a postdoc interested in combining genetics and evolution to understand why telomeres vary so much in plants. My group has been developing Mimulus a genetic model for studying plant telomeres and we have really cool research brewing. Please check ad for detail. Deadline is 12/31.
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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mollyprz.bsky.social
SAVE THE DATE: the yearly NY Population Genetics meeting will be back on March 9 2026, generously hosted by the
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
wormsrock.bsky.social
Mario Cuomo Bridge is now Mahmood Mamdani Bridge, that’s how it works 🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
wormsrock.bsky.social
LFG NYC!
New York City “I Voted” sticker
November 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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phylewgenetics.bsky.social
New preprint! We unexpectedly discovered that some Caenorhabditis species delete parts of their somatic genome early in development, which fragments their chromosomes and eliminates key germline genes. Multiple lines of evidence suggest this bizarre process was present in the ancestors of C. elegans
Figure with three panels. Left: phylogenetic tree of Caenorhabditis species, highlighting those with programmed DNA elimination. Middle: plot showing chromosomal locations of eliminated DNA. Right: Images showing DNA fragments being eliminated during early development.
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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wyomingwormboy.bsky.social
For what it’s worth, The Wyoming Worm lab has funding for 5 years along with exciting projects with solid foundations. We are is still looking for capable, dedicated, and fun-to-work-with lab members at all career stages. [email protected]

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October 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
wormsrock.bsky.social
Another amazing Open House New York weekend full of usually-hidden art
James Turrell sky space at the friends’ school on East 16th St. a glowing blue square in a glowing pink ceiling Giant tile mural in the lobby of the AT&T Building, 1932. Map of the globe, extremely Mercator, reads “telephone wire and radio unite to make neighbors of nations” Tiny sculpture of Cass Gilbert, architect of the Woolworth Building (1913), tucked into a corner of the ceiling in the Woolworth lobby. He’s wearing glasses and holding a model of the building A view of the Woolworth Building (green roof) and the rest of Manhattan from the 60th floor bar at Manahatta. This isn’t part of Open House— just a bar that apparently isn’t crowded on Sunday mornings and has a nice view
October 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
wormsrock.bsky.social
No Kings filling up Times Square
Crowd with flags and signs in Times Square, looking North Crowd with flags and signs in Times Square, looking South
October 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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gcbias.bsky.social
Congratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism
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Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts
In the angiosperm mating system of heterodichogamy, two hermaphroditic morphs temporally alternate between male and female flowering phases, promoting…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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maitreya.bsky.social
Incredible new paper from @schacherer.bsky.social et al rdcu.be/eLcTH
From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes
Nature - A newly compiled atlas of species-wide structural variants and gene-based and graph pangenomes derived from highly complete assemblies of genomes from 1,086 natural isolates enable...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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erickrudianto.bsky.social
This is my first time seeing alive lernanthropid copepod (possibly Lernanthropus latis)!
September 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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laurentformery.bsky.social
Sea urchin metamorphosis is maybe one of the most radical event in developmental biology. In just about an hour, these little pluteus larvae completely reorganize their entire body plan.

Very happy that this video got awarded an honorable mention by #NikonSmallWorld 😃
September 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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jenncoughlan.bsky.social
We're on a roll: Super proud of this paper lead by Dr. Megan Frayer & GS Hagar Soliman (with a major contrib from GS Pia Schwarz): Introgression and Parental Conflict Shape Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation @hybridzones.bsky.social @hagarsoliman.bsky.social @pfschwarz.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
wormsrock.bsky.social
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 🧵]
September 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
wormsrock.bsky.social
Preprint teaser!
Keep an eye out for our forthcoming paper on the Caenorhabditis nematodes of Pohnpei, Micronesia, and their implications for biogeography and ecology.
A view of Nan Madol, the temple precinct and seat of government of Pohnpei under the Saudeleur dynasty. The city was built about 700 years ago from massive columns of basalt. The image shows one corner of the Nandauwas, with 25-foot high walls built Lincoln-log-style from the basalt columns. In the foreground is one of the canals that form the streets of Nan Madol.
September 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
wormsrock.bsky.social
Ithaca is gorges
Gorges. Here’s Lucifer Falls in Treman State Park. Water flows over layers of shale, tree-topped cliffs on each side. Sun glinting off water, backlit foliage, Treman State Park Water flowing through a strikingly linear channel in perfectly horizontal strata of Devonian shale, Buttermilk State Park. Curvy pedestal of rock left by years of erosion in Buttermilk Gorge
September 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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braendle.bsky.social
The Braendle Lab in Nice, France is hiring two postdocs to study nematode genetics, evolution, and ecology. Start Jan–Jul 2026. Deadline Nov 30, 2025. Apply: [email protected]
September 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
wormsrock.bsky.social
Her name is MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome.

Pictures from a visit yesterday
The Statue of Liberty! A view of the statue's torch-bearing arm, from the windows in the crown. The arm and its clothes are green. Behind it, New York Harbor with some boats. The Verrazano Bridge is in the distance. A view from inside the statue of a metal ladder that leads up to the statue's torch. Off limits! The plaque bearing Emma Lazarus' poem, The New Colossus. The National Park Service is super clear that this is a central part of the meaning of the statue. Here's the poem text: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
September 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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ach-ceneuro.bsky.social
New #postdoc position focused on ALS/FTD available in the Hart lab! Join the collaborative Brown Univ. #neuroscience community! Experience with invertebrate genetics (like #Celegans) and/or neurodegenerative disease is welcome, but not required. Details at apply.interfolio.com/172914
September 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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shchurch.bsky.social
The Church Evolution Laboratory (CEL@NYU) will be official as of Sep 1st: shchurch.github.io. We are recruiting at all levels, including a postdoc to work on evolutionary patterns and processes via comparative genomics in Hawaiian Drosophila. Please share widely!
Church Evolution Laboratory
Department of Biology, New York City
shchurch.github.io
August 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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stepheniwright.bsky.social
Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues
August 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM