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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 42m

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Aug 13

Hello instructors!

As you prepare courses, please check out my publicly shared resources to see if any might be helpful:

Creative Discovery Project: Accurate & Accessible Science Communication

YouTube videos on human bio variation

Datasets
www.lesleahlusko.org/publicly-sha...

Publicly Shared Resources

Please look through the resources below to see if any of these could be helpful with your own research and teaching. Databases: Olduvai Vertebrate Paleontology Database (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) De…

www.lesleahlusko.org

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Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 22h

Oh I just saw this and feel so honored as well!☺️

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Charles C Roseman @evoroseman.bsky.social · 5d

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Postdoc position in regenerative biology on "Tracking the cellular origins regeneration" in the @michalis_averof lab in Lyon, France. Fantastic lab, great institute, nice city!
https://www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

#postdoc

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Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 2d

Please RT! Together with the fantastic @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social we are looking for a M2 student. The internship will take place primarily in her lab at IGMM with a part at ISEM (5-10min away). Don't miss this unique opportunity to mix molecular and cellular experiments with evolution. Apply!

Julie Carnesecchi @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social · 2d

M2 internship (funded, 6months) in Montpellier — IGMM × ISEM with amazing @aigverte.bsky.social
Project: Hox factors beyond DNA: how RNA binding links molecules to body-plan evolution.
Start: early 2026
Apply: CV+motivation
#Master2 #Internship #Montpellier #RNA #Hox #EvoDevo #Drosophila #Bat

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Julie Carnesecchi @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social · 2d

M2 internship (funded, 6months) in Montpellier — IGMM × ISEM with amazing @aigverte.bsky.social
Project: Hox factors beyond DNA: how RNA binding links molecules to body-plan evolution.
Start: early 2026
Apply: CV+motivation
#Master2 #Internship #Montpellier #RNA #Hox #EvoDevo #Drosophila #Bat

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 14d

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

I never met Jane Goodall, but she loomed over much of my reporting over the years. With @emilyanthes.bsky.social I wrote a piece about her scientific legacy. Gift link: nyti.ms/46PGBtd

nyti.ms

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Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 6d

That is SO cool (so is your compaction metric).

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 7d

Wnt Signalling: Exploring the origins of a signalling pathway

Wnt Signaling: Exploring the origins of a signaling pathway

The 19 Wnt proteins found in humans are part of a larger superfamily of proteins that are also found in Archaea and Bacteria.

buff.ly

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Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for this!

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Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social · 8d

An incredibly important article and increasingly relevant in modern political climates. Thank you to @rogerslabucd.bsky.social and colleagues for writing this for @dev-journal.bsky.social

"Speaking up can feel like walking a tightrope strung between conflict and silence."

#TruthMatters

Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot

ABSTRACT. Scientific misinformation is a defining challenge of our time. As public trust in science declines and falsehoods spread faster than facts, the scientific community must rethink its role in ...

doi.org

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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 7d

Many animals can reshape and shed their teeth – and now scientists have traced this ability back 380 million years #Bullerichthys #GogoFormation #Devonian

theconversation.com/many-animals...

Many animals can reshape and shed their teeth – and now scientists have traced this ability back 380 million years

A new study of ancient, extinct fish known as placoderms provides another piece of the evolutionary puzzle about our deep time, aquatic ancestors.

theconversation.com

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Fulgencio Lisón @fulgenlison.bsky.social · 11d

Nueva publicación/New paper

#Functional #bat #diversity and the role of the protected areas against #climate #change projections across #Europe

🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Functional bat diversity and the role of the protected areas against climate change projections across Europe

Assessing the effect of climate change projections on functional bat diversity across Europe is crucial to evaluate if the European protected areas wi…

www.sciencedirect.com

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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · 10d

Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche :
participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co...

#esr #TeamESR #HelpESR

Les marchés publics de voyagistes - Contributions - 2025 - Aidez-nous à enrichir notre programme de travail - Plateforme de participation de la Cour des Comptes

Corps de la contributionLes administrations et opérateurs publics, notamment ceux de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, font appel à des agences de voyage (FCM, TravelPlanet…) pour l'hôtelle...

participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr

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Akankshi Munjal @akankshi.bsky.social · 12d

Our latest preprint! Into morphogenesis, Yap, ECM, signaling, vertex models, feedbacks/robustness? There is something here for everyone. We discovered a positive feedback loop that extends inner ear canals, and a built-in mechanism that shuts it down when morphogenesis is done. tinyurl.com/464wsjhd

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Jamie Hackett @jamiehackett.bsky.social · 11d

❓Can a father’s environmental exposures before conception influence their offspring?

We systematically tackled this - identifying effects of paternal age, environment and genetics on early embryos - as well as confounding influences

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Embryonic signatures of intergenerational epigenetic inheritance across paternal environments and genetic backgrounds | The EMBO Journal

imageimagePaternal environmental exposures have been linked with modulation of phenotype and disease risk in offspring via largely unclear mechanisms. This study employs in vitro fertilization and sin...

www.embopress.org

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Stefan Ruhl 🦷💧🦠 @spit-lab.bsky.social · 11d

What have 🦷🦷 #TEETH 🦷🦷, 🥛 #MILK 🥛, and💧💧 #SALIVA 💧💧to do with each other? Ask PetarPajic, Luane Landau, and Omer Gokcumen @gokcumenlab.bsky.social ❗️

academic.oup.com/gbe/article-...

Saliva Protein Genes in Humans were Shaped During Primate Evolution

Abstract. Genes within the secretory calcium-binding phosphoprotein locus diversified along with the formation of a calcified skeleton in vertebrates, the

academic.oup.com

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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 11d

transport yourself to the late 90s with this really cool paper on digit number regulation by Shh and BMP, ZPA and AER. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Dual Bmp-negative feedback loops modulate function of both AER and ZPA to buffer and constrain postaxial digit number | PNAS

Several lines of evidence indicate that posterior (postaxial) digit number in tetrapod vertebrates is constrained to the pentadactyl state by inter...

www.pnas.org

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Glover lab @glover-lab.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Excited to introduce FuChi (Fucci chicken), the first avian cell cycle reporter line. Thank you to all those who contributed to putting this paper together. I really think it showcases the power and beauty of the chick embryo as a developmental biology model. 🐥 🥚 🔬 @roslininstitute.bsky.social

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Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 13d

On est 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑜 ✨

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Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 13d

Top merci 😊

Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 13d

C'est toujours l'époque des forums #déni

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Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 13d

C'est la nouvelle en couleur ? J'hésite à upgrade ma remarkable 2 que j'ai depuis 5-6 ans qui a été clairement l'un de mes meilleurs achats, mais j'ai lu quelques retours négatifs sur la nouvelle.

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