If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

Interesting!

Dear colleagues, even if you are short in time, take a look at Figure 5B. Quote from the discussion: "First and foremost, we need to separate the different tasks required of a just accountability system: detection, investigation, and sanctioning."

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

If application rates between men and woman are that different, it is a problem.
Positions should not be favoured by gender, no matter where, it should be given to the best fitting candidate especially in academia

Just dropped a new preprint! 🧠✨ We did some exciting comparative connectomics and uncovered new insights into how neural circuits evolve. Check it out 👇 #neuroscience #connectomics #preprint #evolution

Thank you Uli!

@christophgiez.bsky.social @omerza.bsky.social @bramkamplab.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social

I am excited to share our new publication in @pnas.org on the de novo nerve net assembly in Hydra embryos showing that neural circuits self-assemble through activity-driven processes, modulated by temperature and the microbiome. Thanks to all colleagues involved here! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Die Leopoldina beruft Prof. Thomas Bosch, Zell- und Entwicklungsbiologie an der #UniKiel, zu ihrem neuen Mitglied. Die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften ehrt ihn für herausragende Leistungen in der Erforschung der Wirts-Mikroben-Beziehungen und ihrer Bedeutung für Gesundheit und Krankheit:

About 100 years the Mangold-Spemann organizer was published and this has been one of the most fruitful and inspiring concepts in Developmental Biology. But how can organizers self-organize? In this review we summarize the knowledge how cnidarians do that: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Cnidarians are among the earliest animals to possess a nervous system. If you're interested in how neuronal circuits emerge and assemble in Hydra embryos, find me at the #NWG2025 @neurowissg.bsky.social conference and check out my poster on Saturday! (T23-3D). #Cnidaria #Hydra

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

Our atlas of BMP signaling activity in adult Nematostella is finally out! Fantastic, meticulous work and beautiful illustrations by @paulknabl.bsky.social
Thanks, @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding our work!
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

We posted our surprising finding that removal of the nervous system in Nematostella always leads to the regeneration of a second head.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

7 PhD positions in Translational Evolutionary Research available @uni-kiel.de
Application deadline is March 27, 2025
Please spread the word!
www.kec.uni-kiel.de/news_events/...

new work: deep dive into microbiome differences of coral exhibiting thermally resilient & susceptible phenotypes, long time coming, great team effort @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #coral #bleaching #microbiome

Zeit, neue Wege zu gehen: Gemeinsam mit mehr als 60 weiteren Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen verlassen wir heute X – und starten dafür hier! idw-online.de/de/news845520 #eXit #WissXit #ByeByeX #QuitX | ©️: HHU/Paul Schwaderer

An important read for all microbiome researchers #microbiomania www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Finally, the major part of my PhD is now available as preprint showing the de novo assembly of a functioning neural population in Hydra embryos!