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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 5d

Another exciting opportunity in Toronto for developmental biologists!

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 15d

Two exciting Assistant Professor opportunities in Toronto! apply.interfolio.com/172703

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Bret Pearson @sheckyfeinblatt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Our postdoc ad is up on the SDB website! Come to Portland and study regenerative neurogenesis in planarians and zebrafish:
www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...

Society for Developmental Biology | Resource

www.sdbonline.org

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very happy to be part of this amazing work from Jason Moffat and Sanna Masud - Victoria Saba Echezaretta's rescue experiments are remarkable. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genetic suppression features ABHD18 as a Barth syndrome therapeutic target - Nature

The enzyme ABHD18 is shown to have a key role in cardiolipin metabolism in mitochondria, offering a potential route for a small-molecule treatment of the rare genetic disease Barth syndrome.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.

Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · Aug 28

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please repost!

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Bret Pearson @sheckyfeinblatt.bsky.social · Aug 25

It's been a while! If anyone still follows me, I have 1-2 postdoctoral positions open in planarian and zebrafish stem cell and regenerative biology. Please re-Sky!

postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35509/p...

Post Doc Portal | OHSU

postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com

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Mathew Kiang @mathewkiang.com · Jun 25

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

ki.se

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · Aug 21

Teaching stream faculty position in molecular genetics!
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (CLTA) - Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Microbiology

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 19

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · Aug 8

Enhancers are "just DNA" - finding all of them in the genome is hard.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · Jul 28

Great swims by Summer Macintosh and Mary-Sophie Harvey, but the 4th place swimmer (Yu Zidi) is 12 YEARS OLD!!! 😱

Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · Jul 28

GOLD #2 FOR 🇨🇦 SUMMER MCINTOSH

🇨🇦 MARY-SOPHIE HARVEY BRONZE

Canadian superstar Summer McIntosh wins the women’s 200m individual medley in a time of 2:06.69.

With that medal McIntosh is now Canada’s most decorated long course world championship swimmer with 10.

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · Jul 27

Also see:

career.sickkids.ca:8001/psc/CRPRD/CA...

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · Jul 27

Great opportunity to join the vibrant developmental biology in Toronto (and boss around me and @wbderry.bsky.social).

jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/673968/p...

Program Head – Developmental, Stem Cell, and Cancer Biology - Toronto (Region), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute | 673968

Provide leadership and mentorship to members of the Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer and influence the scientific direction of the Research Institute

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · Jul 8

RIP Franklin W. Stahl (1929–2025)

here is Frank explaining semiconservative replication of DNA in the marvelous interview from 2020 together with Matt Meselson (youtu.be/7-tnuAqEp9g)

Frank Stahl, screen capture from: https://youtu.be/7-tnuAqEp9g

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Sten Linnarsson @sten.linnarsson.org · Jun 25

A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)

Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · Jun 25

Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · Jun 17

A nice run of free-er time to read and think science lately and cut into the very deep pile off paper pdfs I have accumulated. Happy to report that I have dug into it by downloading 2-3 new papers for each one I read! So I should be done by... :-(

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · Jun 17

So many more interesting museums within a short walk. The Rodin one is incredible. Musee de l'Orangerie also amazing.

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · May 4

Time to wash that dock - where is Taro? 😂

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · Apr 17

Slow to the game, but the Collaborative Dev Bio program at U of T is finally on BlueSky - @devbiouoft.bsky.social

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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · Apr 15

It has been a while since I advertised some of the tools we have released to help researchers analyze the zebrafish genome. So a brief Bluetorial on our zebrafish genomics UCSC public data hub and the bigger effort led by @ferencmueller.bsky.social to create a zebrafish ENCODE project (Danio-CODE):

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · Mar 20

I look forward to your next paper in eVie.

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Rubén Marín-Juez @rmarinjuez.bsky.social · Mar 11

There is still time to apply! Come and join us!

Rubén Marín-Juez @rmarinjuez.bsky.social · Jan 24

🚨We are hiring!🚨 We have postdoctoral positions available! If you're passionate about studying cardiac regeneration and development, join our team in vibrant and beautiful Montreal! Please help spread the word 🫶

For more details see here research.chusj.org/RECHERCHE/fi...

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Mar 5

You've been asking yourself "where is the Canadian guy"? But you knew he would show up just when we needed him.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

We Are Canadian

YouTube video by Jeff Douglas

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · Mar 5

The Trees and Villa - nice!

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