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Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 27d

Apply for this Assistant Professor position in UVA Biology by Oct 15, 2025!

UVA Biology @uvabio.bsky.social · Sep 5

Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!

Ali D. Güler @aguler.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
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Antoine Perrier, PhD @perrierecoevo.bsky.social · Mar 6

New paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
We explore shifts in vernalization and phenology in rear-edge populations of Campanula americana to get insight into the adaptation of temperate plants to future milder winters.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trait specialization facilitates autonomous selfing ability in a mixed-mating plant

New #AJB research by @hannamakowski.bsky.social, Keric Lamb, Austin Kim, Emily Scott & Laura Galloway

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

#boyany #plantscience #evolution #pollen @uvabio.bsky.social

Cross-section of a Campanula americana style showing pollen-collecting hairs at different stages of retraction. These hairs, a form of secondary pollen presentation, initially hold pollen along the style and gradually retract to release it. Three pollen grains remain visible on one of the hairs.

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UVA Biology @uvabio.bsky.social · Sep 5

Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!

Ali D. Güler @aguler.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA

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Ali D. Güler @aguler.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA

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Caroline Amoroso @cr-amo.bsky.social · Jul 28

Our new paper "Host avoidance and resistance vary independently and are specific to parasite genotype" is out in Journal of Animal Ecology! @animalecology.bsky.social @akgibson.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Jessie Perlmutter @jiperlmutter.bsky.social · Jul 14

📢 There is a lab technician or lab specialist position available in my lab, starting fall 2025. The position will involve molecular biology, microbiology, drosophila work, and more. Please share with anyone who may be interested and apply here: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Biology Lab Tech 2 or Lab Specialist in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

Apply for Biology Lab Tech 2 or Lab Specialist job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia

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UVA Biology @uvabio.bsky.social · Jul 26

Dr. Louis Bubrig gave an amazing defense of his dissertation exploring how dispersal affects the spread of epidemics. Congratulations, Dr. Bubrig!!

Dr. Louis Bubrig defending his dissertation

Various examples of dispersal across the tree of life: aphids, dandelion seeds, monarch butterflies, elk

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Daniel Kaiser @kaiserdaniel.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨New(ish) paper alert!🚨We developed and implemented an efficient iterative ranking algorithm for multi-body competitions. This is the first paper from my former student Jack Yeung (LinkedIn: jackcyeung), I am immensely proud of the work he has put into this project!

journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨🚨 New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and Przemysław Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520

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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · Jul 17

HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520

HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks

Many empirical systems contain complex interactions of arbitrary size, representing, for example, chemical reactions, social groups, co-authorship relationships, and ecological dependencies. These int...

arxiv.org

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Katja Kasimatis @katjakasimatis.bsky.social · Jul 4

I’m excited to share our work which identifies a new seminal fluid protein in C. elegans!

Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Jul 4

Kasimatis et al. identify a new nematode seminal fluid protein which is released from a novel sperm subcellular organelle. This protein is not involved in sexual conflict but provides a small fitness benefit to females

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

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A novel sperm-derived seminal fluid protein in Caenorhabditis nematodes

Abstract. Nematode sperm contains subcellular vesicles known as membranous organelles (MOs) that fuse with the sperm cell membrane upon sperm activation to

doi.org

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akgibson.bsky.social @akgibson.bsky.social · May 16

Just a few spots left in our graduate evolution workshop @mlbs-uva.bsky.social! Join me, @clively.bsky.social, @ldelph.bsky.social, and @corlettwood.bsky.social
from Jul 27-Aug 2 for a week of evolutionary thinking, science writing, and time outdoors! mlbs.virginia.edu/evolutionary...

Flyer with images and text describing the environment, goals, and details of the workshop.

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Caroline Amoroso @cr-amo.bsky.social · May 21

Hope this primer proves helpful to anybody interested in infection avoidance. It was certainly a pleasure to write with @akgibson.bsky.social and @pfvale.bsky.social l!

Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · May 21

In our latest issue, @cr-amo.bsky.social and colleagues explain how avoidance of pathogens and parasites is a common feature across the tree of life and discuss the conditions under which avoidance may evolve. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Avoidance of infection

Amoroso et al. explain how avoidance of pathogens and parasites is a common feature across the tree of life and discuss the conditions under which avoidance may evolve. Research on avoidance may lead ...

www.cell.com

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UVA Biology @uvabio.bsky.social · Jun 3

Congratulations! 🎉🎉

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Parichy Lab | Dave Parichy @dparichy.bsky.social · Feb 18

New NIH funded research from our group now out. We are interested in development and evolution of cell types and adult phenotypes. In this paper, postdoc Dylan Huang and collaborators asked how a pigmentary ornament of bright white cells develops on the fin of zebrafish. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Parichy Lab | Dave Parichy @dparichy.bsky.social · Mar 24

New paper out from grad student Katia Korzeniwsky and collaborators with roles for Mitfa transcription factor in pigment cell development and genetic interactions with related transcription factor Tfec.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/pcmr...

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Parichy Lab | Dave Parichy @dparichy.bsky.social · Apr 30

Huge congrats to Ray Keller on his election to the National Academy of Sciences! Ray isn’t on Bluesky but that shouldn’t stop anyone from letting him know how well deserved this is, or the impact he’s had generally. Certainly his work was a major reason I ended up in dev bio.

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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · May 26

New paper out! "A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset" in collaboration with @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social, Ilya Amburg, @diesagar.bsky.social, and @foucaultwelles.bsky.social. Paper at arxiv.org/abs/2505.11608 and dataset at socialmediaarchive.org/record/78

A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset

Large-scale networks have been instrumental in shaping the way that we think about how individuals interact with one another, developing key insights in mathematical epidemiology, computational social...

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UVA Biology @uvabio.bsky.social · May 20

To share your own memories see tinyurl.com/masashikawas...

Remembrances of Masashi Kawasaki

Please share your memories here. Add your name to your post if you'd like others to know who you are. TO POST click on the "+" at the bottom of the column, make a title clicking where it says "Title"...

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UVA Biology @uvabio.bsky.social · May 20

We are heartbroken to share that our dear colleague, Masashi Kawasaki, passed unexpectedly on Sunday. Masashi was an important member of our community and we will miss him deeply. For more about his life and legacy see bio.as.virginia.edu/masashi-kawa...

Masashi Kawasaki: 1955-2025

bio.as.virginia.edu

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Sarah Jean McPeek @sarahjmcpeek.bsky.social · May 9

#withoutNSF I wouldn't have received the @uvabio.bsky.social NSF EXPAND fellowship, funded through an NSF Research Traineeship grant, that allowed me to pursue new interdisciplinary perspectives in my research.

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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · May 13

#GliaPapers #GliaMay2025 RESEARCH

Sushanth Kumar, …, @deppmann.bsky.social sky.social
@uvabio.bsky.social

Characterizing microglial signaling dynamics during inflammation using single-cell mass cytometry
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Daniel Kaiser @kaiserdaniel.bsky.social · Apr 29

Yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation! 🥳 Thank you Dr. Filippo Radicchi for your guidance as my advisor over the years, your mentorship has been invaluable!

Next stop, University of Virginia with Dr. Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social!

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Martin Wu @martin-wu.bsky.social · Apr 30

Excited to share that our study identifying a unifying model of species abundance distributions (SADs) has just been published: rdcu.be/ejYKe. We found that the ‘powerbend’— a bent power law — accurately describes SADs across ~30,000 animal, plant, and microbial communities.

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