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We are getting ready for #ESHE2025 in Paris! 🎉
The #LHOSA #CoEvol #BrAIn team will share exciting new results on hominin evolution—talks & posters you do not want to miss.🧵👇 @palevoprim.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univpoitiers.bsky.social

Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Computational image analyst (m/f/d) The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has an opening for a

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Complex behaviour is not limited to animals! Here we map the entire spectrum of waveforms dynamics on a quadriflagellate single cell with 4x 70um (!) #cilia, to a low dimensional behavioural manifold with surprising structure! #protistsonsky

All revealed in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Thibaut Brunet Interview with Thibaut Brunet, who studies the evolutionary origin of animal morphogenesis at the Institut Pasteur.

Check out our latest issue to read a Q&A with @thibautbrunet.bsky.social, who studies the evolutionary origin of animal morphogenesis at the Institut Pasteur. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Looking forward to speaking at the next TIBBE seminar!

🤩 Join us for the next TIBBE seminar:
Evolution of brain cell types.
September 10, 2–3pm UTC

This event brings together 2 outstanding evolutionary and developmental neuroscientists who will present their work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience: www.crowdcast.io/c/evolution-...

The session will be hosted by the fantastic @neuroluci.bsky.social & @carmenfalcone.bsky.social We are so much looking forward to the talks &discussion

@ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @ornellabertrand.bsky.social @kkverkova.bsky.social @neuroecologylab.bsky.social

Excited for the upcoming TIBBE online talks &discussions with the amazing @matosches.bsky.social & @pkatz.bsky.social around
How can we define homologous cell types across vertebrates and invertebrates?
Next Wednesday, September 10, 2pm UTC, 4pm Paris 🧠🦎🐣🐭🌊 Join us www.crowdcast.io/c/evolution-...

The first of Jessie Foley’s work on the #evolution of #ageing in #Heliconius for your reading pleasure.

Come for the 348 day old butterfly, stay for the evolved slower rate of ageing, species*diet effects, and weightlifting for elderly butterflies 💪🏻👵🏻

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Animals don’t just live in their environments—they transform them. And in doing so, they may also shape their own evolutionary trajectories. Our new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution introduces a framework for zoogeochemical niche construction. A thread 👇

Mixtopagurus paradoxus specimen photo by Laure Corbari, uncovered. It is a female with eggs. Its abdomen is outstretched but only slightly curved. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1212549362

Xenophora robusta - A specialist in clam shells, each positioned concave side up (more or less). http://www.zymoglyphic.org/exhibits/xenophora.html

Xenophora pallidula - An X. pallidula whose prizes are a nice pelican shell and a very long piece of coral

Mixtopagurus are nearly symmetrical hermit crabs. But they don't use worm tubes or wood like others in their family.

No, it's these weird Xenophora shells that stick stuff to themselves that have a whole exhibit:
www.zymoglyphic.org/exhibits/xen...

🦀🧪🦑 double? triple? #InverteFest

Buckling. Sounds ominous, doesn't it? Think bridges. But buckling can be a positive force and is common in nature. Marc Suñé's research may enable us to use it in many more applications.

Case study and full video: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72526

This is such an interesting story about brain morphology and cognitive traits.

Please RP.
We are thrilled to announce that our lab’s first preprint is out!
”Whole-genome single-cell multimodal history tracing to reveal cell identity transition”

We report HisTrac-seq, a multiomic single-cell molecular recording platform.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

It was great meeting @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social at #eseb2025 and learning about his fantastic research. Check his paper showing the interaction between micro and macro evolution! 🔥

One of the people I'm indebted the most for creating stunningly beautiful #mesoSPIM samples was Martina Schaettin - who tragically passed away in March this year. To honor her memory, Elkhan Yusifov created an award - submit your best #microscopy images & videos! www.linkedin.com/company/mart...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Great to see so many people at our symposium om the origin of eukaryotes. Thanks to all the speakers! #ESEB25 @julianvosseberg.bsky.social

Evolution has produced an incredible array of ways to be male & female. In some tiny cave-dwelling insect species, the female is the one with a penis. She uses it to hook into the male's vagina-like structure (for up to 70hrs) while "voluminous & probably nutritious semen is passed to the female"🧪🧬🪲

Aurelien Tellier presenting the details of #eseb2027 which will be a hub meeting, with connected and local sessions in 4 hubs (Gothenburg, Munich, London, Istanbul) eseb2027.org #eseb2025

As expected, the scientific content of the meeting is being truly outstanding, we will have over 600 talks and over 1000 posters on display. Plenty to choose from and many opportunities for unexpected eye-opening discoveries for anyone. #eseb2025

Fantastic talk by @aigverte.bsky.social on genomic & developmental foundations of adaptive tooth shape evolution. One ancestral developmental rule along which phenotypes evolve&converge; rule is broken when colonising new ecol. niche
#ESEB2025 Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates
@r3rt0.bsky.social

Next, @evazaffarini.bsky.social showing how prenatal hormones shape maternal–fetal morphological integration in a model of cephalopelvic covariation.
#ESEB2025 Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates symposium
@r3rt0.bsky.social

Ricardo Ely continues our journey through bird beak diversity with a great talk showing high influence of morphological integration on evolutionary rates and disparity of bird beaks, and no effect of degree of modularity.
#ESEB2025 Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates symposium
@r3rt0.bsky.social

Carmen Sánchez Moreno giving a fantastic talk showing how reconciling stemness and specialization in neural crest cells drives avian beak diversification. Beaks are made by long-distance travelling stem cells.
#ESEB2025 Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates symposium
@r3rt0.bsky.social

Next at Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates symposium, great talk by Quentin Horta-Lacueva showing that neural crest biology shapes evolutionary dynamics of lacertid skull across evolutionary scales. Face diversity of 170 species aligns w/ axis of shape green to brown #ESEB2025
@r3rt0.bsky.social

Great symposium on Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates at #ESEB2025 kicked off with fantastic talk by ‪@grumpydrfabre.bsky.social on the metamorphic blueprint,how life cycle type shapes salamander skulls. Is there an advantage of complex life cycle to create novel morphologies?
@r3rt0.bsky.social

Flower-like origami patterns could inspire folding spacecraft Engineers have developed a class of origami structures that unfold in one smooth motion to create flower-like shapes, which could have applications in space

These gorgeous origami shapes - an entirely new family called bloom patterns - could be used to design new, more effective space telescopes or solar panels.

www.newscientist.com/article/2493...