Honored and very grateful to receive the GfE PhD Award 2026! Many thanks to GfE for the recognition of our work! This would not have been possible without the guidance of my supervisor @genikhovich.bsky.social and the many amazing collaborators and colleagues who contributed along the way ❤️.#GfE2026
YEN 2026 registration is now live!
Join us for the 2026 YEN conference on the 15th of June at the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Sign up now to attend and submit your poster/abstract: forms.gle/2HQEmZgEi4hP...
Abstract submission deadline is 15 May.
Stay tuned for more information!
Algal symbionts go through a lot for their acoel host: ingested, stripped of cell wall and flagella, displaced to all tissues, both intra- and extracellular. Animal grows, gets nutrients and some stress responses.
With @hejnol.bsky.social @rimskaya.bsky.social
Preprint at doi.org/10.64898/202...
Davies et al. assemble the genome of polychaete Capitella teleta, a model for evolutionary developmental biology, comparative genomics, conservation, and ecotoxicology, generating a 243 Mb chromosome-level genome, and publish a genome browser.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag041
#genome #evolution
Feña Palominos of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Novel craniofacial genes linked to extreme jaw evolution in pupfishes revealed by tissue-specific transcriptomics and speciation genomics" Image: Atp8a1 & tpm3b in pupfish craniofacial muscles
The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, March 13 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Martha Echevarría-Andino @uwmadison.bsky.social and M. Fernanda Palominos @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/47QVIEK #SDBPostdocSeminar
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!
Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.
Applications due April, 15th.
DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!
stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
NEW Issue is out!👇
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
As the world is being plunged into the abyss, we bring you some abyssal scaly-footed snails from the deep ocean.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Plus it's #MolluscMonday
✨Crepidula fornicata (slipper snail) 🐚 A classic model for spiral cleavage! 🧬 Crepidula embryos reveal how early cell divisions shape body plans and establish left-right asymmetry in spiralian animals 📸 Image by Jake Leyhr #ModelMonday
And here's the one that's just for the Biological Sciences programs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKbh...
Come see my exhibition at the Intersect Arts Center! It is bringing me so much joy, I hope it will do the same for you (which I know we all need). #SciArt
www.instagram.com/p/DVhLvYoCaX...
This curious worm uprooted itself from the sand like a carrot being pulled up by an invisible person, and rolled around in the current for a bit before starting to dig itself back in. You can see the sand grains slowly traveling over some mucous layer as it slowly reverses into the sand.
Even more excited — our paper is featured on the cover of Science Advances!
Huge thanks to @alexandrejan.bsky.social who took this incredible photo of a ctenophore (aka comb jelly) and the editors.
Here’s the cover 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New from @chemamd.bsky.social lab @qmulsbbs.bsky.social Collab with Elaine Seaver, @baxevanislab.bsky.social @neva-meyer.bsky.social @abhinavsur.bsky.social
New chromosome-level assembly for Capitella teleta 🪱
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
#DevBio
#WormWednesday
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social
Join us this next Friday *the 13th* 👻 👻 to hear us talking about bones and cartilages in development and evolution 🐟 🐠 🦴
Early nervous system development in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera exhibits conserved bilaterian patterning features https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709007v1
To increase the use of gene editing in corals, we have made a comprehensive methods paper describing the protocol. We hope this helps the field of functional genetics in corals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩
The Dream of the Butterfly
A helluva chonk of a bristle worm! This is the larva of a polychaete from the genus Scolelepis and it was hard to miss!
#marineplankton 🦑
Gorillaz "The Mountain" 8-minute short film is now online.
Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Max Taylor & Tim McCourt at The Line studio.
An homage to the golden era of 2D animation, produced with a hybrid analogue-digital workflow.
>> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-02...
🎮 pokemon tree of life
for pokémon's 30th anniversary, explore a visualization and field guide to 1,000+ pokémon. what inspired them, where they came from, and how they connect.
포켓몬 30주년, 1,000개 이상의 포켓몬을 시각화했습니다!
➡️ str.sg/viz-poke30
🦋✂️🧬 🧪 New preprint! Led by @donyaniyaz.bsky.social CRISPR‑Cas9 knockouts of ABCG transporters across butterflies & moths reveal how pigment pathways shape color during development. #CRISPR #Lepidoptera #pigmentation
Feedback welcome 👩🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Haven’t posted a polychaete in a while… :)
This one’s Arenicolides branchialis. I love this very deep and dark iridescent green colour it has. In person it looked almost black.
#polychaete #worm #WormWednesday
Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here:
rdcu.be/e5EgU
#EvoBio #EvoDevo 🐟🦎🐢🦇🐊🦜
Creatures of the Cambrian period!
From our new paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... w/ @neurofishh.bsky.social @gkafetzis.bsky.social @denilsson.bsky.social
Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?
We’re launching our Latinx DevBio interview series 🌎🧬
Our first inspiring conversation features Dr. Rosa Navarro: Leading Developmental Biology research in Mexico.
Read here: sites.google.com/view/latinxi...
Thanks, Dr. Navarro, for sharing your journey and insights with us! #LatinxInScience
Postdoc Opening! 🚨
Thrilled to (belatedly!) share that I’ve received @hfspo.bsky.social grant in collaboration with @KatherinaPetrou "Plant-like solar tracking in a photosymbiotic animal."
We are hiring a Postdoc to join the team
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social!
Apply👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO766/r...
