Not at all a coincidence that this type of clean-energy comms - which presents a positive case in forceful terms rather than trying to dance around the issue - is coming almost exclusively from non-US firms. The comparison tells us a lot about why the IRA failed. More below:

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Functional analysis of ligand-gated chloride channels in a cnidarian sheds light on the evolution of inhibitory signalling ψ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the predominant inhibitory transmitter in the vertebrate nervous system. Fast inhibitory signalling is mediated by type A GABA receptors (GABAARs), which form pentameric ...

What is the evolutionary origin of neuronal regulation by Ligand gated ion channels? In a collaboration with the lab of Stefan Gründer we show that several inhibitory pLGICs predicted to be GABA-A receptors were actually Glutamate-activated Chloride channels. See www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Oh well... 😏 We are just spoiled and not used to it in Vienna. I used to live in beautiful Bergen, Norway, where this was totally normal, just 10 degrees lower. It is still better than what people experience in Sicilia, or Greece these days.

Fig. 1. Overexpression of starfish hesC in sea urchin embryos. (A-D) Effects of starfish hesC overexpression were observed in H. pulcherrimus embryos. Sea urchin embryos injected with EGFP mRNA and starfish hesC mRNA in concentrations according to upper right numbers of each photo. Brightfield (top) and fluorescence microscopic images (bottom) observed by immunohistochemistry using PMC-specific P4 antibody. The white dashed lines show the outline of embryos. (E-H) In-situ hybridization was conducted in sea urchin embryos to observe spatial expressions of delta (E,F) and tbr1 (G,H) in embryos injected with EGFP mRNA and starfish klf2 mRNA in concentrations of 200 ng/µl. (I) Schematic of sea urchin H. pulcherrimus (Hp) egg injected with starfish P. pectinifera (Pp) mRNA. The numbers shown in each image are the numbers of embryos showing typical pattern/total numbers of examined embryos from two batches. Scale bar: 50 µm

Role of klf2 in innovation of the Pmar1-HesC double-negative gate in echinoderms.

Read this Research Article by Nina Levin, Natalia Gogoleva and the team:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Great opportunity! The Uni Vienna has launched a call (APART) for 4-funding for outstanding postdocs from a US institution. The host lab has to nominate by 1 August a candidate for further selection. Anyone interested in our work please contact me by email with CV/motivation letter. Hurry up!

It's finally here! Great start of the summer. We got our latest preprint from @chemamd.bsky.social in @qmulsbbs.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social, showing evidence of developmental system drift in the specification of dorsoventral (belly vs back) axis in annelids 🪱🪱🪱
#DevBio #EvoDevo

@rokofler.bsky.social uncovered a treasure cove in Drosophila populations here. Remarkable and highly relevant findings on horizontal transfer of all kinds of TEs, irrespective of their transposition type.

go, Karl, go! Would you still make it up today?

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

We are looking for new colleagues to come join us in Galway as group leaders (Junior and Senior). The Centre for Chromosome Biology is a great place and it is a good time to join. Please reach out if you want to chat about the opportunity!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

scanning electron micrograph of a Platynereis larva showing a close-up of the prototroch ciliary band

Happy to be involved in UNICIL, our new Wellcome Trust Discovery project coordinated by @micromotility.bsky.social

We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […]

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I loved collaborating on this work. @amir-f.bsky.social and @kaessmannlab.bsky.social discovered that a microRNA (!!!) is key for dosage compensation in birds. The biology is beautiful, and the implications far-reaching. As with all great work, it generates fascinating new questions.

beautiful study!

Einblicke in die Geburt des Nervensystems Nervennetz organisiert sich während der Embryonalentwicklung selbst und wird dabei von Umweltfaktoren wie dem Mikrobiom beeinflusst

www.uni-kiel.de/de/detailans...

👏 Alwin Köhler, group leader and scientific director, has received an @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant! His project will explore how nuclear pore complexes remodel nuclear membranes to form functional channels ➡️ tinyurl.com/3wcvexc9

#ERCAdG
@univie.ac.at
@meduniwien.ac.at

Very cool work! Congratulations, David et al.

Chordin-mediated BMP shuttling patterns the secondary body axis in a cnidarian Chordin-mediated BMP shuttling is the candidate mechanism for generating bilateral symmetry in the cnidarian-bilaterian ancestor.

David’s @davidmoersdorf.bsky.social cool paper about the role of Chordin in BMP signaling in the sea anemone Nematostella is finally out www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Beautiful work, Christopher. Congratulions!

Developmental system drift in dorsoventral patterning is linked to transitions to autonomous development in Annelida The Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) pathway is the ancestral signalling system defining the dorsoventral axis in bilaterally symmetrical animals. However, Spiralia, a large bilaterian clade including...

Cool paper! Congratulations to @chemamd.bsky.social, Emanuel Haillot and everyone else involved!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Zhu, @zhouqi1982.bsky.social et al. produce a chromosome-level genome assembly of the Amur rat snake (Elaphe schrenckii) using HiFi and Hi-C data (1.69 Gbp; N50 = 215 Mb; 97.4% BUSCO), an important resource for studying snake evolution.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf086

#genome #snake

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Our chromosome-scale genome assembly of Nanomia septata, a siphonophore - doi.org/10.1101/2025... . Much larger than many other cnidarian genomes, fewer chromosomes, and highly rearranged. No smoking gun for how they achieve complex colony-level organization. Great work Namrata Ahuja and friends!

Congrats, Julia. Really nice and important work!

Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

New preprint from the @arnausebe.bsky.social lab! 💐

Here @crisnava.bsky.social, @seanamontgomery.bsky.social & collaborators develop a novel ChIPseq protocol, and demonstrate its huge potential to study the evolution of chromatin function and regulation across the eukaryotic tree of life.

We review self-organisation of organizers through the lens of Cnidarians (primarily Hydra and Nematostella) and propose an integrative Mechanochemical view for the same.

Happy to be part of the 100 year Mangold-Spemann special edition @cellsdev.bsky.social @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

Impossible to «like» this thread but important to know. Wishful thinking that this man-made unnecessary crisis will boost societies’ understanding of and commitment to Science in the longer run, but lamenting the damage done to people in the meantime.

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Thanks for the great talk and the inspiring discussions, Uri!