Please check out our new preprint! Using single cell analysis paired with HCR to visualize transcript localization we have identified cell and tissue-specific expression of various genes encoding tubulins, kifs, and dyneins during neural crest development!
Flyer for symposium: https://ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org/
Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org
In animals with large genomes, finding cis-regulatory elements can be very challenging. Enhancers can be located tens/hundreds of kb away from their target promoters. We face this challenge in Parhyale, with >3 Gbp genome.
We just published a preprint describing how we are tackling this problem. /1
Oui. En fait, c’est groovy!
Applications are open for a 3-year funded PhD position at the Finnish Museum of Natural History, focused on dung beetle evolution. Deadline: March 16. … https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Doctoral-Researcher-in-Macroevolution-and-Phenotypic-Diversification-of-Dung-Beetles/1352799257/ #gradstudent
In this review we map the journey to animal multicellularity and define three extinct ancestral stages:
🔹 LUAA: Last Unicellular Animal Ancestor.
🔹 FACA: First Animal Common Ancestor.
🔹 LACA: Last Animal Common Ancestor.
Check it out: bit.ly/4azuLVY @embojournal.org
Institut Jacques Monod Seminar
Friday, Feb 27
Institut Jacques Monod
Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social (EMBL, Heidelberg) Evolution and diversity of mitosis
Exciting evolutionary cell biology: bridging genomics, experimental evolution, and stunning imaging across diverse protozoans
buff.ly/uCSfjgQ
Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Banger cormorant eye footage today 🪶
Québécois madness !
I resisted the growing hype for ten days before clicking, but now, I must share. It is so ... joyful. #musicfornerds #anginedepoutine youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so
At the request of the authors !
Si près du but ...
Il faut détester le fascisme mais pas les "fascistes" parce que malheureusement, un fasciste sommeille en chacun d'entre nous.
Excellent film "à sketchs". Gros fan de Buster.
Selon une étude, l’être humain n’utiliserait que 10% de son smartphone https://www.legorafi.fr/2026/02/12/selon-une-etude-letre-humain-nutiliserait-que-10-de-son-smartphone/
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Ediacaran fossil surface on the coastline of Newfoundland, Canada
This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
My wife tells me I totally missed this one: Cambrian chordates were nerds !
Welcome to the Institute, Stern Lab! @hhmi-science.bsky.social Investigator David Stern studies how insects hijack plant development. His lab’s discoveries could reshape how we think about pest control and food security. He & his team arrived from HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus.
bit.ly/4np96Fb
Think of it:
Physics, stuck at the relativity/quantics incoherence, baffled by quantum entanglement.
Biology, we are incapable of modeling even the simplest cell.
Paleontology, human evolution is a mess , the more we unearth, the less we understand.
So far, the scientific 21st century is very disappointing compared to the same years of the 20th century. Am i wrong ?
Back then, i wanted to be a paleontologist 🫠
Before selling out to MTV and soft drink commercials in their later career, they produced some of the most audacious yet exciting underground music of the 70s, compiled in their excellent Hardcore vol1/2 albums. <Smart patrol / Mr DNA> 👉 youtu.be/0UKtZwWLMp8
DEVO was founded by two pairs of brothers in 1973 in Akron, Ohio. DEVO stands for de-evolution: the idea that humankind is evolving regressively. Their abrasive experimental sound, robot-like vocals, and wacky stage performances announced punk and New Wave. <Jocko Homo> 👉 youtu.be/p7dczENxnbE
The weirdophile can no longer resist the uncontrollable urge to share his love for DEVO, so let’s <Whip it> ! 👉 youtu.be/bDVuQyzDECs
#MusicForNerds #BoojiBoy 👇
"Network analysis reveals close faunal connections between the Huayuan and Burgess Shale biotas, indicating transoceanic dispersal. Dated shortly after the Sinsk event..."
🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
This developing quail embryo looks like it's thinking fiery thoughts for #FluorescenceFriday 🐣🔥🧪. Imaged by the fantastic @vanderspuy.bsky.social
The evolutionary extrapolations in this study struggle to account for empirical cases like Trump’s two election wins. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
