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🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Assistant Professor at University of Florida. Functional, developmental, and evolutionary genetics of organs. https://hopkins-lab.com/

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The consequences of rising temperatures for animal fertility Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Thermal stress reduces fertility in animals at temperatures below lethal, yet these sublethal effects remain underrepresented in biodiversity forecasts. This Review...

Happy to be able to share our review of the consequences of rising temperatures on animal fertility, led by @rhondasnook.bsky.social with @liamdougherty.bsky.social and Claudia Fricke. Research is getting active in this area but there's still a lot of unknowns...
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09.03.2026 09:26 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Big oversight on my part! Thank you!

06.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!

06.03.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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Looking forward to #Dros26 this week. My lab is recruiting and I would be delighted to chat with anyone interested in grad school/postdoc positions in evolutionary cell biology and developmental genetics. Please reach out if interested!

03.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to #Dros26 this week. My lab is recruiting and I would be delighted to chat with anyone interested in grad school/postdoc positions in evolutionary cell biology and developmental genetics. Please reach out if interested!

03.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing!! Congrats πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

22.02.2026 02:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Early Career Scientist Awards 2026 Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.

Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.

Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6

19.11.2025 20:55 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Very kind of you! Are you heading to Chicago for the Drosophila meeting?

12.11.2025 02:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One week left to apply for this position!

11.11.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of MΓ‘laga, SpainπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch!
πŸ“… Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility.
πŸ™Please, RT!

30.10.2025 17:50 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My pleasure!!

30.10.2025 22:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great to see that our mosquito cell atlas is now out in Cell. Amazing work from @oliviagoldman.net and @nadavshai.bsky.social to organise so much data and so many interesting stories into a single paper!

30.10.2025 20:52 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Ichetucknee Springs State Park, a short drive from Gainesville, FL

Ichetucknee Springs State Park, a short drive from Gainesville, FL

The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

15.10.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

One week left on this! Good opportunity for someone interested in #behaviour, #genomics and #migration to come work will some fun seabirds and some fun people πŸ§¬πŸ£πŸ›°οΈ

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

24.10.2025 16:05 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona.

The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona.

Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona.

Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona.

Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument.

Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument.

A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.

A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! πŸ§¬πŸŒ΅πŸ€–

24.10.2025 05:01 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks Carolina!

16.10.2025 18:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Geoff!!

16.10.2025 00:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Applications due by November 16th. Preferred start date early 2026 but negotiable!

15.10.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Ichetucknee Springs State Park, a short drive from Gainesville, FL

Ichetucknee Springs State Park, a short drive from Gainesville, FL

The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

15.10.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Preferred start date is early 2026. Applications due by November 16th.

15.10.2025 20:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Green butterfly sat on a flower.

Green butterfly sat on a flower.

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

11.09.2025 13:45 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Thanks, Margarida!! Hope all is well with you!

01.08.2025 19:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
University of Florida - Details - Postdoctoral Associate

I am looking for a postdoc! Please share with Evo-devo-neuro-sensory people who might be interested.

We have multiple projects available so don't feel like you are not qualified to apply if you don't check every single box on the job ad!

Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

25.07.2025 15:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Range extender mediates long-distance enhancer activity - Nature The REX element is associated with long-range enhancer–promoter interactions.

Our paper describing the Range Extender element which is required and sufficient for long-range enhancer activation at the Shh locus is now available at @nature.com. Congrats to @gracebower.bsky.social who led the study. Below is a brief summary of the main findings www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

02.07.2025 16:17 πŸ‘ 186 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 9
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A Role for Exaptation in Sculpting Sexually Dimorphic Brains from Shared Neural Lineages Sex differences in behaviours arise from variations in female and male nervous systems, yet the cellular and molecular bases of these differences remain poorly defined. Here, we take an unbiased, sing...

New preprint from lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.

09.06.2025 13:12 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Huge congrats, Sam!

23.06.2025 01:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cheers Bernard! Much appreciated. Hope to catch up with you at something soon!

23.06.2025 01:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cheers Eric! Thanks for all of your support

19.06.2025 18:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!! I’d love to chat once I’m across. Weird reproductive systems are very much up my street!

19.06.2025 00:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, it’s essential. EuroEvoDevo in Glasgow is looking very attractive next year.

19.06.2025 00:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0