Reposted by Alexa SadierFabio A. Machado @fmachado.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Fresh out of the oven: a little provocation about the conclusion that macroevolution rates are slower than we would expect. Feedback and rebuttals are welcome academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... with @damelo.net @apenna.bsky.social @agporto.bsky.social and othersacademic.oup.comInvasion of new adaptive zones retains telltale signs of directional selection at macroevolutionary scales in mammalsAbstract. Directional selection is often viewed as a transient force in macroevolution, with its signal eroded over time by stabilizing and fluctuating sel 23723
Reposted by Alexa SadierMarion Segall @marionsegall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My new ANR project has officially started yesterday! #MECHAMORPH will unravel some secrets of the evolutionary success of #snakes! We will look at head and skull shapes and their multiple functions using an interdisciplinary approach. Stay tuned! Special thank to my brother for his killer logo 💚🐍 094
Reposted by Alexa SadierBat1K Genome Project @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026From six bat species to covering 103 genomes across all 21 bat families 🦇🧬 Two beautiful batty Nature covers, years of collaboration, and an incredible community behind every genome. 🌍🌎🌏 We are proud and excited for what’s next. Our goal: sequence the genome of every bat species! 2127
Reposted by Alexa SadierDevelopment @dev-journal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Development wants to help you publish and it’s easy to submit to us. We offer pre-submission enquiries, format-free submission and competitive handling speeds. We are a Review Commons affiliate journal, and offer Fast track journal transfers. More reasons to publish:journals.biologists.comReasons to publish in Development | Development | The Company of BiologistsReasons to publish in Development | Development | The Company of Biologists Reasons to publish in Development Development is more than just a journal - we are part of your community. Published by a… 036
Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Est-ce que c'est légal ? Ca me parait complètement fou. A la rigueur, ils n'ont qu'à faire comme la NSF à une époque qui était passé sur un modèle sans deadline pour certaines divisions. Je crois qu'ils avaient eu une baisse drastique du nombre de proposals. 010
Reposted by Alexa SadierProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Exciting news! We here at the LSU Museum of Natural Science @lsumns.bsky.social and Dept. of Biological Sciences are looking for Curator and Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Paleobiology! Come work with us! We are fun, supportive and active! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant ProfessorAll Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre... 03052
Reposted by Alexa SadierKen Welch @kcwelch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just published! 🦇wings are big and thin, and likely represent an important route of exposure for sprayed pesticides! Great work led by Dr. Natalia Sandoval-Herrera! @utscbiology.bsky.social @utsc.utoronto.ca 🧪 linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...linkinghub.elsevier.comRedirecting 047
Reposted by Alexa SadierMichael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As an astrobiologist, I never thought I’d see my name on a cancer paper...but here we are 😮academic.oup.comExploring tumorigenesis as a process of phenotypic state-space exploration and selective funnelingAbstract. Tumorigenesis is widely studied within evolutionary frameworks, yet integrating genetic, non-genetic, spatial, and collective tumor-level dynamic 1213
Reposted by Alexa SadierLe Monde @lemonde.fr · 29/09/2026Salaire des enseignants : quarante ans de décrochage qu’aucune mesure n’a permis de freinerlemonde.frSalaire des enseignants : quarante ans de décrochage qu’aucune mesure n’a permis de freinerLes 850 000 professeurs sont appelés à la grève mardi 29 septembre, pour revendiquer des hausses de rémunération. Leur pouvoir d’achat s’est effondré depuis les années 1980, et leur situation ne s’est pas améliorée après la revalorisation de 2023. Ils touchent en moyenne 900 euros net de moins que les autres fonctionnaires de catégorie A. 105034
Reposted by Alexa SadierMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu 3152142
Reposted by Alexa SadierPodcast Science @podcastscience.fm · 28/09/2026Un départ tout en douceur pour #Podcast #Science Nouvel épisode sorti du four ! 🍰🥳 Sur la thématique du sucré 🍨 Un avant-GOÛT des très prochaines Radio-Dessinées du 3-4 octobre qui arrivent (vous pouvez toujours vous y inscrire !) À déguster dès maintenant 🍫 : www.podcastscience.fm/emission/202... 084
Reposted by Alexa SadierPodcast Science @podcastscience.fm · 23/09/2026Ce soir, ce mercredi 23 septembre 20h30 (UTC+2) #Podcast #Science 🎙️ revient tout en douceur pour une nouvelle saison. 🥰 Douceur, car on va parler du : SUCRÉ 🍭🍫🍨 On enregistre le prochain épisode en live avec vous, ça vous dit ? 👀 Lien vers le live en commentaire ⬇️ 175
Reposted by Alexa SadierPierre Kerner @ssaft.com · 28/09/2026C'est la rentrée pour @podcastscience.fm ! www.podcastscience.fm/emission/202... Et pour l'occasion, je vous ai concocté une chronique tout en plumes, à lire sur SSAFT : ssaft.com/Blog/dotclea... Ft. Zizi Jeanmaire mais aussi des convergences évolutives, des piafs et beaucoup de sucre ! 075
Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Et c'est plus ou moins flagrant selon la langue d'origine je trouve 010
Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Pareil je dirai vérifie puis discuté avec l'éditeur. A titre personnel j'ai alerté mon postdoc étranger en lui conseillant d'essayer de maîtriser l'anglais au max quand même parce que, même simplement pour échanger des messages, on perd parfois le ton qu'on veut donner 210
Reposted by Alexa Sadierfranceinfo @franceinfo.fr · 28/09/2026En charge des crèches, des collèges, de la protection de l'enfance, des aides aux personnes âgées ou handicapées et du RSA, ces agents estiment avoir épuisé tous les recours d'alerte en interne. En sous-effectifs constants, ils dénoncent des conséquences graves sur les salariés et leurs missions.l.franceinfo.frINFO RADIO FRANCE. Une plainte au pénal déposée au nom des 7 500 agents du conseil départemental du Val-de-Marne pour harcèlement moral institutionnel 12825
Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm quite jealous of your gathering though (especially after missing the grand mass EED) 000
Reposted by Alexa SadierDevelopment @dev-journal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The curious case of the placental genome In this Review, Zoé Ducarne, @agathechaigne.bsky.social and @myanhtruong.bsky.social highlight the placenta, the only mammalian organ that harbors a cancer-like genome while remaining functional and healthy. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... 12012
Reposted by Alexa SadierCNRS @cnrs.fr · 27/09/2026Les chauves-souris présentent l’une des plus incroyables trajectoires d’évolution chez les mammifères. On en connaît plus de 1500 espèces ! Comment cette diversité est-elle apparue ? Pour le savoir, direction les grottes et les forêts de Trinité-et-Tobago. Reportage avec lemonde.frlejournal.cnrs.frLes chauves-souris, laboratoires de l’évolution 06626
Reposted by Alexa SadierDávalos Lab @labdavalos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And here’s the paper: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...elifesciences.orgClient Challenge 072
Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oui tout à fait. C'est drôle, ça me fait remonter des souvenirs de classe verte ou on faisait comme si on avait du pastis. Je crois qu'il y a un équivalent chez Teisseire :) 000
Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026J'avais complètement oublié l'existence de ce truc 😆 100
Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Merci 😊 je pense qu'il y a un vrai effort de vulgarisation en ce moment sur les chauves-souris et, qu'en France, elles sont de plus en plus mises en avant. C'est vraiment cool parce qu'on était plutôt en retard là-dessus par rapport aux US ou UK. Et dès qu'on s'y intéresse, elles sont tellement cool 010
Reposted by Alexa SadierbioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MERFISHEYES: Web-based Visualization and Sharing Platform for Single-cell and Single-molecule Spatial Transcriptomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 011
Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Film Spectral (bientôt online) Director: J-M. Mohamed Producers: S. Hobbie, J-M. Mohamed, A. Sadier, CNRS Cinematography: S. Hobbie, H. Davies Editor / Colourist: D. Quesnel Music: K. Chandradath Singh Sound Design: J. Serrette Artwork: C. Tom Contributors: Trinibats, S. Mahadeo, C. Martinand-Mari 110
Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026mais aussi la réalité du travail de labo de la paillasse à l'analyse de données sur ordinateur (feat. Benoit Moison). Merci à Sonia Collaviza et Julien Moro pour ce reportage ! 100
Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026C'est sorti ! Un reportage des équipes du CNRS sur nos recherches et l'importance d'étudier la diversité des chauves-souris et leur evolution. Une occasion aussi de découvrir la splendeur de Trinidad et nos collaborateurs grâce aux images de notre film Spectral @erc.europa.eu @isemevol.bsky.social 12110
Reposted by Alexa SadierCNRS @cnrs.fr · 25/09/2026INÉDIT 🎬 Comment les chauves-souris ont-elles donné naissance à une telle diversité ? 🦇 Avec plus de 1500 espèces, leur évolution est fascinante. Pour le savoir, direction les grottes et les forêts de Trinité-et-Tobago. 🌴 Le reportage complet 👉 lejournal.cnrs.fr/videos/les-c... 03811
Reposted by Alexa SadierJournal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you're an ECR or postdoc in need of funding to travel for an experiment or to learn a new technique, make sure you apply for a JEB Travelling Fellowship www.biologists.com/grants/trave... #PostdocAppreciationWeek #NPAW #PostdocAppreciation Find out more at doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... 065
Reposted by Alexa SadierMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪 14410171
Reposted by Alexa SadierSonja Vernes @sonjavernes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🦇 Bat1K's biggest paper yet is out. Largest bat genome + fossil study ever: 103 genomes, 44 fossils, 137 researchers. We rewrote the bat family tree! Bats likely originated in Europe ~65 million years ago, not Asia, Africa or Americas. @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11007-3 16429
Reposted by Alexa SadierBat1K Genome Project @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Where did bats come from?🦇🌍 After decades of debate, the biggest bat genome + fossil study ever done has an answer - and it’s not where anyone expected! 🤩OUR PHASE 1 FLAGSHIP is out today in nature! doi.org/10.1038/s415... A thread 🧵doi.orgReference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - NatureAn updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families. 37044
Reposted by Alexa SadierJames Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Our latest paper on building models of cell fate decisions -with David Rand, Marine Fontaine & @joadelas.bsky.social- combines developmental biology, dynamical systems theory and bioinformatics. I wrote a short piece to summarise it & explain ideas behind the approach briscoelab.org/blog-quantif...briscoelab.orgQuantifying Waddington's Landscape | Briscoe LabI have written before about how two conceptual frameworks have shaped our thinking about cell fate, Waddington's epigenetic landscape and Davidson's gene... 07629
Reposted by Alexa SadierRichard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Philosophy of Biology: The power of theory in the life sciences" elifesciences.org/articles/112... @zdblount.bsky.social shared this thought-provoking paper with the lab group.elifesciences.orgPhilosophy of Biology: The power of theory in the life sciencesTheory can help address cell and molecular biology’s major challenges, particularly those arising from large omics datasets. 110346
Reposted by Alexa SadierNicolas Di-Poi @nicolasdipoi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Our collaborative paper on snake coiling is now out in the latest issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on the cover! 🎉 Delighted to see our work highlighted this way. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ni9h3QW8S... @helsinki-biotech.bsky.social @helsinki.fi 15918
Reposted by Alexa SadierBen Parker @ben-parker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Excited that our new paper with @henrylabsymbio.bsky.social and Kerry Oliver is out @pnas.org! We show that mobile genetic elements can spread adaptive host-benefiting traits across heritable insect symbionts on eco-evolutionary timescales.🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPhenotypic divergence is driven by mobile genetic elements in a heritable insect symbiont | PNASHeritable microbes profoundly influence insect biology, yet the traits they confer often evolve rapidly and differ among closely related symbiont s... 411557
Reposted by Alexa SadierDr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨We're hiring a new Curator of Mammals!!🚨 🦍🐕🦝🐅🦓🦌🐃🐖🐏🐫🐘🦏🦛🐿️🦔🦇🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐋🦭🦒🧸 Come join the Vertebrate Unit at @nhmdk.bsky.social—a fantastic team in the heart of Denmark's beautiful capital! Amazing collections, incredible history. Please share widely! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...candidate.hr-manager.netTenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and Curator of MammalsTenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap 16378
Reposted by Alexa SadierJustus Kebschull @justuskebschull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW PREPRINT! An evo-devo look at how new cerebellar nuclei are made. Spoiler: it’s all driven by region-specific excitatory progenitors in the early rhombic lip; inhibitory neurons fill in later. If you care about brain evolution or cerebellar development, check it out: tinyurl.com/CNdevelopment 26127
Reposted by Alexa SadierEMBL @embl.org · 21/09/2026There is still time to apply for the EMBL International PhD Programme! 📢 Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research. Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! bit.ly/4x9Edss 01432
Reposted by Alexa SadierOmaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Must admit, ever since I was a kid, I’ve dreamt of seeing microscopy images of #protists in @lemonde.fr Today, protists are everywhere, and several images were taken by the team. And seeing #ichthyosporeans there too?! 🥹 One step closer to showcasing the beauty of the invisible microbial world. 🔬✨ 15013
Reposted by Alexa Sadierpaveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 20/09/202621627 applications. Nothing to celebrate here. Impossible to evaluate fairly & safely. Neither the science (too diverse & possibly LLM generated) nor the soft criteria (likely LLM generated). Without an interview stage - a security risk! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.euMSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 receives record number of applicationsThe 2026 call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 21,627 applications submitted. 29844
Reposted by Alexa Sadier📑 EvoDevo Papers @evodevo-papers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Mechanisms of Phenotypic Evolution from Molecules to Organisms: Integrating Evolutionary Biochemistry and Evolutionary Developmental Biology pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42751651 #EvoDevo 084
Reposted by Alexa SadierEMBL @embl.org · 17/09/2026Are you a senior scientist looking to expand your scientific horizons through a sabbatical? 🔬 Then the EMBL Sabbatical Programme is a great opportunity for you! You could receive up to €15,000 and be based at any of EMBL’s six sites for 3 to 6 months. 🔗Apply here: bit.ly/sabbatical26 0115
Reposted by Alexa SadierMerlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 15/09/2026🔬🧪 We're hiring postdocs&engineers at Institut de la Vision in AMAZING Paris 🇫🇷!! Join a dynamic team working at the nexus of retina developmental biology, spatial omics & advanced imaging Ambitious science in a supportive & young inclusive team 🚀 DM me for more info & please share 🙏 #academicsky 35525
Reposted by Alexa SadierAnil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 16/09/20261/6 An extraordinary @nature.com paper has just landed from the lab of @sergiuppasca.bsky.social. They found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells. 69140
Reposted by Alexa SadierPodcast Science @podcastscience.fm · 31/08/2026C'est officiel ! 🥳 #Podcast #Science revient en public ! Vous pouvez réservez votre entrée gratuite pour les DEUX prochaines Radio Dessinées du 3 et 4 octobre par ici : www.podcastscience.fm/3-4-octobre-... Des événements organisés par Claire 🥰 Des affiches réalisées par @xapuyo.bsky.social 😻 0109