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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Inktober - bota and naturalists version 🎨 I started the challenge and here we are after 5 days. Trying different kinds. Themes based on the list of French association of passionated people of Botanical illustrations. #inktober #ink #watercolours 🐡

5 inks and watercolours:
1. Watercolours of a red cardinal - Theme: red - A6 format
2. Ink of ivy on trees - Theme: Ivy - A6
3. Watercolours of peony - Theme: flower - A5
4. Ink of a moss - Theme: texture - A6
5. Black and sepia inks of a tiny comics - Theme shellfish - A6 - trad EN "mmmhhhh, this shellfish does not exist, Jacqueline"

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Job alert! We are looking for a Head of Applied Genomics in our Vegetable Division @kwsgroup.bsky.social. This is a leadership position (full-time, permanent) based in the Netherlands. A strong background in #CropGenetics and leadership experience are necessary. #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs

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Head of Applied Genomics

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David Maddison @bembidion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Tree of Life Web Project is back online! tolweb.org Thanks to Travis Wheeler (@wheelerlab.org), Danny Mandel, and Andrew Lenards, the original programmers for ToLWeb, for retooling the code to work on a modern OS! It is hard for me to believe it lives again.

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Tree of Life Web Project

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sloth in progress 🦥 A6 format, black ink #sloth #ink #illustration 🐡

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is now available in both English and French on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... If you like it, do not hesitate to share it with your students or around ✨ #scicomm #scied #microbiology #fungifriends 🐡

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Fena Ochs @fenaochs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My lab at the Center for Gene Expression (CGEN), University of Copenhagen is looking for a motivated Postdoc interested in cohesin biology, 3D chromatin, and super-resolution microscopy. 📩 Please email your CV and letter of intent to fena.ochs(at)sund.ku.dk.

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's 10 days to go - submit your proposals for symposia for #SMBE2027 to help shape next year's SMBE meeting. 📨 event.fourwaves.com/smbe2027/sub...

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EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 11/09/2026

Explore how citizen engagement can strengthen democratic resilience with us🤝 The Festival brings together policymakers, public servants, researchers, practitioners, innovators and civil society to exchange ideas, build connections & shape the future of citizen participation. link.europa.eu/6NHC7V

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Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The LBGB team at @genoscopeumr.bsky.social, led by @jm-aury.bsky.social, recently released Hobrac, a tool to investigate synteny between genomes! Can be used for assembly validation or comparative genomics. doi.org/10.64898/202... github.com/Genoscope-LB... See below for what Hobrac can do:

Figure showing some outputs of the Hobrac tool (e.g. ribbon plots & oxford plots), here illutrating synteny between bivalve genomes.

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Dr Radu Zabet @raduzabet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy to share the peer-reviewed version of this manuscript now published in Bioinformatics Journal. Briefly, we developed HiCPotts, a novel method to better detect 3D DNA contacts from HiC/microC data. doi.org/10.1093/bioi... bioconductor.org/packages/HiC... For a summary, see original post.

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Mali 💤 MCM London G-23 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The deadline for this is today btw!

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Philippe Batut @philippebatut.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🧬🔬 Why are enhancers transcribed and how does that impact gene regulation? I’m really excited to share our new paper in @science.org showing that noncoding RNAs control the timing of gene activation in embryos. With Mike Levine #ScienceResearch @columbiamed.bsky.social A few highlights below... 🧵👇

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Noncoding transcription controls the developmental dynamics of long-range gene regulation

The genomic regions regulating gene expression are often themselves transcribed into a variety of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). However, the regulatory roles of this noncoding transcription remain largely ...

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you thought you understood how one cell becomes two (and imagined studying the problem using an organism that lives in deep sea volcanic vents was impossible), read Florian’s paper and think again!

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Antoine Molaro @antoinemolaro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hello World ! Reminder about our open postdoc position 🧪🧬 Reviewing applications until October - get in touch to know more about what's hot in the lab these days ! Application details in the post below 👇👇 #EvoEpi #MolaroLab #watwat #ERC

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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New preprint! There have been quite a few papers about RLP and RLK receptors, but none of them have a truly reproducible annotation pipeline (including my own...)... We finally made such a pipeline and look more systematically at RLPs within tomato. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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PlantLRR-PRR:A Reproducible Annotation Pipeline Reveals Contrasting Evolution of Developmental and Defense Receptor-Like Proteins in Tomato

Plants perceive external and internal signals via receptors to modulate their growth, development, and defenses. Leucine-rich-repeat receptor-like-kinase (RLKs) and receptor-like-proteins (RLPs) are t...

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Impressive, like the feather?!! And the colours are so great! 🤩

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In our recent issue we interview Susana Coelho, who uses brown algae to study evolution, development, and life-cycle complexity at the Max Planck Institute for Biology. Read the Q&A to find out more about Susana’s most important scientific influences: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Susana Coelho

Interview with Susana Coelho, who uses brown algae to study evolution, development, and life-cycle complexity at the Max Planck Institute for Biology.

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey! Here is my tiny comics for the #InternationalMicroorganismDay I wanted to show that research on fungi moves forward and we learn more and more cool facts about them! Refs: 1. Deng et al., 2026 - doi.org/10.1002/nzb2... 2. Stewart et al., 2026 - doi.org/10.1126/scie... #MicrobeArt2026 🐡

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Interesting perpective for conservation from Martin et al. (2026): "With Knowledge Comes Responsibility: Increasing Conservation Scientists’ Impact in a Time of Global Crises" conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/HABBQE... #Conservation #ClimateChange #Biodiversity

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Lennart Hilbert @lennarthilbert.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'll try another live read-through of a recent preprint "Formation of an RNA-mediated nuclear compartment" by Denis Lafontaine et al., @jobdekker.bsky.social lab I am first posting my summary sketch of the introduction. Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Original post: bsky.app/profile/jobd...

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

✨️ My first exhibition ever ✨️ Exhibiting my sciart has been a (very very) far dream but it actually happened!! And what a chance to bring some biodiversity into the train station of Zurich!! Was pretty impressive but I feel very lucky 🤭 SwissArtExpo ends tomorrow! #biodiversity #ink #zurich 🐡🐨🍄‍🟫

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

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Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Our study on giant transposons Starship 🚀🧬 in the genome of the lichen fungus Xanthoria is now out in @pnas.org! What did we find out about Starships in #lichen fungi? 👇Updated thread below 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky 1/6 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

While the science part of my life is moving forward (fungal 3D genomics for the win), I just finished this ink! "Unloved, unknown and endangered species matter" Black ink, A4 format, 2026 These 26 elements took me ~130 hours, but so worth it to my opinion #biodiversity #ink #illustration 🐡

Picture of myself, Alice Laigle, holding my finished ink representing diverse species

Picture of the final illustration, only made using a black pensil-brush
It is a composition of 26 elements where big animal, plants, algae are entangled and smaller species or group of organisms (e.g., (phyto)plankton, diatoms, aquatic fungi, bacterial biofilm) are represented in circles used as zooms

Picture of the ongoing process, where I am holding the brush, a hand on a white paper to protect the illustration. Working on the bacterial biofilm

Picture of a part of the illustration, still in progress (e.g., hammer shark not done yet), with a 10 swiss cent to compare to the size of the copepod zoom. On the right is the pencil-brush I use

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Among our Zenodo's repositories, you can find the rotating 3D models of each studied species: zenodo.org/records/1767... Pick a species and check how they look like ✨ Here is my favorite bean-shaped model, found in Butyriboletus subappendiculatus, where each colour is a chromosome:

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Carlos Lax @clax8.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

How does an unusual but essential epigenetic DNA modification in eukaryotes interact with histone modifications? We found that some hPTMs, including H3K4me and H3K27ac, define the proper 6mA deposition in the DNA and are essential for maintaining 6mA-associated transcriptional activity. More: ⬇️

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Active histone modifications fine-tune DNA N-6 methyladenine deposition and maintain transcriptional stability

Epigenetic mechanisms provide sophisticated regulatory layers that modulate gene expression across diverse organisms, yet their organization and crosstalk remain poorly understood in non-dikarya fungi...

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🔥🌳 #PhDAlert! MSc in #EnvironmentalScience or #EarthSciences? Strong quantitative skills & aptitude for #FieldResearch? Our Critical Zone dynamics group is looking for a #PhD student in fire impacts on terrestrial carbon cycling: apply.refline.ch/273855/1891/... #ScienceJobs 🔥🌳

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🖋🐨 "Câlin" (Hug in French) Small koala in A6 format, black ink using a pentel arts pocket brush. I made it for a friend who's having some hard time with a newborn having GERD. Sending her love from far 🫂 #ink #illustration #koala #mom #GERD 🐡

Koala half asleep on a tree, at the intersection of two branches. Fully made in black ink

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Pável Matos @pavelmatosm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Join us

Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“DNA under caffeine” - series After I finished the first one with just DNA and blue-to-fushia gradient, I spilled my coffee... I was not really happy, but decided to ink the contours to make it more contrasted and not just a failure. Here are my little tests. #watercolours #ink #coffee 🧬🐡

Five A6 format watercolours (crumpled thin cardboard in the background as they are drying after protecting them), each with different gradients of colours, mostly clearer colours down (from yellow to fuchsia) and blues at the tops (more or less dark). Among gradients, there are patterns of DNA helices (thanks to drawing gum). On top of watercolours and DNA helices, there are spills of coffee, contoured by black ink. Patterns of coffee are pretty random and sometimes hard to catch.

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

📝 NEW PREPRINT It’s with an immense joy that our preprint is finally out and it’s my first first co-author paper!!! 🧬🍄 What is the diversity of 3D genome architectures in fungi? We reconstructed the 3D genome architecture of public Hi-C data from 55 fungal. Preprint: lnkd.in/enxTh2Cm

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Jana Helsen @helsenjana.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I am starting my lab at the University of Geneva next January! Incredibly excited to soon be joining the MOCEL department as an Asst. Professor. The lab will use evolutionary cell biology to study chromosomes, centromeres & speciation 🧬🔬🌱 Intrigued, want to join or collaborate? 🔗 helsenlab.org

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Helsen lab | chromosome and centromere evolution

The Helsen lab at the University of Geneva explores how centromeres and chromosomes evolve, diversify, and function across eukaryotes. Discover our latest publications, research team, and open positio...

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Moving faster this week: only 7 elements to finish/do and I will be done with this intense illustration of biodiversity! I am over 100 hours on it..! Impatient to see the final result! 🫠 #biodiversity #ink #illustration 🐡

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Update of the progress * 14 elements done out of 26 * 10 elements in progress * 2 not even began #biodiversity #ink #illustration 🐡

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Congratulations Camille!!! Such an achievement and such a crazy cool synteny plot!! 👏😉 If you like chromosome evolution and/or butterflies, this paper is for you! 🧬🦋🧪

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Small projects can also be very satisfying while working on pieces requirering a lot of focus (e.g., my biodiversity ink). Tiny watercolours, A6 format of only one colour, perylene green. I quite like them, and you? Pic 4: discrete signatures are my favorite #watercolour #plants #art 🐡

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Working on different textures at the same time 9/26 elements done, 9/26 ongoing #biodiversity #ink #illustration 🐡

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Ink in progress 6/26 elements done, 8/26 ongoing #biodiversity 🐡

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Diversity of mushrooms, real and imaginary 🍄 What began as a simple training of Pentel Arts Pocket Brush (there is no sponso) transformed as a much longer (+30h) and challenging project, but I am very happy of the result ✨️ What do you think? 😊 #ink #fungifriends #art #illustration 🐡

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Today is the International Day for Biodiversity Most contours for the ink piece are done. Plankton and microscopic species on their ways "Unloved, unknown and endangered species matter" 🐡 #ink #biodiversity

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

With the ERGA community we began a series to explain the concepts in biodiversity, and I have the pleasure to illustrate them! What I love about it: * it is for everyone * in a multitude of languages * it is very collaborative! Hope you will enjoy this series as much as I do ✨️ #SciComm #scied 🐡🧪

Illustration comprising a small comics about DNA and its meaning (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid) and on the right a zoom of a character to show the double helix which can be seen as a book in our cells

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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The first 10 ERGA Members to register for the conference on the Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes using the registration code sent out to the ERGA Members mailing list tomorrow will benefit from a special discount! comparativegenomics2026.com

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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · 19/05/2026

All good things come to an end ✨ but before that, come to our FINAL NIGHT🌐 pintofscience.ch 💙 Free entry, no registraton, no tickets, just come by #pintCH #pint26 @pintsworld.bsky.social @snsf.ch @spirochrome.com

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Ending 🎬 Yesterday was my last day as a temporary laboratory technician at La Côte International School! What an experience!!! It went by in a flash, but I’m so grateful for the trust the team placed in me and for the people I met there! 🥹 #labtech #school #education

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In my journey of improving my digital illustrations' skills (photoshop here), here is my perception of bioluminescent fungi which always fascinated me. Fungal shapes are from a watercolour of Infundibulicybe gibba, not bioluminescent from my knowledge. #sciart #fungi #fungifriends

Digital illustration of two fungi, bigger on the left and smaller on the right. Strips are flashy green-ish to illustrate bioluminescence and their light is enlighting the surroundings, with a very dark blue background. The hashed black soil is composed of leaves and rocks

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Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Very cool: 'Le journal top secret de Théo'! This childrens book by Corien Oranje and me now got translated to French: www.fnac.com/a22963810/Co... Wonderful story for whiz kids who want to know all about stars, dinosaurs, evolution - explaining how science and the christian faith harmonize well.

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