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Ana Verbanac

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evolution, behavior and brains 🦈

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Life of P.I. @lifeofpi-hd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Season 4 of the Life of P.I. lectures has already started! 🐯 This year we're welcoming speakers from various backgrounds - including P.I.s, industry professionals, start-up founders, journal editors, and more. Come hear about their personal journeys - and maybe learn a thing or two 😉
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Jan Lohmann @meristemania.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Awesome Symposium coming up @cosheidelberg.bsky.social in September! Check it out - registration is free. www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/cos-sympo...
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COS Symposium 2026 - Centre for Organismal Studies
Venue: Lecture hallCentre for Organismal Studies – Heidelberg UniversityIm Neuenheimer Feld 230
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Keishu Asada @cephwarden.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
There were a lot of these in June. Baby octopuses drifting on rafts of sea grass, each off on some grand voyage.
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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New #paper: rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/organ... Mostly unaltered conversation among some great people on the definitions of life.
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...
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OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) @oistedu.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Mass extinction triggered the early radiations of jawed vertebrates and their jawless relatives (gnathostomes)
A mass extinction 445 million years ago triggered the rapid rise of armored and jawed vertebrates.
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Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui @idoiaeu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Really happy to join NeuroPSI at Paris Saclay to lead a research group funded by an ERC Consolidator grant #ERCCoG . We'll study the origins of the vertebrate brain using shark embryos. 🦈 🧠 Reach out if you are interested in joining the team 🤍
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Life of P.I. @lifeofpi-hd.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
See you Tuesday!✨
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal! buff.ly/dCkwPr0
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Life of P.I. @lifeofpi-hd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Nils Trost @trostnils.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I'm very excited to finally share the main work of my PhD! We explored the evolutionary dynamics of gene regulation and expression during gonad development in primates. We cover among others: X chromosome dynamics (incl. in a developing XXY testis), gene regulatory networks and cell type evolution.
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MA_Sharks @ma-sharks.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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First shark sound recordings captured by researchers, study shows
The first-ever sounds of sharks have been captured by researchers, according to a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Henrik Kaessmann @kaessmannlab.bsky.social taking us on an amazing journey to the origins and evolution of the vertebrate brain at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social
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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This week we are bringing you MBARI: From the Vault. We’re sharing content curated by the team of experts responsible for our video archive. Get the inside scoop on some of the most interesting and unique observations they’ve made over the last few decades!
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Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A great article highlighting the broader implications of the three parallel recent papers from our group and our wonderful colleagues in Spain and Belgium...
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 02/04/2025
Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator, was born #OnThisDay in 1647. She collected insects and raised silkworms as a girl, and was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly and document metamorphosis. Watch our video with BBC Ideas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wiw...
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The incredible life of Maria Sibylla Merian | The Royal Society
YouTube video by The Royal Society
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Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui @idoiaeu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The beauty of embryogenesis. Can you see the blood flowing in rhythm with the heartbeat? #sharkembryo 🦈
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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
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Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
How does gene regulation shape brain evolution? Our new preprint dives into this question in the context of mammalian cerebellum development! rb.gy/dbcxjz Led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Sharks and rays have the oldest vertebrate sex chromosome with unique sex determination mechanisms www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
A pea-sized #Argonaut octopus rides atop a stinging #siphonophore through the nighttime open ocean. . Shot several miles off West Palm Beach, FL, USA. . #papernautilus #nautilus #cephalopod #plankton #blackwater #blackwaterphotography #blackwaterdiving #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #underwater
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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2025
The revised version of our #Platynereis #connectome paper is now out: elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprint… Cell-type-level annotation of the whole organisms, including synaptic and desmosomal connectomes. Can be explored with CATMAID here […] [Original post on biologists.social]
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Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
So excited to announce that our study on the development and evolution of pallial cell types and structures in birds, led by @bassi-z.bsky.social, is now out in @science.org! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Developmental origins and evolution of pallial cell types and structures in birds
Innovations in the pallium likely facilitated the evolution of advanced cognitive abilities in birds. We therefore scrutinized its cellular composition and evolution using cell type atlases from chick...
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Andreas Hejnol @hejnol.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This paper provides now solid evidence that the xenacoelomorph male gonopore is homologous to the bilaterian hindgut. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The xenacoelomorph gonopore is homologous to the bilaterian anus
The bilaterian through gut with an anal opening is a key invention in animals, since it facilitates effective food processing, which allows animals to grow to a larger body size. However, because non-...
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@stevestuwill.bsky.social you posted on 𝕏 on Dec 5, 2020 this stunning video - why not repeat on 🔵bsky ? (sorry, I did)... "Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides." #ProtistsOnSky
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Jose Maldonado, PhD @josemald.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Just a gorgeous #Purkinje neuron all by itself in the cerebellum. Only with #lightsheet #microscopy on a whole #cleared sample could you ever hope to catch a lone reporter expressing cell in it’s entirety. #science 🧪
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Giacomo Gattoni @giacomogattoni.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
For my first post on 🦋, I am incredibly excited to share that my PhD paper has been published in #ScienceAdvances! We compared the development of the anterior neuroectoderm to uncover how the chordate #forebrain evolved 🧠. Have a look at the summary 🧵 below! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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An ancient apical patterning system sets the position of the forebrain in chordates
A conserved Wnt-regulated molecular signature sets forebrain position and identity in chordates.
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Did giant ice age beasts carve these vast caves in South America? A marvellous mystery told by @meghier.bsky.social for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A graphic comparing dimensions of a silhouetted child, an artist's impression of extinct ground sloths and armadillos (up to 3 metres long and 1 metre high), and the outline of some mysterious caves, found in South America.Picture taken inside the Armadillo’s Den, a giant palaeoburrow (cave) in southern Brazil.
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