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Andras Simon

@andrassimon.bsky.social

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Nick Leigh @niche-leigh.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🐸Do salamanders need adaptive immunity to regenerate limbs and tails? 🐸 Nope! 🚨Check out back-to-back pre-prints from PhD student in our lab Chimezie (tinyurl.com/42wst3bh) and from our collaborators the Max Yun lab (tinyurl.com/b92rzwzr)

illustration by Elsa Pi Börjesson of a salamander surrounding the edges of a white background.

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Brain tail axis!

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Beautiful work!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

The gates of Harvard University. The text reads: "Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration's Demands." Photo by Sophie Park for The New York Times.

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Worth reading!

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

If you think it’s time to move, stay tuned. This is a good opportunity. www.vr.se/aktuellt/nyh...

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Nytt bidrag för att rekrytera forskare verksamma utanför Europa

I mitten av april öppnar Vetenskapsrådet en ny utlysning om bidrag på två miljoner för att möjliggöra för svenska lärosäten och andra forskningsorganisationer att rekrytera framstående forskare verksa...

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Great opportunity, don’t miss it!

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Super interesting paper on gene transfer from somatic to germline cells bsky.app/profile/maya...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Together with fellow @biologists.bsky.social EiCs we've written about the unprecedented cuts & policy changes to research in the US We stand with our US colleagues during this challenging time Science transcends borders—setbacks in one nation affect us all journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times

As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A #Pleurodeles on the cover. Interested in this #giantgenome, #salamander #regeneration, #noncodingRNA landscape? Pls check out: www.cell.com/cell-genomic.... Many great labs involved, special thanks to co-senior authors @maxyunlab.bsky.social, and @niche-leigh.bsky.social

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Josh Currie @joshcurrie.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Universities need to make it crystal clear to parents that cuts to HHS will result in serious tuition hikes just to mitigate the immediate budget shortfalls while they fire employees and scale back research to adapt.

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Murawala Lab at MDI Bio Lab @murawalalab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We are grateful to @isrbio.bsky.social for their support of the ReBilD course @mdibiolab.bsky.social. mdibl.org/course/rebil... Please RT. 🙌

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 07/02/2025

Hello, Bluesky! ☀️ We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late. Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Please consider nominating a colleague.

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Timothy Bredy @twbredy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Love this.

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The Yun Lab @maxyunlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

And the newt genome ms is finally out! www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Thanks @andrassimon.bsky.social @niche-leigh.bsky.social labs for an amazing collab, and specially Tom Brown for great assembly skills. @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social @crtd-tud.bsky.social @mpicbg.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social

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Chromosome-scale genome assembly reveals how repeat elements shape non-coding RNA landscapes active during newt limb regeneration

Understanding molecular mechanisms behind newts’ exceptional regenerative capability has been limited because of their large, repeat-element-rich genome. Brown et al. present the most complete chromos...

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