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Amartya Tashi Mitra

@binturong98.bsky.social
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Buschbeck Lab PhD candidate | University of Cincinnati | Studying how weird eyes evolve & develop in arthropods 🐛🪲 | Artist | Embryology 2025 | UCL MRes BEC Alumn | NHM London | St Xavier’s Bombay binturong98.github.io/ATM.website

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Science Magazine @science.org · 11h
Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have demonstrated that brief physical contact between healthy and bleached coral can restore algae to the bleached coral, leading to their full recovery. scim.ag/4ilLAZq
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Rapid coral bleaching recovery via symbiont transfer from healthy corals
Coral bleaching, the temperature-induced loss of dinoflagellate symbionts, is a major driver of global coral reef decline. Although corals can regain symbionts through repopulation of residual symbion...
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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
6-month internship to explore (genome-wide) enhancer-promoter interactions in the crustacean Parhyale – Hosted by the Averof and Ghavi-Helm teams at IGFL Lyon – Early 2027 – Student (any level) with some prior experience in mol biol – Stipend 695 €/month
Activity of neuron-specific cis-regulatory elements in Parhyale embryos (Averof lab)Enhancer-promoter interactions in Drosophila embryos (Ghavi-Helm lab)
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Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center @bdsc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
40 years ago today, the BDSC made its 1st shipment. To celebrate, Trudy Kaufman, who packed the 1st shipment, boxed up the same kinds of flies for John Roote at Cambridge, who placed the 1st order. Watch for pics of the arrival next week. We’ve shipped 4,882,378 vials total. That’s a lot of flies!
Trudy Kaufman packing flies to send to John Roote.
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Dr David Hamilton @drdevildave.bsky.social · 22h
An echidna day is always a good day!
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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 17h
#SICB student #journalist Momin Ahmed Khaki, a Ph.D. candidate at Iowa State University, had a chance to chat with Seth Frazer and Todd Oakley about their #opsin research. youtu.be/MIEy79nv5N8?... & subscribe to Momin's YouTube channel as well @M-A-Khaki #science #AI #evolution #biology
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The hidden language of proteins: understanding the evolution of color vision using AI
YouTube video by Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🎉 First work from my lab at Duke University 🦋 Led by @tianshenbio.bsky.social Shen Tian, whose in situs are 😚🤌, with key contributions from @yf-joye-zhou.bsky.social Joye Zhou. Exploring the evolution of the WntA regulatory network in butterfly wing patterning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Genetic circuit rewiring underlies a lineage-specific patterning machinery on butterfly wings
Phenotypes evolve through changes in gene regulatory networks (GRNs), but how changes in network topology contribute to phenotypic evolution is still poorly understood. Butterfly wing color patterns p...
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nikon Small World does the right thing
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Nikon Small World in Motion Video Statement | News | Nikon Small World
An update from Nikon Small World regarding the 2026 Small World in Motion first-place winning video: After thoroughly re-evaluating the video and supporting materials and consulting with members of…
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Large dog breeds die younger. 'Jumping genes' may explain shorter lifespans. www.popsci.com/science/why-... Epigenetic aging & transposon dysregulation reflect size-related lifespan compression in dogs www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (And the 1st author is 'Mariner'!!!)
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Epigenetic aging and transposon dysregulation reflect size-related lifespan compression in dogs
The extraordinary lifespan variation in domestic dogs provides a natural experiment for testing how intrinsic rates of biological aging shape lifespan. Using 1640 methylomes from 894 dogs, we develope...
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The most fun thing ever to randomly see
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
APPLICATIONS OPEN‼️ Apply to the Grass Fellowship by December 1 and gain access to research support including laboratory space, animals, equipment and supplies for one summer at the MBL. Partnered with @grassfoundation.bsky.social 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/grass2026
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Can a comb jelly choose whether to reproduce as a larva or grow up first? 🪼 Our new preprint shows that in Mnemiopsis leidyi, this depends on the density of other comb jellies. A story of surprising developmental plasticity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵 1/4 📸 @beziostudio.bsky.social
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Brendan Lan @brendanlan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Fingers crossed for some love in the air tonight!
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Scientist: That’s the non-coding portion of my CV - we’re not yet sure what all of it does, but we keep discovering new reasons that it’s there.
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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Worms? NO! GIANT BACTERIA Epulopiscium is a type of bacteria that lives in the gut of surgeonfishes. It can grow to 0.6 mm in length and instead of reproducing by dividing into two cells like most bacteria, they actually give birth to live offspring 🧪 www.cell.com/trends/micro...
The life cycle of a Epulopiscium bacteria, showing how it produce and give birth to live offspring
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Most animal species pack sperm DNA with protamines instead of histones. Protamines are essential for male fertility. They are among the fastest-evolving genes in animals. That makes little sense. We think we know why, in a new paper led by @ching-hochang.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rapid protamine evolution suppresses meiotic drive in Drosophila
Many animal species replace histones with protamines during spermatogenesis. Although essential for sperm function, protamines evolve rapidly for reasons that remain unknown. Using in vivo gene replac...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria. 2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae. 3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish. The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists following their curiosity, and this is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Senior men in academia: gender policies undermine meritocracy. Meanwhile, reality:
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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments
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Aaron Griffing @aaronhgriffing.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Autumn appropriate colors on an embryonic gecko hand #GeckoEvoDevo
confocal microscopy of collagen in an embryonic gecko hand (in orange) with a black background
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excited to share my lab’s latest preprint led by postdoc @yukihaba.bsky.social and grad student Ryan Schwark. We surprisingly find that spontaneous behavior in isolation predicts a naked mole-rat’s identity, its colony membership, and even rank within its colony. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Amartya Tashi Mitra @binturong98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MorphoSource made my first publication from my master’s possible! Please donate if you are able 🙏🏽
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Dan Paluh @danpaluh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New preprint from the lab on the the molecular basis of hard cornification in the keratinized mouthparts of tadpoles: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Let's talk about the HALLOWEEN GENES (really). 1979: It was a dark & stormy night⛈️& a scientist (Eric Wieschaus) is laboring over a microscope🔬, observing the dead remains of ... a fruitfly🪰. But not just ANY fruitfly. This was a TWISTED & MUTATED fruitfly with a GHOSTLY, transparent appearance.
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Mad Scientist Working in a Laboratory
Alt: Mad Scientist Working in a Laboratory. A man in a lab coat works on a large cabinet sized device covered in proper dials and levers and blinky lights. We used to be researchers. PROPER researchers.
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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social
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Brendan Lan @brendanlan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
First ever joro spider! So beautiful against the sun with her massive web. An introduced orbweaver from east Asia that's caused some wack news articles. Stuff like "giant flying spider invades the east coast!1!1!1!!". They do balloon but their invasion is not so dramatic.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A parasitic Apocephalus ant-decapitating fly closes in on her target, a Camponotus chromaiodes carpenter ant. Sand Ridge State Forest, Illinois.
Macro photo of a large black and red ant, slightly backlight, standing with antennae raised as a small black and yellow striped fly approaches from the right.
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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To add to all the lovely videos of non-AI processes multicilia beating: ctenophore multiciliated cells! They can reach up to 1mm long, causing a rainbow light refraction effect with the correct light positioning! Taken by myself at MBL in 2019 embryology. Realtime frame-rate!
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ve seen it >100 times, but I’ve never been about to capture it until now. Presumably, it is spawning (but I can’t be positive). But what is the green cloud, and what is the smaller blue squiggly??? #blackwater, #blackwaterdiving #polychaete
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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a fantastic image for #InverteFest because it shows how tragically underrepresented invertebrates are, yet how massively they outnumber vertebrates, which get far more attention. We joke about vertebrate bias, but it's real!
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
More academics should take up embroidery. It can be good to have something socially acceptable to stab over and over during certain meetings. 🪡 🧵 🪲 #academicsky
Embroidery hoop with white fabric being stitched with colorful beetles. Two beetles are finished, one is in progress, and one is outlined but not yet started.
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Antibiotic resistance isn't just a genetic problem; it's ecological. New research from #HHMIInvestigator Harmit Malik & co shows that when a dangerous bacterium shares space w/a common fungus, it can be pushed toward resistance it wouldn't develop alone — but with a built-in weakness bit.ly/4g1jLnZ
Photo of Harmit Malik
Credit: Fred Hutch Cancer Center
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International Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If you have a new preprint or new publication within the field of developmental biology, cell biology, or mechanobiology, we more than welcome you to send them to us via DM to help them get the attention they deserve! We would love to support more ECRs! #devbio #ecr #biology
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Doris Roberts: We Support Each Other
ALT: Doris Roberts: We Support Each Other
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Let's talk about how & why crocodilians swim so effortlessly. Note the body posture here: legs tucked to the side, full-body undulations, tail doing most of the work. They're ambush predators that may only eat every 3-10 days (in adults), so retaining the element of surprise is essential.
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...
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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I try to remind myself and my students every day that millions of people far smarter than most of us have lived and died in anonymity for want of opportunity. And humanity is the poorer for it. Those of us provided with opportunities have a responsibility not to squander them
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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Be sure to check out what some of our amazing followers are up to! Thanks @sciwithmiy.bsky.social @stephlechki.bsky.social @johanajnabi.com & @shubhamtr.bsky.social for being part of our bsky community!
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Amartya Tashi Mitra @binturong98.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Congratulations Johnny 🥳
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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very happy to announce that my first paper is officially out in Evolution & Development. In this article, we showed that species from two major annelid clades with similar fate maps have conserved mechanisms of specification of their central nervous system. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Patterns of Autonomous and Conditional Neural Specification for the Brain and Ventral Nerve Cord in Annelida
Diagrams of blastomere isolations in Capitella teleta and Platynereis dumerilii showing autonomous head neural tissue (from 1q) and trunk neural tissue (from 2d) as well as a decoupling of D–V axis f...
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Amartya Tashi Mitra @binturong98.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Such an elegant demonstration of subfunctionalisation
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Amartya Tashi Mitra @binturong98.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Plants never cease to amaze!
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Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Incredible mimicry under a mango tree: Pseudomyrmex sp ant (top) and a Synemosyna sp jumping spider (bottom). Both Synemosyna males found on this trip lacked (antennae mimicking!) front legs - yet they were no less ant-like!
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Genetics UB @geneticsub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New #preprint from @isabelalmudi.bsky.social group @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu out now @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on the evolutionary novelty of mayfly turbanate eyes 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Neha Agrawal @nehaagrawal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
(1/4) How is the timing of cell death regulated? We have developed a #liveimaging system to follow the dynamic cell death of #Drosophila hepatocyte-like cells (oenocytes) in intact pupae throughout metamorphosis. Watch some beautiful videos from our #preprint in this thread! #DevBio #CellDeath
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Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What happens when evolution adds an extra pair of eyes? Male mayflies evolve an extra pair of dorsal compound eyes, the Turbanate eyes, thought to help males detect females during mating swarms. we have investigate how this remarkable evolutionary novelty develops. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
How about a gall fly (Eurosta species?) who seems to be a jumping spider mimic, with a set of large false "eyes" on the back of the thorax?👀 Very fierce (from the back), perpetually blowing raspberries on the front side. 🌿🪰🧪 11/10/23. N. Florida (if anyone can ID it)
Back view of a chonky brown fly with "tiger stripe" wings held out to the side and vertical; on the back of the thorax there are 4 "eyes" in a jumping spider configuration, °OO°.Face of the creature, with silly kissy "lips" on a white face with large subtly iridescent compound eyesTop view, wings swept backView of the creature as I found them, on a blade of wiregrass
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Tom Collett’s new book “Insects and How They Navigate Their World” is out and seemingly the pdf is free 👀 (for me anyway) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Insects and How They Navigate Their World
Discover how insects navigate using vision, memory and cues from nature. A clear, engaging look at ants, bees, and the remarkable abilities of tiny brains.
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vikkiweake.bsky.social @vikkiweake.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I'm excited to share a new paper from our lab showing how redox regulation of Ahcy, an enzyme involved in one-carbon metabolism allows rapid gene expression changes to protect Drosophila photoreceptors against retinal degeneration caused by light stress. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Cris Niell @crisniell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Very happy to share our new review on visual computation in the cephalopod brain, with @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social, out now! We discuss exciting recent advances in understanding how the radically different brain of cephalopods processes the visual scene. 🐙🔬👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Eleanor K. Tinsley @ektinsley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Finally back home today after a fantastic few weeks in Europe presenting my PhD research at #ECCB2026 and #ISBE2026! Had an absolute blast and met some incredible scientists working on a broad range of subjects. Huge thanks to the organisers @eccb26leiden.bsky.social and @isbe2026.bsky.social!
El finishing her talk at ECCB2026 in Leiden, Netherlands.ECCB2026 venue at the University of Leiden.El starting her talk at ISBE2026 in Torino, Italy.ISBE2026 lighting up the Mole in Torino, framed by the Alps.
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