Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Very sad to see the success of the AFD in the election in Sachsen-Anhalt. Such a hateful party should not be in government. ✊ 010
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Jeremias Brand (@brandgefahr.bsky.social), Christopher Laumer (@tendersombrero.bsky.social), Ignacio Tenaguillo-Arriola, and Ulf Jondelius shared the latest in flatworm genomics for our second session of day three at ISFB XVI. 011
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Jacob Wood @jacob-wood.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Calma glaucoides and Gargamella rosi nudibranchs at Wembury Point today with @beardybirder.bsky.social 1345
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Camille Cornet @camillecornet.bsky.social · 18/06/2026🧬🦋 New preprint out! 🦋🧬 What mechanisms underlie large-scale chromosomal rearrangements? Why do rearrangement rates vary so massively across taxa? We explored these questions in Erebia butterflies, a genus with extraordinary chromosome number diversity, from 7 to 52! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 12812
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2026🚨 Postdoc Opportunity as part of DFG Research Training Group "GönomiX" at the University of Göttingen! We are seeking a bioinformatician/scientist to study cross-species comparison of Gene Regulatory Networks using our "Göttingen Zoo" of emerging model systems. #GoenomiX @bucherlab.bsky.social 11113
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱André Marques @amarques.bsky.social · 21/01/2026📢 Three new #bioRxiv preprints from our team on holocentric chromosomes. Together, they connect centromere repeat evolution, karyotype dynamics, and meiotic recombination outcomes, revealing how holocentric genomes evolve and function. 🧬👇 46036
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Couldn’t sleep last night so I designed a white lined Dirona beanie and stayed up til it was finished and out of the wash. #nudibranch 🦑🐙🐡 612922
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵) 715294709899
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Maren Wellenreuther @marenwellenreuther.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Size matters—but maybe not how we thought. Most chromosomal inversions are just a few hundred bp. Ignoring these “small players” could mean we’ve misunderstood how genomes evolve -out in TREE authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljL1cZ3X3... 02410
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 26/08/2025I'm currently in a sea of moving cartons getting ready to move on from Göttingen back to Switzerland. Super excited, but it's also frustrating that science requires moving so often... Also why do I have so much stuff? 😬 030
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Lund University is seeking a postdoc/researcher for an ERC project on gene expression in hybrid Italian sparrows. One-year position with potential extension. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8333… #postdoclu.varbi.comResearcher in hybridization induced changes to gene expressionResearcher in hybridization induced changes to gene expression 0714
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 23/08/2025On my way home from #ESEB25 it was inspiring to see that evolutionary biology research is alive and well! So many new ideas and insights. Thank you to @tonigabaldon.bsky.social @sesbe-org.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social and all the volunteers for making this possible! 060
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Yi-Jyun Luo @yjluo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study led by @tomlewin.bsky.social now out in Genome Biology @bmc.springernature.com! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians. doi.org/10.1186/s130...doi.orgConservation of bilaterian genome structure is the exception, not the rule - Genome BiologySpecies from diverse animal lineages have conserved groups of orthologous genes together on the same chromosome for over half a billion years since the last common ancestor of bilaterians. Although no... 69543
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Amazing evolutionary biology outreach at the Fiestas de Gràcia in Barcelona. @rawwiberg.bsky.social explained that not everything we assume about sex is a given and that we can learn a lot from the exceptions. #ESEB25 0113
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Henry North @henrylnorth.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Surely one of the all-time best conference outreach activities: an evolution-inspired decorated street for Les Festes de Gràcia #ESEB2025 03112
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 16/08/2025In preparation for #ESEB25 I visited the sampling site in Barcelona where the workhorse strain of the planarian research community originates. I’ve spent the last 5 years trying to understand how asexuality evolved in Schmidtea mediterranea—see my talk in session S28.02 to hear all the results! 1160
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora. These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿 451534473
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Christian Rellstab @christian-rellstab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Find here my announcement for a 2-year post-doc position in ecological genomics of white oaks in the framework of the Horizon project OptFORESTS. I am looking for somebody with strong skills in bioinformatics, landscape genomics, forest genomics, GWAS, and population genetic simulations.apply.refline.chPost-Doc in Ecological Genomics 80-100% (f/m/d)The Research Unit Biodiversity and Conservation Biology studies the diversity of life in its various forms, from genetic diversity to the diversity of species and ecosystems as well as their interacti... 01811
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Kelley Harris @kelleyharris.bsky.social · 21/05/2025. @pnas.org just published the final version of our manuscript on how generation time and effective population size interact to shape vertebrate germline mutation rates, led by Luke Zhu and Annabel Beichman: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings 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... 18132
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Really excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost. 15628
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Chris Laumer @tendersombrero.bsky.social · 01/04/2025It's official - I'm organizing a field taxonomy workshop on freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna! 27 August-11 Sept, in the Lake District. We have 13 experts covering all major taxa, advanced microscopy, DNA taxonomy, sci-com, publishing. RT! Send your best! www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...nhm.ac.ukField workshop on the taxonomy and natural history of freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna | Natural History Museum 0107
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025🌍 4 year, fully funded PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Basel! 🌿 Explore flatworm speciation in the African Great Lakes! ✔️ Fieldwork in Zambia & Tanzania ✔️ Training in phylogenetics, molecular ecology, evolutionary biology & stable isotope analysis 📅 Deadline: May 31, 2025 142
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Chris Laumer @tendersombrero.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Taking the pulse of meiofauna research in 2025. My biggest take-home message as the head of one panel: evolutionary genomics is not (yet) anywhere near reaching its potential in this field, partly because of a lack of visibility/interdisciplinary education. www.nature.com/articles/s42...nature.comFundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature - Communications BiologyThis paper identifies the top-50 priority questions for meiofaunal research, highlighting their critical roles in biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity. It calls for a balanced research agenda, inter... 0106
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Bugz n Slugz @moistmacro.bsky.social · 09/02/2025A lot of folks associate #Nudibranchs with spectacular colours - but there are many that have evolved to just blend into the background of sponges and weeds. This undescribed Thordisa is a case in point that looks like a fluffy weed. #SeaSlugs #MarineLife #Invertebrates #Macro 2868
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025A close-up view of individual coral polyps! 🐙 170
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The first time I saw these algae in a sample I could not believe my eyes. Their movement is so smooth and coordinated! 120
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Roman Ulm @romanulm.bsky.social · 23/01/2025POSTDOC POSITION AVAILABLE, Geneva, Switzerland - Applications are invited for a postdoc position to study UV-B perception and signalling in plants. Please apply, forward to suitable candidates, and/or repost; many thanks! Deadline February 24, 2025. See www.ulm-lab.ch for more information. 04452
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Bugz n Slugz @moistmacro.bsky.social · 23/01/2025So this little #SeaSlug is a type of sap sucker in the genus Costasiella. These are not technically #Nudibranch and belong in the super order of #Sacoglossa. They perform kleptoplasty where they steal chloroplasts from their Avrainvillea algae host and utilise them for photosynthesis #🦑 #🦐 #📷 931573
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Giant clams are fascinating. Not only do they have beautiful colors, but they actually have eyes! The numerous black dots on their mantle are individual eyes, each with lenses capable of forming images. 🐙 4194
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Jennifer M Polinski @jmpolinski.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Happy #MolluscMonday 🐌 Red-finger aeolis nudibranch (Flabellina verrucosa) under the UNH Pier in New Castle NH in April 2024 #macrophotography #scuba #marinelife 1456
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I hope you had a better Monday than this grumpy looking scorpion fish! ☺️🫠🦑 0141
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Dr. Drew harvell @drewharvell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025A few of my favorite tidepool shots of 2024 from San Juan Island and Monterey, better late than never for #invertefest! #marinelife #tidepool #invert #nudibranch #seastar 3437
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Bugz n Slugz @moistmacro.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Here is a nice little mollusc for today. Amphioctopus marginatus that most divers refer to as the Coconut Octopus due to its habit of using empty coconut shells to provide itself with a protective shell. #🦑 #🦐 #Octopus #UnderwaterPhotography 09312
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Gabriel Jensen @shallowseasgallery.com · 02/01/2025For my #newyearnewnudi contribution here is Plocamopherus lucayensis. Fun fact these guys will blink with (very weak) bioluminescence if I disturb their bryozoans home. #nudibranch #marinelife #underwater #🦑 0256
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Top down view of a long-arm cleaner shrimp (Ancylomenes longicarpus). 🦑 181
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Remy Mac™️ 🤿📸🪸 @remymac.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Words can't express how jealous I am of Bubble Coral shrimp. Imagine THAT being your home. It'd be like living in a beautiful house made of silk baloons. 🌊🦑🦐 1478
Jeremias N Brand 🪱 @brandgefahr.bsky.social · 01/01/2025 To start the new year a long-arm cleaner shrimp (Ancylomenes longicarpus) I saw on our recent trip to the Red Sea. #addOcean 2140
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 30/12/2024🪼 For #MolluscMonday, a glimpse into the fantastic world of Alexander Semenov, who captures marine invertebrates like no one else 💙 🦑 📷 🌊 15610
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 27/12/2024The blue splotches in the last image are called concrements. They don't look like much in that transmitted light image, but with light from above they are iridescent. 151
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Just beautiful little animals. 0123
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Finally organizing some images from my zoology course. Here's the anterior end of a convolutrid acoel flatworm, with symbiotic algae living in its tissues. Acoels are sister to Deuterostomes + Protostomes: they ancestrally lack a through gut and nephridia. Heterochaerus sp., probably. #InverteFest 1152
Reposted by Jeremias N Brand 🪱Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 26/02/2024The Metaphor of Godzilla existentialcomics.com/comic/539 48714