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Gökberk Alagöz

@gokberkalagoz.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher at MPI-PL, interested in molecular brain evolution and complex trait genetics.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Somatic mutations and single-nucleus transcriptomics reveal uniquely human properties of neuronal aging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Princeton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We're hiring! PNI is recruiting an assistant professor of neuroscience working with non-human primates in any area. Review begins Oct 19: apply.interfolio.com/192521 #NeuroJobs #Neuroskyence
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Gökberk Alagöz @gokberkalagoz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Really honoured to join @martinowk.bsky.social and @kr-maynard.bsky.social at the LIBD for the next few months! Looking forward to working on this exciting project and learning from such a great group of scientists! And a special thanks to @profsimonfisher.bsky.social for making this all possible!
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Stephan Schiffels @stschiff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you are interested in learning computational population genetics and ancient genomics, I have curated my list of workshops and online tutorials (and will continue to do so) indicating suitability for self-learners and status. You find the list [here](www.stephanschiffels.de/resources.html).
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For the past 30 years, “whole-genome sequencing” has been a misnomer. Today the T2T Consortium publishes a dozen papers heralding a future of truly complete genomes for humans and nearly any vertebrate 👨‍🔬🐒🐦🐀🦒🐎🫏🐹🐟 (sorry, no salamanders): www.cell.com/consortium/t... 🧵[1/15]
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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.com
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Research Associate (Fixed Term)
A Research Associate position is available in the Social Fluids Lab, led by Dr. Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology. The post is funded by a new 3-year international Human Frontier Science Pro...
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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New opportunity: fully funded PhD position within the Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS Investigate experimentally the evolutionary significance of transformative Stone Age techniques in this project on cognitive demands, and explore the probability of their success. Deadline: 15 September 2026.
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What transforms a novice into an expert? Research shows expertise relies on domain-specific knowledge, but a neural account of this transformation has remained fragmentary. Low-dimensional and optimised representations of high-level information in the expert brain🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Overview of questions, analyses, and results.
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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M… I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026
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Wolf Lab @jochenwolflab.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Looking for a postdoc opportunity in evolutionary genetics? Join the Wolf Lab at LMU Munich. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genetics (m/f/x)
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Amélie Beaudet @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Join @palevoprim.bsky.social as part of the #ReVol project (@cnrs.fr & Wits Joint PhD Programme)! Spend 3 years investigating the southern African fossil cercopithecoids to reconstruct past ecology and behavior through skeletal morphology and dental microwear.
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 19/06/2026
📢 Our July issue features a Focus issue on Evolutionary Innovation go.nature.com/4evCAhg Read about it in our Editorial "Genetic origins and constraints of evolutionary innovation": go.nature.com/4eDfHbL
Red cable car moving up icy blue-ringed 'fitness' peaks
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Center for the Human Past (CHP) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
#Opportunity for #MA and #PhDstudents: University of Turku organises an #Erasmus+ #BIP course: Finding a Common Ground: Reducing the Gap between #Linguistics and #Genetics. More info in the flyer. @haam-community.bsky.social
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Matthew Taliaferro @jmtali.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New paper! How do RNAs "know" where to go inside a cell? We dug into the sequence elements that route RNAs to the right place. It turns out that, in mammals, they're surprisingly massive (>200 nt), multipartite, and wonderfully complicated. 🧵
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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Gökberk Alagöz @gokberkalagoz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"While the number of biallelic SNVs alone dwarfs SVs by ~380-450-fold, SVs were 170-260-fold more likely to exhibit high impact effects across species..."
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Outstanding new study tracking the changes in Purkinje neuron dendritic architecture during primate evolution, documenting an increase in dendritic compartmentalization in the human lineage Study by @auroraferrell.bsky.social @neurosilas.bsky.social & colleagues 🧪🧠 #cerebellum
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Cerebellar Purkinje cells change dendritic architecture during primate evolution
Vertebrate evolution has driven adaptive remodeling of brain regions impacted by changing sensorimotor demands. The cerebellum--a hindbrain area mediating associative learning and predictive coding--i...
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Dr Lia Betti @liabetti.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Great postdoc opportunity for folk into morphology, biomechanics and human/primate evolution: pliodis.github.io/opportunitie...
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PDRA Opportunity: Modelling the functional adaptations of the primate masticatory apparatus at VUB
2-year renewable Post-doctoral Fellowship at Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry Research Group, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium to study the functional adaptations of the prima...
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The meritocracy strikes again: 'Overseas students starting at the University of Cambridge this autumn will pay at least £450,000 for a medicine degree as England’s top-ranking universities plan a 29 per cent rise in international undergraduate fees over four years.' www.ft.com/content/36e2...
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The £450,000 degree: how English university fees for overseas students are surging
Top-ranking universities plan a 29% rise in international undergraduate fees
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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships | All Souls College
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Alex Sanchez-Amaro @alex-primate.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Happy to share a short article I wrote for @theconversation.com , where I highlight our recently published EVApeCognition Dataset (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and discuss how it can help advance research into great ape cognition and behaviour theconversation.com/great-apes-w...
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Great apes: what we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research
A database of great ape research promises to unlock deeper understanding of their cognition, intelligence and social behaviour.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...
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How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.
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Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term) in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🚨One week left! Applications for our Postdoctoral Fellows Program will close on 20. May! We offer numerous benefits: ✅ 3-year funded position ✅ Core research funding to cover travel, publishing, and project costs ✅Mentorship from 2+ PoL PIs ..and much more! Apply now: tud.link/y3djda
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
An immunostaining section through a Heliconius brain. Staining and imaging by Dr Max Farnworth.
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The ontogeny of vocal rhythms in a non-human primate. New paper by Lia Laffi & al. with @andrearavignani.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/desc.70189
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The Ontogeny of Vocal Rhythms in a Non‐Human Primate
Rhythm is a fundamental aspect of human behaviour, and musical rhythm provides one of its most elaborate instances. Unlike speech, this rhythmic behaviour is characterized by the production of tempor...
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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🚨Fully funded PhD-position🚨 in our Genotype-Phenotype Evolution in Space (GPS) Lab. Interested in the question on how climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations? Come work with us in Tübingen! uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
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Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 03/05/2026
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪
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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Very good @natneuro.nature.com review by @janetsong.bsky.social M. Greenberg D. Reich & C. Walsh, capturing progress made by genomic approaches to understand the evolution of the human brain 🧪🧬🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Genomic approaches for understanding the evolution of the human brain - Nature Neuroscience
This Review describes how an approach that starts from genetic changes under selection during human evolution and integrates comparative and functional studies can reveal adaptive phenotypes across di...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Comparative lifespan trajectories of brain energy metabolism in human and macaque www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
“An axis in primate brains links molecular profiles to anatomical & functional architecture, offering a precise biological basis for delineating cortical boundaries, elucidating cortical-subcortical relationships, characterizing functional networks, & identifying species specific specializations.”👇🧪
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An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization
The principles organizing cellular diversity and connectivity in primate brains remain elusive. By integrating spatial transcriptomics, magnetic resonance imaging, and retrograde labeling in marmosets, we identified two opposing molecular gradients that ...
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Gökberk Alagöz @gokberkalagoz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"EVApeCognition Dataset, a publicly available resource comprising 262 experimental datasets from 150 scientific publications from the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center (2004–2021) in Leipzig, Germany. Eighty-one apes participated in 150 studies..." -> super cool resource! rdcu.be/fdYpp
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EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition
Scientific Data - EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition
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Evolutionary Cognition Group @evocoggroup.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"Libro de axedrez, an illustrated 13th-century treatise on chess produced for King Alfonso X of Castile, features dozens of depictions of players from Africa, the Middle East and Asia that defy preconceptions of medieval social attitudes." #MedievalSky www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Check mates: analysis of medieval chess sets reveals vision of equality and mutual respect
Far from being a metaphor for racial tension, chess reveals world where people could engage as equals
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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🆕 HAAM Summer School 2026 📅 June 1-5, 2026 📍 Online 💰 Free 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 For Students & ECR 🔓 Applications open until April 13, 2026! 🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/ckqTgQxnEENJ...
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
1/ Apply for an inter-disciplinary postdoc position in Heidelberg with the Health & Life Science Alliance Deadline: **31 March** Project proposals can be self-designed or adapt one of the outlines on the website ("List of project outlines for download") www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...
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HEALTH + LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE | Interinstitutional Postdoc Call |…
Apply for the Alliance Interinstitutional Postdoc Program in health & life sciences. Two-year funded positions with interdisciplinary research support.
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Natural History Museum. Apply for Principal Researcher in Human Evolution jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Principal Researcher in Human Evolution:South Kensington
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Gökberk Alagöz @gokberkalagoz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
In @eLife.bsky.social: Identification and comparison of orthologous cell types from primate embryoid bodies shows limits of marker gene transferability doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Identification and comparison of orthologous cell types from primate embryoid bodies shows limits of marker gene transferability
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Torben Heick Jensen @heick.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Postdoc positions available in my lab in Aarhus, Denmark on 'Mammalian Nuclear RNA Production and Turnover Systems'. Please get in touch for further information or simply apply here: mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...
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Postdoc positions in Nuclear RNA Biology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - RNA Biology and Innovation, Aarhus University
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Jenny Tung @jennytung.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
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Professorship in population genetics in the field of evolutionary anthropology and medicine (W2)
Faculties & Facilities
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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data: Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Research engineer - Uppsala University
Research engineer, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
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Evgenii Protasov @evgenii-protasov.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
On the nature of the earliest known lifeforms #evolution #microbiology @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Gökberk Alagöz @gokberkalagoz.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Neuroscience has a species problem
If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.
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Gökberk Alagöz @gokberkalagoz.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What is a trait? Lessons from the human chin - Meneganzin - 2024 - Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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What is a trait? Lessons from the human chin
The human chin is used to illustrate the problem of trait individuation and to define an approach to address it.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 21/02/2026
Evolutionary causes and consequences of gene duplication www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬💻🧪 (🔓 rdcu.be/e4CYK)
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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
New postdoctoral opportunity @lieberinstitute.bsky.social working w/ @tsawada1.bsky.social and our Molecular Neurogenetics team using human induced pluripotent stem cells to investigate molecular, cellular and neuroendocrine mechanisms by which impaired placental function impacts brain development
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Comparing the size of the amygdala and the hippocampus across 12 species of macaques in relation to social tolerance. buff.ly/d2hDHA8
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Benjamin Vernot @benvernot.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Are you interested in human DNA from ancient sediments? Do you want to do a PhD in Vienna? We have two open positions in our group! You can learn more and apply here (scroll down to the very bottom, ours are the last two listings): careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...
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Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution
The Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution is dedicated to educating students to advance our understanding of the ecology and evolution of extant and ancestral organisms, populations, and communities. In Ecology, the focus is on uncovering the mechanistic and evolutionary drivers of patterns and processes across biological scales, from gene regulation to ecosystem structure and function, including the role of communities in biogeochemical cycles and their adaptive responses to environmental change. In Evolution, we investigate the processes shaping changes in organization and dynamics of organisms, populations, and species at molecular, developmental, morphological, and physiological levels.
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Fernando Garcia-Moreno @phylobrain.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘄? Because many of the biggest open questions in neuroscience still revolve around the cerebral cortex — how it emerged, expanded, diversified, and why it differs so much across species. #CorticalEvolution2026
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Claudio Cantù @claudiocantu81.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Join the PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics🧬 🇸🇪 www.trippus.net/summerschool... and learn data integration -Single-cell multiome -ATAC-seq+3Dgenomics -Non-coding variants+Transcription Factors -Large-scale epigenomics -Spatial @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social @remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
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Summer School 2026
Come to this beautiful Swedish inland scenario to learn the most advanced technologies to study transcriptional regulation.
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