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Himmat Singh Bakshi

@himmatbakshi.bsky.social
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PhD @ Annunziata Lab | Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn EvoDevo | Echinoderms (just cucumbers for now...) EuroMarine OYSTER member | Indian from Sri Lanka in Italy

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monteirolab.bsky.social @monteirolab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Looking for a PhD student to help uncover whether our arms and legs, and those of insects, share the same core gene-regulatory network. If interested, please contact antonia.monteiro@nus.edu.sg. Graduate Program application deadline is 15 Nov 2026 (www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/education/gr...)
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EuroMarine OYSTER @em-oyster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🌍 OYSTER celebrates Global Diversity Awareness Month Our OYSTER members come from different countries, cultures, backgrounds, and scientific disciplines. This month we celebrate the richness of our international community. #OYSTER #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth
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EuroMarine OYSTER @em-oyster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey #ECRs! Are you looking for a #job? Check out the #marine #science opportunities below! 👇
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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not all projects have crystal moments when you know you succeeded or discovered something. This project had many low lows, but at its height, we (...I) burst into tears of joy. Thanks to Science for covering this story: www.science.org/content/arti... Now onto the brain...
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Scientists engineered a glowing cuttlefish. Why was it so hard?
Breakthroughs in genetically altering cephalopods pave way for new studies of perception, brain evolution, and more
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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.
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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The second Epigenetics for Wildlife Research Workshop 🧬🐻🐟 is going strong, thanks a ton Cloé Nater from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social to once more reunite the dream team in CNR Rome, and NKV for funding! Exciting paper to follow in a few months... 👀 @go70north.bsky.social
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share
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EuroMarine OYSTER @em-oyster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is a pleasure to support and celebrate the work of Early Career Researchers through OYSTER conference prizes. 🌊🏆 Today, we are sharing the impact of these awards on researchers’ motivation, confidence, and career paths. 🎓 Diego Alcalde - Best Poster Award, Blue Think Conference in Faro (Topic 3)
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Enrico D’Aniello @enricodanielloszn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As a member of the Scientific Committee, it is my great pleasure to announce that the Fourth International Symposium on Epigenetics in Marine and Aquatic Research (EPIMAR 2027) will take place in Puerto Varas, Chile, from May 25 to 28, 2027. epimar2027.cl
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Epimar 2027 | Global Symposium on Marine Epigenetics
EPIMAR 2027 brings together leading scientists in Puerto Varas, Chile, to discuss breakthroughs in marine epigenetics and aquatic research.
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Kaiser Lab @clocksevolution.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our lab is part of the #Marine #Chronobiology #Network = #MACHRO ! ⏰🌊🌿🪱🦟 And MACHRO is now on #Bsky as well @marine-chronobio.bsky.social - please have a look below, follow and share if you like! #circadian #tidal #lunar #annual #rhythm #MarineEcology #MarineLife #algae #worms #insect #clock
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EuroMarine OYSTER @em-oyster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📢 Job Thread Alert 🚨 Check out below 👇opportunities in marine science!
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EvoBio Crash Course @evobiocc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You can find the registration link and course information, as well as other opportunities, in your webpage evobiocrashcourse.github.io
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Evolutionary Biology Crash Course
Evolutionary Biology Crash Course
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EvoBio Crash Course @evobiocc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Evobio Crash Course is coming back for its fifth edition! Join us from December 7 to December 18 for an incredible line up of classes and tutorials from amazing researchers in the field! The course is open to all, completely free and held online. Registration is OPEN, please share widely!
Poster for the Evobio Crash Course. Online from December 7-18, 2026.
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Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) @crg.eu · 21/09/2026
The CRG's 2027 PhD call is now open! We have multiple, fully-funded positions across fifteen different research groups. Successful candidates will spend four years pursuing cutting-edge questions at our labs in Barcelona. Deadline is 22 November. www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
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ZooCELL MSCA-Doctoral Network @zoocell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔬 Meet Marie, ZooCELL Doctoral Candidate at UCL! @mariemaeland.bsky.social From cell biology to exploring the evolution of sensory cells, Marie combines advanced imaging and single-cell approaches to uncover the cellular architecture of a tiny flatworm larva. Read on to meet Marie! 🧵👇
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Stefan Schoenfelder @stefanschoenfelder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The number of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications in 2026 (21,627) has more than doubled since 2024 (10,360 proposals) and more than tripled since 2022 (7,044). Stating the obvious here but this is not sustainable.
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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Winners from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology cover competition Congratulations to Natália Heloísa de Oliveira, Fernanda Salce, and @federicasalatiello.bsky.social, for their image, Amphipod, which received the most votes! thenode.biologists.com/winners-from...
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Winners from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology cover competition - the Node
We find out more about the winners of the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology cover competition.
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Issue 17 is now complete! Cover: A female Paryhale stained with phalloidin & DAPI, imaged by Natália Heloísa de Oliveira, Fernanda Salce & @federicasalatiello.bsky.social, at the 2025 @devbioquintay.bsky.social, winning the Node image competition. thenode.biologists.com/winners-from...
Cover: A wild, female Paryhale specimen stained with phalloidin and DAPI and then imaged by light-sheet microscopy and processed using Zen software at the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology. Students from the course collected the specimen in Quintay Bay, Chile. Natália Heloísa de Oliveira, Fernanda Salce and Federica Salatiello captured the image, which won an image competition on the Node.
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Fernando Garcia-Moreno @phylobrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The cerebral cortex that is reading this sentence (yours, to be explicit) did not come out of nowhere. It has evolved over hundreds of millions of years... To study this evolutionary process, we decided to focus on non-avian reptiles for our new paper in Cerebral Cortex 🐢🦎🧠 🧵
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Frank Melzner @frankmelzner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our lab is hiring a long-term Postdoc in marine animal physiology (5 years). Great chance to work with us phenotyping mussels & to develop your own research program on questions of choice. Excellent lab and aquaristics facilities and easy access to European seas: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...
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Postdoc marine evolutionary physiology (University Assistant)
Postdoc marine evolutionary physiology (University Assistant)
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Highly recommend this! YEN is one of the best initiatives for ECRs in #devbio #evodevo #embryology 🐣 You'll gain valuable experience in an inclusive and diverse setting (and you might even get free swag, if you are lucky or corrupt... We don't judge!) 😊
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EuroMarine OYSTER @em-oyster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New episode of Young Researchers in the Spotlight! We chat with science communicator Maria Teixeira Pinto @mariatpinto.bsky.social about storytelling, social media, AI & building a presence online. 🌊🔬 Listen here 👉https://open.spotify.com/episode/5bGxuLslR1BawGhEXDipsn?si=Q51VGr9dRsqGVnJcTYy9FQ
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔬🧪 We're hiring postdocs&engineers at Institut de la Vision in AMAZING Paris 🇫🇷!! Join a dynamic team working at the nexus of retina developmental biology, spatial omics & advanced imaging Ambitious science in a supportive & young inclusive team 🚀 DM me for more info & please share 🙏 #academicsky
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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
1/2 Our #GoenomiX team is growing. 🥳 Welcome, @johnnyds.bsky.social! 🔬 Research: Metazoan evolution, regulation of gene expression 🔭 Looking forward to: Testing evolutionary hypotheses cross-phyla!
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What happens when comb jellies meet live music? 🪼🎶 At UiB Innovation Day on Sep 21st, ctenophores will move, shimmer & “perform” while musicians respond live. I’ll open with a glimpse of their biology - and what it might inspire. In Bergen? Come and join us! www4.uib.no/en/events/ui...
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EuroMarine OYSTER @em-oyster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🌊During the 59th European Marine Biology Symposium in Peniche (PT) OYSTER supported two conference prizes! Congratulations to: 🎓Catarina Faustino-Best oral presentation 🎓Cláudia Inês Ferreira-Best poster We are proud to support emerging marine scientists and their contributions to ocean research💙
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EuroMarine OYSTER @em-oyster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📢 Job Thread Alert 🚨 Check out below new Postdoc and PhD opportunities in marine science!🌊🦑👇
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ZooCELL MSCA-Doctoral Network @zoocell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔬 Meet Max Telford, PI of the ZooCELL team at UCL! @maxjtelford.bsky.social From natural history and marine life to reconstructing events from half a billion years ago, get to know Max, his research and his passion for sharing evolutionary biology beyond academia. 🧵👇
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EuroMarine OYSTER @em-oyster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We had a great time representing OYSTER at ICYMARE 2026 last week! Wonderful to see so many inspired #ECRs in #marine #science connect & discuss their research. Congrats to our presentation winners, Thilo Appeldorn & Maximilian Schrade! 🥳
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Common Tern Project @commonternproject.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The story of @gullbilledterns-de.bsky.social's L49 on the Rare Bird Alert website: www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/G...
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GPS-tagged Gull-billed Tern suspected shot dead in France
A GPS-tagged Gull-billed Tern from Germany's last Central European breeding colony has been found dead in France, with preliminary evidence suggesting it was shot.
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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Exciting to see our new paper about the overlooked #conservation values of #saline #lakes published in @natcomms.nature.com Check it out: rdcu.be/DwNCmA6WrVJa.
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A. Sánchez Alvarado @planaria1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
1/11 Our newest study asks how far cellular reprogramming extends in the ordinary course of animal life. Metamorphosis offers the test of maximal severity: the wholesale conversion of one body plan into another. Out now in Nature Communications. nature.com/articles/s41467-026-77191-y
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George Matsumoto @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @mbarinews.bsky.social invites applications for in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. Deadline to apply is 5pm PT on December 2, 2026. www.mbari.org/about/career...
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Postdoc Fellowships • MBARI
Each year, MBARI invites applications for several in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. MBARI also...
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Christopher B. Cameron @invertevo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Single-cell transcriptomes of acorn worms show that larval & adult body plans are composed of distinct cell types. Larval & adult cells evolve quasi-independently! @paulbump.bsky.social @laurentformery.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social @planaria1.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Distinct cell states define larval and adult body plans in a hemichordate - Nature Communications
Here they use scRNA-seq to show that, in the hemichordate Schizocardium californicum, ectoderm and endoderm shift transcriptional identity from larva to adult while mesoderm is transcriptionally conserved, making life stage a major axis of cellular state.
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Common Tern Project @commonternproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Bluesky-friends, I am back to ask another favour. Gull-billed tern chick H36 has died close to Parque Nacional de Doñana. It seems to be on a small island in the Caño de Guadiamar: maps.app.goo.gl/Z195ha4z9zYY...
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genikhovich.bsky.social @genikhovich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Distinct cell states define larval and adult body plans in a hemichordate - Nature Communications
Here they use scRNA-seq to show that, in the hemichordate Schizocardium californicum, ectoderm and endoderm shift transcriptional identity from larva to adult while mesoderm is transcriptionally conse...
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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1/2 And here we go, a new member of our #GoenomiX team. 🥳 Welcome, @sassaf.bsky.social! 🔬 Research: Evo-devo, high resolution imaging, transgenic and genome editing approaches 🔭 Looking forward to: Learn how to integrate data into a 3D virtual model
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Alberto Perez-Posada @apposada.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
3 weeks left to apply! Are you an Undergrad/MSc student? Interested in bioinformatics, single cell analyses, evolution, and developmental biology? Looking for a potential research project? We are offering one fellowship for such an intership at CRG! Apply at: www.crg.eu/en/content/t... RT/share!
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reminder I am hiring a postdoc and PhD student. Thanks to all the applications I already received 🙏 If you know anyone particularly with single cell expertise for the postdoc position, please let me know!
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ZooCELL MSCA-Doctoral Network @zoocell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🧬 The ZooCELL team series is back! 🇬🇧 Meet our Recruiting Associated Partner, UCL! Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, UCL is a leading multidisciplinary university, bringing together a diverse community of staff and students from around the world. Want to know more? 🧵👇
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BIOM @biom-banyuls.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🔬 New publication from BIOM in Science Advances! How did the vertebrate kidney evolve? Comparing catshark, lamprey & amphioxus embryos, Sylvie Mazan's team & collaborators show the primitive kidney arises from a somitic compartment. 👏 Congrats to all authors! 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am advertising a 3 year postdoc position. This person is going to focus on cell type development and evolution across key integration centres of the insect brain in four insect species. See details in the ad.
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am also advertising a 4 year (!) PhD student position. The PhD student will design developmental brain atlases and help establish comparative projectomics in key cell groups of the central complex and mushroom bodies. See details in the ad.
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Mainz University @mainzuniversity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Why not every ant helps: Recent study of #MainzUniversity shows that rescue behavior in ants is linked to differences in gene activity in the nervous system 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/why-not-every… #Biology
The photo shows how a worker ant of the species Cataglyphis niger attempts to free a restrained nestmate during a behavioral test. (photo/©: Susanne Foitzik)
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International Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you're an #ECR or know someone who has recently published a paper/preprint/manuscript in the field of #devbio, #cellbio, #compbio, #mechanobiology, #evodevo, and would want to get the words out there, our DM is always open 🥰! We think all #ECRs deserve the recognition for their hard work.
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BIOM @biom-banyuls.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📸 L’équipe Évolution & Développement des Chordés, dirigée par Stephanie Bertrand et @hector-escriva.bsky.social, est à l’honneur dans ce reportage photo réalisé par Alain Tendero et CNRS Occitanie Est. Une belle occasion de rentrer dans les coulisses de la recherche menée au BIOM. lnkd.in/eZZjRM_f
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Laurent Formery @laurentformery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fantastic news!!! My project ECHINODEV has been awarded an ERC starting grant 🥳🥳⭐ We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution! Reach out if you are interested, we will be looking for PhD students and postdocs 😀
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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Choanoflagellates reorganize their global cytoskeletal architecture within seconds to explore confined microspaces. This is the main PhD work of the amazing @maitefreired.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A tread 🧵⬇️
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Rapid repurposing of microvillar content drives a flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest relative of animals
Animal cells extensively remodel their cytoskeleton during differentiation and can notably switch between two major motility modes: flagellum-based swimming and actin-based crawling. We previously sho...
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Common Tern Project @commonternproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New paper alert: making use of 40 years of measurements of POPs and mercury in eggs of oystercatchers and terns breeding in the Wadden Sea, we investigated whether pollutant levels differed between the two species and 17 sampling locations, and how they changed over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
RESEARCH ARTICLE These Boots Are Made for Walking: Sex‐Specific Physiological and Metabolomic Strategies Reflect Male‐Skewed Vulnerability to Ocean Warming in a Keystone Amphipod 🔗 buff.ly/FrPNkDA
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