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Rick Fandino, PhD (He/Him/él)

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Olfaction | Functional Genomics and Systems Biology in Lepidoptera | evodevo | epigenomics | development | ADHD | 1stGEN | #diversityinSTEM #latinxinSTEM #LGBTQ+inSTEM

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🦟 Pestered by mosquitoes? Fear not—grapefruit might hold the key! 🍊In our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, led by Merybeth Triana and Felipe Andreazza, we explore how nootkatone, a compound derived from grapefruit, affects mosquitoes. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Yosef (Yossi) Buganim @yossibuganim.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n) Ever wonder how transcription factors locate, "invade," and activate their enhancers during cell fate acquisition? 🧬🚀 Check out our latest collaborative work with the Soufi lab, now published in @Nature
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Nucleosome fibre topology guides transcription factor binding to enhancers - Nature
Motif grammar on nucleosome fibres acts as signpost elements, directing TF combinatorial binding to enhancers.
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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Check out new research by @lucalivraghi.bsky.social. I painted watercolor illustrations of Speyeria mormonia to show the differences in the silver coloration for use in their figures. Thank you @evolvwing.bsky.social and Luca for giving me the chance to paint some cool butterflies! #sciart
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Luca Livraghi @lucalivraghi.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Happy to share this new preprint looking at the genetic basis for a butterfly wing polymorphism. A fun story of genetic parallelism. Thoughts/comments welcome :)
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Chris Jiggins @chrisjiggins.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
As I have a few followers now I figure I could post about some recent papers: @henrylnorth.bsky.social analysed sequence data from @theswordlab.bsky.social for North American Helicoverpa zea - we found just two individuals from 400 with introgressed armigera allele for insecticide resistance
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Rapid Adaptation and Interspecific Introgression in the North American Crop Pest Helicoverpa zea
Abstract. Insect crop pests threaten global food security. This threat is amplified through the spread of nonnative species and through adaptation of nativ
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Tempo and mode of winter diapause evolution in butterflies doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @EvolLetters by Sridhar Halali, Etka Yapar, Christopher W Wheat, Niklas Wahlberg, Karl Gotthard, Nicolas Chazot, Sören Nylin, and Philipp Lehmann
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Tempo and mode of winter diapause evolution in butterflies
Abstract. Quantifying the tempo and mode via modern phylogenetic comparative methods can provide key insights into how selection and constraints shape trai
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Yeah this could be a game-changer for specimen-based color research. Ben Hogan and Cassie Stoddard present a pipeline combining whole-specimen image analysis with reflectance spectrophotometry. The only catch? The setup costs about $55k... 💰 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Most proud of – I failed and failed, and failed again and again, four years of failure learning new methods, doing so many things wrong, using qRT-PCR for things it wasn't intended for, arguing that the cis-regulatory paradigm made no sense but eventually 🧪 🌱🐋 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Adaptive changes in the transcription factor HoxA-11 are essential for the evolution of pregnancy in mammals | PNAS
Evolutionary change in gene regulation can result from changes in cis-regulatory elements, leading to differences in the temporal and spatial expre...
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Andrew Warren @andybugguy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
When lunch consists of some yummy salty sweat from some nasty human's hand... Catagramma pygas thamyras Parque Nacional do Iguazú, Paraná, Brazil
Vibrant yellow butterfly with black stripes and bluish spots, with proboscis fully extended. This is a popular handrail for tourists, and the butterflies just love feeding on the salts from people's hands...
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Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Highly-respected non-profit journals like @dev-journal.bsky.social support scientific communities But after rejection at glam journals, it is tempting to avoid re-review by sliding through commercial ecosystems BUT WAIT! LOOK! “We will consider papers with reviewer reports from other journals” 😍
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Constructive Critics: Development's approach to peer review
We're all familiar with complaints about peer review. Some think it's biased – editors (especially from ‘those’ journals) seem to have too much power to decide what gets published. It can be opaque – ...
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Megan S. Reich @megansreich.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Super stoked to share our latest research on the migratory patterns of painted lady butterflies across the Sahara! 🦋🏜️ www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Trans-Saharan migratory patterns in Vanessa cardui and evidence for a southward leapfrog migration
Chemistry; Nature conservation; Ecology; Entomology
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I just made a $500 donation to iNaturalist for #GivingTuesday because, well, iNaturalist is an incredible incredible resource and tool for the world www.inaturalist.org/donate.
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Donate now to show your support!
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Andrew Warren @andybugguy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Here's another extraordinary gynandromorph, of Pieriballia viardi, from Mexico. The right side is pure male, while the left side is all female except for the white areas, which are male. Full data in alt text.
This extraordinary gynandromorph is from Popotepe, Veracruz, Mexico, 1979. It resides in the collection of the Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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Chris Jiggins @chrisjiggins.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I use this as an introductory example of introgression in my undergrad lectures - mainly because of the clear phenotypes and amazing courtship behaviour. It’s good to see someone has figured out the genetics…
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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
People leaving Twitter for BlueSky like the elves in LOTR sailing west
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a group of people in white robes are standing next to each other in a dark room .
Alt: Elves in Lord of the Rings preparing to leave Middle Earth for the Undying Lands
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Different cellular and molecular mechanisms of chitin deposition contribute to the specificity of the two chitin synthases in D. melanogaster. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Different cellular and molecular mechanisms of chitin deposition contribute to the specificity of the two chitin synthases in D. melanogaster. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626067v1
Chitin is a major component of arthropod extracellular matrices, including the exoskeleton and the m
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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A great write up on the ivory lncRNA story written by Nick VanKuren and Marcus Kronforst. Congrats again to @lucalivraghi.bsky.social and @hwkmthcrspr.bsky.social for this amazing work! www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A lovely commentary on @lucalivraghi.bsky.social and @hwkmthcrspr.bsky.social's recent papers, by VanKuren and Kronforst (bsky-less?). "“Being wrong” has never been a bad thing in science because good scientists cannot let go of those little things that just do not line up" - 🔥🔥🔥
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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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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The evolutionary path of the epithelial sodium channel delta-subunit in Cetartiodactyla points to a role in sodium sensing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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The evolutionary path of the epithelial sodium channel delta-subunit in Cetartiodactyla points to a role in sodium sensing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.18.623996v1
The epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) plays a key role in osmoregulation in tetrapod vertebrates and
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Michael Bok @mikebok.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Pure autofluorescence from the midband crystalline cones in a mantis shrimp eye. The fluorescence comes from mycosporine like amino acid pigments that absorb specific bands of UV light, thus tuning the UV sensitivity of the photoreceptors they focus light into. 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday
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LGBTQ+ Plant Scientist Network @lgbtqplantsci.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We are here! Help us reconnect with any and all allies of the LGBTQ+ community in Plant Science!
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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Our study on the genetic architecture of a sexual mimicry polymorphism, led by graduate student Tris Dodge, is now out at Current Biology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Original thread on the article is here: bsky.app/profile/moll...
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Structural genomic variation and behavioral interactions underpin a balanced sexual mimicry polymorphism
How phenotypic diversity originates and persists within populations are classic puzzles in evolutionary biology. While balanced polymorphisms segregat…
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Local cryptic diversity in salinity adaptation mechanisms in a wild outcrossing Brassica www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Local cryptic diversity in salinity adaptation mechanisms in a wild outcrossing Brassica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.18.590122v1
It is generally assumed that populations of the same species should evolve shared mechanisms of adap
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Unlocking the power of virtual networking for early-career researchers. #ECRs #EDI #DEI elifesciences.org/articles/963...
Virtual networking tips for early-career researchers.
An early-career researcher can use a combination of cold emailing, Twitter/X and LinkedIn to build their scientific network. However, once you have added someone to your network, it is essential that you also make an effort to maintain the relationship.
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Organoids Reveal a Role for WNT Signaling in Dorsal-Ventral Patterning of the Hindgut www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Organoids Reveal a Role for WNT Signaling in Dorsal-Ventral Patterning of the Hindgut https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.04.583343v1
The cloaca is a transient structure that forms in the terminal hindgut giving rise to the rectum dor
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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
pitiful little eyeless isopods. how I adore them
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Something old, something new: the origins of an unusual renal cell underpinning a beetle water-conserving mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Something old, something new: the origins of an unusual renal cell underpinning a beetle water-conserving mechanism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.01.582930v1
Tenebrionid beetles have been highly successful in colonising environments where water is scarce, un
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
Label-free imaging of cellular organization in living mammalian cells via external apodization phase-contrast microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Label-free imaging of cellular organization in living mammalian cells via external apodization phase-contrast microscopy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.01.582671v1
Developing techniques to visualize the dynamics of cellular organization, which impacts the spatiote
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
Identification of microRNAs regulated by E2F transcription factors in human pluripotent stem cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Identification of microRNAs regulated by E2F transcription factors in human pluripotent stem cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.28.582539v1
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), which include embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells (hE
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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
this little butterfly is Sarota acantus, a fingernail-sized work of art found in Central and South America. you can tell this one is a female since she’s walking on all six legs—male metalmarks have a greatly reduced first pair!
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
The aging-induced long non-coding RNA MIRIAL controls endothelial cell and mitochondrial function www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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The aging-induced long non-coding RNA MIRIAL controls endothelial cell and mitochondrial function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.28.582649v1
Background: Vascular aging is characterized by the progressive deterioration of endothelial function
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
The University of Florida has eliminated its diversity, equity and inclusion offices, firing its full-time employees and ending DEI contracts with outside vendors
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UF eliminates diversity, equity and inclusion offices - The Independent Florida Alligator
Service of the University of Florida Community since 1901
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Lavisha Parab @lavishaparab.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
TIL that a worm species ejects the WHOLE BUTT to reproduce! The butt (with sperm or egg) goes on to search for another butt to then form a baby! The butt has its own eyes and antennae! They found out how development occurs in the butt: 🧪 www.popsci.com/environment/...
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Why these sea worms detach their butts to reproduce
Biologists might be closer to solving the mystery behind the Japanese green syllid worm's reproductive behavior.
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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
hi! it’s me I’m back. have a bugs
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
After I wrote a eulogy for science twitter, American Scientist asked me what’s next for online public science engagement. Here’s my piece on the science community on Bluesky Quotes @jay.bsky.team @danirabaiotti.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑 www.americanscientist.org/blog/macrosc...
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The Burgeoning Bluesky Science Community
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Taste evolution in an herbivorous drosophilid www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Taste evolution in an herbivorous drosophilid https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.27.582299v1
Plant secondary metabolites pose a challenge for generalist herbivorous insects because they are not
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Luca Livraghi @lucalivraghi.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
A nice summary on the history of the cortex locus, and the recent preprints detailing the discovery of the ivory lnc-pri-miRNA. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Nice write up in Science Magazine about our ivory lncRNA color patterning preprints! Way to go @hwkmthcrspr.bsky.social, @lucalivraghi.bsky.social, and Tian Shen! www.science.org/content/arti...
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Surprise RNAs solve mystery of how butterfly wings get their colorful patterns
Understudied means of regulating genes likely widespread in butterflies—and perhaps other animals
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Cephalopod Sex Determination and its AncientEvolutionary Origin Revealed by Chromosome-levelAssembly of the California two-spot Octopus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Cephalopod Sex Determination and its AncientEvolutionary Origin Revealed by Chromosome-levelAssembly of the California two-spot Octopus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.21.581452v1
Sex chromosomes are critical elements of sexual reproduction in many animal and plant taxa, however
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Convergent evolution of plant prickles is drivenby repeated gene co-option over deep time www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Convergent evolution of plant prickles is drivenby repeated gene co-option over deep time https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.21.581474v1
An enduring question in evolutionary biology concerns the degree to which episodes of convergent tra
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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
(1/3) Congrats @hwkmthcrspr.bsky.social for his new preprint showing how cis-elements of the ivory lncRNA control pigmentation and seasonal morphs in butterflies. Check out these CRISPR summer/autumn mosaics! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
Gene expression differences associated with intrinsic hindfoot muscle loss in the jerboa, Jaculus jaculus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Gene expression differences associated with intrinsic hindfoot muscle loss in the jerboa, Jaculus jaculus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.20.581295v1
Vertebrate animals that run or jump across sparsely vegetated habitats, such as horses and jerboas,
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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
Someone told you there are only two anteroposterior domains in insect wings? Well, it turns out ol' Snodgrass was right - there are more! Check out our new preprint! #evodevo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 26/07/2023
kids today walk around saying stuff they don't even know came from homestar runner
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 26/07/2023
Place cells in the hippocampus of rats help to store memories of aversive experiences that occur in familiar locations.
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Placing a new memory
Place cells in the hippocampus of rats help to store memories of aversive experiences that occur in familiar locations.
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