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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 23/10/2026

Call for a group leader in Evolutionary Biology The IGFL @igflyon.bsky.social in Lyon, France, is recruiting a group leader in Evolutionary Biology. An exciting place for exploring the interfaces of evolution with physiology and development. #EvolBiol #ecoevo #evodevo tinyurl.com/evolbiol

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

P. K. G. Williams, in “AI and The Enclosure of the Scientific Commons”: «Many observers, then and now, judge enclosure to have been theft at a societal scale. This article argues that artificial intelligence (AI) provides precisely the tools needed to enable a previously-infeasible enclosure of […]

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Universität Innsbruck @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Mastodon für alle Studierenden: Die Uni Innsbruck eröffnet eine zweite Instanz für alle Studentinnen und Studenten. Nach den Mitarbeiter:innen haben damit nun alle Uniangehörigen Zugang zum Fediverse über lokale Instanzen, angebunden an das Uni-Anmeldesystem via Single-Sign-On. 🙌 […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Here is our new collaborative paper on the origin of cholinergic and monoaminergic signaling. The data suggest that biogenic amine signaling is thus not a bilaterian innovation but an ancient mode of cellular communication that evolved from generalist to […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Main biosynthetic pathways of biogenic amines and their evolution. Diagram showing key steps of the main pathways for the production of biogenic amines. The main enzymes that catalyze each reaction are shown, as well as, alternative
enzymes that may promiscuously catalyze the same reaction.

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Further update: Today at 5pm BST (12pm EDT, 6pm CEST) live panel on Nikon Small World and AI: Where Should Scientific Imaging Draw the Line?. Peter O’Toole will chair a discussion with Simon Cleary, Florian Jug and Pleasantine Mill on where we draw the line between image enhancement and […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Pavel Tomancak on the past present and future of Fiji in our @ZooCELL graduate school in Paris. He warns about chaos and the fragmentation of research #software, on how #AI and the proliferation of vibe-coded tools is undoing over a decade of work of […] [Original post on biologists.social]

schematic of the plethora of new tools and bespoke analyses, fundamentally changing the landscape of scientific software.

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Update from Pleasantine Mill: This afternoon Nikon announced that, after re-evaluating this year's Small World in Motion winning video with its judging panel, the video "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI". Nikon has adjusted the rankings and committed to […]

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Please enjoy this new offering from the lab: we discover that #excavates - ancient flagellate lineages with a voracious appetite for bacteria - change their behaviour depending on the availability of said prey! Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #protistsonsky

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Deep insights on #evolution , #development and #neuroscience from the larvae of marine invertebrates as models of potential Urbilaterian origins: reafference as the ancestral behavioral organizational principle.

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Here is my presentation on “Neuronal coordination of cilia in marine zooplankton in moving and sensing” at the University of Regensburg (07 October 2026). Thanks a lot to @brembs for inviting me! #cilia #zooplankton #Platynereis

Night picture of the Steinerne Brücke in Regensburg, Germany

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From bioRxiv to PNAS! 🎉 Very happy to see our paper “Diversity and spatial segregation of TRP channels in the closest relatives of animals” now published in @pnas.org. Another piece in the puzzle of how animal cell signalling evolved. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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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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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The winner of the #Nikon image competition was a video likely done by genAI. I just signed this open letter: forms.gle/TyGRELnCxq5zCicS9 asking Nikon to: - correct the caption [] while the review continues - release the original greyscale recording and full methods for independent […]

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In this piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk I argue that it is time we stopped letting the AI/tech industry dictate the narrative, and I attempt to dismantle the self-serving terminology and myths it has created. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

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We’re all going to die, but not from AI

That artificial intelligence could destroy humanity is a story imposed by the AI industry itself. It’s time to challenge it

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

In our new paper by Kata Szabó et al. we present optimised sample-preparation workflows for volume electron microscopy for entire small marine organisms. The workflow includes high-pressure freezing, various freeze substitution protocols and synchrotron […] [Original post on biologists.social]

X-ray image of a platynereis annelid worm larva collected at the European Sycnrotron Facility at Grenoble. The left image shows morphological rendering of a 6-day-old Platynereis scanned at 100 nm/px, the right images show individual image planes of the same larva scanned at 55 nm/px or 20 nm/px.

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Update on: "Unravelling Cell Evolution and the Tree of Life, the Essence of Biodiversity: The Scientific Autobiography of Thomas Cavalier-Smith FRS, FRSC" I added a comprehensive bibliography of the works of Tom Cavalier-Smith as .odt and .bib file, the latter can be used to manage refs […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

If you are interested in serial sectioning for electron microscopy, we have now uploaded a revised version of our paper Shahidi et al: "Volume Electron Microscopy: Tips & Tricks on Micromanipulator-Assisted Serial Sectioning for Array Tomography" […] [Original post on biologists.social]

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rednikki @rednikki.toot.boston.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@sundogplanets AI is terrible for citations. Citations are a huge part of my job (I edit at a journal). All of us journal people are trying to send up the alarm about how much AI screws up citations, and no one is listening. If you ask AI to format your citations it will mess up all your DOIs […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@kofanchen yes, the church has no issue with evolution, and it's worth reading the address and comparing it to speeches of some politicians...

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

address of Pope Leo XIV from this morning to members and guests of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences press.vatican.va/content/salastampa… It was an honour to attend this audience #Vatican #science

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Audience with members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

In the Vatican, at the "Evolution and Development" meeting organised by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, an academy founded in 1603 and joined by Galileo in 1610. www.pas.va/en/events/2026/evodevo.h… Meeting organised by Eddy De Robertis and […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Rome, picture of St Peter''s basilica at night

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Ciliary beating in a marine #zooplankton larva recorded in Shimoda together with Kei Jokura in 2024 #silentsunday #cilia #marine

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Turns out there are "positive tipping points" for the #climate, not just negative ones. The ongoing and accelerating shift to clean electricity is one of the positive tipping points. www.theguardian.com/environment/202…

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

#SpringerNature just published a report showing certain download and citation benefits of "gold" #OpenAccess. (I'm linking to the executive summary.) stories.springernature.com/from-acc… But it's very misleading, even […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

"We are putting all our eggs in the same basket. And our milk, our water, our house, our furniture and our loved ones. In an electrical-auto-closing basket remotely controlled by a foreign entity that openly spies on us and wants to extract as much money as they can. For some reason, it is […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

The new chair of the #ERC Advanced grant panel, LS5 Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System is "responsible for errors in up to a dozen of these papers, the report found, but was not found guilty of research misconduct because neither intent nor negligence could be established." […]

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Wow someone really made our Pterosperma flagellate into a QWOP game... one key per cilium. check it out! surprisingly difficult not to be eaten by copepods... poke.mino.mobi/qwop (presumably, that's why the real cell has a super fast 'reorientation' mode)

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QWOP — four cilia, four keys, one ocean

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026

I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories? 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not bad 4. We can't fix it 5. You can't trust the info/experts Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A classification tree showing the breakdown of climate denial arguments.

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

"a paper in a leading chemistry journal had to be retracted because the authors appeared to have used an AI tool to draft part of the publication. The tool used the phrase “mass killing of an ethnic group” as an alternative for “final solution”, though the paragraph in question appeared to be […]

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What does a single-celled organism tell us about the origins of complex behaviour? Delighted to see the final version of our paper: Embodied behavioural complexity in a ciliated microorganism out in@natcomms.nature.com (Funded by @erc.europa.eu ERC) doi.org/10.1038/s414... #cilia #protistsonsky

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

— Si seulement nous avions une alternative à Twitter ! — FEDIVERSE ! — Oh, regarde, le créateur de Twitter lance un #Bluesky décentralisé — Moins que le FEDIVERSE ! — Mais c’est américain, il nous faudrait un truc européen ! — Le FEDIVERSE est en grande partie européen — Voilà #wsocial ! Mais […]

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James Gilbert @jgrg.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Great news that Prof Wyn Evans has won his employment tribunal against the University of Cambridge. www.theguardian.com/education/2026/…

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

"when we let a computer think for us, we put a gun to the head of civilisation." a must read for all teachers, by Katherine Rundell […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

@brembs after some time (few years?) the revision button disappears, but you can write to the biorxiv team to open it up again - happened to us recently

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Our Dispatch "Evolution: Ancient monoamines in a neuron-less animal" out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Monoamine signaling and behavioral responses in placozoans suggest this system predates bilaterians. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYJl3QW8S... @annaferraioli.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

"Apple's greatest accomplishment isn't technological, it's psychological. Apple managed to convince millions of people that buying products from a multi-trillion dollar corporation with close ties to both Trump and Xi makes them members of an oppressed religious minority, and those members of […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

In our new preprint, Réza Shahidi, Alexandra Kerbl and Karel Mocaer give an exquisitely detailed manual on serial sectioning for electron microscopy. "Volume Electron Microscopy: Tips & Tricks on Micromanipulator-Assisted Serial Sectioning for Array […] [Original post on biologists.social]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

If you are interested in nervous system evolution you may want to read our review with Kei Jokura on nerve nets: "Revisiting nerve nets: functional organization and evolutionary implication" link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s… […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Figure showing different Erdős–Rényi-type random graphs with different preferential attachment, resulting in increasingly modular graphs. Images of Syncytial nerve net of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis, Schematic of an incision experiment carried out by Romanes on the scyphosoan medusa Aurelia, Schematic of the localised spread of activity in a hydrozoan nerve net, where different non-overlapping nerve nets mediate distinct behaviours. The hydromedusa Aglantha digitale with its giant motor system shows a centralised arrangement.

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James Hawley, PhD @jrhawley.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Finally, an editorial in Science that isn't just hedging its bets and trying to play nice. This is a long overdue piece. www.science.org/content/blog-post/a… The US government is out to destroy US (and possibly global) science and they do not know nor […]

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Do #tintinnids dream of electric sheep? 🤯 Here is a single cell capable of building a lorica and living inside it for protection... it also swims, feeds, hunts Can even detect and habituate to mechanical cues! #celllearning #protistsonsky #cilia Read more in our preprint doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

@yoginho the WarnWetter app from Deutscher Wetterdienst is worth the one-time 2.5 Eur (it used to be free but was forced by court to charge after being sued by a commercial app... sigh...)

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Oregon prairie restoration helps rare butterflies recover. Fender’s blue butterfly, once feared extinct after Willamette Valley prairies were ploughed under, has been downgraded from endangered to threatened after decades of habitat restoration. Scientists, landowners, Indigenous fire crews & […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

@brembs I am back in Heidelberg already! The talk was in this strange 'paid' technology session on Monday... See you in the autumn, enjoy the rest of the conference!

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Our new paper with lead and corresponding author Luis Yañez-Guerra on placozoan monoamine GPCRs and the "Prebilaterian origin of monoaminergic signaling" […] [Original post on biologists.social]

- Non-bilaterian placozoans produce, detect, and behaviorally respond to monoamines
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Four placozoan receptors are homologous to human melatonin receptors
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Placozoans reveal the pre-bilaterian origin of monoaminergic signaling

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Here are my slides for #fens2026 “A versatile and affordable array tomography workflow” jekelylab.codeberg.page/FENS_Array_… for the 'Expanding Horizons: Array Tomography in Neuroscience for All' […] [Original post on biologists.social]

ribbons of ultrathin sections in a scanning electron microscope, shown is a preview of the ribbons

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

FENS 2026 - the only file format the organisers accepted was pptx. I offered html, pdf - did not get far. In the end I gave a chalk talk (there was no chalk). Not good for #DigitalIndependence "The Document Foundation, creators of #LibreOffice and promoters of the OpenDocument format (ODF), has […]

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 03/07/2026

A day in the life of a climate scientist

Men wanting me executed, calling me a hoaxer, and saying science is an agenda. This is from today - I get this nearly every day. And I block!

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

@yoginho yes, no insight, but the point of the report is exactly that, or rather that if it is created by full synthesis for whatever reason, it may be hard to kill it... (e.g. no enzyme, drug, immune system etc would cleave/bind/work on it)

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

@yoginho The most worrying scenarios about synthetic cells are in this 300-page technical report by Stanford University on the feasibility and potential life-terminating risks of 'mirror-bacteria' (where all of the chiral molecules are replaced by their mirror images) "Technical Report on […]

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