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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

3/3 🎉 And finally, we had a few days to learn more about our projects and to coordinate the first data generation and analyses. The kick-off of our graduate school could not have been more productive. Make sure to learn more about us and our mission here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/home/6242...

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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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Jessica Goodheart @mollusksatamnh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Goodheart Lab is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow on an NSF-funded project to study the process of kleptocnidy, the theft and storage of nematocysts, in nudibranch mollusks. Project link: www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). Application here: careers.amnh.org/postings/4908.

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Award Details - NSF Award Search

Find award details and explore award abstracts and publications.

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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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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am glad to announce my new position as a postdoc for @goenomix.bsky.social at @uni-goettingen.de with Prof. Dr. Gregor Bucher in collaboration with UMG and @mpi-nat.bsky.social. I will be working in head evolution, integrating functional genetics and multiomics data analysis cross-phyla.

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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

1/2 And another addition to our #GoenomiX family. 🥳 Welcome, Simon! 🔬 Research: Genomics, evolution and computational approaches to biology 🔭 Looking forward to: Learning and applying machine learning approaches to comparative multi-omics data

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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Very happy to announce that my first paper is officially out in Evolution & Development. In this article, we showed that species from two major annelid clades with similar fate maps have conserved mechanisms of specification of their central nervous system. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Patterns of Autonomous and Conditional Neural Specification for the Brain and Ventral Nerve Cord in Annelida

Diagrams of blastomere isolations in Capitella teleta and Platynereis dumerilii showing autonomous head neural tissue (from 1q) and trunk neural tissue (from 2d) as well as a decoupling of D–V axis f...

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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

1/2 And here we go, our next #GoenomiX student arrived. 🥳 Welcome, Mariam! 🔬Research: Gene-environment interactions, evolution of gene regulatory networks, evolution of exaggerated traits 🔭Looking forward to: Learning how to use single-cell omics in non-traditional model species

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Vicky & The Sleight Lab @vs-marine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Please share, I am hiring an evo devo postdoctoral research fellow! 📍: The Sleight Lab, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (5th oldest University in UK & English-speaking world) 📅: start after 1st December 2026 🐌: Evolution and Development (molluscs) ⌛: 3 year contract sleightlab.com/vacancies/

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Prasanth Prakash Prabhu @kavaka25.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My time at Clark is coming to end. I will defend my thesis this Thursday, July 30th, at 10 a.m. EST. I am grateful to everyone who has encouraged, supported, and mentored me throughout this journey. I look forward to sharing my findings with you.

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A polychaete (bristle worm) trochophore (young larva) from the top down. #marineplankton 🦑

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If you study plankton, you’ll definitely come across polychaete (bristle worm) larvae, and today is a great day to recognise them, because it’s International Polychaete Day! #marineplankton 🦑 #wormwednesday

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Institut Curie @institutcurie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Applications are open for the international course “Developmental Biology” organized by the Institut Curie in partnership with @sorbonne-universite.fr 📅 Oct. 19–28, 2026 (Paris) ⏳ Jul. 19 & Sept. 18 🔗 training.institut-curie.org/courses/developmental-biology-2026

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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

With all techniques available to us, this is the type of classical embryology experiments that make our field still exciting.

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Ctenophores Rock! @ctenophoresrock.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

What is the evolutionary origin of the organizer? New work from @kremnyovs.bsky.social, @tclebedeva.bsky.social & Hejnol Lab @uni-jena.de reports the blastopore lip of the #ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, a member of the evolutionary sister group to all other metazoans, exhibits organizer activity.

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A blastoporal organizer in a ctenophore - Nature

Experiments using the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi and the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis reveal that the emergence of a core signalling pathway may have been a key innovation enabling the transit...

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Fun fact, the worms have eyes, THEY CAN SEE YOU 👀 I can't tell for sure which type this species would have, but they are all cool 🧪🦑 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Top: Three species of sabellids (left to right: Anamobaea sp., Bispira sp., and Megalomma interrupta) detailing general arrangements of radiolar eyes (arrowheads). The picture of M. interrupta includes a diagram of the anterior end of the worm’s body within the tube. Bottom: Images of radiolar eyes from eight species of sabellids organized by increasing sophistication from no eyes, to ocellar clusters, to compound eyes. Scale bar = 200 μm.

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Just got an alert that views for the Biology PhD Stipends database spiked over the past weekend! Lets keep this database up-to-date, if your program increased their EEB PhD stipend, submit an update: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...

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Biology PhD Stipends

Biology Ph.D. stipend database with live summaries from the shared Google Sheet.

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

✨Rare model organisms can teach us how to build a body differently. In snail embryos blastomeres can be as big as the rest of the embryo! 🐌Phrontis vibex blastula stained for tubulin (gray), phalloidin (blue) and histone (magenta). 🔬 #ModelMonday #DevBio 📸: Clemens Cabernard

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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

📣 Following the Summer School, we will have this year's Symposium on "Frontiers in Molecular Zoology". Present your work on emerging model systems! Register until June 30 with a contributed talk: events.gwdg.de/event/1458/ (Registration without a talk is open until August 14).

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Göttingen SPIRIT - Symposium “Molecular Genetics in Zoology” (Symposium only)

In this 2-day symposium will bring together international scientists working on understanding the function of genes underlying a wide range of zoological phenomena. Some contributed talks will be sele...

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 02/06/2026

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Graphic with gay flags and a worm flag that say:
Someone you know is gay
Someone you know is bi
Someone you know is transgender
Someone you know is a worm
Maybe even someone you know
Think before you speak hate.

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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

📣 Join us for the Spirit Summer School "Molecular Genetics in Zoology" with three days of hands-on training and consulting in #RNAi, #CRISPR genome editing, in-situ hybridization, #imaging and #RNA-seq for emerging model systems. 🐌🪰🪱🐞🧬 Registration is open until June 30: events.gwdg.de/event/1457/

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Tim Wollesen @thechitoncorner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Excited to see this work from June Ordoñez's PhD published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology! 🎉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel... #zoology #spiralia #development #evolution

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Last month I came across this little dude in my plankton sample. I didn’t recognise it at first, and then I saw its scales (elytra). It’s a scale worm larva! Scale worms are bristle worms, but with added accessories. #marineplankton 🦑

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Had a smasheroony time at Walton-on-the-Naze with my fellow microscopy nerds today. I’m putting together a little reel about it. But in the meantime, here’s an amuse bouche… I saw a phoronid larva (horseshoe worm) with tentacles! The first time! #marineplankton 🦑 #zooplankton

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Chema Martin @chemamd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🚨 We discovered a new mode of Hox gene regulation in annelids! 🪱 A distal enhancer acts as a "global control region", lifting Hox genes from Polycomb repression. This is reminiscent of Hox gene control in vertebrates, but the two modes likely evolved convergently. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

As a great end of my conferences as a graduate student, I have been awarded 2nd place for best graduate student talk at #NESDB26. A huge thank you to the organizers, judges and everyone involved in such a great meeting!

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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I passed my PhD dissertation last Thursday, closing a very important chapter in my career/life. I received so much support over the years, and I cannot be more grateful to my lab and the Evo-Devo community. Catch me next week at #NESDB26 where I will give a talk about spiral cleavage and annelids.

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Goldie @goldienewt.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Between Ave T & U on the promenade in Seaside Oregon there is an ongoing community knit project full of knit & crotchet versions of the creatures that live in our tide pools. #InverteFest

A lightpost covered in knit & crochet sea stars, crabs, nudibranch, & other sea creatures

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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Spionida (order) polychaete eggs and trochophores are really quite distinctive, with a sort of lattice-effect membrane going on. Excellent style choice! #marineplankton #zooplankton #polychaete

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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Funny how everything can be traced back to the apical organ.

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

✨Crepidula fornicata (slipper snail) 🐚 A classic model for spiral cleavage! 🧬 Crepidula embryos reveal how early cell divisions shape body plans and establish left-right asymmetry in spiralian animals 📸 Image by Jake Leyhr #ModelMonday

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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪

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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Check our latest pre-print where I’m a second author. We gathered evidence on the brain and nerve cord being specified autonomously by isolating blastomeres in two different annelid species. Great collaboration with @nicolewebster.bsky.social, @allancarbal.bsky.social and @biyolokum.bsky.social.

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Weeeee! I’ve only ever seen one of these once before. This is the larva of an animal from the phylum Phoronida, which are kind of wormy, but feed using a lophophore, like a bryozoan. #marineplankton 🦑

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Tim Wollesen @thechitoncorner.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I am thrilled to share our new open-access paper in Communications Biology! www.nature.com/articles/s42... Huge congrats to PhD student, June Ordóñez (not on bsky), whose beautiful and meticulous work led this project! 👏🔥 @univie.ac.at@fwf-at.bsky.social @vdsee-univie.bsky.social univie.bsky.social

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Anterior-posterior patterning in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera informs bilaterian nervous system and tail evolution - Communications Biology

Expression of anterior patterning and Hox genes in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera reveals conserved features of bilaterian body patterning and offers insight into how Hox genes contributed to n...

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

At last, the dicyemid life cycle for #InverteFest! These absolute weirdos infect ONLY cephalopod kidneys; they are worms of discerning taste. 🦑🌊🐙🧪🐡

A detailed comic panel illustrating the life cycle of dicyemid parasites. Top text: "Despite their simple bodies of just a few cells, dicyemids have incredibly complex life cycles."
Below that, a long brownish worm labeled "rhombogen" and a short brownish blob labeled "vermiform" are connected by arrows. The arrow leading from the rhombogen to the vermiform is "1. Adults make babies asexually" and the arrow leading from the vermiform to the rhombogen is "2. which grow into more adults."
A separate arrow leads from the vermiform to a different brownish worm shape labeled "nematogen" and this arrow is "3. Sometimes they grow into different adults." An arrow from the nematogen to eggs and sperm is "4. which make babies sexually." An arrow leads from the eggs and sperm to the absolute cutest part of the life cycle, a round blob that looks like it has huge headlight eyes, though they are not actually eyes. The blob is labeled "infusoriform." An arrow leading from the infusoriform to an octopus is, "5. These different babies go infect new hosts!"
I'M SORRY IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT PARASITE LIFE CYCLES ARE SO STINKING COMPLICATED OKAY

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Tomorrow is VGZT day! 🚀 Don’t miss the great talks from 👉 Allison Kann (@apkann.bsky.social) 👉 Joana da Silva (on X: @joanamsilva14)

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Yi-Jyun Luo @yjluo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This resource was vital for my college training as a biologist and I still use it even as an embryologist. So sad to see it end but wishing a smooth transition. I hope we can all see and appreciate the value of taxonomy databases in -truly- understanding natural history.

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

@neva-meyer.bsky.social on behalf of @johnnyds.bsky.social is talking about the evolutionary and developmental origins of CNS in annelid worms #PASEDB2025 #spiralia #micromere #macromere

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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Excited to be heading to Woods Hole to start my summer as part of #embryology25 at @mblscience.bsky.social. Also proud to represent for annelids 🪱, my lab, my home country Peru 🇵🇪 and the LGBT+ community 🏳️‍🌈.

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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 29/05/2025

We are also raising money to support undergrads at UCSF this summer! Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers! 20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I may see a strange worm

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Kyojiro Ikeda @beingkyo.bsky.social @univie.ac.at presenting now at #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social on first mechanistic & molecular regulators of #bristle biogenesis in the #Platynereis model. Also check Kyojiro's recent @naturecomms.bsky.social publication www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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