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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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Mohannad Dardiry @mohannad-dardiry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1/5 Whenever I return to Egypt, I try to do more than visit home, I try to bring knowledge back with me. For nearly five years, I’ve given talks across Egypt, hoping to show young students that they, too, can pursue ambitious questions and research careers worldwide.

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Dom Cram @domcram.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

How do animals cooperate when they aren't even the same species? Our recent review paper dug deep into the literature... 1/ Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

What makes a new kind of mind possible? In this @royalsocietypublishing.org paper, the authors explain why cognitive transitions are not just moments when animals became smarter, but evolutionary shifts that opened new spaces of cognition. @eplantec.bsky.social pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The plasmids from Karapidaki et al. are on Addgene! Grab them here: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

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Addgene: Targeting the cell membrane in established and emerging model organisms.

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M. Alejandra Petino Zappala @petinozappala.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

you can attend my (hybrid) talk on the 30th and share my fascination and (many) frustrations with the concept of canalization!

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Aissam Ikmi @aikmi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Now published. Congrats to Soham and all co-authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... @embl.org

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Science | AAAS

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Nature @nature.com · 12/04/2026

Female mouse embryos with a single letter change in their DNA develop male reproductive organs go.nature.com/4c2nwrp

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Female mice grow testes after this single DNA tweak

Nature - Small changes in the non-coding part of the genome have a key role in sex determination.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 28/03/2026

Most creatures use daylight to keep time. But a newly discovered jellyfish species has a mysterious biological clock that tracks periods of 20 hours, instead of 24. It suggests there may be more unconventional clocks across the tree of life.

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The Jellies That Evolved a Different Way To Keep Time | Quanta Magazine

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to…

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Aissam Ikmi @aikmi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Our study on shape diversity in cnidarians is now published. The final version includes extensive new data that substantially extend the original bioRxiv preprint. Congrats to everyone who contributed to this work! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @embl.org

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Deciphering mechanical determinants of morphological evolution

A comparative analysis of cnidarian larval morphogenesis combined with active surface theory identifies a set of mesoscale mechanical modules that predict species-specific shapes. Manipulating these m...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations" Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations? rdcu.be/e7zx7

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Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations

Nature Reviews Genetics - In this Perspective, Maizels and Briscoe discuss the limitations of current models of gene regulatory networks and outline solutions to harness data abundance without...

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

New paper out in MBE! 🧵 "Genomic Perplexity and the Evolution of Context-Dependent Function" The big idea: genes don't have fixed functions. Function emerges from context - genomic, cellular, environmental. And we can quantify this. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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Genomic Perplexity and the Evolution of Context-Dependent Function

Abstract. The fundamental principle that selection acts on a gene’s function often assumes implicitly that this function is fixed and intrinsic. However, e

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Mohannad Dardiry @mohannad-dardiry.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Beautiful work by a good friend! Congrats, Jim and all the authors!

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 14/12/2025

A glance back! “The usefulness of useless knowledge” was the topic of a thought-provoking session at #NobelWeek Dialogue 2025 with laureates - hear Sir Paul Nurse and Frances Arnold from 1’19’: 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=urLM... ERC grantee Jean Tirole took part in other interesting sessions.

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Our Special Issue on Lifelong Development #LifelongDevSI is now complete! Guest edited by Meri Huch and Mansi Srivastava, it contains 26 research and review-type articles. On the cover: the dorsal vasculature of an adult zebrafish's first gill arch. See Preußner et al. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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Mohannad Dardiry @mohannad-dardiry.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

It was my pleasure to work on this piece with @aikmi.bsky.social. I enjoyed it and genuinely appreciate his way of articulating thoughts. Here, we suggest that lifelong developmental processes can be understood comprehensively through the lens of phenotypic plasticity and modularity (1).

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