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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We are hiring!! Lab Assistant II position to work with the killifish! 🐟🐟🐟 This is an amazing model to study aging and 'suspended animation' careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-ass... Come and join our fantastic team at Stanford!! 🤩 Please share!

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Want to do a postdoc at Friday Harbor Labs? We have two positions open. Apply by March 1st. I am happy to discuss potential projects with fish people. apply.interfolio.com/180092 🧪

A view of Friday Harbor Labs dock in the early morning with blowing sea fog in the background.

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Anastassia Voronova @amvoronova.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Our lab, located at the University of Alberta (Canada), is hiring a postdoctoral scholar and/or PhD student to work on the contribution of genetic mutations to neurological disorder mechanisms and response to treatments. Please share widely! can-acn.org/postdoctoral...

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Postdoctoral fellow or PhD student position with Dr. Anastassia Voronova (University of Alberta, Canada) – Canadian Association for Neuroscience

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Kai Caspar @nomascus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Birds have a thick retina devoid of blood vessels - so how do they ensure sufficient oxygen availability? They don't - neurons rely on glycolysis, metabolizing glucose released from the pecten. Insane new study that includes comparative data on lizards and crocs.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten - Nature

While the photoreceptor outer segments in the bird outer retina have access to oxygen, the inner retina operates under chronic anoxia, supported by anaerobic glycolysis in the retinal neurons.

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Dr Dorota SK @drdorotask.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Our latest paper is out! It's led by my first MSc graduate, Andrew Rideout, who did a terrific job with this project. We report some fun and confusing results about mGluR6 trafficking. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Western blots showing mGluR6 deletion mutants in cell lysates treated with Endo H or PNGase F.

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

4-year postdoctoral fellowships for women @univie.ac.at The application consists of a short (3-page) research statement only. Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested or would like to discuss potential projects. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... Application deadline: 2 March 2026

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E-STEEM: Postdoctoral Positions for Women in STEM and Economics - University of Vienna

Supporting women in science: Postdoctoral positions in STEM and Economics as part of the E-STEEM programme. Apply between January and March 2026.

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Elevated DNA damage without signs of ageing in the short-sleeping Mexican cavefish offers a unique model to study sleep, DNA repair, and ageing. buff.ly/6VrO19l

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences? When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded. /

Photo taken at the Neues Museum in Berlin (which luckily has elevators!). It shows lots of stairs both left and right and several floors with people walking up. Some windows at the top.

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor. Apps reviewed 12/15. Please spread the word! 💚⛏️ #PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬 jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141

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Assistant Professor

Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...

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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

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Chris Toseland @christoseland.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Please repost - Multiple PhDs available www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Julia Saltz @juliasaltz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Turquoise killifish naturally develop hallmarks of age-related macular degeneration with advancing age www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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MSU Plant Resilience Institute @msupri.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

PRI is continuing to build on our collaborative mission, connecting leading plant scientists to drive unique solutions to global challenges in food security and climate resilience, and we invite applications for multiple tenure-stream faculty positions: careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista... #PlantSciJobs

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) at Michigan State University invites applications for multiple tenure-st...

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Nicole CL Noel @nclnoel.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

No! That’s awful! I’m sorry to hear that.

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels! Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology? I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics. 🔗: clarkelab.com/join/ Please repost!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Faculty positions in animal morphogenesis that may be filled at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in one of my favorite Departments" Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. 1/n jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

Postdoc position in regenerative biology on "Tracking the cellular origins regeneration" in the @michalis_averof lab in Lyon, France. Fantastic lab, great institute, nice city! www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman #postdoc

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

And here’s another thread about perfection! The world doesn’t actually WANT perfection from you demand for perfection is a cudgel used by people in power to control you, to keep you feeling small, to keep you easy to manipulate Remember that. As they yell at fat generals bsky.app/profile/swil...

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Webvision @webvision.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Webvision Has A New Home! www.webvision.pitt.edu/2025/09/22/w...

A colorful mosaic of abstract spots arranged in squares that are derived from retinal research data.

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Anna La Torre @latorrelab.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

#FluorescenceFriday: a weekly reminder that behind the data, there are moments of pure wonder. This is why we do what we do. And the #retina is so uniquely beautiful!

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hey, if you are actively coughing and sniffing at a conference, WEAR A DAMNED MASK. We need to start having policies at meetings to hand out masks and enforce their wearing to limit infectious disease spread.

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Nixon Lab @nixonlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Nixon Lab is hoping to recruit a postdoctoral fellow interested in alcohol-microglia and/or alcohol-neural stem cell interactions in recovery from alcohol-induced brain and behavioral damage/dysfunction. Open fellowships on our NIAAA-funded T32! Please spread the word!

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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

New paper! Kudos to first author Jaeeun Lee, who is a fantastic and hard working student. We showed that at photoreceptor presynapses, ELFN1 enrichment depends on postsynaptic mGluR6. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Confocal microscope images of the outer plexiform layer of WT or nob3 (mGluR6 null) mouse retina labeled with antibodies for ELFN1 (cyan) and PSD95 (magenta). In nob3 retina, ELFN1 is still localized to rod spherules, but synaptic enrichment is compromised.

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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

The mysterious non-PSD localization of PSD95 🟣 in the retina outer plexiform layer... co-stained for postsynaptic TRPM1 🟢 #FluorescenceFriday

Confocal microscope image of mouse retina section labeled with antibodies for PSD95 (magenta) and TRPM1 (green).

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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Drosophila Genetic Database

The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

So far the most effective way I've found to get students to not use ChatGPT is to say, "you can use it if you want to; if you do, here is the list of things you should do to make sure that it doesn't embarrass you" & then have them write a reflection about their choice

A selection from my student's reflection paragraph where they say they didn't use AI at all because they were too afraid of accidentally plagiarizing even though there was plenty of guidance provided on how not to plagiarize

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT! For more information see here: gahanlab.com tinyurl.com/34xke35d

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Decoding whole genome doubling: Insights from evolution, development and disease' organised by Renata Basto and Zuzana Storchova. biologists.com/workshops/de... #BiologistsWorkshops

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life... At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff. Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan 1/n

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Anabela Bensimon-Brito @bensimonbrito.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Are postdocs the rarest species, or is it just me? We have two funded positions—apply now and join us on these exciting projects! #zebrafish #zebrafishcareers #iPSC #devbio #regeneration

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/03/2025

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

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Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts

Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

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Inside the Collapse at NIH

Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The University of Sheffield is seeking a Research Fellow to to lead the MND Alert Project and contribute to the expanding Better Outcomes in #MND research group. Closing date: 13th March. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

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Research Fellow: MND Alert project - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER

The University of Sheffield is seeking a Research Fellow to to lead the MND Alert Project and contribute to the expanding Better Outcomes in MND research group.

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Are you a PhD student interested in #SciComm, community building and publishing? Are you in the BBSRC DTP/PIPS or equivalent schemes where an internship forms part of the PhD training? Join us as an intern and work across the Node, @prelights.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social! More details:

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Join us as an intern working across the Node, preLights & FocalPlane - the Node

The Company of Biologists is looking for one or more interns, through the BBSRC DTP/PIPS or equivalent schemes, to work on our community sites – the Node,

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We are delighted to welcome three new correspondents to the FocalPlane team. Look out for blog posts from Sally Horton @crick.ac.uk, Varsha Mahapatra, Utrecht University and @nclnoel.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk in 2025. Check out our introductory post ⤵️: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/02/24/a...

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Announcing our 2025 FocalPlane correspondents - FocalPlane

Announcing our 2025 FocalPlane correspondents - News

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Diane Bovenkamp, PhD @dianebovenkamp.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Dive deep into glaucoma research at the #BrightFocus #Glaucoma Fast Track, held Oct 8th in conjunction with the @iser.bsky.social ISER/BrightFocus Symposium. This intensive program offers valuable insights & connections for those new to the field. iserbrightfocusglaucoma.org/fast-track/

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Fast Track – Iser/Bright Focus Glaucoma Symposium

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