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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 14h

Meet @patrickphillips.bsky.social of @uauoregon.bsky.social, joining our stellar lineup of #Worm27 speakers! His work explores how genetics and environment shape individual variation—and how that variation connects to demographic and evolutionary processes across species. Hear more in Kobe!

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Archaea Biology Vienna @archaea-vienna.bsky.social · 21h

Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 19h

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of a wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷me 🏺

The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 17h

Abstract submission for #Dros27 is now open! 🔗: buff.ly/18h4OHf Prep now: ✅ Browse abstract topics ✅ Prepare title and abstract text ✅ Gather co-author names and institutions ✅ Select one email to use for both abstract submission and registration ✅ Select a credit card to pay the submission fee

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So proud of my 10th PhD student Dr. Diler Haji, who gave his finishing talk last Friday! He’s a postdoc in Beth Sattely’s lab at Stanford now. Preprint of his main thesis project on experimental evolution and resequencing of Scaptomyza flava on single or multiple host plant species dropping soon.

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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · 22/09/2026

We are thrilled to announce that molecular biologist and neuroscientist Catherine Dulac of @harvardmcb.bsky.social is the 2026 winner of Rockefeller's Pearl Meister Greengard Prize! Register now for the award ceremony on Oct 20. #WomenInScience 🔗: bit.ly/3V2pZMA

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Climbing out of SFO on an old 777-200

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Say hello to my little friend, the arboreal salamander. Found under a terra cotta pot in our yard, they can live way up in trees! They have prehensile tails and no lungs.

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 20/09/2026

New research has found that nearly a third of the world’s coral reefs are heat-resilient, three times more than previously estimated 🥳 WHOI biologist Anne Cohen leads the efforts to study heat-resilient reefs. Learn more from @livingonearthradio.bsky.social: go.whoi.edu/coral-resilience-news

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Bernard Kim @bernardkim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Princeton EEB is running a very broad faculty search at the Assistant Professor level. Please consider applying to join us! This is a wonderful, collaborative, cohesive department with diverse interests and amazing colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/193474

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Kenneth Loi @kenjmloi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR. We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets. Thread + link below.

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reminder that the deadline for the tenure track position in my division in MCB is one month away (October 19), as you’ll see it is a wide open search in terms of area within and across fields of genetics, genomics, evolution, and development. Please circulate.

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Excited to share the latest from our lab, led by UCSF’s @tarnopol.bsky.social with undergrad Ryan Wang and Princeton‘s @bernardkim.bsky.social, we found horizontally transferred CdtB is more frequently found in drosophilids than prophenoloxidase duplications!

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Transformative opportunity for early career faculty @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

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Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI

The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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Andrew Dacks @adacks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Know an outstanding PhD student whose thesis work was on Drosophila? If so, please consider nominating them for the Larry Sandler award! The nomination and eligibility information are at genetics-gsa.org/awards/larry.... The deadline is November 12th.

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Larry Sandler Award - Genetics Society of America

The Larry Sandler Award was established in 1988 by the colleagues, friends, and students of Dr. Larry Sandler after his untimely death in 1987. The award serves to honor Dr. Sandler for his many contr...

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

With my bff Professor Cassie Stoddard

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Nancy Moran @nancy-moran.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Insights into the role of a genotoxin in nature, through the lens of a honeybee gut. Colibactin stabilizes a symbiont community and keeps out invaders... Congratulations to Yulin Song and other authors! rdcu.be/fBIeq or (subscription) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can do it. I love this so much and need to hear it just barely into the semester: youtu.be/VrPVSz3bBq4

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CARIBOU - You Can Do It

YouTube video by Caribou

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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please share! Our lab at Colorado State University is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2027. We are broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs is available on our lab website. sites.google.com/site/danielb...

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Sloan Lab

Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Still spots for today’s Most Delicious Poison book talk (virtual) at Duke Gardens: gardens.duke.edu/event/most-d...

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Most Delicious Poison: A Virtual Author Talk with Noah Whiteman | Duke Gardens

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fly people: please consider nominating your PhD student who completed their dissertation in any area of Drosophila research between July 2025 and December 2026 for the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Larry Sandler Award. Nominations due by November 12: genetics-gsa.org/awards/larry...

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Larry Sandler Award - Genetics Society of America

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Neighborhood Indian Peafowl (aka blue peacock) named Kevin growing his tail back after a molt.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 11/09/2026

For millions of years, marine plankton built their spiral shells in one direction. Then, suddenly, their spiral direction changed at the same time. And then, they switched back again. What is causing these peculiar shifts? www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-these...

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Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? | Quanta Magazine

The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet.

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Alex Donovan @apadonovan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Our paper tying up some loose ends in our understanding of temporal patterning is out now! 🧠🪰 We show a single transcription factor (Tailless/TLX) terminates the temporal cascade across multiple neural stem cell lineages in the fly brain! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Tailless terminates the neural stem cell temporal cascade in both the optic lobe and central brain

Summary: Are temporal cascades conserved in different neural lineages? Combining genetic manipulation and chromatin-binding assays in Drosophila, this study identifies Tailless/TLX as a conserved fact...

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

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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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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Another artichoke bloomed in the garden!

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fruit flies (look closely) lined up and ready for a “taste test” of wasabi!

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Pacific off of Fort Funston

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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A decade ago, Phil Cleves became the first person to genetically modify #coral. Now, he's trying to figure out how to save reefs and the magnificent ecosystems they host from #ClimateChange. Learn more about IGI's newest investigator: ow.ly/fK9F50ZG9s5 Video by @shumpeim.bsky.social

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Nels Elde @elearlybird.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Open your lab here at Utah! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Most basic science departments at UCSF are having faculty searches this year. Biochemistry & Biophysics, Microbiology & Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and more. We're looking for new and exciting science and nice people. You'll find them all at aprecruit.ucsf.edu

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Welcome - AP Recruit

University of California, San Francisco Online Faculty Recruitment

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

i really do appreciate it when people try to keep things weird. life is so much better that way. 🪰 @flybase.bsky.social

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New paper with Nick Davies and Kevin Foster in @natcomms.nature.com. We show that often neither selection against transposons’ deleterious effects nor exploitation by parasitic elements is sufficient to keep them in control. Only active host suppression does. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 13/08/2026

Apart from the question of how college admissions should work. As a factual matter, the current relationship between wealth and admissions at elite universities is almost tailor-made to generate tons of hostility and criticism among the most vocal part of society. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Admissions rate at elite colleges among students with the same test scores

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

⏰ Reminder to submit your research to the GSA Journals Series Advances in Genetics and Genomics of Animal Breeding. Deadline: Sept. 15, 2026 🔗: buff.ly/anOluRJ

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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Junior faculty position in Basic Sciences @fredhutch.org! Please repost!

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Two months are left before the deadlines for these three junior faculty positions in my wonderful department at Berkeley. Please consider joining us! I love Cal. 🧸💙💛

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Please consider nominating your finishing or recently finished PhD student for this award in any area of Drosophila research. The winner gives a big talk at the fly meeting and it is quite the feather in their cap!

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Foliar salt spray exclusion & tissue tolerance underlie local adaptation to oceanic salt spray New #AJB research by @madisonplunkert.bsky.social, @pcdurant.bsky.social, @davidlowry.bsky.social & Katherine Egeler doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #Mimulus

The coastal perennial ecotype of Mimulus guttatus DC. (syn. Erythranthe guttata DC.) growing on a cliff at Montara State Beach, Montara, California, USA, with oceanic salt spray damage on the leaf margin. Coastal M. guttatus has delayed flowering, which contributes to a salt spray escape strategy by reducing the amount of salt spray reaching these plants. Still, some salt spray contacts the plant, so later-acting strategies that keep sodium from entering the leaves and prevent cell damage are also key for local adaptation to coastal habitat. (Credit: David Lowry)

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Andrew Dacks @adacks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Nominations for the GSA Larry Sandler Award are now open! genetics-gsa.org/awards/larry... This award recognizes an outstanding PhD thesis (graduating between 07/2025 and 12/2026) in any area of Drosophila research. Include 1) the thesis abstract, 2) the Nominee's CV and 3) a nomination letter.

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Larry Sandler Award - Genetics Society of America

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