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Nico Posnien

@posnienlab.bsky.social
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genotype-phenotype, evo-devo, genetics, transcriptomics, gene regulatory networks, flies, beetles, spiders. www.posnien-lab.net

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'To avoid the paralysis of the blank page that often torments writers, this column describes literally how I do it. It is brutally concise and heavily functional. I use this process when I know in my head what my study design is and how that design solves a specific knowledge gap.'
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Start Here to Write a Research Introduction Section
A step-by-step guide to writing a concise introduction to a clinical research manuscript
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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 · 05/10/2026
2/3 ... followed by the 2-day Symposium “Frontiers in Molecular Zoology” with exciting talks by @isabelalmudi.bsky.social, Mathilde Paris, Benjamin Prud'homme, Matteo Rauzi, @johnnyds.bsky.social, @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social & @verabiol.bsky.social and some of our students.
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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
1/3 🧗‍♀️Finally set to dive deep into our #GoenomiX projects! Since most of the team members arrived, we started with a wonderful ☀️Summer School on “Molecular Genetics in Zoology”. 🧬💻🔬We had three days of lectures and hands-on training in #RNAi, genome editing, #transgenesis, #omics and #imaging...
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks for putting a spotlight onto our upcoming work! Exciting times ahead...
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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz @unimainz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@dfg.de fördert neue Emmy Noether-Forschungsgruppe zur Evolution neuronaler Schaltkreise an der #UniMainz mit rund 1,8 Millionen Euro 👉 presse.uni-mainz.de/evolutionsneu… #Neurobiologie #Evolutionsbiologie #DFG #EmmyNoether
Das Foto zeigt Dr. Max Farnworth, Leiter der Emmy Noether-Forschungsgruppe "Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution" an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. (Foto/©: Peter Pulkowski)
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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
2/2 🐞 Model system: Red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum 😃 Non-scientific interests: bouldering, hiking, travelling Sibora will work with @bucherlab.bsky.social. 2/2
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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
1/2 And a new addition to our #GoenomiX team. 🥳 Welcome, @sibora-teta.bsky.social! 🔬 Research: evolution, morphogenesis, transgenesis 🔭 Looking forward to: Learn comparative approaches to understand how development evolves across species.
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Apply, apply, apply (till Monday!)
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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
2/2 🪱 Model systems: Annelid Syllis malaquini 😃 Non-scientific interests: Gym, crocheting and playing video games Varuni will work with @mtaguado.bsky.social
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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
1/2 And yet another new face in our #GoenomiX team. 🥳 Welcome, Varuni Mishra! 🔬 Research: Polychaetes, Syllid biology and evolution, regeneration and transcriptomics 🔭 Looking forward to: Learn new techniques (e.g. RNAseq & in-situ hybridisation) to study the Wnt pathway in Syllid regeneration.
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Obsidian @obsidian.md · 15/09/2026
You can finally edit any Markdown file without moving it into your vault! 🤗 Works for all formats Obsidian supports. Available with Obsidian 1.14.2 (early access).
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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
2/2 Model systems: 🪲 🐌🪱🪼 (basically our entire zoo) 😃 Non-scientific interests: Hiking, writing poetry, cooking 🇵🇪 cuisine Johnny is our postdoc and he will work with @bucherlab.bsky.social
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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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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Alternative splicing and gene expression repurpose ancestral genes through distinct evolutionary routes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🏀 🇩🇪93:74🇧🇪 Amazing demonstration of team play and dedication! The German coaching staff manages exceptionally well to highlight the individual strength of each player. 🎉 Top 4 teams of the FIBA Woman's World Cup! 🗺️World, accept the truth: Germany is a #Basketball nation.
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MorphoNews @morphonews.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#DZG2026 is starting in Münster. We look forward to an amazing week at the annual meeting of the German Zoological Society with all facets of #Zoology.
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DZG SysBioDiv @dzg-sysbiodiv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our #SysBioDiv keynote speakers truly impressed yesterday at #DZG2026! Thanks to Daniela Mera-Rodriguez (Uni Hohenheim) and Sven Rossel (Senckenberg am Meer) for their excellent talks on leaf-cutting ant #biodiversity #socialparasitism 🐜🌿 and #proteomics species identification 🧬🦐🪼
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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Flamingo at #DZG2026 in Münster: Torben presents cleared tissue imaging of crustacean heart #morphology. @tgoepel.bsky.social @morphonews.bsky.social #Flamingo #LSFM #light-sheet
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Lukas Feldhaus @veilchenfeuer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vor dem Saisonstart veröffentliche ich hier mal häppchenweise meine ProA-Vorschau, die in einigen Tagen auch im lokalen Saisonheft in der Samtgemeinde Artland erscheint. Zum Auftakt dran sind Heidelberg und Kirchheim. Lasst gern Meinungen und Diskussionspunkte zu den Teams da. #ProABaby
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Lukas Feldhaus @veilchenfeuer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Vor dem heute startenden BBL-Pokal habe ich anbei eine Preview zu den beiden ProA-Teams, die heute einsteigen: Crailsheim und Bremerhaven. Beide hatten eine an sich starke Vorsaison, verloren aber ihre Erfolgstrainer. Gebt wie immer gern Meinungen, Feedback, Einwände, Fragen und Co ab. #ProABaby
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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
2/2 🪼 Model system: Cnidarian Clytia hemisphaerica 😃 Non-scientific interests: Cinema/film festivals, reading, drawing/art, rock climbing, indie video games Sarah will work with @plenart.bsky.social
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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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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The final three #Dros27 plenary speakers are here! 🧬 @shimlab.bsky.social 🪰 @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social 🔬 Paul Schmidt From stem cells and tissue homeostasis to injury response, evolution, and adaptation, they complete an exciting lineup. 🔗 buff.ly/VviXmNk
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dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social @dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#DZG2026 news: The detailed programme, guidelines & abstract book are out. If you haven't checked out already: dzg-meeting.de/en/programme... Now that everything is set, we are looking forward to an exciting meeting, big thanx to the Münster organising team!! Have a save trip and see you you soon!
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Detailed Programm | DZG Meeting
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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Enjoy it! Already carried many bags of nicely roasted coffee beans home from Münster. Greetings to everyone at #DZG2026
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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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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Our book chapter from 7 (?!?!) years ago, is now also available as protocols.io version! That's pretty neat. www.protocols.io/view/the-red...
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The Red Flour Beetle as Model for Comparative Neural Development: Genome Editing to Mark Neural Cells in Tr...
The Red Flour Beetle as Model for Comparative Neural Development: Genome Editing to Mark Neural Cells in Tribolium Brain Development. . Read full protocol, s...
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am also advertising a 4 year (!) PhD student position. The PhD student will design developmental brain atlases and help establish comparative projectomics in key cell groups of the central complex and mushroom bodies. See details in the ad.
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am advertising a 3 year postdoc position. This person is going to focus on cell type development and evolution across key integration centres of the insect brain in four insect species. See details in the ad.
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.
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Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
Bee trajectories in agricultural landscape and two photon microscope for in-vivo calcium activity imaging.
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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
‼️ The first official FIBA women's world cup started in 1953, just three years after the first men's world cup. For soccer/football this took 61 years (men: 1930; women: 1991).🫣
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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🏀 ⛹️‍♀️ Excited about the start of the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2026 in Berlin! 👉 Here is a great official history video worth checking: youtu.be/YjatN9Dxkfs?... 📺 Germany games in free TV and through the mangenta company. Watch as much as possible to support great sport!
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The history of the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup through the words of its greatest icons 🏆
YouTube video by FIBA Basketball
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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Welcome!
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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Do wild-caught embryos develop in the same way as embryos cultured in the lab? This summer, Beke and Mette visited Luis at IMEV in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, to start exploring this question in the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii. #Platynereis #annelid #Flamingo #lightsheet #cell-lineage
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
'Make it easy to talk about mistakes “In lab meetings, tell your trainees that even careful, well-trained people make mistakes. A culture of ‘blaming and shaming’ doesn’t lead to fewer errors; it leads to people hiding their errors.' www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Twenty-two easy ways to power up your lab meetings
Scientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing.
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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
2/2 🪰 Model system: Drosophila melanogaster to begin with 😃 Non-scientific interests: Football and other sports, exploring nature through hiking and birdwatching Simon will work with Anne-Christin Hauschild
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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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Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What happens when evolution adds an extra pair of eyes? Male mayflies evolve an extra pair of dorsal compound eyes, the Turbanate eyes, thought to help males detect females during mating swarms. we have investigate how this remarkable evolutionary novelty develops. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Did transposable elements shape brain evolution — and if so, which ones, and in which cell states and lineages? Led by @tyamadat.bsky.social, we explored this question in cerebellum development using sequence-based deep learning models! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨 I am very happy (and relieved!) to announce that I secured Emmy Noether funding by the @dfg.de to start my own group at @unimainz.bsky.social , hosted by Marion Silies & Jakob von Engelhardt in August! 🚨 Website coming soon - open for name/logo suggestions. They better be funny tho!
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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Congratulations! Well deserved! Looking forward to reading exciting research from Farnworth lab!
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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Welcome to the team!!!
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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
2/2 🐞Model system: Broad horned beetle, Red flour beetle 😃Non-scientific interests: Watching movies, reading, hiking Mariam will work with @posnienlab.bsky.social
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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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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📣 📣 📣 📣 To all Drosophilists: the call for Workshop proposals at the 2027 European Drosophila Research Conference in Bonn (20-23 September 2027) is OPEN! Go to link below for instructions. Closing date: 30 September 2026. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 tinyurl.com/45y8trzd
The image is the logo of the 2027 European Drosophila Research Conference in Bonn, Germany: an adult male fly overlaid on a view of Bonn city.
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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📣 #JobAlert The Faculty of Biology of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics. ❗ Application Deadline: 15 August, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/roi8 #Biology #Bioinformatics #MolecularGenetics
Job alert text with logo of University of Freiburg.
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Shiv Grewal @grewalsh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Introns have a hidden regulatory role! 🧬🎉 Delighted to share our latest paper showing that inefficiently spliced introns and spliceosomal proteins direct RNA methylation, engaging RNAi to silence retrotransposons and regulate gene expression nature.com/articles/s41...
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