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Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

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Amazing ermine moth nest in #HorfieldCommon

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True, but whose fault is that if not the universities? It’s frustrating that relatively few colleagues feel it’s important to engage with their communities. Many institutions will also probably cut back outreach programs when we most need the public on side.

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Olfactory communication is essential for many 🐜 species. A new comparative study across 8 subfamilies suggests that neuronal imvestment in antennal lobes co-evolved with compexity of cuticular hydrocarbon profile and hence nestmate recognition. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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1/2 Episodic memory in parasitoid wasps Although traditionally associated with large-brained animals, Ammophila pubescens females have memory of the three key elements: who, when and where characteristic of episodic memory. (paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Annual day of pretending I enjoy running and don’t find it painful 🥴

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Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out! @neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex

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Come hang 🤗

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We are #hiring! Interested in comparative neuroscience? Check details here (www.unifr.ch/bio/en/depar...). We look for a motivated #PhD student or #PostDoc to combine genetics, physiology, neural circuit tracing, and behaviour to study taste processing evolution in #Drosophila. Please repost.

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🚨new 🧪 pre-print alert🚨 @maxfarnworth.bsky.social’s epic piece on the #evolution of the central complex during mushroom body expansion in #Heliconiini butterflies. Here is the graphical abstract:

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Great opportunity in a very successful lab, lots of data behind the project and lots of cool stuff to follow up on! 🧪

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Including our very own @maxfarnworth.bsky.social! 🤩

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Why does the forebrain expand dramatically while other neural regions grow less? Our new publication reveals progenitor metabolism critically shapes region-specific brain growth. Thread below. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-udL7PXu...

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Este libro llegó a mi antigua casa hace ya meses pero hasta hoy lo tuve en mis manos 🙌🏽//Finally got my hands on my hardcover copy of this 😊

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⏰ Only 2 Days Left! ⏰ This is it: your last chance to submit your abstract for hashtag#ESEB2025! Don’t miss the opportunity to showcase your research and be part of one of the most important events in Evolutionary Biology. 📬 Submit now: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

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This issue has become more acute in recent years. A narrow view of "mechanistic" experiments holds us back. "A case for broadening our view of mechanism in developmental biology" journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Really cool article in @pnas.org on #electroreception for #predatordetection gets well-deserved #CozzarelliPrize2024 🏅 Congratulations @samjakeengland.bsky.social and Daniel Robert 🥳🥳🥳↘️ doi.org/10.1073/pnas... ↙️

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Happy to see this out now: Olfactory projection neuron rewiring in the brain of an ecological specialist: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports... In a team effort with @bentonlab.bsky.social 's lab we establish new genetic tools in #drosophila sechellia and compare single central brain neurons.

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How do #brain cells change over #evolution? @bentonlab.bsky.social compare #scRNAseq from ecologically distinct #drosophilid species to identify changes in composition & gene expression of different cell types, revealing higher divergence in #glia than #neurons @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4js7Rms

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Now out in #ProcB 🧪 Ancestral complexity and constrained diversification of the ant olfactory system 🐜 Expertly led by Simon Marty and Antoine Couto, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk and @agencerecherche.bsky.social 🙏🏻 #socialinsects @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

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New paper now out! 🚀 Evolution isn't just about selection—it's about how each generation changes the environment for the next. We experimentally show evolutionary feedbacks in action in fruit flies. 🧵 (1/) @pnas.org #NSF #SupportNSF

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Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Big day... My book #NaturesMemory: Behind the Scenes at the World's Natural History #Museums is published TODAY.🤩 Over the last 20+ years of working in these incredible institutions, I've noticed some surprising things about them, and this book shares some of these "secrets", as an insider's guide.🧵

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Only a few days left to submit your abstract @eseb2025.bsky.social ! Please share.

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Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Happening today! Come join us 🤗

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Just a few days left to submit your abstract due 25 April!!!

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We will host a symposium on Evolution of behavioural diversity: from ecology to genes and neural systems at @eseb2025.bsky.social 17-22 August, Barcelona eseb2025.com Keynotes by @ornellabertrand.bsky.social & Isabela Almudi Cabrero Submit your abstract before April 25 eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

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Join us for the first TIBBE seminar: Brain size, neuron number and connectivity. April 22, 2–3pm UTC This event brings together 2 outstanding evolutionary neuroscientists who will present their work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience: crowdcast.io/c/brain-size...

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I am thrilled for our upcoming online seminar around brain size, neuron numbers, and connectivity with 2 fantastic evolutionary neuroscientists, Kristina Kverkova and Kei Yamamoto: next Tuesday, April 22, 2pm UTC, 4pm Paris. 🧠 🐦 🐠 🦜. Join us on Crowdcast crowdcast.io/c/brain-size...

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