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We just published our first paper in the Peer Community Journal - diamond open access, no APCs! Awesome experience, with less than a week from submission after receommendation by #pcigenomics. Highly recommended! #molpalmuc @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @peercommunityin.bsky.social

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It is beyond disturbing when the NIH and HHS Directors do not understand that animal models are essential in research www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...

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Check out our latest issue to read a Q&A with @thibautbrunet.bsky.social, who studies the evolutionary origin of animal morphogenesis at the Institut Pasteur. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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New entry into the sponge/ctenophore debate.... Have the chromosome fusions separating ctenophores from all other animals been given too much weight? Beautifully clearly written paper covering complex arguments from @rcply.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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New contribution in @elife.bsky.social: Genetic parallels in biomineralization of the calcareous sponge Sycon ciliatum and stony corals doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #molpalmuc

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Applications open for the MBL Light Microscopy Bootcamp in October www.mbl.edu/education/mb...

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I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.

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A dream come true: the first expansion microscopy images of C. flexa 🤩 Generated by Mylan & Uzuki who learned from the best (@hiralshah.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social). We will learn so much from these!

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It's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor. It is the magic that lets us tell the origin stories, beginning with this ancient relative, of everything from mushrooms to man.

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@govofco.bsky.social Gov Polis, care to provide an update on your “optimism” about Kennedy?

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This work is finally officially out! Check out our paper, where we use various advanced microscopy techniques to shed light on the structures of a complex symbiotic organ and the communities of bacteria that live inside it. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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I made a website! Come check it out! Get to know me! See cool pictures! Learn that I'm looking for a post doc in fall 2025! www.derrickkamp.com

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A Surf Scoter pauses briefly before diving to the sea floor to hunt mollusks. #birds #bird #duck #nature #wildlife #photography

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Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses - Oeiras Portugal. Students from all over the world are eligible, we sponsor selected students. Please Repost! gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

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Did you know that science labs work like small business entrepreneurs? Faculty hired on strength of ideas, get some startup $ to last 3-4 yrs. After that is grants- grants pay all our + our trainees’ salaries + scientific work. Funding in this country is frozen. That means scientific work stops

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

We are in a biotech space race, cutting off basic science via slashing NIH and NSF funding robs the US of our competitive advantage: early innovation.

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The gut microbiota: an amazing technicolour dream coat or the emperor's new clothes? physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... - an excellent corrective to the relentless hype

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One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

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BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

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March 12 is your last chance to apply for the MBL's 2025 Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis course! 🗓️ This immersive, research-based course facilitates state-of-the-art experimental approaches in symbiosis research. Read more: bit.ly/4ig81fJ #ScienceStartsHere

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Some NorCal sponges for your timeline. Blows my mind how they survive such extreme intertidal exposure!

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PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses. Awesome topic. Unbeatable location. #symbiosky #microsky #evobio gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

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8 months to start! Very soon we will provide more information. All I can say is that we are super excited about this. #multicellularity #protistsonSky

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The evolution of shape diversity through the lens of physics—explored in our new paper! A fruitful collaboration between our lab @EMBL, Salbreux’s lab @unige & others, led by @BailleulRichar1—now independent at @ENS_ULM—& Nicolas Cuny. bit.ly/3WRqdEa

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Couple of opportunities up to join the group! One at postdoc level, but open to senior support path. One research assistant role. Please share, or drop a line if you want to learn more! Or just apply! Thanks! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Very excited to teach in this @embl.org developmental biology summer course. Great balance of theoretical and experimental approaches, and of canonical vs noncanonical model systems, with a stellar line-up of speakers 🤩 Apply! www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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Excited to present this preprint! Many know the Hawaiian bobtail squid as a study system for symbiosis with Vibrio fischeri. In the past few years, the cephalopod resource center at MBL/Woods Hole has developed the Hummingbird bobtail squid as a model. We asked how it performs during symbiosis. 🧵

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Fascinating work by Jeffrey Colgren @jeffcolgren.bsky.social & Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social reveals electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in #choanoflagellate colonies 🤩👏 Out now in Science Advances 🧪 #evobio Read the paper ➡️ doi.org/g8x466 🔗 tinyurl.com/ymzb9ppv

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I have no words. My sister lost her house to the SoCal fire, leaving her family of four with a handful of suitcases and no home. If you are feeling particularly generous, please consider this gofundme gofund.me/3752eb40

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Permian sponge fossils at 6500’ in the Guadalupe mountains of Texas!

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Met a ?friend? Along the trail… yikes. Was acting odd, so was a little concerning actually…

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sunrise hike on the border of Mexico

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New Year hike in Big Bend, TX

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Balmorhea springs, TX dec30!

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White Sands, NM

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My first post! Starting with a new publication together with @scottnichols.bsky.social. Sponges, proteomics, protein models and self-recognition at the dawn of animals. 🧽

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Cell and developmental biologists: as you start looking at conferences in 2025, consider joining us at the 2025 Cell Contact & Adhesion GRC. We've assembled a strong and diverse program of speakers at the cutting-edge of science in our field 1/n Please repost www.grc.org/cell-contact...

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Happy to announce our latest paper! A fresh look at the sponge Aggregation Factor, a glycoprotein complex involved in self-recognition and adhesion. Previously thought to be sponge-specific, we report compelling structural links with proteins found in all animals! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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NEW preprint!🥳 Orthogroups are a prerequisite for comparative genomics and Tree of Life inquiries Introducing #OrthoHMM, software that improves the inference of orthogroups (blue in fig) OrthoHMM may refine our understanding of genome evolution and the Tree of Life 🔗 tinyurl.com/4s9mwxz6 🧵 1/8

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The deadline to apply for a Group Leader position at the Centre is extended, send your application by January 6, 2025 🌊 An incredible opportunity to lead innovative marine science in beautiful Bergen! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧪 Reposts appreciated 🙏 tinyurl.com/4bwn8u3n

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Now with the official call page: research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...

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