Alexa Sadier

A two-column status table titled "Stage" and "Start Date" tracks the timeline of a manuscript submission from its preliminary data submission on October 8, 2025, to its eventual withdrawal on March 2, 2026. The log reveals a lengthy and repetitive administrative process, particularly between October 26, 2025, and February 19, 2026, where the status cycled more than ten times between "Contacting Potential Reviewers" and "Waiting for Reviewer Assignment," suggesting significant difficulty in securing peer reviewers. Following these numerous failed attempts to move into the active review phase, the final entry shows the manuscript was officially withdrawn on March 2, 2026, at 09:08:18.

My first paper had to be mailed to Stockholm, Sweden, and then mailed to reviewers around the world. Everything by mail! It was submitted, reviewed, revised, typeset, and published in 3 months. I feel bad for early-career scientists who can't find a single reviewer after 5 months. It's gotta change.

I’m sure today’s theme will be filled with incredible moon shots…but this one will always be my favorite I’ve ever taken.

Right as I pressed the shutter, a bat flew straight through the frame — turning a simple moon photo into a cool moment. #BlueSkyArtShow #Round #BlueSkyPhotography #Night

Annotating genomes at increased scale and resolution - Nature Reviews Genetics In this Review, Ji et al. overview how rapidly advancing experimental and computational methods are enabling improved and automated annotation of gene structure and function, providing researchers wit...

The growing number of sequenced #genomes provides a positive feedback loop, in which database searches become more effective and shared sequence patterns emerge more clearly www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biodiversity #genomics

We wrote a perspective "How to build the regulatory genome: a constructionist guide to the cis-regulatory code", out in Development yesterday. Title says it all. Find it here:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

New pre-print with some updates on ivory:miR193 in a highly polymorphic moth.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We mapped ivory (again!?) this time controlling aspects of camouflage in Anticarsia gemmatalis. Mapping, SVs, Expression and Function.

Comments/suggestions welcome!

🎓 Doctorat.gouv.fr : La plateforme nationale dédiée au doctorat est en ligne en version bêta

Portée par le Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, cette plateforme a vocation à devenir un espace de référence du doctorat

🔎 Explorez la version bêta et partagez vos retours !

Post doc position in Evolutionary biology and bioinformatics - work environment: This postdoctoral position will be supervised by Aline Muyle and hosted at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), within the CHANGE department and the Plant ...

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

Le bon côté c'est qu'une tâche qui devrait être simple devient un livre dont vous êtes le héros, une quête épique qui semble relever du miracle quand elle réussit.

Trois semaines pour réserver un billet d'avion ici. OM CNRS pour que le collègue prof passe sur ma grant, SAUF QUE. Il lui faut un OM sans frai université. Qui décide d'envoyer a leur FDS (wtf). Délais, attente et... On n'en aurait rien su si on avait pas demandé/suivi/mis la pression.

Je travaille dans une umr et je suis effaré de voir à quel point rien ne fonctionne en ce moment et ce dans les trois tutelles. On est au point où on me dit au téléphone que le seul moyen pour que ça marche c'est de faire des trucs barely légales (bien sûr on me le dit pas par écrit).

Dmed you :)

The robustness of developmental systems is strong. Especially if related to highly conserved developmental modules that act as kernels of dev systems. It echoes some results with space biology data. Really interesting!

Have you ever wondered 🤔... Does phenotypic variance respond to environmental perturbation? Does it have a genetic basis? Are mean and variance regulating loci exposed to different selection pressures? These and more questions are explored in our new preprint 🔥

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social!

A dive into the deep history of vertebrate vision, together with @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social

Photo credit : Vasilis Karkalas

Welcome ExE 2026 is a 3-day conference aimed at evolutionary ecologists from around the world, hosted by the University of Exeter in beautiful Cornwall. It provides a friendly and inclusive platform for all c...

For folks in #Ecology and #Evolution, we are hosting a conference here in Cornwall UK! Great chance for a summer staycation June 29-July 3.

Plus, we've managed to make it affordable: £250 + £49/night for accommodation.

#EvolBiol #EcoEvo

sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/

Portrait : Gladys Martial, la science à bout de bras YouTube video by La boite à curiosités

“Je pensais que la science n’était pas faite pour moi.”

Pas de parcours scientifique, et pourtant Gladys travaille au @cnrs.fr

Parce que la recherche a besoin de mille chemins, mille regards.

🎥 Interview complète sur YouTube youtu.be/HzFUH1zSFgI?...

Collect #NeuralCrest Cells for #SingleCell #RNAseq from any vertebrate.

Our new paper, present an antibody-guided #FACS method to collect NCCs. No trans-genesis or in ovo manipulation required.

Demonstrated in wall #lizard #embryos using #microscopy, #RTqPCR and #scRNAseq.

doi.org/10.1111/ede....

Our paper on convergent regressive evolution of genes involved in oral anatomy of myrmecophagous mammals is now officially published @molbioevol.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag009

Le vivant n’explore même pas 1 % des formes possibles Des bactéries aux arbres, des coraux aux oiseaux, la vie terrestre semble d’une diversité infinie. Pourtant, une nouvelle étude montre que le vivant n’explore qu’une infime fraction des formes théoriq...

[Podcast] Avec Sciences | "Le vivant n'explore même pas 1% des formes possibles" par @alexandradelbot.bsky.social

Un poste de Professeur des Universités va être ouvert lors de la campagne d’emploi 2026 à l’université Claude Bernard Lyon1 -
Profil Recherche : Biologie Moléculaire des Eucaryotes.
Profil Enseignement: Biologie Moléculaire.
Profil ci-joint.
Merci de diffuser dans vos réseaux.

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?

Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu. Registration is open for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology meeting AUGUST 2026. PLEASE SHARE.

Évidemment :) sous doz avec wsl2 pour linux. Ce serait impossible de ne pas l'être étant donné ce qu'on fait en bioinfo et anat (ou alors ils auraient des tickets toutes les 5 min). Impossible de brancher des ordis perso en filaire par contre (sauf exception et après inspection uniquement)

Very last chance to join us (Deadline tomorrow Feb 10!) at this Developmental Biology meeting!
Have a nice story? Come and discuss it with editors from @embojournal.org @plosbiology.org and @dev-journal.bsky.social !
A one hour info session from @erc.europa.eu will also be presented!

Si la descente dame n'avait pas été aussi CHERE (500 balles quand j'ai regardé à l'arrache), j'y serais allée :)

Ah si moi j'ai vraiment hâte pour toutes les épreuves d'alpin (que je suis en temps normal de toute façon sur eurosport), le biathlon/fond (que je regarde de loin en temps normal), j'ai hâte de voir le skialpi, et ensuite je regarderai dans doute quelques autres sports plus confidentiel en glace

Perso beaucoup plus que ceux d'été !

Yup

Donc si vous êtes une femme scientifique et que vous êtes co-autrice d’un joli papier publié récemment, ou alors que vous avez juste vu un super papier dans votre domaine, faites-moi signe 👋

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are calling for a more harmonious approach.

The last word on Ctenophores versus Sponges (not).
www.nature.com/articles/d41...