The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data:
Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
On the nature of the earliest known lifeforms
#evolution #microbiology
@elife.bsky.social
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
What is a trait? Lessons from the human chin - Meneganzin - 2024 - Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Evolutionary causes and consequences of gene duplication www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬💻🧪 (🔓 rdcu.be/e4CYK)
New postdoctoral opportunity @lieberinstitute.bsky.social working w/ @tsawada1.bsky.social and our Molecular Neurogenetics team using human induced pluripotent stem cells to investigate molecular, cellular and neuroendocrine mechanisms by which impaired placental function impacts brain development
Comparing the size of the amygdala and the hippocampus across 12 species of macaques in relation to social tolerance.
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Are you interested in human DNA from ancient sediments? Do you want to do a PhD in Vienna? We have two open positions in our group! You can learn more and apply here (scroll down to the very bottom, ours are the last two listings): careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...
𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘄?
Because many of the biggest open questions in neuroscience still revolve around the cerebral cortex — how it emerged, expanded, diversified, and why it differs so much across species.
#CorticalEvolution2026
Join the PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics🧬 🇸🇪
www.trippus.net/summerschool...
and learn data integration
-Single-cell multiome
-ATAC-seq+3Dgenomics
-Non-coding variants+Transcription Factors
-Large-scale epigenomics
-Spatial
@scilifelab.se
@kawresearch.bsky.social
@remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
🚀 Interested in a postdoc in computational biology & AI for neuroscience?
The NOMIS Synergy Fellowship offers a great opportunity to develop such a position in my lab within the interdisciplinary Synergy excellence cluster.
🔗 www.synergy-munich.de/news-events/...
Webinar series at EMBL-EBI. Decoding spatial transcriptomics through sequences, pixels, and bioinformatics. A step-by-step guide to spatial transcriptomics analysis. 18 February - 8 April 2026.
Webinar series organisers, Ajay Mishra and Kristy Ou.
Webinar organiser Flaminia Zane. Registration is free but essential.
We're pleased to announce that our next webinar series is now live.
Decoding spatial transcriptomics through sequences, pixels, and bioinformatics will run from 18 February – 8 April 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
Coordinated by: @ajaymishra24.bsky.social, Kristy Ou, and Flaminia Zane.
🧬🖥️📊
Institut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!
Applications for our summer internship program are open. This is a paid, 9 week experience designed to provide research experience to undergraduates interested in the neurosciences, especially as related to the molecular and cellular basis of neuropsychiatric disorders
www.libd.org/summer-inter...
Transcriptomics and functional genomics implicate WNT3 in hemispheric lateralization of speech production: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
From glowing neurons to newborn memories, here are the most fascinating brain discoveries of 2025
I used this pic. today as part of my intro to adaptation in my UG class. I get students to guess what the pic shows and what it's for. I've done this w. other traits in prev. years to highlight how adaptation get us asking about function/purpose of traits in ways we dont do with nonliving things.
MPI-PL Colloquium: Prof. Mehmet Somel www.mpi.nl/events/mpi-c...
Mehmet will visit Nijmegen on Feb 17 to give a talk on his and his team's findings on social practices and gender roles in prehistoric Anatolian communities. 🧬🦴
Come for the ancient DNA, stay for the ancient matriarchal societies! ✊
📢 I would be happy to host a 2-year DDLS Postdoc at my group using museum genomics to look at recent adaptation in insect pollinators 📉🐝🦋🧬
If you are interested in this (or have other project ideas) get in touch ASAP!
The application deadline is March 31.
INFO 👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
🐜 4-year #postdoc position in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab @camzoology.bsky.social investigating metabolic cooperation between bodies in a BBSRC-funded project.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
#ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)
📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷
Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs.
Start May 2026 (flexible).
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
Lee et al. used B-lymphoblastoid cells from three great ape species and humans to show that human ZEB2 is distinct in regulating a larger repertoire of genes implicated in neuronal development.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf318
#evobio #molbio
🚨 Our year-long, post-bacc internship positions are now open for application! 🚨
This new program is designed to provide mentorship and on-the-job experience for recent grads.
Full list of open roles: https://alleninstitute.org/careers/internships-and-postbac/
Looking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...
Absolutely agree. The genetic makeup of a species does explain what sets it apart from other species, but the explanation is usually complex, and not reducable to the isolated effects of single variants. IMO, this work provides further evidence for the existing view of combinatorial evolution.
While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪
Explainer🧵👇1/n
“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known"
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
