Oui. En fait, c’est groovy!
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Oui. En fait, c’est groovy!
Applications are open for a 3-year funded PhD position at the Finnish Museum of Natural History, focused on dung beetle evolution. Deadline: March 16. … https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Doctoral-Researcher-in-Macroevolution-and-Phenotypic-Diversification-of-Dung-Beetles/1352799257/ #gradstudent
In this review we map the journey to animal multicellularity and define three extinct ancestral stages:
🔹 LUAA: Last Unicellular Animal Ancestor.
🔹 FACA: First Animal Common Ancestor.
🔹 LACA: Last Animal Common Ancestor.
Check it out: bit.ly/4azuLVY @embojournal.org
Institut Jacques Monod Seminar
Friday, Feb 27
Institut Jacques Monod
Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social (EMBL, Heidelberg) Evolution and diversity of mitosis
Exciting evolutionary cell biology: bridging genomics, experimental evolution, and stunning imaging across diverse protozoans
buff.ly/uCSfjgQ
Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Banger cormorant eye footage today 🪶
Québécois madness !
I resisted the growing hype for ten days before clicking, but now, I must share. It is so ... joyful. #musicfornerds #anginedepoutine youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so
At the request of the authors !
Si près du but ...
Il faut détester le fascisme mais pas les "fascistes" parce que malheureusement, un fasciste sommeille en chacun d'entre nous.
Excellent film "à sketchs". Gros fan de Buster.
Selon une étude, l’être humain n’utiliserait que 10% de son smartphone https://www.legorafi.fr/2026/02/12/selon-une-etude-letre-humain-nutiliserait-que-10-de-son-smartphone/
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Ediacaran fossil surface on the coastline of Newfoundland, Canada
This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
My wife tells me I totally missed this one: Cambrian chordates were nerds !
Welcome to the Institute, Stern Lab! @hhmi-science.bsky.social Investigator David Stern studies how insects hijack plant development. His lab’s discoveries could reshape how we think about pest control and food security. He & his team arrived from HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus.
bit.ly/4np96Fb
Think of it:
Physics, stuck at the relativity/quantics incoherence, baffled by quantum entanglement.
Biology, we are incapable of modeling even the simplest cell.
Paleontology, human evolution is a mess , the more we unearth, the less we understand.
So far, the scientific 21st century is very disappointing compared to the same years of the 20th century. Am i wrong ?
Back then, i wanted to be a paleontologist 🫠
Before selling out to MTV and soft drink commercials in their later career, they produced some of the most audacious yet exciting underground music of the 70s, compiled in their excellent Hardcore vol1/2 albums. <Smart patrol / Mr DNA> 👉 youtu.be/0UKtZwWLMp8
DEVO was founded by two pairs of brothers in 1973 in Akron, Ohio. DEVO stands for de-evolution: the idea that humankind is evolving regressively. Their abrasive experimental sound, robot-like vocals, and wacky stage performances announced punk and New Wave. <Jocko Homo> 👉 youtu.be/p7dczENxnbE
The weirdophile can no longer resist the uncontrollable urge to share his love for DEVO, so let’s <Whip it> ! 👉 youtu.be/bDVuQyzDECs
#MusicForNerds #BoojiBoy 👇
"Network analysis reveals close faunal connections between the Huayuan and Burgess Shale biotas, indicating transoceanic dispersal. Dated shortly after the Sinsk event..."
🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
This developing quail embryo looks like it's thinking fiery thoughts for #FluorescenceFriday 🐣🔥🧪. Imaged by the fantastic @vanderspuy.bsky.social
The evolutionary extrapolations in this study struggle to account for empirical cases like Trump’s two election wins. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Merci pour ce partage mais quelle bulls**t biologie ! Tester des tendances culturelles qui remontent au mieux aux 70s et l’extrapoler a l'évolution humaine, ça ne mérite pas un IgNobel mais plutôt un razzie.
Got stripes?
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@mcgregorlab.bsky.social
#EvoDevo #Biology #PhD #FluorescenceFriday
I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
