This remarkable set of genetic screens done both in the Nüsslein-Volhard & Driever & Fishman labs in Tübingen & Boston revolutionized our understanding of vertebrate development. This remembrance is worth a read-it was a long road, right up to the end 🧪 1/2
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Neil H. Shubin has been elected as the next NAS President! A leading evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin will succeed Marcia McNutt on July 1. The Academy also named Cherry Murray as International Secretary and elected new councilors. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/2026_pr...
The cover of Ends of The Earth against a background
“‘Ends of the Earth’ is a love letter to ice: to the terrible beauty of its vast, austere expanses; to the ways it tests human ingenuity.” Marissa Grunes on Neil Shubin’s stories of polar exploration: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/neil-shubin-ends-earth-polar-climate-change-review/
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.@neilshubin.bsky.social helped reveal one of evolution’s great transitions through the discovery of Tiktaalik, spending years tracing how fins became limbs and how our own bodies carry the imprint of ancient fish. He's been nominated to become the next president of the @nationalacademies.org
Deep underground at the automated stacks of the UChicago library.
I'm thrilled to share the news that the original Tiktaalik fossils, including the Type Specimen itself, will be on display in Ottawa starting December 19! Check them out.
nature.ca/en/visit-us/...
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Very happy to share video of 1st lecture @college-de-france.fr on Biological computation 😊. I defend the necessity to access Algorithmic & Computational levels of analysis in cell & developmental biol. proposed by David Marr in neuroscience. Logic & Function matter 🤩.
Video: tinyurl.com/55yejk5f
And here is the link to access the whole pdf. Enjoy!
I strongly believe that focusing on information & computation during Development provides an important framework, that encapsulates the genetic, chemistry & mechanics, but focusses on organisation, dynamics & logic.
PDF: tinyurl.com/4hn34t8w
Catch my conversation with a young Ukranian science journalist. Despite power outages and other serious challenges at home-- which forced us to reschedule several times-- he led a great and informative conversation. I'm grateful for the chance to chat with him.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYei...
Join me in Antarctica in 2026!! Looking forward to this trip.
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Details here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7jlie...
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Ends of the Earth was picked as one of the The Economist's best books of 2025!
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www.economist.com/culture/2025...
Ran into this natural gargoyle at Mt Fleming Antarctica in. 2017. Wild.
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Pleasure to announce the program of my new series of lectures at the College de France in Nov-Dec. Continuing on the theme of Biological information. I will focus on the computational aspects, building on David Marr's tri-level of analysis in biological systems. YouTube link sent when it starts.
What a wonderful visit to the @college-de-france.fr! Thank you Denis Duboule and the faculty of the Collège.
A fabulous month of science, ideas, conversation and, of course, Paris. Catch my four lectures here: www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
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Thanks Alfonso!
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Check out my third lecture at the Collège de France. On the origin of bones and teeth. Thanks to my host @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation and the community in Paris for a warm welcome!
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youtu.be/4-UyXZTAgZc
Tomorrow Wedn 5th, lesson #4 of @neilshubin.bsky.social , guest Professor @college-de-france.fr ‘How do new biological inventions arise in evolution?’ ⚠️ Final seminar on his Paris tour 2025 😲 Dont’ miss this last opportunity to meet him and his inner fish. 11am, aquarium Guillaume Budé 🐠Free swim.
Tomorrow Wednesday 29th at 11am, lesson #3 of @neilshubin.bsky.social guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The evolutionary origin of bones and teeth’. The second lesson is available @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... . No registration, Free access, dentures accepted.
Catch my new lecture at the Collège de France entitled “The Origin of Walking.” Thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for hosting!
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=fNim...
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My first lecture at the Collège de France @cdf1530 is up! In English... Three more to follow in the coming weeks.
With thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation! 🙏🇫🇷 🐠
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y...
Tomorrow wednesday October 15th at 11am, first seminar of @neilshubin.bsky.social , guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The history we share with fish’. Come, have a seat and enjoy learning where we come from. Free knowledge, no registration🤘
‘Ends Of The Earth,’ By Neil Shubin — Review
#BookReview📖 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#books #BookSky💙📚 #Nonfiction #science #Arctic #Antarctic #ClimateCrisis #PolarResearch #memoir #travelogue www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
Beginning a new adventure in the Arctic in July 1999. I’m to the left. Marcus Davis to the right. First day of fieldwork in the Arctic. We’d find Tiktaalik roseae five years later.
Photo: Ted Daeschler 🧪
Our work exploring a new explanation for the regulation of Hoxd genes and the #fin-to-limb transition. 🧪
It was an absolute joy working on this w/ @aurhin.bsky.social and @homeobox.bsky.social @denisduboule.bsky.social @neilshubin.bsky.social
#evo-devo #InHoxWeTrust
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