My awesome colleague, @yarimura.bsky.social, is recruiting a postdoc to start at the end of 2026 or early 2027! His lab uses cryo-EM to uncover structural basis of key chromatin events using native complexes isolated from human cells or Xenopus egg extracts!
careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30706/p...
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www.online-tribute.com/DavidBotstein
David Botstein passed away. I worked with him at Stanford for a few years in designing and teaching a course on "The Heart". My heart is heavy right now. He was a wonderful mentor.
Progress!
At least 50 students hoping to win a prestigious graduate fellowship this year from the National Science Foundation have already been turned down without even having their research proposals reviewed. https://scim.ag/3MsRbA7
Ten years since the first reported observation of gravitational waves
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Loss of ‘hunger hormone’ has made snakes masters of fasting Ditching ghrelin genes may have helped a wide variety of reptiles deal with a boom-or-bust feeding schedule
Though fearsome predators, snakes can go weeks or even months without eating. Now, scientists think they may know how they do it.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/49ZcLFr
New research points to the oil-producing alga Auxenochlorella as a powerful platform for producing specialty oils, chemical feedstocks and industrial precursors—as well as to better enable the mining of critical minerals and materials.
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@berkeleylab.lbl.gov @axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov
Society for Developmental Biology logo Society for Developmental Biology 2026 Award Winners Edwin G. Conklin Medal Headshot of Lee Niswander Lee Niswander, University of Colorado Boulder Society for Developmental Biology Lifetime Achievement Award Headshot of Alexandra Joyner Alexandra Joyner, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize Headshot of Roberto Mayor Roberto Mayor, University College London Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award Headshot of Jeffrey Farrell Jeffrey Farrell, National Institutes of Health Society for Developmental Biology Trainee Science Communication Award Headshot of Nicholas Desnoyer Nicholas Desnoyer, The Sainsbury Laboratory
Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners!
Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander
SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner
Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor
Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell
SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer
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During a dive last year in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina, researchers documented a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen since it was discovered a little over a century ago. “There was a mixture of excitement and disbelief,” said one marine biologist. trib.al/HfkWfp4
Before you move in permanently with the ants, just be sure about it. #never-look-back #symbiosis 🐜🪲🔬https://www.science.org/content/article/these-beetles-wear-chemical-invisibility-cloaks-and-will-die-if-they-re-removed
New insights into the evolution of spider silk proteins illuminated by long-read transcriptomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.03.703552v1
Please share this with your network: Postdoctoral position available in my group.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
#Hype4Hydrozoa!
This is figure 2, which shows non-bilaterian metazoans, deuterostomes and problematic taxa from the Huayuan biota.
A paper in Nature describes a collection of soft‑bodied fossils discovered in a quarry in China, dating to around 512 million years ago. The Huayuan biota contains 153 animal species from 16 major groups, of which 59% are previously undiscovered species. go.nature.com/49KUOdw #Paleosky 🧪
Rereading these two papers:
Holes in the hologenome: why host-microbe symbioses are not holobionts.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow?
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
And I still find myself in general agreement with most of the points in them
How non-bitter CRISPR grapefruit could be the first step towards a future in which citrus fruits like oranges 🍊 are grown in temperate regions like the UK rather than subtropical places like Florida 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2513...
Mondays are better with an octopus squid 🦑💫
The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is unusual among squids. Most squids have eight arms and two long tentacles, making a total of 10 appendages. As young Octopoteuthis mature, their two feeding tentacles are reabsorbed into their bodies.
#MicroscopyMonday | Bacteria as a protein delivery system! Engineered glowing bacteria to secrete protein (red) inside the gut of a C. elegans worm. Green is the worm’s natural digestive processes. Worms are used to screen secretion before testing in mice. (Li Lab) #SciSky
A view of Friday Harbor Labs dock in the early morning with blowing sea fog in the background.
Want to do a postdoc at Friday Harbor Labs? We have two positions open. Apply by March 1st. I am happy to discuss potential projects with fish people.
apply.interfolio.com/180092
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5/ All data are published on a publicly available website associated with this article that encourages community participation.
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4/ Experimental validations of a selection of 45 unchallenged claims, reported in their accompanying paper, suggested that a significant fraction (38/45) were non-reproducible.
🔗 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre....
1/ A field-wide audit of reproducibility in Drosophila immunity
The ReproSci project assessed how many claims from 400 papers had been verified by later research, and, in an accompanying study, tested those that remained uncorroborated.
🔗 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Blue buttons jellies float at the oceans surface, like little animal flowers, living between sea and sky. There are millions of them out there right now, and most will live their whole lives without even being seen by a human.
Despite the hard things, the world is still wondrous.
Now Open: E-STEEM Postdoc Call 2026
20+ fully funded 4 year-postdoc positions for females in STEM (and Economics) at the University of Vienna.
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
Application Deadline: March 2, 2026
Select your desired Host. Anyone interested in my lab, please get in touch.
The re-analysis of this #sponge #ctenophore study made me realize how important it is to really *look* at your data.
Their filtering pipeline was meant to retain "strong" genes, but many of them had NO ctenophores and most had polyphyletic sponges.
Time to put down the pitchforks for a while.
Exclusive: In a remarkable milestone in a decadelong odyssey, members of the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project report in a new paper that they have recovered DNA from Holy Child and other objects—and some may be from Leonardo himself. https://scim.ag/4aO5Wr8
Scientists have combined lab-grown human brain tissue with an electronic circuit in an attempt to create a more powerful computer. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/4qjjPSE
Grateful to @pewtrusts.org for funding our snow fly work, in collaboration with Sebastian Brauchi at Universidad Austral de Chile.
We are now looking for post-docs to work on the biophysical mechanisms that allow snow fly neurons and muscles to function below zero.
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