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Eve Seuntjens
@eveseuntjens.bsky.social
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Developmental neurobiology and brain evolution beyond vertebrates
Suckered into cephalopod and killifish biology
Full Professor of Biology at KU Leuven, Belgium
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plantophagy.bsky.social
This is a beautiful case of how real science happens & serious scientists work. Kudos to both set of authors: “This has been a humbling experience, but one that speaks to the self-correcting nature of the scientific endeavor.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
RETRACTED: Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree
Determining whether sponges or ctenophores root the animal tree has important implications for understanding early animal evolution. Here, we examined support for these competing hypotheses by constru...
www.science.org
February 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Interesting news: The Marine Biological Labs at Woods Hole (MBL) is once again becoming an independent institution. University of Chicago will remain a partner, but only one of many. MBL is an amazing place for science and science training and I hope it will thrive in this new status.
Dear Friends of the MBL, I am reaching out with news about the Marine Biological Laboratory's relationship with the University of Chicago. Today, MBL and the University of Chicago announced that, following a 12-year affiliation, MBL will once again be a fully independent organization, effective June 30, 2026. MBL will continue to collaborate closely with the University of Chicago across education, research and graduate training, with the University of Chicago remaining one of MBL's valued academic partners. The University has made extraordinary programmatic, leadership, and financial contributions to the MBL. University leaders, including presidents and provosts, served as active members of the Board of Trustees. We are grateful for this support and look forward to continued academic collaboration. This partnership has fueled significant research collaborations and publications, as well as joint programs established around common research themes. Examples of these include the MBL/University of Chicago Graduate Research Fellowship Program and scientific collaborations that resulted in the development of innovative instruments, enabling high-resolution, three-dimensional visualization of cells and tissues. The outlook for an independent MBL is bright. For example, our efforts in recent years have significantly raised the ambitions of MBL's fundraising. In August of 2025, the Marine Biological Laboratory received an unrestricted gift of $25 million from MBL alumnus Mark Terasaki, the largest private contribution in our 137-year history. Additional substantial funding has been received for graduate training, named positions, facilities, courses, faculty hires, scholarships, and lectureships. Together, these extraordinary investments reflect our donors' confidence in MBL's mission and future and strengthen our financial foundation as we move forward. They build on a commitment MBL made in 2023 to achieve financial self-sufficiency, supported by the expansion of our Bo… MBL's existing academic programs and collaborations with the University of Chicago are expected to continue as before, including research collaborations, participation by University of Chicago undergraduate and graduate students, and University of Chicago-affiliated courses and programs. The academic links that we have built over the last 12 years will serve both institutions well in the future. There are no significant changes to MBL's budget, staffing levels or operations and MBL will retain full ownership of its endowment. University of Chicago representatives will step down from the MBL Board of Trustees in June 2026, which will otherwise remain the same. I am deeply grateful for your continued engagement and belief in MBL. Your support and connection to this institution make this next chapter possible, and I look forward to sharing more in the weeks ahead as we continue our work together. With appreciation, Nipam H. Patel, Director Marine Biological Laboratory
February 4, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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robertofeuda.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a FIS-3 Advanced Grant (ERC-inspired) to study the evolution of neurogenic GRNs.
Recruiting soon: 4 postdocs + 3 PhDs
Press release in Italian — to decolonise scientific language 😄
magazine.unibo.it/it/articoli/...
Email me if interested in joining the lab
Un viaggio all’origine dei sistemi nervosi
Il nuovo progetto GRNevo, finanziato con un grant FIS-3 Advanced da 1,9 milioni di euro, studierà come si formano i neuroni durante lo sviluppo in specie animali molto distanti tra loro: dal moscerino...
magazine.unibo.it
January 13, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy
If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the

"Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples"

at Stazione Zoologica in Naples.

WIth great teachers from Naples […]

[Original post on biologists.social]
Poster of the EM course in Naples with marine samples. The Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples arises from a very strong and active collaboration between the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and the EMBL in Heidelberg. The aim of the course is to provide a theoretical and practical training on electron microscopy starting from the basics to the preparation of samples with high pressure freezing and image acquisition using TEM and SEM.
January 13, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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nkonst4.bsky.social
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!
biorxivpreprint.bsky.social bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 29d
Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.08.698497v1
January 10, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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matosches.bsky.social
Thank you @fredcauseret.bsky.social for this nice highlight of our work and @idoiaeu.bsky.social 's!
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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imaeso.bsky.social
Our work on the evolution of the regulatory genome of echinoderms is now out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Led by my former PhD Marta Magri, Danila Voronov & Saoirse Foley. Great collaboration of Arnone, Hinman & Maeso labs, started long time ago with our missed José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta: rdcu.be/eXX8l
Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of the 3D chromatin architecture and cis-regulatory elements in a sea urchin and a sea star reveals mechanisms of 3D chromatin organization in echinoderms...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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tirscienceblog.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨Places on the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social 2026 Summer School now available! Fantastic opportunity for undergrads to get 1st-hand research experience with world-class facilities at a great campus in the heart of Europe. Details 👇 @vbcscitraining.bsky.social
vbcscitraining.bsky.social Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · Dec 29
The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Pim Huis in 't Veld from Max Perutz Labs Vienna is recruiting! Please share
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
December 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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thechitoncorner.bsky.social
I am thrilled to share our new open-access paper in Communications Biology!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Huge congrats to PhD student, June Ordóñez (not on bsky), whose beautiful and meticulous work led this project! 👏🔥
@univie.ac.at@fwf-at.bsky.social @vdsee-univie.bsky.social univie.bsky.social
Anterior-posterior patterning in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera informs bilaterian nervous system and tail evolution - Communications Biology
Expression of anterior patterning and Hox genes in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera reveals conserved features of bilaterian body patterning and offers insight into how Hox genes contributed to n...
www.nature.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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centriolelab.bsky.social
A super detailed protocol + video on Cryo-ExM - Cryo-Expansion Microscopy, led by the labs of our former postdocs @marinelap.bsky.social & @ebertiaux.bsky.social.
Clear, practical, and very useful for anyone doing nanoscale imaging 🚀 app.jove.com/t/68595/expa...
December 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
eveseuntjens.bsky.social
What a nice xmas present! Check this one out if you are into animal behavioral tracking! #OCTRON works really well on animals without a backbone, like 🐙. Happy we could contribute to this story led by @octoscience.bsky.social
octoscience.bsky.social Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · Dec 23
Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!
December 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
eveseuntjens.bsky.social
Maybe we should revise policies that push postdocs out of academic research too early. It selects for early achievers that remain in one field and risks losing the highest impact people
December 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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mpi-astro.bsky.social
Are you a bachelor or master student anywhere in the world, and would like to come to us to work full-time on a supervised research project? Applications for the 2026 MPIA Summer Internship are open now!
Summer internships
www.mpia.de
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
eveseuntjens.bsky.social
For those of you now wondering about @idoiaeu.bsky.social sharkies, mark your agenda’s: on June 5th, 2026 she will be speaking at the @rbscdb.bsky.social Spring Meeting on Cortical development and Neural stem cells in Chateau Colonster, Liège, Belgium. More news to follow!
idoiaeu.bsky.social Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui @idoiaeu.bsky.social · Dec 9
#ERCCogG granted!!! Immensely grateful for this opportunity. Thanks @erc.europa.eu . Many news coming soon. New lab opening and will be posting positions. 🦈🧠🤍 Go sharkies!
erc.europa.eu European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Dec 9
The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣

349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!

👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV

#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope

@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
December 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
eveseuntjens.bsky.social
It was nice catching up with colleagues and celebrating 10 years #EMBRC-BE in a wonderful venue #RBINS in Brussels 🌊
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
eveseuntjens.bsky.social
Spot on
carstenschulte4.bsky.social Carsten Schulte @carstenschulte4.bsky.social · Dec 3
I would call it the "Matthew effect" grant! Why is it that we always demand to "listen to the science", but when it comes to science related to the flaws and issues of our current research funding structure (and scientific publishing system for that matter), we are completely ignorant...?
katherinestiles.org Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · Nov 28
· #AcademicSky ·
The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:

Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building

Spread the word...

www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Development's Pathway to Independence Programme
Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...
www.biologists.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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arnausebe.bsky.social
Open postdoc position at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Tree of Life to contribute to the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, with a focus on spatial transcriptomics.

Apply by January 4
sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco...

Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Postdoctoral Fellow - Biodiversity Cell Atlas
Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenge...
sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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science.org
A specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing male octopuses to find their sex organs in the dark. https://scim.ag/4roFry3
‘Superarm’ helps male octopuses deliver sperm to females
Specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing males to find sex organs in the dark
scim.ag
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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matteoguardamagna.bsky.social
Still at SfN on the last day? During the morning session on the 19th, 8:00AM - 12:00PM, come check out our posters from the Moser, Zong, and Gonzalo Cogno groups in row QQ ('Grid cells and spatially modulated cells'). Ephys, imaging, remapping, development, sweeps and more! 🧠
Detailed thread below 👇
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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agcollins.bsky.social
As part of his dissertation, @beziostudio.bsky.social leads a recent paper on benthic ctenophores. New family established based on anatomical observations, mitochondrial genome structure, and sequence data. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Benthoplanidae, a new family of benthic ctenophores (Platyctenida), based on morphological and genetic data
The benthic ctenophore Benthoplana meteoris (adults left and bottom, planktonic juveniles to the top right), type species for the genus, which in turn is type for the newly erected family: Benthoplan....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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zandawala.bsky.social
🚀 New paper alert!
Thrilled to share our latest study led by postdoc
@gera_jayati
published in eLife.

👉 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Continue reading for a summary. 🧵
Anti-diuretic hormone ITP signals via a guanylate cyclase receptor to modulate systemic homeostasis in Drosophila
A multi-pronged approach reveals that ion transport peptide neuropeptide acts through the guanylate cyclase receptor Gyc76C to coordinate osmotic and metabolic homeostasis across multiple tissues in D...
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
eveseuntjens.bsky.social
Looking forward to this meeting! Do not miss it and send in your abstract before Dec 15!
brunetlab.bsky.social BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · Nov 11
Cool neurogenesis meeting in the Swiss Alps!!

'Neurogenesis from development to adulthood in health and disease'

To submit an application: asconameeting@unige.ch
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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odedrechavi.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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impvienna.bsky.social
🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!

Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.

Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM