Joe Hanly
@hanliconius.bsky.social
interested in evolution, development and butterflies. Smithsonian Postdoc fellow. #albinism. He/him 🏳️🌈
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Joe Hanly
@hanliconius.bsky.social
· May 30
While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/
we all ready for Trumpsgiving?
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has announced flights will be cut by 10% at 40 U.S. airports due to the government shutdown.
Duffy added that a confidential document had shown the impact of the shutdown was hurting air traffic controllers’ ability to perform safely. trib.al/WRwt77M
Duffy added that a confidential document had shown the impact of the shutdown was hurting air traffic controllers’ ability to perform safely. trib.al/WRwt77M
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
we all ready for Trumpsgiving?
what's that feeling? Hope?
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
what's that feeling? Hope?
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A personal favorite, long time in the making. Adelina and David (@dduneau.bsky.social) were instrumental in getting this done.
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Wound-induced eyespots on butterfly wings at the intersection of immune response and pigmentation development - BMC Biology
Background Butterfly eyespots are striking examples of evolutionary novelty arising through the repurposing of ancestral genetic pathways, including pathways involved in wound healing. Given the activ...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A personal favorite, long time in the making. Adelina and David (@dduneau.bsky.social) were instrumental in getting this done.
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Explaining academic job searches to my brother and he says “so basically, you’re through to Judges’ Houses” - and like, yeah, no notes.
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Explaining academic job searches to my brother and he says “so basically, you’re through to Judges’ Houses” - and like, yeah, no notes.
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The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!
October 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!
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My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/
May 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/
I've just seen, for the first time, a paper with author names both in latin characters and the language-of-origin characters. Apparently it's been Cell Press policy since 2021? I think this is great! I wonder if other journals have policies on this?
October 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I've just seen, for the first time, a paper with author names both in latin characters and the language-of-origin characters. Apparently it's been Cell Press policy since 2021? I think this is great! I wonder if other journals have policies on this?
More journeys through fly gene etymologies.
![Screenshot of a Wikipedia article History article with the following text: The protein was discovered in 1996 by Italian scientists Silvia Bione et al., after long and intensive work.[15] Owing to the complex procedure required for the identification of tafazzin, the protein was named after Tafazzi, an Italian comedy character played by Giacomo Poretti who enthusiastically beats his groin with a plastic bottle, this as a symbol of masochism for the strenuous will to find it by the group of researchers.[77]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b3t6tkvujvmh5t7d3dhok52t/bafkreig5kgwrxfhiylt7gog45bokmby6ju2isssczh4ubnlog76hoggm4m@jpeg)
October 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
More journeys through fly gene etymologies.
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Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
September 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Excited to soon start my new role as Academy of Finland Research Fellow 🦋🐛I’ll later be advertising a PhD position on tiger moth colour and genomics, and will be speaking at #ESEB2025 this week if you want an idea of what’s going on!
August 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Excited to soon start my new role as Academy of Finland Research Fellow 🦋🐛I’ll later be advertising a PhD position on tiger moth colour and genomics, and will be speaking at #ESEB2025 this week if you want an idea of what’s going on!
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I was also under this misconception 🙋♂️ thanks for sharing this mini review!
While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/
July 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I was also under this misconception 🙋♂️ thanks for sharing this mini review!
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Very lucky to be at UCSF with such great microscopy facilities. These instruments are definitely pushing the limits of what we thought feasible in live imaging! Excited to keep exploring how these single cells organize and secrete such precise morphologies.
If you've ever wanted to know what the actin filaments on the scales in a developing moth wing look like in 3D, here you go!
Kyle DeMarr from @mullinslab.bsky.social acquired these beautiful data on the single objective light sheet at the UCSF Center for Advanced Light Microscopy.
#snouty
Kyle DeMarr from @mullinslab.bsky.social acquired these beautiful data on the single objective light sheet at the UCSF Center for Advanced Light Microscopy.
#snouty
July 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Having some EvoDevoPanAm fomo today - I really need to make it down next time!
July 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Having some EvoDevoPanAm fomo today - I really need to make it down next time!
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Preprint alert from the lab
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this elegant study of gene expression in the silk glands of our favorite alternative "silk worm", the pantry moth.
Mega-polyploid cells with thousands of genome copies just to express a handful of proteins
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this elegant study of gene expression in the silk glands of our favorite alternative "silk worm", the pantry moth.
Mega-polyploid cells with thousands of genome copies just to express a handful of proteins
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Preprint alert from the lab
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this elegant study of gene expression in the silk glands of our favorite alternative "silk worm", the pantry moth.
Mega-polyploid cells with thousands of genome copies just to express a handful of proteins
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this elegant study of gene expression in the silk glands of our favorite alternative "silk worm", the pantry moth.
Mega-polyploid cells with thousands of genome copies just to express a handful of proteins
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Some hot-off-the-press #evodevo from Martik, with new insights on the macro-evolution of insect wing morphology!!
Very excited to share the first chapter of my PhD thesis out in @elife.bsky.social : doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
We discovered how the gene "mirror" is necessary for specifying the “vannus”, a unique domain in the posterior part of butterfly wings. 🦋🦋 (1/6)
#CRISPR #butterfly #genomics
We discovered how the gene "mirror" is necessary for specifying the “vannus”, a unique domain in the posterior part of butterfly wings. 🦋🦋 (1/6)
#CRISPR #butterfly #genomics
July 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Some hot-off-the-press #evodevo from Martik, with new insights on the macro-evolution of insect wing morphology!!
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Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
July 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies
2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ.
Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct.
Details:
christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ.
Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct.
Details:
christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies
2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ.
Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct.
Details:
christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ.
Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct.
Details:
christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
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Forty years after Svante Pääbo kicked off this extraordinary field of science, today sees report of the first whole-genome sequence of an ancient Egyptian (from 2855–2570BCE). Exciting work from @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social, @flinklinus.bsky.social, & co at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, @crick.ac.uk.🧬🧪
Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian - Nature
Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia by the...
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July 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Forty years after Svante Pääbo kicked off this extraordinary field of science, today sees report of the first whole-genome sequence of an ancient Egyptian (from 2855–2570BCE). Exciting work from @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social, @flinklinus.bsky.social, & co at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, @crick.ac.uk.🧬🧪
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⭐ Can anyone guess what this is? ⭐
🔎 hints 🔍
- finding out will make your head spin!
- image ~ 100 um wide.
🔎 hints 🔍
- finding out will make your head spin!
- image ~ 100 um wide.
June 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
⭐ Can anyone guess what this is? ⭐
🔎 hints 🔍
- finding out will make your head spin!
- image ~ 100 um wide.
🔎 hints 🔍
- finding out will make your head spin!
- image ~ 100 um wide.
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🚨 Super exited to see our paper on the inheritance and genetic basis of guppy color variation come out in @natecoevo.nature.com rdcu.be/eugWV
Guppy males have enormous variation in color patterns, with many combinations of ornamental spots and stripes. But where does all this variation come from?
Guppy males have enormous variation in color patterns, with many combinations of ornamental spots and stripes. But where does all this variation come from?
July 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🚨 Super exited to see our paper on the inheritance and genetic basis of guppy color variation come out in @natecoevo.nature.com rdcu.be/eugWV
Guppy males have enormous variation in color patterns, with many combinations of ornamental spots and stripes. But where does all this variation come from?
Guppy males have enormous variation in color patterns, with many combinations of ornamental spots and stripes. But where does all this variation come from?
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Embrace that "get through the Ph.D. mindset," know that well-designed science has a chance to succeed, put your head down, and write those grants.
If we don't write grants, there will be an opportunity to justify further cuts to NSF staffing. So, if you don't have optimism, write a spite grant.
If we don't write grants, there will be an opportunity to justify further cuts to NSF staffing. So, if you don't have optimism, write a spite grant.
June 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Embrace that "get through the Ph.D. mindset," know that well-designed science has a chance to succeed, put your head down, and write those grants.
If we don't write grants, there will be an opportunity to justify further cuts to NSF staffing. So, if you don't have optimism, write a spite grant.
If we don't write grants, there will be an opportunity to justify further cuts to NSF staffing. So, if you don't have optimism, write a spite grant.