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Igor Schneider
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Asst. Professor at LSU / evolution / development / regeneration
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How do four-eyed fish see above & underwater? 🌤️🌊 Our new preprint reveals how Anableps rewired its retina for dual vision- evolution at work 👁️👁️ Kudos to @perezlouise.bsky.social @josanesousa.bsky.social @keylapruett.bsky.social + team!
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November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Hosting @karen-crow.bsky.social here at LSU as our seminar speaker for the Division of Cellular, Developmental and Integrative Biology. Don’t miss her talk at 3:30pm 🧬!! @lsuscience.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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“It’s too easy to be swamped by a short-term political and social environment.” Neil Shubin tells “Babbage” why he remains optimistic about science in America
Neil Shubin: defender of American science
Our podcast on science and technology. We speak to the polar palaeontologist poised to lead America’s National Academy of Sciences
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October 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Please share/repost widely: I have a postdoc position available. Please see ad below and reach out to apply.

academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15449
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Capellini Laboratory of Developmental and Evolutionary Genetics
The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Evolutionary and Developmental Genetics Laboratory of Dr. Terence D. Capellini....
academicpositions.harvard.edu
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate?
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Hey Regen folks 👋 Excited to share that our single-nucleus RNA-seq dataset for Polypterus fin regeneration is now live at the Broad Institute portal! Dive in here: tinyurl.com/5bck22jx
Big thanks to the team for making this happen—looking forward to seeing what you all discover!
October 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Hello #fish 🐟 🐠 researchers and PIs of tomorrow! We would be excited to sponsor you for an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) Presidential #Postdoc Fellowship application @michiganstateu.bsky.social. Application deadline is Nov 10, so get in touch soom!

#EndlessFishMostBeautiful
September 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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In our newest paper, we show that expression of a familial natural short sleep mutation in flies extends lifespan through enhanced mitochondrial physiology. First first-author paper for former graduate student Pritika Pandey! @pritika26.bsky.social
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A familial natural short sleep mutation in dec2 extends healthspan and lifespan in Drosophila
Biological sciences; Genetics; Neuroscience
www.cell.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Eric Peterman @errricpeterman.bsky.social, Jeffrey Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social @uwbiology.bsky.social & colleagues discover that microtubules regulate tissue-level navigation in skin-resident macrophages.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
September 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr
September 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Our department @lsu.bsky.social LSU Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology.

Our department is amazing - come join us...

lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...
Assistant Professor-Neurobiology
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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September 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Ever wondered how #sharks produce an unlimited supply of teeth? Our new preprint uncovers the genes within the dental stem cell niche driving lifelong tooth development. "Shark tooth regeneration: RNAseq reveals genes for unlimited dental renewal" 🦈🦷
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Shark tooth regeneration: RNAseq reveals genes for unlimited dental renewal
Sharks are masters of tooth regeneration with a rapid and unlimited tooth supply. We present a comprehensive transcriptomic analysis across five distinct compartments from the embryonic shark mouth, c...
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September 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Congrats Gayani! You're amazing
Super excited and thrilled to see this work come out in Nature today. 🥹@tdcapellini.bsky.social Thank you so much for your amazing mentorship throughout the project, and to all my co-authors who helped take this work to the next level.
1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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My sister department EEB is hiring an animal evo-devo assistant prof! I'm the plant evo-devo person on the SC and happy to answer any questions! (spoiler alert: This is a GREAT place to be and with fantastic colleagues & support!!!!) @socdevbio.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Evolution, Ecology & Behavior
Duties & Responsibilities
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August 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Differential fates of vertebrate Kazald gene quartet, from ancestral roles in skeletogenesis and regeneration to putative innovations in fish and birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.21.660714v1
June 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A rockstar!
Then how about vertebrates? @gabrielalima19.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social is illuminating GRN of appendage regeneration comparing multiple non-model species #PASEDB2025 #regeneration #GRN #nonmodel
July 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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The first talk on day3 - evodevo study of glycosylation in arthropod reproduction by Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca @ufrjoficial.bsky.social #PASEDB2025 #beetle #cricket #blackflies
July 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Cis-regulatory domains involved in four-eyed fish evolution. What an evolutionary novelty! Keyla Pruett @lsu.bsky.social #PASEDB2025 #evodevo #novelty #foureyedfish
July 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Alexandra Bely is talking about the fuel mechanisms of annelids regeneration @univofmaryland.bsky.social #evodevo #PASEDB2025 #regeneration
July 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Karen Crow, the president, is kicking off the PASEDB meeting at U of Miami! We'll listen to and discuss cutting-edge evodevo topics next 3 days!
July 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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EvoDevotees, if you are at #PASEDB2025 and interested in either of these job opportunities for Fish Facility Manager or Presidential Postdoc at Michigan State U, let’s grab a coffee and chat

#EndlessFishMostBeautiful

@evodevopanam.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
July 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Registration for the SSB breakout meeting in Baton Rouge, LA in Jan. 2026 will be opening soon!

Registrants need to be SSB members, so make sure to check on your membership today and join/renew if needed: www.systbio.org

Check here regularly for updates: ssb2026.github.io

@systbiol.bsky.social
2026 SSB Breakout Meeting
ssb2026.github.io
July 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!
July 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Establishment, conservation, and innovation of dorsal determination mechanisms during the evolution of vertebrate paired appendages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.02.662459v1
July 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM