Joris M. Koene
@joriskoene.bsky.social
Professor of Integrative Biology at VU Amsterdam🇳🇱🐌🐚🔬🧬
BSc programme director
Chief Science Officer of Anitomical
Collaborator in Bio-Art projects
Previously: 🇨🇦McGill Univ. (PhD), 🇩🇪Univ. Münster, Alexander von Humboldt awardee
BSc programme director
Chief Science Officer of Anitomical
Collaborator in Bio-Art projects
Previously: 🇨🇦McGill Univ. (PhD), 🇩🇪Univ. Münster, Alexander von Humboldt awardee
Join us on 4 Feb. to say hello, share ideas, give feedback and plan ahead!
Join our first Social Transfer Network General Assembly on Wednesday, February 4th!
15h UK / UTC+0; 16h Europe / UTC+1; 7h US West coast / UTC-8
This is your chance to connect, catch up, and have your voice heard as we reflect on the past year and look ahead to what's next for our community.
15h UK / UTC+0; 16h Europe / UTC+1; 7h US West coast / UTC-8
This is your chance to connect, catch up, and have your voice heard as we reflect on the past year and look ahead to what's next for our community.
January 29, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Join us on 4 Feb. to say hello, share ideas, give feedback and plan ahead!
Een geweldige kans om bij te dragen aan #onderwijsvernieuwing bij de bacheloropleidingen #Biologie en #Gezondheid & Leven
@vuamsterdam.bsky.social
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Vacature — Junior Docent Bacheloropleiding Biologie
De Bacheloropleiding Biologie van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam behoort al jaren tot de beste biologie-opleidingen van Nederland. Wil jij een loopbaan binnen het academisch onderwijs en ben je dol o...
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January 29, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Een geweldige kans om bij te dragen aan #onderwijsvernieuwing bij de bacheloropleidingen #Biologie en #Gezondheid & Leven
@vuamsterdam.bsky.social
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🐜 4-year #postdoc position in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab @camzoology.bsky.social investigating metabolic cooperation between bodies in a BBSRC-funded project.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
#ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
#ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Social Fluids Laboratory (https://leboeuflab.com) led by Dr Adria LeBoeuf in the Department of Zoology
www.cam.ac.uk
January 6, 2026 at 9:33 PM
🐜 4-year #postdoc position in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab @camzoology.bsky.social investigating metabolic cooperation between bodies in a BBSRC-funded project.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
#ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
#ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)
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Mollusca-focused, 6-yr postdoc Postdoc in Invertebrate Evolution:
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
jobs.univie.ac.at
January 6, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Mollusca-focused, 6-yr postdoc Postdoc in Invertebrate Evolution:
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
I am delighted to present at #ZOOlogy2025, organised by the Royal Dutch Zoological Society (#KNDV) 🐌 🐚 🐙 🦑 🦪
Come and meet @anitomical.bsky.social at the 32nd Benelux Zoology Conference in ARTIS! @paulschilperoord.bsky.social and @joriskoene.bsky.social will be present on Tuesday, December 9, with a dedicated stand to showcase our new Comparative Anatomy Application.
#anitomical #3danatomy #zoology2025
#anitomical #3danatomy #zoology2025
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I am delighted to present at #ZOOlogy2025, organised by the Royal Dutch Zoological Society (#KNDV) 🐌 🐚 🐙 🦑 🦪
Looking forward to this last BYOF seminar of 2025!
Final edition of the BYOF 2025 Seminar series:
📅 December 10th, 2025
🕣 08:15 UK
🕤 09:15 EU
🕔 19:15 AUS
💧 Hidden Messages in Seminal Fluid | John Schjenken
📝 Rewriting the Rules of Inheritance | Nicole McPherson
🧬 How does the embryo deal when a gametes delivered a damaged genome? | Tommaso Cavazza
📅 December 10th, 2025
🕣 08:15 UK
🕤 09:15 EU
🕔 19:15 AUS
💧 Hidden Messages in Seminal Fluid | John Schjenken
📝 Rewriting the Rules of Inheritance | Nicole McPherson
🧬 How does the embryo deal when a gametes delivered a damaged genome? | Tommaso Cavazza
December 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Looking forward to this last BYOF seminar of 2025!
Another great seminar coming up next week!
☕️Bring-Your-Own-Fluid-Seminar|Wed Nov 19th @ 9:15 enjoy 7 min talks:
👩⚕️ Nanoparticle & Maternal-Fetal Communication • Tina Buerkli
🐀 Reproductive phenotypes • Ivana Jaric
👪 social stress & placenta • Juliet Richetto
Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
👩⚕️ Nanoparticle & Maternal-Fetal Communication • Tina Buerkli
🐀 Reproductive phenotypes • Ivana Jaric
👪 social stress & placenta • Juliet Richetto
Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Another great seminar coming up next week!
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🧃☕️ BYOF Seminar | Fri Oct 24 @ 10 am EDT🥛🍹
Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids:
🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes
🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar
🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang
Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids:
🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes
🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar
🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang
Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🧃☕️ BYOF Seminar | Fri Oct 24 @ 10 am EDT🥛🍹
Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids:
🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes
🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar
🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang
Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids:
🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes
🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar
🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang
Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
Join us tomorrow for some great flash talks on maternal provisioning, milk in utero, and molecular evolution of sperm in the Bring Your Own Fluid seminar @socialtransfernet.bsky.social
Join the online BYOF seminar on social transfers, September 17, 15:00 UK time. Featuring talks on maternal provisioning and more. Details: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82976401049?pwd=HFiC0aIOfgYO2YK2TwoLu89v3Bejl1.1 #conference
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September 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Join us tomorrow for some great flash talks on maternal provisioning, milk in utero, and molecular evolution of sperm in the Bring Your Own Fluid seminar @socialtransfernet.bsky.social
If you are at ESEB2025 and interested in the models that we make for teaching innovation, contact me or find me during one of the breaks so that I can show you our 3D print of Lymnaea stagnalis!
Are you visiting #ESEB2025 this week? Make sure to grab one of our flyers at the main entrance to apply for a free trial of our Comparative Anatomy Application!
Also be sure to catch the presentation of our scientific advisor @joriskoene.bsky.social
Also be sure to catch the presentation of our scientific advisor @joriskoene.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
If you are at ESEB2025 and interested in the models that we make for teaching innovation, contact me or find me during one of the breaks so that I can show you our 3D print of Lymnaea stagnalis!
Thanks for the shout out. Remember to also attend the Socially Tranferred Materials session on Thursday.
@joriskoene.bsky.social of the @socialtransfernet.bsky.social talking about his amazing snail system of simultaneous hermaphroditism #socialfluids
August 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Thanks for the shout out. Remember to also attend the Socially Tranferred Materials session on Thursday.
Looking forward to presenting at @eseb2025.bsky.social! I will present research on differences in responses to seminal fluid between populations of a simultaneously hermaphroditic snail. I will use @anitomical.bsky.social's model of L. stagnalis to highlight the anatomical location of the prostate
August 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Looking forward to presenting at @eseb2025.bsky.social! I will present research on differences in responses to seminal fluid between populations of a simultaneously hermaphroditic snail. I will use @anitomical.bsky.social's model of L. stagnalis to highlight the anatomical location of the prostate
Looking forward to this symposium with a great line-up at @eseb2025.bsky.social
🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025!
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
August 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Looking forward to this symposium with a great line-up at @eseb2025.bsky.social
It is official, as of 1 August I have been named full professor for the new chair “Integrative Biology”. I look forward to continuing my teaching, educational innovation, management and research at the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE) at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
It is official, as of 1 August I have been named full professor for the new chair “Integrative Biology”. I look forward to continuing my teaching, educational innovation, management and research at the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE) at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
Please join our exciting and active network if you are interested in socially transferred materials
🌐 Welcome to the Social Transfer Network (STN) on Bluesky! We’re an interdisciplinary community exploring how materials/signals (from molecules to microbes) transfer between individuals and shape health, behavior, and evolution. #STM
Redirecting
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July 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Please join our exciting and active network if you are interested in socially transferred materials
Amazing: 3D models of science visualiser @miekeroth.com at @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social. Check them out before August ends. After that, @anitomical.bsky.social heads out to other places and events to show our teaching innovation (stay tuned!)
#lymnaea #mollusc #squid #octopus #mussel #snail
#lymnaea #mollusc #squid #octopus #mussel #snail
July 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Amazing: 3D models of science visualiser @miekeroth.com at @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social. Check them out before August ends. After that, @anitomical.bsky.social heads out to other places and events to show our teaching innovation (stay tuned!)
#lymnaea #mollusc #squid #octopus #mussel #snail
#lymnaea #mollusc #squid #octopus #mussel #snail
A nice piece in @advalvas.bsky.social by Welmoed Visser about #testosterone: advalvas.vu.nl/en/science-e... (also available in Dutch: advalvas.vu.nl/wetenschap-o...)
A bizarre, but pleasant effect
Men commit the vast majority of violent crimes and sexual offenses and are more often involved in traffic accidents and fireworks-related incidents. Can hormonal differences be blamed for these number...
advalvas.vu.nl
July 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A nice piece in @advalvas.bsky.social by Welmoed Visser about #testosterone: advalvas.vu.nl/en/science-e... (also available in Dutch: advalvas.vu.nl/wetenschap-o...)
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Have you ever wondered how our 3D anatomical models are made? Straatgras features an interview with our CEO @miekeroth.com on her expertise, background and our exhibition with 3D models of mollusks @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social until August 31, 2025.
Download the latest copy: tinyurl.com/2efv49mv
Download the latest copy: tinyurl.com/2efv49mv
June 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Have you ever wondered how our 3D anatomical models are made? Straatgras features an interview with our CEO @miekeroth.com on her expertise, background and our exhibition with 3D models of mollusks @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social until August 31, 2025.
Download the latest copy: tinyurl.com/2efv49mv
Download the latest copy: tinyurl.com/2efv49mv
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Just 1 week away from our next Bring-Your-Own-Fluid Seminar 🔬☕️ | 11th June
🔗 Interested in our excellent rapid-fire talks on sperm, seminal fluid and placenta below?!
👉 DM me or comment below for the Zoom link!
🔗 Interested in our excellent rapid-fire talks on sperm, seminal fluid and placenta below?!
👉 DM me or comment below for the Zoom link!
🔬☕️ Bring-Your-Own-Fluid (BYOF) Seminar is back! | June 11, 2025
The Social Transfer Network are thrilled to invite you to the next edition of our BYOF Seminar! What’s BYOF, you ask? It’s either the social fluid you study or that comforting cup of coffee or tea in your hand, your choice! 😉
The Social Transfer Network are thrilled to invite you to the next edition of our BYOF Seminar! What’s BYOF, you ask? It’s either the social fluid you study or that comforting cup of coffee or tea in your hand, your choice! 😉
June 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Just 1 week away from our next Bring-Your-Own-Fluid Seminar 🔬☕️ | 11th June
🔗 Interested in our excellent rapid-fire talks on sperm, seminal fluid and placenta below?!
👉 DM me or comment below for the Zoom link!
🔗 Interested in our excellent rapid-fire talks on sperm, seminal fluid and placenta below?!
👉 DM me or comment below for the Zoom link!
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Mijn mensen zijn nu voor anitomical.com bezig tijdens Naturalis Nights!
www.naturalis.nl/agenda/natur...
Als je nog tijd hebt of in de buurt bent, gaat dat zien!
www.naturalis.nl/agenda/natur...
Als je nog tijd hebt of in de buurt bent, gaat dat zien!
May 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Mijn mensen zijn nu voor anitomical.com bezig tijdens Naturalis Nights!
www.naturalis.nl/agenda/natur...
Als je nog tijd hebt of in de buurt bent, gaat dat zien!
www.naturalis.nl/agenda/natur...
Als je nog tijd hebt of in de buurt bent, gaat dat zien!
I am looking forward to the next BYOF. Please join us if you are interested in hearing the latest about socially transferred materials.
🔬☕️ Bring-Your-Own-Fluid (BYOF) Seminar is back! | June 11, 2025
The Social Transfer Network are thrilled to invite you to the next edition of our BYOF Seminar! What’s BYOF, you ask? It’s either the social fluid you study or that comforting cup of coffee or tea in your hand, your choice! 😉
The Social Transfer Network are thrilled to invite you to the next edition of our BYOF Seminar! What’s BYOF, you ask? It’s either the social fluid you study or that comforting cup of coffee or tea in your hand, your choice! 😉
May 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I am looking forward to the next BYOF. Please join us if you are interested in hearing the latest about socially transferred materials.
The 3D models of science visualiser @miekeroth.com, that I helped develop and verify for @anitomical.bsky.social, are getting great reviews! On show until August 31st @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social in Rotterdam and coming Thursday at Naturalis Nights @naturalis.bsky.social #biodiversiteitsdag
Hier een hele fijne recensie over de tentoonstelling (in het Nederlands)
www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...
www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...
Van preparaat tot print
Mieke Roth brengt dierlijke anatomie tot leven in het Natuurhistorisch Museum te Rotterdam. Met haar waarheidsgetrouwe 3D-geprinte werken maakt ze de complexe anatomie van dieren inzichtelijker.
www.nemokennislink.nl
May 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The 3D models of science visualiser @miekeroth.com, that I helped develop and verify for @anitomical.bsky.social, are getting great reviews! On show until August 31st @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social in Rotterdam and coming Thursday at Naturalis Nights @naturalis.bsky.social #biodiversiteitsdag
The Simultaneous Hermaphrodite Organisms Workshop a.k.a. SHOW in Edinburgh was great. I am already looking forward to next year’s edition in Lund.
May 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The Simultaneous Hermaphrodite Organisms Workshop a.k.a. SHOW in Edinburgh was great. I am already looking forward to next year’s edition in Lund.
This looks like a lovely PhD position!
PhD position alert! Fully-funded PhD in my group to work on avian reproductive microbiomes and immunity. Please RT! Deadline June 29th, reach out for more information. #microbiomes #sparrows #spermbiology
May 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This looks like a lovely PhD position!
Check out this exciting PhD opportunity in Paris
PhD opportunity on Oxytocin and social interactions across sexual systems in annelids. Research on the evolutionary conserved role of the “love hormone” at Univ. Sorbonne Paris Nord and Vienna University. Please RT! www-leec.univ-paris13.fr/documents/LE...
May 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Check out this exciting PhD opportunity in Paris