Amanda Ivanoff
@anivanoff.bsky.social
PhD candidate interested in the evolution of cooperation: how systems knit together and how they fall apart (e.g., microbiome, transposons, multicellularity, pregnancy, +)
Eco🤝Evo🤝Devo
Eco🤝Evo🤝Devo
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Looking for investors in my CRISPR company recreating the golden ram. Relive the days of Jason and the argonauts. Come get fleeced!
July 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Looking for investors in my CRISPR company recreating the golden ram. Relive the days of Jason and the argonauts. Come get fleeced!
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"NIH funding is gone, so you should pivot to private foundations for funding"
Meanwhile, private foundations:
Meanwhile, private foundations:
Having a hard time processing this. HHMI is pausing all competitions. Very demoralizing for early career scientists like me @hhmi.org
May 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"NIH funding is gone, so you should pivot to private foundations for funding"
Meanwhile, private foundations:
Meanwhile, private foundations:
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The European brown hare is the only mammal with confirmed 'SUPERFETATION': multiple fetuses at different developmental stages, showing they're getting pregnant while ALREADY pregnant, which is separate from the more common phenomenon, multiple pregnancies in the same cycle, 'superfecundation'.
The origins of Easter lie in a pagan spring fertility festival honoring 'Eostre', complete with 'Osterhase', the easter hare.
But why celebrate a bunny?
The hare of Celtic Britain could jump 20 feet (6 m), run 25 mph (40 kph) & was capable of getting pregnant while already pregnant.
But why celebrate a bunny?
The hare of Celtic Britain could jump 20 feet (6 m), run 25 mph (40 kph) & was capable of getting pregnant while already pregnant.
April 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The European brown hare is the only mammal with confirmed 'SUPERFETATION': multiple fetuses at different developmental stages, showing they're getting pregnant while ALREADY pregnant, which is separate from the more common phenomenon, multiple pregnancies in the same cycle, 'superfecundation'.
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Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
www.science.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Our first release in the attempt to build the Transcription Factor Binding (TFB)-OMICS during #DevBio is now out in Development @dev-journal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
👉We hope many will use our data, and some will want to help mapping their beloved gene regulators in their favorite tissue
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
👉We hope many will use our data, and some will want to help mapping their beloved gene regulators in their favorite tissue
We are using CUT&RUN-LoV-U to map effectors of Signaling Pathways across tissue and stages of Mouse #DevBio🐭🧬
Do you want to join forces and collaborate to build the future of the TranscriptionFactorBinding(TFB)-OMICS?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Do you want to join forces and collaborate to build the future of the TranscriptionFactorBinding(TFB)-OMICS?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Our first release in the attempt to build the Transcription Factor Binding (TFB)-OMICS during #DevBio is now out in Development @dev-journal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
👉We hope many will use our data, and some will want to help mapping their beloved gene regulators in their favorite tissue
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
👉We hope many will use our data, and some will want to help mapping their beloved gene regulators in their favorite tissue
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Really excited to say that my lab's paper on color transitions in Mimulus sect. Erythranthe is out! We found that some traits demonstrate evolutionary convergence in phenotype & genotype, while others are divergent, & that - as Bob Vickery found - bees prefer yellow!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Within-species floral evolution reveals convergence in adaptive walks during incipient pollinator shift - Nature Communications
During evolution, how adaptive walks cross fitness valleys remains unclear. This integrative study on monkeyflowers reveals that convergence in large steps (floral color and gene expression) drives a ...
www.nature.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Really excited to say that my lab's paper on color transitions in Mimulus sect. Erythranthe is out! We found that some traits demonstrate evolutionary convergence in phenotype & genotype, while others are divergent, & that - as Bob Vickery found - bees prefer yellow!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🌟 Throwback to my 2020 research published in @science.org 🌼🐝 We showed how bumble bees actively shape their environment—making plants flower earlier to meet their needs. Nature’s engineers in action! 🧪🌏
Sharing this for anyone who missed it—let’s dive in! [1/17] 👇
Sharing this for anyone who missed it—let’s dive in! [1/17] 👇
November 27, 2024 at 10:59 AM
🌟 Throwback to my 2020 research published in @science.org 🌼🐝 We showed how bumble bees actively shape their environment—making plants flower earlier to meet their needs. Nature’s engineers in action! 🧪🌏
Sharing this for anyone who missed it—let’s dive in! [1/17] 👇
Sharing this for anyone who missed it—let’s dive in! [1/17] 👇
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Never a bad time to post about the most awesomest exception to this rule
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Big Baby, Little Mother: Tsetse Flies Are Exceptions to the Juvenile Small Size Principle
Imagine a mother giving birth to a baby that weighs as much as she does. This is an impossibility for most of the animal kingdom. An exception exists in a group of insects, like blood-feeding tsetse ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Never a bad time to post about the most awesomest exception to this rule
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Great story by @djbulbaczar.bsky.social about #placenta on a chip, but also, why #pregnant engineer pushed the question.
Diversity strengthens #science @statnews.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2024/06/13/p...
Diversity strengthens #science @statnews.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2024/06/13/p...
With placenta-on-a-chip, researchers hope to gauge how drugs and toxins impact pregnancy
With placenta-on-a-chip, the nascent technology could be a game-changer for studies on pregnancy, an understudied area due to practical and ethical reasons.
www.statnews.com
June 19, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Great story by @djbulbaczar.bsky.social about #placenta on a chip, but also, why #pregnant engineer pushed the question.
Diversity strengthens #science @statnews.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2024/06/13/p...
Diversity strengthens #science @statnews.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2024/06/13/p...
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The evolution of gestation length in eutherian #mammals
Thodoris Danis & Antonis Rokas 🧪⚒️
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Thodoris Danis & Antonis Rokas 🧪⚒️
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
The evolution of gestation length in eutherian mammals | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Eutherian mammals exhibit considerable variation in their gestation lengths, which
has traditionally been linked to variation in other traits, including body mass and
lifespan. To understand how gesta...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 1, 2024 at 12:18 AM
The evolution of gestation length in eutherian #mammals
Thodoris Danis & Antonis Rokas 🧪⚒️
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Thodoris Danis & Antonis Rokas 🧪⚒️
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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A little engagement with a recent paper lead by @dudinlab.bsky.social
www.iflscience.com/the-chicken-...
www.iflscience.com/the-chicken-...
The Chicken Or The Egg? We Might Need To Change The Question
When did life get the instructions for eggs?
www.iflscience.com
November 9, 2024 at 12:14 PM
A little engagement with a recent paper lead by @dudinlab.bsky.social
www.iflscience.com/the-chicken-...
www.iflscience.com/the-chicken-...