Ariel Chipman
@chipman-lab.bsky.social
Arthropod Evo-Devo biologists based at the Hebrew University. Interested in body-plan evolution (especially segments and tagmata), the evolution of complexity and the evolution of diversity.
Author of text-book: Organismic Animal Biology
Author of text-book: Organismic Animal Biology
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Ariel Chipman
@chipman-lab.bsky.social
· Nov 14
ICYMI: My book "Organismic Animal Biology - An Evolutionary Approach" came out earlier this year.
If you are teaching an introductory zoology/organismic biology course, this is the textbook you've been waiting for.
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If you are teaching an introductory zoology/organismic biology course, this is the textbook you've been waiting for.
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Join our upcoming course on cutting-edge evolutionary & genomic methods for Evo-Devo studies!
We'll cover: comparative & single-cell transcriptomics,ATAC-seq, phylogenomics, comparative genomics, gene regulation, and much more
Spots still available: sites.google.com/view/evodevo...
We'll cover: comparative & single-cell transcriptomics,ATAC-seq, phylogenomics, comparative genomics, gene regulation, and much more
Spots still available: sites.google.com/view/evodevo...
I will be participating in this EvoDevo course in Madrid, organised by @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social and other colleagues.
sites.google.com/view/evodevo...
I will be covering scRNA-seq, other topics are transcriptomics, ATAC-seq, phylogenomics
Registration closes on Nov 20!
Dates: Dec 15-18
sites.google.com/view/evodevo...
I will be covering scRNA-seq, other topics are transcriptomics, ATAC-seq, phylogenomics
Registration closes on Nov 20!
Dates: Dec 15-18
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Join our upcoming course on cutting-edge evolutionary & genomic methods for Evo-Devo studies!
We'll cover: comparative & single-cell transcriptomics,ATAC-seq, phylogenomics, comparative genomics, gene regulation, and much more
Spots still available: sites.google.com/view/evodevo...
We'll cover: comparative & single-cell transcriptomics,ATAC-seq, phylogenomics, comparative genomics, gene regulation, and much more
Spots still available: sites.google.com/view/evodevo...
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My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today.
Available as book, on kindle and as audio.
I would be really grateful for reposts.
www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
Available as book, on kindle and as audio.
I would be really grateful for reposts.
www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today.
Available as book, on kindle and as audio.
I would be really grateful for reposts.
www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
Available as book, on kindle and as audio.
I would be really grateful for reposts.
www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
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For those interested in GRN evolution, please join us!
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
For those interested in GRN evolution, please join us!
New paper from the lab just published, Led by post-doc Olga Volovych on tanning and calcium metabolism in roaches. This is the lab's first foray into insect physiology, so all the credit goes to Olga and her excellent work.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Exploring the interplay between tanning, desiccation resistance, and calcium metabolism in cockroaches
The successful terrestrial adaptation of insects has been recently suggested to be significantly influenced by a novel cuticle modification mechanism …
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October 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New paper from the lab just published, Led by post-doc Olga Volovych on tanning and calcium metabolism in roaches. This is the lab's first foray into insect physiology, so all the credit goes to Olga and her excellent work.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Ksenia Juravel (almost my student - long story) talking about Paleogenomics of the fauna of the Hula valley. Looking at animals found in a site from the earliest human habitation. DNA from ancient cats and gazelles!
August 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Ksenia Juravel (almost my student - long story) talking about Paleogenomics of the fauna of the Hula valley. Looking at animals found in a site from the earliest human habitation. DNA from ancient cats and gazelles!
Keynote by Federico Brown. Cave planarians have a very long eversible pharynx. If it dissected out, it continues to search for food and even ingest food autonomously. 😱
#ICIM6
#ICIM6
August 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Keynote by Federico Brown. Cave planarians have a very long eversible pharynx. If it dissected out, it continues to search for food and even ingest food autonomously. 😱
#ICIM6
#ICIM6
Opening keynote of #ICIM5 by Graham Budd, giving an excellent overview of early animal evolution and the overlooked fossil record of trace fossils and small shellies. He also gave tribute to Claus Nielsen’s influence on the field. Great start to what will hopefully be a superb meeting.
August 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Opening keynote of #ICIM5 by Graham Budd, giving an excellent overview of early animal evolution and the overlooked fossil record of trace fossils and small shellies. He also gave tribute to Claus Nielsen’s influence on the field. Great start to what will hopefully be a superb meeting.
I have published a post on the Oxford University Press blog that outlines my teaching philosophy, and the philosophy behind my Textbook "Organismic Animal Biology - An Evolutionary Approach". Have a look, and if you agree with my philosophy, buy the book and use it.
blog.oup.com/2025/07/know...
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Knowledge and teaching in the age of information
The advent of the World Wide Web in the turn of the last century completely transformed the way most people find and absorb information. Rather than a world in which information is stored in books or ...
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August 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I have published a post on the Oxford University Press blog that outlines my teaching philosophy, and the philosophy behind my Textbook "Organismic Animal Biology - An Evolutionary Approach". Have a look, and if you agree with my philosophy, buy the book and use it.
blog.oup.com/2025/07/know...
blog.oup.com/2025/07/know...
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If you want to discuss #networks in #evo-devo, you should join this year's satellite symposium of the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social organized by the developmental biology section (@marketa-kau.bsky.social, Benjamin Naumann, Alexander Klimovich). I will talk about gene regulatory networks.
August 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
If you want to discuss #networks in #evo-devo, you should join this year's satellite symposium of the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social organized by the developmental biology section (@marketa-kau.bsky.social, Benjamin Naumann, Alexander Klimovich). I will talk about gene regulatory networks.
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Moulting citizen science : Le site web d'un projet de science citoyenne visant à recueillir des informations sur la mue des arthropodes.
via @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
via @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
Moulting.org, un site de science citoyenne consacré à l'étude de la mue des arthropodes
Web site of citizen science project to gather information on arthropod moulting.
Moulting citizen science
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Contribuez à la science ! Ce site est consacré à la science citoyenne et se concentre sur l'étude de la mue des arthropodes dans le cadre de notre projet iNaturalist.
Rejoignez-nous en apportant des photos ou des observations de ce processus fascinant. Vos contributions seront partagées en ligne, et vous en serez pleinement remercié.
Explorez la collection diversifiée d'images et de données directement à partir d'iNaturalist et contribuez à faire progresser notre compréhension de la biologie des arthropodes.
sco.lt
August 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Moulting citizen science : Le site web d'un projet de science citoyenne visant à recueillir des informations sur la mue des arthropodes.
via @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
via @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
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Unfortunately it’s clear that the Israeli people can’t topple the government or change its ways. Seems like the attorney general, the last gate keeper, will be fired soon. As long as we’re stuck with this government, the war won’t stop. Only international intervention (=the U.S) might do it.
August 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Unfortunately it’s clear that the Israeli people can’t topple the government or change its ways. Seems like the attorney general, the last gate keeper, will be fired soon. As long as we’re stuck with this government, the war won’t stop. Only international intervention (=the U.S) might do it.
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#Biodiversity #bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to #gene families and functions --- a 3-day hands-on course in #Lausanne Switzerland 25 - 27 August 2025 www.sib.swiss/training/cou...
Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions
Overview
The aims of this biodiversity bioinformatics course are to (i) explore key evolutionary concepts, (ii) examine different methodological appro
www.sib.swiss
June 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#Biodiversity #bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to #gene families and functions --- a 3-day hands-on course in #Lausanne Switzerland 25 - 27 August 2025 www.sib.swiss/training/cou...
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A couple of years ago, I published a paper in @sicbjournals.bsky.social . The guidelines stated that you could include an abstract in as many languages as you want. I took this as a challenge, and together with friends and colleagues put together translations of the abstract into 8 languages.
1/8.
1/8.
June 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
A couple of years ago, I published a paper in @sicbjournals.bsky.social . The guidelines stated that you could include an abstract in as many languages as you want. I took this as a challenge, and together with friends and colleagues put together translations of the abstract into 8 languages.
1/8.
1/8.
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Nice update of the @moultdb database, with iNaturalist observations integrated with genomic data and scientific observations from extant and fossil species!
https://moultdb.org/species/ncbi/7130 #Arthropods #moulting #molting #evodevo #citizenscience
https://moultdb.org/species/ncbi/7130 #Arthropods #moulting #molting #evodevo #citizenscience
June 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nice update of the @moultdb database, with iNaturalist observations integrated with genomic data and scientific observations from extant and fossil species!
https://moultdb.org/species/ncbi/7130 #Arthropods #moulting #molting #evodevo #citizenscience
https://moultdb.org/species/ncbi/7130 #Arthropods #moulting #molting #evodevo #citizenscience
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a missile just hit Saroka hospital where Arab and Jewish doctors and staff work side by side treating everyone.
"our department is standing by our colleagues in Soroka hospital. we carry on doing science for the benefit of hunan kind in Israel and abroad" - Raz Zarivach, Department Chair
"our department is standing by our colleagues in Soroka hospital. we carry on doing science for the benefit of hunan kind in Israel and abroad" - Raz Zarivach, Department Chair
June 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
a missile just hit Saroka hospital where Arab and Jewish doctors and staff work side by side treating everyone.
"our department is standing by our colleagues in Soroka hospital. we carry on doing science for the benefit of hunan kind in Israel and abroad" - Raz Zarivach, Department Chair
"our department is standing by our colleagues in Soroka hospital. we carry on doing science for the benefit of hunan kind in Israel and abroad" - Raz Zarivach, Department Chair
A couple of years ago, I published a paper in @sicbjournals.bsky.social . The guidelines stated that you could include an abstract in as many languages as you want. I took this as a challenge, and together with friends and colleagues put together translations of the abstract into 8 languages.
1/8.
1/8.
June 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
A couple of years ago, I published a paper in @sicbjournals.bsky.social . The guidelines stated that you could include an abstract in as many languages as you want. I took this as a challenge, and together with friends and colleagues put together translations of the abstract into 8 languages.
1/8.
1/8.
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After being stuck in Hong Kong after ISSCR meeting unable to fly back home, I managed to get on a plane to London to stay with family, only to learn in the air that our institute was hit. My team is all safe. My lab sustained serious blast damage but we shall overcome! #PeaceNow tnx for messages :)
June 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
After being stuck in Hong Kong after ISSCR meeting unable to fly back home, I managed to get on a plane to London to stay with family, only to learn in the air that our institute was hit. My team is all safe. My lab sustained serious blast damage but we shall overcome! #PeaceNow tnx for messages :)
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Weizmann inst was directly hit.
Massive barrage of ballistic missile now on Haifa and all around us.
We heard lots of interception booms.
The poor dogs are shaking.
We heard lots of interception booms.
The poor dogs are shaking.
June 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Weizmann inst was directly hit.
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Weizmann Institute rn
June 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Weizmann Institute rn
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Insect people - Does anyone know if there has been any work on airborne microplastics and their effect on insects? A colleague suggested that microplastics could clog insect trachea and thus contribute to their decline. A cool idea but I wonder if it has any support.
June 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Insect people - Does anyone know if there has been any work on airborne microplastics and their effect on insects? A colleague suggested that microplastics could clog insect trachea and thus contribute to their decline. A cool idea but I wonder if it has any support.
Insect people - Does anyone know if there has been any work on airborne microplastics and their effect on insects? A colleague suggested that microplastics could clog insect trachea and thus contribute to their decline. A cool idea but I wonder if it has any support.
June 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Insect people - Does anyone know if there has been any work on airborne microplastics and their effect on insects? A colleague suggested that microplastics could clog insect trachea and thus contribute to their decline. A cool idea but I wonder if it has any support.