Arnaud Martin
@evolvwing.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Biology at the George Washington University
Interested in Pattern Formation, Evolutionary Tinkering, Genetics,
#lociofevolution #dnacrobatics #evodevo #lepidoptera
dnacrobatics.com
pubs: https://rb.gy/nfg8p
Interested in Pattern Formation, Evolutionary Tinkering, Genetics,
#lociofevolution #dnacrobatics #evodevo #lepidoptera
dnacrobatics.com
pubs: https://rb.gy/nfg8p
@royalsocietypublishing.org
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Greetings, is your journal server down? please let me know if this will fixed shortly or if there is a workaround, I need students to access Biology Letters for a class 🫶
Thanks!
@royalsociety.org
Greetings, is your journal server down? please let me know if this will fixed shortly or if there is a workaround, I need students to access Biology Letters for a class 🫶
Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
@royalsocietypublishing.org
@royalsociety.org
Greetings, is your journal server down? please let me know if this will fixed shortly or if there is a workaround, I need students to access Biology Letters for a class 🫶
Thanks!
@royalsociety.org
Greetings, is your journal server down? please let me know if this will fixed shortly or if there is a workaround, I need students to access Biology Letters for a class 🫶
Thanks!
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A month after Bari Weiss hired to lead CBS News division, heretic eugenics philosopher Jonathan Anomaly is on the morning show pitching bell curves and embryo scores.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvVM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvVM...
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A month after Bari Weiss hired to lead CBS News division, heretic eugenics philosopher Jonathan Anomaly is on the morning show pitching bell curves and embryo scores.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvVM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvVM...
We must debunk this crap.
Preimplantation diagnosis is much safer than germline editing & w/o slippery-slope ethics in 99.9% of hered. disease cases.
Only exceptions are dominant genet conditions where 1 parent is homozygous, with extremely rare occurences for Huntington's, some AD and BRCA
Preimplantation diagnosis is much safer than germline editing & w/o slippery-slope ethics in 99.9% of hered. disease cases.
Only exceptions are dominant genet conditions where 1 parent is homozygous, with extremely rare occurences for Huntington's, some AD and BRCA
Tie, who has called herself Biotech Barbie, focuses her entrepreneurial ambitions on a controversial goal: altering the genome of human embryos to prevent genetic disorders
go.nature.com/4qOm5SO
go.nature.com/4qOm5SO
‘Biotech Barbie’ says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies. Do scientists agree?
Nature - A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.
go.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
We must debunk this crap.
Preimplantation diagnosis is much safer than germline editing & w/o slippery-slope ethics in 99.9% of hered. disease cases.
Only exceptions are dominant genet conditions where 1 parent is homozygous, with extremely rare occurences for Huntington's, some AD and BRCA
Preimplantation diagnosis is much safer than germline editing & w/o slippery-slope ethics in 99.9% of hered. disease cases.
Only exceptions are dominant genet conditions where 1 parent is homozygous, with extremely rare occurences for Huntington's, some AD and BRCA
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Looks cool 👀
Sensory receptor expansion and neural accommodation in butterfly color vision https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685642v1
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Looks cool 👀
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When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱
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Heredity did a podcast on our paper from Nitin's dissertation! Listen to learn more about the cool results.
🎙️ New podcast!
We often hear that invasive species are bad for ecosystems they invade, but the consequences can seem fuzzy.
We hear from @naikasanuchara.bsky.social and @carolboggs.bsky.social about their study system, where an invasive plant has very tangible effects for a native butterfly.
We often hear that invasive species are bad for ecosystems they invade, but the consequences can seem fuzzy.
We hear from @naikasanuchara.bsky.social and @carolboggs.bsky.social about their study system, where an invasive plant has very tangible effects for a native butterfly.
October 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Heredity did a podcast on our paper from Nitin's dissertation! Listen to learn more about the cool results.
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I'll be heading to @sacnas.bsky.social #NDiSTEM later this week to shamelessly plug my soon-to-open lab (Fall 2026). If any students are interested in studying the plant-insect interactions of the Sonoran Desert, please get in touch!
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I'll be heading to @sacnas.bsky.social #NDiSTEM later this week to shamelessly plug my soon-to-open lab (Fall 2026). If any students are interested in studying the plant-insect interactions of the Sonoran Desert, please get in touch!
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Not today, parasitic #wasps!✋🚫
#Stinkbugs use a fungus-carrying organ on their hind legs to coat their eggs in #fungi🍄🦵
This provides a physical defense against #parasitic wasp oviposition🛡️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Stinkbugs use a fungus-carrying organ on their hind legs to coat their eggs in #fungi🍄🦵
This provides a physical defense against #parasitic wasp oviposition🛡️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Not today, parasitic #wasps!✋🚫
#Stinkbugs use a fungus-carrying organ on their hind legs to coat their eggs in #fungi🍄🦵
This provides a physical defense against #parasitic wasp oviposition🛡️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Stinkbugs use a fungus-carrying organ on their hind legs to coat their eggs in #fungi🍄🦵
This provides a physical defense against #parasitic wasp oviposition🛡️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social spoke today at #LivingData2025 about journals that disappear from the web. To learn more about his example: the hijacking and fraudulent DOI Assignment of The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, see our BHL blogpost: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2022/10/jour...
The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera: A Story of Pirate Publishers, ISSN Hijacking and Fraudulent DOI Assignment
In 2017, The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera published its final issue. The journal’s website was turned off and, to ensure ongoing access to the biodiversity knowledge contained within its …
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social spoke today at #LivingData2025 about journals that disappear from the web. To learn more about his example: the hijacking and fraudulent DOI Assignment of The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, see our BHL blogpost: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2022/10/jour...
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New preprint up with collaborators Jianguo Lu, @mpodobnik.bsky.social, Uwe Irion, Braedan McCluskey, John Postlethwait and others. New Danio genomes, evolution and pigment pattern variation. Long time in the making www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
New preprint up with collaborators Jianguo Lu, @mpodobnik.bsky.social, Uwe Irion, Braedan McCluskey, John Postlethwait and others. New Danio genomes, evolution and pigment pattern variation. Long time in the making www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The final version of our paper on how ants and possibly other insects use a crazy mechanism involving extensive transcriptional interference to regulate odorant receptor expression is now open access in my favorite journal, @currentbiology.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
authors.elsevier.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The final version of our paper on how ants and possibly other insects use a crazy mechanism involving extensive transcriptional interference to regulate odorant receptor expression is now open access in my favorite journal, @currentbiology.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns?
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8
August 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns?
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8
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We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
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Courtney Mattison, Gyre I, stoneware and porcelain, 2023. "references the fragility, diversity, and resilience of marine ecosystems" #sciart
October 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Courtney Mattison, Gyre I, stoneware and porcelain, 2023. "references the fragility, diversity, and resilience of marine ecosystems" #sciart
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I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
October 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lake Superior, 2003, silver gelatin print
October 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lake Superior, 2003, silver gelatin print
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New paper out! A nice collaboration.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.
Evolution of the olfactory system during the radiation of Heliconiini butterflies
Abstract. Sensory system evolution plays a crucial role in shaping species’ interactions with their environment, yet the extent to which olfactory system d
academic.oup.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
New paper out! A nice collaboration.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.
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My entry for today’s #FluorescenceFriday: a pupal #Drosophila testis with muscles expressing
🔵 lifeact &
🔴 RFP-nls
Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨
🔗 www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
#NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt
🔵 lifeact &
🔴 RFP-nls
Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨
🔗 www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
#NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt
October 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
My entry for today’s #FluorescenceFriday: a pupal #Drosophila testis with muscles expressing
🔵 lifeact &
🔴 RFP-nls
Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨
🔗 www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
#NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt
🔵 lifeact &
🔴 RFP-nls
Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨
🔗 www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
#NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt
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It's official! We are moving to Stowers!
Very exciting opportunity to expand our studies of insect-plant interactions. We have many opportunities available in biochemistry, development, behavior, genetics, evolution, genomics, AI, and even pest control. Interested in any of these things? Reach out!
Very exciting opportunity to expand our studies of insect-plant interactions. We have many opportunities available in biochemistry, development, behavior, genetics, evolution, genomics, AI, and even pest control. Interested in any of these things? Reach out!
NEWS🎉 We’re excited to announce @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Investigator David Stern will join the Institute from Janelia Research Campus. His lab studies how aphids transform plants at the genetic level, uncovering secrets of #evolution & new strategies for pest control. @hhmi.org bit.ly/4np96Fb
Stowers Institute recruits renowned developmental and evolutionary…
David Stern, Ph.D., brings groundbreaking research on insect–plant interactions for next-generation pest control to the Institute.
bit.ly
September 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It's official! We are moving to Stowers!
Very exciting opportunity to expand our studies of insect-plant interactions. We have many opportunities available in biochemistry, development, behavior, genetics, evolution, genomics, AI, and even pest control. Interested in any of these things? Reach out!
Very exciting opportunity to expand our studies of insect-plant interactions. We have many opportunities available in biochemistry, development, behavior, genetics, evolution, genomics, AI, and even pest control. Interested in any of these things? Reach out!
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Calling early-career developmental biologists!
Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution.
Application deadline: 5 December
www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...
#DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking
Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution.
Application deadline: 5 December
www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...
#DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking
September 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Calling early-career developmental biologists!
Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution.
Application deadline: 5 December
www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...
#DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking
Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution.
Application deadline: 5 December
www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...
#DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking
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C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]
September 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]
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Our lab is 2.5 years into #ERC funding✨
Grateful for the support that enabled us to uncover the syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore - a discovery reshaping our understanding of nervous system evolution. Stay tuned for more exciting discoveries to come @erc.europa.eu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DAE...
Grateful for the support that enabled us to uncover the syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore - a discovery reshaping our understanding of nervous system evolution. Stay tuned for more exciting discoveries to come @erc.europa.eu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DAE...
Flying into sensory and mesogleal neurons from a ctenophore (comb jelly).
YouTube video by Pawel Burkhardt
www.youtube.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Our lab is 2.5 years into #ERC funding✨
Grateful for the support that enabled us to uncover the syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore - a discovery reshaping our understanding of nervous system evolution. Stay tuned for more exciting discoveries to come @erc.europa.eu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DAE...
Grateful for the support that enabled us to uncover the syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore - a discovery reshaping our understanding of nervous system evolution. Stay tuned for more exciting discoveries to come @erc.europa.eu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DAE...
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Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
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The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?