Joe Hanly
@hanliconius.bsky.social
interested in evolution, development and butterflies. Smithsonian Postdoc fellow. #albinism. He/him 🏳️🌈
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Joe Hanly
@hanliconius.bsky.social
· May 30
While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/
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wild to me that whenever Epstein is in the news, bsky science folk are up in arms about a couple of famous academics who barely knew the guy rather than Martin Nowak, who took millions of Epstein dollars to run his lab, hosted Epstein there often, and somehow is still teaching at Harvard
September 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
wild to me that whenever Epstein is in the news, bsky science folk are up in arms about a couple of famous academics who barely knew the guy rather than Martin Nowak, who took millions of Epstein dollars to run his lab, hosted Epstein there often, and somehow is still teaching at Harvard
Absolutely top notch preprint which has it all - a large effect mutation causing iridescence polymorphism, active TE as the basis of the mutation, AND ecological context for the phenotype. Cant wait for more on this!!!!
I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A
Insertion of an invading retrovirus regulates a novel color trait in swordtail fish
For over a century, evolutionary biologists have been motivated to understand the mechanisms through which organisms adapt to their environments. Coloration and pigmentation are remarkably variable wi...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Absolutely top notch preprint which has it all - a large effect mutation causing iridescence polymorphism, active TE as the basis of the mutation, AND ecological context for the phenotype. Cant wait for more on this!!!!
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I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A
Insertion of an invading retrovirus regulates a novel color trait in swordtail fish
For over a century, evolutionary biologists have been motivated to understand the mechanisms through which organisms adapt to their environments. Coloration and pigmentation are remarkably variable wi...
shorturl.at
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A
All I have to say is that this applies to some very senior academics who still get invited to give plenary talks at large conferences.
How dare you imply that our friendship was based on leering at teenage girls, it was based on sorting races into C, B, A and S tiers
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
All I have to say is that this applies to some very senior academics who still get invited to give plenary talks at large conferences.
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Minos transgenesis enables robust, stable germline integration of transgenes in Lepidoptera; providing a reliable alternative to piggyBac, whose native transposases can cause transgene remobilization or instability in moths and butterflies:
It's out, Minos transgenesis in the pantry moth by
@donyaniyaz.bsky.social
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers
peerj.com/articles/202...
@peerj.bsky.social
@donyaniyaz.bsky.social
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers
peerj.com/articles/202...
@peerj.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Minos transgenesis enables robust, stable germline integration of transgenes in Lepidoptera; providing a reliable alternative to piggyBac, whose native transposases can cause transgene remobilization or instability in moths and butterflies:
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It's out, Minos transgenesis in the pantry moth by
@donyaniyaz.bsky.social
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers
peerj.com/articles/202...
@peerj.bsky.social
@donyaniyaz.bsky.social
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers
peerj.com/articles/202...
@peerj.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It's out, Minos transgenesis in the pantry moth by
@donyaniyaz.bsky.social
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers
peerj.com/articles/202...
@peerj.bsky.social
@donyaniyaz.bsky.social
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers
peerj.com/articles/202...
@peerj.bsky.social
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Wound healing is a hallmark feature of all life, including single cells. In a new preprint, Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social investigates a new dimension in cellular wound healing: how cells recover AFTER the wound has been closed
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Wound healing is a hallmark feature of all life, including single cells. In a new preprint, Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social investigates a new dimension in cellular wound healing: how cells recover AFTER the wound has been closed
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
we all ready for Trumpsgiving?
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has announced flights will be cut by 10% at 40 U.S. airports due to the government shutdown.
Duffy added that a confidential document had shown the impact of the shutdown was hurting air traffic controllers’ ability to perform safely. trib.al/WRwt77M
Duffy added that a confidential document had shown the impact of the shutdown was hurting air traffic controllers’ ability to perform safely. trib.al/WRwt77M
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
we all ready for Trumpsgiving?
what's that feeling? Hope?
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
what's that feeling? Hope?
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A personal favorite, long time in the making. Adelina and David (@dduneau.bsky.social) were instrumental in getting this done.
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Wound-induced eyespots on butterfly wings at the intersection of immune response and pigmentation development - BMC Biology
Background Butterfly eyespots are striking examples of evolutionary novelty arising through the repurposing of ancestral genetic pathways, including pathways involved in wound healing. Given the activ...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A personal favorite, long time in the making. Adelina and David (@dduneau.bsky.social) were instrumental in getting this done.
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Explaining academic job searches to my brother and he says “so basically, you’re through to Judges’ Houses” - and like, yeah, no notes.
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Explaining academic job searches to my brother and he says “so basically, you’re through to Judges’ Houses” - and like, yeah, no notes.
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The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!
October 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!
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My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/
May 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/
I've just seen, for the first time, a paper with author names both in latin characters and the language-of-origin characters. Apparently it's been Cell Press policy since 2021? I think this is great! I wonder if other journals have policies on this?
October 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I've just seen, for the first time, a paper with author names both in latin characters and the language-of-origin characters. Apparently it's been Cell Press policy since 2021? I think this is great! I wonder if other journals have policies on this?
More journeys through fly gene etymologies.
![Screenshot of a Wikipedia article History article with the following text: The protein was discovered in 1996 by Italian scientists Silvia Bione et al., after long and intensive work.[15] Owing to the complex procedure required for the identification of tafazzin, the protein was named after Tafazzi, an Italian comedy character played by Giacomo Poretti who enthusiastically beats his groin with a plastic bottle, this as a symbol of masochism for the strenuous will to find it by the group of researchers.[77]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b3t6tkvujvmh5t7d3dhok52t/bafkreig5kgwrxfhiylt7gog45bokmby6ju2isssczh4ubnlog76hoggm4m@jpeg)
October 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
More journeys through fly gene etymologies.
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Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
September 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Excited to soon start my new role as Academy of Finland Research Fellow 🦋🐛I’ll later be advertising a PhD position on tiger moth colour and genomics, and will be speaking at #ESEB2025 this week if you want an idea of what’s going on!
August 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Excited to soon start my new role as Academy of Finland Research Fellow 🦋🐛I’ll later be advertising a PhD position on tiger moth colour and genomics, and will be speaking at #ESEB2025 this week if you want an idea of what’s going on!
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I was also under this misconception 🙋♂️ thanks for sharing this mini review!
While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/
July 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I was also under this misconception 🙋♂️ thanks for sharing this mini review!
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Very lucky to be at UCSF with such great microscopy facilities. These instruments are definitely pushing the limits of what we thought feasible in live imaging! Excited to keep exploring how these single cells organize and secrete such precise morphologies.
If you've ever wanted to know what the actin filaments on the scales in a developing moth wing look like in 3D, here you go!
Kyle DeMarr from @mullinslab.bsky.social acquired these beautiful data on the single objective light sheet at the UCSF Center for Advanced Light Microscopy.
#snouty
Kyle DeMarr from @mullinslab.bsky.social acquired these beautiful data on the single objective light sheet at the UCSF Center for Advanced Light Microscopy.
#snouty
July 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Having some EvoDevoPanAm fomo today - I really need to make it down next time!
July 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Having some EvoDevoPanAm fomo today - I really need to make it down next time!
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Preprint alert from the lab
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this elegant study of gene expression in the silk glands of our favorite alternative "silk worm", the pantry moth.
Mega-polyploid cells with thousands of genome copies just to express a handful of proteins
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this elegant study of gene expression in the silk glands of our favorite alternative "silk worm", the pantry moth.
Mega-polyploid cells with thousands of genome copies just to express a handful of proteins
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Preprint alert from the lab
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this elegant study of gene expression in the silk glands of our favorite alternative "silk worm", the pantry moth.
Mega-polyploid cells with thousands of genome copies just to express a handful of proteins
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this elegant study of gene expression in the silk glands of our favorite alternative "silk worm", the pantry moth.
Mega-polyploid cells with thousands of genome copies just to express a handful of proteins
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
