Albert Erives
@meristicmanifest.bsky.social
evolutionary developmental geneticist; meristic pattern & its symmetries; regulatory grammar
Northern lights in Iowa right now!
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Northern lights in Iowa right now!
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#DBFeature 🌐
Origins, findings, challenges, and influence of the Polar Coordinate Model, which revolutionized understanding of limb regeneration by framing pattern formation as positional information encoded in coordinate ‘maps’ across tissues.
#SpecialIssue on #Oogenesis in animals and plants
Origins, findings, challenges, and influence of the Polar Coordinate Model, which revolutionized understanding of limb regeneration by framing pattern formation as positional information encoded in coordinate ‘maps’ across tissues.
#SpecialIssue on #Oogenesis in animals and plants
September 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#DBFeature 🌐
Origins, findings, challenges, and influence of the Polar Coordinate Model, which revolutionized understanding of limb regeneration by framing pattern formation as positional information encoded in coordinate ‘maps’ across tissues.
#SpecialIssue on #Oogenesis in animals and plants
Origins, findings, challenges, and influence of the Polar Coordinate Model, which revolutionized understanding of limb regeneration by framing pattern formation as positional information encoded in coordinate ‘maps’ across tissues.
#SpecialIssue on #Oogenesis in animals and plants
"Dinner at the Devonian" Table for Techers Iowa edition was a blast! Thanks all for attending! #CaltechAlumni @caltechalumni #DevonianFossilGorge #WilsonsOrchardCiderhouse
July 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"Dinner at the Devonian" Table for Techers Iowa edition was a blast! Thanks all for attending! #CaltechAlumni @caltechalumni #DevonianFossilGorge #WilsonsOrchardCiderhouse
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After 15+ years, our wonderful Potamomics team has completed a lovely Potamo genome assembly. It was VERY challenging & also super exciting. Here’s why ❤️🐌🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @jsharbro.bsky.social @johnlogsdon.bsky.social @kylemcelroy.bsky.social @peterdfields.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @jsharbro.bsky.social @johnlogsdon.bsky.social @kylemcelroy.bsky.social @peterdfields.bsky.social
Whole-genome sequence of Potamopyrgus antipodarum: a model system for the maintenance of sexual reproduction reveals a recent whole-genome duplication
Key unanswered questions in biology center on the causes, consequences, and maintenance of sexual reproduction (sex). Genome-driven processes are central to the evolutionary and genetic mechanisms inh...
www.biorxiv.org
March 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
After 15+ years, our wonderful Potamomics team has completed a lovely Potamo genome assembly. It was VERY challenging & also super exciting. Here’s why ❤️🐌🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @jsharbro.bsky.social @johnlogsdon.bsky.social @kylemcelroy.bsky.social @peterdfields.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @jsharbro.bsky.social @johnlogsdon.bsky.social @kylemcelroy.bsky.social @peterdfields.bsky.social
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Cool! As Europa Clipper sails to Jupiter’s icy moon to search for signs of a life-friendly environment, scientists find stronger evidence in archival Galileo data that lowly Callisto may also harbor a subsurface ocean. eos.org/research-spo... 🧪🔭
February 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Cool! As Europa Clipper sails to Jupiter’s icy moon to search for signs of a life-friendly environment, scientists find stronger evidence in archival Galileo data that lowly Callisto may also harbor a subsurface ocean. eos.org/research-spo... 🧪🔭
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Elisabeth Vrba, the musketeer of macroevolution
"Curious, brilliant, and fiercely independent—Elisabeth Vrba dedicated her life to understanding the great forces shaping the history of life."
"Curious, brilliant, and fiercely independent—Elisabeth Vrba dedicated her life to understanding the great forces shaping the history of life."
OBITUARY: Elisabeth Vrba, the musketeer of macroevolution – Pikaia
Curious, brilliant, and fiercely independent—Elisabeth Vrba dedicated her life to understanding the great forces shaping the history of life. She passed away at 82, leaving behind a legacy that will i...
pikaia.eu
February 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Elisabeth Vrba, the musketeer of macroevolution
"Curious, brilliant, and fiercely independent—Elisabeth Vrba dedicated her life to understanding the great forces shaping the history of life."
"Curious, brilliant, and fiercely independent—Elisabeth Vrba dedicated her life to understanding the great forces shaping the history of life."
John Reinitz, a true dev bio pioneer, dear friend and mentor, one of kind spirit, ever ready with a clever pun, rapid fire retort, and always the meandering multi-threaded conversationalist, RIP. biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/john-re...
John Reinitz, systems biologist, 1958-2025
Reinitz helped pioneer a data-driven, systems approach to developmental biology that is now widely used in the field today.
biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu
February 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
John Reinitz, a true dev bio pioneer, dear friend and mentor, one of kind spirit, ever ready with a clever pun, rapid fire retort, and always the meandering multi-threaded conversationalist, RIP. biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/john-re...
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Spinning this fantastic record at Albert’s place @meristicmanifest.bsky.social #nowplaying
January 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Spinning this fantastic record at Albert’s place @meristicmanifest.bsky.social #nowplaying
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Next up at casa de Albert. A little Pharoah Sanders. A good choice for his founding #vinyl collection. #nowplaying @meristicmanifest.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Next up at casa de Albert. A little Pharoah Sanders. A good choice for his founding #vinyl collection. #nowplaying @meristicmanifest.bsky.social
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Next up at Albert’s house @meristicmanifest.bsky.social is from one of our jointly fave bands: #SonicYouth #nowplaying
January 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Next up at Albert’s house @meristicmanifest.bsky.social is from one of our jointly fave bands: #SonicYouth #nowplaying
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Bonus content for the nerds: The species key
January 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Bonus content for the nerds: The species key
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Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
No grubs, just wee pair of mushrooms (carefully put back!) from weekend walk
January 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
No grubs, just wee pair of mushrooms (carefully put back!) from weekend walk
Stay wavy friends!
December 29, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Stay wavy friends!
Miso soup made today with the Iowa gold aged miso paste:
December 5, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Miso soup made today with the Iowa gold aged miso paste:
Miso soup made with the young amber miso paste:
December 5, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Miso soup made with the young amber miso paste:
Discovered local Iowa miso paste! Woohoo!
December 5, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Discovered local Iowa miso paste! Woohoo!