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80 Jahre Elfriede Jelinek! 🎉Anlässlich des runden Geburtstags der österreichischen Nobelpreisträgerin am 20. Oktober 2026 finden viele Veranstaltungen statt, die Jelinek als politische Intellektuelle und engagierte Autorin würdigen. Mehr Infos zu den Veranstaltungen⤵️ ifvjelinek.at/veranstaltun...

The KLI hosted the Science Day of the Dept. of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology (University of Vienna), a networking event for students and academic faculty, organized by @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social and his team. About 80 participants presented their research and used the space for discussion.

My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

Let us know how you use it, and please provide feedback on the github issue tracker.

There is no strict criterion for what a relevant pdf is, you could put anything you want in (eg a giant folder of mollusc development papers), but most of our optimization has been around handling the challenges that arise when analyzing systematic/ morphology/ taxonomy papers.

New in Cell: Corals didn't invent a new way to house their algal symbionts — they co-opted an old one. The symbiosome turns out to be built from repurposed lysosomal machinery, with one transporter (SLC26A11) essential for symbiosis. 🪸 @pcleves.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Drittmittelerfolge der Universität Wien im Jahr 2026: Ein erfolgreiches "Drittmitteljahr" für die Uni Wien bei den nationalen Fördergebern. Insgesamt wurden bis Juni 2026 vom FWF 61 Projekte an der Uni Wien bewilligt; der WWTF förderte fünf Forschungsprojekte. Mehr dazu lesen: ⤵️

Die Biologin Manuela Schmidt @univie.ac.at sucht in winzigen Nervenzellen nach dem, was den #Schmerz eines Kindes von dem eines Erwachsenen unterscheidet. Das soll den Weg dafür ebnen, chronische Schmerzen künftig gezielter zu behandeln. Mehr auf #scilog 👉 scilog.fwf.ac.at/magazin/wenn...

Forschende der #univie haben einen zentralen Mechanismus entdeckt, der es #Seeanemonen ermöglicht, aus ungeordneten Zellhaufen wieder einen vollständig aufgebauten #Organismus zu bilden. 🧫🔬 Die Studie wurde in @natcomms.nature.com veröffentlicht. 🧪 Mehr dazu im Presseportal: ⤵️

Was haben ein Mensch, ein Oktopus und eine Koralle gemeinsam? 👩‍🔬🐙🪸 Mehr als gedacht: In ihren Chromosomen stecken noch Reste desselben 600 Mio. Jahre alten Genoms. 🧬 Eine neue Studie der Uni Wien zeigt: Tiergenome entwickeln sich entlang weniger, unumkehrbarer "evolutionärer Autobahnen".🚦 Mehr dazu ⤵️

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Medusozoan #cnidarians include asexual sessile polyp & sexual motile #medusa #jellyfish in their life cycle. A #medusozoan single cell transcriptome atlas by Oliver Link, @alisongcole.bsky.social @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social &co reveals medusa-specific cell state @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4qlYngI

Sehr gutes Interview mit Hydrologe Günter Böschl von der TU Wien zur historischen Dürre in Österreich (und angrenzenden Ländern) 🧪

Check out this cool study by Varsha Mathur and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s41... It describes the life cycle, cellular and molecular interactions by a eukaryotic parasite with its host, a marine diatom. This interaction has global impacts on diatom blooms in the ocean.

Happy to share that my PhD work from the @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social lab is finally out! ^^

Check the brilliant work by Sanjay Narayanaswamy in Nature Comm. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... He established a scalable Gastruloid protocol and showed that in gastruloids of Nematostella axial polarity and germ layer restoration and sorting depends on a Notch-Wnt signaling feedback loop.

Great work by PhD student Patricio Ferrer Murguia. His paper reporting the twist mutant in Nematostella is out: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... twist is required to form secondary tentacles, via localized FGFR and mTOR signaling. Later, mutants form stunning epithelial neoplasia with tentacle identity.

Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today! We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.

It's really cool. Old school embryological methods on the right organism, and a big finding.

someone in the lab needs to use the PrepCell and apparently i am the last person to have used it 🙃. Needless to say there is a lot of sceptisism. But i have the receipts! Had to explain about degassing polyacrylamide, and analog recorders! lets see whether we can get this puppy to work.

In this Obituary, Francesca Mariani & Mark Lewandoski write about Gail R. Martin, one of developmental biology's most influential conceptual architects, a scientist who reshaped how we think about signalling, pattern formation & genetic analysis in the mouse. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

What is the evolutionary origin of the organizer? New work from @kremnyovs.bsky.social, @tclebedeva.bsky.social & Hejnol Lab @uni-jena.de reports the blastopore lip of the #ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, a member of the evolutionary sister group to all other metazoans, exhibits organizer activity.

Was haben die Ozeane mit Österreich zu tun? 🌊 Ob Klimawandel, Artenvielfalt oder internationale Politik: Der Zustand unserer Meere beeinflusst unser Leben weit über die Küsten hinaus. Beim 15. Umwelt im Gespräch im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien am 16.6. geht es genau um diese Frage!

I’m beyond excited to see our work published in Science Advances! 🎉 Deeply grateful to everyone involved — and especially to @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social for the great mentorship ✨ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Call for a demonstration, Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 13:00, starting on the Universitätsring in front of the Main Building of the University of Vienna! www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta... Please join us and support #Science in Austria! @univie.ac.at @vdsee-univie.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social

Americans need to hear this. The administration wants to cripple NSF. It did so by firing all members of the NSB. A significant amount of technological advances that we enjoy is traced back to NSF funding. The NSF budget = 1/3rd of what the Iran war has cost us in 3 months. It's not about $.🧪

In my previous post, embarrassingly I posted the wrong link for our collaborative paper with the group of Stefan Gründer on GABA-like receptors in Nematostella that turned out as Glutamate activated Chloride channels. Sorry for that. Here is the correct one: doi.org/10.1002/advs...

Why does learning drop when tech enters the classroom? Because computers train kids to skim. Dr. Horvath warns that we are currently redefining education to fit our tools rather than designing tools to fit how our children actually learn.

dzg-meeting.de/en/welcome-ms/ The Meeting of the German Zoological Society will take place in Münster from September 7 to 11! Abstract submission until June 15! 🧪

Apply now to join us in December for our workshop "Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective". This will be an intimate meeting (30 people total) and we hope will be a great place to discuss this topic.

Only 1 weeks to apply (April 7) for the joint Master program on "Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology" in Vienna. studieren.univie.ac.at/en/admission... Cool program with hands-on experience taught by leading scientists in PopGen, EvoDevo, Evolutionary Systems Biology. Spread it!

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

Today the EMBO Journal special issue on molecular ecology and evolution is finally published. It was a pleasure coordinating this collection together with @berndpulverer.bsky.social and many outstanding authors. Editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Cover art by @munafomarzia.bsky.social

Superexciting research by @ibaums.bsky.social including our researchers @nicoledubilier.bsky.social & Harald Gruber-Vodicka @maxplanck.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social #Deep-sea #corals harbour yet unknown bacterial #symbionts with extremely small #genomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Still about 2 weeks to apply (April 7) for the joint Master program on "Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology" in Vienna. studieren.univie.ac.at/en/admission... Cool program with hands-on experience taught by leading scientists in PopGen, EvoDevo, Evolutionary Systems Biology. Spread it!

Looking for a #PhD project? The #DEEVA team (biom.obs-banyuls.fr/presentation...) proposes a PhD research project on the evolutionary modifications in the formation of the palps, the sensory and adhesive organ located at the anterior end of the #ascidian larvae.

If you wondered what ‘oidsks’ are - these belong to a species of ‘Haptomonitora typo-didae’. Can frequently be found on the world wide webs.

Die Universität Wien ist an vier von insgesamt sechs neuen Emerging-Fields-Konsortien des @fwf-at.bsky.social beteiligt: Förderungen für die Bereiche #Kognitionsbiologie, #Genregulation, #Nanoplastik und #Mathematik. 🧪👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 Mehr Informationen zu den Projekten hier: ⤵️ www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...

Application for our cool joint Master "Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology" at Uni Vienna and VetMed Vienna is open. Deadline: April 7, 2026! Here is the website for the Master program. Bachelor degree only needs to be completed in September. studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr... Go for it!

👀 Curious about how RNA is shaped inside cells? Apply for a Master’s thesis in the Martinez Lab and investigate the mechanisms and functions of tRNA processing in health and disease ➡️ tinyurl.com/4hxm6x8p

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (March-June). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

On my trip through the Galapagos, I bumped into my old friend Charles Darwin. I knew he is still alive! We agreed that the islands are simply amazing.

Very Emotional Thanks Bruce @piperformissouri.bsky.social @lesliejones4mo.bsky.social @docsociology.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @tebarrett.bsky.social @kanekavi.sheshed.rocks @morgfair.bsky.social @anneserling.bsky.social / www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP...

Last week, we announced a plan to make child care universal. Today, applications are open for pre-K & 3-K. If your child is turning 3 or 4, apply now for the fall at: myschools.nyc

Our work on the evolution of the regulatory genome of echinoderms is now out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Led by my former PhD Marta Magri, Danila Voronov & Saoirse Foley. Great collaboration of Arnone, Hinman & Maeso labs, started long time ago with our missed José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta: rdcu.be/eXX8l

We observed that while gene activity groups cell type functionally, whereas CREs and regulatory seqs group them ontogenetically. E.g. mesenteric and tentacle retractor muscles, a dev convergence described by @alisongcole.bsky.social and @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new Hydractinia single-cell atlas from the Schnitzler lab: >47K cells from feeding polyps and stolon tissue that refines major somatic cell lineages and recovers a novel population of putative immune cells – a valuable resource for the cnidarian research community and beyond! tinyurl.com/hsymSC