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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 21d

🚨🪲 COOL JOB ALERT 🪲🚨
3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Sep 23

It's not too late to sign up for the online/hybrid portions of the Understanding Life: Using Largescale Biodiversity Reference Genomes conference Oct 27-29. coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/unders...

Understanding Life: Using Largescale Biodiversity Reference Genomes — 20251027

Understanding life: Using largescale biodiversity reference genomes

coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org

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Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · Sep 12

Our annotated chromosome(ish)-scale assembly of the genome of the terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare, the common pillbug, is available on NCBI: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...

Work carried out at Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions (EBI) lab in Poitiers.

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here's a new sponge genome and the associated metagenomes!
lopez-lab.net/2025/08/30/c...

Chromosomal Genome of the Red Sea sponge, Diacarnus erythraeanus, Kelly-Borges & Vacelet, 1995, and its Associated Microbial Metagenomes Published

A high quality whole chromosomal genome of the sponge Diacarnus erythraeanus and the metagenomes of its microbial associates have been published from the Photosymbiosis Hub, a component of the Well…

lopez-lab.net

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Aug 31

Check out the recently published genome of the ascidian Trididemnum clinides: lopez-lab.net/2025/07/29/p...

Pacific-based ascidian, Trididemnum clinides Kott, 1977, whole genome is now published

Another Aquatic Symbiosis Genome (ASG) Project Genome Note has been published. This time on the chromosomal level whole genome sequence of the photosymbiotic ascidian, Trididemnum clinides Kott, 19…

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Yi-Jyun Luo @yjluo.bsky.social · Aug 18

Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study led by @tomlewin.bsky.social now out in Genome Biology @bmc.springernature.com! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians.
doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Conservation of bilaterian genome structure is the exception, not the rule - Genome Biology

Species from diverse animal lineages have conserved groups of orthologous genes together on the same chromosome for over half a billion years since the last common ancestor of bilaterians. Although no...

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Aug 16

Exciting genomic study on Chaetognaths (aka arrow worms)! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan - Nature

Genomic, single-cell transcriptomic and epigenetic analyses show that chaetognaths, following extensive gene loss in the gnathiferan lineage, relied on newly evolved genes and lineage-specific tandem ...

www.nature.com

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Dr. Drew harvell @drewharvell.bsky.social · Aug 4

We are so proud of our sea star wasting work that came out today. This interactive article is very complete and includes beautiful videos.
Unmasking the Sea Star Killer www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer

After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

www.biographic.com

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Jul 26

Check out our new community funding proposal "Adopt an Invertebrate Genome with GIGA". The focus is to help scientists get funds for sequencing invertebrate genomes through crowdsourcing.

Details here if you are interested : www.gigacos.org/index.php/20...

#genome #omics #genomics #invertebrate

Whole Genome Sequencing meets Community Science Funding – GIGA

www.gigacos.org

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Jul 24

This new paper on phylogenomics of crustacean y-larvae is super interesting! #crustacea #genome #invertebrate
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Phylogenomics of enigmatic crustacean y-larvae reveals multiple origins of parasitism in barnacles

The deeper relationships of major thecostracan (barnacles sensu lato) groups remain contentious due to a lack of genome-scale data of enigmatic lineag…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Jul 17

Here's a first look at the genome for the giant barrel sponge, Xetospongia muta: wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...

#sponge #genome #invertebrates #marinebiology

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Jul 9

Check out this excellent blog post about sponges and 50 recently published sponge genomes! sangerinstitute.blog/2025/07/03/e...

Enter the absorbing world of sponges - Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog

Enter the absorbing world of sponges, the intricate animals that have evolved to inhabit all corners of our Earth’s waterways and oceans. Thanks to a worldwide collaboration of sponge scientists throu...

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Kevin Kocot @kmkocot.bsky.social · Jun 3

New pub on genome sample collection and processing: "Best-practice guidance for Earth BioGenome Project sample collection and processing: progress and challenges in biodiverse reference genome creation"
academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

Best-practice guidance for Earth BioGenome Project sample collection and processing: progress and challenges in biodiverse reference genome creation

Abstract. The Earth BioGenome Project has the extremely ambitious goal of generating, at scale, high-quality reference genomes across the entire Tree of Li

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Ira Cooke @iracooke.bsky.social · May 2

We @marine-omics.bsky.social are hiring. We're looking for a postdoc in population genomics. @janstrugnell.bsky.social careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Population Genomics - Townsville, QLD, Australia

James Cook University (JCU) is creating a brighter future for life in the Tropics and beyond, through education and research that makes a difference locally and globally. We now have an opportunity a...

careers.jcu.edu.au

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · Apr 21

Friday Harbor Labs has a new marine genomics center! NSF supported facility that is ADA accessible. Great new place to access genomes right where you get the critters.

fhl.uw.edu/facilities-r...

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James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · Apr 8

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT!
For more information see here:
gahanlab.com
tinyurl.com/34xke35d

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Apr 8

Upcoming World Sponge Conference in Portugal: worldspongecommunity.com

World Sponge Community – Word Sponge Conference 2025

worldspongecommunity.com

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Apr 7

Congratulations to the tardigrades! Invertebrate of the year 2025! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s heroic, hardy and less than a millimetre long: meet the 2025 invertebrate of the year | Patrick Barkham

Guardian readers around the world voted in the this year’s contest, but which creature won, asks natural history writer Patrick Barkham

www.theguardian.com

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Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA) @oceanspecies.bsky.social · Apr 4

🥁Drumroll, please! The 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗰 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 is… 𝘔𝘶𝘶𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴, the 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗽𝘂𝘀! 🐙

Over 4,000 fans voted and though all the creature candidates were impressive, 𝘔𝘶𝘶𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 stole the show and our hearts! The prize: complete genome sequencing.
@sgn.one @sigwartae.bsky.social

🎥:@schmidtocean

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Mar 31

ECHINODERM JOB! Collection Manager at the Los Angeles County Museum! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

more on the LACM collection here: nhm.org/research-col...

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Mar 20

Check out the latest newsletter from the Earth BioGenome Project @ebpgenome.bsky.social

EBP Life — Conservation Issue

777 E University Dr,, Tempe, AZ 85281, United States

www.earthbiogenome.org

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Mar 19

Lots of cool invertebrates in this list!

WoRMS @marinespecies.bsky.social · Mar 19

So, there they are, the @marinespecies.bsky.social top-ten marine species of 2024!

Do you have a favorite?

marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...

#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Mar 17

Save the date: Our next GIGA Conference takes place July 5-10, 2026 in the Philippines. More info coming soon, we hope you can join us!

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Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance @invertebrates.bsky.social · Mar 1

Very exciting work on molluscan phylogeny!

C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec @squamiferum.bsky.social · Feb 27

[New Paper] is on the COVER of @science.org !!
FIRST genome-phylogeny of MOLLUSCS (snails, clams, octopus, etc.) complete with ALL classes —incl. the mythical "living fossil" Monoplacophora— reveals how they evolved the most diverse body forms of all animals!

OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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