Ali Seleit
@aliseleit.bsky.social
Post-Doc EMBL Heidelberg
Aulehla Lab
Evo-Devo-Tempo
Developmental Constraints
Medaka 🐟
Aulehla Lab
Evo-Devo-Tempo
Developmental Constraints
Medaka 🐟
Congrats Mike !
#TeamTempo
#TeamTempo
Very excited to share - the ERC StG is a game-changer for us 🙏 We're going to learn the rules for timing control across cell types in the embryo and we think we can tune them too 🎛️ ⏳📈- reach out if you’d like to be involved !
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Congrats Mike !
#TeamTempo
#TeamTempo
The Sahel region (and sub-Saharan Africa generally) are so underrepresented.
Given this region currently has the fastest population growth rates globally, that seems entirely unjustifiable.
Given this region currently has the fastest population growth rates globally, that seems entirely unjustifiable.
🌎👩🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
September 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Sahel region (and sub-Saharan Africa generally) are so underrepresented.
Given this region currently has the fastest population growth rates globally, that seems entirely unjustifiable.
Given this region currently has the fastest population growth rates globally, that seems entirely unjustifiable.
Great work by Ido and team !
🧠🦈Excited to present our latest work🧠🦈Interested in brain evolution? And shark embryos? Then read on… Our work sheds light on the deep origins of our brain’s most complex regions.
September 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Great work by Ido and team !
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You link #phenotype 🦜 to #genotype 🧬 with #comparative #genomics 💻?
This #review is for you 📜: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
We review new #methods, remaining #challenges and #future directions and highlight recent key studies.
Thanks @hillermich.bsky.social!
Please share! 🙂
This #review is for you 📜: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
We review new #methods, remaining #challenges and #future directions and highlight recent key studies.
Thanks @hillermich.bsky.social!
Please share! 🙂
July 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
You link #phenotype 🦜 to #genotype 🧬 with #comparative #genomics 💻?
This #review is for you 📜: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
We review new #methods, remaining #challenges and #future directions and highlight recent key studies.
Thanks @hillermich.bsky.social!
Please share! 🙂
This #review is for you 📜: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
We review new #methods, remaining #challenges and #future directions and highlight recent key studies.
Thanks @hillermich.bsky.social!
Please share! 🙂
Really interesting work by Sergio !
Thrilled to share that our latest work on marsupial heterochrony is now online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk We used scRNAseq to understand the asynchronous progression of developmental programmes in marsupials www.cell.com/developmenta...
Marsupial single-cell transcriptomics identifies temporal diversity in mammalian developmental programs
Menchero et al. generate a single-cell transcriptomic atlas in the opossum and show
rapid progression of transcriptional programs in specific tissues relative to morphological
landmarks. This shift in...
www.cell.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Really interesting work by Sergio !
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📢 We are recruiting!
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
July 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📢 We are recruiting!
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
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Incredible diversity of #pollen grains!
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
June 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Incredible diversity of #pollen grains!
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth
#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday
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John Maynard Smith on natural history.
(London Review of Books, April 1982)
(London Review of Books, April 1982)
June 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
John Maynard Smith on natural history.
(London Review of Books, April 1982)
(London Review of Books, April 1982)
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🔔 Proud to share the preprint of my PhD work in the Petridou group @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org ✨
“A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics” 🐟 🔁 📶
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#devbio #biophysics
🧵⤵️
“A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics” 🐟 🔁 📶
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#devbio #biophysics
🧵⤵️
June 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🔔 Proud to share the preprint of my PhD work in the Petridou group @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org ✨
“A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics” 🐟 🔁 📶
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#devbio #biophysics
🧵⤵️
“A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics” 🐟 🔁 📶
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#devbio #biophysics
🧵⤵️
really cool !
Can't wait to dig into this
Can't wait to dig into this
Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
really cool !
Can't wait to dig into this
Can't wait to dig into this
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Join this week's VGZT seminar to explore evo-devo in eels and how rigidity transitions shape embryonic tissue organization! 🐟
Please join next week‘s Western 🌙 VGZT:
🗓️ Thursday, May 22
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
@aliseleit.bsky.social
👉Developmental heterochrony & evolution of segmentation in eels
@laura-rustarazo.bsky.social
👉Rigidity transitions & epithelial organization in 🐟 embryos
🗓️ Thursday, May 22
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
@aliseleit.bsky.social
👉Developmental heterochrony & evolution of segmentation in eels
@laura-rustarazo.bsky.social
👉Rigidity transitions & epithelial organization in 🐟 embryos
May 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Join this week's VGZT seminar to explore evo-devo in eels and how rigidity transitions shape embryonic tissue organization! 🐟
Come for the E(el)vo-Devo
Stay for Laura's opto-tools
Stay for Laura's opto-tools
Please join next week‘s Western 🌙 VGZT:
🗓️ Thursday, May 22
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
@aliseleit.bsky.social
👉Developmental heterochrony & evolution of segmentation in eels
@laura-rustarazo.bsky.social
👉Rigidity transitions & epithelial organization in 🐟 embryos
🗓️ Thursday, May 22
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
@aliseleit.bsky.social
👉Developmental heterochrony & evolution of segmentation in eels
@laura-rustarazo.bsky.social
👉Rigidity transitions & epithelial organization in 🐟 embryos
May 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Come for the E(el)vo-Devo
Stay for Laura's opto-tools
Stay for Laura's opto-tools
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As this @embo.org EvoDevoTempo Paris 2025 comes to close, my biggest takeaway message is that we absolutely must do this again!
Cheers to the organizers and thanks for all the feedback on our work from the lovely Tempo community
Until next ⏰ time ⏰
Cheers to the organizers and thanks for all the feedback on our work from the lovely Tempo community
Until next ⏰ time ⏰
having a lovely ⏱️time⏱️ at the #EMBO EvoDevoTempo meeting in paris
very much a field defined by its multidisciplinarity and diversity of model systems, leading to discoveries that wouldn't be possible otherwise
also, paris in the spring is definitely a thing
very much a field defined by its multidisciplinarity and diversity of model systems, leading to discoveries that wouldn't be possible otherwise
also, paris in the spring is definitely a thing
May 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
As this @embo.org EvoDevoTempo Paris 2025 comes to close, my biggest takeaway message is that we absolutely must do this again!
Cheers to the organizers and thanks for all the feedback on our work from the lovely Tempo community
Until next ⏰ time ⏰
Cheers to the organizers and thanks for all the feedback on our work from the lovely Tempo community
Until next ⏰ time ⏰
good decision !
The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning.
👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV
👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV
Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...
europa.eu
May 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good decision !
Incredibly prescient
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Incredibly prescient
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Number of genetic differences between random pairs of African individuals (black points) and a corresponding random European (blue points). 20 random samples. One instance: a person from Russia has fewer differences to a Kenyan than that same Kenyan to a Namibian.
May 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Number of genetic differences between random pairs of African individuals (black points) and a corresponding random European (blue points). 20 random samples. One instance: a person from Russia has fewer differences to a Kenyan than that same Kenyan to a Namibian.
Reposted by Ali Seleit
Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
May 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
Tul8te North American tour kicks off today.
NYC is already sold out !
So proud of my bro
#TheCocktailTour
linktr.ee/TheCocktailT...
NYC is already sold out !
So proud of my bro
#TheCocktailTour
linktr.ee/TheCocktailT...
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Linktree. Make your link do more.
linktr.ee
May 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Tul8te North American tour kicks off today.
NYC is already sold out !
So proud of my bro
#TheCocktailTour
linktr.ee/TheCocktailT...
NYC is already sold out !
So proud of my bro
#TheCocktailTour
linktr.ee/TheCocktailT...
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Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
wrd.cm
March 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
Enjoyed reading this from James and Callum.
Modularity is key !
Modularity is key !
Latest work:
Review on the evolvability of vertebral number, and the developmental processes underpinning it
Written by Callum Bucklow, @bertaverd.bsky.social, and myself
Check it out here: doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
Review on the evolvability of vertebral number, and the developmental processes underpinning it
Written by Callum Bucklow, @bertaverd.bsky.social, and myself
Check it out here: doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
March 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Enjoyed reading this from James and Callum.
Modularity is key !
Modularity is key !
The way to go !
Peer review completed within 7 days!
Paying peer reviewers!
Yes, it's possible.
Fast & Fair peer review by @biologyopen.bsky.social
More innovation from @biologists.bsky.social
Details here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Paying peer reviewers!
Yes, it's possible.
Fast & Fair peer review by @biologyopen.bsky.social
More innovation from @biologists.bsky.social
Details here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The way to go !
Dystopian.
I have a suggestion: how about you pay your reviewers for the long hours of reviewing? Ideally from the billions you are making in profit, from taxpayer money.
I have a suggestion: how about you pay your reviewers for the long hours of reviewing? Ideally from the billions you are making in profit, from taxpayer money.
Nothing to see here, just Nature advocating LLM peer review.
“Feed your dictated notes into an offline large language model (LLM) to clarify and organize your feedback. A simple prompt such as “Write a critical reviewer letter based on the following notes. Maintain a professional tone throughout”
“Feed your dictated notes into an offline large language model (LLM) to clarify and organize your feedback. A simple prompt such as “Write a critical reviewer letter based on the following notes. Maintain a professional tone throughout”
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Dystopian.
I have a suggestion: how about you pay your reviewers for the long hours of reviewing? Ideally from the billions you are making in profit, from taxpayer money.
I have a suggestion: how about you pay your reviewers for the long hours of reviewing? Ideally from the billions you are making in profit, from taxpayer money.
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More than three billion people in the world do not have access to modern energy sources, such as electricity, for cooking.
Instead they have to rely on solid fuels, such as crop waste, wood, and coal, that cause indoor air pollution. This pollution kills millions of people every year.
Instead they have to rely on solid fuels, such as crop waste, wood, and coal, that cause indoor air pollution. This pollution kills millions of people every year.
March 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
More than three billion people in the world do not have access to modern energy sources, such as electricity, for cooking.
Instead they have to rely on solid fuels, such as crop waste, wood, and coal, that cause indoor air pollution. This pollution kills millions of people every year.
Instead they have to rely on solid fuels, such as crop waste, wood, and coal, that cause indoor air pollution. This pollution kills millions of people every year.
Reposted by Ali Seleit
where we are in Europe:
decarbonisation out
deregulation in
arming efforts: magic fiscal space.
decarbonisation out
deregulation in
arming efforts: magic fiscal space.
March 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
where we are in Europe:
decarbonisation out
deregulation in
arming efforts: magic fiscal space.
decarbonisation out
deregulation in
arming efforts: magic fiscal space.
Reposted by Ali Seleit
The big reversal in Germany’s election
Extreme right (AfD) gained every where but particularly in the poorest regions.
Social Democrats (SPD) lost everywhere but particularly in the poorest region.
Extreme right (AfD) gained every where but particularly in the poorest regions.
Social Democrats (SPD) lost everywhere but particularly in the poorest region.
February 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The big reversal in Germany’s election
Extreme right (AfD) gained every where but particularly in the poorest regions.
Social Democrats (SPD) lost everywhere but particularly in the poorest region.
Extreme right (AfD) gained every where but particularly in the poorest regions.
Social Democrats (SPD) lost everywhere but particularly in the poorest region.