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Proud that this work was led by Jiahuan Liu during his master’s at NYU – now thriving as a PhD student at @uvabio.bsky.social 🙌
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Proud that this work was led by Jiahuan Liu during his master’s at NYU – now thriving as a PhD student at @uvabio.bsky.social 🙌
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Apply for this Assistant Professor position in UVA Biology by Oct 15, 2025!
Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!
🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
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#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
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#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
September 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Apply for this Assistant Professor position in UVA Biology by Oct 15, 2025!
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New paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
We explore shifts in vernalization and phenology in rear-edge populations of Campanula americana to get insight into the adaptation of temperate plants to future milder winters.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
We explore shifts in vernalization and phenology in rear-edge populations of Campanula americana to get insight into the adaptation of temperate plants to future milder winters.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
New paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
We explore shifts in vernalization and phenology in rear-edge populations of Campanula americana to get insight into the adaptation of temperate plants to future milder winters.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
We explore shifts in vernalization and phenology in rear-edge populations of Campanula americana to get insight into the adaptation of temperate plants to future milder winters.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Trait specialization facilitates autonomous selfing ability in a mixed-mating plant
New #AJB research by @hannamakowski.bsky.social, Keric Lamb, Austin Kim, Emily Scott & Laura Galloway
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#boyany #plantscience #evolution #pollen @uvabio.bsky.social
New #AJB research by @hannamakowski.bsky.social, Keric Lamb, Austin Kim, Emily Scott & Laura Galloway
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#boyany #plantscience #evolution #pollen @uvabio.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Trait specialization facilitates autonomous selfing ability in a mixed-mating plant
New #AJB research by @hannamakowski.bsky.social, Keric Lamb, Austin Kim, Emily Scott & Laura Galloway
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#boyany #plantscience #evolution #pollen @uvabio.bsky.social
New #AJB research by @hannamakowski.bsky.social, Keric Lamb, Austin Kim, Emily Scott & Laura Galloway
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#boyany #plantscience #evolution #pollen @uvabio.bsky.social
Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!
🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
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September 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
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September 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
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Our new paper "Host avoidance and resistance vary independently and are specific to parasite genotype" is out in Journal of Animal Ecology! @animalecology.bsky.social @akgibson.bsky.social
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July 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Our new paper "Host avoidance and resistance vary independently and are specific to parasite genotype" is out in Journal of Animal Ecology! @animalecology.bsky.social @akgibson.bsky.social
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📢 There is a lab technician or lab specialist position available in my lab, starting fall 2025. The position will involve molecular biology, microbiology, drosophila work, and more. Please share with anyone who may be interested and apply here: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
Biology Lab Tech 2 or Lab Specialist in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Biology Lab Tech 2 or Lab Specialist job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia
jobs.virginia.edu
July 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
📢 There is a lab technician or lab specialist position available in my lab, starting fall 2025. The position will involve molecular biology, microbiology, drosophila work, and more. Please share with anyone who may be interested and apply here: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
Dr. Louis Bubrig gave an amazing defense of his dissertation exploring how dispersal affects the spread of epidemics. Congratulations, Dr. Bubrig!!
July 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Dr. Louis Bubrig gave an amazing defense of his dissertation exploring how dispersal affects the spread of epidemics. Congratulations, Dr. Bubrig!!
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🚨New(ish) paper alert!🚨We developed and implemented an efficient iterative ranking algorithm for multi-body competitions. This is the first paper from my former student Jack Yeung (LinkedIn: jackcyeung), I am immensely proud of the work he has put into this project!
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journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
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July 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🚨New(ish) paper alert!🚨We developed and implemented an efficient iterative ranking algorithm for multi-body competitions. This is the first paper from my former student Jack Yeung (LinkedIn: jackcyeung), I am immensely proud of the work he has put into this project!
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
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🚨🚨 New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and Przemysław Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520
July 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🚨🚨 New preprint just dropped! In collaboration with @colltoaction.bsky.social, Cliff Joslyn, @fralotito.bsky.social, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, and Przemysław Szufel, we define a new data sharing standard for higher-order networks. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520
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HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520
HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks
Many empirical systems contain complex interactions of arbitrary size, representing, for example, chemical reactions, social groups, co-authorship relationships, and ecological dependencies. These int...
arxiv.org
July 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520
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I’m excited to share our work which identifies a new seminal fluid protein in C. elegans!
Kasimatis et al. identify a new nematode seminal fluid protein which is released from a novel sperm subcellular organelle. This protein is not involved in sexual conflict but provides a small fitness benefit to females
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@katjakasimatis.bsky.social @asherdcutter.bsky.social
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A novel sperm-derived seminal fluid protein in Caenorhabditis nematodes
Abstract. Nematode sperm contains subcellular vesicles known as membranous organelles (MOs) that fuse with the sperm cell membrane upon sperm activation to
doi.org
July 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I’m excited to share our work which identifies a new seminal fluid protein in C. elegans!
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Just a few spots left in our graduate evolution workshop @mlbs-uva.bsky.social! Join me, @clively.bsky.social, @ldelph.bsky.social, and @corlettwood.bsky.social
from Jul 27-Aug 2 for a week of evolutionary thinking, science writing, and time outdoors! mlbs.virginia.edu/evolutionary...
from Jul 27-Aug 2 for a week of evolutionary thinking, science writing, and time outdoors! mlbs.virginia.edu/evolutionary...
May 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Just a few spots left in our graduate evolution workshop @mlbs-uva.bsky.social! Join me, @clively.bsky.social, @ldelph.bsky.social, and @corlettwood.bsky.social
from Jul 27-Aug 2 for a week of evolutionary thinking, science writing, and time outdoors! mlbs.virginia.edu/evolutionary...
from Jul 27-Aug 2 for a week of evolutionary thinking, science writing, and time outdoors! mlbs.virginia.edu/evolutionary...
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Hope this primer proves helpful to anybody interested in infection avoidance. It was certainly a pleasure to write with @akgibson.bsky.social and @pfvale.bsky.social l!
In our latest issue, @cr-amo.bsky.social and colleagues explain how avoidance of pathogens and parasites is a common feature across the tree of life and discuss the conditions under which avoidance may evolve. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Avoidance of infection
Amoroso et al. explain how avoidance of pathogens and parasites is a common feature
across the tree of life and discuss the conditions under which avoidance may evolve.
Research on avoidance may lead ...
www.cell.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Hope this primer proves helpful to anybody interested in infection avoidance. It was certainly a pleasure to write with @akgibson.bsky.social and @pfvale.bsky.social l!
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New NIH funded research from our group now out. We are interested in development and evolution of cell types and adult phenotypes. In this paper, postdoc Dylan Huang and collaborators asked how a pigmentary ornament of bright white cells develops on the fin of zebrafish. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
New NIH funded research from our group now out. We are interested in development and evolution of cell types and adult phenotypes. In this paper, postdoc Dylan Huang and collaborators asked how a pigmentary ornament of bright white cells develops on the fin of zebrafish. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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New paper out from grad student Katia Korzeniwsky and collaborators with roles for Mitfa transcription factor in pigment cell development and genetic interactions with related transcription factor Tfec.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/pcmr...
dx.doi.org/10.1111/pcmr...
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New paper out from grad student Katia Korzeniwsky and collaborators with roles for Mitfa transcription factor in pigment cell development and genetic interactions with related transcription factor Tfec.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/pcmr...
dx.doi.org/10.1111/pcmr...
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Huge congrats to Ray Keller on his election to the National Academy of Sciences! Ray isn’t on Bluesky but that shouldn’t stop anyone from letting him know how well deserved this is, or the impact he’s had generally. Certainly his work was a major reason I ended up in dev bio.
April 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Huge congrats to Ray Keller on his election to the National Academy of Sciences! Ray isn’t on Bluesky but that shouldn’t stop anyone from letting him know how well deserved this is, or the impact he’s had generally. Certainly his work was a major reason I ended up in dev bio.
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New paper out! "A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset" in collaboration with @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social, Ilya Amburg, @diesagar.bsky.social, and @foucaultwelles.bsky.social. Paper at arxiv.org/abs/2505.11608 and dataset at socialmediaarchive.org/record/78
A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset
Large-scale networks have been instrumental in shaping the way that we think about how individuals interact with one another, developing key insights in mathematical epidemiology, computational social...
arxiv.org
May 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New paper out! "A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset" in collaboration with @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social, Ilya Amburg, @diesagar.bsky.social, and @foucaultwelles.bsky.social. Paper at arxiv.org/abs/2505.11608 and dataset at socialmediaarchive.org/record/78
We are heartbroken to share that our dear colleague, Masashi Kawasaki, passed unexpectedly on Sunday. Masashi was an important member of our community and we will miss him deeply. For more about his life and legacy see bio.as.virginia.edu/masashi-kawa...
Masashi Kawasaki: 1955-2025
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May 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We are heartbroken to share that our dear colleague, Masashi Kawasaki, passed unexpectedly on Sunday. Masashi was an important member of our community and we will miss him deeply. For more about his life and legacy see bio.as.virginia.edu/masashi-kawa...
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#withoutNSF I wouldn't have received the @uvabio.bsky.social NSF EXPAND fellowship, funded through an NSF Research Traineeship grant, that allowed me to pursue new interdisciplinary perspectives in my research.
May 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
#withoutNSF I wouldn't have received the @uvabio.bsky.social NSF EXPAND fellowship, funded through an NSF Research Traineeship grant, that allowed me to pursue new interdisciplinary perspectives in my research.
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#GliaPapers #GliaMay2025 RESEARCH
Sushanth Kumar, …, @deppmann.bsky.social sky.social
@uvabio.bsky.social
Characterizing microglial signaling dynamics during inflammation using single-cell mass cytometry
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Sushanth Kumar, …, @deppmann.bsky.social sky.social
@uvabio.bsky.social
Characterizing microglial signaling dynamics during inflammation using single-cell mass cytometry
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
May 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#GliaPapers #GliaMay2025 RESEARCH
Sushanth Kumar, …, @deppmann.bsky.social sky.social
@uvabio.bsky.social
Characterizing microglial signaling dynamics during inflammation using single-cell mass cytometry
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Sushanth Kumar, …, @deppmann.bsky.social sky.social
@uvabio.bsky.social
Characterizing microglial signaling dynamics during inflammation using single-cell mass cytometry
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation! 🥳 Thank you Dr. Filippo Radicchi for your guidance as my advisor over the years, your mentorship has been invaluable!
Next stop, University of Virginia with Dr. Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social!
Next stop, University of Virginia with Dr. Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social!
April 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation! 🥳 Thank you Dr. Filippo Radicchi for your guidance as my advisor over the years, your mentorship has been invaluable!
Next stop, University of Virginia with Dr. Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social!
Next stop, University of Virginia with Dr. Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social!
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Excited to share that our study identifying a unifying model of species abundance distributions (SADs) has just been published: rdcu.be/ejYKe. We found that the ‘powerbend’— a bent power law — accurately describes SADs across ~30,000 animal, plant, and microbial communities.
April 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Excited to share that our study identifying a unifying model of species abundance distributions (SADs) has just been published: rdcu.be/ejYKe. We found that the ‘powerbend’— a bent power law — accurately describes SADs across ~30,000 animal, plant, and microbial communities.
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I am thrilled to announce that I have committed to @uvabio.bsky.social's PhD program for Fall 2025!
I am so grateful for this opportunity to develop my research interests, further my education, and contribute to a vibrant scientific community (now more than ever)! 🧪🌍🔬🦎 #PhDSky
I am so grateful for this opportunity to develop my research interests, further my education, and contribute to a vibrant scientific community (now more than ever)! 🧪🌍🔬🦎 #PhDSky
March 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I am thrilled to announce that I have committed to @uvabio.bsky.social's PhD program for Fall 2025!
I am so grateful for this opportunity to develop my research interests, further my education, and contribute to a vibrant scientific community (now more than ever)! 🧪🌍🔬🦎 #PhDSky
I am so grateful for this opportunity to develop my research interests, further my education, and contribute to a vibrant scientific community (now more than ever)! 🧪🌍🔬🦎 #PhDSky