Mirko Pegoraro PhD

"There’s not enough room in my chest for all this joy". What incredible news to wake up to. First Serbia, now this www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Not all nuclei are the same. We went to some of biology’s most exceptional nuclei 👉 dinoflagellates with genomes 80× ours 👉 Giardia’s twin nuclei 👉 ciliates carrying two nuclei in one cytoplasm & asked a simple question: what sets nuclear density? 🧵 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Lula Goes HARD

🚨 Looking for a PhD and want to translate mechanistic insights in DNA methylation biology to human development? Great collaboration with @hannahlong.bsky.social and Marcus Wilson. Dissecting DNMT3B functions in human development using human ES cells. 📅 Deadline 16th November 2026

Early mammalian embryos accumulate dsRNA, mimicking viral infection. Our two-step purification protocol reveals young LINE and LTR retrotransposons as the main dsRNA source bit.ly/4i3dhGc

Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! It's not just about giving destructive industries what they want, important as this is. The likes of Trump and Bolsonaro will kill the planet out of a vengeful desire to hurt. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New #ISEPpapers! Morphological, Molecular Phylogenetic, and Mitochondrial #Genome Characterization of a Deep-Branching Marine Flagellate, Katablepharis ulleungensis sp. nov. ( #Cryptista ) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Genomics #Protists #Microbes

www.nature.com/articles/s41... We are delighted to share our new study published in Nature Communications today.

Our Dept. of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the Institut Curie in the heart of Paris is hiring a new junior PI. It has a nice start up package and excellent I. Curie facilities. Please spread the word: Deadline Dec. 18th! jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr

Really quite struck by how piss-poor the UK coverage has been of the French riots, particularly from commentators. Superficial, know-nothing, self-interested, utterly unrevealing. An emabrrassment.

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

Why does estrogen deficiency accelerate bone loss? This study identifies the estrogen/SIRT5/FDX1 axis as a regulator of cuproptosis & bone formation, highlighting #SIRT5 as a potential therapeutic target for #postmenopausal #osteoporosis. #GenesAndDiseases: doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

PAPER from @vandepoelelab.bsky.social in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

This is what we are missing - the freedom to live, love, work, study, retire, travel across all EU countries freely. I miss it. I want it back. I want others to have the same opportunities I had when I moved to Spain pre Brexit. @bremaininspain.com @andrewhesselden.bsky.social

Neural coordination of wing and leg movements during a terrestrial threat display: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

Mentoring opportunity for early career #Drosophila researchers at FlyCROSS: if you are a graduate, technician, postdoc or pre-tenure researchers sign up to be a mentee here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

The slithering back to even vaguely positive or optimistic analyses of Trump’s second term after the abominations of January 6th cleared the way for today’s abject betrayal of the Ukrainian people. It’s astonishing how many public figures on both sides of the Atlantic are complicit in the crime.

Calling drylands enthusiasts with a passion for Stone Age surface archaeology and luminescence dating! Research Associate opportunity at the University of Leicester, with fieldwork in South Africa's Karoo Desert. Apply by 26 October! jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

Nicolas Cage says he probably won’t work with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for ‘SPIDER-NOIR’ “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI. I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots!“ (via variety.com/2026/tv/news...)

🔔Fantastic PhD opportunity here in #Norwich From Brain to Germline: How Perception Affects Genetic Inheritance aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships... Come work with the amazing 🤩 @immler.bsky.social @zebrafishrock.bsky.social

From Exec Summary... 'The most recent MHCYP survey estimated ADHD prevalence at 3% among 5–15-year-olds in 2017. We estimate by projecting from the existing MHCYP data points that the current prevalence among 5–15-year-olds might be around 3.8%.' Hardly 'out of control' www.gov.uk/government/p...

Happy to share this review of chronotherapy and chronodiagnosis in glioblastoma. Circadian biology in brain cancer diagnosis and treatment academic.oup.com/neuro-oncolo...

Javi looks like he has rubber bones in most of these dance moves. What an incredible performer. If I could do that, I'd dance everywhere I went, just to make people smile. Well done, Sir. Keep up the amazing work.

No doubt all the people who printed, posted or broadcast this now disproved story respect their readers/viewers/listeners/followers enough to correct the record asap… www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

📣 PhD opportunity in my lab 📣 Are you interested in the effects of climate change on social behaviour? 🌡️🔥 This PhD project will examine these effects in the amazing burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Informal enquiries welcome. Please share widely!

Pathogenic bacteria in the larval #fly gut can 'prime' the adult gustatory system to recognize bacterial peptidoglycans, but how? This study identifies Uracil as the bacteria-derived cue and characterizes a larval #sensory pathway required for priming the adult. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4hK9T1R

Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.

Let's talk about the HALLOWEEN GENES (really). 1979: It was a dark & stormy night⛈️& a scientist (Eric Wieschaus) is laboring over a microscope🔬, observing the dead remains of ... a fruitfly🪰. But not just ANY fruitfly. This was a TWISTED & MUTATED fruitfly with a GHOSTLY, transparent appearance.

São Paulo, 3 de outubro de 2026. 📷 Ricardo Stuckert

X-Y divergence of house fly (Musca domestica) proto-sex chromosomes follows distinct evolutionary trajectories despite residing in the same genome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.26.754726v1

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...

We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar

Dreadful, I'm sorry. The obvious next step is to sell those LLMs to universities who can then churn out grant applications perfectly tailored to these models without any academic input at all. A triumph of efficiency...

So very, very happy to see this out @plosbiology.org : Ancient inversion polymorphisms associate with sexually selected traits across natural guppy populations. Beautiful work by two very clever and talented coauthors, Yuying Lin and @vdbijl.bsky.social . journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/