Kaiser Lab

Hello Bsky! We are the Max Planck Research Group Biological Clocks. #evolution #evobio #ecology #adaptation #biodiversity #behaviour #genetics #genomics #chronobiology #circadian #circalunar #biologicalclock #moon #tides #marine #molbio #biology #nature #research #science #scicomm #insect #clunio

The sale of Scientific American is a wake up. I had not realised quite how fragile intellectual independence is; how readily it can be eroded by forces from outside -- some obvious, some less so. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/when-defen...

Next month I will talk with the German Postdoc Network. The invitation has me thinking about what to say, how to engage, and the weight of responsibility; the need to go beyond simply expressing solidarity. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/what-to-di...

And not to forget the new #Marine #Chronobiology #StarterPack ! @marine-chronobio.bsky.social #circadian #tidal #lunar #annual #moon #tides #seasons #photoperiod #MarineEcology #MarineLife #clocks #rhythms #algae #insects #worms #benthos #plankton #nekton #neuston #intertidal

Our lab is part of the #Marine #Chronobiology #Network = #MACHRO ! ⏰🌊🌿🪱🦟 And MACHRO is now on #Bsky as well @marine-chronobio.bsky.social - please have a look below, follow and share if you like! #circadian #tidal #lunar #annual #rhythm #MarineEcology #MarineLife #algae #worms #insect #clock

Congratulations @marketa-kau.bsky.social and @avezyrakis.bsky.social !! #EvoBio #EvoDevo #Behavior

#chronobiology #tides #MarineEcology #MarineLife #moon #circalunar #circadian #circatidal Just some indexing ... 👉 📖

Four weeks since the end of this year's #fieldwork. We miss our field sites! And the #midges #crabs #snails #worms #fish #seaanemones #seaurchins #starfish #algae #limpets #barnacles #shrimp ... short: #marine #biodiversity! #PlayaDelCamello #Santander #Cantabria #Spain #tide-pooling #naturalist

How does pressure from below begin? Often quietly, when early-career researchers discover that a calculation they have been making alone is widely shared. New on Academic Renewal: notes from conversations among ECRs. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/how-pressu...

If anyone looking for a postdoc with fantastic genomics/bioinformatics skills + strong intellect + great energy, please let me know! Preferably West Coast or remote/hybrid options & the candidate is open to a short (1 year) or longer term appointment

We had a visit by former #postdoc @juleneumann.bsky.social last week. She presented her current work on ⏰ #clocks & #crabs 🦀 @aberuni.bsky.social, including the her amazing high-throughput #phenotyping setup. Good to have you #home for a while! @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social #marine #chronobio

Help needed! Does anyone know of a lab that has glass (pigmentless) guppies? We are interested in getting them for a project

A further push to do something about the plague of journals that provide minimal editorial oversight, erode standards, distort incentives and threaten public trust in science; while at the same time reaping vast profit from tax-payer-funded research. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Do you have trouble sleeping when away from home or your partner and family? In our latest, we find that shells 🐚🏠 (homes) and conspecifics 🐟❤️ (family) control (or mask) circadian rhythms in shell dwelling cichlid fish: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

AUTOREPLY: Currently on field work in northern Spain, making new friends.

Academic advice travels downhill: manage your supervisor, publish early, protect your time. Where is the genre in which early-career researchers advise the people who hire, fund and judge them? New post 👇 academicrenewal.substack.com/p/the-first-...

What can we learn from disruptions of seasonal patterns of disease during the pandemic? A new paper by @michaelsieber.bsky.social in PLOS Global Public Health, journals.plos.org/globalpublic..., was featured in the German news such as @zeit.de or @spiegel.de - and may be of interest also here. 1/3

One faculty ad, 200 applicants, 600 papers before the first shortlist. Nobody can read that, so metrics do the reducing — and slowly a committee stops reading at all. An essay on what we lose when judgement is handed to citation counts and h-indices. 🧵 academicrenewal.substack.com/p/when-acade...

My postdoc director called my work "phenomenological" and forbade it. I walked to a museum, found Tinbergen had shared a Nobel for work of exactly that kind, and finished the study anyway. On temperament, luck, and what the system selects against 👇 academicrenewal.substack.com/p/a-certain-...

Interested in joining a growing lab in LA? We’re hiring a postdoc!! Please spread the word to folks in your network and feel free to get in touch with any questions recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11142

Peer review is unpaid. Click "claim credit" for a review and that record enters a database owned by Clarivate, the company that also sells the impact factor. Your free labour becomes their inventory, and once anonymised, raw material for profit. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/who-owns-y...

In choosing where to submit our work for publication, we have more agency than we sometimes recognise. Every submission helps determine which journals prosper, which publishing models grow, and ultimately how science is communicated. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/choosing-w...

The first Academic Renewal interview is now live! Denis Bourguet & Thomas Guillemaud, co-founders of Peer Community In, discuss peer review, diamond open access, and scholarly publishing organised around researchers rather than publishers. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/taking-pub...

Public money should not flow automatically to journals that fail to meet acceptable standards of editorial quality, transparency and accountability. In this post I ask what a journal accreditation system might look like & how it could work. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/building-a...

Monday's thought's on APCs and why we should stop paying fees to publishers who do not earn the money (and plunder the system) academicrenewal.substack.com/p/stop-payin...

Our piece about academic renewal is now out in the Times Higher Education. It deals with a familiar topic on which there have been multiple high-level declarations. We need to move beyond the symbolic. Early career researchers, pls read + ask questions! www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/academ...

Wall lizards are in the spotlight. 🦎 Recent features in The Guardian and National Geographic highlight research connected to Nathalie Feiner’s group on Mediterranean wall lizards. Biodiversity also lives within species. www.evolbio.mpg.de/3884924/wall...

Congratulations, Eva! This is great news! @estukenbrock.bsky.social @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de #evolbio #leopoldina #crop #pathogen #fungi

Women in Evolutionary Biology II takes place 1–3 June 2026 — and we’re delighted to spotlight this year’s keynote speakers: 🌟 Tiana Kohlsdorf, Laasya Samhita, Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Marjon de Vos, Kateryna Makova & Catalina Chaparro Pedraza lnkd.in/erb6wQbW #WomenInEvoBio #EvolutionaryBiology

Deadline approaches: Applications for our workshop “Tracing evolution through cell lineages” are open until 29 May. 12–14 Oct 2026 | MPI EvolBio, Plön For researchers working on cell lineages & evolution. Apply: lnkd.in/eZnJuYcr

Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.

(Young) chronobiologists, save the date! 📅⏰🌗 Great topic, great organisers, great place! #chronobiology #circadian #circatidal #circalunar #circannual @juleneumann.bsky.social @nils-reinhard.bsky.social @lhueppe.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social @aberdlsagb.bsky.social

Facial diversity in birds and mammals doesn’t just come from different signals – but from how cells respond to them. A new study in Science Advances shows evolution acts on both: signal placement and cellular interpretation. More Info: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3879733/news... @marketa-kau.bsky.social

#Inspired by @nikihubbard.bsky.social I made a #colour palette for #Clunio marinus. What a #colourful world! 🪰🪰🪰🪰🦟🪰🪰🪰 #marinelife #invertebrates #scicomm #dataviz #insects #entosky #clocks #chronobiology @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

How do cell lineages evolve, and how does that shape trait evolution? Join our symposium Tracing Evolution Through Cell Lineages (Plön, 12–14 October). Hear perspectives from leading scientists and contribute with your own. Read more at: workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/145/ #EvoDevo #StemCell

Job ad now available here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc...!

Please share widely! We will imminently be posting a technician position in our lab group since @rheasood.bsky.social is off to grad school 🙌! If you know of anyone excited about molecular biology, evolution, and functional genomics please have them reach out (schumer at stanford). Start date ~June

Our research is in #GEO #magazine! As a boy, I read every issue of GEO from front to back. Now the work of my lab is in it. Feels kind of surreal ... and very grateful for the journey! 🙏 Big THANK YOU to Solvin Zankl 📸 and Katharina Jakob ✍️ ! #moon #tide #science #scicom #nature @maxplanck.de

This is an exciting #perspective by our colleagues Amor Damatac II, Markéta Kaucká, Kristian Ullrich, as well as Alexander Klimovich, in #Nature Communications! Congrats! @marketa-kau.bsky.social @amordamatac.bsky.social #evodevo #hourglass #embryogenesis #singlecell #development #evolution

🪰🪲🐜🐛🪳🐝🦋🦟🐞🪰🪲🐜🐛🪳🐝🦋🦟🐞🪰🪲🐜🐛 Es gibt Millionen #Arten von #Insekten. Jede Art hat im Laufe der #Evolution ganz spezielle Probleme gelöst. Auch das ist #Biodiversität. Und wir können viel von ihnen #lernen! #Biomimetik #Entomologie #Natur #InsektenSindGroßartig @spektrum.de @jlugiessen.bsky.social