Nicolas Rohner

Many congratulations to @maikbischoff.bsky.social on receiving a @dfg.de Emmy Noether grant! We’re delighted and proud to host you at @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de. We look forward to exciting times and groundbreaking science ahead! 🎉🔬 www.bischofflab.com

🐟 One week to go! The 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting kicks off Wednesday in Heidelberg — 171 participants, 17 countries, 47 PIs + 124 students, 6 sessions on zebrafish, medaka, killifish, cavefish & more. Can't wait to see everyone there! #Zebrafish #ModelOrganisms

Science is miraculous. Vaccines are miraculous. Just because we now know (more or less) how they might work does not make them any less miraculous.

Very happy to have joined MPI Münster and looking forward to this new chapter. Thanks for the warm welcome!

Yesterday was the lab's 10-year anniversary and we had a nice apéro to celebrate it - many, many thanks to all lab members, present and past, for all the great work and fun times together 🙏🥳

Discovered this door today in our building. I am a little afraid of opening it…

It is official: The @moraneyecenter.bsky.social has named @blockintheback.bsky.social as the Vice Chair for Vision Research and Research Director. I could not be more happy for my former institution as they are in the best hands with Kristen. healthcare.utah.edu/moran/news/2...

Interested in weird and crazy #photoreceptor types - like “superrods” in some deep-sea fish?🤩 Happy to see you on Wednesday poster (PS3.45) session at #ICN2026 #ICN2026Vancouver @neuroethology.org

I am excited to open my lab at @ibioillinois.bsky.social in Spring 2027! We will use zebrafish & other fishy friends to reveal the genetic basis of large scale changes in the vertebrate body plan, and how this impacts both human health and evolution. Join me at UIUC! 🧬🧫🔬 www.hawkinslaboratory.com

Postdoc Positions: Coral Cell and Molecular Biology Reach out directly to mg2@stowers.org or follow the link below to read more and apply through the institute portal! Postdoctoral Research Associate - REQID0002557 www.stowers.org/careers/post...

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

There is a beautiful @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social essay on this theme harpers.org/archive/2018... I have the last few lines hanging on the door of my classroom.

Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians

I thought I was a quirky little underdog fish with cool tricks, widening the model-organism spectrum. Suddenly, headlines: "Billion Dollar Fish Takes Over" Holy Mackerel! I guess there weren't any smaller fish to fry. Anyway, I'm still the same, still making the case for model diversity.

Paying peer reviewers works. Benefits authors, editors & reviewers. Hopefully other journals will try this.

“We can disagree and still be friends.” Yeah. About whether a hot dog is a sandwich. Not whether some people deserve rights.

Very cool #cavefish findings 🔥

The eleventythousandth time we’ve run this experiment, always the same result 🤔

One of my dream projects, ever since joining here in Basel, out now in @nature.com : single-cells 🤝 eco-morphological proxies rdcu.be/fiyso How cells and tissues adapt to dietary niches... Thanks and congrats to Antoine, Walter, and all the other co-authors for this great collaboration!! 🙏🥳

Excited to receive support from @sse-evolution.bsky.social to support our outreach work in Mexican communities and teach evolution through the Mexican cavefish! 🐟✨

I think about this all the time.

We´re hiring: Dream job in #marine science @uni-muenster.de Deadline approaching - See below and apply by May 1st Please RT

One day left to apply for an exciting #PhD project in our lab within the CiM-IMPRS graduate program @uni-muenster.de

Not sure everyone understands that this is a trillion-dollar wealth transfer from everyone to the world's richest people, who hold an overwhelming majority of oil and gas company ownership and stock. Staggering upward redistribution of wealth.

Cool under pressure

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

The whole @deutschebahn.com website is a disaster. Constantly unable to book train tickets. Also trying to book a Deutschland ticket with credit card (or paypal for that matter) not possible. It’s almost like they don’t want you to book, so they need less trains or whatever… facepalm

Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me: Nature-inspired neuroscience We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨ tinyurl.com/y5y9du27

🌊 Dream job in marine science: See below and apply by April 24th 🦭🐬🦞

Important read: “For an experienced researcher, AI is great. You know enough to guide the tool, catch its errors, and work independently when it fails. But for a trainee still developing those capabilities, the same tool can bypass the learning process entirely”

You never really know people. There’s a dentist down the street who got busted last week for dealing narcotics. I’ve been going to that guy for 10 years and I never would have guessed that he was a dentist.

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Job alert for a DREAM job: we are hiring a Research Associate to lead the #Marine Station Carolinensiel in the Institute of Integrative Cell Biology and Physiology @uni-muenster.de Field + lab • leadership • permanent position Apply here tinyurl.com/mtr7r5jt See www.uni-muenster.de/Biologie.IMZ...

🌊 Dream job in marine science: Run your own marine station + build an independent research program We’re hiring a Research Associate to lead the Marine Station Carolinensiel (University of Münster) Field + lab • leadership • permanent position. Please RT! stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/3...

Our study on shape diversity in cnidarians is now published. The final version includes extensive new data that substantially extend the original bioRxiv preprint. Congrats to everyone who contributed to this work! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @embl.org

Go Fish! 🇩🇪

Go Fish!

Cellular Interfaces reloaded: Join us for the @sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on „Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces" in Münster from May 27–29, 2026. Registration opens in February! Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w @uni-muenster.de

Dream Job alert!

🐟 Exciting News! 🐟 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting : 🔗 Submit your abstract and register today: www.germanfishmeeting.org 📅 When: September 16–18, 2026 📍 Where: Center for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg, Germany #germanfishmeeting2026 #fish #research #zebrafish #science

Motto for 2026: Yes, We coelaCANth! Thanks @drheathheckman.bsky.social for the nice Fishmas present!

Apply soon: Full professorship in Systems #Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de See shorturl.at/VczFp

Maybe we should revise policies that push postdocs out of academic research too early. It selects for early achievers that remain in one field and risks losing the highest impact people

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

ICYMI by @rohner.bsky.social et al.

I am thrilled to share that my PhD work is published. Here, we uncover the conserved evolutionary principles of eukaryotic cell-substrate adhesions. A huge thanks to Prof. Dr. Carsten Grashoff. Do check out the article and I look forward to get in touch! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Die Präsidentin der Universität Osnabrück, Prof. Dr. Susanne Menzel Riedl, wird zum 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin der Universität Münster. Sie tritt damit die Nachfolge von Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels an, der seit 2016 im Amt ist.