My lab at Pitt is hiring a full time research technician, starting summer 2022! Perfect for those with some prior research experience and interests in microbiology and/or evolution. Please RT and help connect us with interested candidates! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/…

I’m so excited to give a talk in the #Dros22 Evolution II session #116 We study how to distinguish novel vs homologous structures by how they develop We find that some large outgrowths are produced by single cells (white) growing tall through actin (magenta) scaffolding

BREAKING: The situation at #Sharif_University is dire and students are asking for help. Security forces have surrounded the university campus. This video shows the police surrounding the north gate of the university. #Iran #IranProtests2022 #Mahsa_Amini‌ #MahsaAmini

SOS Students at Universities such as Sharif University of Technology and Tabriz Universities are trapped and shot by forces. The sound of gunfire is heard on campus for a long while! Be Iranian Student's voice! #MahsaAmini #دانشگاه_شریف #مهسا_امینی

Every academic institution, every student, every scholar, and every professor should be outraged by the Iranian regime’s attack on university students. Everyone should be speaking up! #SharifUniversity #دانشگاه_شریف

Your silence is deafening. United Nations CNN

The world is silent to the violence of #Iran’s regime against its people. Last night, students were trapped & beaten inside Sharif University: bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid… Scholars should be their voice! Read, inform, act! #دانشگاه_شریف #SharifUniversity #مهسا_امینی #MahsaAmini

1. Our new #EvoDevo and Wnt gene regulation paper is out in Science Magazine. We used #ATACseq and #CRISPR to study the evolution and role of cis-regulatory elements (CREs) of a patterning gene in different species of #butterflies. 🧵🧵🧵Check the cover🔥 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

My favourite bit of the lab website: between 8 of us in the Martin lab, we speak 14 languages. (I do not contribute to this diversity).

She captured her own death. Her last words were "don't be afraid, we're all in this together" Rest in power, Ghazaleh. #IranRevoIution2022

A la Une de @lobs cette semaine « Iran, la liberté contre les mollahs ». 40 jours après la mort tragique de #MahsaAmini tuée par la police pour un voile mal porté, la révolte prend de l'ampleur en Iran. Le régime semble déstabilisé par une jeunesse qui n’a plus peur de rien

🔴 BREAKING At its 35th special session, the United Nations Human Rights Council decided to create a new fact-finding mission to investigate "alleged #HumanRightsViolations in the Islamic Republic of #Iran related to the protests that began on 16 September 2022." #SS35

This morning, the Islamic Republic executed a wrestling champion. #MajidrezaRahnavard was arrested and sentenced to death during protests in Iran. #NavidAfkari #MahsaAmini

Our request is clear: put the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the terrorist list. #IRGCterrorists #WomanLifeFreedom #MahsaAmini

Very proud of Ling Loh and the Martin lab team on this one, where we begin to unpick the molecular basis of sex-dimorphic cell type specification and differentiation in Colias butterflies.

Our new Current Biology paper provides a rare glimpse into a morphological novelty in Drosophila eugracilis In it, Gavin Rice and colleagues, infer and reproduce the likely initial steps of a novelty's formation sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Today we did a Martin Lab Spooky Halloween Lab Meeting, with each of us sharing some fun, weird gross and/or otherwise interesting animals. Here's a quick thread of the fun, distracting things we talked about, which I think we are all in need of this week!