Jeremias Brand

NEW preprint!🥳 Orthogroups are a prerequisite for comparative genomics and Tree of Life inquiries Introducing #OrthoHMM, software that improves orthogroup inference, which may refine our understanding of genome evolution and the Tree of Life 🔗 tinyurl.com/4s9mwxz6

🚨 We are pleased to present the report into the 2nd Leibniz PostDoc survey! 🚨 This has been a long-time coming but we are happy to see this report into the careers, working lives, and mental health of Leibniz PostDocs finally available. For more information, keep reading!

This is an excellent postdoc opportunity! Ludwik is super productive and there are so many new things that can be discovered in these worms. I highly recommend applying.

ZOOLOGY JOB ALERT!🚨🪱 Are you interested in microscopic worms, asexual reproduction, or EvoDevo? We are hiring a post-doc (18 months) in our newly established group @IBE_Warszawa @BiolUW funded by @NAWAPoland Apply by 15.12.24 More details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/283654

@PMurawala Sorry this happened to you. It's a big problem with the shared first-authorship. Were you allowed to change the order in the CV?

Dear Reviewer, You have one job and that is to read grant properly. In case you are on X, here is my first author publication during my postdoc. science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

@NicoGagelmann A clear path to a solution would be for all government funding agencies to require publication of funded work in non-profit, open access journals.

What does that all mean? You as a researcher pay to get access to your own work! You as a researcher review works of others for Elsevier journals for free! And if you want free access to your work, you pay about 1 month salary for one article! So, Non Solus (not alone)? We as researchers in the current academic publishing scheme are all alone. We or the society pays for a company to get rich. Elsevier has made significant contribution to science and knowledge acquisition, absolutely. But it is far away from altruistic goals for a global community but a raw and complex global company with monetary goals. The current system is INSANE, paying for your own article 6k$, just because you want everyone to get access to it? That's not open access, that's giving those who already have enough more advantages! And since when are we all ok that the state or societies (universities, libraries) pay a company to get access to works from their own faculty? When have we lost our pride and support for our researchers? The academic publishing scheme must CHANGE🙏 Thank you for reading the thread and happy to receive comments...

Elsevier is one of the largest, most hated and most influential academic publishing companies in the world. How it started & how it's going A thread🧵

Both @MPGpostdocnet and @LeibnizPostDocs conduct postdoc surveys. In @NatureCareers, we explain why we do this and how you can do it too! ✍️ with the amazing @harrywilliamsmx & @becker_regi nature.com/articles/d4158… #Postdocs #WissZeitVG #AcademicChatter #academia

@lixingguang @marques_et_al @rinklab It shows synteny between the four Schmidtea species. You can see that there have been frequent inter-chromosomal rearrangements.

@Jere_Brand @marques_et_al @rinklab cool, what is this figure for?

Read our recent paper on the evolution of synteny in flatworms! My blog about it: jeremias-brand.github.io/2024-09-19-nco… And the open access paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… @marques_et_al @rinklab

@MartaTischer Nice pouch! 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄

It's an honor and we hope to be as great as our predecessors!

Planarians are model systems for stem cells & regeneration. Ivanković et al. provide new genome assemblies of S. mediterranea & 3 relatives, showing that synteny is not an evolutionary constraint in flatworm genome evolution. @Jere_Brand @mpi_nat @rinklab nature.com/articles/s4146…

Have a look at my poster at @Evol_mtg #Evol2024 to see why power analysis (often) sucks. Poster also here github.com/szymekdr/evolu… + more on the topic in our paper journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… with @itchyshin Yefeng Yang and Losia Lagisz

@ulfjo Lovely!

#WormWednesday Aphanostoma virescens, an Acoela species from shallow waters at the Swedish west coast. Seen in July 2024 dropbox.com/scl/fi/icop5ea…

Die HRK hat ein im Einzelnen näher zu betrachtendes, aber in der Stoßrichtung überzeugendes Papier für dauerhafte Beschäftigung vorgelegt. #IchbinHanna wirkt nicht nur im Parlament - wir ändern den Diskurs! Mich freut: Die Anschlusszusage ist drin! hrk.de/positionen/bes…

“Nature profits but don’t share, Springer Nature pay us fair” #SpringerNatureStrike @NUJ_Nature

@solana_jordi Honestly hard to know what is more impressive, the work or your meme game... Anyway congratulations for both!

Our new bioRxiv! The Hydractinia Cell Atlas. Neither the hermit crab, nor the dead mollusc that once occupied the shell, but the colonial cnidarian growing on top. Can we learn more about how this association evolved using single-cell analysis? 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The first of my main PhD papers is out now as a preprint! Co-first authored with @DrSalamander, we generated an atlas of Hydractinia cell types, including tissue from all specialist colony parts. Check out @solana_jordi thread below for some fresh memes and deets

The 2024 @MPGpostdocnet Survey has begun! If you are an MPG Postdoc, please fill it out! Thank you to everyone in the Survey and Steering Groups who have made this happen. It's been awesome to work on this yet again. More information about our survey here: postdocnet.mpg.de/survey

OK mind BLOWN @Ento_Allan showed me this amazing micro beefly Leylaiya spp with its concertina mouthparts…. Is this not the most amazing MOUTHPART you have ever seen???