I participated in the II Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Evolutionary Biology that took place 15-17 July 2026 at UFMG in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil (where I currently live). It was a great opportunity to integrate back into the Brazilian community, meet old friends and initiate new collaborations. The organization was impeccable, innovative […]
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Later this year I’ll be joining the Comparative Embryology of Marine Invertebrates (CEMI) course as an instructor. It will be held from November 25th to December 8th, 2026, at CEBIMar–USP, São Sebastião, Brazil. CEBIMar is where I did my master’s thesis about the embryonic development of a sea biscuit and where the Oceano and Cifonauta […]
I went to the 10th Meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology that took place in Glasgow, Scotland (9-12 June 2026). I’ve been to EED’s meetings since 2012, and this was the first after starting my position in Brazil. It was great to catch up with everyone again and meet several people that […]
I’ve released a major update to EvoDevo Papers. The database now has all the papers posted since 2015 and a new search form for swiftly exploring the contents. Full archive In the previous update, I improved the website by creating separate pages for feeds, posts and individual papers to make the database contents accessible to […]
The peer-reviewed version of our cephalic furrow paper is out 🎉 It was published back-to-back with another cephalic furrow study: Research mutualism This was a wonderful collaborative effort to understand the developmental role and evolutionary origins of this prominent but overlooked tissue fold of fly embryos. We were two teams working on a similar question, […]
The newest version of EvoDevo Papers is online, and it’s the biggest update since the last codebase refactoring. I’ve made several additions and improvements to the website and implemented cross-posting to Bluesky. Why have a website? For many years, EvoDevo Papers’ posts were only on Twitter. Everything was well—until it wasn’t. When I moved it […]
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Ceratitis open peer review
I reviewed a paper last year about the embryonic development of Ceratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly (or medfly). The authors used time-lapse recordings of whole embryos made with lightsheet microscopy to create a comprehensive staging system for the embryogenesis of the species. It was one of the first reviews that I signed (disclosed my […]
The botsin.space community, a popular Mastodon server for automated accounts (bots), will be retiring soon. They have been kindly hosting EvoDevo Papers for the past couple of years. To avoid any downtime, I recently migrated the account to a new server, the biologists.social community managed by The Company of Biologists. I think it’s a great match, […]
Our brachiopod Wnt paper has been peer-reviewed, was accepted, and is now published in BMC Biology! The article is open-access: Vellutini, B. C., Martín-Durán, J. M., Børve, A. & Hejnol, A. Combinatorial Wnt signaling landscape during brachiopod anteroposterior patterning. BMC Biol. 22, 1–23 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01988-w
Last June, I went to the conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, or EuroEvoDevo. It’s a meeting that I’ve been going to every edition for the past decade. This year it was hosted in Helsinki, Finland. The venue and organization were impeccable, and I thoroughly enjoyed the program overall. My feeling is […]