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captainfubar.bsky.social
Caenorhabditis elegans.
February 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
varshasinghuk.bsky.social
Art inspired by observing and thinking about Caenorhabditis elegans.
February 3, 2024 at 9:38 PM
drdind.bsky.social
Ahem. @aoc.bsky.social was a prize winner in the 2007 Intel National Science Fair.

Very intelligent.

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April 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
holovachov.bsky.social
An unidentified species of #Caenorhabditis from the Atacama desert in Chile is growing now in my lab :-)
Caenorhabditis
May 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
javierapfeld.bsky.social
Thanks to NIH funding, I discovered that sensory neurons regulate the lifespan of an animal (#Celegans, a worm!).

This suggested that senses like smell, taste, and touch might influence aging in other animals (they do, we now know!) 🧪🪱
January 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
wormsrock.bsky.social
The Golden Age of Caenorhabditis ecology is right now.
ryangreenway.bsky.social Ryan Greenway @ryangreenway.bsky.social · Dec 19
Check out our preprint investigating host use in sympatric Caenorhabditis nematodes! We found three Caenorhabditis species in a local community are associated with different invert taxa, and document a strong association between one species and invasive nitidulid beetles.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
odedrechavi.bsky.social
Our🥶COOLNESS paper to date is finally published! Ice cold and lithium dramatically delay forgetting (extend memory) in C. elegans. Why? read all about it! 👇
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Cold and lithium delay forgetting of olfactory memories in Caenorhabditis elegans
Nature Neuroscience - In this study, we identify an actively regulated process that governs the rate of forgetting in Caenorhabditis elegans, modulated by both temperature and the mood-stabilizing...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
mellziland.bsky.social
E parte importante dessa regulação entendida pelos nobelistas aconteceu usando.... VERMES!

Sim! Ambros e Ruvkun estudaram o Caenorhabditis elegans (vamos todos combinar que é mais fácil chamar de C. elegans, mas vale o desafio entre amigos de dizer o nome dele certinho haha)
Imagem ilustrativa de Caenorhabditis elegans
October 7, 2024 at 1:19 PM
biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social
Prion-induced heritable states in Caenorhabditis elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.27.753494v1
September 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
cyrilpedia.bsky.social
'Why would anyone want to screen drugs against the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans? (...) This review aims to provide insight and perspective into this question.'
Drug screens using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
Abstract. Since its inception as a model system, Caenorhabditis elegans has provided insight about the mechanism of action of drugs through genetic analyse
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August 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
csybio.bsky.social
got to hangout with don today and look what he gifted us…an original print of genetics that had The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans by Brenner 😭 #celegans 🧪
copy of Genetics, Volume 77 number 1 Brenner’s The Generics of Caenorhabditis elegans in print format
October 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
the-episiarch.bsky.social
I was looking for new materials to add to my nematode lecture and stumbling up some highly explicit worm porn, starring a pair of Caenorhabditis elegans. 🧪
From here: www.wormatlas.org/male/musclei...
March 18, 2026 at 1:39 AM
kapilarohit.bsky.social
In our new Communications Biology paper, we show that mutation retention is strongly strain-specific, and that structural variants can reshape how mutations remain linked and persist.
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#ScienceTwitter #Research #NewPaper #Genomics #Evolution #OpenScience
Strain-specific structural variant landscapes shape mutation retention following mutagenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans - Communications Biology
Communications Biology - Strain-specific structural variant landscapes shape mutation retention following mutagenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans
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September 27, 2026 at 2:40 AM
mennovdbos.bsky.social
Fortuynprijs naar Plasterk, iemand die zich werk van collega's toeëigende, zijn columns vult met desinformatie (zoals dat de NPO-Ombudsman D66-Kamerlid was geweest) en het redeneervermogen heeft (zie www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...) van de caenorhabditis elegans* uit zijn teruggetrokken Science-artikel.
Column | Intellectuele luiheid
Column: Floor Rusman
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May 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
transposableman.bsky.social
#TEsky Active and unusually expanded PIF/Harbinger transposable elements in the Caenorhabditis inopinata genome academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
Active and unusually expanded PIF/Harbinger transposable elements in the Caenorhabditis inopinata genome
Abstract. Understanding how transposable elements (TEs) transition from rapid amplification to functional decay is fundamental to unraveling the mechanisms
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October 1, 2026 at 1:29 PM
weirdworms.bsky.social
Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In Caenorhabditis tropicalis, three toxin–antidote elements arose via gene duplication from the essential tRNA-synthetase subunit FARS-3. The ancestral antidote probably acquired affinity for FARS-3, ...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
surojitsural.bsky.social
The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center Curated Special Collections: a guide to protein degradation systems

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The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center Curated Special Collections: a guide to protein degradation systems
Abstract. The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center is launching a new website feature—“Curated Special Collections”—designed to help researchers navigate the eve
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January 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM
jessicarbloom.bsky.social
Our recent study exploring the mechanisms behind hybrid incompatibility in Caenorhabditis Elegans nematodes is now available at @currentbiology.bsky.social!

Many thanks to my collaborators at UCSD - @odlab.bsky.social @greenbeegreen.bsky.social and the Rifkin Lab!
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Hybrid incompatibility emerges at the one-cell stage in interspecies Caenorhabditis embryos
Bloom et al. show that hybrid incompatibility between Caenorhabditis elegans group nematode species pairs arises immediately after fertilization, before zygotic gene expression. Primary defects in spe...
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July 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
alperakay.bsky.social
Special issue on C. elegans genetics and biology @heredityjournal.bsky.social. Submit your manuscripts by 1st May 2025. Contact me for more info. www.nature.com/collections/...
Special Issue: Caenorhabditis elegans genetics and biology
See more information on the new Heredity special issue on Caenorhabditis elegans genetics and biology.
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February 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
elife.bsky.social
’SICKO’ lets researchers quantify the C. elegans microbiome.
SICKO: Systematic Imaging of Caenorhabditis Killing Organisms
eLife Assessment
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January 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
samillingworth.com
🧠 Dopamine and forgetting

A new study shows dopamine helps the brain forget old memories. Worms lacking dopamine held onto memories longer, suggesting forgetting is an active, dopamine-driven process.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jnc.70200

#SciComm 🧪 #Neuroscience #Memory
Dopaminergic Modulation of Short‐Term Associative Memory in Caenorhabditis elegans
Forgetting is a vital, active process that clears irrelevant memories and supports new learning. Using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, we investigated how dopamine, a key neurotransmitter,....
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October 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
patrickphillips.bsky.social
New paper early online at GBE: Pervasive conservation of intron number and other genetic elements revealed by a chromosome-level genome assembly of the hyper-polymorphic nematode Caenorhabditis brenneri. doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Artistic image of male and female Caenorhabditis briggsae nematodes against a backdrop of multi-species genome alignments.
March 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
phylewgenetics.bsky.social
New preprint! We unexpectedly discovered that some Caenorhabditis species delete parts of their somatic genome early in development, which fragments their chromosomes and eliminates key germline genes. Multiple lines of evidence suggest this bizarre process was present in the ancestors of C. elegans
Figure with three panels. Left: phylogenetic tree of Caenorhabditis species, highlighting those with programmed DNA elimination. Middle: plot showing chromosomal locations of eliminated DNA. Right: Images showing DNA fragments being eliminated during early development.
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
tedpavlic.bsky.social
Nematode towers that you can get to grow in lab using C. elegans. Maybe a new, tractable model system for studying self-organization in the lab. 🧪

"Towering behavior and collective dispersal in Caenorhabditis nematodes"
by Perez et al. (2025, Current Biology)
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Towering behavior and collective dispersal in Caenorhabditis nematodes
Perez et al. report that self-assembling nematode towers occur in nature and can function as collective dispersal structures. Using Caenorhabditis elegans, they establish a tractable empirical model t...
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June 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
weirdworms.bsky.social
WormTagDB: a systematic survey of endogenously tagged
proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans and roadmap toward
the tagged proteome

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WormTagDB: a systematic survey of endogenously tagged proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans and roadmap toward the tagged proteome
Abstract. Endogenous protein tagging in Caenorhabditis elegans enables the direct visualization and manipulation of proteins in vivo, providing native read
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May 8, 2026 at 5:17 PM