Postdoc researcher at ISTA in Gašper Tkačik's group, studying biological evolution through the lens of information theory. Math enthusiast and amateur jazz piano player.
https://eliamascolo.github.io/
Elia Mascolo
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Make students rediscover evolution by reasoning. Check out this project! Students never exposed to evolution used evolutionary thinking to interpret the results. Only afterward we connected this to biology!
If you try it, reach out to us (@izziehb.bsky.social and me) 😊 We'd love to hear feedback!
The @fusanilab.bsky.social + vogelwarte.at will be there to talk about sexual selection 🐦🐠 & human impact on animal behaviour and physiology 🪶🐦🐊
Come and visit our stations! langenachtderforschung.at/station/6662
langenachtderforschung.at/station/3588
For all age groups & German/non-German speakers!
So hyped to see the paper out!! 🤩
A great within-lab collab: 2 undergrads, 2 postdocs, 1 PI, cute rainbow darters, and much fun! 🌟
Please read (now-faculty ❤️) Kara's recap to learn more about what we did, she has a real knack for storytelling! ⏬️
I'm really excited to join ISTA's scientific community! I feel really welcome 🤗 Looking forward to doing awesome science together!
In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨
Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!)
Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇
doi.org/10.1093/fems...
"Gene Sharing has Stabilised the Genetic Code"
by Peder Worning & Rodrigo Ibarra-Chávez
FREE till March 13th at
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mURqcQbJF...
With @eliamascolo.bsky.social we'll be presenting this project at the #EvoKE2025 conference in Athens🇬🇷 this November! Check out what the initiative is doing to promote the education and outreach of (biological) evolution in Europe!
➡️ @evokeproject.bsky.social
Very happy to share that this work that I took part in via @forrt.bsky.social is receiving the 2025 Commendation of @improvingpsych.org !
Happy to announce that our study on the latent cis-regulatory potential of mobile DNA is officially published!
TLDR: mobile DNA in bacteria (Insertion Sequences) have a proclivity for evolving new promoters. At least 25% of them probably already encode functional promoters as well.
🚨 #Internship alert in #MachineLearning
I am recruiting a BSc (or MSc) student in #ComputerScience #DataScience for an internship this Spring
On-site @univie.ac.at or remotely
Possibility to develop a BSc/MSc thesis project
Please share around & reach out if you have any questions!
More details 🔽
The mechanism and extent to which transposons can alter the gene expression of their hosts is not well understood. This study finds that in the IS3 family of transposable elements in E.coli, de-novo p...
Replicards: Teaching and simulating evolution with a card-based experiment: doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
📣 Save the date: Lange Nacht der Forschung an der Uni Wien!
📅: 24.04.2026, 17:00 - 23:00 Uhr
📍: über 100 Stationen an 5 Standorten: Hauptgebäude, Fakultät für Chemie, Fakultät für Physik, Sternwarte & Biologiezentrum
Das gesamte Programm der Uni Wien im Überblick: ⤵️
www.univie.ac.at/lange-nacht-...
First rule of darter fight club is... nah, we're totally going to talk about darter fight club right here in our new paper!! I'm pleased to share the latest from myself, @izziehb.bsky.social ,
@tamramendelson.bsky.social, and two brilliant undergraduate co-authors! #FishSci #FishSky 🐟❤️ 1/
Article in TIME, featuring ISTA postdoc @eliamascolo.bsky.social. After 4 years in the US, he moved to Austria with the APART-USA fellowship, a program that supports outstanding researchers in relocating their work to Austria.
🔗 https://time.com/7379376/scientist-migration-us-to-europe/
With @eliamascolo.bsky.social we developed an interactive class on biological evolution (focusing on mutations 👾) for science #teacher through a card game 🎲 We crash-tested it with #HighSchool students from Milan and made it available online for broader use: replicards.netlify.app #SciCom #EvoBio
✨ The Annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity is a stepping stone for those wishing to learn more about neurodiversity. buff.ly/67f2F6q. The contributors would like to acknowledge @forrt.bsky.social
In this study, we assessed the possible dual utility of nuptial color patterns in male rainbow darters (Etheostoma caeruleum) in the context of male-male territorial interactions and female mate ch...
A collaboratively developed annotated reading list expands upon core themes in neurodiversity, aiming to enhance understanding and to promote rigorous, destigmatizing, and inclusive practices in…
