🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

Molecular ecology & evolution land on EMBO Press 🛸🌱 Hot off the press, my cover for this special issue of @embojournal.org celebrates the growing synergy of molecular, genomic and cell biology with ecological and evolutionary reasoning. #sciart #scicomm

Our SPECIAL ISSUE on MOLECULAR EVOLUTION & ECOLOGY is out! Editorial: @yehumoran.bsky.social, @berndpulverer.bsky.social et al Reviews on Asgard archaea, epimutations, giant-virus/host dynamics, smartphone analogy for animal origins… …& many related primary articles link.springer.com/journal/4431...

Today the EMBO Journal special issue on molecular ecology and evolution is finally published. It was a pleasure coordinating this collection together with @berndpulverer.bsky.social and many outstanding authors. Editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Cover art by @munafomarzia.bsky.social

All lights on protein folding 💡 Out @nature.com , @niko-dalheimer.bsky.social & @rongqinxiaoxiao.bsky.social from the Hartl lab at @maxplanck.de Institute of Biochemistry developed single-particle tracking in living cells to study the dynamics of co-translational protein folding #sciart #scicomm

I’m excited to share my first-author paper, with co-first author @rongqinxiaoxiao.bsky.social, now out in @nature.com. We developed a live-cell single-particle tracking platform to see how TRiC & prefoldin engage proteins during co- and post-translational folding. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬🔦Our Imaging spotlight from @hiralshah.bsky.social & team highlights their U-ExM atlas of planktonic eukaryotes, including details on how you can explore this wonderful resource. Plus, check out Hiral’s top tips on getting started with expansion microscopy. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/20/i...

The beautiful artwork accompanying this spotlight is by Marzia Munafò @munafomarzia.bsky.social. Marzia was one of the first artists that we highlighted in our #SciArt profiles back in 2021! thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profi...

A nice way to close the chapter on my PhD work: our team was awarded the Bruno Speck Award 2025 by the Swiss Foundation for Haematological Research for our publication on human intestinal evolution.

and @munafomarzia.bsky.social for this beautiful artwork 🙂

Breaking symmetry♋️ Another #NotTheCover from the same issue of @cellcellpress.bsky.social Here the @zernickagoetz.bsky.social lab @caltech.edu reports the earliest known symmetry breaking event in the mammalian embryo - right at moment of fertilisation! #sciart #scicomm 🧵

Bringing sci-fi vibes into the microscopic world 🪐

A planetary atlas of plankton 🪐 Closing the year with a bang: out @cellcellpress.bsky.social the @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social labs used ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal the stunning cytoskeletal diversity of over 200 plankton species! A #sciart 🧵 @embl.org

So cool to finally see the flamenco piRNA cluster assembled in its full glory - a ~700kb transcript, almost completely unspliced!

The multifaceted effects of paternal environments on offspring🌈 Latest from the @jamiehackett.bsky.social lab @embl.org, out now @embojournal.org: @bbbranjan.bsky.social & @mdura.bsky.social quantitatively investigate the impact of paternal environments on early embryogenesis. A #sciart 🧵

Talking to students is by far one of my favourite parts of this job ✨ #EUCYS 2025 was a hive of brilliant scientists in the making, so grateful to @embl.org & EIROforum for the opportunity to be there with my science & art! #scicomm #sciart #stem @ec.europa.eu

By the way, the image for this talk about how cancer cells adapt was painted by the amazing Marzia Munafò! Thank you @munafomarzia.bsky.social!

At least for science in the #oocyte community, the future looks bright with so many curious & young minds thinking about big open questions in oocyte and reproductive biology! Thanks so much to @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for organizing and bringing us all together in Paris!

Super oocyte community - had a fantastic time in Paris! 🙌

Spotted one of my illustrations on stage at the Singer-Polignac #fertility meeting in Paris! Big thanks to Andrea Pauli for the shout out!! 💫 #sciart #scicomm

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Last week @richabdill.com and @samanthagraham.bsky.social's paper was featured on the cover of Cell! The cover, portraying microbes on shelves shaped like a world map, was possible thanks to the amazing team of illustrators at SciStories ✏️🦠

🤩 Art by @drewberry.bsky.social @loliboldu.bsky.social @patriciabondia.bsky.social @jayeperview.bsky.social @hudrewthis.bsky.social @molmir.bsky.social @munafomarzia.bsky.social @snowotarski.bsky.social @marykoreilly.bsky.social @biyolokum.bsky.social @ahnaskop.bsky.social @bryanwelm.bsky.social

Thank you, @munafomarzia.bsky.social, for this amazing artistic representation of our work! 🤩🐟❤️

I loved how subtle aspects were incorporated into this piece, like the tripartite key, drawings of sperm and egg on the door and even some phylogenetic trees! 🌟 But did you notice, what lies beyond the door? Ribosomes and molecules found within the egg!

Check out this beautiful representation of our work by @munafomarzia.bsky.social uncovering the molecular bridge between sperm and egg! 🔑🤩 We had lots of fun brainstorming together with Marzia and seeing our discoveries come to life in this artistic rendition 🧵

I was already in love with the science in this paper! ... and on top of that... #sciart on the same story by the one and only @munafomarzia.bsky.social

Unlocking fertilisation 🗝️ out today @cellcellpress.bsky.social , @vdeneke.bsky.social & @pauligroup.bsky.social uncover a conserved protein complex on vertebrate sperm that recognizes distinct egg ligands in mammals and fish, enabling fertilisation. @impvienna.bsky.social A #sciart and #scicomm 🧵

One of my illustrations made an appearance at the MPI #epigenetics conference! thanks to the boss @jamiehackett.bsky.social presenting the cool science we do in the lab 🔥

Postdoc positions in epigenetics! We have several opportunities to investigate big picture questions on (epi)genome function & mechanisms Based @embl.org near Rome (Italy), we offer full scientific support/facilities, training & funding. Also...☀️🏛️🍕🏖️ See👇or contact me for other options. Pls RS

Very excited to be in Freiburg for the #epigenetics meeting 🧬 Come say hi during the poster session to hear about oocyte epigenetics!

Thanks Jamie for the shout out🙏 meet the other Hackett team members in his thread!!

News from the Hackett group! Careful and systematic testing of the earliest molecular signatures of inter generational epigenetic inheritance - great work from Mathilde Dura & @bbbranjan.bsky.social!🙌🙌

Super inspiring episode (out of one of my favourite science podcasts) for anyone looking into finding the next science idea 💡 open.spotify.com/episode/6KMh...

Time for an new intro under these skies 🔵 I’m a molecular biologist (currently postdoc-ing at EMBL) & also a science illustrator - taking your scientific discoveries and turning them into unconventional, colourful and creative illustrations! ✨ #sciart #scicomm more at www.munafomarzia.com

Reminder for scientist: don't use red+green LUTs. Make your images and videos colorblind friendly. Run them through one of many tools available to make them accessible 🧪 #microscopy

📢 anyone based in Trento & interested in scientific illustrations: come chat with me tomorrow at 5.30pm at CIBIO in Trento! #sciart #scicomm

This is an incredible paper, revealing the molecular architecture of a network of cytoplasmic filaments at near atomic resolution. They present clear evidence that these filaments assemble to provide a storage places for the many maternally encoded proteins needed for early embryogenesis. WOW!!

🌄At the dawn of a new life, mammalian oocytes need to safely store what will be required for early embryogenesis. Out now in Cell, the Schuh lab et al shed light on cytoplasmic lattices, enigmatic structures that accumulate and store proteins needed by the early embryo! #sciart #scicomm

I see no better way to kick off this account than a brand new #sciart ! Out now in Nature, three studies report the generation of human embryo models starting from stem cells and I was lucky enough to illustrate the findings of the Zernicka-Goetz lab at Cambridge Uni & Caltech! 🔥

Finally here too! 🎉 Need to follow some science and sciart people - if you're into either just say your name!