Hello epithelia enthusiasts! I’m @inesfournon.bsky.social and I study epithelial mechanics in sea anemones 🪼 Did you know epithelial cell extrusion had never been described outside bilaterian animals before? Well… not anymore 👀 Read ⬇️🧵1/9

very happy to see urchins (!) at the Michael Sars Centre. ;)

We have some exciting guests in the @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social lab facility ✨These beautiful E. esculentus sea urchins collected near Bergen will help guest researcher Antoine Rémond from the @minclab.bsky.social better understand cleavage in echinoderms 🥚

Basically sabotage of the US biomedical research enterprise.

sage advice from brian may of queen: "the complete human being has to understand both science and art". 🎸🖼️🌜🔬

"bioRxiv is exactly the type of living experiment we all should be striving for, to achieve our shared goals of optimizing how research evidence is shared and used.” via @chrisnsimms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

💡💡💡 I can testify, CIMR is an awesome place to start your lab. We are currently advertising Fellowship sponsorship for new group leaders...feel free to check out the link below and get in touch if you have any questions! Please RT!! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Neither machine nor organ: these Platynereis worms possess cells that function like a 3D printer! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to see this out. 👏 @yinanwan.bsky.social Bogdan Bintu and team. Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis | free link Science www.science.org/eprint/5MHTM...

Division of labor between ERK and Notch signaling coordinates distinct stem cell populations during jellyfish tentacle regeneration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.08.710341v1

This account of the eLife saga will provoke much debate. One aspect isn't accurate: eLife wasn't "designed as an experiment in removing gatekeepers". The original intent was to publish "outstanding papers" but have the gatekeepers be academic not professional editors 1/2 nikomc.com/2026/03/05/e...

New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations" Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations? rdcu.be/e7zx7

Via @wacswain.bsky.social “Royal Society statement on the US Administration’s repeal of the endangerment finding”

Today, Michelle and I are proud to announce that we will be hosting the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on June 18th in Chicago, and welcoming the public on June 19th. We can’t wait for you to visit. Go to obama.org to learn more.

Timely review on an important support tissue in development. Thank you for highlighting our work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fitting time for this cover. open.spotify.com/track/5OQjEC...

🚨Seeking developmental or cell biologists🔬!🚨 Our department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social is looking to support scientists seeking to establish their lab with a fellowship. Deadline: 30 Jan. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Views of a very #SunnyBergen weekend to cleanse y’all’s timelines

L'étreinte amoureuse de l'Univers, de la Terre (Mexique), de moi-même, de Diego et du Señor Xólotl - Frida Khalo, 1949. Source : Musée d'art moderne, Mexico 🇲🇽

“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.” - Marcus Aurelius #CleanStoicism #StoicQuotes #Stoicism #Mindfulness

NIH is not issuing awards. You may think that it's because they it is coming up with new directions of research...The apposite is true. Here is a graph showing how many fewer new funding opportunities that NIH has posted over time. -91%, a trend that started on Jan 2025.

Cool paper alert. Was trying to model the thermal performance curves of several farmed seaweed species and ran across this awesome, theoretical unifying paper: “A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Devastating.

(1/3) A new call for proposals to support projects advancing research infrastructures (RIs) in the EU is opening soon. Attend the info day to get ready to apply for #HorizonEU funding 🧪 Before the event, watch the recorded sessions & submit your questions via Slido: link.europa.eu/DPcF4k

Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.

Ichthyologist Eugenie Clark, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘺, died #OTD in 2015. A pioneer in scuba diving for research purposes, she proved sharks are capable of learning and was a world authority on Tetraodontiformes. She founded Mote Marine Lab and used her fame to drive global marine conservation. #WomenInSTEM

One week left to register to the Bioimage Analysis with AI course in Pasteur! This June, 1 - 5. I give a bit more details in the thread below 👇

“A 7.2% decline for every tenth of a degree per decade might sound small. But compounded over time, across entire ocean basins, it represents a staggering and deeply concerning loss of marine life.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Beautiful work led by Yansong (Kevin) Lu on skeletal muscle growth in zebrafish, giant danio, Danionella cerebrum, and killifish. HCR, new image analysis tool, scRNA-seq, and CRISPR. New international collaborations between Uni Melbourne, NCVC/Osaka, Stanford & ARMI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to share scHiCAR, an ultra-high throughout (millions of cells), low cost (5 cents/cell including NGS), and trimodal platform for integrated single-cell level analysis of mRNA, open chromatin, and 5-kb resolution looping with ground-truth data the same individual cell.

Always great to be back at the Kerckhoff Marine Lab. @caltech.edu

Are you interested in Comparative Developmental Biology? Great opportunity for grad students and Postdocs to take this 2 week course at the MBL in October 2026.

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! #scdb26 @flybase.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @alliancegenome.bsky.social @insdb.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @geneticssociety.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Review: Viral genome editing methods and applications in the CRISPR era journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

It was a pleasure introducing H. E. Ambassador Stefano Nicoletti of Italy to our Centre and community today! Italian researchers from the groups of @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social and @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social shared their work and the beautiful organisms they work with 🌊 1/2

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Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

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@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Modeling mitochondrial inheritance enables high-precision single-cell lineage tracing in humans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bloodgenes.bsky.social @jswlab.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org

Three species of Red Sea fish appear to rely on special “hybrid” retina cells to see in dim environments

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧬✨ We celebrate the brilliant female faculty in the Center. From groundbreaking research to inspiring the next generation of scientists, your work is at the heart of our progress. #WomenInScience #cardiosky

I am regularly asked what specifically blue states and Congress should do to protect the midterm elections. Here you go, I list and explain them one by one. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

New deadline is Feb 10, very close still‼️ join us for a rich experience and opportunities to interact with fellow developmental biologists, as well as journal editors and representatives of funding agencies. 😉 Good for early career researchers to learn about the Science and the system.

“the newly revealed details raise questions about private funding for academia.” No sh!t. Tax cuts, biased, opaque, basically non-democratic. Start by removing associated tax breaks and see what happens…

Hello epithelial mechanics fans!! I’m Juanma @juanmagararc.bsky.social 👋 I work on cell mechanics (see celldynamicslab.com) and use Flipper-TR FLIM to probe membrane biophysics in cells. Join me on this tour about Flipper: what it measures, strengths, advice, cool case studies, and cute drawings!