Open-rank search: 2 (!) PI positions in Pulmonary Biology at @cuanschutz.bsky.social 🌄 We are looking for new colleagues @cupediatrics.bsky.social, working in lung fibrosis, focusing on #devbio, stem cell, & regen.biology of the lung 🫁🫀. Please help spread the word! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

#DBfeature 🌊 #DBreview Germ cell formation and reproduction in tunicates by Yasunori Sasakura et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

*** GRC Developmental Biology 2027 - Jan 17-22 @ Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort *** Join us for a fabulous 2027 Gordon Conference on all things #devbio & the trainee-led GRS! More info on registration, abstract submission, et al., here: www.grc.org/developmenta... #GRCDevBio2027 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️

Pierre Chambon was a great scientist. And a good man too. He alone opposed to leading British embryologists during the evaluation of a case of scientific misconduct more than 40 years ago, to defend young scientists against an establishment to which he belonged. An unforgettable lesson. RIP Pierre 💐

The EMBO Regeneration Meeting is coming up this September! Don't miss the upcoming registration deadline: May 20. Program and registration: meetings.embo.org/event/26-tis.... #EMBORegeneration2026.

#WeinsteinConf2026🫀- first session in, every single talk has slides with red-green LUTs in fluorescent pictures. 6-8% of us face color vision issues, especially for red-green. Alternative, more visible color combos are easily implemented. As scientists, we can do better. #WeTheColorBlind #devbio

Very grateful for a spontaneous seminar by Prof. Nathan Palpant from the University of Queensland this morning, on bridging genetics and therapeutics for heart disease 🫀 Thank you for your visit!

We’re in for a cardiovascular development and therapeutics treat today @msarscentre.bsky.social with an opportunity seminar by Nathan Palpant.

It's not vaccines or chemtrails or Tylenol. It's not 5G or iPads or social media. It's not diet or the microbiome or maternal obesity. It's genetic. But it's complicated...

This a very important, and extremely well-executed study from Ralph Grand’s group @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Congrats to all the authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Definitely a meeting worth attending!

Here is the announcement of a Symposium @college-de-france.fr on 26 June on Information Flow and Computation in Biological systems. A great line of speakers on a variety of topics from embryogenesis to neuroscience, immunology and microbiology. Free entrance, come if you are in Paris end of June 🤩

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Your 'doom quote' for today: "There is now the probability that within a few years the North Pole will be ice-free for the first time in 10,000 years, entering what some call the 'Arctic death spiral.'" www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-farewell...

We had a full house today for a special guest visiting us all the way from @oistedu.bsky.social 👏 Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Watanabe shared his latest findings on cnidarian neurexins, and what they reveal about the evolution of chemical synapses in animals 🧠 Thank you for your visit!

Less than 1 week to apply for the Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Early Career Symposium! All career stages are encouraged to attend. Apply by May 1. 🔗 More at: https://bit.ly/4t0b1lG 🤝 In partnership with @isscr.org and @socdevbio.bsky.social

Did you know that fully half of the talks at the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting this year will be chosen from submitted abstracts? It's true! Great opportunities for trainees and PIs, too! @socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Very grateful to the wonderful folks in my group who donated precious time and for their uplifting spirit reaching out to a broader audience. 🙏🏼

The outreach station designed by the group of @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social was a must-see at One Ocean Week Family Day yesterday 👏 Many visitors stopped by to try puzzles, observe sea squirts and discuss animal development with our researchers! 1/2

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very happy to see this article on an important evolution of our research strategy. Huge thank you to communication advisor extraordinaire Marion Lebouvier and our dear colleague, CBU director @nathaliereuter.bsky.social

Congratulations @simonhenriet.bsky.social, Anthony Leon @evodevofox.bsky.social & colleagues on a new preprint 👏 In an impressive technical feat, the authors performed single-cell RNA sequencing throughout the life cycle of the larvacean Oikopleura dioica 🧬 Read the full story ➡️ tinyurl.com/3bhxsza9

May 29th. If you're in Paris, mark your calendars. Lock your pipettes. TELL YOUR cHAIR. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 🧪🐟

Chers Collègues et Amis de Strasbourg, je serai à la Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire (BNU) le 21 avril à 18h30 pour partager mes souvenirs d’embryon. Apportez les vôtres! Consultation gratuite.

Reminders

In vivo imaging of zebrafish spinal cord neural circuit development, captured with adaptive optical lattice light-sheet microscopy. Credit to Eric Betzig @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

It was awesome to finally visit the @msarscentre.bsky.social! Thanks @emclaereboudt.bsky.social for organizing, and everybody for the great discussions! + I got to experience #SunnyBergen (it’s real) 🤩🌞

We’re in for an Echinoderm treat today @msarscentre.bsky.social with Laurent Formery, who’s just started his independent reserach group in Banyuls, France, after a productive postdoc with @lowelab.bsky.social

cross-posting for the organizers: "Don't miss out on this year's Weinstein Conference on Cardiovascular Development & Regeneration, in New York, May 6-8! weinstein-conference.com Apply for a travel award ($500-1,000) by April 10th by filling out the following form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“Whales are back” depends on where you look. Some areas are dense. Others—where they used to be common—are now quiet. That’s not recovery. That’s compression into what’s left. We don’t notice absence. We notice what remains. That’s an echo.

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Accountability is very important. Without it, the people who do bad things are just emboldened to do more bad things. You vote for a capitalist, and you'll never see accountability. If you vote for a capitalist from either party, all these criminals walk free. Divine justice is fake. It's up to us.

Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Kolbert’s book, Life on a Little-Known Planet, is a master class in writing about the natural world.

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

Climate has almost disappeared from our conversation. But it remains the most pressing challenge of our times. Last week the WMO said the planet is “more out of balance than at any time in observed history.” Energy security and climate security are not competing priorities.

If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.

Holy smoke. What ultimately happened???

🌊 Dream job in marine science: Run your own marine station + build an independent research program We’re hiring a Research Associate to lead the Marine Station Carolinensiel (University of Münster) Field + lab • leadership • permanent position. Please RT! stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/3...

ECRs can apply for funded place at our Workshop 'Integrating Multi-Modal, Multi-Scale Models of Cardiovascular Disease Mechanisms', organised by Jennifer Davis, Christine Mummery & Beth Pruitt. Find out more & apply by 8 May at biologists.com/workshops/no...

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations @alexandrejan.bsky.social, @joanjsoto.bsky.social and colleagues 👏

Excited to share our #preprint showing that #macrophages in the regenerating #zebrafish #heart are shaped by local cardiac-immune microniches, with a fibroblast-to-macrophage signal promoting regeneration over fibrotic repair www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @idrm.ox.ac.uk @oxforddpag.bsky.social

Our study on shape diversity in cnidarians is now published. The final version includes extensive new data that substantially extend the original bioRxiv preprint. Congrats to everyone who contributed to this work! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @embl.org

A white paper on Stem Cell Based Embryo Models #SCBEM #Innovation #Ethics #Policy, from the community to highlight the potential of this new area of research and its impact in #ReproBiology shorturl.at/dAWL2

Honoured and overwhelmed to receive the 2026 Waddington Medal. Science is a team effort, and I've been fortunate to work alongside exceptional people asking hard questions. Thank you to the BSDB and to everyone who has been part of the journey. bsdb.org/2026/03/24/2...

Friends in NY, I shall be giving a public lecture at NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, 19 Wash. square at 5pm April 2nd as part of a NYU/ @college-de-france.fr visiting program. With Diderot, Haeckel, Isidore G. St Hilaire, Meckel, Perec and the embryo as guest stars. Also about the Enlightments💡😕 Please RT🙏

1/ 🚀 Excited to release: napari-mcp - agentic control of napari from any MCP-capable AI assistant! Use it for interactive image processing, analysis, and visualisation! Really cool project from @ilan-theodoro.bsky.social from my team! #napari #bioimageanalysis #MCP @biohub

Very cool update, for those interested! More details in thread 👇

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