Our work exploring a new explanation for the regulation of Hoxd genes and the #fin-to-limb transition. 🧪 It was an absolute joy working on this w/ @aurhin.bsky.social and @homeobox.bsky.social @denisduboule.bsky.social @neilshubin.bsky.social #evo-devo #InHoxWeTrust

Very interesting new @wbickmor.bsky.social commentary on the mechanistic mystery that is very distal enhancer-promoter interactions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. A study in Nature reports a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. go.nature.com/3V68MP0 🧪

Our humble gata2b in situ hybridization image made it onto the cover of @biologyopen.bsky.social! If you'd like to check out the story behind the image, the link to our new paper is: journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

Excited to share that the final version of our work on Connexin 41.8 in HSPC specification is out now in @biologyopen.bsky.social! If you're curious about how a connexin helps turn endothelial cells into blood stem cells, please have a read! journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

How the functional architecture of the zebrafish heart is shaped during development 📹 @tobyandrews.bsky.social et al @rashmi-priya.bsky.social lab @crick.ac.uk in @cellpress.bsky.social Developmental Cell ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

Thrilled to bits to see our latest work online in Dev Cell! 🥳 We wanted to know how cells build functional organs with precision🫀🫁📏 Here we show how coupling of cell shape and organ function fine tunes the form and contractile power of the developing #zebrafish heart 1/n tinyurl.com/cell-stretch

Got this really cool, ghostly picture by accident the other day in Dillon Beach, CA. It is a Heermann's gull with both it's shadow and reflection. #birds

Issue 14 is complete! On the cover: Drosophila eye imaginal discs stained for the pan-neuronal marker Elav (red or blue) and cell fate-specific markers to investigate basic cell-biological processes such as cell proliferation and morphogenesis during development. See: doi.org/10.1242/dev.204373

This is my first time seeing a Monarch on our property! I literally just purchased milkweed seeds and began preparing the area I’m going to plant in this fall. That’s quite the synchronicity. #gardening #bugsky #bloomscrolling #photography

Beautiful work using lineage-tracing, transplantation experiments and fate mapping to show that somites give rise to nephron progenitors www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🐌💫 Snail embryos never looked so fabulous! Tubulin (white), phospho-histone H3 (pink), and F-Actin (cyan) light up this early stage like a cytoskeletal disco ball. Image from Clemens Cabernard & Adam von Barnau Sythoff 🪩🧬 #FluorescenceFriday

Wow. Scientists have edited mosquito DNA to prevent the spread of malaria to humans "while supporting essential physiological functions... and negligible fitness costs" to the mosquito population. Potentially ending the mosquito-born spread of malaria to humans. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mustering the courage to share my latest scicomm endeavour: I channelled my love for writing into a blog where I can hopefully bring the marvels of evolutionary biology and non-coding DNA to all Science lovers! darkgenomevo.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/i...

No new genes needed to fly - just rewire what you have! 🦇🧬 Great new paper from the labs of @fany-real.bsky.social @stemundi.bsky.social @dariloops.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415... #EvoDevo #SingleCell #BatWings

In her Perspective, Emilie Snell-Rood discusses the value of basic science, using the Morpho butterfly as an example of how this type of research has driven later innovation & highlights the value of government and institutional support for basic research journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

The first 22 hours of #Zebrafish development. Blood vessels labeled in green #WeinsteinLab 🔬🧪

Excited to share our new research in @cp-iscience.bsky.social! We reveal that tortoise head scales are sculpted through two distinct developmental processes - chemical signalling and mechanical folding 🐢🔬🧪 @lanevol.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Dev bio is amazing !!

Check out our latest work on the evolution of animal genome regulation out today in @nature.com. Nicely summarized below by @ianakim.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu

A review emphasizes the advantages of using zebrafish in research, outlines key differences in experimental approaches, and offers guidelines for designing studies in a way that enhances experimental rigor and reproducibility. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

My first post on Bluesky! Very excited to share our work just published in @science.org. We find that “Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis” - in angiogenesis and other tissues! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Look familiar? This beautiful video of #zebrafish embryogenesis was used for a 'one-frame per page' flipbook in the December 1996 edition of @dev-journal.bsky.social. Credit to Rolf Karlstrom and Don Kane. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

Awesome new paper by @lucalivraghi.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... in @currentbiology.bsky.social on the evo-devo of a butterfly color variation enjoy the show!

Thrilled that our image was selected for the cover of @royalsocietypublishing.org's Open Biology! We experimentally induced a developmental shift from normal footpad scales to mechanically-driven folding on chicken embryo digits 🐣🔬. Stay tuned—the full article is coming soon! 🧪 #DevBio

It's the moment you've all been waiting for... Invertebrate of the year voting is now open! 🗳️ Who will be your winner? theguardian.com/invertebrateoftheyear25

Send us your science images and art of embryos, organoids or stem cells! The YEN2025 Image Competition celebrates the beauty and complexity of developmental biology. Follow us to vote for the best entries between 2nd-16th May.

Shoc2 Deficiency Disrupts Lymphangiogenesis through mTOR-Mediated Mitochondrial Dysfunction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.645567v1

In the mood for some gillspiration 🦓🐟 for #FluorescenceFriday ? Here, both endothelial reporters kdrl (yellow) and fli1a (white) highlight the four gill arches, showing several filaments and lamellae at 10 dpf. #microscopy #devbio #sciart

Do you work in #DevBio and want to introduce the fascinating world of developmental biology to your family and friends? You can show them this science documentary, produced by the British Society for Developmental Biology, The Company of Biologists and Cambridge Filmworks! 📽️ youtu.be/avrmIs3vPUQ?...

I am forever a huge fan of photographing “things living in drifting things” in the nighttime #plankton environment. Here we have a larval jack living inside a #jellyfish, for protection from its would-be predators

Multicolored ‘skinbow’ cells on an adult zebrafish scale. Credit to Dr. Chen-Hui Chen (prev. Duke University). #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Using a perpetual GAL4-UAS system for long-term lineage tracing! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

such beautiful images and exciting findings as always from @rorylcooper.bsky.social

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

New collaboration paper from the Bazzini Lab published in @naturecomms.bsky.social explores enhanced RNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas technology in #zebrafish. Read more: go.nature.com/4krxgxL

Please do take a moment to read this joint editorial from @biologists.bsky.social's Editors-in-Chief. I'm feeling a bit lost in knowing how to support my friends and colleagues in the US right now. I wish there were more we could do than 'just' express our concern. If there is, please get in touch!

A woman studies embryos for decades, struggles for funding and respect. She publishes under her husband’s name, until they divorce. A single mother, she moves across an ocean to continue her studies. It all sounds quite modern, until you learn that she also worried she’d be burned as a witch. 🧵 1/15

Four transgenic #zebrafish embryos with fluorescent blood vessels and blood cells. Credit to @pillaylab.bsky.social & @zebrafish007.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Have you noticed the rotating header images on our site? They're winners of a competition we ran in 2021. Thank you @gaparicio.bsky.social @rorylcooper.bsky.social @zebrafish007.bsky.social @ebardot.bsky.social & Markus Schliffka for the images! Give us a visit: thenode.biologists.com

Proteins that allow water to move in and out of cells help shape the development of new blood vessels. buff.ly/41n6ii0

Read the Research Highlight here! www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs... @RIKEN BDR

Happy to announce that the final version of our paper on #endothelial cell #migration #mechanobiology, #angiogenesis, #hydrostaticpressure is out on @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif... !! In our revised paper, we show that disrupted osmotic gradient and water inflow impair tip cell migration!

The embryologist Ernst Haeckel is famous for his maxim that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” and for sketchy imaging. While Haeckel figures prominently in #DevBiol, the Fifth Dalai Lama doesn’t. Perhaps he should, though. He scooped Haeckel by about 200 years. #LongBibliography 🧵 1/14

Woohoo! Our image made the cover! 🎉 @jexpbiol.bsky.social The image captures photosymbiotic Anemonia viridis pointing it's tentacles towards the light. journals.biologists.com/jeb

For #zebrafish people - we have a joint @ZDMSociety @InfoIzfs webinar focused on single-cell tech coming up on February 20th. Featuring Yinan Wan, Jialin Liu and Loic Royer. Register here: www.izfs.org/education/we...

Vasculature in the blood-brain barrier of a zebrafish larva. Credit to @natashaobrown.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Divide and conquer. Or don’t divide but still conquer. @kkukreja.bsky.social & co. looked into the role of cell division in forming all major cell types during early zebrafish 🐟development, and found something they didn't expect. Read the story behind the paper:

Last but not least! New watercolor viruses artologica.etsy.com/listing/1844...