The Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt (Clavelina Ossipandae) is a translucent reef-dwelling creature whose rib-like structures and panda-like markings give it a spooky look. Found in Southeast Asia, it filters seawater and helps keep coral ecosystems healthy. Original post

“…a past strong El Niño event wiped out 77 percent of the islands' penguins. In addition, the climate pattern destroyed 97 percent of shallow water coral.” If this El Niño turns out as predicted, it will have devastating effects on biodiversity across the globe. www.newsweek.com/super-el-nin...

This is like putting you in jail and deporting you for going 70 mph on a freeway in LA when everyone else is going 80 mph which is not only happening to scientists from China but immigrants of all nationalities.

PL retweet. Developmental Biology Course (Quintay). More information: biodesarrollo.unab.cl

Half of laboratory mice are not what scientists think they are go.nature.com/437pTDZ

Striped cuckoo (Tapera naevia) chicks utilize specialized, cryptic plumage that mimics the texture and color of pinecones for camouflage. #birds

How little we know of the amazing #biodiversity on this planet that we are fast trashing phys.org/news/2026-05...

One of my dream projects, ever since joining here in Basel, out now in @nature.com : single-cells 🤝 eco-morphological proxies rdcu.be/fiyso How cells and tissues adapt to dietary niches... Thanks and congrats to Antoine, Walter, and all the other co-authors for this great collaboration!! 🙏🥳

While BioNtech & Moderna become household names because of their Covid vaccines, those emerged from different projects: finding ways to treat the most challenging cancers. They hypothesized that we could vaccinate patients against their own tumors, & evidence is mounting that they were right! 1/n 🧪

(2/2) Learn more about the new @cellpress.bsky.social study on Stowers.org: bit.ly/42t1Uik

(1/2) 🧵 What tells a cell what to become? New #research from @saukaspengler.bsky.social & @fabiantheis.bsky.social @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk published in Cell explores how gene regulatory networks guide cell fate — using a new #AI framework the team developed called RegVelo.

Did you know that Pierre Chambon's laboratory was the first to use the term "nucleosome" in 1975 ? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Truly historic & moving scenes from the inaugural session of the Hungarian Parliament. A children’s tambura band from a tiny village playing a folk song often described as the unofficial Roma anthem. MPs were tearing up & so were many more of us watching. After all those years of hate. 🎥 telex.hu

We @lowelab.bsky.social had a blast hosting @ostratodd.bsky.social at the Hopkins Marine Station! A fantastic day talking all things bioluminescence, ostracods, chitons, repeatability, contigency, phylogeny, courtship, mentoring, surfing, baseball, brewing and all The first of many visits I hope!

If you are a member of the scientific community wondering how to meet this moment, check out this excellent discussion between @holdenthorp.bsky.social and @timothysnyder.bsky.social. youtu.be/IWNDMwimUP0?...

Iconic British naturalist David Attenborough, whose work has shaped science for decades, turns 100 today go.nature.com/4dbRFUB

#RIP Pierre Chambon (1931-2026) 1963 PARP 1970 RNA Pol II 1975 Nucleosome 1977 Split genes 1980 Promoter 1983 enhancer 1986 Nuclear receptor

In retrospect, forcing the entire campus to move from our locally hosted, open source LMS to a commercial, single point of failure LMS that also happens to be owned by a company that wants to turn all our labor into AI training data may not have been a good idea.

Louse imaged on @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #lightsheet 7 #microscope by @carsten-wolff.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social @aqlm.bsky.social #microscopy

Hello all, our lab is recruiting a PhD candidate to study how 3D genome folding impacts gene regulation in development. We're located at the Center for Integrative Genomics department of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Please email me if interested. #PhDPosition, #PhDOpportunity

Very excited to share our newest findings! A very long team effort pursued by multiple team members -to frantically reproduce everything over and over-, we show mTOR-Polycomb synergy at promoters of developmental master regulator TFs in ESCs prior to their expression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A clear/significant finding derived from the single cell (sc) analysis of biological systems has been the realization that phenotypically homogeneous populations are heterogeneous at the level of gene expression (GE). www.cell.com/fulltext/S00... 🧵

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A very nice piece about our latest paper published in Open Biology by @royalsocietypublishing.org It's about how venom-producing stinging cells use chromatic modifications to determine their biochemical identity: royalsociety.org/blog/2026/04...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

A stunning visualization born from a collaboration with @manlius.bsky.social : 55,486 galaxies and 29,555 streamlines tracing how matter flows across our local universe, built on data from the CosmicFlows-4 project. Article in the first reply 👇

I came here in 1975. I'm a Nobel Prize-winning scientist born in Germany during WWII, came here in 1975 thinking there was no way fascism could take hold in this country. I was wrong. I don't not want to be book-ended by two fascist regimes. We will stand up and set things right.

John Gurdon (1933-2025) Sir John Gurdon was a towering figure in developmental biology, respected and admired throughout the world. In this Obituary, Jim Smith writes about his legacy. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Small Rays in Shallow Waters Flaunt Fake Eyes to Ward Off Predators | Discover Magazine

New research shows the pitfalls of ‘reducing an organic system to machine-like parts and assuming that specificity is intrinsic to those parts.’ @philipcball.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/coll...

Witness the astonishing trap feeding behavior of Eden's Whale in the Gulf of Thailand. Nature's wonders continue to amaze us every day.

"Please stay another year to do the revisions"

Even ants deserve their spa day go.nature.com/4mH6eUi

Face to Face With a Humpback #Whale - Underwater #photography Rachel Moore. #HumpbackWhale #SweetGirl Link for more #photos and information: mossandfog.com/face-to-face...

Intrusive thought: Start another project

Happy Earth Day 🌎

Born OTD, one of the most badass scientists ever born. Neuroscientist and developmental biologist, Rita Levi-Montalcini discovered growth factors and studied how the nervous system develops. The poem she chose for her autobiography "In Praise of Imperfection" is still one of my faves 🧪

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our ExM Atlas of eukaryotes is moving along with more and more images coming in - some featured in nature last month! Culture we’re provided by @ccapoban.bsky.social & Julius Lukeš during visits last year www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Time is finite, & we should prioritize and value things accordingly. Quotes from a recent editorial at JAMA: "The meaning of my work is profound. The meaning of my presence at home is irreplaceable." "The people who love us need us as ourselves. And that is the role no one else can fill"

Time-lapse of scale development and growth of a thyroid hormone mutant zebrafish (hypoTH), compared to a wild-type control. Credit to Dr. Andrew J. Aman & @dparichy.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong. Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

Aqua Research & Monitoring Services ·Exmouth, WA, Australia · A juvenile Tasselled Leatherjacket (Chaetodermis penicilligerus)