Choanos on an hydra tentacule 🧐

The development of #salps differs from that of #ascidians in the presence of maternal cells called calymmocytes. This study of #embryogenesis in 2 salp species identifies distinct cleavage patterns & blastomere positioning, informing the study of their #evolution @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4bscc6j

#ggtree has a relatively steep learning curve. But after looking at a few Python alternatives eg., toytree, ETE, Bio.Phylo it's hard to match its layout versatility. 21 tree variants with just a few lines of code. #rstats #phylogenetics #bioinformatics

A digital repository—known as Antscan—spans two-thirds of all ant genera, one of the most diverse groups of animals alive today. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4launBV

Proud to celebrate our dinosaur expert Dr Neil Gostling and former student Thomas Land for their parts in the new Spielberg documentary The Dinosaurs on Netflix 🦕 Dr Gostling researched Spinosaurus habits, and Thomas was a science researcher. Find out more: www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2026/03...

New Review 👇 The molecular evolution of vertebrate organs: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Margarida Cardoso-Moreira discusses rates of evolution of organs and cell types, molecular mechanisms of organ evolution and how complex traits contributed to the diversification of vertebrates.

Are pregnancy complications in humans an evolutionary hangover? Check out our new paper in Biological Reviews where we propose an evolutionary medicine framework for understanding 'placental crises'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Is the placenta in crisis? See our paper in Biological Reviews: “Placental crises: disruptive selection and maternal under-investment as the foundations of mammalian placental evolution and dysfunction” Open access doi.org/10.1002/brv..... Huge credit to @davislaundon.bsky.social who led this work.

Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

📜We are thrilled to announce that the latest MorphoNet paper is officially published 🎉 ! Discover 5 varied use cases in which MorphoNet helps segment, curate, evaluate & validate complex 3D+t datasets, and much more 🧑‍💻 ! Read at @elife.bsky.social : doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals go.nature.com/4i0i61w

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Friday seminar treat with a talk by Prof. De Tomaso on the reproductive and regenerative prowesses of colonial ascidians at @msarscentre.bsky.social in #SunnyBergen

Gestation length both shapes and is shaped by other life history traits in terrestrial eutherian mammals doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Thodoris Danis et al.

Glushkova, Böhm, & Beck @maxplanck.de develop a publicly available computational method to measure the thickness of biological membranes in cryo-electron tomograms. Analysis of algae & human cells reveals systematic membrane thickness variations within & across organelles rupress.org/jcb/article/...

The lab had an excellent time at IFPA 2025 in Erfurt. @drjanecleal.bsky.social, @davislaundon.bsky.social, and myself presented talks while @ananditau.bsky.social and Ella presented posters. Great science, great company… and even fire dancers! 🔥

Our latest discovery science on chytrid fungi is just out in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B. Using a range of tools we explore how chitin-degrading specialists are adapted and evolved. @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The Nikon AX-NSPARC demo is gearing up at the @ncis-marseille.bsky.social! Starting for #FluorescenceFriday with a large field-of-view confocal #cellfie of COS cells labeled for actin ⚫ endoplasmic reticulum 🟡 mitochondria 🔴 and nucleus 🔵. Fluorescence microscopy is also nice in inverted colors 🌈🧪

Microtubules still doing their thing in an early ascidian embryo (Phallusia). Thanks to the Ascidian BioCell Team

📝 FeatureForest: the power of foundation models, the usability of random forests. Nomen est omen! We use features of the biggest models and train a handy random forest based pixel classifier with them. 👍 Hit bioRxiv recently… check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out our latest paper 'High-resolution X-ray phase-contrast tomography of human placenta with different wavefront markers' feat. synchrotron μCT imaging, correlative histology, 3D analysis, and X-ray fluorescence🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀 This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev). High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My image is on the cover! It depicts the fascinating world of choanoflagellates – tiny organisms that are the closest living relatives of animals. @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social discovered how cells in colonies communicate to regulate their shape and the coordinated beating of their cilia! #sciart

Thank you, Will. Absolutely agreed 😀. The cover was created by @davislaundon.bsky.social & @ella-maru.bsky.social

Fascinating work by Jeffrey Colgren @jeffcolgren.bsky.social & Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social reveals electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in #choanoflagellate colonies 🤩👏 Out now in Science Advances 🧪 #evobio Read the paper ➡️ doi.org/g8x466 🔗 tinyurl.com/ymzb9ppv

Thrilled to see #choanoflagellates on the cover of Science Advances🤩. Our latest work "Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals" out now. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👏 @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social