To increase the use of gene editing in corals, we have made a comprehensive methods paper describing the protocol. We hope this helps the field of functional genetics in corals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

This poses an intriguing question: how is cytoplasm robustly and accurately organized in absence of physical barriers, and how is cytoplasmic partitioning achieved within the constrained time window of rapid embryonic divisions? (2/9)

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

🪼🌊 A new species of ornamental jellyfish has been described from Japanese waters. 👉 Find out more through our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/02/25/n... 📖 Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1268.173354

What a week in Bristol! Highlights included our @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet Art+Science exhibition tackling EcoAnxiety, Sir David Attenborough's Ocean with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, and a chat on the Career Ladder with the wonderful Max Klymenko

🚨 Thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded a new project by Artsdatabanken, the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre. Project ODIN will investigate Octocoral Diversity In Norway 🌊🪸, tackling it with a synergetic combination of imaging 🔬📽️ and sequencing 🧬💻 tools. Picture: Erling Svensen.

One of my favourite projects to be involved with - love the combination of cool natural history and the ability to run field #experiments in natural #marine environments. Great work @sammatchette.bsky.social on leading the latest work. 🐟 #trumpetfish #colour #predation @royalsocietypublishing.org

Salinity tunes mode of multicellularity in a tidepool choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... - paper in @nature.com

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

What happens when marine embryos are crowded instead of isolated? They become materials. Honored to write a @natphys.nature.com News & Views on excitable living solids discovered by Prof. Fakhri and colleagues at @mit.edu 😀 N&V: rdcu.be/e5gLm Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...

ASG Sponges genome note #23. The bread-crumb sponge Halichondria panicea is an emerging experimental model. With > 4800 publications, it is the most published species in the phylum Porifera. doi.org/10.12688/wel... @moorefound.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @geomarkiel.bsky.social

Postdoc Opening! 🚨 Thrilled to (belatedly!) share that I’ve received @hfspo.bsky.social grant in collaboration with @KatherinaPetrou "Plant-like solar tracking in a photosymbiotic animal." We are hiring a Postdoc to join the team @bristolbiosci.bsky.social! Apply👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO766/r...

Fantastic opportunity to work with us at Shark Bay Dolphin Research 👇🏻

🚨3 Lectureships in Biology 🚨 Come join us in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social! We are looking for new collegues working across a broad spectum of topics in biology, including ecology & environmental change. Get in touch if you have Qs! Apply here by 8 March: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

For the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt ‘even’ -the number of quarks in a meson, a type of particle first observed & published by Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) & her supervisor D.M. Bose in extensive air showers from cosmic rays. 🐡🧪👩🏾‍🔬🎢 #histsci My portrait shows her, a mountain on which she gathered her 🧵

Sleep to Repair: Sleeplessness is associated with accumulated DNA damage in neurons in sea anemones 📷 @chronoraph.bsky.social & Amir Harduf et al, Bar-Ilan University in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @rooph.bsky.social

Bees 🐝

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/...

stunning work by our neighbors at @fbzt.bsky.social lab

Amazing to hold the print issue of @natrevneuro.nature.com in our hands with our review highlighted on the cover. Evolutionary connections inspired by the article & designed by Richard Tibbitts. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

My collaborator at University of Copenhagen, Anders Garm, is looking for a 3 year postdoc to work on bioluminescence, neurobiology and ecology of ctenophores. More information here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Over on our blog, guest writer Nilakshi Das discusses how her research on the scientific careers of South Asian women ties in with the themes of our recent conference, ‘Women in Science: historical perspectives’. Read more: #WomenInSTEM https://royalsociety.org/blog/2026/01/seen-and-unseen/

🪸Tricky Taxon Thursday: Hydractinia echinata 🪸 Hermit crab fur is a colonial hydroid, a spiky mat on hermit crabs shells. It sprouts 3 polyp types: Tentacled feeding polyps, Gonozoids for larva production, Stinging defensive polyps. Larvae can sense and crawl to active shells. See all records 👇

Eukan: a fully automated nuclear genome annotation pipeline for less studied and divergent eukaryotes academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... #protists

Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a FIS-3 Advanced Grant (ERC-inspired) to study the evolution of neurogenic GRNs. Recruiting soon: 4 postdocs + 3 PhDs Press release in Italian — to decolonise scientific language 😄 magazine.unibo.it/it/articoli/... Email me if interested in joining the lab

We are pleased to welcome Phil Donoghue, FRS as the new Editor-in-Chief at #ProcB! Find out more about @phil-donoghue.bsky.social in our new blog royalsociety.org/blog/2026/01...

Alfred Russel Wallace FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1823. He independently conceived of the theory of evolution by natural selection and his work prompted Darwin to publish 'On the Origin of Species'. Wallace laid the foundations of modern biogeography.

Our latest: Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history, led by @meleonora-rossi.bsky.social with help from friends @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social including @anariesgo.bsky.social @evopalaeo.bsky.social Davide Pisani and many others

Early sponges lacked [mineralised] skeletons. New paper led by M. Eleonora Rossi. Great to have contributed alongside colleagues from @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social , @nhm-london.bsky.social and @mncn-csic.bsky.social. Read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

OH WOW! A whole web page DEVOTED to SPONGE SPICULE Imagery ! #porifera #spongeThursday www.spicules.org

We all should remember that by publishing in a journal, we financially support their existence, and intellectually support their values and approach to publishing. Publish in journals that give back to your discipline, that give back to science. Such as Development and Developmental Biology

#OnThisDay in 1831, the HMS Beagle departs on its second voyage with an unknown young naturalist aboard. The ship will eventually visit the Galapagos Islands where the scientist, Charles Darwin, will begin to formulate his theories on evolution. #HistoryOfScience

Born #OnThisDay in 1887 was Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Despite having almost no training in mathematics, he is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He became one of the youngest Fellows in the Royal Society's history when he was elected in 1918 at the age of 31.

Excited to share the final version of our study on Nematostella cell type regulatory programs. Part of our @erc.europa.eu StG project, this was a challenging 5-year effort extraodinarily led by @aelek.bsky.social and @martaig.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I can only second this. BUT, what people often are not aware of: Frontiers in Zoology does NOT belong to the rest of the Frontiers in journals. It is the official journal of the German Zoological Society, a BMC journal and founded BEFORE the other Front in. We suffer a lot from this hijacking.

A Tunicate #Salp’s Last Supper. A swimming smorgasbord wrapped in glassy flesh #photography #UnderwaterPhotography Link for more #photos and information: mossandfog.com/a-salps-last...

Congratulations to @sharkslikejazz.bsky.social for leading this collective analysis of coral reef soundscapes, building a universal songbook for the tropics. Valuable guide for #ecoacoustic biodiversity surveys. www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... @timlamont.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social

Optimized husbandry and targeted gene-editing for the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis Read this Techniques & Resources Article by @joao-e-carvalho.bsky.social, @rottingerlab.bsky.social and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Thrilled to see our review article "The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins" highlighted on the cover of Nature Reviews Neuroscience 🤩. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @msarscentre.bsky.social 🧠✨🧬🌊🪼🧽

🚨NEW paper alert🚨 Latest instalment in the #trumpetfish story: colour polymorphic individuals choose to ‘shadow’ non-predatory fishes of similar colour, gaining them a hunting advantage Led by the wonderful @sammatchette.bsky.social Out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Positive Interactions Under Ocean Warming and Acidification: Crustose Coralline Algae Holobionts Enhance Gorgonian Larval Settlement Under Climate Change enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #corals #holobiont #symbiosis

🎄 Day 15 of the 24 Days of Development ✨🧬 How do reduced levels of Adenylate Kinase 7 (AK7) contribute to primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD)? This study uses amphibian models 🐸 to uncover how centriolar defects lead to impaired ciliary function doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

One of ICB's frequently read papers Investigating the #evolution and features of regeneration using #cnidarians @aidemm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... The ability to #regenerate can greatly vary between #animal groups and cell types... #science #biology #biologists

Je suis ravie d’avoir participé à la chaîne YouTube Scienticfiz, créée par Gilles Gourio et ses élèves de collège ! Une belle initiative qui met à l’honneur de nombreuses femmes ayant suivi des études scientifiques et inspire les futures générations! 👩‍🔬✨

Really happy to have been granted a #ERCCoG, grateful to the team who made this possible, and to the community who considered this work promising! If you (or someone you know) are/is interested in #chromatin evolution and #giantViruses, please do get in touch, there will be positions available.

How do animals with lifelong growth modulate cell #proliferation? @eudaldpascual.bsky.social @ktgarschall.bsky.social @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social show that starvation induces G1/G0 #CellCycle arrest in Vasa2+/Piwi1+ #SeaAnemone cells; cycle re-entry is TOR-dependent @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/48J2o6P

Never thought I'd be on #spotify, but here we are. More on our findings here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... #Ctenophora @unibergen.bsky.social

Maude was offered Fellowship at the MBA in 1906, but was reportedly told by her father that 'no daughter of mine will leave home except as a married woman'. Undeterred, Maude continued her research, paving the way for modern husbandry techniques used today. Find out more at buff.ly/8a93FZT

This #MongooseMonday, some brilliant folk: @juliekern.bsky.social: set up the Dwarf Mongoose Research Project & co-ran it for 7 years; Masters, PhD, PDRA #AmyMorris-Drake: RA, Masters & PhD, PDRA; co-managed for 6 years @josharbon.bsky.social: Masters, PDRA, database guru #amazing #priceless