Support the demonstrations in your area and join the fight for FLINTA* rights! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊

We’re launching our Latinx DevBio interview series 🌎🧬 Our first inspiring conversation features Dr. Rosa Navarro: Leading Developmental Biology research in Mexico. Read here: sites.google.com/view/latinxi... Thanks, Dr. Navarro, for sharing your journey and insights with us! #LatinxInScience

Are you a computational postdoc or even in the last year of your PhD and you want to set up your own lab? Want to work in one of the most multi-disciplinary and multi-national institutions in the world? Want to be a leader in understanding biology - molecules up? Apply below!

Challenge the dogma? Take a look at @mads100tist.bsky.social #Zebrafish story😁 Rohon-Beard neurons persist till 15 dpf They hide (converge medially), NOT die off by 5 dpf (as believed)😎 Are 15-dpf RB neurons still arborized?🥸 @devbiol.bsky.social 2024 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So happy to share this in the middle of moving! Updates to our preprint looking at interactions between NOD2 and estrogen in zebrafish intestinal homeostasis, with truly outstanding work by Mckenna Eklund.

🐠 Calling all fish model researchers! 🐠 The 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting is happening in Heidelberg, Sept 16–18, 2026—and you don’t want to miss it ! 👉https://www.germanfishmeeting.org/ #daniorerio #fishmodel #germanfish2026 #medaka #killifish #cavefish

Tfw you bump into a colleague at the microwave and they give you a bar of chocolate to help you get through a long day at work. 🥹🍫🫂 #phdlife

A sneak peak of a complex and technically challenging experiment that my lab developed: doi.org/10.1096/fj.2.... Super proud of PhD candidate Hannah Johnson for showcasing our Whole-gut spatial genomic analysis in #zebrafish. This video illustrates one landmark in the protocol after multiple 1/3

I may have taken the week off, but #FluorescenceFriday remains a treat. This week we have a single villus in a fish gut, with individual nuclei in white and secretory cells in cyan. Each one of these images makes me stop and smile for a few simple moments.

You still have 3 days to apply to the postdoc positions available in my lab 😀 🔬Come and work with us 🔬

The slides are available on zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1742... 3/3

Check out our panel discussion on open science in bio-image analysis moderated by @marabuuuu.bsky.social! 🔓💻🚀

Working my way through paper revisions and I neeeeeed to share this #FluorescenceFriday banger from Mckenna Eklund. EdU (red) labelling of S phase cells in a larval zebrafish gut. Simple but striking. No notes.

Meet our keynote speakers at #EZM2026! 13th European Zebrafish Meeting, taking place in Vienna, July 7–11. 🧬 Elly Tanaka (IMP, Vienna) is a leader in the molecular and cellular biology of limb and spinal cord regeneration, with pioneering contributions to regenerative biology.

Thinking about EZM2026 in Vienna? 🐟 Travel grants are now open for students & ECRs. 7–11 July 2026 | Deadline: March 15 Hope to see many of you there! @ezsociety.bsky.social #zebrafish

Our #preprint list is up on FocalPlane. This list focusses on the latest tools in bioimage analysis. Let us know if you have any recommendations to add to our list. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/06/m...

Intestinal macrophages modulate synucleinopathy along the gut–brain axis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Die Woche neigt sich langsam dem Ende zu und ich möchte mit euch über etwas sprechen: das Bauchgefühl. Viele von euch kennen es wahrscheinlich, z. B. „Schmetterlinge im Bauch“, „Liebe geht durch den Magen“ oder „das Herz sinkt in die Hose“. Diese Phänome sind das Ergebnis der Darm-Hirn-Achse. 1/6

My week posting for @realscientists.de is coming to an end. I‘m happy and thankful for the opportunity to share my science with the community! 🐟🔬💻

Die Doktorandin Elena Nicolay forscht am mTox Lab des ufz.de in Leipzig; www.ufz.de/index.php?de...

„forever chemicals“ der schleichende Tod Thread:👇

Supergeil! @enicolay.bsky.social temporarily takes over @realscientists.de 😎

🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs). Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬 Details in thread 🧵👇 #ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶

Regenerating nerve fibers in the tail of an injured zebrafish larva. Credit to Dr. Sandra Rieger at University of Miami. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

It’s out! 🐟 We compared three regeneration superstars—axolotl, zebrafish, and Polypterus—to ask how animals regrow limbs and fins. We find shared core processes, and other programs fine-tuned by evolution in surprising, lineage-specific ways. tinyurl.com/mpftkn7y

Happy New Year YMIA! Another full year has come to an end: we hosted microscopy watchparties, joined key imaging conferences & organized a panel on Open Data in Bioimage Analysis (available soon on YouTube) In 2026, expect invited talks on practical image analysis & more opportunities to connect🍀🥂🔬🎉

Two new articles from our lab!! Davis et al identified epithelial transcription factor ELF3 as a key mediator of host-microbiota interaction in zebrafish tinyurl.com/pkavnxdp Morash et al revealed enteroendocrine cell subtypes in zebrafish & catalogued their peptide hormones tinyurl.com/bdzbm2xm

Teaching Academic life to cats, lesson 301: Funding Opportunities 💸🐈

🔬 Latest GerBI Team Meeting @MPIMF & EMBL Heidelberg We asked: 🌟 Why does GerBI exist? 🚀 What defines us? We’re currently turning these insights into statements & will bring them to life together 🌟 Welcome to our new team members & thanks to Elisa D'Este & Stefan Terjung for their hospitality!

Volumetric near-infrared light-sheet imaging of a calcium indicator (WHaloCaMP) in a zebrafish larval brain. Credit to @helenfarrants.bsky.social, William "Bill" Lemon, & Philipp Keller at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

✨A gut feeling you’ll love this one 🐛 The anterior midgut of a Drosophila melanogaster 🪰larva puts on a confocal glow show! 🟢 Adult midgut progenitors 🔴 Actin 🔵 Nuclei 📸Image by Sapna Krishnakumar #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy #DevBio

Starting the day with a motivational quote in the restroom at work. 🌞

Enteric Neurons Join the Dialogue on Pain! A recent study reveals that cholinergic circuits within the colon communicate through dorsal root ganglion (DRG) pathways, particularly following inflammation. 👉 www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

I won't talk about NMeth @natmethods.nature.com forever (probably), but I do want to brag a bit about the November focus issue on cell segmentation and tracking, which is many ways is my last hurrah (and final editorial) for the journal. I am so proud of these papers!! www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...

Bis jetzt war ja alles grau. Aus diesen riesigen Datensätzen können wir 3D Modelle der Zellen erstellen. Eins davon seht ihr hier (Erstellt von meiner Kollegin Deborah Schmidt). Wie wir von den Rohdaten zu diesen 3D Abbildungen kommen, werde ich euch diese Woche zeigen.

Fluorescent micrograph of the enteric nervous system of a Pachon/surface hybrid cavefish. Credit to @pavaniperera.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Oh yes-the one and only Robert Haase @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social From #GrandTheftAuto to the impact AI is having on #bioimaging. +the challenges of creating AI courses for bioimage analysis, & his unique perspective as a programmer-turned-biologist. Stream- bit.ly/microscopist... @globias.bsky.social

London moves into the spotlight for #NeuroGASTRO2025 🌈🌈 Meet me at poster AI-03 to talk about how we're shedding light on #ENS research 🐟🔬 💻

Just out of the oven onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... I’m so excited! Stay tuned for more posts about it and give it a read when you can🥰

After we lost our beloved cat Pixel earlier this summer, we decided to increase our catabilities: Please welcome Oskar (left) and Kiwi (right) #kittens 🐈🐈‍⬛️

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

Got questions about the #HelmholtzImaging Project Call? Ask everything you need to know at our next info session on Thursday, July 17, 11:00 to 12:40 PM CEST. Learn how #HIFIS can support your project, too. Details & registration 👉 events.hifis.net/event/2663/ @helmholtz.de #HIProject #imaging

Forschende unter Leitung des #UFZ haben #Nanoplastik in allen Tiefenzonen zwischen gemäßigter und subtropischer Zone im Nordatlantik gefunden. Massenmäßig ist die Menge vergleichbar mit dem, was bisher an #Mikroplastik gefunden wurde, schreiben sie im Fachmagazin @Nature. www.ufz.de/index.php?de...

Looking for new #microscopy collaborations, organising speakers for a conference, assembling a committee? Visit and join the @focalplane.bsky.social network to broaden your contacts and find those who may not come to mind. focalplane.biologists.com/network #Microscope #Imaging #CellBiology

Generate beautiful PDF of your manuscripts easily using Markdown. #RxivMaker is here. We hope it will supercharge your #preprints Mojo.

🔬 YMIA is at the Helmholtz Imaging Conference 2025! Elena from the core team presents a poster about the YMIA community — who we are, what we do, and how we connect early-career researchers in imaging and analysis. She’s here to exchange ideas and meet you. Come say hi! #HIConference2025 #BSIC2025

Great vibes, exciting science! 🐟 Today, the #zebrafish community in @helmholtz.de met for the 1st time at #HIconference2025. We kicked things off with energy, ideas & tools for better zebrafish #imaging. Thanks to all who joined & our co-hosts @ufz.de & BER at @kit.edu! #HelmholtzImaging #FAIRdata

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

ICYMI #zebrafish folks: Fresh from ‪@lascholz.bsky.social‬ and Conrad Lee, we offer 4 models pre-trained with diverse fps and resolutions. Leandro’s done all of the clicking. Benefit from his suffering and plug straight into automated annotation of your videos!‬ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you seek for an AI coding buddy to review your code and provide umprompted feedback, try out _unprompted_! I hope it helps to identify issues in code early! 🖥️🤖💫 pip install unprompted github.com/haesleinhuep...