Mouse nose atlas – grouped in bands, each olfactory neuron has a specific receptor that binds a specific odour molecule & the map is matched in the brain 📷 David H. Brann et al @harvardmed.bsky.social in @cp-cell.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @rooph.bsky.social

Model of Destruction: Computational model of Alzheimer's disease in the making 📷 @usc.edu Lab of Neuro Imaging, Michael Bienkowski et al ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @rooph.bsky.social

GSK3α enzyme identified as a checkpoint in stem cell fate – when inhibited, self-renewal capacity is maintained 📷 Duo Wang & Xiukun Wang et al Ying Lab @keck.usc.edu & National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Cell Research ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026/5/5 + @rooph.bsky.social

A weekend reminder that our next #kidlitartpostcard event is this Thursday, May 7th. Please note: there is NO theme for this one - our June anniversary is the one with the theme. #kidlit www.ginaperry.com/postcard

SARS-CoV-2 virus evolve truncated N protein enabling evasion of immune challenge 📷 @rorymulloy.bsky.social et al @corcoranlab.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social in @plosbiology.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @antdlewis.bsky.social

Noice!

Structure of microtubules around the osteoclast nuclear envelope influences their bone resorption function 📸 Silvia Vergarajauregui et al Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in @jcellsci.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

Scientists untangle the pathway of chronic pain.

Good morning good people of earth! I hope you have a “cat with a ball of yarn” kind of day! #catwithyarn #haveagreatday #illustration #scbwi #kidlit #picturebookart

Snot and Jewels: Precision tracking, microscopy + modelling reveals details of aquatic diatoms on the move. These microalgae produce oxygen but can also trap bacteria 📹 Stefan Golfier et al @bcube-tud.bsky.social, in @pnas.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with John Ankers

Transition from benign to malignant is a plastic state governed by cancer progenitor cell niche KRAS/p53 balance in this pancreatic cancer model 📷 José Reyes et al @mskcancercenter.bsky.social in @cp-cell.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

So true!!

I really want to convey to everyone who entered #pbparty that the process is really the prize, and the difference between finalists, honorable mentions, and those that didn’t make it is like a single step at the START of a VERY long staircase. Don’t be discouraged!

Wahoo!! Thank you #PBParty judges!! So chuffed that some of that fairy dust drifted my way. ☺️ #pbparty2026 #kidlitillustrator

Into the DeepBone: 3D tissue clearing approach called DeepBone enables visualisation of human mesenchymal stromal cell bone marrow niche – differences in young & aged revealed 📹 Nelson Tsz Long Chu et al University of Gothenburg in @natbiomedeng.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

Ratio of keratin 14 & 15 proteins influences differentiation vs division by skin progenitor cells 📷 Catherine J. Redmond et al Coulombe lab University of Michigan Medical School in @jcb.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @antdlewis.bsky.social

If you’ve missed out on Kidlit Haha Week you can still catch up and enter the book giveaways until tomorrow! Catch up HERE 👇 www.brittanypomales.com/blog/

Brain organoids used to screen drug candidates for genetic mitochondrial disease Leigh Syndrome identifies utility of sildenafil (Viagra) 📷 Annika Zink, Dao-Fu Dai, Annika Wittich et al @aleprigio.bsky.social @hhu.de in @cp-cell.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... + @rooph.bsky.social

CRISPR edit to activate PPARGC1A gene boosts mitochondria improving cardiac muscle repair after heart attack 📷 Mario Escobar & Saad Malik, et al @riceuniversity.bsky.social; @bcmhouston.bsky.social re paper in @moltherapy.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026/4/3 with @rooph.bsky.social

Today! 💙❤️ Related: I’m looking for an illustrator with a textured, painterly, elevated, serious, realistic, literary style to illustrate a lovely sports themed jacketed, hardcover picture book. Feel free to respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️ #artcommissions

Quick reminder to stick out your chin and grin because… Kidlit Haha Week starts TOMORROW!

Mini stomach in a dish!

A human organoid for modeling spinal cord injury.

Epidermal rete ridges correlate with less hairy skin but what's the relationship? This study details how rete ridges aren't directly coupled to hair development @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social microscopy 📷 Sean M. Thompson et al @pullman.wsu.edu in @nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

NEK7 protein–'traffic warden' in liver cells keeping energy flowing in the right direction, warding off fibrosis-causing oxidation 📷 Zhenzhen Sun & Le Sun et al Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... @antdlewis.bsky.social

Mechanisms to overcome instability in early embryo cell division differ in zebrafish & fruit flies: species-specific mechanisms both orchestrated by cytoskeletal microtubules 📹 Melissa Rinaldin et al, @brugueslab.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social in @nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

Fruit fly study finds enzymes Hip14 & Patsas limit lysosome formation & fusion so protecting against Huntington's disease-like symptoms 📷 Győző Szenci et al, Eötvös Loránd University, in @plos.org Genetics ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @antdlewis.bsky.social

Human liver tissue with & without fibrosis reconstructed at cell level in 3D - insights for understanding liver disease & how to treat it 📹 Wesley B. Fabyan & Chelsea L. Fortin et al @kellystevens.bsky.social lab University of Washington in @science.org Advances ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

Transfer of mitochondria from glia to adjacent sensory neurons in dorsal root ganglia – protects against nerve degeneration & pain 📷 Jing Xu et al @dukehealth.bsky.social @dukemedschool.bsky.social in @nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

Wrap Map: Mouse life-time brain-wide map of myelin-producing cells and myelin density in health and disease 📹 Yu Kang T. Xu, Abigail Bush & Ephraim Musheyev et al Bergles Lab @jhu.edu in @cellpress.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

It’s #kidlitartpostcardday ! Optimism is in the air and it smells sweet. Have a good one #kidlit peeps!

Interaction between candida fungus & some strains of bacterium E.faecalis makes infections more damaging 📷 Mario Kapitan et al Ilse D. Jacobsen Lab, @leibniz-hki.de in @pnas.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @rooph.bsky.social

Evolving towards antibiotic resistance bacteria pass DNA sequences between each other via protrusions called pili which also enhance biofilm formation 📷 James B. Winans et al Nadell lab, @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @rooph.bsky.social

Announcement in Publisher's Weekly, Feb 24th. #FliffPB #FliffTheFluff #picturebook #scbwi #authorillustrator #TheLittlePress

Picture book author Bess Kalb on silencing, #bookbanning. A must watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgeE...

Hooray hooray!! Fliff is on his way!! #debutpicturebook #FLIFF #author-illustrator

Genome-wide screen using CRISPR identifies 100s of genes important for neuronal development 📷 Galya Monderer-Rothkoff re paper A Amelan, S Collins, N Damseh et al bsky.app/profile/sagi... & Binnaz Yalcin lab in @natneuro.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @rooph.bsky.social

Attention all #kidlit friends: This Thursday, February 5th, is #KidLitArtPostcard day! Get your art ready and I'll see you on the timeline! www.ginaperry.com/postcard

Happy #kidlitartpostcardday to all the agents, editors, and fellow #kidlit folk out there. Hope you’re all having a lovely February, you wonderful people. If you have a BB, PB, CB, MG project, and need an illustrator, get in touch! #kidlitart #scbwiillustrators #illustratorsoninstragram

Get some sleep!

Response to rhinovirus depends on levels of interferon production & viral load – differences revealed using a nasal organoid 📷 Julien Amat & Bao Wang, relating to B.Wang et al article @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social in @cellpressblue.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @rooph.bsky.social

Assembloids are the new organoids!

Happy #kidlitartpostcardday! I’m Ruth and I’m a children’s book illustrator ready to take on your next picture book, chapter book, middle grade and more. Get in touch! 😊 #kidlitartpostcard #scbwiillustrator #funinthesnow #wintersports #illustration

How connections from the brain's cerebellum established in early life shape brain function 📷 Raquel Murcia-Ramón et al @neuroalc.bsky.social in @pnas.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @rooph.bsky.social

Healing of injured blood vessels is driven by gap junction protein connexin 43 at the wound edge 📷 Meghan W. Sedovy et al Scott Johnstone lab @fralinbiomed.bsky.social AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with @rooph.bsky.social

Conducting Labour: Proteins PIEZO1 & PIEZO2 of womb tissue & its neurons, translate mechanical forces into contractions in labour 📷 @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social et al Patapoutian lab @scripps.edu in @science.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with @rooph.bsky.social

Details of how the bacteria-killing viruses bacteriophages are built - progress towards their wider medical usage 📷 James Hodgkinson-Bean et al Bostina lab @universityofotago.bsky.social Wolf lab @oistedu.bsky.social in @science.org Advances ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with @rooph.bsky.social

Happy #kidlitartpostcardday to all the agents, editors, art directors and fellow kidlit creators out there. Hope you’re all having a lovely festive season, with bells on! #kidlitartpostcard #illustration #scbwi #scbwiillustrator #kidlit #childrensbookart #snowscene #boyinsnow #snowillustration

Better Bait: 'Irresistible' sweaty sock scent traps black flies that spread the river blindness parasitic worm 📷 Louise Hamill of Sightsavers + Global Institute for Disease Elimination & MoHealth in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi & Mozambique ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with @rooph.bsky.social

Catching the Tube: CRISPR interference in organoids used to identify genes that drive neural tube closure during embryo development 📷 Roya E Huang & Giridhar M Anand et al @harvard.edu in @elife.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with John Ankers