We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/

#GuessThatISH returns for 2026! This full nonsense game is sure to get you smiling 😜 Can you guess what this unknown ISH probe stains (in purple) on this #zebrafish embryo? WRONG ANSWERS ONLY! Bragging rights for the winner 😎 Bonus points if you can guess the gene. Happy guessing! #ThisseThursday 🧪

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

THREAD The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.

Don't forget to register for our upcoming Spring Meeting: 'Molecules to Morphogenesis' Get your abstracts submitted by the 16th of January! bsdb.org/meetings

Early for #FluorescenceFriday: make more glowing #zebrafish to observe how beautiful #devbio is! (dorsal view of a zebrafish embryo, drl:mCherry (magenta) and mixl1(EFM):mCerulean; pic credit Harrison Wells) @cudevbio.bsky.social #AlwaysBeCloning

Yesterday we started #kakapo artificial insemination for the season. We do this to help maintain genetic diversity, with a potential additional benefit of improving fertility. We inseminated Esperance, who mated naturally a few nights ago. #conservation #parrots #birds

Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Journalists need to stop credulously printing the words of non-experts as expertise (gift link, my comments tk). www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hosp...

50 runaway sheep ram-paged through a German supermarket in rural Baa-varia, causing shear mania on Monday morning. After breaking away from their 500-strong herd, the brazen sheep spent 20 minutes milling around in the Penny supermarket before ewe-turning and seeing themselves out.

Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 NEW ISSUE ALERT!!! 🚨 New Outlook, Review, and Research articles online now at Genes & Development. Click on the link to learn more: ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/40/1-2.toc

SO EXCITED to be finally talking about some funky preliminary results on the eyes of this funky harvestman at #SICB2026 on Tuesday! Here are a few sneak peak pics :D

A study in Science reveals an extensive precolonial agricultural landscape in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, suggesting Indigenous American communities cultivated maize intensively between 1000 and 1600 CE, despite a cold climate and marginal growing conditions. https://scim.ag/49voBGO

Just in time for the New Year we have a new preprint up that focuses on white cells, often used as ornaments in fish. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Not the submission process, not reviewer #2, not the editor. Writing the abstract of the paper is often a far greater challenge. And there’s one simple reason for that: most people have a hard time figuring out what’s important for the reader. I ‘ll be sharing tips in next posts - stay tuned!

Basement archaeology.

Long time no see, old friend. Trusty companion from a simpler time.

Hope y'all get to play and relax a bit this holiday season! Rock on. @benoitbruneau.bsky.social @thelovelylab.bsky.social @lucksmith.bsky.social @wbderry.bsky.social @daphsci.bsky.social

Good morels in this house.

Necessary/sufficient.

Our violets didn't get the memo that it is late December. 🌱 #Colorado

Each Friday, we’re sharing highlights from our “Top of the Charts”, a look back at our most popular charts, articles, & more in 2025. Today we give you our top 5 most-read data insights from this year. 🧵 Check out the full list if you haven’t already: ourworldindata.org/top-of-the-c...

As 2025 comes to a close, my university (Dalhousie U in Halifax, Canada) is recruiting faculty, including outstanding early career researchers, and Canada Research Chairs. Applications are due January 19 2026 (was just notified today!). Please repost.

For the life of me, why do people submit manuscripts now? My EIC inbox has rarely been fuller, and there's no way I'm sending these to Associate Editors until 2026. Friends don't let friends submit in late December.

Morphogenesis & Organogenesis! Part 1 (full) in the comments 👇 Comment if you'd like to be added (regardless of age or career stage!) Please post your own biology-related starter packs using #BioStarterPacks 🧬🔬🪰🐟🐁🌱

#Zebrafish #PILife

Necessary/sufficient.

There be Neurons. #PILife #zebrafish #zerbafish #multiome #ButWhatDoesItMean

Excited to contribute to @cuanschutz.bsky.social's Academy of Research Mentoring Educators! #PILife #Mentoring

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

"Higher intake of high-fat cheese and high-fat cream was associated with a lower risk of all-cause dementia." Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants. The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....

Literal screenshot off the scope @cudevbio.bsky.social - developing #zebrafish heart with transgenic lineage labeling showing atrium, ventricle, AV canal, myocardial & endocardial layers, and the thin pericardium around it all. Beautiful fundamentals of how also our own hearts form! #devbio🫀🎈❤️🧬🐟

🗞️ New preprint from the lab, led by our postdoc Ana Garoña (not on here) in collab with @andreagiometto.bsky.social: “Experimental evolution of cellular miniaturization reveals a mechanism for cell size evolution”, aka: “honey, we shrank the yeasts!” 🎥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

absolutely losing it at my 14yo's biology homework

...because #zebrafish do rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social

Can one map the genome-wide binding (1) and its protein partners (2) simultaneously from the same sample? Yes, one can. with CUT&ID ✂️🪪 Spearheaded — singlehandedly — by @annanordin.bsky.social No need of transgenesis, cloning and overexpression. Check it out, it's fast and its works.

This movie shows lysosomes (orange) and keratin (gray) in a cultured cell over 10 minutes.

Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows

Why do Americans say soccer & Brits football? British students in the 1800's played football by whatever rules they grew up with. To standardize inter-school games, an association was formed with rules & referees. The students called it SOCC-ER, a slang version of 'ASSOCiation football' +er -a

Never made it onto a cover, but as a canvas in the office. 🐟🧬 #PILife #devbio #zebrafish #MakeMoreTrransgenics #LPMIsBeautiful #evodevo

Hot off the press at EMBO Journal. The culmination of several years of work and hopefully useful to people in the field! BIG Shout-out to Review Commons, who handled the submission. It's a sensible and efficient model and all the journals I like (Society and NFP) are already participating. 🙏

Hello, here is a review I wrote about how cells sometimes try to synchronise with surrounding cells so that they can do a good job of building tissues during development. It is called "Keeping up with the neighbours" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #DevBio 🧪

Ok, now with the correct link! BiO-wide virtual office hours at the NSF! www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...

OUTLOOK: MEF2C networks in heart tube development By Hassan Abdulrazzak and Mark Mercola ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1397.full Learn more here: ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1451.abstract #transcriptionfactor #embryonicdevelopment #heartdevelopment #cardiactract

The first vaccine designed for insects may make honeybees healthier overall. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/honeybee-vaccine-protect-bacteria-virus

Very excited to see our paper, led by @amilangscience.bsky.social, out today in @pnas.org! This one was a true adventure, filled with surprises at every turn. “Erythroid precursors regulate local oxygen tension and repair outcomes in the bone marrow niche.” www.pnas.org/eprint/NJ8XC...