The colours on this copepod nauplius are just stunning! #marineplankton 🦑

Our latest on #oil droplet capture by #marine animals is #OpenAccess @sicbjournals.bsky.social Oil Droplet Capture by Tunicates by Katherine Beaudry & C.B. Cameron, Integrative Organismal Biology, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2025, obaf045, doi.org/10.1093/iob/... Cover photo by Robin Gwen Agarwal

Barnacles! A lovely little collection of barnacle larvae, both nauplii and cyprid (the seed-shaped ones), which are the earlier and later stages, respectively. #marineplankton 🦑

Marine functional #connectivity matters—from genes to energy flows. This synthesis clarifies concepts, unifies fragmented approaches, and proposes a global framework to better link science, #SpatialPlanning, and #policy in a changing ocean. doi.org/10.1002/brv.... #MarineEcology 🌐🌍🧪🌊

I am deeply honored to share that my project NeurEvoFun has been awarded support from the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS), the Advanced Grant by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, supporting fundamental research inspired by the ERC model. Excited for what’s ahead!

Coming in February!! A monstrous 4-book series covering neural systems in animals, featuring a very long chapter on the origin of NS in metazoans by Volker Hartenstein, @simon-sprecher.bsky.social , and myself. Details very soon—for an incredible bargain price!! 😜😅 shop.elsevier.com/books/evolut...

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

The preprint containing the bulk of my thesis work is out!

An appendicularian (larvacean) from my sample this week. I won’t go on about how awesome they are - I’ve posted about them loads. So just enjoy! #marineplankton 🦑

Our November in #preprints list is now up on the Node! Check it out for the latest in #devbio and stem cell research ⤵️: thenode.biologists.com/november-in-...

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...

In this month's Creature Column, we feature the ascidian tunicate Ciona, a model for marine systems life sciences. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are thrilled to invite you to the Michael Sars Symposium 2026 - Living systems in a variable ocean, together with our co-organizers at @cbubergen.bsky.social! Mark June 4, 2026 in your calendars, and watch out for our speaker lineup reveal in the new year 🙌

New publication 🐋 fresh out of our #bioacoustics lab! Congratulations to our dedicated colleague @beeden.bsky.social & co-authors 🥳 HIGH FREQUENCY #VESSELNOISE 🛥️ MASKS ECHOLOCATION AND COMMUNICATION 🔉 IN #HARBOURPORPOISES 🐬 Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

🚨Seeking developmental or cell biologists🔬!🚨 Our department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social is looking to support scientists seeking to establish their lab with a fellowship. Deadline: 30 Jan. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)

Stoked that this paper, summarizing a vast series of experiments from past and present members of the team is out. A great way to end this year. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I love our ESA journal Ecology's Scientific Naturalist papers! Check out deep sea squid covered in mud with tentacles masquerading as sessile invertebrates (?!!) ... so many discoveries still out there for ecology!! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @esajournals.bsky.social

There are still plenty of Ascidian sea squirt larvae on my plankton samples at the moment. Love them! #marineplankton 🦑

📜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...

Latest publication from the #DEEVA team in @biom-banyuls.bsky.social and @obs-banyuls.fr and @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr in #WindyBanyuls Congratulations to @agnesroure.bsky.social and @rafathchowdhury.bsky.social #Ciona #ascidians

Admirez la magie du développement cellulaire des organismes marins ! 3/4

another old one...a microtubule (MT) movie - EB3-GFP label of MT plus ends growing...thanks to Vlad Costache (if interested, black holes = yolk granules, Ascidian Phallusia embryo)

New publication in Proceding of The Royal Society B! "Developmental and transcriptomic responses of Hawaiian bobtail squid early stages to ocean warming and acidification" royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @arnetla.bsky.social

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 🧠✨🧬🌊🪼🧽

Excited to share our story nutrition and cell quiescence in sea anemones, great postdoctoral work of @eudaldpascual.bsky.social Finally out in @plosbiology.org And thanks to @msarscentre.bsky.social for the nice news piece: www.uib.no/en/michaelsa...

💡How does nutrition regulate cell cycle in stem cells? Check out our new paper from @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social lab & @msarscentre.bsky.social, out now in @plosbiology.org (plos.io/48J2o6P) #SeaAnemone #Nematostella #StemCell #CellCycle #Quiescence #TORsignalling 1/12

Thrilled to share the preprint from my PhD! 🥳 Where I characterised epithelial cell extrusion in a sea anemone 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Big thanks to my supervisor @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social and coauthors @noahbruderer.bsky.social @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social at🇳🇴 @msarscentre.bsky.social ⬇️🧵

Congratulations to @eudaldpascual.bsky.social and @ktgarschall.bsky.social from the @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social lab on a new paper out in @plosbiology.org 🤩👏 The work, supported by @embo.org, looked at cell behavior during starvation in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis 🧵🧪

Happy to share our new pre-print using microfluidics to look into flow response of Hydra.

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

Very happy to see this piece on the Tunicate Ciona published. Grateful to @alexandrejan.bsky.social and @chiaracastelletti.bsky.social for the Illustrations, and to @natmethods.nature.com for the opportunity to showcase our ever emerging model organism www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@olegtolstenkov.bsky.social and Sissel Norland @msarscentre.bsky.social show that Ciona adults have rich embodied postural dynamics and are able to perceive different sensory stimuli and respond with distinct behavioral outputs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (from last September)

New preprint from our lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @olegtolstenkov.bsky.social, Sissel and Rodolfo in collaboration with @appygenetics.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social built a behavioral atlas of the planktonic tunicate Oikopleura dioica across its life cycle.

Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/6]

DySTrack: a modular smart microscopy tool for live tracking of dynamic samples on modern commercial microscopes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691816v1

Our paper on the role of neurons in Nematostella head regeneration is now out at @currentbiology.bsky.social Big thank you to all collaborators, it was a pleasure! Ectopic head regeneration after nervous system ablation in a sea anemone: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

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! 👩‍🔬✨

Could not be more happy/proud/relieved to finally see this longstanding study published. Bluetorial to follow. @msarscentre.bsky.social Cell cycle-driven transcriptome maturation confers multilineage competence to cardiopharyngeal progenitors | The EMBO Journal www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Mind over matter, matter over mind? Check out our fine mini-special (mini by our standards) special issue on how #brain and #body interact. 🧠🕺 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo

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

🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

See you all in #BeautifulRoscoff next Spring 🙌🏻

📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social 🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement. Check out the details! 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience

Tiny sea cucumbers, big mysteries! 🪱 Out sampling for my MSCA project SensHolo at the @msarscentre.bsky.social, at the University of Bergen, 🇳🇴— exploring how these mini echinoderms sense their world. Plus a few bonus echinoderms! 🌊✨

Still can’t quite believe it 💫 I’ve received the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science “Jeunes Talents” France 2025 award! I’m so deeply honored — this recognition means so much to me, both as a scientist and as a woman who loves research. 💙🔬 1/3

Very sad to hear that Sir John Gurdon, former Master of Magdalene College, has passed away at the age of 92. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... Here is a powerful reminder that you should never give up on your dreams.

Huge congratulations to postdoc Guillaume Poncelet @guillaumeponcelet.bsky.social who was awarded a UiB Early Idea innovation grant 🤩🎉 Inspired by his work in the @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social lab, he will be developing a new product derived from naturally occurring compounds 🔬 Read more below ⤵️