I finally had to reverse image search this for my own curiosity. An April Fools' joke from 1984. The full picture used in the article was even funnier. Link: (to download the PDF to the article) www.ajronline.org/doi/pdf/10.2...

🚨 The deadline has been extended until January 31st!🚨

Eyes are wide open now #irishsetter

So cute 🥰 Our Irish setter puppies…. The eyes are nowopening ☺️

New paper out 🔥! Small promoter, big potential🧬 We show that the ultra-compact Calm1 promoter efficiently targets human neurons in brain organoids and is a promising alternative to hSyn for AAV gene delivery. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this work! 🧠 📄: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Life is better with a setter

This is good news because it is an environmentally friendly way to protect potatoes without lots of pesticides that kill every insect in the field, and therefore it helps protect wild birds.

Nature: "This study confirms... accumulation of cell waste in the form of ubiquitin-labeled degrons that correlate with larval mortality." Translation: The Colorado Potato Beetle becomes constipated to death. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So excited to share this as a new junior PI: My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀 www.bischofflab.com Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊 And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery! #CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science

🎄 Great Nikolaus moment in the Windfelder Lab! Isabel surprised everyone with handmade gift bags — such a cool boost to our already amazing team spirit. 🙌 We’re growing! Interested in joining us for a Master’s project or PhD? 👉 windfelder-lab.com Happy Nikolaus & a great Advent season!

"A YouTuber dropped his camera to the bottom of the ocean and recorded a deep-sea animal that no one has been able to identify." petapixel.com/2025/11/25/y....

✨ Science Day 2025 (last week) at JLU Giessen! Great to see our insect-imaging work featured: Anouk – behavioral fever + imaging Anna – ultrasound gut-wall Jan – CT + deep learning Proud of this team! 🚀 #ScienceDay #Imaging #Manduca

Mammalian apex predators like tigers with solitary lifestyle are more prone to cancer death. Sharks, non-mammalian apex predators, are thought to have low rate of cancer (they have remarkable genome stability and slow rate of evolution). Why are they so different? 🐅🦈🤔 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Allow the lies equal weight to the truth and we're truly fucked. #DeathOfScience #GlobalWarming @scientistmel.bsky.social @drstevenhobbs.bsky.social @flojohorman.bsky.social @drivingforbush.bsky.social @brianbrachiopod.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

Somehow I couldn’t reach the #Dipteran #Evolution community with my question… so maybe I need something controversial 😄 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐲𝐳𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜! #Phylogeny #TreeOfLife #Drosophila #Diptera (… 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸)

1/12 A very special moment for me! 🎉 My first paper as corresponding author—a @jcb.org Perspective on how contact-based decision-making in collective cell migration can itself encode blueprints for complex patterns and shapes. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #cellbio #devbio #science 🧵for details

So, so true. I had in Germany a PCP who let me lay down for 10 minutes and listening to some music before taking the pressure.

New Publication Alert! Excited to share our new paper just published in PLOS One! “Measurement accuracy of CT systems: The importance of calibration phantoms” Read the full article here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @plosone.org @windfelder.bsky.social

Make measles great again

1🧵 Excited to share my first PhD paper, published in @dev-journal.bsky.social What if fish gills —often overlook —hold secrets about development, patterning, and function? We uncovered how early patterning shapes adult gill architecture. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... #DevBio #Zebrafish

This week, I had the privilege of visiting Sandfeldschule, where I introduced classes 2a and 2b to the captivating world of insects. Moments like these remind us how important it is to inspire the next generation in the realms of science and nature. Read the full story: wix.to/Mr2JHQJ #Education

A brand new & beautiful microscopic atlas of #danio gill #developmemt! Congratulations @mathpreu.bsky.social - on your first PhD paper. This is some truly exceptional #microscopy!

He wint get a Nobel Prize for shutting down the war on cancer. Or Alzheimer’s. Or diabetes. As that’s what they are doing. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

www.ascb.org/society-news... It's official now 😁 Big thanks again to @ascbiology.bsky.social & MBoC

Whoever sees this ranking based on Nature Index data and is not deeply worried about the destruction of the US research environment should think again. It's not that we handing it to China on a golden platter - they already have it. Harvard is the only US one in top 10 - and falling.

Exciting news — I am super honored to receive the 2025 MBoC Early Career Paper Award 🎉 My very first award 😊 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... Couldn’t imagine a better send-off as I just wrapped up my postdoc at UNC and get ready to start a lab in Münster this fall 😃

1) Branching morphogenesis is fundamental to animal development, shaping complex organs like lungs, kidneys, and vascular networks. Gills are another highly branched organ. Yet, the developmental processes behind gill formation in zebrafish remain poorly understood. #zebrafish #gills #microscopy

I'm a breast cancer survivor. I'm likely to be a cancer patient again. I pray for cutting edge research to extend the time I have with my kids. This breaks my heart. It's going to lead to so much death.

Almost all Nobel Prizes are awarded for work that is exploratory, or absolutely basic science with no obvious commercial or medical benefit. You cannot predict where advancements come from, so you have to invest in science and scientists. Targeted (corporate) science investment will never do this.

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

Amazing news - the support letter to the #BethesdaDeclaration has over 10,000 signatures from scientists, Nobel Laureates, clinical trial participants, and ordinary people who care about supporting science and curing diseases. It's not too late for you to add your name!

We are so screwed. In other news this is the new pandemic preparedness kit.

The clearest image of Pluto captured by the New Horizons spacecraft.

There is still beauty in the world. (photographer unknown.)

Very happy and thankful to be introduced as a Fwllow of the @snm-mi.bsky.social today. also thanks to the great people in my lab!

Our effort to try to do something for [cystic fibrosis (CF)] started as a basic science enterprise. That was a hard slog back in the 1980s. Nobody would have supported except NIH. Now, 30 years after that discovery, young people with CF get to plan for retirement instead of an early funeral.

Oh, hell yeah. Let’s do this with scientific manuscripts. I’m serious; reviewers who are lazy enough to use ChatGPT don’t deserve any better. bsky.app/profile/tdve...

This is the smartest damn thing I’ve heard all year. If nothing else, it might serve to erode employers‘ trust in ChatGPT.

For today's #FluorescenceFriday I'm thrilled to share that ScienceAdvances was so nice to pick my picture as this week's featured image! It's actually a still of a video😊 Check out the paper to learn more science.org/doi/10.1126/... #cellbio #devbio #cellmigration #science Thank you @aaas.org

FINALLY out in #Science Advances! 🎉 3 years of hard work, a fantastic team — and I’m proud to be first and co-corresponding author! It's about Plexin signaling driving collective cell migration & organ sculpting. Check out the videos 😀 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #DevBio #CellBio #Microscopy

Had a great day at embl in Heidelberg preparing behavioral experiments on Manduca sexta with Lautaro Gandara from the Crocker Lab 🐛🧠 Huge thanks to Lautaro and Justin Crocker for the great atmosphere and warm welcome. EMBL really is an amazing place for science. Learn more at wix.to/Vdkdj0L

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium would recognize me and swim over to say hi when I visited her exhibit ❤️🐠 A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home! TO BE CONTINUED…

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

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Huge congrats to Leonie Graser on her excellent M.Sc. thesis at JLU! She used micro-CT to 3D-map the gut of Spodoptera frugiperda—a key pest in agriculture. Her work earned the highest grade and I am proud to have co-supervised this! www.antonwindfelder.com/post/outstan...

Wow! We got the cover! #MBOC #ASCB #CellBio So proud of #TeamTestis. Screening <270 lines for shape defects was a huge team effort! I created this collage from the team’s images from the past 2 years! Depth-color-coded with Fiji. Inspired by late 19th century lithographic animal illustrations.

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...