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 🧬🔬🪰🐟🐁🌱

Felt a little festive at the microscope this morning for #FluorescenceFriday 🎄 Here’s the nervous system of a juvenile sea star ⭐️ Green = acetylated tubulin, red = nuclei Happy holidays!

As a biologist working on the cellular and molecular development of gills, I love seeing gill architecture inspire solutions like this plastic-filtering technology....truly inspiring 🦓🐟🔬

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪

🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨 I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany. www.bischofflab.com/jobs Fully funded ✅ #Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy #Drosophila #PhD (Details Below) Original Posting: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

Exciting PhD opportunity in cell migration, developmental biology, and morphogenesis using #Drosophila 🧬 As a bonus, you’ll be joining the lab of one of the nicest, most enthusiastic, and truly supportive scientists out there 👇

To build the body plan of an animal, cells must adhere to one another via cell-cell junctions. We now know these assemble as punctate protein complexes containing thousands of proteins, but how this occurs remains mysterious. 1/n 🧪 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10....

My team are running the Peripheral Nerve Society's Instagram account this week: www.instagram.com/pnsociety1 If you like images of the nervous system, please check it out! #FluorescenceFriday @uclqsneuromuscular.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social

Unsolicited remix of some cool #FluorescenceFriday images from Matthias Böddener 😁can't go wrong with the Noice LUTS!

A new research facility dedicated to axolotls, will be opening soon. Hosting the UK’s only dedicated axolotl research colony and will support world class studies into regeneration, ageing, cancer resistance and stem cell biology. edin.ac/4pAAJeW @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @aidarodrigo.bsky.social

For #FluorescenceFriday - RNAscope marking subfields of the hippocampus in a section of postmortem human 🧠 tissue. Image credit to the Imaging Development team @lieberinstitute.bsky.social 🔬🧪👩‍🔬

This distal gill tip is giving full branchial art vibes for #FluorescenceFriday 🦓🐟 — who knew oxygen exchange could be this pretty. 🔴 kdrl:mCherry highlights the vasculature ⚪ fgf10b:nEOS marks the pillar cells #Zebrafish #DevBio #SciArt

Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.

This… it’s just mind-blowing. Truly incredible insights into gill biology 🐟🔬. Just look at those blood cells moving through the vascular space of the pillar cells. I’m honestly jealous—amazing work! 🎉👏

Love the #SciArt gallery on @maikbischoff.bsky.social's lab website 😍 www.bischofflab.com/portfolio #microscopy #bioart #microscopymonday #cellfie #devbio #cellbio

🎄✨ Introducing 24 Days of Development! Each day we’ll highlight one of 2025’s most influential papers published in Developmental Biology, the official journal of the Society for Developmental Biology. Follow along! 🧬❄️🌟 #DevBio

Honestly, when will unis and other research orgs collectively say enough is enough, and invoice them for all our unpaid labour that drives publishers MASSIVE profits? The Money in Scientific Publishing danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo... @danielroelfs.com #KnowledgeSlavery

1/2 A special #FluorescenceFriday for me! 🌈 Live muscle precursors on a pupal fly testis (Lifeact-eGFP, 🔥-depth-coded). It's special because this is on the poster for the @sfb1348.bsky.social Meeting in May — my first time being featured as a speaker on a poster! 😀 Feeling very grateful & excited!

I love drawing newts! Please commission me more newts so I get a good excuse to keep going ;) Looking forward to start with color... #SciArt #Art #wildlifeart #wildlife

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

Super proud to be part of SFB1348 — and excited to share that I now officially have my own lab in Münster! 🎉🪰 We’ll study #cellbio & #morphogenesis, focusing on organ sculpting and #chirality in #Drosophila. I’ll soon hire my first #PhD student — feel free to reach out! #juniorPI #Science #devbio

I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.

Even if "provisionally" accepted, those are the best words/news I've heard for quite a while... Here some #blebs to "provisionally" cellebrate. Let's see this #cell dance under the microscope. @focalplane.bsky.social #fluorescencefriday #microscopy 🧪🔬

🌈 Rainbow neurons on the move!🧠 MultiColor FlpOut of L3 optic lobe neurons projecting into the medulla neuropil. 📸 Image by Isabel Holguera. #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio

Starting some sketches of sword-tailed newts. more coming soon! #SciArt #art #wildlifeart

A student-run radio show covered my Nikon Small World honorable mention & I even got to give a radio interview! A totally new experience for me 😀 Huge thanks to Andrew! Also featuring @peiferlabunc.bsky.social & @nat-prunet.bsky.social #NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceCommunication #SciArt

Hey #Drosophila evolution people, quick phylogeny question! Is this simplified tree reasonable? I integrated multiple papers & added some polytomies, so that there is nothing too speculative in there. Does it look right to you? 🪰 It's just for a presentation 😉 #Evolution #Phylogeny

If you’ve ever wondered why you can inject things into the yolk early and it affects the embryo, this phenomena is the reason it works! 👇 #zebrafish

#FluorescenceFriday – Kidney Edition! Giving the gills a day off 😉 Cryosection of 5dpf old 🦓🐟 larvae showing: 🟡podocytes 🟢VitaminD-binding protein-GFP ⚪Phalloidin Notice how there’s no GFP signal in the pronephric duct — proof that filtration barrier is working perfectly #Zebrafish #DevBio

@sushantbangru.bsky.social and @rdiegmiller.bsky.social new review on regeneration is out in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. A fun piece to write and another great collaboration with @kenposs.bsky.social.

📣 Paper alert! I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Get into flow with zebrafish — soon your eyes will glow 🐟✨

For #FluorescenceFriday - one of my favorites from the archives of a neuron ⚪ and astrocyte 🟢 co-culture. Image credit to Stephanie Page and former research assistant Beth Pattie 🧠🔬🧪

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

Slow down and really see nature. Join artist–zoologist Bella Charlton for a free online workshop on #NatureJournaling - hosted by SCB and Current Conservation. 🗓️ Nov 14, 2025 | 8–9 AM ET 🎨 Open to all, no drawing experience needed! 👉 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SciComm

🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio

Our Special Issue on Lifelong Development #LifelongDevSI is now complete! Guest edited by Meri Huch and Mansi Srivastava, it contains 26 research and review-type articles. On the cover: the dorsal vasculature of an adult zebrafish's first gill arch. See Preußner et al. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Amazing paper with gorgeous imaging 🔥 from @mathpreu.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Can't believe it — my first‑author paper is out and my image graces the cover of @dev-journal.bsky.social 🎉 Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain #zebrafish gill architecture throughout life 🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15... #FluorescenceFriday #LifelongDevSI

In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween! 🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social

One of the people I'm indebted the most for creating stunningly beautiful #mesoSPIM samples was Martina Schaettin - who tragically passed away in March this year. To honor her memory, Elkhan Yusifov created an award - submit your best #microscopy images & videos! www.linkedin.com/company/mart...

Can't believe it — my first‑author paper is out and my image graces the cover of @dev-journal.bsky.social 🎉 Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain #zebrafish gill architecture throughout life 🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15... #FluorescenceFriday #LifelongDevSI

Crazy-looking larval cusk eel with an impressive external gut. We’re still not sure why having the intestines on the outside is advantageous, but there must be a good reason 🤔 TL ~2.5cm #cuskeel #larvalfish #deepseafish #deepseacreatures #blackwaterdiving #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug

Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...

Endocardium, cells lining the heart chambers, in the beating heart of a two-day-old transgenic #zebrafish. Credit to @anjaliesch.bsky.social & Nikon Small World Competition. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Cell-cell junction proteins like ZO-1 not only play a critical role in the mechanical interaction between cells, but also participate in the biochemical signalling to coordinate the cell sheet. Check out this review on collective cell migration here to learn more: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Maybe it's time we rethink the idea that development is a cell centric process? In this beautiful review, María-del-Carmen and @stramerlab.bsky.social discussed how the ECM underlies and influences many morphogenesis processes from wing unfolding to mammary gland development. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément

A developmental atlas of zebrafish gills links early vascular patterning to adult architecture Read this #LifelongDevSI #OA Research Article by Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social, Virginie Lecaudey @vlecaudey.bsky.social and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

A striking capture by @murawalalab.bsky.social Marko Pende for a 2020 paper in the @aaas.org journal Science Advances (doi.org/10.1126/scia...). It shows the intricate structures of the axolotl — a model for regeneration research. #standwithscience #researchmatters #microscopymonday 🧪 🤝