A bit late but a paper from our lab has been published! Human fingertip regeneration is a fact, it happens in children and adults (not only in children as it has been long believed). We describe here the regenerative phases and analyse the proteome of wound exudates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 #Job alert! Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo? The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research. Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Mastodon: the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693416v1

A new #ScienceImmunology study finds that juvenile axolotls can regenerate their thymus from scratch after complete removal, which could inform future therapeutics for aging or immune-compromised patients. https://scim.ag/3Y1XbBQ

Axolotls are famous for regenerating limbs. Turns out they can also regenerate their thymus—and that may show us how to someday to the same. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

The December issue of #ScienceImmunology is out! This month's cover highlights the juvenile axolotl's ability to regenerate its thymus after complete removal—possibly making it an exception among vertebrates. Learn about this research and more: https://scim.ag/4anWlqv

One proposed strategy to promote a youthful immune system and human healthspan is to rejuvenate our thymus gland. Can we learn from this exceptional (and peculiar looking) vertebrate that can do this? science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Can't believe my postdoc paper is finally out. Christmas came early this year, holy moly 🎄 Molecular basis for de novo thymus regeneration in a vertebrate, the axolotl | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔔 Please share 🔔 I have two open developmental biology/genetics/evo-devo PhD project vacancies for October 2026 start. 1 = 🐚 🐌 🔬(embryos!!) ⏱️📆 DEADLINE 15th DEC 📆⏱️ (competition) sleightlab.com/vacancies/ 2 = 🦪 🐌 🧬 ⏱️📆 DEADLINE 14th JAN 📆⏱️(fully funded) sleightlab.com/phd-vacancy-2/

I love this. And not just because of the axolotl costume, the content is great too ❤️

🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate? We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !

Sea cucumbers are beautiful! 🥒 This image shows the skeleton of a baby sea cucumber. Very happy that it got awarded by #NikonSmallWorld 😊 👇 Check the preprint by @PranavVyas and @prakashlab.bsky.social if you want to learn more about skeleton development in these animals: shorturl.at/J3g1h

Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!

🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu! With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠 #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG

#ERCStG für Anna Czarkwiani: 🎉 Dr. @aniaczark.bsky.social von @crtd-tud.bsky.social wurde mit einem renommierten Starting Grant von @erc.europa.eu ausgezeichnet. Die Postdoktorandin erforscht die Biologie des Schwerkraftsinns & damit verbundene Erkrankungen. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

Rozdane wczoraj przez @erc.europa.eu granty #ERCStG trafiły także do 6️⃣ polskich naukowców, którzy swoje badania będą prowadzić w Niemczech, Austrii, Francji i Szwajcarii. Czego dotyczą ich projekty? ⬇️ @aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social

Oh man, I am so excited and happy to have been given this huge opportunity by the @erc.europa.eu It is by no exaggeration - a dream come true. An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)

The secret to shrew brain shrinkage? 🤔 Not cell loss, but water loss! Our new paper shows that brain cells shrink by losing water, a wild feat of brain plasticity 🤯 Check the paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social @batichica.bsky.social

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In the latest paper, @cagricevrim.bsky.social, @berylbiologist.bsky.social‬ & Ko succeeded in imaging the entire course of leg regeneration and @mlrusciano.bsky.social‬ & @almazan.bsky.social developed HCR to identify specific cell types after imaging. elifesciences.org/articles/107... 4/6

Evolution’s eye game is wild, but mollusks take it to another level CRISPR in apple snails gives us a new model to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess It turns out Evolution doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, & regenerates rdcu.be/ezw0t

A career in science requires a thick skin | EMBO reports www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Thick skin doesn't mean no heart. Great article ❤️

NOA day!! 🎉 Excited to continue this project to advance tools for studying limb regeneration. We have openings for a Research Tech as part of this funding, so please send great applicants our way! 🧪

🚨 #JobAlert. please share: The DRESDEN-concept Genome Center (DcGC) 🧬 @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social is looking for the new Head of Facility! 🗓️ Deadline for applications: August 11 More information here ➡️ tud.link/fz5hr8 @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

“The idea that taking walks, reading things unrelated to your research, and hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking, but might well meet with skepticism in practice.” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Visitors to the axolotl exhibit, Long Night of Science #LNoS are the BEST!!! @crtd-tud.bsky.social

The new Vienna BioCenter Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Program (VIP³) is here! We have 16 fully-funded positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics etc. The call opens on 1st June. More information: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi... #VBCPostDoc

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

Looking so much forward to this meeting! This meeting promises to be to the field of biomedicine what Evo Devo was to developmental biology.

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

📢 Deadline for submitting articles to #LifelongDevSI is 30 May 2025 Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues. Guest Editors: Meritxell Huch and Mansi Srivastava journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/li...

#zebrafishrocks #zebrafishjobs #Regeneration 🧪 Have a look at our job ad, tell your friends www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

Power abuse in academia is being talked about more and more openly highlighting what a pervasive and important problem it is. youtu.be/n5nEd600iM0?...

📢 We are hiring! 📢 We are looking for a postdoc to help us work out why mice cannot regenerate the spinal cord but spiny mice *can*. More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/4m6yzbef Get in touch if interested!

I loved this post from @davislab.bsky.social . Wonderfully real and with a positive tone which is rarely voiced in conversations around motherhood and academia.

"How being a scientist helped me to be a good mother" In this new "Honest conversations" blog post, Felicity Davis @davislab.bsky.social discusses gender inequalities in academia and shares her experience of becoming a mother-scientist: thenode.biologists.com/how-being-a-...

What better way to start posting on Bluesky than by announcing that we are recruiting a postdoc! The project, funded by an HFSP grant, focuses on the role of the ECM in Clytia jellyfish regeneration. Initial appointment will be for 2 years. Learn more here: lnkd.in/eU6dVptj [Photo: A.Jan/LBDV]

Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

go.bsky.app/LjbAncZ Now with more people! Let me know if you'd like to be added. All other salamander species welcome of course!

We are pleased to announce the launch of a series of precarity awareness posters based on the findings from the survey. Free to download and print - please circulate online and put them up in your departments. Thanks to @zjayres for the design! www.statesofprecarity.co.uk/resources

go.bsky.app/LjbAncZ Made an axolotl one. Let me know if you'd like to be added, I'm sure there's going to be more of us on here!

Current Biology has the absolute coolest science. I hope to publish there when I grow up.

📢Call for papers Submit your latest research to Development's upcoming special issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues Guest Editors: Meritxell Huch and Mansi Srivastava 📅 Deadline: 15 May 2025 Find out more: https://bit.ly/4fEcE2r #DevBio