Happy #FluorescenceFriday all! Checkout these beautiful basal bodies in airway #multiciliated cells expanded via U-ExM 😍 Images captured by the super talented @maneesha07.bsky.social on a #Nikon NSPARC 🔬.

YEN 2026 registration is now live! Join us for the 2026 YEN conference on the 15th of June at the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. Sign up now to attend and submit your poster/abstract: forms.gle/2HQEmZgEi4hP... Abstract submission deadline is 15 May. Stay tuned for more information!

#gfe2026 @gfeev.bsky.social PhD Award goes to Tatiana Lebedeva 🎉 for Tatiana's thesis investigating the role of β-catenin in specifying germ layers in one of my favourite organisms, the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella.

The Hilde Mangold Prize of the German Society for Developmental Biology is awarded to Maik Bischoff (@maikbischoff.bsky.social) at #GfE2026 for his research on "Mesenchymal sculpting as a driver of chiral organ development" in Drosophila.

Choanoflagellate transfection just got much cheaper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Congratulations @frutag33.bsky.social & team. #choanoflagellates #transfection

FlyBase release FB2026_01 is live! There is news about FlyBase funding. Go to the FlyBase homepage flybase.org for details.

Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper? Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.

Just sharing this here again! Drop a line if you looking for a long term lab tech job…!

Have a look at this PhD program in Vienna- most interesting science and the best training program:

It's great to have a great team with great humor. 🤣

Neurod2 knockdown in Xenopus laevis tadpole brain retains cells in a proliferating, progenitor-like state doi.org/10.17912/mic... - I invite you to read the Beck lab's first ever micropublication! @zoologyotago.bsky.social and @otagobiochemist.bsky.social 🐸🧪 @micropub7n.bsky.social thank you!

Fully funded PhD post, UK/Home student, starting 01/06/26. Interested in working at the interface of dev bio, biophysics and cell biology? Great collaboration with Amy Beedle and @leonerossetti.bsky.social Informal enquiries welcome. Deadline 15/03 #neuralcrest www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

Join me next month to learn how to improve the rigour of your experiments with the EDA! 📅 Wednesday 4 March, 16.00 – 18.00 (GMT) Register here 👇

European Amphibian Conference 2026, July 3-5, 2026, Prague, Czech Republic www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

My lab is hiring a technician to manage our mouse colony and assist with mouse developmental biology experiments. Please RT and forward to anyone interested! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! #scdb26 @flybase.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @alliancegenome.bsky.social @insdb.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @geneticssociety.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Let's get this hashtag started! The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting is happen this August! We will share updates using #SCDB26. Can't wait! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

The last chapter of my PhD is finally out !!!! In the same species, on neighboring islands, we see radically different warning colors emerge. Evolution in action: Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

For those interested in helping build an exciting lab from the sea-level up 💪

OryzaNet is a new BBSRC-funded rice research network launching Spring 2026. We are inviting researchers, social scientists, stakeholders & innovators to register interest ahead of launch. www.oryzanet.com

Last couple spots remaining for the Craniofacial GRC in sunny CA! Looks to be a full house, with a great set of up-and-coming #craniofacial biologists spanning evo/devo, genetics, multiomics all the way to stem cells, engineering and repair. @brugmannlab.bsky.social www.grc.org/craniofacial...

🐸 Amphibians take over Europe!! 📍 Prague. July 3–5, 2026. The European Amphibian Conference 2026 is coming: 3 days of cutting-edge science, bold ideas, iconic speakers, and serious frog & axolotl energy ✨ 👉 Register. Submit. Be there. Do not miss it. amphib-conf2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

So proud to be part of this team work.

It was my pleasure to host @ahnaskop.bsky.social for our departmental seminar tomorrow at 12 pm in BSB1060. If you are in Ann Arbor and want to know more about mid body remanants, please join us tomorrow! It's going to be a great seminar! #mcdb #midbody #celldivison #umich @umich.edu

Excited to share our work on epithelial multilayering - identifying why stem cell stay in the basal layer and how and why differentiating cells move up. Great collab with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Niessen labs! Check out preprint and great summary below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am writing a short piece about Epstein and scientists, but I'm simply unable to say in the space available how disgusted and angry it makes me, or to use the words I'd otherwise be inclined to. And yes, I do start by saying that none of this is a surprise.

This looks like a less than smart set of ideas and is in itself logically incoherent. Force basic funding towards more applied research (there is no substitute for such explorative research), and then also cut bridge funding for marketing early stage startups and innovation. 🤦‍♂️

Dear PI colleagues, please do not recommend to your trainees to join labs that have a leader who is known for sexualized talk about their trainees, is "obsessed about sexual attractiveness" of trainees or is otherwise showing warning signs of abusive or inappropriate behavior. This is so fu*ked up.

Awesome awardees! Excellent selection and congrats to all, esp to Jeff and Roberto! 👏👏👏

Bio folks hiring: my student is on the job hunt, she finishes undergrad in May. Would do very well in a molecular biology or physiology lab, lots of undergrad research experience, inquisitive, mature, great problem solver, reliable. Who needs a very solid tech? Willing to move! #scijobs #MedSky

A fascinating review on the role of Activin in organ induction. Isn't it wild that in Xenopus embryos, a piece of the animal cap can be induced with Activin at different concentrations and buffers to form the ❤️, kidney, the pancreas, head, tail, and even a whole embryoid 🤯: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

So stoked to see this highlight of postdoc Nayeli Reyes-Nava after her awesome paper in @dmmjournal.bsky.social! Congrats Nayeli!

Cilia alert! Stoked to have the new paper from Juyeon Hong about a new domain at the extreme distal tip of motile cilia! (The EDT, y'all!) It's out now @natcomms.nature.com. Check it out! #cilia www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why do we lose so much talent in academia? Let’s talk about it – openly, together, responsibly. NEXT TUESDAY AT 5:30 PM. PI Forum Brno #7 | Feb 3 @ CEITEC MU For all PIs, PhDs & researchers in Brno. Chaired by @fabianlab.bsky.social

Join Monica in Barcelona!

In @jcb.org, Diaz & @mayorlab.bsky.social show that epithelial & mesenchymal cells navigate chemical cues via fundamentally different force-generating mechanisms, offering new insight into how diverse cell types achieve collective movement during development and disease. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

What a fantastic meeting and group of scientists! We are very much looking forward to our joint discoveries over the next years! 🥳👏 For updates and info follow @hetcci.bsky.social our official group account and @sandraiden.bsky.social our consortium speaker.

So excited about this #cilia conference at the beautiful Lake Maggiore, Italy. We have a great list of speakers so far, and two amazing keynote lectures. Get your abstracts ready, registration will open soon! 👇🏼

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 #𝗖𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳! We are grateful for their participation and look forward to welcoming the cilia community on 8-12, March 2027. Wishing you all a happy and inspiring 2026! 🎉 #Cilia #Milan

Amazing to hold the print issue of @natrevneuro.nature.com in our hands with our review highlighted on the cover. Evolutionary connections inspired by the article & designed by Richard Tibbitts. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

New Paper Alert! 1982: WNT discovered 1990s: NOTCH enters the stage 2000s: “Let’s study pathways separately.” 2025: “Actually, they talk to each other.” Welcome to the era of WNT-NOTCH crosstalk Great collaboration with Mašek lab (CZ) and G. Collu (US) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/article...

Exited for the start of our HetCCI kickstart meeting at Uni Saarbrücken. www.uni-saarland.de/forschen/het... In this consortium, labs throughout Germany focus on investigating how heterotypic cell cell interactions shape the formation and function of a wide diversity of epithelia. 🥳🧪🔬👨‍🔬

Paper alert: Our study led by @evapillai.bsky.social and @sudimukherjee.bsky.social showing that mechanical properties of the #brain actively shape the molecular landscape during development and #axonpathfinding is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pdncambridge.bsky.social @fau.de @MPZPM

We spy a few #zebrafish peeps as invited speakers 🤩

Final reminder: abstract deadline today for the @bsdb.bsky.social 2026 meeting! Don’t miss it :) 👇👇👇 bsdb.org/meetings/

Join us on Monday at 15:00 CET for the first @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Plenary meeting of 2026! Hugues Roest Crollius will present an update on the progress of the French marine #genomes ATLASea programme www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/atlasea... #biodiversity #genomics

Deadline today!

Congratulations, @bioimagearchive.bsky.social! This pubic data repository has received @elixir-europe.org’s CDR and EDD status! Great recognition for a great resource! 🎉 Learn more🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/bioimag...

Thanks for sharing @poldresden.bsky.social it was fun talking with @elisecutts.bsky.social for @quantamagazine.bsky.social 🐸⚡️🔬

Interested in chromatin and super-resolution microscopy? Looking for a postdoc position? Join the MPI-NAT! 👇