Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park! “Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” — www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)

Tissue resident colonic macrophages persist through acute inflammation and adapt to aid tissue repair in this work from @lizihegarty.bsky.social, @bainlab.bsky.social, and colleagues: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

Come join us in Heidelberg for the first German fish meeting 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧬🔬🐟🐠

Fluorescent micrograph of the enteric nervous system of a Pachon/surface hybrid cavefish. Credit to @pavaniperera.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

apnews.com/article/nobe... Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries

Looking forward to our next #globalimmuno talk this Wednesday, October 8th, at 9am PST, noon EST, 4pm GMT by Dr. Mauro Gaya. Title: “B cell memory in barrier tissues” ZOOM LINK: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... LIVE ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/@GLOBALIMMUNOTALKS

I am happy to report that the lab has its first preprint! We looked at odor perception in cavefish and found a strong attraction to ancestrally negative odors, including appetitive behavior and brain activity when smelling death! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

More new work from the lab! @idrm.ox.ac.uk @oxforddpag.bsky.social Do all zebrafish regenerate their hearts equally? Also featuring the Mexican cavefish☺️ Thanks to all co-authors and especially the incredibly talented DPhil student Kostas Lekkos who drove the project. #zebrafish #heartregeneration

Ribeiro et al. studied #MHC class II variation and infection by a sexually transmitted bacterium (C34) in black-legged #kittiwakes. They found sex-specific links between MHC supertypes, bacterial load and reproduction, suggesting STIs may influence immune gene evolution: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

“We (humans) have been so jolly arrogant to think we’re so special.” www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

This gorgeous being is thwaitesia argentiopunctata. Also known as the sequinned spider, mirror spider and is found in Australia. Absolutely beautiful! I am at a loss for words. #nature #arachnid #insect #mirrorspider #Australia

Excited to start being part of the Postdoc Network Münster #PNM! @uni-muenster.de as a board member! A chance to give back to the community, and to the sometimes ‘grey’, neglected minority we postdocs are 💪✨

#Behindthepaper stories: @accorsi-alice.bsky.social & @planaria1.bsky.social share how curiosity & passion driven research revealed that apple snails can regenerate full camera type eyes. @the-node.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social @stowersinstitute.bsky.social #regeneration #applesnails #devbio

How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ

Congrats to Aurelie Hinterman aurhin.bsky.social, Chase Bolt chasebolt.bsky.social, and Brent Hawkins @homeobox.bsky.social! Coverage in NYTimes by @carlzimmer.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/s...

Amazing work, my friend! @aurhin.bsky.social, always thinking outside the box!

Back from the Cavefish Retreat — amazing people, gorgeous location, great science, and a strong community! 🐟✨ The future looks bright for the #cavefish field!

🧬2nd Semester 2025 lineup is here! Join us for a new round of cutting-edge immunology seminars from top researchers around the world! Mark your calendar & share! For more info: linktr.ee/globalimmuno...

These days at @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social I had the chance to visit the world’s largest otolith collection! Mostly marine specimens from a project started more than 100 years ago! Amazing to be a scientist and get the chance to go behind the scenes! #fish #otolith

Back from my first #FishBase conference! It felt like a journey through the history of key databases and the exciting ones still to come! Times are changing, and so is how we understand #fish. Truly honored to have been invited to speak at this one!

What determines the human gut fungal community? @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social @erdavenport.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social &co present the first #GWAS of human genetic loci that influence the abundance of gut #fungi, linking these to disease risk #mycobiome @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/42bCKou

Back from one of the best conferences I’ve attended!The @embo.org Workshop on Barrier Immunity,brilliantly organized by @maurogaya.bsky.social & @immunologyking.bsky.social! Outstanding science from many, including @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social, @danmucida.bsky.social& @martinaparigi.bsky.social

In crater Lake Masoko one fish species is splitting into shallow and deep-living ecotypes occupying different light environments. New research shows their visual systems are diverging, and how colours of male eggspots have changed to maximise their visibility. doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Now published @natecoevo.nature.com with @annika-nichols.bsky.social, our latest on the evolution of 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 across 𝟲𝟬 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 of cichlid fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s415... with members of the @schierlab.bsky.social and Salzburger labs, as well as the burgeoning Shafer lab @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social

Amazing fantastic great talks so far @embo.org Barrier ImmuniTy 🤩 what better place to learn all about B/T cells in the gut/lung/liver/bladder/brain - eeeeeverywhere!! #EMBOBarrierTissues

An extremely engaging talk on a sometimes overlooked tissue, the bladder, by Molly A. Ingersoll at #EMBO. Not only that, the study showed that 'sex matters,' and it matters a lot during infection, with strong differential responses between sexes!!! Learning so much!! #EMBOBarrierTissues

Great analogy to illustrate the question @carlanowosad.bsky.social is pursuing on her lab: how GC are form and how GC cells find their way to their specific locations #embo workshop Basel #immunalogy

Weight loss improves health but What happens to cells in the fat during weight loss? Intriguingly, immune cell numbers decrease but their activated states persist w chronic inflammatory potential. Beautiful work from neighbors @mrc-lms.bsky.social Will Scott et al www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our new paper! We find cavefish colonized caves 3x and global cooling events may have influenced these events. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

When populations evolve different strategies to defend against a recently acquired parasite (e.g., tolerance, resistance), what sets of gene expression responses are conserved, or diverge? Using a vaccination experiment with #stickleback @laurenfuess.bsky.social reports some fun results...

Mexican tetras living on the surface (left) look dramatically different from populations that were washed into caves generations ago (right) – and not just on the outside. Featuring @rohner.bsky.social‬ and others. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

My brilliant friend, Dr. María Recuerda, presenting her work on bird pangenomes at #ESEB2025!

For a parasite fan like me, this was one of the best talks I’ve ever attended, a whole lifetime of science across scales, delivered by none other than Prof. Dieter Ebert! #ESEB2025

Even wonder how to eat all the sugar you want without getting sick? Come visit #bat 🦇 poster #21 (Tuesday) to hear about the sweet secrets of metabolic adaptations in sugar-feeding bats #ESEB2025

I am happy to share a paper that is finally accepted after (way too many) rounds of revision: Further insights into regulatory evolution: we identified >600 miRNAs in cavefish putatively contributing to cave adaptation. Great work by Tatha Biswas! nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...