This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

My wife tells me I totally missed this one: Cambrian chordates were nerds !

Welcome to the Institute, Stern Lab! @hhmi-science.bsky.social Investigator David Stern studies how insects hijack plant development. His lab’s discoveries could reshape how we think about pest control and food security. He & his team arrived from HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. bit.ly/4np96Fb

Think of it: Physics, stuck at the relativity/quantics incoherence, baffled by quantum entanglement. Biology, we are incapable of modeling even the simplest cell. Paleontology, human evolution is a mess , the more we unearth, the less we understand.

So far, the scientific 21st century is very disappointing compared to the same years of the 20th century. Am i wrong ?

Back then, i wanted to be a paleontologist 🫠

The weirdophile can no longer resist the uncontrollable urge to share his love for DEVO, so let’s <Whip it> ! 👉 youtu.be/bDVuQyzDECs #MusicForNerds #BoojiBoy 👇

"Network analysis reveals close faunal connections between the Huayuan and Burgess Shale biotas, indicating transoceanic dispersal. Dated shortly after the Sinsk event..." 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

This developing quail embryo looks like it's thinking fiery thoughts for #FluorescenceFriday 🐣🔥🧪. Imaged by the fantastic @vanderspuy.bsky.social

The evolutionary extrapolations in this study struggle to account for empirical cases like Trump’s two election wins. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Got stripes? 🧬🕷️🔬 @mcgregorlab.bsky.social #EvoDevo #Biology #PhD #FluorescenceFriday

I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!

If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the "Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples" at Stazione Zoologica in Naples. WIth great teachers from Naples […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Continuing my streak of bands that don’t sing in English and don’t step on stage in shredded jeans and with questionable personal hygiene … Here’s Wagakki Band <Senbonzakura> 👉 youtu.be/Xjwe9WyO8Qs #MusicForNerds #Jrock #日本のロック 👇

Bilaterian guts share embryonic patterning, but what about the adult gut? This study of 5 species reveals conserved TF modules that define A-P #gut compartments, with lineage-specific modifications, illuminating #bilaterian gut #evolution & diversification @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/49pgpH3

Koliss’ d’hivaère !

A giant #Pteropod #seabutterfly, Corolla spectabilis, cruising through the nighttime open ocean. Shot in the wild, using scuba, while drifting out over the deep abyss, at night, off Okinawa. #corollaspectabilis #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #kumejima #okinawa #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater

Burrp !

Natural chemistry

A film director who went up to eleven 😢 #RobReiner

Dëh antzïk Köhntarkösz Kreuhn Köhrmahn Stöht ẁurdah Melekaahm Uz, dëh ᴧërkbaahn Kreuhn Köhrmahn Zëbëhn Straïn dë Ğeuštaah ẁortsiš <Hhai> 👉 youtu.be/QTpM9-nOZRY #MusicForNerds #Zeuhl #MusicForLinguisticScholars 👇

Kīlauea is showing off : the main fountain reaches 300m high, and 800m laterally 🌋⚒️

first author, second author, corresponding author

Segment polarity genes in Alitta, the big brother of Platynereis, by our Russian colleagues. Very similar to our (prehistoric) Platynereis results. We need more studies like this in phyllodocidae, syllidae, eunicidae, echiuridae, opheliidae, ...

Comme chaque année au premier coup de froid, pensez à vos sous-vêtements… radioactifs ! Une publicité des années 1920-1930, à une époque où la radioactivité et le radium étaient perçus comme des produits miraculeux, censés soigner tous les maux et apporter vitalité et bien-être.

Proud to have been part of this very nice piece of work and this great collaboration. Congratulations to all. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Arachnophobia meets claustrophobia meets nyctophobia.

In my relentless efforts to inspire young scientific minds to embrace intemporal #RockMusic, here is another obscure, unfortunately late artist from the UK, named David Jones, who really deserved more recognition <Moonage Daydream> 👉 youtu.be/RPUAldgS7Sg #MusicForNerds and #MusicForLabOddities 👇

Another mammoth manuscript from the Arendt team. People who doubt molecular signatures of ancestry will again have to face some hard facts 😉

And here is a Halloween wyvern, courtesy of my favorite touring band. Wyverns (called vouivres in French) are tetrapods, which makes them much more plausible than those ridiculous hexapod dragons. #HalloweenForNerds

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

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

Happy Halloween !

Superbe croissant de lune derrière le temple de Poséidon en Grèce! ©Elias Chasiotis

I translate because i think its funny : Yeah, so no — earthworms don’t turn soil into hummus.

Two slugs mating. Collecting material for the next #invertefest ;) #biology #wildlife #invertebrates

Oui alors non, les vers de terres ne transforment pas "le sol en hoummous"

Altman has found the only viable economic model for generative AI ...

#invertober 14, bobbit worm! rainbow edition!! #invertober2025

L'immigration, une chance pour la recherche scientifique. Sur les 202 lauréat(e)s du prix Nobel de physique, de chimie ou de médecine au cours de ce siècle, ~30 % sont nés à l'étranger. Chacun(e) apporte des idées originales, des techniques nouvelles & des approches différentes des problèmes. 1/2

I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Would you believe this spindly guy is an assassin bug? I picked him up initially thinking he was a phasmid…then I got a closer look at the face and saw the rostrum, and the raptorial forelimbs started to make sense! He's a member of emesinae, a reduviid subfamily I didn't know about before! #bugsky

Happy to share the last version of our story @currentbiology.bsky.social on the role of interfacial tension in mechanical cell competition led by @leovalon.bsky.social and Alexis Matamoro Vidal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Forget about the Turin schroud: which church holds the true "sanctum praeputium" ? Can we have a DNA test ?

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Old one but true one ...

I’m still in a weirdophile mood; so for our next #MusicForNerds #MusicForGeeks #MusicForDorks, let’s explore the strange plight of people experiencing <ADHD> 👉 youtu.be/TGIvO4eh190 , or is it a superpower? #BaroqueAndRoll 👇

Sea urchin metamorphosis is maybe one of the most radical event in developmental biology. In just about an hour, these little pluteus larvae completely reorganize their entire body plan. Very happy that this video got awarded an honorable mention by #NikonSmallWorld 😃

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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