APPLICATIONS OPEN! Apply to Comparative Developmental Biology by July 26. This intensive 2-week lab course is designed for graduate students in their second or later year of Ph.D studies and post-docs. 🔗Info: go.mbl.edu/CDB

0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄 image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social

This is hands down my favourite #SolarFlare in recent years, an event from September 2024. The flare persisted for several hours, giving us a jaw-dropping view of ‘coronal rain’ (seen in the yellow structure) and ‘supra-arcade downflows’ (seen in the cyan structure). A beauty!

As a solar astrophysicist, I spent a lot of time looking at solar flares this year. Out of them all, this X1.9-class #SolarFlare from December 1st was my favourite! The plasma motions are simply mesmerising.

A new issue of CSH Protocols is out! The cover image highlights the work by Marshall et al., who describe a detailed protocol for performing multicolor flip-out (MCFO) in Drosophila larvae. ⬇️Links below

Ph.D. Openings — Fall 2026! If you are passionate about neuroscience, developmental biology, & working with fruit flies, our research group might be the perfect home for you. You can apply using this link: forms.gle/Abt8gX7JhJaE... See poster for more details. Thanks

Happy birthday to the one and the only @blockintheback.bsky.social! 🎉Hope you have a day as wonderful as you are, Kristen!

Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are looking for a new technician to join our lab and gain some hands on #zebrafish and molecular biology experience. Interested parties should apply here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... Happy to answer any and all questions about the lab! #STEMJobs

New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists. Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵

Thomas Hunt Morgan, born 159 years ago #OTD in 1866. Happy 1.59 centiMorgans. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...

Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns? To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠 #preprint thread ⬇️1/8

✨Not a rainbow trout… a rainbow zebrafish 🌈 🐟 The expression of 10 different genes simultaneously including Hox genes along the body axis, somites, brain regions, skeletal muscle, and heart 🔬Image by Alice Sherrard, Gabby Jerz & Nipam Patel 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday

We will be updating the GRS website and announcing our exciting keynote speaker in the coming weeks!

Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social! 🧠🪰🐭🐙🐸🦎🧒🏻🧫🧪🧠

The #Drosophila community can donate to the European side to save FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social at the following link: www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Love this solidarity. Yes, calling on the beloved zebrafish community to walk (swim?) so we can fly! 🐟🪰

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

@zebrafishrock.bsky.social Has anyone in the zebrafish community looked at the expression of temporal transcription factors (TTFs) in the developing spinal cord? If so, which ones? Asking as an ex-zf, now fly person reading mouse spinal cord TTF papers & currently doing an exciting fish experiment!

We've launched the Armamentarium, a new toolkit for targeted gene delivery to the brain and spinal cord. This #OpenScience resource was made possible thanks to support from the NIH BRAIN Initiative and teamwork with our collaborators. 🧠📈 www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Wanna grow organoids to understand human retinal development as a research assistant? Wanna help run the lab as a lab manager? The Johnston lab is hiring a research assistant/lab manager. If you are interested, please apply (also please share!): jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...

Once more with feeling! Hey! Are you using a script to scrape FlyBase? Just stop. NOW. You're crashing the site for everyone. Yes, we mean YOU.

A couple of weeks left to apply to join Development's *Pathway to Independence* programme Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market Deadline: January 31 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

two more days to submit for consideration in this workshop! looking forward to hearing about all your amazing science :)

A new study finds ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: scim.ag/4h2K0ID

Such a cool paper and a fantastic bluetorial!

"‘'Twas the night before grant deadline, 7:15. Many creatures were stirring, thanks to caffeine. The comments accepted, the references done, In hopes someone might fund my first R01."

Are you a #DevBio/#StemCell researcher and keen to do more #SciComm? ✍️🎨 We're looking for new correspondents to work together with the Node team to develop and produce content over the coming year. 📅Apply by 20 January 2025 Find out more: thenode.biologists.com/become-a-nod...

Let your timeline shine with these outstanding #WomenInScience! 🧪 #zebrafish go.bsky.app/4BegEjv

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

On the topic of funding absurd research by NIH and other federal agencies, they funded scientists: - watching flies fuck - giving rats massages - spending years on why jellyfish glow - tracking penguin poop from space - using horseshoe crab blood

This is the most important chart published in America this week. (By @dylanlscott.bsky.social)

Octopuses and fish caught on camera hunting as a team https://buff.ly/3ZFEI0h 🧪🦑🌎

Honeybees understand the concept of zero, or "null set", putting them in the same cognitive class as parrots, dolphins and primates in that regard. What's more interesting to me is HOW WE CAN KNOW THAT. The experimental design is what I want to focus on:

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - how many squid facts you knew - if you offered others squid facts - how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact

In January I’m teaching a 5-week just-for-fun class with atlas obscura! Seas the day! Life lessons from cephalopods will cover all things squid & cuttlefish (& a little octopus too). No homework! Live or asynchronous! Doodling during lecture encouraged! www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/...

#ArtAdventCalendar day 14 is a positive cartoon about science I did a few years ago based on something a colleague said. Procreate on iPad. #sciart

The collapse of twitter has made it much harder to publicize Skype a Scientist. Very open to any ideas on how to get the word out to teachers about our program. It has to be either free or very low-cost (twitter collapsing has also made fundraising harder lolololol).

After a tornado warning and a storm, the Chicago skies were magical yesterday. 🌈😍