Made a bluesky account especially for this - our new spotlight on a really interesting new paper is now available to read! Findings that go against what "should" be based on current knowledge are always some of my favourite discussions to have, one of the great joys of being in Biology. 🧬

Delighted to see my PhD work finally published! Here we used the amazingly versatile Drosophila model system to uncover mechanisms behind the rare renal disorder Dent's disease. Have a read over at: www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...

Flashback #FluorescenceFriday to some of the first light-sheet imaging we were doing. Video shows the collecting duct system of the developing kidney labeled with a pan-cytokeratin antibody. Courtesy of former talented technician Deanna Hardesty.

Meet the real rainbow fish 🌈🐟 Using Cre-mediated recombination, each zebrafish cell expresses a unique fluorescent color, creating a living rainbow of developmental history 🎨✨ Image by Bret Pearson #FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish #DevBio

Lovely picture. A remarkable and kind scientist, who was true to his craft into his 90s.

Very honoured to be given the opportunity to present at my favourite research conference @edrc2025.bsky.social in yesterdays panel on Disease models. I appreciated the engaging discussion and look forward to seeing more talks on the amazing work done in Drosophila!

✨Drosophila melanogaster 🪰The fly that changed science 🔬Drosophila has been a cornerstone for understanding genetic control of development, axis patterning, and organogenesis 🧪 GIF from Bruno Vellutini #ModelMonday #DevBio

Dear [email protected], dear [email protected], to learn more about the importance of #Drosophila and crucial role of @flybase.bsky.social, and how it gave rise to at least 9 Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine, please see this link: droso4schools.wordpress.com/why-fly/

The Editors-in-Chief of the 5 @biologists.bsky.social journals have written a joint Editorial, discussing the enormous challenges currently facing researchers in the US and how members of the community can support them through this difficult time. journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

Welcome to Development's Bluesky account 🧪 Development is a leading primary research journal in developmental and stem cell biology, published by The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social, a not-for-profit organisation, and edited by expert researchers in the #DevBio field.