Kailua Beach, Hawai’i: The first time I laid eyes on a By-the-wind sailor, I stopped dead in my tracks, dusted the sand off my hands, grabbed my iphone and...

Many sea stars begin life as young fairy-like creature (called a brachiolaria) that float through the open ocean. Eventually, a small star forms within them (here in yellow). The fairy-like brachiolaria sinks under the star’s weight, and the star pops out! 🎥@the_story_of_a_biologist (on Insta)

It is out! 🦚 I recorded hundreds of #ExM 🔬images of cytokinetic bridges and averaged them into 6 stages. How? With help from our fantastic collaborators @zacsimile.bsky.social and @jonasries.bsky.social in Vienna 😇. Check out the full atlas here: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17232370

🌟 Thrilled to share that my lab’s first publication is now out in @natmetabolism.nature.com. Congrats to the team 🎉 🧠 We discovered that neurons use endogenous fatty acids as an energy fuel, challenging long-standing models of sugars being the exclusive energy source for neurons. 1/3

In this week's preprint list we highlight a jumbo crop of #preprints focussed on new tools and techniques in imaging🔬. Check it out here, and let us know if you’ve come across a preprint that we’ve missed: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/05/m...

Excited to share my postdoc work from the Eggeling lab in Jena (@leibnizipht.bsky.social, #FSUJena, #KTHuniversity) on bringing smart microscopy to super-resolution MINFLUX: event-triggered MINFLUX microscopy.

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Feeling mitochondrially challenged lately? Here are two classic reviews on #mitochondria that should help. www.cell.com/current-biol... www.cell.com/current-biol...

This is an airyscan confocal movie of mitochondria (white) moving around in a mouse astrocyte. Actin filaments are in orange and microtubules are in blue.

Spreadsheet documenting the administration's systematic attacks on biomedical research (currently focused on NIH). Given the revolving set of pretexts deployed for each attack, keeping tabs on the big picture may help cut through the noise. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

It's #MicroscopyMonday, so let's take a look into the microscope! 🔬 This image shows muscle detail in the arms of the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides), color-coded for depth. It was also the winner of the 2019 MBL Photo Contest! 📷: Allan Carrillo-Baltodano

After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti. To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

🚨New preprint!🚨 #teamtomo We expanded Surface Morphometrics to quantify membrane thickness from cryo-ET—revealing local variation across organelles. Led by the lab’s first grad student, @mmedina300kv.bsky.social (defending Monday! 🍾) w/ @attychang.bsky.social @hamid13r.bsky.social & @tomo.science

Feeling so honored and thrilled to see our work make it to the cover—what a milestone in my career! I can’t wait to receive the poster from JCB🤩

Labs that clay together, stay together 🩶🌪️🥣 @hamid13r.bsky.social @mmedina300kv.bsky.social @callmemich.bsky.social @nitishdua.bsky.social

An excellent primer on co-localization analysis from Federico Gasparoli! youtu.be/Mv4M1HaYdBc @fedegasparoli.bsky.social

#StarterPack for the #Mitochondria research community! Very much a work in progress, comment below/reach out to be added! #Mito #Mitochondriac go.bsky.app/J6Bu5fL