Previous winners have set the bar high—can you top them? 🌟 Submit your masterpiece to the #ReproBioArt2026 contest and secure your spot in the spotlight. Learn more and submit your image today: https://ssr.org/reprobioart-contest/ #SSR2026 #ScienceArt #Reproduction #BioArt

Want to see your work on the big screen? 🏆 Winners of #ReproBioArt2026 will be honored at the SSR Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony in Indy! Submit your entry today. Learn more and submit your image in comments #SSR2026 #ScienceArt #Reproduction

Submit your images before it’s too late!! #ReproBioArt @ssrepro.bsky.social

Every cell tells a story, and every image reveals a secret. 🧬 Share your visual journey through reproductive biology with #ReproBioArt2026. Learn more and submit your image today: https://ssr.org/reprobioart-contest/ #SSR2026 #ScienceArt #Reproduction #BioArt

🚨Preprint🚨 An unexpected source of sex hormones in mammalian gonads: Supporting-like cells (SLCs) 🐇 SLCs have latent steroidogenic potential and may be an ancestral lineage conserved beyond mammals Led by @ivan-barbera-aura.bsky.social & V Chung Bluetorial 1/15👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🏎️💨 The clock is ticking to join us for #SSR2026. We are officially in the "Last Call" for Late-Breaking Abstracts! Submit your research by May 7 to secure your spot for a poster presentation in Indy. 🏎️🏁 Details in the link below! 👇 #ReproSci #ScienceCommunication

Happy New Year from the McKey Lab! The work hasn’t stopped and we are excited for all the new discoveries this year. 🔬🧬🧫 In the meantime - check out this beautiful immunofluorescent image taken by our very own (and very talented) Courtney Diamond! ⭐

Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Congratulations to Dr. Katie Ranard, postdoctoral fellow in the @bruceappel.bsky.social lab, on receiving a NINDS K99/R00 award for her proposal entitled, “Impact of nutritional status on mechanisms guiding brain development”! @cupediatrics.bsky.social #zebrafish #devbio

1/n Very excited to share our recent paper published on @ScienceAdvances where we dissect the gene regulatory landscape guiding mouse sex determination! science.org/doi/10.1126/... A huge well done to @IsabelleStevant.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy, Meshi and Elisheva who spearhead this project!

Excited to see this new review piece that we wrote together with Jennifer Garrison and Alison Kochersberger on the modern tools and approaches to study #ovarian #aging out this week at @genesdev.bsky.social! genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl... #GeroSky #WomensHealth 🧪🧬 A 🧵1/3

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Only 3 days left to submit your #ReproBioArt images!!

The 2025 edition of ⁦‪SSRepro‬⁩ #ReproBioArt image contest is live and the gallery is filling up with such beautiful images! Submit yours today!! #ReproRocks ⁦ woobox.com/2poyka/galle...

Hey #ReproSky don’t forget tot submit your beautiful images to the SSR #ReproBioArt contest!! Winners get free registration to the 2026 meeting and a beautiful showcase of their images!! Let’s show off how pretty #ReproBio can be!! #ReproRocks @ssrwinrs.bsky.social woobox.com/2poyka/galle...

What a nice set of papers- just as I’m beginning to think of our intro to developmental models course this fall @jenmckey.bsky.social !

Honored to received this distinction, and incredibly grateful to be leading a group that makes mentoring the most fun and rewarding part of my job! 🤩 And congrats to Lily for such outstanding community work! #reprosky #ReproRocks #TeamOvary

Ready for it??? To all the **sex determination lovers** 📢 Save the date to the 10th International Symposium on the Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination (VSD) held in the beautiful Hawaii!! Great community, amazing science, excellent speakers and superb location 🏝 📢 March 23-26, 2026 📢

Excited to share that part of my PhD work is officially published in eLife! Couldn’t have done it without @jenmckey.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/96662

First first author research paper for Lily and first paper out of my lab!! Excited to see this out and so proud of the hard work my lab members put into it :) Hoping OoCount will save others countless hours of manual follicle counting! @ssrwinrs.bsky.social #TeamOvary #ReproRocks

It was so wonderful to work with Blanche’s colleagues and Capel Lab past and present to put together her nomination. Congrats Blanche!!! So well deserved!!

Such an incredible group of awardees!! 🤩 I’m so excited for my mentor Blanche Capel to be recognized this year with the Conklin Medal! Her contributions to the field and her dedication her trainees’ are so inspiring. I cannot wait to celebrate at the meeting! #devbio @socdevbio.bsky.social

Big congrats to this year's awardees! Basic science matters more than ever - the awardees represent key aspects of what makes #devbio a central biomedical research endeavor of widespread impact. Applause!

Our values and resolve are only strengthened by recent events.

Congratulations to our very own graduate student, Lily Folts, for her recent publication; "OoCount: A Machine-Learning Based Approach to Mouse Ovarian Follicle Counting and Classification". 🔬🥼🤗 academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

E-Life special issue on reproductive health #ReproSky #MedSky 🧪 elifesciences.org/collections/...

Listen to 2024 Roger V Short Medal Awardee, Dr. Francesca Duncan, discuss ovarian aging and give trainees a bit of her wisdom on the latest SSR podcast! 👏👏👏 #womeninSTEM #reprorocks Listen to the full episode here 👇https://www.buzzsprout.com/1786803/episodes/16143433

Congrats to a fabulous collaborator who is not on social media!

Our first manuscript on maternal nutrition and development, which was driven entirely by postdoc Katie Ranard, is now out. @cudevbio.bsky.social #devbio doi.org/10.1016/j.jl...

To learn more, please check out my youtube tutorials at www.youtube.com/@oanegros which shows, among others, how to make this video! The data here is a dinoflagellate from Mocaer et al. 2023, hosted publicly at EMPIAR-11399 (also shown in the first post here).

Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀 This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev). High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So Excited to share the newest @biorxivpreprint preprint from the #Nicholaslab Congrats Naveena my 1st #gradstudent on this work. T cells are necessary for development of PCOS reproductive symptoms in a letrozole-induced mouse model of PCOS | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Beauty of the female reproductive tract in mice! One of the first images by our PRA Courtney -I’d say she’s off to a great start 🤩 #ReproRocks #ReproBio #ReproBioArt @ssrwinrs.bsky.social

Happy fluorescence Friday! Look at the amazing reproductive tract image Courtney, McKey Lab PRA, took! 🤩

Almost 90 people now listed in this starter pack for Reproductive Sciences #ReproSky 🧪 go.bsky.app/R19Temj

We are still accepting applications for Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy 2025!! @aqlm.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Leading Edge is celebrating a milestone: 100 (actually 102!) new assistant professors!!! 🎉🥳🎊 Learn more about them: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/ Applications are now open for the 2025 Leading Edge cohort! (Deadline Feb 3). You do NOT need to be ready for the job market to apply.

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Meet Cristina, the current McKey Lab rotation student! Cristina's rotation project is focused on understanding ovary morphogenesis during early development. Outside of the lab she like thrifting, trying new coffee spots, and being outside! 🌳☕️🛍️🔬

I’m jealous of the meiosis folks who already self-organized on this platform. I wished there was an #ovarian biology stater pack. So I started to compile one! go.bsky.app/FUTWZ9U

NIH needs a new institute for women’s health research, expert panel says: National Academies report also calls for $16 billion in new money | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

“We don’t value software, data, and methods in the same way we value papers, even though those resources empower millions of scientists” 💯 www.statnews.com/sponsor/2024...

Building a starter pack with Reproductive Sciences in mind to find those with these interests. go.bsky.app/R19Temj

Jumping to this platform I discovered there is a #3DThursday preceding #FluorescenceFriday! Here’s the arterial tree of a kidney labeled by Evans blue.

Excited to share work that @ceriweber.bsky.social started and drove in my lab. Tails!! We know a lot about limb bone growth, but vertebrae have completely different embryonic and evolutionary origins. What controls growth and proportion in the vertebral skeleton? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Even though there are great #devbio and #biophysics starter packs, I felt #morphogenesis & #organogenesis was missing as a subfield :D Far from complete or full. Tell me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/PB6s8PQ

Necessary/sufficient (art by @jenmckey.bsky.social)

We discovered that mouse embryonic palate mesenchymal cells are electrically active and send out BMP when they depolarize. We are excited to announce this work is published in Nature Communications. #womeninstem #devbio rdcu.be/dZX7V

My colleagues here at CU Anschutz @mckey-lab.bsky.social are on Bluesky! An ah-mazing group of scientists - please follow their lab and their PI @jenmckey.bsky.social for updates on reproductive #DevBio & ovary morphogenesis! #HiSciSky #WomeninSTEM

ok, Bluesky, I just quit that other platform. If you are a developmental biologist, glia person, zebrafish person, etc., let me know you are out there.