Just published! We share an open-source workflow to measure membrane thickness from tomograms, including a tutorial with 3D visualizations. We analyze thickness variations across organelles and reflect on where to define a membrane boundary. @becklab.bsky.social #teamtomo rupress.org/jcb/article/...

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio

Cool rotifer feeding with it's cilia beating 🐙🧪

#HappyFluorescenceFriday #microscopycommunity Got an idea for an image analysis workshop? Share it at Halfway to I2K: Online Tutorials on Image Analysis (Nov 17–19, 2025), held with Zoom Events! Submit by Oct 31: buff.ly/lMhK4vz Website: buff.ly/QP36RZB Register for the workshops: buff.ly/8nNAI18

PREPRINT OUT ✨ "hack" your microscope to work as a 3D printer! print micrometer sized features at cm scale. a method for easy and cheap microfabrication, with a focus on biological applications. THREAD ↓ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

👃Sniffing out olfactory neurogenesis New ‘Show and tell’ post on the Node from Sriivatsan G Rajan and Ankur Saxena @saxenalab.bsky.social: thenode.biologists.com/sniffing-out... #zebrafish #devbio #neurogenesis

Colorful collage of abnormal larval zebrafish hearts. Credit to @dorotheeb.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

6/ You can do so much with it! Here are some case studies: Demo 1: stretch the endoderm (ventral epithelium of the developing amniote 🐣 embryo, here in 🟢) → observe mechanical coupling with the subjacent mesoderm (brightfield ⬜) 🎥

Fish keratocytes isolated from a fish scale crawling around. Technique: DIC microscopy. #CellBiology. Another #NikonSmallWorldReject

Published October 25 years ago, “Effective targeted gene ‘knockdown’ in zebrafish” by Nasevicius & Ekker detail use of antisense morpholino-modified oligonucelotides or #morpholinos that inhibit translation. This landmark spurred a revolution in targeted gene knockdown in vivo. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists. 🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

🧬🔬🧪 🎉 Our team at @czbiohub is thrilled to share TWO companion papers out today in @NatureMethods! 📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking 🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration Let’s dive in! 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager! I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...

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 😃

”Please inhibit responsibly: Natural and synthetic actin toxins as useful tools in cell biology” I had a lot of fun going down different actin inhibitor rabbit holes with @onishilab.bsky.social on this perspective! www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... www.molbiolcell.org/cms/10.1091/...

Researchers have filmed thousands of climbing catfish scaling waterfalls, providing a rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux

Are different cell types like oil and water? Over a century ago, researchers found that dissociated sponges and embryonic tissues can self-assemble into functional structures. Join me, @benswedlund.bsky.social to explore the differential adhesion hypothesis & its applications in tissue engineering!

¡Qué lindo! Every bit of this south wall in the #MarDelPlataCanyon is vibrant and alive. Read and imagine how a tiny sponge larva or other stationary animal finds a home in a place like this: www.instagram.com/reel/DN37jxs...

La luna terminando su jornada con una sonrisa, sobre el Cerro de Montevideo

www.youtube.com/live/YHqXaKN... The first dive of the expedition in Uruguay! Located in the southernmost part of the study area, in subantarctic waters, 280 km (151 mn) southeast of Montevideo, 217 km (117 mn) from Punta del Este, at a depth of 143 m, on a gently sloping external shelf.

Tiranos Temblad featuring Wikimedistas de Uruguay 😍 youtu.be/kCrMBhlKc34?...

¿Sabías que podés guardar un código QR que lleve al preparado (o región) que estás mirando? (Busca el botón “enlaces” en la barra de arriba) microscopiovirtual.fmed.edu.uy

Preprint alert! Just from the oven, the adventures of a young theoretical biophysicist (Santi Bosch) in a usually strictly wet lab (BCDN): how is it that extreme forces in amniotes primary neurulation do not break the highly dynamic neuroepithelium apart? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nuevo: Explorador interactivo para los cortes seriados de desarrollo Ahora podes elegir el corte a observar a partir de un esquema con vistas previas de los preparados a distinta altura

Trying to get in touch with color blind folks (red-green) for a quick question related to a project I’m working on. Ideally in biology/medicine, but others are very welcome too! Anyone around?

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

Compartimos una nueva oportunidad laboral para trabajar en el instituto. El Dpto. de Neurofisiología Celular y Molecular llama a postulantes para un contrato de investigación en el marco de un proyecto financiado por Wings for Life. +info: www.gub.uy/ministerio-e...

🚨🚨🚨 Tol2kit announcement! We have rebuilt the wiki that was corrupted a few months ago! We’re in the process of also linking it to the original address. Please visit us here: tol2kitkwan.genetics.utah.edu Thank you for your patience!! #zebrafish #transgenesis #plasmids #sharing

ladiaria.com.uy/ciencia/arti... La ciencia tras el increíble regalo que Orsi y Cosse recibieron del Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable

Rene #Magritte, The blank signature, 1965 #art #painting

Do you know what happens if you squeeze a #cell? If the #confinement is high, the nucleus (green) will be super tense & the compressed cells will react like this👇🏽changing their #cytoskeleton (magenta) Full: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #scicomm #microscopy #sciencesky @focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬

Ciencia, una política de Estado con sentido de oportunidad ladiaria.com.uy/ciencia/arti...

🥰 Self-supervised, label-free 3D cell imaging is here Congrats to Cyril on this very cool first, first author publication 🏆! This started when he was a bachelor's student (and he's now completing his masters!). And many thanks to my other awesome co-authors🙏 elifesciences.org/articles/99848

🧵 Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky. He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070... 🔭 🧪 #galactic

Attending #2025SDB #2025ICDB next week? Visit the @biologists.bsky.social booth (#4) to find out about writing for the Node, join the Node Network and pick up @dev-journal.bsky.social article collections, posters and the Node coasters (image credits: @ebardot.bsky.social & @gaparicio.bsky.social‬)!

This article is a part of the special issue: Research that transformed developmental biology. The link in the above post provides 50 days' free access to the article

Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included. training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...

ladiaria.com.uy/cultura/arti... Una alucinación electrónica de murgas y candombes: The Parque Rodó Tapes, de Ian Lampel

ladiaria.com.uy/ciencia/arti... Nació Clemente, el primer venado de campo producto de inseminación artificial en el mundo

What is buckling, and why is it relevant in understanding epithelial morphogenesis? 🧐 I am @onenimesa.bsky.social and I will share some papers to understand this aspect of #EpithelialMechanics

I’m excited to announce that my paper describing non-canonical mitotic mechanisms in the early mouse embryo is out in @science.org ! (link at end of 🧵)

Let's talk about a party—where drugs don't hit the dance floor but finely tune #EpithelialMechanics by hitting actomyosin cortex! 🧬💊 Here's our guide to doing drugs 🧵

Behold a mouse blastocyst: The earliest glimpse of a mammal’s first cell fate decision!
Green marks future placenta cells.
Red highlights cells fated to become the embryo. Image taken by @VirginiaSavy.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #MouseEmbryo #CellFate #ImagingScience 🧪

Breaking News: José Mujica, the leftist former president of Uruguay known for his humility, has died at 89. Known as Pepe, he had a reputation as a savvy leader of the country's progressive coalition, his informal governing style baffled the establishment. nyti.ms/45cnutZ

José Mujica, the charismatic former guerrilla fighter who later went on to lead Uruguay and became known as "the world's poorest president" for his austere lifestyle, has died at 89.

...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures... This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it. Best we listen up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 10/