Looking forward to the #biologists100 conference in Liverpool next week! I’m creating a thread below to link to my poster (in collaboration with @elsieplace.bsky.social) so we can share our 4D model of forebrain development. Come visit us: Poster 200, Session 2 on Wednesday.

Need to electroporate and/or live image avian embryos? We hope our new preprint will help you get started: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo 🧪🐣 #devbio

This is a profoundly evil betrayal and a direct reflection of Trump's soul—a disgusting, small, and shameful ghoul who gets off on harming the powerless. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

New! 15y after the classic Aigouy et al "Cell Flow Reorients the Axis of Planar Polarity in the Wing Epithelium..." from lab of much missed Suzanne Eaton, we provide our take from post-doc Sara Tan "Tissue shear as a cue for aligning planar polarity in the developing Drosophila wing". rdcu.be/d81Vn

Sunrise over Sheffield

Check out our fabulous 4D model of forebrain development, created in Blender from imported light sheet scans of HH10-20 dissected chick neuroepithelium, and painstakingly linked together by @elsieplace.bsky.social by combining published fate maps with 100's of our own samples.

Excited to present our new preprint clarifying forebrain developmental organisation. Complex growth patterns shape the forebrain but distort the A-P + D-V axes, hence prior confusion over brain layout. Big love for chicken embryos, simpler to interpret than mouse 🐣1/3 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great work from @thomasdwkim.bsky.social and @sethblackshaw.bsky.social labs

We begin the New Year with two preprints on hypothalamic development. The first, part of a long-term collaboration with Marysia Placzek’s group, investigates the organization of the developing forebrain, and show that current models are (mostly) incorrect./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our new preprint: