Our paper on the role of neurons in Nematostella head regeneration is now out at @currentbiology.bsky.social Big thank you to all collaborators, it was a pleasure! Ectopic head regeneration after nervous system ablation in a sea anemone: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Exactly. So that I know when to avoid it.

Ylen jutusta "Suomalaisilla opiskelijoilla on korkeakouluopintojen alussa keskimäärin paremmat kriittisen ajattelun taidot kuin yhdysvaltalaisten verrokkiyliopistojen opiskelijoilla. Alemman korkeakoulututkinnon loppuvaiheessa merkittävää osaamiseroa ei enää ole."

The Spiralian Organiser (enriched with dpERK1/2) 🪱🎃🪱🎃🪱 #DevBio #EvoDevo #SciArt

*almost* all What is the unit of morphological evolution, and how many of these units amount to almost all?

Can't believe it — my first‑author paper is out and my image graces the cover of @dev-journal.bsky.social 🎉 Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain #zebrafish gill architecture throughout life 🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15... #FluorescenceFriday #LifelongDevSI

Exploring the potential of Schmidtea mediterranea as a model for reproductive toxicity through analysis of sterility caused defective m6A RNA regulation - ScienceDirect www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just going to leave this rather frightening reference about the change in global mammalian biomass from 1860 to now here. 😳🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Been there, done that.

Probably sunshine

I love AlphaFold—but please include PAE (Predicted Aligned Error) plots for every “interaction.” Pretty PDBs ≠ proof. If the PAE doesn’t show an interface, it ain’t one. Show the plots. Structural biology's reputation is on the line.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years. William C. Mao and Veronica H. Paulus report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Honouring the life of Sir John Gurdon, who died earlier this week: awarded the Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for seminal work carried out in Oxford Zoology (now @biology.ox.ac.uk) showing that mature cells could be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

John Gurdonin muistoa kunnioittaen - kävi myös Suomessa aikoinaan saamassa Yrjö Reenpään mitalin vuonna 1979.

⚠️ Paper alert: Using a novel CRISPR screening approach, we mapped the entire regulatory network controlling Xist—key for X-chromosome inactivation. 👉 We discover how sex and development signals are decoded at a single gene locus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👇 Bluetorial

🧵1/ Excited to share our new paper introducing a new #singlecell assay: scTF-seq, a high-throughput single-cell approach to explore how transcription factor (TF) dose shapes cell identity and reprogramming outcomes. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big congrats to the entire team @EPFL & @SIAT_China

New Review! #devbiol #bioelectricity #CellBiology #tissueregeneration In our new @annualreviews.bsky.social piece, we explore how bioelectricity is generated, sensed & translated into responses that sculpt tissues, guide growth & enable tissue regeneration. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. “[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM

The salamander takes it all The loser's standing small Beside the victory That's her destiny

Tvärminne. The forsaken place where I have spent almost a fortnight dissecting amphipods and their eyes in darkness.

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fab thread about one of the (many) things one walks past in Oxford without much thought...

The Iberian ribbed newt has the ability to heal its own heart after an injury. The secret might lie in a specific protein also found in humans. Elif Eroglu @ki.se studies salamanders to discover new ways of regenerating our heart cells after a #heartattack. #research #medicine tinyurl.com/mssmcmc2

Do apply, especially for the position in Molecular Cell Biology!

My review of the evidence (morphological, embryological and molecular) for the deuterostomes clade is now available. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Slay

Sad to hear that David Baltimore died. I am one of hundreds of scientists that David generously mentored, supported, and inspired. His influence on each of us was deep and lasting, and his impact on the world immeasurable. Arguably David Baltimore is one of the greatest scientists of any generation.

If you want to feel like you know nothing about biology, read this paper. 😭 I want to get it. But brain not cooperating.

SoxB1-Mediated Chromatin Remodeling Promotes Sensory Neuron Differentiation in Planarians | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today's #FluorescenceFriday is featuring the peripheral muscle of Hofstenia miamia 💪

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s called punctuated evolution, even the old Mutation Theory; Hugo de Vries would be proud #DevoEvo #EvoDevo 🧪

Aka social construct

Ainakin Rustasta saa lipastoja.

FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Excited to share our latest work on brain evolution, where we dive into the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells! If you are interested in cell type evolution and cerebral cortex evo-devo, please read on… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/7

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

Genetic and Genomic Insights into Planarian Biology | Annual Reviews www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

How is it that vectors and matrices weren't a thing until the 19th century but analytical mechanics and functional analysis were already things in the 18th century?????

Excited to share our recent viewpoint with @storerlab.bsky.social led by Kirsten Sadler, on epigenetic mechanisms of regenerative resilience. Ageing versus developmental silencing: Answers from the epigenome - Sadler - The FEBS Journal - febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations to @johanssonnr.bsky.social !

Finally had time to watch John Welch’s excellent AV Hill lecture Recent Controversies in Evolutionary Theory. youtu.be/iOnpLT8p500?...

🐟 Zebrafish (Danio rerio): Clear as glass, zebrafish embryos let you watch organs form in real time. A powerhouse for studying organogenesis and regeneration, they’re also champions of transgenic expression of fluorescent proteins 🌈 image from Gopi Shah 🧪 #ModelMonday #DevBio

This paper on gene regulatory networks by @jkpritch.bsky.social‬ et al, and by extension GRN evolution, is remarkably cool. It is going to take me a *while* to work through the math but I think it will be worth it 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Researchers used polygenic indices to predict Beethoven’s musical propensity. The polygenic predictions ranked Beethoven in the bottom percentile of two moderns cohorts. Why? 🧵

Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out! Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6

Excited to share the latest work from the lab led by @eharo84.bsky.social, in which we have used synthetic biology to explore the mechanisms by which different types of long-range enhancers ensure robust and precise developmental gene expression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...