Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Please check out our job post @biologists.bsky.social! We are recruiting a Postdoc Scientist to develop cutting-edge tools and techniques for bioengineering human lymphatic networks, as part of an interdisciplinary collaboration with the group of Prof Dame Molly Stevens! bit.ly/3La9idq

Today’s #ScientificImage — “Where Vessels Begin,” comes from @degrainger.bsky.social, a postdoctoral researcher in IDRM's Stone group. 💬"We are working to understand how blood and lymphatic vessels form during embryonic development and how organ-specific characteristics of these vessels arise."

Our Institute for Desperately Regrowing Moustaches @idrm.ox.ac.uk is raising money for men’s mental health, suicide prevention, and prostate and testicular cancer awareness by growing moustaches. Please donate on our Movember page if you're able! movember.com/t/institute-...

Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

BBC News - Pictured: Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Do zebrafish regenerate their hearts equally? In our new paper at the @tillymommersteeg.bsky.social lab we uncovered variations in the regenerative response of 7 wt zebrafish strains leading us to identify a critical role of oxidative phosphorylation in long-term heart regeneration. rdcu.be/eI1v5

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

Whether you're into photography or not there's something here for everyone. Some amazing shots www.britishphotographyawards.org/2025-shortli...

Whew the most amazing I've ever seen the sea. Off the coast of Kerry, Ireland

ICYMI – Our featured image was this beautiful colour-coded depth projection of the blood endothelial cells of the mouse embryonic thymus & surrounding structures. The image was acquired by David Grainger. Find out about David’s research⤵️ focalplane.biologists.com/2025/08/29/f... #SciArt

Have a look at my featured image with FocalPlane. It's a thymus, I swear 🦋

“I’m not sure I want to give way to the right” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Wow 'Here, we present a high-speed blockface volumetric imaging system with an optimized workflow of whole-body clearing, capable of imaging the entire adult mouse at micrometer resolution within 40 h.' www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Giant fiancée took me out for my nearly-birthday

Thrilled that our paper is in print @science.org!! *Platelets sequester cell free DNA, including free fetal and tumour-derived DNA* Tweetorial from @l-cmurphy.bsky.social below. Check out the news feature science.org/content/arti... and terrific editorial from Dennis Lo #platelets_in_the_limelight

Looking forward to the Spa GP this weekend. Ferrari sharing some cool artwork this week

Excited to share our new collaborative preprint between @uclnews.bsky.social and @sickkidsto.bsky.social 🥳 We found that kidney lymphatic vessels, an emerging target in kidney diseases, partly arises from the same group of cells that give rise to the kidney www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/4)

I've seen a massive influx of bot-looking accounts following me on here. Almost all only posting about US politics. Hope it doesn't drown out why I joined this platform like it did on twitter

Register now to attend our #DevPres webinar next week, featuring the winners of the @bsdb.bsky.social poster prize, @shifaant.bsky.social and @giuliapaci.bsky.social, and chaired by Abigail Tucker. 4 June at 15:00 BST us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🎓 The MRC/BHF Centre of Research Excellence in Advanced Cardiac Therapies (REACT) is inviting applications for a fully funded DPhil studentship, based at the IDRM. Learn more and apply: lnkd.in/gb-mEX8K @oxforddpag.bsky.social

My entry SMILE made it into the top ten 😁 Alongside many great entries. My favourite is Minnie's Bow!

Great evening of talks at #pint25 in Oxford Tech Me Out theme. Very interesting talks from Alex and Jorge from @alpinef1.bsky.social followed by Muhammed Waqas from JLB. Alpine even brought a front wing from their 2024 F1 car! @pintofscience.uk

Great weekend celebrating @emmarose64.bsky.social's graduation with friends and family. Very proud! 😊

We indeed got many entries!

✨Tickets for #pint25 are now on sale!✨ 🎟Book here 👉 pintofscience.co.uk 👈 🐝🧪👩‍🔬📚🔬👓🧠🐟🫀💫🥼👨‍🔬🔭🧫🦴 🗓19th-21rd May 2025 📍45+ locations across the UK 🗣400 event

YEN Image Competition Update! We already have some amazing contributions from early career researchers from the UK, Switzerland and US. We would love to see contributions from other countries as well! If you can't travel to the conference remember you can always participate online.

#onlywithHCR: @degrainger.bsky.social, @oliverastone.bsky.social, and their team reveal that lymphatic endothelial cells arise from specialized progenitors. #HCRimaging helped them to visualize endothelial progenitors in whole-mount mouse embryos. Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Lymphatic vessels traced to their origins from a specialised pool of cells called angioblasts 📷: Irina Lupu @degrainger.bsky.social Nils Kirschnick et al @oliverastone.bsky.social Friedemann Kiefer @ox.ac.uk @uni-muenster.de @naturecvr.bsky.social ➡️: bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

• Happy to announce that our paper in @nature.com is finally out! Thanks to the perseverance of @taijamakinenlab.bsky.social and our many collaborators we finally pulled it off! A small 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Laymen video: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Together with @focalplane.bsky.social, we're having an image competition to accompany the #Biologists100 conference. Thank you everyone who submitted their images. Shortlisting only 15 was tough! Browse through the gallery and vote for your favourite image: thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

Some great images in this years @the-node.bsky.social image competition. Including my own "Thymus in the Spotlight" image taken in the @idrm.ox.ac.uk Zeiss CoE. Vote for your favorite here: thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

My first blue update! Sharing my most recent illustration in a scientific journal.Thank you to @oliverastone.bsky.social who contacted me to adapt his concept as the cover for his paper in @naturecvr.bsky.social. These are the original design and the journal version!

We have a postdoc position available in the lab! Come and work on lymphatic vascular development and regeneration. We use zebrafish, mouse, cells, tumour models and love imaging, genetics and genomics🔬 Come join us in Melbourne! www.seek.com.au/job/82157187...

Registration and abstract submission for YEN 2025 is officially open! We are looking forward to seeing you at the 17th Young Embryologist Network Conference on the 19th May 2025. Attendence is FREE thanks to our amazing sponsors: @biologists.bsky.social @10xgenomics.bsky.social and Azenta.

Taking @emmarose64.bsky.social and my mum to their live first rugby games was great. Especially with it being such a good game and Gloucester winning 🍒⚪

DPAG's Stone Group publishes new research in @naturecvr.bsky.social on the cellular mechanisms underpinning the formation of lymphatic endothelial cells @oliverastone.bsky.social @degrainger.bsky.social Read the paper here www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Very happy to share our work on lymphatic endothelial cell specification, which was published in Nature Cardiovascular Research this week.

Whew, photos like these certainly aren't going to stem the excitement of Hamilton at Ferrari www.motorsport.com/f1/news/hami...

It's also defintely worth reading the news & views written by Tatiana Petrova and Valeria Orlova for more details on how our work fits within the field and the potential impacts it could have www.nature.com/articles/s44...

✨Excited to share our work revisiting the developmental origins of mammalian lymphatic endothelial cells.✨ A summary of our key findings using scRNA-seq, snMultiome-seq and imaging to show the direct specification of mesenchymal progenitors to LECs🧵 #blutorial #blabstract tinyurl.com/LECspec

Thank you for highlighting the paper, Tim!

But my favourite of the year is the eclipse photo taken by @smartereveryday.bsky.social 21 exposures on a single piece of film to capture multiple stages of the eclipse youtu.be/bQF51mqzrY4?...

Some pretty amazing photos on here www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Nice to see our latest review published in @natrevmcb.bsky.social today – a collaborative exploration of mammalian extraembryonic development with @cwhanna.bsky.social for an invaluable epigenetic focus. @srinivas-lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm not saying I spend too much time on the microscope but I can't help seeing blood vessels in christmas lights

Here's a starter pack focusing on cardiovascular research. I'm sure the pack is incomplete. If you'd like to be added to the list, please let me know! go.bsky.app/SgaGkv5

Bluesky is cool and all but it is missing epigenetic hulk