lol so true

A threshold level of JNK activates damage-responsive enhancers via JAK/STAT to promote tissue regeneration Read this #LifelongDevSI #OA Research Article by John W. Quinn, Robin E. Harris and colleagues in our Stem Cells and Regeneration section doi.org/10.1242/dev....

We desperately needed a cooling dry bath, but the typical brands are crazy expensive. So we got ourselves a

PAPER OUT ✨ What if you could use your microscope as a 3D printer? Prototype microfluidics in-house, <5$ in material costs per chip. From idea to experiment within a day. Now published in Lab-on-a-Chip (open-access): doi.org/10.1039/D5LC...

Nature Communications will publish ~10K papers in 2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Natu... That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.

Meet Dr. Angelo Iulianella! @aineurolab.bsky.social "My interests are varied, perhaps a bit too varied, but my curiosity is always tickled by some new facts revealed to me by my fellow members at the AAA." Want to be featured? Fill out this form 👉 ow.ly/iLiu50XcC6Q #AAA #FacesofAnatomy

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Plant bioengineering is so cool.

- "Raise the East Wing" ! (only for ♂♂)(and drosophilists).

What are these? You are looking at embryos of a sea squirt. Each of the 'soap bubbles' is a living cell, about a fourtieth of a millimetre in size. The outlines of the cells are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Hitoyoshi Yasuo @hitoyas.bsky.social see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

obviously a very bad metric. but why is nature publishing click-bait news like this?

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Probably has been shared a few times already, but I just read this beautiful work. The tip of the Malpighian tubules is the calcium storage in #Drosophila (and insects?), and the hormone that regulates the release is called Capability (Capa).

Cited4a limits cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation and proliferation during zebrafish heart regeneration Read this #LifelongDevSI #OA Research Article by Rachel Forman-Rubinsky, Michael Tsang and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Dick is one of the most thoughtful folks in cell biology--this is a must read for anyone interested in microtubules!

Happy birthday @biologists.bsky.social! 🥳 Here’s to another century of supporting biologists and inspiring biology!

We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate

PREACH! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 latest from the PowerLab🚨 app.jove.com/t/68858/cons... Step by step guide on Construction of Constant-Load (Isotonic) and Constant-Velocity (Isokinetic) Torque-Velocity-Power Profiles In vivo for the Rat Plantar Flexors Video to follow!

🪰 A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system—a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the millions of connections between them. 🔗 https://hhmi.news/4o3EJnk

My entry for today’s #FluorescenceFriday: a pupal #Drosophila testis with muscles expressing 🔵 lifeact & 🔴 RFP-nls Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨ 🔗 www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... #NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt

What it meant to be human ? Not the "Transcendency" - we don't transcend - ! gizmodo.com/jane-goodall...

There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢

Issue 17 is complete! On the cover: Image of three Hydra specimens. A wild-type Hydra (centre) and two transformants showing switch of foot (pink) to tentacle (yellow) (right) and tentacles to feet (left). See Research Article by Ferenc et al. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Most of us: there’s no way we can get any stupider Narrator: they were incorrect

very promising👇

Very proud of Celena Cherian in the lab, who contributed data to www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Briefly, Celena showed female fat body cells have higher ribosomal protein expression and more protein synthesis than males. This difference persists even after cell size is accounted for!

The Department of Cell & Systems Biology at University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the field of Animal Morphogenesis. #CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #mechanobiology #TissueMorphogenesis #SystemsBiology jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

PM Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social, your 15% proposed cuts to Tri-council funding will run counter to your election promise to accelerate Canadian innovation. Canadian scientists are among the lowest funded of the top 10 world economies. More funding of discovery science is a priority.

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper? You got it: currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@facetsjournal.bsky.social publishes across the sciences, integrating social sciences and diverse ways of knowing. We’re recruiting a new Co-Editor-in-Chief to guide its next phase. Apply today ▶️ buff.ly/VqyMsd0 #InterdisciplinaryResearch #AcademicJobs #EditorInChief

Scientists crafted glow-in-the-dark #succulents that recharge in sunlight. Injected with light-emitting phosphor, the plants can shine as bright as a small night light. cell.com/matter/fullt...#succulents @cp-matter.bsky.social #SCAU Shuting Liu & colleagues

I found an insect outside, and I thought it had nice red spots. Turns out they were parasitic mites. 🤮

One nice thing about working with muscles and myofibrils is that biophysicists love them, and so we collaborate with them. Here, Danielle Tokarz's group at @smuhalifax.bsky.social used polarization second-harmonic generation microscopy in single fibrils opg.optica.org/boe/fulltext...

The lockout at Dal is over, and so is the summer weather.

Another new paper from our lab!

🪰 How do dozens of tiny fly muscles cooperate to move a leg? We’re excited to share the first 3D, data-driven musculoskeletal model of Drosophila legs based on Hill-type muscles, running in OpenSim and MuJoCo simulation environments. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06426

In 2019, Anna Jost & @jencwaters.bsky.social reviewed best practices for validating quantitative #microscopy methods & discuss strategies to avoid unconscious bias in imaging experiments rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 In #Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

This might be one of the simplest images I captured, but very fascinating nonetheless, as it shows how tight the cytoplasm in a plant cell is. The cytosol and all other organelles are squished between the plasma membrane (magenta) and the central vacuole (its membrane is green) #MicroscopyMonday

Ant reproduction is getting weirder and weirder. Here’s the latest: queens of a Mediterranean harvester ant mate with males from a different species and then lay eggs that clonally inherit those males’ genome. I.e., they lay eggs that develop into a different species. 🤯

Ren Thomas has a nice blog discussing Nous Group and Dalhousie @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social : renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou...

From our colleague in Law, this is a brilliant dissection of the Board’s doubling down on unfair bargaining tactics in presenting their tepid "offer" www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/... #keepdalstrong

Did Dal really make up a fake offer letter to try to convince the public that they are willing to negotiate and undermine the union? Yes, they did! www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/...

Today I should be starting our ~350 student 2nd year cell biology course, instead I'm locked out.

Check out this cool preprint led by @ccstorytime.bsky.social with snRNAseq data on 60,000 nuclei from human muscle-tendon tissue 4 h after exercise @myoblue.bsky.social

Interested in a sabbatical in Lyon? The Collegium de Lyon provides accommodation and attractive interdisciplinary environment for 1 or 2 semesters. Open to all disciplines. You can be affiliated with any local department/lab. Apply now for 2026-27. collegium.universite-lyon.fr/2026-2027-un...

It’s Labour Day. A day of celebration of workers’ rights everywhere. My employer @dalhousie.bsky.social has cruelly locked us out, tried to force “interest arbitration” & has remained silent, stubbornly refusing to negotiate. I can’t submit grants, can’t work in my lab, can’t teach. #keepdalstrong

van der Graaf, K., Srivastav, S., Nishad, R., Stern, M., McNew, J. A. (2024). The #Drosophila Nesprin-1 homolog MSP300 is required for muscle autophagy and proteostasis. J Cell Sci, 137(11) journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Excited to share our new preprint in @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social "Cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5) binds to talin and is anchored at the postsynaptic density via direct interaction with PDZ domains" Instead of a 🧵 the paper is summarised in this video. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Females are larger than males. How? Here is one solution- they have MORE nuclei in their flight muscles and grow LARGER heart and fat body cells with MORE ribosomal mRNAs. Fun collaboration of @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social with @soumitrakp.bsky.social & Brian Oliver www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...