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Apply! Coolest lab, in the coolest city 💂🏽‍♀️🎡 #DevBio #EvoDevo

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

How to make Ghost Jellyfish

Happy Ctenophore Day! These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈 Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab #CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

Regeneration of distinct complex structures in the annelid Platynereis is partially based on common morphological, cellular, and molecular events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680064v1

#FluorescenceFriday showing asymmetrical beta-tubulin enrichment in the embryo of Spirobranchus lamarcki 🪱🪱🪱 #EvoDevo #DevBio

🚨 🚨 Science Alert: Join us by the end of the month at the @sacnas.bsky.social NDiSTEM 2025 Meeting! We’ll be hosting a workshop with Emma Rangel-Huerta from @stowersinstitute.bsky.social and @niasv.bsky.social from @ucscscience.bsky.social to talk about navigating a PhD in life sciences 🤩🫶

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman 1/3

2026 International Larval Biology Symposium will be held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts on Sept 27 to Oct 1 2026, featuring plenaries from Craig Young, Mary Sewell, and Jeanette Wheeler! You can rock larval swag at Dexter Davis' Etsy shop (Etsy.com/shop/NoDexerity) that will support students!

Little n’ large. Polychaete larvae from my latest plankton sample. #marineplankton 🦑

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Making an upgrade to our seawater system 🪱🪱🪱 #WormWednesday #DevBio #EvoDevo

Day 30 - Dream. The final day of #sciartseptember. My long-term dream has always been to create a series of illustrated guides that would help identify the various jellies and jellyfish of the would. Creating illustrations like the ones below to accurately ID species.

Now Hiring! Whitney Laboratory Assistant/Associate Professor in Marine Bioscience Apply & More Info - explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... We seek a creative, collaborative scientist whose research harnesses or advances cutting-edge tools. Please help spread the word & reach out with any questions!

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Lecturer in Marine Biology and Scientific Diving (University of Plymouth) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS637/l... #jobs #lecturer #scientificdiving #plymouth #coralreefs #university #marinescience #marinebiology #marineecology #jobopportunity

Calling early-career developmental biologists! Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution. Application deadline: 5 December www.biologists.com/workshops/ju... #DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Check out our new preprint on bioRxiv: Brain-wide activity imaging combined with electron microscopy reveals novel nociceptive circuits. We link whole-brain activity to the connectome using volume EM. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Good morning Breadcrumb sponge – time to stop pumping ☀️Our new preprint shows sunrise-induced contractions in Halichondria panicea👉 Even animals without nerves or muscles respond to daily light cycles doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025... @VILLUMscience #IndependentResearchFundDenmark

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 😃

🌊 Mytilus galloprovincialis meets Eco-Evo-Devo. We’re excited to announce the first school dedicated to the bivalve M. galloprovincialis. Applications are now open!✨🐚 Get ready to explore the fascinating world of mussels in an inspiring international environment 🔬 ℹ️ acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Yesterday I showed you a Gastropod larva. Today it’s the turn of another kind of mollusc, a bivalve larva! Bivalves have 2 halves, called valves, that open like a book. Gastropods, if they have an external shell, have a one-piece. #marineplankton 🦑

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

Our paper on Nautilus sex determination made the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social ! With @reef-combo.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social and Hector Torrado! @leibnizlib.bsky.social Check it out now!

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...

#WormWednesday 🪱🪱🪱

#Behindthepaper stories: @accorsi-alice.bsky.social & @planaria1.bsky.social share how curiosity & passion driven research revealed that apple snails can regenerate full camera type eyes. @the-node.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social @stowersinstitute.bsky.social #regeneration #applesnails #devbio

Explaining sea squirt development to the public? Challenge accepted! Our team had a great time at the #forskningsdagene science fair over the weekend. We met visitors of all ages who shared our excitement for science, and went back to the lab inspired and energized 🤩✨

RNAi Gene knockdown of R-opsin and F-actin in the marineannelid Streblospio benedicti by delivering dsRNA https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677873v1

Thrilled to announce our FlumeX paper in HardwareX!! 🌊⚙️ 😀🥳 We built an inexpensive, open-source flume for exploring biological 🪸 + environmental flows 🌊. A major collaborative effort, supported by DARPA REEFENSE! @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.oh...

Cell Proliferation and Morphogenetic Compartmentalization in the Phoronid Phoronopsis harmeri: Conserved and Derived Patterns https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677378v1

🔬 We’re Hiring! Become the next MBA Postdoctoral Career Development Fellow Are you ready to take the next step in your research career and lead the way in marine biology? Find out more 👉 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoct... 📅 Apply by 15 October 2025 #MarineBiology #MarineScience #AcademicJobs

#FluorescenceFriday Back at the confocal with lots of larvae to image from this spawning season. This a lateral view of the larva of Spirobranchus lamarcki from St Andrews, Scotland #EvoDevo #DevBio

our paper on the population genomics of An. funestus, one of the major (yet less studied) human malaria vectors in Africa, is now out in @science.org 🦟 read @mariloumercedes.bsky.social's original preprint thread to find out more! bsky.app/profile/mari...

ICB Issue 2 Evo-Inspired #Engineering of Radical Phenotypes and Emergent Traits Babonis, Hahn, Liu, Widhalm doi.org/10.1093/icb/... This series of vignettes explores how phenotypic #engineering, inspired by nature’s most extreme #adaptations, represents the next frontier in synthetic #biology.

Our new collaborative paper with Cyndi Bradham's lab at BU, led by first author @alexandralion.bsky.social is out in @devbiol.bsky.social & featured on the Sept 2025 cover! 😀🥳 PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development! Cover art: embryos + flow fields 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

This video is not AI-generated. #invertebrates

Very proud of this extremely collaborative piece: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... Here, we show that divergence in visual systems - in response to differences in the light environment - leads to rapid divergence in sexually selected colour traits. Work brilliantly led by Madeleine Carruthers. 🐟👀🎨

We are recruiting at @qmul.bsky.social Please spread the word and encourage applications from potential applicants with relevant expertise. qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-1/...

Exciting news to share! I have started my new role as a Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology / Director of MSc Bioinformatics program at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Freaky fishies & other gooey things from 15-17May2024. 1 & 2) two different species of #dragonfish 3) #anglerfish 4) male #nautilus #octopus riding a salp 5) #phronima in a #salp 6) #scaleworm 7) #whalefish #larvalfish #deepseafish #blackwaterdiving #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater

Our paper (with @sreinales.bsky.social) finally out today in the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society. It feels like a birthday present 🤪 academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

👁️The retina — strikingly conserved across vertebrates, but an oddity among bilaterians! So how did it evolve? With @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social, we argue that retinal complexity may 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

Cutest larval anglerfish EVER!

I am very happy to announce that the Echinox Lab will open in the BIOM unit at @obs-banyuls.fr in January 2026!! 🥳 We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution. 🔽 Check our brand new lab website if you want to learn more about our future research www.echinox.org

Not uncommon, but always beautiful; the ever flappy-flappy #pelagic #SeaButterfly #Pteropod, Corolla spectabilis. This one is feeding, as can be seen by the mucus net that it’s currently reeling in. #corollaspectabilis #plankton #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #ocean

Happy that our latest paper about the macroevolutionary dynamics about female colour polymorphisms and the ecology of sexual conflict is now finally published in @PNASNews #damselflies #Odonata #EvolutionaryBiology https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2503400122

We have received the reviews for our "Neural #Connectome of the Ctenophore Statocyst" paper from @eLife "This fundamental work significantly advances our understanding of gravity sensing and orientation behavior in the ctenophore, an animal of major […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Another folder of never-before seen Aliens dives has been sorted, and I present you with a collage of B-listers that would otherwise go unloved - this time from 9-13 May, 2024. Have fun zooming in!