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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

National Egg Day celebrates the humble breakfast egg. But at the Marine Biological Laboratory, we’re taking a different spin and highlighting the eggs that help scientists better understand life itself.

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Cnidarian developmental mechanisms group @clytia-vlfr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Introducing a Clytia planula cell atlas, and demonstrating broad-level relations with medusa cells via another updated atlas. By @annaferraioli.bsky.social with @juliarmateu.bsky.social and collaborators in a project led by @rcply.bsky.social @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

another old one...a microtubule (MT) movie - EB3-GFP label of MT plus ends growing...thanks to Vlad Costache (if interested, black holes = yolk granules, Ascidian Phallusia embryo)

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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This great piece by @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social highlights the sea squirt Ciona as a versatile and tractable model for marine sciences, from cells to ecosystems 👏🧪 Read it in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Well, we also find increased contractility in the aged embryo also correlates with faster compaction at the 8-cell stage. Could this be a possible metric to see which ones will implant?

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Institut de la Mer de Villefranche/Mer (IMEV) @imev-mer.fr · 25/09/2025

Admirez la magie du développement cellulaire des organismes marins ! 3/4

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This Earth Day, we’re honoring the planet through the power of genomics—preserving biodiversity, protecting ecosystems, and decoding the DNA of life to shape a sustainable future. Happy sequencing! 🌍 #earthdayeveryday #earthday #earth #genomics #genome #DNA #biodiversity #conservation

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Turlier lab @turlierlab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

First post on bsky for a very good news. Very glad to be awarded this HFSP with @chemamd.bsky.social & @baronelab.bsky.social to study the evolutionary biophysics of spiralian early asymmetric divisions ! @hfspo.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @collegedefrance.bsky.social @cirbcdf.bsky.social

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Sébastien DARRAS @darras-sebastien.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Looking for a post-doc? In the frame of the #MSCA-PF 2025 program at @sorbonne-universite.fr , the #DEEVA team (biom.obs-banyuls.fr/presentation...) from @biom-banyuls.bsky.social and @obs-banyuls.fr in #WindyBanyuls proposes a research project (www.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/defaul...).

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Institut de la Mer de Villefranche/Mer (IMEV) @imev-mer.fr · 18/04/2025

imMERsion-Sciences is online ! A virtual dive into the heart of Sorbonne University marine stations & their scientific platforms without mask or snorkel ! By #mohamedkhamla @imev-mer.fr With the support of @embrc-france.bsky.social @alexmcdougall.bsky.social #nathalieturque immersion-sciences.org

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James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT! For more information see here: gahanlab.com tinyurl.com/34xke35d

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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Our effort to extend genome editing across species just got a new member. This time, not a marine organism, nor a vertebrate, but the beautiful Dictyostelium discoideum and other Dictyostelids. In collaboration with van Gestel group @jordivangestel.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Selection-free CRISPR-Cas9 editing protocol for distant Dictyostelid species

Dictyostelids are a species-rich clade of cellular slime molds that are widely found in soils and have been studied for over a century. Most research focusses on Dictyostelium discoideum , which – due...

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Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

And... it's live! In situ hybridization has been foundational for sea urchin developmental biology. Here we report a fully automated method to probe more than a hundred genes using a general purpose liquid handler.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.23.644641v1

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 26/03/2025

#VaSavoir 🌊 Depuis 150 ans, à la station biologique de Roscoff on se mouille pour étudier l’océan et le protéger. Certaines méthodes perdurent, d’autres révolutionnent la compréhension du vivant et des écosystèmes. Embarquez avec notre reporter ! 🐠 👉 youtu.be/ezzrml6RBUM

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Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The "superpower" of sea urchins is the fact that a single female can produce millions of embryos. In the next day or so we will share a new method to analyze gene expression methods in these embryos using a fully automated, open platform.

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EMBRC France @embrc-france.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

vimeo.com/70509692 Single cells with a nucleus, Acantharians, Radiolarians, and Foraminiferans differ by their shells and skeletons made of strontium, silicium, or calcium #MicroscopyMonday #Nassellaria #Protists @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @SARDET.Christian

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This is "Protists 2 ENG" by Parafilms on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 06/03/2025

#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

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EMBRC France @embrc-france.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

3D rendering of the vegetal hemisphere of a Phallusia mammillata embryo. The endomesoderm (yellow, blue and red) is in metaphase. White balls are the sindle pole. manual segmentation. #microscopyMonday #marinelife @imev-mer.fr @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @rdumollard.bsky.social

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16 cell Vegetal 3D - 3D model by CNRS LBDV (@faisal)

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International Society for Regenerative Biology @isrbio.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

🚨ISRB Webinar - Zone 2: Europe, West Asia & Africa on March 11th at 4pm Central European Time 📷 featuring Uri Frank and Stefano Tiozzo #ColonialRegeneration

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CNRS Biologie @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

#RésultatScientifique 🔎 Quand la méduse éclaire l’origine des axes embryonnaires ! 🔬 @momotsuyo.bsky.social et ses collaborateurs ont identifié sur Clytia hemisphaerica un mécanisme régulant la symétrie des embryons, offrant un éclairage sur l'évolution du développement animal. 🌊

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La méduse, un modèle clé pour revisiter la mise en place des axes embryonnaires

Dans un article publié dans eLife, des scientifiques utilisent la méduse Clytia hemisphae

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

marine embryo (ascidian/Phallusia) making a gut (gastrulation)...thanks to the Ascidian BioCell Team. Cell contours are blue, microtubules that separate the chromosomes are magenta

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Microtubules still doing their thing in an early ascidian embryo (Phallusia). Thanks to the Ascidian BioCell Team

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Ibon Cancio @iboncancio.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Last week we published the 1st set of data of our ARMS-MBON long-term marine monitoring program. We announce now...the 2nd PREPRINT A long-term ecological research data set from the marine genetic monitoring programme ARMS-MBON 2020-2021 doi.org/10.3897/arph... @embrcspain.bsky.social #EMOBON

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A long-term ecological research data set from the marine genetic monitoring programme ARMS-MBON 2020-2021

Continuing the international efforts of the ARMS Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (ARMS-MBON), we present data from the second sampling campaign, coming from 56 Autonomous Reef Monitoring Struc...

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Institut de la Mer de Villefranche/Mer (IMEV) @imev-mer.fr · 10/02/2025

Cell Polarity Guides Jellyfish Larval Development Along a Central Axis @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social #IBPS @sorbonne-universite.fr @cnrs.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social (School of Biological Sciences) @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social (Department of Zoology) doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

...and here is the same Pteropod embryo a little later

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

some marine invertebrate embryos doing their thing - Pteropods or "wing footed" embryos collected from the bay here at Villefranche.

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EMBRC France @embrc-france.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

@embrc-eu.bsky.social has published its staff mobility program. Are you working in any of the EMBRC partners ? If you are a technicians, researchers, and other staff involved in technological, technical, and administrative at EMBRC’s you can apply! aria.embrc.eu/submit-call/... #embrc

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Submit Application | European Marine Biological Resource Centre

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Station Biologique de Roscoff / Roscoff Marine Station @sbroscoff.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

#offre #emploi #Roscoff 🌊Nous recherchons un développeur web à Roscoff pour le projet @atlasea.bsky.social qui vise à séquencer le génome de 4500 espèces marines pour mieux connaître la biodiversité marine. ➡️ emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... 🦀 Qu’est-ce que Atlasea ? www.atlasea.fr

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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Développeur web, portails de données de génomique marine ATLASea - BYTE SEA - ROSCOFF (H/F)

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Tsuyoshi Momose @momotsuyo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I’m happy to present our recent paper, Uveira et al., online on eLife as the Reviewed Preprint. We took a comparative cell biology approach to study the evolution of metazoan. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Congratulations, and many thanks, Julie and all the other contributors! Photo T. Momose CC-BY 4.0

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

An ascidian tadpole losing its tail in a few hours. Tiny little sea critter at this stage (around 1mm long). Thanks to the Ascidian BioCell Team

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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#JobOffer 💼 Postdoc in biology on cell cycle control in oocytes (M/F) 📅 April 7th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod / @meiosis-mom.bsky.social's Lab Apply before February 17th ➡️ emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #Biology #Postdoc

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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoc en biologie du cycle cellulaire dans l'ovocyte (H/F)

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EMBRC France @embrc-france.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

🌊 EMBRC-France, lauréat #France2030 🌟 Fiers de soutenir les stations marines de Sorbonne Université : Banyuls, Villefranche, Roscoff, avec près de 4M€ de subventions. Ce soutien renforce nos avancées en aquariologie, imagerie, biologie moléculaire et plateforme. 💙 #CNRS #Sorbonneuniversite #ANR

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Station Biologique de Roscoff / Roscoff Marine Station @sbroscoff.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Post-doc opportunity in the Brown Algal Glycans group at Roscoff Marine Station🪸 Apply : emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Some Marine Cell Biology for you. Migrating cell in #ascidian (Phallusia). Cell leaves (delaminates) the neural tube and migrates towards anterior end (upper left) of forming tadpole. Thanks to AscidianBioCell team and Alberto Stolfi for the lineage-specific marker of this cell.

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EMBRC France @embrc-france.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🚨 New publication alert! The Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : a novel model for developmental studies in mollusks https//hal.sorbonn... @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @imev-mer.fr @UniGenova #openaccess #marinebiology

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Happy New Year - a short movie showing tail extension in the ascidian embryo (plasma membrane, microtubules and DNA labelled). Thanks to the Ascidian BioCell Team

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Nathalie Drach-Temam @drach-temam.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🌊 Encore une édition réussie du Campus Océan de @sorbonne-universite.fr ! Un grand merci aux membres de notre communauté, chercheurs et enseignants, pour leur engagement à faire découvrir année après année les études et débouchés en sciences océaniques à nos étudiants 🎓

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

An ascidian egg dividing - as seen with fluorescent LifeAct protein (labels actin). The cleavage ring becoming smaller. Thanks to the Ascidian BioCell Team at LBDV

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Notochord cells lining up like a (horizontal) stack of coins in the #ascidian (Phallusia) embryo as the tail extends. Thanks to Michael Veeman when he visited and the @AscidianBioCell Team.

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