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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not every cell react the same way to caspase activation. In our recent study (led by @tomcumming.bsky.social and initiated by @avillars.bsky.social ), we tried to better understand what explains this difference and outlined a role of past caspase exposure 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Giovanni D’Angelo @giodang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#lipidtime: It's a lipid universe. Today in Nature we publish the Lipid Brain Atlas, the first map of membrane lipid composition across the entire mouse brain, a layer of organisation that cell-type and transcript maps had left out. #lipidomics #neuroscience #BrainAtlas

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the updated part. Looks like the movie is an AI-generated fluorescence image from a non-labeled acquisition technique. No indication that the Small World jury and organizers have requested and verified the raw data (as mentioned as a possibility in the competition rules)

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Claudio Cortes @clcortex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Clear your to-read list and download this, cardio aficionados! Check out what Cre-free lineage tracing can bring to the table, plus find how your favourite cell population has many layers to still peel off and understand

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Oxford Sparks @oxfordsparks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The human #heart is a biological powerhouse that has the capacity to beat billions of times. But what prompts that very first #heartbeat? And how can #ComputationalArt help us to unravel the mystery? @clcortex.bsky.social explains in our brand new video. 🎥 bit.ly/HeartsAnew 1/2

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Lowe Lab @lowelab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Repost please !! We have extended the abstract deadline for the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Conference to June 20. scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu. Get those abstract in !

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Claudio Cortes @clcortex.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Cool paper alert! 🚨 Spearheaded by @m-stower.bsky.social, click to learn about how mouse AP patterning involves coordination of collective cell movement, inter-tissue interactions, and much more! A great example of how powerful time lapse microscopy becomes when coupled with quantitative analyses.

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 21/04/2026

📰 Researchers at @tulaneu.bsky.social have discovered that if animal cells gain an extra set of chromosomes, they activate a stress signaling pathway that causes them to become more mobile and capable of engulfing neighboring cells with normal chromosome numbers. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Eric Paulissen @ericpaulissen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Hey, craniofacial and development folks! Check out a new preprint from me and @crumplab.bsky.social about the developing jaw. Here, we show how major signaling pathways establish distinct compartments along the oral-aboral axis. I'm excited to share it with you all!

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Hallou Lab @halloulab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Absolutely delighted to be hosting Dr Mo Lotfollahi from the Wellcome Sanger Institute (@sangerinstitute.bsky.social) for our next external seminar at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk)! Please join us in person if you are in Oxford on Monday 👇

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Charlène Boumendil (She/Her) @charleneboumendil.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Exciting opportunity to join the vibrant Montpellier scientific community!

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Wonderful opportunity, for those interested! We're sure @pauligroup.bsky.social (pictured below) will speak highly about her experience 👩‍🔬

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Miguel Branco @brancolab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New preprint from the lab! We dig into the regulatory roles of TEs in the mouse placenta, with some surprising findings. Led by the awesome @smamante.bsky.social. Particular kudos to him for navigating the many twists and turns of the project.

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Claudio Cortes @clcortex.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Today in Oxford - the Jenkinson DevBio symposium, showcasing exciting #DevBio science from all around the UK! What a lineup 🎉 @vmetzis.bsky.social @tobyandrews.bsky.social @simoesfilipa.bsky.social @jvermot.bsky.social @idrm.ox.ac.uk

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Dan Johnson @danmjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Are you working on #cellular #cross-talk in the #heart? Looking for an outlet for your work? Look no further! Molly O Reillyy, Chris 'O Shea and I are editing an edition of @jphysiol.bsky.social Deadline 6th Jan! #CardioSky physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

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Bardin Lab @bardinlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵 Check our latest preprint

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A toolkit for testing membrane-localising tags across species

Transgenic markers and tools have revolutionised how we study cells and developing organisms. Some of the elements needed to construct those tools are universally applicable (e.g. fluorescent proteins...

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Valerie Tornini @valetornini.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Happy to share our paper now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social - and check out our thread about the findings at bsky.app/profile/vale...

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Felix Zhou's u-Segment3D is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... It leverages 2D cell segmentations from orthoviews to generate a ‘consensus’ 3D segmentation. It does a great job on segmenting densely packed samples, and we have used the algorithm in many applications.

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Development, Regeneration and Neurophysiology @drn-sheffield.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Join us in Sheffield! We are keen to support early career researchers in applying for independent research fellowships (IRFs) to join our friendly and collaborative environment, in areas related to developmental biology, stem cells and regenerative biology, and neuroscience.

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John Chodera @jchodera.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

My institution---the Sloan Kettering Institute, the basic science arm of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center---is hiring new faculty this cycle! Applications close Nov 15. www.mskcc.org/research/ski...

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Faculty Positions

The Sloan Kettering Institute is seeking innovative scientists to join our faculty.

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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 05.11.25 | 16:00 UK Malte Mederacke: "The emergence of the fractal bronchial tree" Rory Cooper: " The mechanics of crocodile and tortoise head scale patterning" Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Our Microscopy Training Grants with @jcellsci.bsky.social could be used to support your attendance at this course. Check out the details to see if you are eligible: www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f... Or reach out if you have any questions about the grants.

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JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants

About JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants are aimed at early-career researchers, working in an area covered by JCS, who would like to attend a microscopy training course. The...

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Konstantinos Miti @mitisbio.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Our calcium paper is out in PLOS Biology! Check it out! #Calcium #Embryo #Development

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Claudio Cortes @clcortex.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Such a treasure trove! Thank you for continuing work on such a useful community tool 🐟🧬🤍

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny @jennydickens41.bsky.social, or me, with any questions. 😀 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/

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Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge.

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

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Claudio Cortes @clcortex.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

So many possibilities! Exciting development

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Claudio Cortes @clcortex.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A riveting read and VERY cool timelapses! Very interested in the vector space of contractility/compaction and the link with implantation, not to mention the differences in aged embryos. Read and enjoy!

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Dominik Hrebik @dhrebik.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This comic is becoming increasingly realistic. m.xkcd.com/3056/

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Hallou Lab @halloulab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Absolutely delighted to host Dr Jenna Cash from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for our next @kiroxford.bsky.social External Seminar on Monday 29 September at 12 pm ! Please join us if you want to learn more about how the most recent spatial omics technologies can be used to understand skin biology!

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Rockefeller University Press @rupress.org · 23/09/2025

New perspective in @jcb.org by @maikbischoff.bsky.social & @mayorlab.bsky.social about how mesenchymal cells use contact-dependent rules to generate swarm-like behaviors, patterns & organ forms. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellBio #CellMigration #Morphogenesis #Development #Science

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Claudio Cortes @clcortex.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Just gorgeous! Conservation (impact), third place is particularly jarring. We need to do better to our planet and all who we share it with!

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Claudio Cortes @clcortex.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Great place to postdoc! State of the art microscopy, supportive environment and cool topic? Yes !

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Michel Cayouette @michelcayouette.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Oh look at this!! Beautiful, and it will be out just in time for your Xmas shopping. Great gift idea for kids, a coloring book about vision!!! 🤩

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🦐 High-res microCT of #Parhyale hawaiensis for #3DThursday! A powerful crustacean model for studying limb development, regeneration, and evo-devo. 🥼: Nipam Patel & Andrew Gillis, 2017 🏛️: University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk 🎬: syGlass.io #Parhyale #MicroCT #DevBio #EvoDevo #ModelOrganisms #syGlass

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Anabela Bensimon-Brito @bensimonbrito.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

🚨 Don’t miss it! Abstract submission closes Monday, Sept 15. frenchzebrafishmeeting.fr Fantastic keynote speaker @KarinaYaniv and a great opportunity to connect with the @FrenchZebrafish Community. All talks will be in English. Join us! #FZM #zebrafish

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Luciano Martelotto @lgmartelotto.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

STAMP brings us non-destructive single-cell profiling without the sequencing www.omic.ly/stamp-brings...

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STAMP brings us non-destructive single-cell profiling without the sequencing

No sequencer needed: Imaging based single-cell multiomics

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Gokul Upadhyayula @supgokul.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Finally here! Our preprint on the MOSAIC, a multimodal adaptive optical microscope enabling non‑invasive in‑vivo imaging from molecules to organisms, is out. MOSAIC captures everything from subcellular dynamics to neural activity in live mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Claudio Cortes @clcortex.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Come and join us for a fantastic conference around all things human development and growth! Lots of talks from abstracts and a stellar lineup of invited speakers? YES. Hope to see you all there ! @wellcometrust.bsky.social

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The Node, our sister site, is collecting feedback in their survey. If you are a developmental or stem cell biologist and can spare 5 minutes, please complete the survey to help shape the future of the site. #DevBio #StemCells #CommunityBuilding focalplane.biologists.com/2025/04/28/h...

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Help shape the Node’s future by taking part in their survey - News

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I like the ambition ! Choose France we will think about funding later. Never stop dreaming!

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Today is also International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day and I for one, appreciate the corvids. 🧪🐡 They are extraordinarily intelligent birds! Here is my murder of crows, part of my terms of venery series of collective nouns for animals. 🧵 #linocut #printmaking

A linocut print with four crows facing different directions and the words ‘A murder of crows’. The first two words look like a typewriter typeface with ‘murder’ in red followed by red crow footprints leading down to the crows. The word “crows” is spelled in feathers.

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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

#CoarctationOfAorta A developmental problem of #SmoothMuscleCell #BoundaryFormation?😃 "a border is formed at the interface b/w #CardiacNeuralCrest- derived SMCs in the 6th #PharyngealArchArtery & #ParaxialMesoderm -derived SMCs in the dorsal aorta" #JDBMDPI 2025 www.mdpi.com/2221-3759/13...

Is CoA a problem because an over-constrictive (flow-sensitive) SMC subpopulation of CNC origin has invaded the aortic zone, which is supposed to be populated by mesodermal SMCs?😁

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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

C-SIDE Cell type-specific inference of differential expression in #SpatialTranscriptomics 👉Work for both Sequencing- & Imaging-based ST 👉Need single-cell reference 👉Histological features as covariates 👉Pixel-based Segmentation-free DEA @naturemethods.bsky.social 2022 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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