🏝️ In Crete island, enjoying the iconic Vertebrate Sex Determination Synposium @biol-vsd.bsky.social

Thanks to the organizers for the invitation and especially to @nitzan-gonen.bsky.social & Humphrey Yao for making this meeting a reality

HERITAGE NIGHT ! 🤍

We are now celebrating the remarkable careers of wonderful scientists that left a deep print in our community.

Thank you for your legacy : Blanche Capel, Arthur Arnold, Jenny Graves, Marilyn Renfree, Tanaka Minoru & Eric Pailhoux ! 🙏

#VSD26 #heritage

We are delighted to present the official #VSD2026 poster featuring our keynote and plenary speakers, and the organizing committee @nitzan-gonen.bsky.social @nicolevalenzuela.bsky.social

Special thanks to our sponsors @biologists.bsky.social & the Society for the Study of Reproduction.

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👋 Welcome to the official BlueSky account of the #VSD scientific community ! This account was created to 👇

-share official announcements
-highlight scientific content & speakers during the #VSD2026 meeting
- support live discussions and help our community stay connected

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Figure 2 Formation of the adrenal and gonadal primordia in vertebrates. (A) The adrenogonadal primordium [AGP, indicated in colour with the future adrenal primordium (AP) in pink and the future gonadal primordium (GP) in yellow] arises from lateral plate mesoderm at 9.5 days post-coitum (dpc) in mouse embryos, at HH13 (Hamburger Hamilton stage) in chicken embryos and at Carnegie stage (CS) 14 in human embryos. (B) The spatial and temporal appearances of the AP and GP vary between species, with the AP and GP being spatially, temporally and phenotypically distinct: the AP develops earlier and is clearly separated from the GP in human (left). In mouse (centre), the AGP splits into a more cranial AP, and a more caudal GP at 10.5 dpc, and in chicken (right), the AP and GP are derived from two adjacent layers of coelomic epithelium and/or the mesonephric mesenchyme. MD, mesonephric duct; MT, mesonephric tubules.

Gonadal sex determination in vertebrates: rethinking established mechanisms

In this Review, dagmar-wilhelm.bsky.social, Marie-Christine Chaboissier & colleagues discuss mechanisms and genes currently known to be involved in sex determination and differentiation:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Evolution and function of chromatin domains across the tree of life - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Szalay et al. discuss cross-kingdom similarities and differences in 3D chromatin folding in relation to gene regulation, including in bacteria, archaea, mammals and plants. This comparison reveals cer...

🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺
Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!!

Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals!

SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

when french parliament plan to tax research on mouse….sign here against : r.gircor.fr/lnk/AWUAAFk_...

#DarkGenome #NoncodingGenome fanatics - this one is for you. 👇

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Chart shows Republicans turn much less positive on science’s impact on society

In 2019, 70% of Republicans said science has had a mostly positive effect on society. Recently, fewer than half of Republicans (47%) said so.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐

I think it would be important for us to influence our scientific colleagues or our respective institutes to migrate en masse to bluesky and leave X. #leaveXtoBS

hello bluesky , leaving the X trash, I’m interested by reproductive biology, sex determination, chromatin and all stuffs about gene regulation