These images show live embryos of animals (jellyfish, crustacean, worm, sea urchin, sea squirt, beetle) and one of animals closest single-celled relatives. They were captured taking advantage of fluorescent proteins localised on the outer membrane of cells, allowing us to observe cell outlines. 1/9
Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here:
rdcu.be/e5EgU
#EvoBio #EvoDevo 🐟🦎🐢🦇🐊🦜
Why are some males caring toward infants while others are neglectful or abusive? I'm so pleased to share work that my colleagues and I @princeton.edu have just published @nature.com (an explanatory thread to follow!) (1/8)
If you are a scientist, working on biology, wondering where to submit your manuscript given the current issues with the academic publishing system, check out wheretopublish.github.io!
We did this thinking change is possible. Let’s make it happen!
1/7 🧬 New preprint!
What is it like to have one of the highest genomic diversities among metazoans?
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
Lophophytum pyramidale. Photo credit: M. Virginia Sanchez Puerta
Happy to share this work with Virginia Sanchez-Puerta (not on bsky) and colleagues on how loss of photosynthesis in these (strange!) plants affects translation and tRNAs in plastids and mitochondria....
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
Please take some time to look through some of the discoveries photographed in 2025. It should interest some invertebrate enthusiasts. yes? yes?
bit.ly/nickybay2025
Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!
Method of the Year 2025: In his Comment, Moritz Helmstaedter looks into the future of connectomics and the feasibility of scaling up to larger brains.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
A wasp with the threads of a fungal fruiting body growing out of it
Just a murderous fungus having taken over a wasp and compelled it to die in a place advantageous to finding more victims. With its tiny spores floating off through the air in hopes of just one landing on an exoskeleton.. nothing in the rainforest wants anything to do with this little scene here…
A Halloween treat just for fun! My beloved journal covers have come to life today. Check them out here! www.behance.net/gallery/2364...
50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵
First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
A self explanatory title
Researchers at the Crick found that virgin female mice can become aggressive towards pups when hungry, but only in certain hormonal states.
It highlights the importance of understanding hormones when observing how different physical states interact in the brain.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
Come join the #LondonEvoDevo network half day meeting, hosted at @ucl.ac.uk on Friday November 7th, 2025. Submit your abstract by Oct 27th (or your interest in joining) here: forms.gle/TRbdrCkQTcY2.... Friendly vibes and free registration. More info here: londonevodevo.co.uk.
Is your research important ?
If important, make it count.
Make it easy to reproduce.
Share the data.
Share the code.
Share the metadata.
Use community guidelines to facilitate reanalysis & reuse of your results.
nature.com/articles/s41...
Interested in understanding how new cell types evolve? Consider joining our group for a PhD!
CAN YOU GUESS THIS ONE?? 👀
(Thanks to @schmidtocean.bsky.social for letting me share their video!)
We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Join us *next Monday*!
#CrickXrays25
X-ray #nanoimaging of biological tissues
🇬🇧🌐 @crick.ac.uk & online
tinyurl.com/crickxrays25
Sponsored by @dectris.bsky.social, @webknossos.org and @biologists.bsky.social and backed by @brukercorporation.bsky.social and Histomography
#preprint:
We optimised the preparation of tissues for #X-ray phase contrast imaging.
Drying tissue samples (instead of embedding them) brings more signal in #X-ray phase contrast images.
The process largely preserves #ultrastructure.
@safekhan.bsky.social @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social
Our pre-print is out!
Critical point drying of brain tissue for x-ray phase contrast imaging.
@apeart.bsky.social @yuxinzhang.bsky.social @jkbrmn.bsky.social @apacureanu.bsky.social @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social
@carlesbosch.bsky.social
@esrf.fr
@crick.ac.uk
bioarXiv: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
