Our #UExM efforts with @gautamdey.bsky.social & @moorefound.bsky.social featured in @nature.com this month.

Beyond the #science, every image is a thing of beauty.

I think a world-tour exhibition has to happen at one point.

#Expansion #Microscopy

Interested in miRNAs, early animal evolution, and RNA biology? We’re recruiting a BBSRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Associate @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #Postdoc #microRNA #RNAbiology
Apply by 14 May 2026. 👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in...

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬

Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me:

Nature-inspired neuroscience

We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨

tinyurl.com/y5y9du27

Targeting the cell membrane in established and emerging model organisms Summary: Screening a toolkit of diverse membrane-localising tags identifies candidates that efficiently localise proteins to the plasma membrane in a wide range of animals and choanoflagellates.

Finding molecular tags that localise fluorescent proteins to the cell membrane was the goal of our latest paper, now published in Development @dev-journal.bsky.social. The tags act as address labels, sending proteins to the cell membrane, where they highlight the shape and arrangement of cells. 2/9

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

Now published. Congrats to Soham and all co-authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
@embl.org

The version of record is here @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🥳

Happy for this collaboration with @emmanuelhaillot.bsky.social and Stephan Schneider

At #EED24 in Helsinki we met. Instead of competing, we got our 2 stories togheter into a bigger one

#EvoDevo
#DevBio

Thats wonderful 🤩! Keep them growing 📈🪼🌊

What future for marine life in a changing world? As the ocean undergoes rapid anthropogenic changes that impact ecosystems, the Michael Sars Centre’s strategy evolves to study life in context, from molecules to ecosystems.

Our strategy is evolving 💡 Michael Sars Centre Director @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social shares future plans for studying living systems in the context of a changing ocean, together with collaborators at @cbubergen.bsky.social and the Dept. of Biological Sciences 🌊 Read more below ⤵️

Félicitations à Luis BEZARES-CALDERON @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social lauréat d'une bourse « Research Grant » de Human Frontier Science Program Organization @hfspo.bsky.social pour le projet Tracing the Evolutionary History of Sensory Perception via TPR Channels

www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

🔬IGMM (CNRS/ Univ Montpellier) is hiring Group Leaders in Innovative Biology. @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social
📅 1 May–15 June 2026
📩 search2026@igmm.cnrs.fr
📎Full information 👇
#LifeScience #MolecularBiology #Research #PI #CNRS

Over two billion years, a fierce battle has raged between bacteria and the viruses that infect them. The resulting evolution has shaped the way our bodies fight disease today. @vcallier.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/the-ancient-...

Great work @wcratcliff.bsky.social et al. on the opportunity cost of soma in simple multicellular organisms! I like the core theoretical idea!
It will be interesting to see how far this framing generalizes beyond green algae. Do more complex multicellulars show the same pattern, and is it causal?

New work on #ctenophores from the Moss laboratory at Auburn University:

Organization of the ctenophore tentacular apparatus: Adult Mnemiopsis leidyi lacks a canonical principal tentacle.

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

One more Asgard archaeon! Meet Nerearchaeum marumarumayae from the microbial mats of Shark Bay, Australia. It interacts with #bacteria via intercellular nanotubes 🧬!
#microbiology #archaea #eukaryotes #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
@currentbiology.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...

I am SO excited about SDB's new merch. Get your favorite model organism, and help support our society! (PS: more organisms will be added in the future).
👉 sdb-store.printify.me 👈@socdevbio.bsky.social #Sciart #stem #biology #drosophila #xenopus #planarians #embryos #plants

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions:

🔬 Postdoc
🧪 Research associate

We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms.

Come join us!

Details and application links 👇

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Dr. Laurent Formery presents in front of an audience in a seminar room. On a screen, a slide with a phylogenetic tree of animals is visible.

Fantastic talk this morning by @laurentformery.bsky.social @biom-banyuls.bsky.social 🙌 Laurent presented his work on cellular reprogramming and symmetry during sea cucumber metamorphosis ✨ Beautiful images and lots of exciting discussions - thank you for visiting us in #SunnyBergen!

Applications are open for the Lake Conference on Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology - co-hosted with Circuit Neuroscience Basel!

🗓️ Oct. 25-29, 2026
📍 Seattle, WA
🧠 All career stages welcomed.

🔗 alleninstitute.org/events/lake-conference-c...

Happy #CtenophoreDay (10/4)! Last month, my picture of a cteno illustrated the cover of the latest paper of @annaferraioli.bsky.social & @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab on the Aboral Organ of Mnemiopsis. Zoom in on the centre of the image to see a white dot: the AO www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It’s done!! Molecular architecture of the ciliary base in mammalian multiciliated cells! A study 13 years in the making 👴, thanks to collab with @stearnslab.bsky.social + @centriolelab.bsky.social & visionary work by @computingcaitie.bsky.social, who integrated native #cryoET with #XLMS & #UExM 🧪🧶🧬🔬

A spotted comb jelly at the Monterey Bay aquarium 🪼

#MarineLife #Ctenophores #CtenophoreCtuesday #Colloblasts #MBARI #Statocyst #LeucotheaPulchra #CombJellies #Prisms

A 500-million-year-old clawed predator rewrites the origin of spiders and horseshoe crabs Harvard researchers reveal the earliest known Chelicerata in a new study published in Nature. The 500-million-year-old fossil, named Megachelicerax cousteaui, provides unequivocal evidence of chelicer...

Meet Megachelicerax cousteaui, a 500myo sea predator that just rewrote the evolutionary history of chelicerates by 20 million years! New study in @nature.com by @cambrianlife.bsky.social Dr. Rudy Lerosey-Aubril and Prof. Javier Ortega-Hernandez

Undaria pinnatifida gametophyte

Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective Date: 6-9 December 2026 Location: Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK Organisers: Elena Casacuberta and James Gahan Early-career researchers apply for a funded place

Apply for a funded early-career researcher place at our Workshop on Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective, organised by Elena Casacuberta & James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social. Find out more www.biologists.com/workshops/de...
#BiologistsWorkshops

‘Why is publishing so expensive?’ For many of us who work in scientific publishing, the title of this Editorial is a question we hear all the time when we're out talking to academics. And it's a perfectly reasonable one. After all, re...

A question I get asked all the time by @dev-journal.bsky.social authors "Why does it cost so much to publish a paper?"

We break down the finances and explain where the money goes

Spoiler: quality publishing takes a village (people + infrastructure)

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...