New paper from PhD student @sarahpugly.bsky.social, co-advised by @bingbrunton.bsky.social. Neuroscientists have long sought to understand how the nervous system generates the walking rhythm. Sarah walked into our office one day with an unexpected solution... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Connectome simulations identify a central pattern generator for fly walking - Nature

Computational simulations of a neural network based on fly connectomes identify a three-neuron circuit that is organized to produce leg motor rhythms for walking.

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The @burkemuseum.bsky.social is offering funds to support graduate and postdoctoral research visits to the collections, including our University of Washington Herbarium! Please help us get the word out! More information is available here: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

Collections Study Grants

Collections study grants provide financial assistance for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to study the collections of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (UWBM).

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My department (Neuroscience) has an opening for a tenure-track position. Check out the details here and apply! neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39980/te...

Our Dept. of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the Institut Curie in the heart of Paris is hiring a new junior PI. It has a nice start up package and excellent I. Curie facilities. Please spread the word: Deadline Dec. 18th! jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr

hi everyone, my department is in the process of establishing an endowment to honour our late colleague, Dr. Don Moerman. your gift will pay tribute to Don’s dedication to fundamental research. give.ubc.ca/memorial/don...

Don Moerman - give UBC

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A funded postdoctoral position is available at the IBPS, Sorbonne University/CNRS/INSERM in Paris, to investigate the formation of the olfactory organ in zebrafish. We are looking for an postdoctoral researcher with expertise in transcriptomics and bioinformatics, (scRNAseq analysis).

The Promislow Lab in the HNRCA, located at the Boston campus of @tufts.edu, is hiring a Senior Research Tech with experience in Drosophila biology. We study aging, genetic variation, social behavior, metabolomics & systems biology, and more. Interested? Click here: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/23675?l...

Senior Research Technician, Metabolism and Basic Biology of Aging in Boston, Massachusetts | Tufts University

Tufts University is hiring a Senior Research Technician, Metabolism and Basic Biology of Aging in Boston, Massachusetts. Review all of the job details and apply today!

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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...

🚨 New preprint from the lab! 🚨 Transcriptomic profiling identifies cellular and molecular transitions during Merkel cell regeneration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Transcriptomic profiling identifies cellular and molecular transitions during Merkel cell regeneration

Skin exhibits a remarkable capacity for regeneration, which requires the coordinated reconstitution of diverse cell types and structures. Merkel cells are mechanosensory cells that detect gentle touch...

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Good morning, it’s the 21st day of September

Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO

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One of these days I'll nab a top 5 spot... congrats to the winners! www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

Skin stem cells closing a wound in adult zebrafish | 2026 Small World in Motion Competition

Eric Peterman - Skin stem cells (expressing a fluorescent probe involved in cellular motility) closing a wound in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio)

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Excited to announce that the Rikki Garner lab has opened its doors in beautiful Austin, TX! Our interdisciplinary lab @utaustin.bsky.social MBS investigates tissue fluidity as a universal physical regulator of multicellular patterning in health and disease. www.rikkigarnerlab.org 1/n

🔬🧪 We're hiring postdocs&engineers at Institut de la Vision in AMAZING Paris 🇫🇷!! Join a dynamic team working at the nexus of retina developmental biology, spatial omics & advanced imaging Ambitious science in a supportive & young inclusive team 🚀 DM me for more info & please share 🙏 #academicsky

In zebrafish, neural stem cells keep producing neurons throughout life. Pasteur scientists reveal how Notch3 signaling coordinates neighboring stem cells to maintain this balance, insights relevant to brain tumours. www.pasteur.fr/en/research-... @natcomms.nature.com #Neuroscience #StemCells

How Brain Stem Cells Coordinate to Produce Neurons

In many vertebrates, brain stem cells produce neurons throughout life. A team of scientists has revealed for the first time the molecular mechanisms by which adult neural stem cells communicate with o...

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We would like to add one or two postdocs to our lab in the next couple of years. If you are close to finishing your PhD and interested in the science we do, feel free to reach out to discuss opportunities.

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! ✨🔬 A peek inside a developing quail embryo, where the brain and heart are already taking shape. A tiny embryo doing some seriously impressive developmental heavy lifting. 💪❤️ 📷 @vanderspuy.bsky.social

The kinetochore is essential for cell division across species, but its components and organization evolve dramatically. How can that be? Our first foray into this fascinating question is up now on biorxiv: 🧪 1/12 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Kinetochore diversification in Naegleria reveals plasticity in the kinetochore-microtubule interface

The kinetochore--the molecular machine that couples chromosomes to spindle microtubules--performs an essential, tightly regulated function, yet varies dramatically across eukaryotes. Microtubules are ...

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Reminder! The 2026 African Turquoise Killifish Conference is coming to MDI Bio Lab Oct 1–3! Researchers studying aging, regeneration, development & disease are invited to join this hybrid meeting focused on collaboration and scientific discovery. #genesky #scicomm #devbio

African Turquoise Killifish Conference 2026

A three day conference to facilitate scientific exchange and connections among the African turquoise killifish community.

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Looking for a postdoc to join our project studying actin and membrane dynamics during cell migration. If interested, please reach out to me via email: rytis.prekeris@ucdenver.edu

We're excited to present a single-cell atlas of vertebrate cranial motor neuron development, the first story from my postdoctoral work in the Moens lab, up now on bioRxiv!

We are excited to share our collaboration with @pheereynolds.bsky.social, Robert Hindges & team on retinal plasticity, now out in Neuron! This work shows how visual experience during early development changes the anatomical and functional properties of amacrine cells and ultimately behavior!

Early visual experience elicits cellular and functional plasticity in the retina and alters behavior

The understanding of experience-dependent plasticity in the vertebrate retina is largely incomplete. Reynolds et al. discovered that raising animals in differently patterned visual environments change...

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Join us on a journey into the dynamics of cells during embryo development. We are offering a fully funded PhD position to investigate cell behavior using cutting-edge quantitative live imaging at the interface of Development, Immunity, and Tissue Biology. embryobioimaging.com

I am excited to present our newest report on a severe outbreak of transmissible cancer in clams in the Pacific Northwest, with a lot of unexpected twists. Led by Sydney Weinandt and Zach Child. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2611852123 1/14

Atlantic to Pacific: Outbreak of bivalve transmissible neoplasia detected in hybridizing soft-shell clams and eDNA in Puget Sound | PNAS

Bivalve transmissible neoplasias (BTNs) are transmissible cancers that have arisen in multiple bivalve species, including Eastern soft-shell clam (...

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Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

What if an embryo made immune cells before it finished building the tissue they usually come from? In our new preprint, we show that annual killifish embryos specify neutrophils before germ layers are fully resolved. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to my PI, @ohnolog.bsky.social ! 🧵

Early immune cell development precedes gastrulation in annual killifish

During embryogenesis, cell types arise in a predictable order because developmental regulators act sequentially. But how evolutionary changes in morphogenesis reshape the signaling environments that a...

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First pre-print from the lab, a collaborative effort led by Jess Bourn @bournsupremacy.bsky.social, a fantastic PhD in my group. We resolve a key problem in development + evolution: how do we quantify heterochrony and link temporal variation to phenotype? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Quantitative mapping of heterochrony to species-specific phenotypes

The genetic program of animal development is conserved, but its rate of execution varies across species. Heterochrony, shifts in the relative timing of developmental events, generates phenotypic varia...

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Is there a size limit for cells ? How can cells replicate inside the architecture of their environment? Why do cells self-destroy ? This 15-minute movie vimeo.com/1173229237 shows our 2026 edition of the Living Architectures project at the @museeorsay.bsky.social

Cell scaffold microtubules regulate tissue macrophages' migration & other roles as they participate in epithelial surveillance & wound repair 📹 @errricpeterman.bsky.social et al @uwbiology.bsky.social in @jcellsci.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026/6/18 with @antdlewis.bsky.social

Another reason to support your non-profit society journals!

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...