#SciArt Profile: Brittany Carr In this profile, we meet @drbjcarr.bsky.social, an Assistant Professor at University of Alberta. Brittany uses acrylic, watercolour, gouache & ink to create pictures of the natural world & uses microscopy for ‘science’ art. thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profi...

SciArt Profile: Brittany Carr - the Node

In this SciArt profile, we meet Brittany Carr, an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of

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TIL about @morpheus-lab.bsky.social: "a modeling and simulation environment for the study of multi-scale and multicellular systems." 🤩

Osvaldo Chara@osvaldo-chara.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Would you like to run our Cellular Potts Model (#CPM) of neuromast regeneration in #zebrafish? It is now available in the amazing @morpheus-lab.bsky.social repository: morpheus.gitlab.io/model/m4377/ Curious about the Science? Check our paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

And here is the working URL! events.faseb.org/event/Small-...

Fromme Lab@fromme-lab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A reminder for all GTPase enthusiasts! The 2026 Regulation and Function of Small GTPases FASEB conference will be held June 21-24 in Florida, USA. The deadline to be considered for a short talk is April 27. events.faseb.org/event/Small-...

Did you know? Adult zebrafish genital papillae/cloacas pulse rapidly. Video credit: Dr. Shannon Romano. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

Issue 5 is complete Explore our Toc: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13... Our cover image shows mouse oocytes during meiotic telophase I highlighting tubulin (green), DNA (cyan) & the meiotic midbody (magenta). See article by G. Cairo, M. A. Haseeb et al journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Lab photo 2026 @syracuseu.bsky.social

Looking for job applicants with #zebrafish experience? Let us share your job openings across our social media (LinkedIn & Bluesky) and Slack accounts! Send us a DM with the details or tag @zebrafishrock.bsky.social in your posts 😎 #RockOn

You can hear from Hehnly Lab PhD Graduate, Favour Ononiwu, in a first person @biologyopen.bsky.social interview about her recent study. Check it out here: journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

First person – Favour Ononiwu

ABSTRACT. First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Favour Ononiw...

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The FY2026 science budget story isn’t over. Cuts avoided, but disruptions continue for NIH and NSF. Read more: https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/a-tragedy-in-three-acts-the-fy2026-science-budget/

Fincredible to see Kuppfer's Vesicle (L-R organizer in zfish) in such stunning detail 😍 🧪

Heidi Hehnly-Chang@lovelessradio.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hehnly lab recently graduated PhD student, Favour Ononiwu's paper using #vEM on the #zebrafish Left Right Organizer is live! Check out all the cool #centrosomes and #cilia: journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

Hehnly lab recently graduated PhD student, Favour Ononiwu's paper using #vEM on the #zebrafish Left Right Organizer is live! Check out all the cool #centrosomes and #cilia: journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

Insights into the zebrafish left–right organizer's centrosomes and cilia via volume electron microscopy

Summary: An electron microscopy-based reconstruction of all cilia and centrosomes within an intact left–right organizer reveals unexpected structural diversity at organ scale.

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@tcpotts.bsky.social paper is live. Happy to share #FishNAP, a new, non-invasive way to measure #BBB permeability in 96-well format with #zebrafish www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Make #ZebrafishZunday part of your weekly routine! 🧪 Science 🤝 Art 🤝 #Zebrafish

Zebrafish Rock! 🎃@zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 7mo ago

First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪

Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint! We show how DFCs remodel ZO-1/actin and how mitotic events help organize epithelial architecture in KV morphogenesis. Led by Yan Wu, Yiling Lan, and outstanding undergraduate researchers Athena Allred and Carys Timpson. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Cordula Reuther, Paula Santos-Otte, Stefan Diez and colleagues find that microtubule lattice defects facilitate spastin-mediated severing. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish

Applications are open for our Next Generation Leaders program! Our NGL program recognizes emerging scientific leaders and invites them into a supportive network. 🔗 Apply by March 31: https://alleninstitute.org/about/people/next-generation-leaders/

We're still accepting submissions for our upcoming special issue - Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics - which is being coordinated by @franbottanelli.bsky.social and Giulia Zanetti, working alongside our Editor @guijacquemet.bsky.social Deadline: 1 April journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/im...

Check out! Our postdoc Yan Wu and graduate student Yiling Lan's paper is featured! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Specific mitotic events drive left-right organizer development

Highlighted Article: Early, FGF-dependent Kupffer's vesicle progenitor cell divisions are essential for rosette formation, Kupffer's vesicle morphogenesis and proper left-right axis development in zeb...

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Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our Editor, @swathiarur.bsky.social, has curated a new subject collection for the journal, highlighting the intersection between developmental and cell biology. Take a look at the collection 'Cell biology in development' here: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

For those interested 🔬

Jennifer Waters@jencwaters.bsky.social · 9mo ago

PIs & Group Leaders, do your trainees need to learn light microscopy and image analysis? Send them to us! Financial aid is available! Applications due Friday 1/30. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

Emma Burns, Anastasia Amoiroglou, Gregory Rogers, Nasser Rusan and colleagues develop an expansion microscopy protocol for Drosophila cultured cells and tissues, which they use to dissect centriole biology. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

My quote of the day Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln

Useful tool for the cilia in your life!

Ryan Gray@slewzeus.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our new work Cilia.io is out on the Rxiv. Ece Atayeter and Jason Ho trained an ML computer vision transformer for detection and quantification of cilia morphology and dynamics. We will provide a GUI soon. Another great collaboration w/ @jbwallingford.bsky.social

Introducing ** Incendiamoeba **, a eukaryote that can live at temperatures well beyond what we thought possible. 63C!! Read @hbrappap.bsky.social thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism! doi.org/10.1101/2025... #MicroSky #protistsonsky 🧪 #evobio

H. B. Beryl Rappaport@hbrappap.bsky.social · 11mo ago

So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth! #protistsonsky 🧵

Research assistant post, for those interested!

Clare Buckley Lab@buckleylab.bsky.social · 11mo ago

1. Research assistant to work with us on our new BBSRC grant on how mechanics and signalling interact during neural tube formation: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Contains new works from @ditalialab.bsky.social, @sthyme.bsky.social, @lovelessradio.bsky.social, @otamplin.bsky.social, Hammerschmidt Lab, Ron Kwon Lab, Martik Lab, @tillymommersteeg.bsky.social, Lecaudey Lab, @timesaunders.bsky.social, @dangrimes.bsky.social, @akankshi.bsky.social among others!

the Node@the-node.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Want to catch up on all the #DevBio, #StemCell (& related) preprints that came out in September? Check out our September #preprint list👇 thenode.biologists.com/september-in...

We’re hiring! 🧬 Join the Hehnly Lab @syracuseu.bsky.social to study how cells build tissues — focusing on centrosomes, cytoskeleton & trafficking. Postdoc position open: www.sujobopps.com/postings/111...

Postdoctoral Researcher – Cell and Developmental Biology

The Hehnly Lab seeks a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join a dynamic group investigating the molecular and cellular mechanisms governing centrosome function, cytoskeletal organization, an...

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Thanks to @currentbiology.bsky.social I now know that elephantnose fish have something called a "Schnauzenorgan" that is loaded with mechanosensory nerve fibers Biology is amazing.

Understanding how the left-right organiser – a structure that only exists transiently in the early embryo – begins 📷 Yan Wu & Yiling Lan et al @lovelessradio.bsky.social lab @syracuseu.bsky.social in @dev-journal.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with Lux Fatimathas

We are hiring! We are currently interviewing for an entry level staff position in the lab, but it is not too late to submit a postdoc application! Send a note of interest to me and apply here: bit.ly/3VmmM7m

Eric Peterman @errricpeterman.bsky.social, Jeffrey Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social @uwbiology.bsky.social & colleagues discover that microtubules regulate tissue-level navigation in skin-resident macrophages. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...