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Kevin Terretaz @kwolbachia.bsky.social · 6d

I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager!
I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 6d

Our next extraordinary biologist is Mark Peifer, recent @biologists.bsky.social Director and a prolific author, having published in @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social and @biologyopen.bsky.social. #100biologists
@peiferlabunc.bsky.social

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Rachael Ott @rachaelott.bsky.social · 7d

For #FluorescenceFriday, RhoA (blue) and the actin cytoskeleton (magenta) are shown in a set of primary microglia 🔬 #Neuroscience #Microscopy

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Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · 7d

Listening to the new Taylor Swift album & working on figures, sharing a 🤩 image for #FluorescenceFriday

[penetrating 🐭 cerebral arteriole at the pial surface, aSMA in yellow = smooth muscle cell, pan-laminin in cyan = basement membrane, fibroblast in magenta...squeezing in to cover that vessel 🫂)

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Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social · 7d

😍 amazing 🔬

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 7d

My entry for today’s #FluorescenceFriday: a pupal #Drosophila testis with muscles expressing
🔵 lifeact &
🔴 RFP-nls

Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨

🔗 www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

#NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt

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Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social · 8d

One out of many reasons why gills fascinate me 🔬🧬

PS: A recent study showed that the outer ear cartilage shares gene regulatory programs with the gill filaments of fishes and amphibians — the gills program has been repurposed to create parts of the human ear 👂
🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39788155/

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 8d

Limb regeneration guide for axolotls 📋

Laura Turchi (@turchil.bsky.social) highlights a recent paper by @leootsuki.bsky.social and team on The Node ⬇️👀

thenode.biologists.com/limb-regener...

Limb regeneration guide for axolotls - the Node

A recent paper from Otsuki and colleagues investigates the molecular mechanisms driving limb regeneration in axolotl

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 8d

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

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Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social · 8d

Great picture of a fascinating creature 🐙

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Julia Schnabel @ja-schnabel.bsky.social · 8d

ELLIS @ellis.eu · 8d

🎓 The application portal for the #ELLISPhD Program is open today! Info & link: https://bit.ly/45DSe75

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social · 23d

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Excited to share my first PhD paper, published in @dev-journal.bsky.social
What if fish gills —often overlook —hold secrets about development, patterning, and function?
We uncovered how early patterning shapes adult gill architecture.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

#DevBio #Zebrafish

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Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social · 21d

Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social
More info below ⬇️

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells

Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya

📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026

journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 14d

For #FluorescenceFriday - immunostaining in a tissue section from the cortex of the human 🧠showing blood vessels 🟢 interacting with some astrocytes 🟠⭐. Image credit to PhD student Sang Ho Kwon in the JHU BCMB training program. 🔬🧪🤩

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Kevin Terretaz @kwolbachia.bsky.social · 13d

Behold! A microscopic Viking longship riding a giant nematode!

#FluorescenceFriday #SciArt

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Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social · 13d

Gorgeous 😍

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Lori O'Brien @llobrienlab.bsky.social · 13d

For this #FluorescenceFriday, a gorgeous image of an adult mouse kidney labeled with AQP2 and alpha SMA antibodies. AQP2 (green) marks the collecting duct and distal connecting segment while SMA marks the arterial tree. Courtesy of talented postdoc Sarah McLarnon.

Image of a fluorescently labeled adult mouse kidney showing AQP2 staining of collecting ducts and connecting segment in green and alpha SMA staining of the arterial tree in magenta. The collecting ducts look like squiggly branches.

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Laurent Formery @laurentformery.bsky.social · 14d

Sea urchin metamorphosis is maybe one of the most radical event in developmental biology. In just about an hour, these little pluteus larvae completely reorganize their entire body plan.

Very happy that this video got awarded an honorable mention by #NikonSmallWorld 😃

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Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social · 15d

Stunning schematics 🦓🐟

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Aug 8

✨Development meets design in this embryonic chameleon lung 🫁 🦎. Smooth muscle swirls 🟣 and branching tips and cartilage 🟢 come together in reptilian lung morphogenesis. Image taken by @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social 🔬🧪
#FluorescenceFriday #DevBio

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Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social · 15d

Same ...amazing image😍🔬

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 24d

Mouse (Mus musculus) 🐭 is the powerhouse of mammalian genetics, essential for studying embryogenesis, organ development and gene function using transgenic technologies. 📸 Image by Zhong Hua also featured on the cover of Developmental Biology textbook (11th edition) #ModelMonday

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 16d

1/12 A very special moment for me! 🎉

My first paper as corresponding author—a @jcb.org Perspective on how contact-based decision-making in collective cell migration can itself encode blueprints for complex patterns and shapes.

rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#cellbio #devbio #science

🧵for details

Cartoon of a speculative heterogenous cell population performing mesenchymal collective cell migration.

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 17d

Our latest issue is out!👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...

On the cover: Nautilus ≈ 🐙+🐚

(Maybe — like the Nautilus — our journal is a living fossil, believing in the interest and inspiration our readers might draw from the diversity of biological systems, questions and approaches we try to feature🙏 )

Nautiloids (pictured)—a lineage of ancient, externally shelled cephalopods—once dominated our oceans, but today, these living fossils are threatened and in need of protection from over-exploitation.

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Nat Prunet @nat-prunet.bsky.social · 20d

Hey #pollen people! @theobrominated.bsky.social would like to know which species these mixed pollen grains are from, and I admit except for pine and lily, I'm not sure. Would anyone be able to help?

#botany #plantscience #bioimaging #microscopy

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