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Grocott Lab
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Dr Tim Grocott's research group, University of East Anglia UK. 🐣 embryology & new adventures in human development via stem cells. Modelling in silico/vitro. Fascinated by signalling networks, patterning, all things early development and the eye.
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Grocott Lab @grocottlab.bsky.social · Mar 6
Need to electroporate and/or live image avian embryos? We hope our new preprint will help you get started:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo

🧪🐣 #devbio
A still image of a stage HH4 gastrulating chick embryo electroporated with 3 different fluorescent reporter genes shown in magenta, yellow and cyan.
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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lucygdornan.bsky.social
Me leaving the lab after seeing bands the right size in my colony PCR gel
Father Ted GIF
ALT: Father Ted GIF
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November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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berasymbionts.bsky.social
Super excited to be joining @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and to begin this new chapter in Norwich!!
And thrilled to be neighbours with the Mutualisms Research Group at @hassansalem.bsky.social and the wider community at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get started! 😁
Calm river in Norwich with reflections of riverside houses on the water under a clear sky.
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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thomaslecuit.bsky.social
And here is the link to access the whole pdf. Enjoy!

I strongly believe that focusing on information & computation during Development provides an important framework, that encapsulates the genetic, chemistry & mechanics, but focusses on organisation, dynamics & logic.
PDF: tinyurl.com/4hn34t8w
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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joadelas.bsky.social
It's always special when you find your own paper in the table of contents of the journal 😍

"The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form

www.cell.com/developmenta...
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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alicegodden.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint alert!
Our latest work from @immler.bsky.social lab 🐟🧬

Sex-specific responses of small RNAs and transposable elements to thermal stress in zebrafish germ cells

#TESky #TE #piRNA #miRNA #zebrafish #DanioDigest
🔗 Read here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A thread 🧵...
Sex-specific responses of small RNAs and transposable elements to thermal stress in zebrafish germ cells
Environmental fluctuations influence heritable phenotypes through complex molecular mechanisms. In zebrafish (Danio rerio), the interplay between temperature variation, transposable element (TE) activ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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thebuddhabird93.bsky.social
Ending my #FluorescenceFriday with this beautiful avian retina image depicting the beautiful stratification in the avian eyes.
This is where complexity meets art.
#retina #avian #bird #plexiformlayer
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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biouea.bsky.social
Our next Cell, Development & Molecular Biology seminar speaker will be Mona Alawadhi, PhD student in the Wormstone/Williams/Grocott labs. All welcome!
“From iPSCs to Lens Organoids and the Adult Lens – Insights into Regeneration and Fibrosis following Cataract Surgery” Thurs 20 November, EFRY 01.02 LT For more information contact Geoff Mok (g.mok@uea.ac.uk) or bio.fps@uea.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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bjesseshapiro.bsky.social
Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language.

Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.

Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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jimfouracre.bsky.social
PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!

How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.

Application deadline Jan 6th

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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mads100tist.bsky.social
Apropos of today's discussion on science Bluesky 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...
The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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morphomechanics.bsky.social
Curious how mechanics shape the developing eye? 👁️

Join us for your PhD at the interdisciplinary
@lsiexeter.bsky.social to explore early eye morphogenesis
through developmental biology, biophysics and computational modelling.
lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/harma...

Supported by @swbiodtp.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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the-node.bsky.social
Discover #DevBio and #StemCell biology conferences, meetings, training courses & workshops on our Events Calendar 🗓️ 👀

Missed one? Sign up & add relevant events here: thenode.biologists.com/events/
Screenshot of the Events Calendar available on the Node showing two events happening in November 2025.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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gunes-taylor.bsky.social
🎧crack on the latest episode of ‘A Question of Science - What is the Future of Fertility’ for my hot takes on follicles, female fertility & how finding the moment (or even the willing males) to procreate is an issue IVF / egg freezing can’t fix for females with careers 🤫👇link below (lmk ur thoughts)
crick.ac.uk The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 22d
Egg freezing, fertility tech and why ovulation is like the Hunger Games.

Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of fertility.

Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
Promotional image for 'What's the future of fertility?' with five speakers and microphones.
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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edinuni-irr.bsky.social
IRR's Dr Güneş Taylor joins Professor Brian Cox to explore the science of fertility in the latest episode of A Question of Science.

Joining an expert panel, Taylor discusses the role of the ovary when it comes to fertilisation, pregnancy, and development.

🎧Listen now: www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
Working in a biomed institute, its natural to think about health & medical impact of dev bio but there's more to dev bio

Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding)

And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
In preprints: multiomics of low temperature acclimation in the era of intensifying temperature fluctuations
In a warming world, all life forms – endotherms and ectotherms alike – are finding their homeostasis being challenged. The environmental change is challenging at all stages of life. How different orga...
journals.biologists.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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kwolbachia.bsky.social
My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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prelights.bsky.social
Check out this useful #DevBio #preprint reading list on the Node.

Also, the #CellBio edition just dropped on preLights, this month curated by Matthew Davies, @sristi.bsky.social & @vibhasingh.bsky.social

#preList ⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/oct...
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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merz.bsky.social
One of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.
fpbase.org FPbase @fpbase.org · 23d
The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!

www.fpbase.org/spectra/
FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer
An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.
www.fpbase.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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socdevbio.bsky.social
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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epimechfc.bsky.social
Which features of tissue flows are most robust and how do they emerge from #EpithelialMechanics?

I’m @alex-plum.bsky.social (@mattiaserra.bsky.social group) and I’ll be sharing some papers on characterizing and controlling avian gastrulation flows.
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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stanleystrawbridge.bsky.social
🚨 PhD Projects 🚨

We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
Learn more about postgraduate opportunities on our website:
bit.ly/48K3P6C
#PhD #PhDJourney #HomeOfTheWonderful
Apply for a Postgraduate Research Degree
University of East Anglia
bit.ly
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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david-j-barry.bsky.social
Want to automate workflows in #FIJI?
Don't know where to start?
We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started.

Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding!

imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...
Batch Processing with the ImageJ Macro Language
The ImageJ wiki is a community-edited knowledge base on topics relating to ImageJ, a public domain program for processing and analyzing scientific images, and its ecosystem of derivatives and variants...
imagej.github.io
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM