📢 7th Morphology Meeting (formerly known as Young Researcher Meeting Morphology)
📍 Jena, 25–28 Feb 2026

📝 Register & submit abstracts by 30 Nov 2025
👉 www.animalphysiol.uni-jena.de/132/7th-morp...

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ANNiKEY Linear – diagnoses, descriptions, and a single-access identification key to Annelida family-level taxa zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Innate defense at onset of development:
Embryos eliminate bacteria via phagocytosis by epithelial cells. Zebrafish embryos engulf bacteria via zippering protrusions, inducing program crucial for development. Bacterial phagocytosis conserved in mouse & human embryos
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Kyojiro Ikeda @beingkyo.bsky.social @univie.ac.at presenting now at #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social on first mechanistic & molecular regulators of #bristle biogenesis in the #Platynereis model. Also check Kyojiro's recent @naturecomms.bsky.social publication www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I will give a talk during our institute's AI day about
"The Dark Side of AI"
and plan to speak about negative consequences of AI in science like a flood of AI-generated low-quality papers, ethical, privacy, environmental issues, AI-generated reviews etc. Some good examples/analyses of what is […]

The Important meeting for any kind of morphological studies of invertebrates will happen this Summer: icim6.com

We are excited to announce that registration for the Michael Sars Symposium 2025 is now open! 🤩 Join us on June 6th at Media City Bergen for a day of exceptional talks 🧪 #MSS2025
✨Learn more and register here: tinyurl.com/yc4jxdvz

New paper about molting in nematodes. 🙂https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.27.634690v1

This year, the Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social publisher of Development, J. Cell Science, Disease Models & Mechs... celebrates its *100* year anniversary

From little acorns, mighty oaks grow

Find out about some of the centenary activities:

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Monod Conference "Origin of metazoans": fossils, genomes, cell biology, gene regulation, development, and more.

Join us in Roscoff for an exceptional speaker line-up and stunning venue!

🗓️Abstract deadline: March 4.

Register and share!
www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/origin-me...

Found some serpulid worm tubes! 🪱 Fresh ones are bright white with calcium carbonate, while older, likely empty ones turn black from magnetite deposits. Worms are endlessly fascinating! 🖤✨ #WormWednesday with @mariheilertsen.bsky.social @cdeepsea.bsky.social

We are currently breaking ice with the RV Kronprins Haakon in the polar darkness, trying to get to our sampling station 🌌🧊❄️ Turns out that the route through the ice is rarely a straight line! @cdeepsea.bsky.social @rimskaya.bsky.social

Abyssal sea spider in the Arctic! Its small body contrasts with its long legs, which house the gut and reproductive organs. Likely a male—those slender ovigers for cleaning and egg care are a giveaway. But why are the basal leg segments swollen? 🤔 And that proboscis—huge! What’s it feeding on?

Wood on a research vessel? 🌊 Yep! @mariheilertsen.bsky.social has been collecting it—not for a lumberjack mission, but to study abyssal wood-borers (Xyloredo), also called shipworms. 🛳🪱 These bivalves, cousins of oysters and mussels, use their shells to carve tunnels into wood. 🐚🪵

Wood on a research vessel? 🌊 Yep! @mariheilertsen.bsky.social has been collecting it—not for a lumberjack mission, but to study abyssal wood-borers (Xyloredo), also called shipworms. 🛳🪱 These bivalves, cousins of oysters and mussels, use their shells to carve tunnels into wood. 🐚🪵

#wormwednesday for real! 24 h!

After sampling and sorting during the night i do extraction of worms and hopefully also RNA 🤞🏻

Heading north, where the night deepens. 🌌

Our goal: catch as many deep-sea creatures as possible for scientific research. 🪱🐙🦑🪼🦀

We’re a small but determined deep-sea biology team 🐟🌊 aboard the RV Kronprins Haakon (Norsk Polarinstitutt, IMR, UiB) together with @mariheilertsen.bsky.social

Biogenetic law, Haeckel, Houglass theory, examples from development, genomics etc... very intensive, but fun @ Phylogenetic symposium in Jena organized by @hejnol.bsky.social : speakers are here www.bio.uni-jena.de/13970/64-phy...

Wooow! Check out the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... i was extremly lucky to listen to the talk of Casey Dunn in person. @ FSU Jena. Physalia does not migrate on the long distances as i thought before! More in preprint.

Shumpei 👏! What about other ecdysozoans? 🤔

📢Save the date!📢
If you're passionate about #marinebiology and #microbiology don't miss the Trends in Marine Host-Microbe Symbioses Symposium #TMHMS25

www.marinesymbioses.eu

📅22-25 October 2025
📍 Padua, Italy

Our latest, by Emily Carlisle, Zongjun Yin, Davide Pisani and myself: Ediacaran origin and Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looking for a tag to localise fluorescent proteins to the plasma membrane? Unsure which tag might work in your species? We generated a toolkit of 11 membrane-localising tags, which can be screened rapidly by microinjecting mRNA in your species of interest. 1/4
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