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Michael Jones @mixaeljones.bsky.social · 19h

Fencepost Jumping Spider… on a fence, but not jumping! 🕷️

@britishspiders.bsky.social
#Spider #Arachtober

A Fencepost Jumping Spider on a wooden fence looks towards the camera. It has hairy palps and the photographer can be seen reflected in the spider’s front two eyes

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Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc. @shubhamtr.bsky.social · 1d

The hustle disappearing IRL

Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · Jun 18

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc. @shubhamtr.bsky.social · 1d

Wtaf

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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 2d

Hippocampal drift rate reflects the temporal organization of memories
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Hippocampal drift rate reflects the temporal organization of memories

When freely recalling events from the past, individuals tend to successively remember stimuli that were studied close together in time—a phenomenon known as temporal clustering. Temporal clustering is...

www.jneurosci.org

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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 1d

A Pine Ladybird being dwarfed between two f. spectabilis Harlequin Ladybirds, found today in an oak tree (there were lots of Larches & Yews around too) in north Shropshire. Similar but also rather different!

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 2d

Very sad to learn of the death of Sir John Gurdon. He made a huge contribution to developmental biology & should be an inspiration to anyone whose potential is dismissed in school. It was a pleasure to work with him when he was Chair of the COB Board. www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...

John Gurdon (1933 – 2025) - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Renowned developmental biologist John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has died aged 92.

www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 1d

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡

See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...

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Jem's Jumpers UK @jemsjumpers.bsky.social · 2d

Clemmie moulted again, making her subadult! 😍 She's starting to show her bright orange colours famous in Phidippus Regius Soroas. Just look at her 🥹 One moult away from potentially becoming a mum 😭 We cannot! #cutespider #jumpingspider

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Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc. @shubhamtr.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite tetrad of cells, front and center ❤️

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 3d

Issue 18 is complete!

On the cover: Clones on Drosophila retina with activated Mbt kinase (pink), expanding Sdk protein (yellow) from tri- to bi-cellular adheren junctions & distorting the ommatidial lattice (cyan).

See Research Article by Gandhi et al.

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 2d

They shouldn't have killed it -- I would have like to see something about its sexual behavior and whether it could reproduce.

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

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Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc. @shubhamtr.bsky.social · 2d

What a mood though 🤣

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Postdoc position in regenerative biology on "Tracking the cellular origins regeneration" in the @michalis_averof lab in Lyon, France. Fantastic lab, great institute, nice city!
https://www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

#postdoc

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Arachtober @arachtober.bsky.social · 4d

Skipper and Crab Spider - #Arachtober 5th
I think this spider knows that is too much for a meal. She wasn't moving.
#spider #macrophotography #naturephotography #butterfly #skipper

A brown skipper butterfly and a small white crab spider maybe wondering if it is too big to eat. Stereo 3D Macro Photography.

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Phil Stevenson @philstevenson.bsky.social · 4d

How an insect might change how surgeons operate on the human body

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

How an insect might change how surgeons operate on the human body

The sawfly’s egg-laying organ, the ovipositor, could help modern surgical techniques

www.independent.co.uk

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 4d

Heading to #CSHLDros this week, which means it’s time to get an embroidery project cued up to keep my hands busy while I listen!
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A wooden embroidery hoop with cream colored Aida lies on a wooden surface. At left a spectrum of thread skeins in green, yellow and brown. On top of the unstitched fabric is a bitty pair of TSA-permissible scissors.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 6d

How do primates cooperate to solve a task? Pairs 🐵🐵 of marmosets were tested in a cooperative lever-pulling task. They were successful in solving the task by coordinating through social vision. Also, social relationships shaped the strength of colaboration! Find out more www.cell.com/current-biol...

Diverse and flexible strategies enable successful cooperation in marmoset dyads

Meisner and Shi et al. show that common marmosets flexibly coordinate with partners using both gaze-dependent and rhythmic strategies. Cooperation depends on active social monitoring and is shaped by ...

www.cell.com

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 6d

Every figure in this paper uses HCR @hcrimaging.bsky.social
Such a game changing technique for studying gene expression #xenopus #neuralcrest

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Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc. @shubhamtr.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #arachtober from this jumper on my shoe 🥰

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Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc. @shubhamtr.bsky.social · 7d

Omggggg 🔥

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Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc. @shubhamtr.bsky.social · 7d

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 8d

When BCE (before the confocal era) turned into CE (confocal era) - 1987

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @natrevmcb.nature.com · 9d

New Online! The advent of confocal laser scanning microscopy in biological research

The advent of confocal laser scanning microscopy in biological research

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 01 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00905-5The advent of laser-scanning confocal microscopy revolutionized cell biology, offering unprecedented resolution and depth and enabling scientists to visualize cellular structures in 3D.

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Michael Jones @mixaeljones.bsky.social · 8d

On the first day of #Arachtober my true love sent to me… a Fencepost Jumping Spider in my bathroom sink! 🕷️🚰

Not sure this adaptation of a classic festive song is going to catch on… but worth a go! 🎶

@britishspiders.bsky.social
#Spider #JumpingSpider

A small jumping spider with stripy legs and gleaming eyes stood on a white sink

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall insisted the giving names to the chimps and realizing that they had personalities was critical for doing science. It was a critical methodological debate and she was entirely correct (and won). #philsci legend in addition to everything else.

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 8d

RIP Jane Goodall. There's of course no better way to understand Goodall than in her own words, of which there are volumes to explore. But I also love Stephen Jay Gould's introduction to her "In the Shadow of Man": archive.org/details/insh.... As Gould notes, and Goodall embodied, "Nature IS context"

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall was also the first to bring attention to wild tool-using vultures, which she spotted randomly one day while out driving. These birds use stones to break into ostrich eggs.

Be observant like Jane and who knows what you’ll see! 🧪🥚

A two page spread of national geographic magazine with a story by Jane Goodall and her husband reporting on egg-breaking, tool-using Egyptian vultures.

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