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📑 EvoDevo Papers @evodevo-papers.bsky.social · 1d

You can now search the entire EvoDevo Papers database (~1.8k posts). Check it out on the website evodevo.brunovellutini.com or read more here: brunovellutini.com/posts/evodev...

#EvoDevo #DevBio #EvoBio

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Bruno C. Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social · 9d

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The first steps of a sea urchin - Bruno C. Vellutini

The winners of this year's Nikon Small World in Motion are out, and my favorite is the 5th place entry, A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed by

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · 21d

Our new collaborative paper with Cyndi Bradham's lab at BU, led by first author @alexandralion.bsky.social is out in @devbiol.bsky.social & featured on the Sept 2025 cover! 😀🥳

PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development!
Cover art: embryos + flow fields
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

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Bruno C. Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks Alexa!

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 27d

BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏

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bipashadey29.bsky.social @bipashadey29.bsky.social · 26d

Super thrilled to see our review out! It was a great experience to put this together with @sameerthukral.bsky.social and @yuchiunwang.bsky.social. Use it as a primer to the field or as inspiration to brainstorm how rigidity transitions can bridge scales!

sameerthukral.bsky.social @sameerthukral.bsky.social · 26d

Excited to share our new review in Development, Growth and Differentiation(DGD) Journall!

With the amazing @yuchiunwang.bsky.social & @bipashadey29.bsky.social,we explore how rigidity transitions bridge cytoplasmic & tissue scales.

Read the full review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Integrating Tissue and Cytoplasmic Rigidity Transitions During Morphogenesis

Multicellular organisms generate organizational complexity through morphogenesis, in which mechanical forces orchestrate the movements and deformations of cells and tissues, while chemical signals re...

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 26d

My opinion about the historic verdict coming out of Brazil, with @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, is in the @nytimes.com today.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where the U.S. Failed

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Diogo Melo @damelo.net · 24d

RIP Hermeto Pascoal, one of the greats! youtube.com/watch?v=TUdO...

Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo - Poré Poré (aka Renan) - Especial "Calendário do Som" - TV Cultura - 2001

YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal

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Anaïs Bailles @anaisbailles.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks a lot to @elisecutts.bsky.social for nicely highlighting and putting in context our article! It was very interesting to discuss together, notably about the analogies between the emergence of order in Hydra and other physical phenomena.

Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 27d

Hydra are ~basically~ immortal.

Shred 50 of the lil guys to bits and pack their cells in a blob, and that blob will grow into a new Hydra... albeit with a few extra heads!

This week's post is a Q&A @anaisbailles.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de about the physics of how Hydra coax order from chaos.🧪⚛️

Hydra are a cosmos in a cuvette

Anaïs Bailles on astrophysics and immortal animals

www.reviewertoo.com

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 27d

Hydra are ~basically~ immortal.

Shred 50 of the lil guys to bits and pack their cells in a blob, and that blob will grow into a new Hydra... albeit with a few extra heads!

This week's post is a Q&A @anaisbailles.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de about the physics of how Hydra coax order from chaos.🧪⚛️

Hydra are a cosmos in a cuvette

Anaïs Bailles on astrophysics and immortal animals

www.reviewertoo.com

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Bruno C. Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social · 27d

Amazing news, Laurent! Congratulations!

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Laurent Formery @laurentformery.bsky.social · 28d

I am very happy to announce that the Echinox Lab will open in the BIOM unit at @obs-banyuls.fr in January 2026!! 🥳

We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution.
🔽 Check our brand new lab website if you want to learn more about our future research
www.echinox.org

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 29d

Issue 16 is complete!

On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.

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Cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei (DAPI, blue) and F-actin (Phalloidin, orange), imaged by spinning disc confocal microscopy and processed using ImageJ. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 29d

Important story dissecting the mechanism of gut cell extrusion using organoids. Local heterogeneity of tension promotes live extrusion and basal relaxation is sufficient to kick the cell out. Nice combination of optogenetics and live imaging to demonstrate this
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 29d

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Flagellar gliding in choanoflagellates

Freire-Delgado and Brunet discover a new mode of cell motility in choanoflagellates, the closest relatives of animals. Under mild confinement, choanoflagellate move over surfaces without cell deformat...

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James Hammond @jamesehammond.bsky.social · Sep 8

Out now in Seminars in Cell & Dev Biol!

doi.org/10.1016/j.se...

With thanks to co-authors @callumbucklow.bsky.social and @bertaverd.bsky.social

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Bruno C. Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you Eva!! 😊

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Bruno C. Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Obrigado Allan!! It's also 🇦🇷💪 cc: @cuencam15.bsky.social :)

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Bruno C. Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hanh! Thank you :)

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Bruno C. Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you, Joaquín! <3

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Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thrilled to share 🎉 I’m starting my lab at University of Zurich,
DMLS as Assistant Professor (tenure track) from Jan 2026!
The Neural MorphoGenomics & Developmental Dynamics Lab will be exploring how genes + morphogenesis shape brain development with organoids, imaging & spatial genomics 🧠🔬🧬

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Bruno C. Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you Mette!

Bruno C. Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks Sergio!

Bruno C. Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you :)

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TUD | Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) @crtd-tud.bsky.social · Sep 4

🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu!

With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠

#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG

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