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YouTube video by Igorrr IGORRR - HEADBUTT

Igorrr is basically French composer Gautier Serre + a bunch of (very talented) musicians willing to follow his latest madness. #MusicForPianoAndExcavator <Headbutt> 👉 youtu.be/N0OBF83rL-8 Will they bring the dozer on stage at the prestigious Paris Olympia on 17/10? I’ll be there to check.

I’m still in a weirdophile mood; so for our next #MusicForNerds #MusicForGeeks #MusicForDorks, let’s explore the strange plight of people experiencing <ADHD> 👉 youtu.be/TGIvO4eh190 , or is it a superpower? #BaroqueAndRoll 👇

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 😃

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Cell and developmental biologists; This is well worth a read: Maik and Roberto synthesize work over decades to propose a provocative model of who mesenchymal cells migrate and shape tissues 🧪 Go for the cool Figures, stay for the deep insights

Les traitements homéopathiques devraient être payés avec de l argent homéopathique.

We're struggling to do anything but watch this video of the newly discovered bumpy snailfish today.

YouTube video by King Crimson King Crimson - Epitaph (Including "March For No Reason" and "Tomorrow And Tomorrow")

As we drift into a melancholic autumn and yet another penniless research season, my favorite song ever by my favorite band ever, King Crimson, <Epitaph> youtu.be/vXrpFxHfppI

The three embryo movements evoke, in turn, purring sea cucumbers, melancholy isopods and delicious podophtalms, and must be played like “a nightingale with a toothache”. Too much absinthe, maybe?

You all know the <Gymnopédies> youtu.be/TL0xzp4zzBE ? They have been composed by Erik Satie, who also made lots of quirky piano pieces, such as <Embryons desséchés> (dessicated embryos) youtu.be/rzuWmVaUoFw #MusicForNerds #PearShapedMusic 👇

Extreme armour in the world's oldest ankylosaur - Nature The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.

A study in Nature shows that the earliest known ankylosaurs had uniquely elaborate body armour, including a spiky ornament on their tail. These extreme armour features are unlike those of any other vertebrate, including other ankylosaurs later in their evolutionary history. #Paleosky 🧪

At long last, the version of record of our paper on the #Platynereis #connectome

"Whole-body connectome of a segmented annelid larva" is out.

Explore the rich online presentation with all the videos, figures and source data here:

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97964

@eLife
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Conservation of bilaterian genome structure is the exception, not the rule - Genome Biology Species from diverse animal lineages have conserved groups of orthologous genes together on the same chromosome for over half a billion years since the last common ancestor of bilaterians. Although no...

Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study led by @tomlewin.bsky.social now out in Genome Biology @bmc.springernature.com! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians.
doi.org/10.1186/s130...

L'intelligent design, c est la doctrine suivant laquelle tout l univers, astres et êtres vivants, à été créé par une intelligence supérieure, c est à dire un dieu omniscient et omnipotent. Au diable, l évolution! Alors, je ne vois pas en quoi la terre plate peut les choquer !

The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan - Nature Genomic, single-cell transcriptomic and epigenetic analyses show that chaetognaths, following extensive gene loss in the gnathiferan lineage, relied on newly evolved genes and lineage-specific tandem ...

After nearly twenty years in the making, our attempt at understanding what makes the chaetognath phylum so unique has finally been published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
with #LauraPiovani @dariagavr.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social and others /1

Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6

Also: a tesseract is a hypercube, a 4D cube. A geometric reminder that we live in a four-dimensional space-time fabric … even if most of us can barely handle 3D Mondays. <Of Energy> youtu.be/Pg504Z3mGqE

TesseracT is a British band from Milton Keynes. They are considered among early pionneers of the “Djent” sound, a pretty brainy mix of syncopated, percussive guitars, unusual rhythms and complex compositions. Some says it is undanceable, but with training and beer, anything is possible.

Back to the heavies! Space travel as a metaphor for exploring one’s own mind, with an obvious nod to my favorite film in the video <Legion> youtu.be/pHZXTmPnMso #MusicForNerds #Djent 👇

This creature can 3D-print its own body parts Bristle worms have protrusions that act like a 3D printer, helping us to understand how cells regenerate.

Out stody Is now on National Geographic!!!

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

The Kristineberg Underwater Observatory is now live!! 🐟🧪🦑
Similar to the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social.

Watch the eel grass meadow full of life live from your desk! Gobies, crabs, pipefish, several species of wrasses including some massive Ballan wrasse. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/live/goB60IJ...

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Sinocyclocheilus wanlanensis sp. nov., GXU2020000062, holotype, 86.74 mm SL. (A) Live specimen (not holotype); (B) lateral view of head in preserved specimen; (C) dorsal view of preserved specimen.

𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a new species of eyeless cavefish is described from Guizhou Province, China. 🐟🧪

mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...

Le nombre de femmes médecins dépasse, pour la première fois en 2025, celui des hommes Sur 237 214 médecins en activité figurent 118 957 femmes et 118 257 hommes, selon les données de la direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques publiées lundi, au 1ᵉʳ ja...

Interesting. Despite the political backlash, societies continue to evolve towards more gender equality. www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Don't use ChatGPT ok? It's not giving you accurate information.

Transferable approaches to CRISPR-Cas9 induced genome editing in non-model insects: a brief guide - Frontiers in Zoology Despite the large variety of insect species with divergent morphological, developmental and physiological features questions on gene function could for a long time only be addressed in few model speci...

Our review on CRISPR-Cas9 based techniques is now out in BMC Frontiers in Zoology. Have a look if you are interested in applying genome editing in insects or other organisms!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

High CO2 destroyed the Permian world in the biggest mass extinction in Earth history, and the die-off of tropical rainforests kept CO2 high, and the miserable planet sweltering, for some 5 million years afterwards.

Confocal Images of the fruit fly Proventriculus

Confocal Images of the fruit fly Proventriculus

🔬New paper! This has been my personal favorite project I’ve ever done - also, the only one that the President has been relentlessly trying to destroy by 100% defunding our lab & institution. Please enjoy:

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

Figure 1 The study system: Botrylloides diegensis.

Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of the whole colony of Botrylloides diegensis: insights into tissue specialization and blastogenesis

Read this #LifelongDevSI Techniques and Resources Article by Berivan Temiz, Michael Meier and Megan Wilson @meganwilsonnz.bsky.social :
doi.org/10.1242/dev....