Mostafa Aakhte @aakhte.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Göttingen (@huiskenlab), a physicist with an interest in Light-sheet microscopy, computer science, and developmental biology.
📝 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02882-8
Joana E Saraiva @joanaesaraiva.bsky.social Interested in the mechanics of morphogenesis and cell state transitions. PhD @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social → Postdoc, Edgar Gomes Lab.
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
@micro-manager.bsky.social @micro-manager.bsky.social 
Bernhard Zdársky @bernhardzdarsky.bsky.social 
RWedlichSoldner.bsky.social @rwedlichsoldner.bsky.social Professor of Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Dynamics and Imaging, University of Münster | #cellcortex, #membranes, #actin, #Lifeact |
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Johan Ajnabi @johanajnabi.com PhD Candidate | Mechanobiology • Epigenetics • Regenerative Biology | Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) | Seeking Postdoctoral Opportunities (2026-27)
More about me: https://johanajnabi.com
@jofmicroscopy.bsky.social @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social 
Jordão Bragantini @jookuma.bsky.social Research Scientist in Loic Royer's team at Biohub | 🇧🇷
Malte Mederacke @maltemederacke.bsky.social PhD in Dagmar Ibers lab @ ETH Zürich.
How does development really work? Beyond genes and networks towards an holistic mechanistic view
Keisuke Ishihara @ishiharaksk.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh. cell biology, biological physics, synthetic morphogenesis of brain and cardiac organoids www.ishiharalab.bio
Manjunath Javoor @mjavoor.bsky.social Graduate student in Schur lab+Sixt lab @IST Austria
CryoEM, actin, and cell migration
Phil Abitua @ohnolog.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW studying, evo-devo, annual killifish, & cell type evolution.
Hocine Rekaik @hocinerekaik.bsky.social Postdoc at @Duboule lab. Biologist interested in mechanisms of gene regulation and chromatin 3D architecture
Chad Hobson @cmhobson.bsky.social Opinions are my own. Aspiring biophysicist & microscopist | Senior Application Scientist at HHMI Janelia's AIC | MS/PhD UNC Physics
eLife Community @elifecommunity.bsky.social @eLife.bsky.social works with researchers across the globe to promote a research culture that values openness, integrity, equity, diversity and inclusion.- C clementhelsens.bsky.social @clementhelsens.bsky.social
Jakob Rentsch @jakobrentsch.eurosky.social Developing microscopy tools for Drosophila brain imaging┃Postdoc at Hiesinger Lab (lab.flygen.org) at FU Berlin┃Formerly PhD at Ewers Lab (@ewerslab.bsky.social)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is dedicated to cutting-edge basic research and graduate education.
www.ista.ac.at
FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social FocalPlane is a community site for anyone with an interest in microscopy. Hosted by Journal of Cell Science (@jcellsci.bsky.social) and The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social).
https://focalplane.biologists.com/
Ben Gallusser @bengallusser.bsky.social Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Biology
Ana Marija Jakšić @merianelion.bsky.social Group leader @ Jaksic Lab, EPFL, ELISIR scholar, Drosophila, Neuroscience, Topology, Robots, Evolution, PopGen, Cognition, Corals, she/her, Trekkie utopian 🦄🧬🪰🧠🪸🇪🇺🇨🇭🇭🇷 🌍🖖🏻 On the TT faculty job market
Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
Martin Loose @nartimsoole.bsky.social Interested in protein self-organization. We rebuild the bacterial cell division machinery and small GTPase networks in vitro. https://looselab.ist.ac.at
Vlad Bondarenko @vladbndk.bsky.social SNSF PostDoc @FMI, Basel
Turco lab 🇨🇭🇺🇦🏳️🌈
Developmental biology 🥚🐣🔬🖥⚙️ #bioengineering #placenta & #endometrium #organoids #biophysics #bioimaging
Alumnus of Weizmann Institute of Science, Hubrecht Institute, EMBL
https://vladyslavbondarenko.com
Metabolism in Development and Physiology, Virtual Seminar Series @devmetphys.bsky.social Monthly online seminar series at the intersection of metabolism, developmental biology & organismal physiology. Every 2nd Thursday of the month at 16:00 CET.
Subscribe at: https://forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ6zYv7
Joachim Fuchs @joachimfuchs.bsky.social Postdoc Hiesinger-Lab (FU Berlin) working with #Drosophila brain development (https://lab.flygen.org) previously PhD Eickholt Lab (Charité Berlin) | Filopodia & AxonBranching & Synapse formation | FijiSc | R | DataViz | UltimateFrisbee | he/him
Barriga Lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social We study the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying tissue morphogenesis @poldresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @embo.org @hfspo.bsky.social
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-groups/barriga
Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social We are the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at TUD Dresden University of Technology @tudresden.bsky.social @dfg.de.
Our goal is to unravel the principles underlying the organization of living matter.
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de
Brugues Lab @brugueslab.bsky.social We combine soft matter physics, biophysics and cell biology to uncover physical principles of cellular organization @ Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, Dresden
@wbialek.bsky.social @wbialek.bsky.social Interested in #physics of life. Theorist but some of my best friends are experimentalists.
Pere Roca-Cusachs @pcusachs.bsky.social Cell biologist, bioengineer, or biophysicist, depending on the time of day.
Group Leader at @ibecbarcelona.eu
Professor at @medicinacs-ub.bsky.social @ub.edu
Zena Hadjivasiliou @zenahadjivasiliou.bsky.social Group Leader Mathematical and Physical Biology Lab @TheCrick and @UCL Physics. Interested in how size, shape and patterns develop and evolve; https://www.hadjivasilioulab.com/.
Turner Lab @lab-turner.bsky.social Account of the Turner lab at the Francis Crick Institute in London. We study sex chromosomes and their impact on health and disease. Rotating curation by lab members.
https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/james-turner
Arash Imani @arashimani.bsky.social PhD student @upc.edu | Researching how forces shape life | mechanobiology group @LaCáN
Carsen Stringer @computingnature.bsky.social group leader @ HHMIJanelia, #neuroscience + AI 🔬 #cellpose | diversity and open-science for better science | she/her | https://mouseland.github.io
MINOR revision @handle.invalid We found a strong correlation between effort and disappointment.
https://ko-fi.com/minorrevision <- If you are wondering how these comics are made, it is explained here. No need to have a meltdown.
Ruth Hornbachner @rhornb.bsky.social PhD @ Pelkmans lab, University of Zurich
Bioimage Analysis | Developmental Biology
oZgun Gokce @gokcegroup.bsky.social Neuroscience Professor at UKBonn&DZNE Bonn. Bridging the gap between brain and immunity with genomics 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🇨🇳🇹🇷🇫🇷🇳🇪🇩🇪
https://gokcelab.org ORCID 0000-0001-6319-404X
Sonia @sonvelt.bsky.social PhD student in Matilde Galli’s lab @Hubrecht 🌙
Studying cell-cycle regulation in C. elegans🪱
Proud mother of a sourdough starter 🍞
Andreas Schoenit @andreasschoenit.bsky.social PostDoc in the Ladoux-Mège lab at Institute Jacques Monod in Paris. Interested in mechanobiology, epithelial dynamics, cell competition and differentiation
Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social Shared account of the Barone Lab at Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
Jordan Shivers @jordanlshivers.bsky.social computational soft matter & biological physics
jordanshivers.github.io
Adam Stevens @ajstevens.bsky.social Assistant Professor @pennmedicine.bsky.social
Department of Cancer Biology.
https://Stevens.bio
Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social 🔬 Junior Group Leader in Münster, Germany.
🌐 Lab Website: https://www.bischofflab.com/
🌀 Morphogenesis, collective cell migration, and chiral organ development in #Drosophila.
🐍 Animal photos: 📷 instagram.com/maikscritters
Mathieu Dedenon @dedenonmathieu.bsky.social PostDoc, Kruse lab at UNIGE, working on active living matter and tissue mechanics.
Former PhD at Curie institute on cell & tissue mechanics.
Aline Grata @alinegrata.bsky.social PhD student working on epithelial cell extrusion in Romain Levayer’s Lab | Social media for Piplettes Magazine ✍🏻
📍Pasteur Institute
Applied Systems Biology @appsysbio.bsky.social Leibniz Institute: Hans Knöll Institute
Jena
The research group Applied Systems Biology is concerned with the mathematical modeling and computer simulation of infection processes caused by human-pathogenic fungi.
Suraj Sahu @surajinacademia.bsky.social That’s me!
#MechanoBiology #MulticellularNetworks
Marcel Issler @macl-i.bsky.social Biophysicist tying to make sense of life.
Interdisciplinary @FWOVlaanderen PhD Fellow with @ColindaScheele at @vib_ccb.
Audrey Desgrange @audreydsg.bsky.social Permanent researcher at INSERM. Working at Institut Imagine and Institut Pasteur (Paris, France). Morphogenesis addict.
L’Oréal UNESCO FWIS ambassadress
Chloé Roffay @chloeroffay.bsky.social From physics to cells to gastruloids • Postdoc @dianapinheiro.bsky.social 🇦🇹• PhD @rouxlab.bsky.social 🇨🇭 • alum cpes @psl-univ.bsky.social 🇨🇵 • she/her • Views my own
Nimesh Chahare @onenimesa.bsky.social Doing #EpithelialMechanics! with neural tube🐣
Convenor @epimechfc.bsky.social
Postdoc @htstuart lab @embl.org // @NerurkarLab at Columbia // PhD @xaviertrepat.bsky.social lab at IBEC Barcelona
jexpnimesh.com
Yasmine Cantaut-Belarif @cantautbelarify.bsky.social Team leader @IBPS, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine, Dev2A | CNRS Research Associate
Debraj Ghose @debrajghose.bsky.social I study how lymphocytes self-organize into multicellular structures. Also interested in how cells sense and respond to chemical gradients. Currently at UCSF. Previously at Harvard and Duke.
Etienne-Manneville's Lab @etiennemanneville.bsky.social Cell Polarity, Migration and Cancer lab, Institut Pasteur Paris & CNRS
Cell biology group with interest in glial cell migration and glioblastoma invasion, cytoskeleton, mechanobiology, RhoGTPases.
Sude Uyulgan @sudeuyulgan.bsky.social PhD student at The University of Sheffield with BBSRC White Rose 👩🔬🔬
Interested in embryonic development, human stem cells, hPSC-derived organoid models
www.tsakiridislab.com
Development, Regeneration and Neurophysiology @drn-sheffield.bsky.social Research Cluster in the School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, UK
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/research/areas/development-regeneration-and-neurophysiology
Frieda Leesch @friedaleesch.bsky.social Neuroscience 🧠 and mental health 🧘♂️ at @SyntropicMed
Former PhD student at @PauliGroup 🐟 (IMP Vienna), fascinated by ribosome dormancy in the egg 🥚
Cornelia Schwayer @cschwayer.bsky.social Postdoc in Liberali lab at ETH D-BSSE, FMI
PhD in Heisenberg lab at ISTA
Interested in self-organization, pattern emergence and mechanobiology
Prachiti Moghe @prachitimoghe.bsky.social Postdoc in the Roska Lab at IOB Basel
Previously PhD in the Hiiragi Lab @EMBL @HubrechtInstitute
Kasumi @kas-umi.bsky.social 
Francoise Helmbacher @fhelmbacher.bsky.social Developmental Biologist, #CNRS researcher, studying morphogenesis, muscle regeneration and pathologies, and curious for all life sciences.
Lab website: https://helmbacherlab.org/
Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social Research group leader @German Cancer Research Center, reconstructing human development and disease using cell fate engineering
Owen Tamplin @otamplin.bsky.social Stem cell biologist. Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Posts and opinions are my own.
Shivani Dharmadhikari @sdharmadhikari.bsky.social Curious about science! PhD student with @maitrejl at @institut_curie Paris, Prev.. UG student researcher at LeptinLab @EMBL
Current: Studying membrane mechanics in preimplantation mammalian development aka “pulling membrane tubes from mouse embryos”
Heisenberg Lab @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social #Mechanics of #zebrafish, #ascidian, and #drosophila #development @Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
(Account managed by Zachary Gao Sun)
https://heisenberglab.pages.ist.ac.at
Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social Flower Designer at Neoplants 🌺
Researcher at Binomica Labs
Degreeless Heathen
Petunia and Snapdragon Breeder
Open Lab Notebook: http://tinyurl.com/ATGCFFE
Shayan Shamipour @shamipourshayan.bsky.social SNSF Ambizione junior group leader @UZH.
Fascinated by how embryos self-organize their shapes and patterns.
Postdoc @ Pelkmans lab | PhD @ Heisenberg lab.
Mehmet Can Uçar @mehmetcanucar.bsky.social Research fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social • Physics of biological and living matter
Alumnus @istaresearch.bsky.social (Postdoc) & @mpici.bsky.social (PhD)
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mps/people/all-academic-staff/mehmet-can-ucar
Kathrin Tomasek @ktomasek.bsky.social Senior postdoctoral researcher stalking UPEC and other uropathogens in 3D microtissue models at EPFL. PhD at ISTAustria. Infection biologist. Microbiologist.
Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social Exploring the mysteries of how life starts - from fertilization to dormancy; combining in vivo & in vitro (fish, mouse, cell culture, biochem); privileged to work with an amazing team @IMP!
https://paulilab.org/
https://www.imp.ac.at/groups/andrea-pauli/
the Node @the-node.bsky.social the Node is a community site for and by developmental and stem cell biologists, covering news, meetings, and research. Hosted by Development @dev-journal.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social. #DevBio #StemCell
https://thenode.biologists.com
Jeff Farrell @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social Cell states & cell fates in zebrafish development
Lab Head since 2020
Imaging, Genetics, scRNAseq
Represents my personal opinions 🏳️🌈
Development @dev-journal.bsky.social Development is a leading research journal in the field of developmental biology, covering stem cells, regeneration, evo-devo, epigenetics, morphogenesis and more. @biologists.bsky.social
James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social The choreography of multicellular systems, computer simulations, gene regulatory circuits, and swarm robotics.
Head of EMBL Barcelona
Co-chair of the Barcelona Collaboratorium
Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا @jacob-hanna.bsky.social Palestinian Stem Cell Scientist. Palestinian and LQBTQ+ rights advocate. #Arab&BlackLivesMatter #EndOccupation #FreePalestine #PeaceNOW #CeasefireNOW #BringThemHomeNow! Personal account.
International Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social ISDB is a non-profit scientific association that promotes the study of developmental biology
Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social Developmental & cell biologist @IBDM and @Centuri in Marseille. Studying muscle making and maintenance in Drosophila and in culture.
Passionate cyclist.
Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social Schierlab. Biozentrum Basel. Development. Behavior. Zebrafish. Curious.
Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social TLM is an initiative to build a network for researchers interested in theory and modelling of biological phenomena. We are on X (old twitter) @TLM_Cambridge, @TLM_Cambridge@mstdn.science. Or follow our website for more details: tlmcambridge.blog
The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social Not-for-profit publisher of Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. Host of community sites the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. Supporting biologists and inspiring biology.
Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social Epithelial cell death, cell extrusion, self-organisation, mechanotransduction and many other things
TanentzapfLab @tanentzapflab.bsky.social A Cell & Developmental Biology lab @UBC. working on the role of cell junctions in development, stem cells, tissue homeostasis.- B Böke Lab @bokelab.bsky.social Oocyte Biology and Cellular Dormancy Lab in CRG, Barcelona, led by Elvan Böke. Joint lab account; Elvan's musings are signed EB.
Erez Raz @erezraz.bsky.social Cell/Developmental Biologist, Germany
Germ cell development in Zebrafish.
https://www.medizin.uni-muenster.de/en/zmbe/the-institutes/inst-of-cell-biology.html
Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social Developmental & stem cell biologist, University of Edinburgh
Digs repetition
Also digs local coordination between cells in development and disease
#SustainableConferencing #Music #Science #MoreScience
Mastodon @CellySally@biologists.social
Bertrand Benazeraf @bertrandbenazeraf.bsky.social Developmental Biologist, Team Leader, Toulouse. Morphogenesis, Interdisciplinarity, Timelapse, Bird embryos 🐥 my positions, likes, and RT are personals.
J.P. Vincent Lab @jpvincentlab.bsky.social Tweets? from the lab of Dr Jean-Paul Vincent FRS @thecrick.bsky.social. DevBio group celebrating 30 years (!) of research into growth, patterning and apoptosis.
Bellaiche Lab @ybellaichelab.bsky.social Our lab is exploring the morphogenesis of proliferative tissues. 
Edouard Hannezo @ehannezo.bsky.social Professor of Biophysics -
@ISTAustria Using physics to understand biological questions, such as how embryos grow!
Nicoletta Petridou @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social Biologist inspired by physics | Group Leader, Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg
Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Stem cell and mechanobiologist at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine and University of Helsinki 
Campàs Lab @campaslab.bsky.social Physics of Embryonic Self-Organization and Morphogenesis. Tweets by Otger Campàs (Professor, Chair of Tissue Dynamics and Director
at the Physics of Life Excellence Cluster of TU Dresden)
Timothy Saunders @timesaunders.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Medical School interested in how complex shape emerges during embryo development. Will work on anything that can be imaged live :)
Rita Mateus @ritamateus.bsky.social Group Leader @MPI-CBG and @POL, TU-Dresden. Dev Biologist mixing it up w/ Physics. Want to know how organs grow! also obsessed with structural colors | ritamateus.com
Emily Noël @noelresearchlab.bsky.social Heart development, morphogenesis, extracellular matrix, and zebrafish.
Development, Regeneration and Neurophysiology Lead @ Uni of Sheffield. 
NordenLab @nordenlab.bsky.social How do organs form from cells to tissue? Zebrafish and organoids; live imaging; quantitative biology; theory. Comments by Caren Norden
Tim Stearns @stearnslab.bsky.social Professor and Dean of The Rockefeller University. Cell biologist in NYC. Believer in the power of science education.