Margherita Battistara @mbattistara.bsky.social Postdoc in the Clark lab, @geneticscam.bsky.social
- University of Cambridge.
Soft spot for morphogenesis, biophysics and pattern formation <3
Former PhD student in the Paluch lab
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.
Rodrigo Senovilla-Ganzo @rodrisenovilla.bsky.social This profile will be changing: call it evolution, development or both!
I do omics to understand early development and vertebrate evolution.
PhD at @PhyloBrain
Postdoc at @denisduboule.bsky.social
Agneesh Barua @agneeshbarua.bsky.social HFSP Long-Term fellow at the University of Lausanne.
#Evolution #GeneExpression #Genetics
Amartya Tashi Mitra @binturong98.bsky.social Buschbeck Lab PhD candidate | University of Cincinnati | Studying how weird eyes evolve & develop in arthropods 🐛🪲 | Artist | Embryology 2025 | UCL MRes BEC Alumn | NHM London | St Xavier’s Bombay
https://amartyamitra.wixsite.com/my-site-4
@marchalfon.bsky.social @marchalfon.bsky.social 
Stefan Luschnig @luschnig.bsky.social Developmental cell biologist exploring epithelial morphogenesis, tube formation, tricellular junctions, and more. Views are my own.
www.luschnig.uni-muenster.de/
Alison Wright @alielw.bsky.social Evolutionary geneticist with a particular interest in sexual dimorphism and sex chromosome evolution. Senior Lecturer at University of Sheffield www.alisonewright.co.uk
@imaeso.bsky.social @imaeso.bsky.social Associate professor at the University of Barcelona.
Biologist
RobertoFeuda @robertofeuda.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Univerisity of Bologna. Past Maynooth, Oxford, Caltech, Bristol, Leicester and URF Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/feudalab/home?authuser=0
Benito Wainwright @benitoexplains.bsky.social Research fellow at the University of St Andrews funded by @royalcom1851.bsky.social 🏳️🌈• Studying evolution and behaviour in lavishly leafy katydids 🍃🎶🧬 • I also make YouTube videos. Link here: https://youtube.com/@benitosexplenations?si=zpMANThrSJv_efM0
Claudio R. Alonso @claudiomics.bsky.social Molecular biologist interested in how the brain forms and functions. Professor, PI and proud member of Sussex Neuroscience. Core interests in Hox genes and microRNAs. And Drosophila!
Antoine Donati @adonati2.bsky.social Postdoc in the Perry Lab at UCSD. Trying to figure out how changes in development lead to new kinds of eyes in Insects. Now working on the male Housefly "Lovespot"
Laura Boulan @lboulan.bsky.social 
Dr. Jonas Wolff @wolffspider.bsky.social Head of the @evoimec.bsky.social lab, critter hunter and nature explorer
Aurélien Villedieu @aurelienvilledieu.bsky.social Postdoc in Jérôme Gros's team | Former PhD student in Yohanns Bellaïche's team | Multi-scale study of tissue morphogenesis | Live-imaging and quantitative biology
Ehab Abouheif @abouheif.bsky.social Student of nature, biology, and the field of eco-evo-devo (a synthesis of ecology, evolution, and developmental biology). Professor at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) https://www.abouheiflab.org/ Opinions are my own.
Stanley Heinze @stanley-heinze.bsky.social 
Carolina Peralta @cperalta.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, @clocksevolution.bsky.social. Interested in inversions & local adaptation & clocks 🧬 🦟
EZ Lab @ezlab.bsky.social Arachnology / Evolutionary Zoology / Systematic Zoology / Behavioral Ecology / Biodiversity and Conservation / E-mail: eazylab@gmail
Francisca Hervas-Sotomayor @franciscahervas.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher with @f-murat.bsky.social at INRAE_LPGP
Evolutionary Biology & Genomics
Madison Sneve @madisonsneve.bsky.social Graduate student @ Harvard neuro, insect enthusiast
Zhou Qi @zhouqi1982.bsky.social Professor at Zhejiang University; sex chromosomes and sex determination; qizhoulab.org
Ana Verbanac @anaverbanac.bsky.social
evolution, behavior and brains 🦈
Kaiser Lab @clocksevolution.bsky.social Evolution x Ecology x Biological Clocks x Intertidal:
focus on lunar rhythms in development & reproduction of marine insects.
+ Genomics | MolBio | Behaviour | ChemEcol | Biodiversity | SciCom
bit.ly/KaiserLab
@mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
Rhea Datta @rheadatta.bsky.social Associate Professor at Hamilton Colllege, gene regulation, transcription, development, Drosophila
Simona Kralj Fišer @simonakraljfiser.bsky.social Evolution, sexual selection, sexual size dimorphism, reproductive biology, animal personalities, quantitative genetics, maternal effects. Spiders. Love all kind of animals, travelling, cooking, hikes and more. https://www.simonakraljfiser.com
Ulrike Bechtold @ubechtold.bsky.social Accociate Professor at Durham University
Butterfly Diversity & Evolution Lab @rogervilalab.bsky.social Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF)
#Butterflies #Ants #Insects #Evolution #Biodiversity
Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social Science journalist covering all fields. Formerly an editor at New Scientist and Nature. 🧪🐸 🍄
New Scientist: https://tinyurl.com/2tvwfa2b
Live Science: https://tinyurl.com/4mbyh7a9
Sci Am: https://tinyurl.com/bdza74ta
Nature: https://tinyurl.com/yc265esp
Sophie Frampton @sophieframpton.bsky.social Developmental Biologist, University of Vienna
James Hammond @jamesehammond.bsky.social Postdoc in Clark lab @geneticscam.bsky.social
Segmentation, Robustness, Evolvability
Lepidoptera and Birds
jewh.github.io
Michael Perry @michaelwperry.bsky.social Biologist studying neural development and evolution using insect eyes and brains as a model. Faculty at UC San Diego.
Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc. @shubhamtr.bsky.social Neuroethologist interested in visual system development and sensory integration across time scales 🦟🪲🐜🕷️🐞🐁
Ph.D. : Buschbeck lab @ University of Cincinnati
Prev. at : Hattar lab @ NIMH / NIH
Postdoc : Reiser lab @ Janelia Research Campus
Catarina Bromatti @catbromatti.bsky.social Dissecting the evolution of novel traits | PhD student in the Rebeiz Lab | 🇧🇷
Mehrnaz @mazi2fly.bsky.social Post-Doc in Wolfner and Clark labs. Interested in female reproduction and evolution.
REDfly database @redfly-database.bsky.social Regulatory element database for Drosophila and other insects. http://redfly.ccr.buffalo.edu
Kate Garland @kate-garland.bsky.social PhD candidate at the EvoMorph Lab, Monash University, researching beak evolution and development. 
Sam England @samjakeengland.bsky.social Ecology 🤝 physics. I'm a @humboldt-foundation.de postdoc fellow looking at the sensory systems and biomechanics of weird animals with @multipleye-lab.bsky.social 🕷️👀 PhD was uncovering electrostatic ecology🐛🦋⚡
Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social Behavioral & Evol Ecologists | Emmy Noether Group Leader Uni Bonn | @sleeblab.bsky.social | Spider Sleep🕷️💤 | Pred-Prey Interactions | Sens Ecol | LGBTQ+ 🌈 | firstgen | she/her | https://danielaroessler.weebly.com
Prev: Harvard, Uni Konstanz & MPI-AB
@monteirolab.bsky.social @monteirolab.bsky.social 
Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social Head, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University. Physiology | life history | ecology | evolution | higher education
Rafath Chowdhury @rafathchowdhury.bsky.social Post-doc at Almudi lab. Interested in Evo-devo :) 
JEZ-B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution @jezb1904.bsky.social We publish exciting stories in evo-devo! Established 1904. Editor-in-Chief: Ehab Abouheif. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15525015
Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social Evolution of developmental processes.
Associate Professor @OxfordBiology & Fellow @JesusOxford.
@SteventonLab, @CRGenomica & #embryo17 alumna.
Working mother.
Grocott Lab @grocottlab.bsky.social Dr Tim Grocott's research group, University of East Anglia UK. 🐣 embryology & new adventures in human development via stem cells. Modelling in silico/vitro. Fascinated by signalling networks, patterning, all things early development and the eye.
Maria Gorjão @mzgorjao.bsky.social Developmental biologist working on patterning robustness @rocha-lab.bsky.social 🐟🔬
Iana V. Kim @ianakim.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in the Sebe-Pedros and Marti-Renom Labs at CRG. Transposable elements enthusiast, passionate about piRNAs, 3D genomes, and Star Trek 🖖
Kabir Husain @kabirhusain.bsky.social Physics | Molecular Biology | Evolution.
Lecturer at UCL Physics.
Formerly:
Postdoc with @amurugan.bsky.social at the University of Chicago.
PhD with Madan Rao and Jitu Mayor at NCBS, Bangalore.
Hannah Long @hannahlong.bsky.social Group Leader @mrc_hgu investigating gene regulation in development & human disease
Tschopp Lab @tschopplab.bsky.social EvoDevo, Cell Fates and Regulatory Evolution
@UniBasel
https://evolution.unibas.ch/tschopp/index.htm
Rory Maizels @rorymaizels.bsky.social Engineering cells to understand their decisions
ESPOD Fellow @ebi.embl.org & @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
(Saez-Rodriguez & Parts)
lingering scientist @crick.ac.uk (Briscoe)
Rajendhran Rajakumar @rajeerajakumar.bsky.social Assistant Professor uOttawa
Associate Editor BMCBiology
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/.
Océane Tournière @oceanetourniere.bsky.social Developmental biologist interested in dosage compensation, sexual dimorphism, evolution and microphotography!
Postdoc🪰🇫🇷/PhD🪼🇳🇴
Prashant Sharma @prashantpsharma.bsky.social Invertebrate biology. Phylogenomics. Whole genome duplications. Comparative development. Lab head.
MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social Unravelling the function and evolution of many-eyed visual systems. Led by @laurensr.bsky.social and based @bristolbiosci.bsky.social, previously
@MfNBerlin.bsky.social.
Barbara Jennings @jenningslab.bsky.social Drosophila, gene expression, academic life and things that make me smile 🪰🧬🥸🎓😹
Saad Arif @saadarif.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, budding lepidopterist, floundering dad, aspiring data viz person, genuine fast bowler
@pechmannm.bsky.social @pechmannm.bsky.social - E Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social evolutionary ecology, behaviour, genetics
Laura Ross @laurarossevo.bsky.social Professor of non-Mendelian genetics, University of Edinburgh
TaponLab @taponlab.bsky.social We study development, growth and Hippo signalling @crick.ac.uk.
European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social The European Drosophila Society bsky account is maintained by N.Tapon, S.J. Araújo, I.Grunwald Kadow, N.Brown, M.Milan. Logo: MC Diaz de la Loza, fly picture: N.Gompel
https://europeandrosophilasociety.org/
Jenny Regan @jennyregan.bsky.social Biologist researching innate immunity across the life course in Drosophila 🪰 Macrophages | guts | infection | sex differences | ageing | intervention.
Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh
@nuneslab.bsky.social @nuneslab.bsky.social 
Shen Tian 田申 @tianshenbio.bsky.social evolutionary innovations ｜ noncoding RNA
Mari Museridze @museridze.bsky.social 
Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social Senior editor @science.org. Molecular biology, #DNA, #RNA, #gene regulation, #epigenetics, nuclear biology, #chromatin biology, 3D #genome, #synbio, #CRISPR and gene editing, other bacterial immune systems, and #AI in all these
Jo Hagen @johagen.bsky.social @NatEyeInstitute K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow at @JohnsHopkins studying how colour vision develops and has evolved in primates using retinal organoids 👀🙈.
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
Peter Dearden @peterkdearden.bsky.social Geneticist, evolutionary biologist, evolution and development. Working mainly on insects, but also big green budgies and snails. Co Director of Genomics Aotearoa, Deputy Director of Bioprotection Aotearoa. Snarked on Substack.
Jeff Thompson @echinerd.bsky.social Associate Professor @ University of Southampton.
Morphological Evolution, Fossils, EvoDevo, Biomineralization, Echinoderms
Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social Zoologist and evolutionary biologist. Interested in animal phylogeny. At UCL.
Author of 'The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle'
Ana Riesgo @anariesgo.bsky.social Mom and sponge researcher at @mncn-csic.bsky.social and scientific associate at @nhm-london.bsky.social. Interested in evolutionary biology of 🧽 . FLS. Views are my own.
Lisa Fenk @fleyes.bsky.social Vision, active sensing, eye movements, flies | Lise Meitner Research Group Leader at MPI for Biological Intelligence
Haoran Cai @haorancai.bsky.social Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics | Regulatory evolution | GP map | Complex trait | Theory
haorancai.github.io
Post-doc @UCLA EEB
Abigail Wilson, PhD @abigaildwilson.bsky.social Wellcome ECA Fellow at Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL. Using Drosophila to understand dystonia and find new treatments.
Gabriel Aughey @gabrielaughey.bsky.social Neurobiologist at UCL. Interested in neurological disease, genetics, behaviour, and development.
Aidan Maartens @aidanmaartens.bsky.social Scientific writer at the Sanger Institute. Formerly at Development journal, lapsed flypusher (Gurdon Institute, University of Sussex). Creative writing MA at UEA. Likes novels and gardens, lives in Cambridge. Immigrant.
Julio Rozas @jrozasub.bsky.social Professor of Genetics at the Universitat de Barcelona (@ub.edu). Interested in Evolutionary Biology, Population Genomics and Bioinformatics
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social SMBE fosters communication among molecular evolutionists and advances the field.
🔗 smbe.org
💬 smbe2026.org • sites.google.com/view/gene-cultureco-evolution
👥 @smbe-idea.bsky.social
📙 @molbioevol.bsky.social • @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
@maheandria.bsky.social @maheandria.bsky.social 
Kyra Campbell @kyracampbelllab.bsky.social Developmental-biologist, Drosophililst and Fly Cancer Modeller. Fascinated by cells polarising, moving, building tissues and breaking tissues.. 
Pepi (Josefa) González @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social Evolutionary Biology. Adaptation Genomics. Transposable Elements. Drosophila.
@ibb-botanic.bsky.social @CSIC.es| @Embo.org member| #ERCgrantee
Web: gonzalezlab.es
Science outreach: melanogaster.eu| @lcatmon.bsky.social
DrosEU: www.droseu.net
Margarida Cardoso Moreira @margaridamcm.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist | Head of the Evolutionary developmental biology lab @thecrick.bsky.social | Books, books, books!
Ian W. Keesey @ian-w-keesey.bsky.social Assist. Prof. Behavioral Neurobiology. Univ of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL). Multimodal sensory communication within Drosophila genus (mostly Sophophora spp). "@Keesey_IW" Twitter. https://docsci3nce.wixsite.com/ianwkeesey
Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social Paleontologist. Developmental Biologist. Anatomist. Polar wanderer. Telling people that they are fish since 2008.
Jason Buenrostro @jbuenrostro.bsky.social Epigenetics & Genomics
Harvard University & Broad Institute
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2023/jason-d-buenrostro
buenrostrolab.com
Ariane Ramaekers @docteuredesmouches.bsky.social 
Dr. B. Duygu Özpolat (she/her) @biyolokum.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Regeneration, germ cells, segmented worms
Junior faculty representative for SDB
I also make Science Art (mostly pottery)
#SciArt #WormWednesday #Annelida
www.ozpolatlab.org
@genikhovich.bsky.social @genikhovich.bsky.social Evolution of developmental mechanisms, especially axial patterning. Experimental embryology. 🪸🪼
Guillaume Balavoine @balavoinelab.bsky.social Animal evolution and development. Rock and Folk phylogeneticist in my spare time. Opinions my own.
Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social fascinated by transposable elements, genetic conflicts, small RNAs, Drosophila, and funky germline biology
running a lab at IMBA, Vienna BioCenter
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/research/julius-brennecke
Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy Professor at the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), University of Heidelberg, Germany
and at the
Living Systems Institute (LSI), University of Exeter, UK […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://biologists.social/@jekely, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Patrick Steinmetz @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social Group leader at Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen. How food regulates growth in a sea anemone. Also: Wildlife & landscape photography. Hiking. Fishing. Consciousness. Meditation.
#EvoDevo #Development #EvoPhysio
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3705-277
Maria Sachkova @mariasachkova.bsky.social Scientists studying the evolution of neurons and venoms in marine invertebrates. Lecturer at University of Bristol 
Jordi Solana @jordisolana.bsky.social Stem Cell Biology and Evolution (SCBE) research group | Living Systems Institute Exeter @lsiexeter.bsky.social | One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces (if you are a regenerative organism)
Thomas Williams @twilliams2.bsky.social Professor, University of Dayton, Biology, Evo-Devo, and Runner (a slow one)
https://thetomwilliamslab.com/
Antonio Marco @amarcobio.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist. Passionate about science, history of science, squares and polynomials. Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor at the University of Essex.