Guillaume Balavoine
@balavoinelab.bsky.social
Animal evolution and development. Rock and Folk phylogeneticist in my spare time. Opinions my own.
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Our article on Platynereis’ #StemCells and #regeneration is out! Kudos to @chrisruta, and @biyolokum and our amazing collaborators @alexwstockinger, @Adelmann_L in @FRKT_labs. The transgenics work was carried out at @IJMonod, and transcriptomics at @MaxPerutzLabs. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Arachnophobia meets claustrophobia meets nyctophobia.
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Arachnophobia meets claustrophobia meets nyctophobia.
In my relentless efforts to inspire young scientific minds to embrace intemporal #RockMusic, here is another obscure, unfortunately late artist from the UK, named David Jones, who really deserved more recognition 👉 youtu.be/RPUAldgS7Sg #MusicForNerds and #MusicForLabOddities 👇
Moonage Daydream (2012 Remaster)
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
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November 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
In my relentless efforts to inspire young scientific minds to embrace intemporal #RockMusic, here is another obscure, unfortunately late artist from the UK, named David Jones, who really deserved more recognition 👉 youtu.be/RPUAldgS7Sg #MusicForNerds and #MusicForLabOddities 👇
Another mammoth manuscript from the Arendt team. People who doubt molecular signatures of ancestry will again have to face some hard facts 😉
A whole-body cell type atlas mapped into an electron microscopy volume of an annelid worm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685666v1
November 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Another mammoth manuscript from the Arendt team. People who doubt molecular signatures of ancestry will again have to face some hard facts 😉
And here is a Halloween wyvern, courtesy of my favorite touring band. Wyverns (called vouivres in French) are tetrapods, which makes them much more plausible than those ridiculous hexapod dragons. #HalloweenForNerds
October 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
And here is a Halloween wyvern, courtesy of my favorite touring band. Wyverns (called vouivres in French) are tetrapods, which makes them much more plausible than those ridiculous hexapod dragons. #HalloweenForNerds
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In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween!
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween!
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
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Can't believe it — my first‑author paper is out and my image graces the cover of @dev-journal.bsky.social 🎉
Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain #zebrafish gill architecture throughout life
🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
#FluorescenceFriday #LifelongDevSI
Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain #zebrafish gill architecture throughout life
🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
#FluorescenceFriday #LifelongDevSI
October 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Can't believe it — my first‑author paper is out and my image graces the cover of @dev-journal.bsky.social 🎉
Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain #zebrafish gill architecture throughout life
🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
#FluorescenceFriday #LifelongDevSI
Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain #zebrafish gill architecture throughout life
🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
#FluorescenceFriday #LifelongDevSI
Happy Halloween !
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Happy Halloween !
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Superbe croissant de lune derrière le temple de Poséidon en Grèce!
©Elias Chasiotis
©Elias Chasiotis
October 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Superbe croissant de lune derrière le temple de Poséidon en Grèce!
©Elias Chasiotis
©Elias Chasiotis
I translate because i think its funny :
Yeah, so no — earthworms don’t turn soil into hummus.
Yeah, so no — earthworms don’t turn soil into hummus.
Oui alors non, les vers de terres ne transforment pas "le sol en hoummous"
October 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I translate because i think its funny :
Yeah, so no — earthworms don’t turn soil into hummus.
Yeah, so no — earthworms don’t turn soil into hummus.
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October 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Oui alors non, les vers de terres ne transforment pas "le sol en hoummous"
October 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Oui alors non, les vers de terres ne transforment pas "le sol en hoummous"
Altman has found the only viable economic model for generative AI ...
OpenAI 2022- ChatGPT will cure cancer and solve the climate crisis
OpenAI 2025- ChatGPT will tell you that your dick is the biggest it’s ever seen
www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...
OpenAI 2025- ChatGPT will tell you that your dick is the biggest it’s ever seen
www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...
Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users
"As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow...erotica for verified adults."
www.axios.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Altman has found the only viable economic model for generative AI ...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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L'immigration, une chance pour la recherche scientifique.
Sur les 202 lauréat(e)s du prix Nobel de physique, de chimie ou de médecine au cours de ce siècle, ~30 % sont nés à l'étranger.
Chacun(e) apporte des idées originales, des techniques nouvelles & des approches différentes des problèmes.
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Sur les 202 lauréat(e)s du prix Nobel de physique, de chimie ou de médecine au cours de ce siècle, ~30 % sont nés à l'étranger.
Chacun(e) apporte des idées originales, des techniques nouvelles & des approches différentes des problèmes.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
L'immigration, une chance pour la recherche scientifique.
Sur les 202 lauréat(e)s du prix Nobel de physique, de chimie ou de médecine au cours de ce siècle, ~30 % sont nés à l'étranger.
Chacun(e) apporte des idées originales, des techniques nouvelles & des approches différentes des problèmes.
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Sur les 202 lauréat(e)s du prix Nobel de physique, de chimie ou de médecine au cours de ce siècle, ~30 % sont nés à l'étranger.
Chacun(e) apporte des idées originales, des techniques nouvelles & des approches différentes des problèmes.
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I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Would you believe this spindly guy is an assassin bug? I picked him up initially thinking he was a phasmid…then I got a closer look at the face and saw the rostrum, and the raptorial forelimbs started to make sense! He's a member of emesinae, a reduviid subfamily I didn't know about before!
#bugsky
#bugsky
October 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Would you believe this spindly guy is an assassin bug? I picked him up initially thinking he was a phasmid…then I got a closer look at the face and saw the rostrum, and the raptorial forelimbs started to make sense! He's a member of emesinae, a reduviid subfamily I didn't know about before!
#bugsky
#bugsky
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Happy to share the last version of our story @currentbiology.bsky.social on the role of interfacial tension in mechanical cell competition led by @leovalon.bsky.social and Alexis Matamoro Vidal
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Happy to share the last version of our story @currentbiology.bsky.social on the role of interfacial tension in mechanical cell competition led by @leovalon.bsky.social and Alexis Matamoro Vidal
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Forget about the Turin schroud: which church holds the true "sanctum praeputium" ?
Can we have a DNA test ?
Can we have a DNA test ?
Voilà une relique qui me plaît : le Sanctum Praeputium, ou Saint Prépuce, le petit morceau de peau issu de la circoncision de Jésus de Nazareth. Le truc, c’est qu'au moins 16 églises depuis le Moyen-Âge ont revendiqué posséder la « Sainte Vertu » ou « Saint Vœu », ses autres petits noms,
October 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Forget about the Turin schroud: which church holds the true "sanctum praeputium" ?
Can we have a DNA test ?
Can we have a DNA test ?
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Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Old one but true one ...
"Puisque les cheveux ne peuvent pas être conservés dans les fossiles, on ne peut pas exclure la possibilité que les dinosaures ressemblaient à ça."
October 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Old one but true one ...
I’m still in a weirdophile mood; so for our next #MusicForNerds #MusicForGeeks #MusicForDorks, let’s explore the strange plight of people experiencing 👉 youtu.be/TGIvO4eh190 , or is it a superpower? #BaroqueAndRoll 👇
October 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I’m still in a weirdophile mood; so for our next #MusicForNerds #MusicForGeeks #MusicForDorks, let’s explore the strange plight of people experiencing 👉 youtu.be/TGIvO4eh190 , or is it a superpower? #BaroqueAndRoll 👇
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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 😃
Very happy that this video got awarded an honorable mention by #NikonSmallWorld 😃
September 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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 😃
Very happy that this video got awarded an honorable mention by #NikonSmallWorld 😃
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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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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major traffic incident
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
major traffic incident
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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
New perspective in @jcb.org by @maikbischoff.bsky.social & @mayorlab.bsky.social about how mesenchymal cells use contact-dependent rules to generate swarm-like behaviors, patterns & organ forms. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#CellBio #CellMigration #Morphogenesis #Development #Science
#CellBio #CellMigration #Morphogenesis #Development #Science
September 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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