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.
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Need to electroporate and/or live image avian embryos? We hope our new preprint will help you get started:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo
🧪🐣 #devbio
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo
🧪🐣 #devbio
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Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language.
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language.
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.
Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)
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PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
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Apropos of today's discussion on science Bluesky 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...
The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Apropos of today's discussion on science Bluesky 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...
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Curious how mechanics shape the developing eye? 👁️
Join us for your PhD at the interdisciplinary
@lsiexeter.bsky.social to explore early eye morphogenesis
through developmental biology, biophysics and computational modelling.
lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/harma...
Supported by @swbiodtp.bsky.social
Join us for your PhD at the interdisciplinary
@lsiexeter.bsky.social to explore early eye morphogenesis
through developmental biology, biophysics and computational modelling.
lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/harma...
Supported by @swbiodtp.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Curious how mechanics shape the developing eye? 👁️
Join us for your PhD at the interdisciplinary
@lsiexeter.bsky.social to explore early eye morphogenesis
through developmental biology, biophysics and computational modelling.
lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/harma...
Supported by @swbiodtp.bsky.social
Join us for your PhD at the interdisciplinary
@lsiexeter.bsky.social to explore early eye morphogenesis
through developmental biology, biophysics and computational modelling.
lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/harma...
Supported by @swbiodtp.bsky.social
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Discover #DevBio and #StemCell biology conferences, meetings, training courses & workshops on our Events Calendar 🗓️ 👀
Missed one? Sign up & add relevant events here: thenode.biologists.com/events/
Missed one? Sign up & add relevant events here: thenode.biologists.com/events/
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Discover #DevBio and #StemCell biology conferences, meetings, training courses & workshops on our Events Calendar 🗓️ 👀
Missed one? Sign up & add relevant events here: thenode.biologists.com/events/
Missed one? Sign up & add relevant events here: thenode.biologists.com/events/
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🎧crack on the latest episode of ‘A Question of Science - What is the Future of Fertility’ for my hot takes on follicles, female fertility & how finding the moment (or even the willing males) to procreate is an issue IVF / egg freezing can’t fix for females with careers 🤫👇link below (lmk ur thoughts)
Egg freezing, fertility tech and why ovulation is like the Hunger Games.
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of fertility.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of fertility.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🎧crack on the latest episode of ‘A Question of Science - What is the Future of Fertility’ for my hot takes on follicles, female fertility & how finding the moment (or even the willing males) to procreate is an issue IVF / egg freezing can’t fix for females with careers 🤫👇link below (lmk ur thoughts)
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IRR's Dr Güneş Taylor joins Professor Brian Cox to explore the science of fertility in the latest episode of A Question of Science.
Joining an expert panel, Taylor discusses the role of the ovary when it comes to fertilisation, pregnancy, and development.
🎧Listen now: www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
Joining an expert panel, Taylor discusses the role of the ovary when it comes to fertilisation, pregnancy, and development.
🎧Listen now: www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
IRR's Dr Güneş Taylor joins Professor Brian Cox to explore the science of fertility in the latest episode of A Question of Science.
Joining an expert panel, Taylor discusses the role of the ovary when it comes to fertilisation, pregnancy, and development.
🎧Listen now: www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
Joining an expert panel, Taylor discusses the role of the ovary when it comes to fertilisation, pregnancy, and development.
🎧Listen now: www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
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Working in a biomed institute, its natural to think about health & medical impact of dev bio but there's more to dev bio
Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding)
And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding)
And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
In preprints: multiomics of low temperature acclimation in the era of intensifying temperature fluctuations
In a warming world, all life forms – endotherms and ectotherms alike – are finding their homeostasis being challenged. The environmental change is challenging at all stages of life. How different orga...
journals.biologists.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Working in a biomed institute, its natural to think about health & medical impact of dev bio but there's more to dev bio
Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding)
And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding)
And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
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Check out this useful #DevBio #preprint reading list on the Node.
Also, the #CellBio edition just dropped on preLights, this month curated by Matthew Davies, @sristi.bsky.social & @vibhasingh.bsky.social
#preList ⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/oct...
Also, the #CellBio edition just dropped on preLights, this month curated by Matthew Davies, @sristi.bsky.social & @vibhasingh.bsky.social
#preList ⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/oct...
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Check out this useful #DevBio #preprint reading list on the Node.
Also, the #CellBio edition just dropped on preLights, this month curated by Matthew Davies, @sristi.bsky.social & @vibhasingh.bsky.social
#preList ⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/oct...
Also, the #CellBio edition just dropped on preLights, this month curated by Matthew Davies, @sristi.bsky.social & @vibhasingh.bsky.social
#preList ⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/oct...
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One of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.
The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!
www.fpbase.org/spectra/
www.fpbase.org/spectra/
FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer
An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.
www.fpbase.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
One of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.
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🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
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Which features of tissue flows are most robust and how do they emerge from #EpithelialMechanics?
I’m @alex-plum.bsky.social (@mattiaserra.bsky.social group) and I’ll be sharing some papers on characterizing and controlling avian gastrulation flows.
I’m @alex-plum.bsky.social (@mattiaserra.bsky.social group) and I’ll be sharing some papers on characterizing and controlling avian gastrulation flows.
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Which features of tissue flows are most robust and how do they emerge from #EpithelialMechanics?
I’m @alex-plum.bsky.social (@mattiaserra.bsky.social group) and I’ll be sharing some papers on characterizing and controlling avian gastrulation flows.
I’m @alex-plum.bsky.social (@mattiaserra.bsky.social group) and I’ll be sharing some papers on characterizing and controlling avian gastrulation flows.
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🚨 PhD Projects 🚨
We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology
We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🚨 PhD Projects 🚨
We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology
We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology
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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Learn more about postgraduate opportunities on our website:
bit.ly/48K3P6C
#PhD #PhDJourney #HomeOfTheWonderful
bit.ly/48K3P6C
#PhD #PhDJourney #HomeOfTheWonderful
Apply for a Postgraduate Research Degree
University of East Anglia
bit.ly
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Learn more about postgraduate opportunities on our website:
bit.ly/48K3P6C
#PhD #PhDJourney #HomeOfTheWonderful
bit.ly/48K3P6C
#PhD #PhDJourney #HomeOfTheWonderful
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Want to automate workflows in #FIJI?
Don't know where to start?
We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started.
Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding!
imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...
Don't know where to start?
We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started.
Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding!
imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...
Batch Processing with the ImageJ Macro Language
The ImageJ wiki is a community-edited knowledge base on topics relating to ImageJ, a public domain program for processing and analyzing scientific images, and its ecosystem of derivatives and variants...
imagej.github.io
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Want to automate workflows in #FIJI?
Don't know where to start?
We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started.
Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding!
imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...
Don't know where to start?
We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started.
Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding!
imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...
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A daughter following on the work of her mother:
a computer game exploring the wonders of a hidden world ensures a lasting legacy for our lovely late colleague Prof Harriet Jones.
#UEAScience
www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...
a computer game exploring the wonders of a hidden world ensures a lasting legacy for our lovely late colleague Prof Harriet Jones.
#UEAScience
www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...
October 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A daughter following on the work of her mother:
a computer game exploring the wonders of a hidden world ensures a lasting legacy for our lovely late colleague Prof Harriet Jones.
#UEAScience
www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...
a computer game exploring the wonders of a hidden world ensures a lasting legacy for our lovely late colleague Prof Harriet Jones.
#UEAScience
www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...
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Serrano Nájera, G., Plum, A. M., Steventon, B., Weijer, C. J., & Serra, M. (2025). Control of tissue flows and embryo geometry in avian gastrulation. Nature communications, 16(1), 5174. #EpithelialMechanics
buff.ly/CMKn8rn
buff.ly/CMKn8rn
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Serrano Nájera, G., Plum, A. M., Steventon, B., Weijer, C. J., & Serra, M. (2025). Control of tissue flows and embryo geometry in avian gastrulation. Nature communications, 16(1), 5174. #EpithelialMechanics
buff.ly/CMKn8rn
buff.ly/CMKn8rn
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In our next BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 5th November, 2-3pm, in EFRY 01.08 we welcome Dr Caroline Beck from University of Otago with talk title "What can tadpoles teach us about rare genetic epilepsy?" Hosted by Prof. Grant Wheeler. All welcome #UEAScience
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
In our next BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 5th November, 2-3pm, in EFRY 01.08 we welcome Dr Caroline Beck from University of Otago with talk title "What can tadpoles teach us about rare genetic epilepsy?" Hosted by Prof. Grant Wheeler. All welcome #UEAScience
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Axial Rotation Comprises Concurrent Twisting and Bending, Each Differentially Regulated by TGF-β Signaling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.683873v1
October 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Axial Rotation Comprises Concurrent Twisting and Bending, Each Differentially Regulated by TGF-β Signaling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.683873v1
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Pax6 maintains lens epithelial cell identity and coordinates secondary fiber cell differentiation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684166v1
October 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Pax6 maintains lens epithelial cell identity and coordinates secondary fiber cell differentiation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684166v1
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Reposting for the Monday morning scrollers! Funded PhD opportunity with me @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - spiders, their eyes, and their babies under long- and short-term light pollution!
Exciting times ahead - I'm beyond delighted to be joining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social in 2026! 🎉🕷️🎉🐌🎉
I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇
I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇
October 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Reposting for the Monday morning scrollers! Funded PhD opportunity with me @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - spiders, their eyes, and their babies under long- and short-term light pollution!
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My lab is seeking two PhD candidates to investigate the function and regulation of endogenous retroviruses in the early stages of human development 🦠👩🔬. Apply through the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) program: www.molgen.mpg.de/IMPRS/applic.... www.molgen.mpg.de/5094682/Fuey...
[2026] – Endogenous retroviruses in human embryogenesis
www.molgen.mpg.de
October 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My lab is seeking two PhD candidates to investigate the function and regulation of endogenous retroviruses in the early stages of human development 🦠👩🔬. Apply through the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) program: www.molgen.mpg.de/IMPRS/applic.... www.molgen.mpg.de/5094682/Fuey...
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📢 We are growing! 📢
The Cayuso Lab at the University of Portsmouth is recruiting a fully funded 3-year PhD student to investigate the mechanisms of CASK-related neurodevelopmental disorders using #zebrafish 🐠. More info and applications here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#ZebrafishJobs #DevBio
The Cayuso Lab at the University of Portsmouth is recruiting a fully funded 3-year PhD student to investigate the mechanisms of CASK-related neurodevelopmental disorders using #zebrafish 🐠. More info and applications here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#ZebrafishJobs #DevBio
Generation of Zebrafish Models for CASK Related Disorders
www.port.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
📢 We are growing! 📢
The Cayuso Lab at the University of Portsmouth is recruiting a fully funded 3-year PhD student to investigate the mechanisms of CASK-related neurodevelopmental disorders using #zebrafish 🐠. More info and applications here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#ZebrafishJobs #DevBio
The Cayuso Lab at the University of Portsmouth is recruiting a fully funded 3-year PhD student to investigate the mechanisms of CASK-related neurodevelopmental disorders using #zebrafish 🐠. More info and applications here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#ZebrafishJobs #DevBio