This is a wonderful project mashing images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) with data from Wikidata and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). BHL Image Explorer: https://bhl-gallery.toolforge.org/ It enables us to explore the figure plates present in BHL’s catalog (also on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons), links with other databases, and keeps track of their […]
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Short posts with thoughts, comments, or sharing interesting things.
The peer-reviewed version of our cephalic furrow paper is out 🎉 It was published back-to-back with another cephalic furrow study: Research mutualism This was a wonderful collaborative effort to understand the developmental role and evolutionary origins of this prominent but overlooked tissue fold of fly embryos. We were two teams working on a similar question, […]
Amazing deep-sea biodiversity imagery from the expedition Underwater Oases of Mar Del Plata Canyon: Talud Continental IV. Organized by researchers of the CONICET and Schmidt Ocean Institute. The ROV is streaming live. Tip by Marina Cuenca.
The newest version of EvoDevo Papers is online, and it’s the biggest update since the last codebase refactoring. I’ve made several additions and improvements to the website and implemented cross-posting to Bluesky. Why have a website? For many years, EvoDevo Papers’ posts were only on Twitter. Everything was well—until it wasn’t. When I moved it […]
The Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop is a five-day intensive course that will take place in Santiago, Chile, from January 5–9, 2026, designed for students and researchers who wish to gain foundational skills in the processing and analysis of light-sheet microscopy imaging data. The application deadline has been extended until August 8, 2025! The workshop is […]
The Platynereis genome paper is out 🎉 Mutemi KN, Simakov O, Pan L, Santangeli L, Null RW, Handberg-Thorsager M, Vellutini BC, Peterson KJ, Fromm B, Larsson T, Savage E, Lopez MO, Hercog R, Provaznik J, Ordoñez-Rueda D, Azevedo N, Gazave E, Vervoort M, Tomancak P, Tan W, Winkler S, Benes V, Hui J, Helm C, […]
The other day I was looking for some information about Brazilian velvet worms and found this website: onychophora.com. The gallery of photos is impressive!
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Ceratitis open peer review
I reviewed a paper last year about the embryonic development of Ceratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly (or medfly). The authors used time-lapse recordings of whole embryos made with lightsheet microscopy to create a comprehensive staging system for the embryogenesis of the species. It was one of the first reviews that I signed (disclosed my […]
We generated a transcriptome from developmental stages of the annelid Platynereis dumerilii using the Iso-Seq method from PacBio, which outputs full-length transcripts and resolved isoforms. The dataset is now available on Zenodo: Vellutini, B. C., Handberg-Thorsager, M. & Tomancak, P. (2024). Platynereis dumerilii full-length transcriptome of developmental stages. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14250773 The transcriptome was used for the […]
The botsin.space community, a popular Mastodon server for automated accounts (bots), will be retiring soon. They have been kindly hosting EvoDevo Papers for the past couple of years. To avoid any downtime, I recently migrated the account to a new server, the biologists.social community managed by The Company of Biologists. I think it’s a great match, […]