Bettina Wilm
@bwilm.bsky.social
European German-British research scientist at a U.K. University with own views, avid hiker, swimmer, foodie, gardener, mom; also on @[email protected]
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The power of the media: core culture conditions direct gastruloid development
This Research Highlight showcases the work from Tina Balayo, André Dias @dias-andre.bsky.social, David Turner @gastruloids.bsky.social and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
This Research Highlight showcases the work from Tina Balayo, André Dias @dias-andre.bsky.social, David Turner @gastruloids.bsky.social and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
![NDiff227 gastruloids display a developmental delay in comparison to HM-N2B27 gastruloids. (A) Quantitative analysis of the roundness (perimeter2/4π×area) of gastruloids cultured in either HM-N2B27 or NDiff227 showed that HM-N2B27 gastruloids are significantly less ‘Round’ than their NDiff227 counterparts at 96 h [unpaired two-tailed t-test; t(4)=−4.9541, P=0.008]. Each datapoint is the average roundness of an independent replicate experiment containing between ∼40 and 90 individual gastruloids (see Fig. S4B). (B) The frequency of morphologies from the data in A, with examples of gastruloids that would fall in each category (bottom; the left 'Protrusions' image is also shown in Fig. S4). (C) Light-sheet representative images (maximum projection images) highlighting the expression patterns of Cdh1 (magenta) and Cdh2 (cyan) between HM-N2B27 gastruloids at 96 h and NDiff227 gastruloids at 90 h and 96 h. Gastruloids developed in HM-N2B27 have upregulated Cdh2 by 90 h, unlike NDiff227 gastruloids, which show enhanced Cdh2 only at 96 h. Scale bars: 100 μm. (Ci) Qualitative analysis of the average expression pattern of Cdh2 (N-cadherin). The expression patterns were grouped into two categories (phenotypes I and II) and represent the average of three independent replicate experiments, each containing at least seven individual gastruloids per condition. Examples of the two categories are shown below. The leftmost example for ‘Phenotype I’ is shown in the middle row of 90 h HM-N2B27 (Cdh2) in C. For the box and whisker plot, the central line in the box is the median, the lower edge of the box is the first quartile, the upper edge of the box is the third quartile, and the box height is the IQR. The lower and upper whiskers indicate the smallest datapoint within 1.5xIQR below Q1 or above Q3, respectively.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:btitwyhiegkb6f62oguxt6m6/bafkreiakq7wvgnsnajj2g3bpn5k5p4yu7vznwibobhgzu2o5ttsmjq5ylq@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The power of the media: core culture conditions direct gastruloid development
This Research Highlight showcases the work from Tina Balayo, André Dias @dias-andre.bsky.social, David Turner @gastruloids.bsky.social and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
This Research Highlight showcases the work from Tina Balayo, André Dias @dias-andre.bsky.social, David Turner @gastruloids.bsky.social and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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The Trump administration sent 280+ immigrants to CECOT, a notorious torture prison in El Salvador, with no due process & no notice to their loved ones or attorneys.
Some of the men have begun sharing their stories about the horrific abuse and torture they endured.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
Some of the men have begun sharing their stories about the horrific abuse and torture they endured.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The Trump administration sent 280+ immigrants to CECOT, a notorious torture prison in El Salvador, with no due process & no notice to their loved ones or attorneys.
Some of the men have begun sharing their stories about the horrific abuse and torture they endured.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
Some of the men have begun sharing their stories about the horrific abuse and torture they endured.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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Zugzwanging! 🤩
The finance community writ-large is so primed to the “listen to me to get rich” logic that they’re zugzwanging themselves into crypto-nihilism. But it’s still an abdication of duty to pitch it.
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Zugzwanging! 🤩
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Yesterday in Cologne, we saw one of the most difficult bomb disarmaments since 1945. 3(!) hospitals and 6.400 people had to be evacuated.
You wanna guess how many (mainly WWII) bombs are being disarmed PER YEAR in Germany?
5500.
www.spiegel.de/panorama/koe...
You wanna guess how many (mainly WWII) bombs are being disarmed PER YEAR in Germany?
5500.
www.spiegel.de/panorama/koe...
Köln: Aufwendigste Bombenentschärfung seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg - Tausende Anwohner und drei Kliniken betroffen
Experten haben in Köln eine Zehn-Zentner-Bombe aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg kontrolliert gesprengt. Dafür mussten drei Krankenhäuser evakuiert werden und Tausende Menschen ihre Wohnungen verlassen.
www.spiegel.de
October 13, 2024 at 7:25 AM
Yesterday in Cologne, we saw one of the most difficult bomb disarmaments since 1945. 3(!) hospitals and 6.400 people had to be evacuated.
You wanna guess how many (mainly WWII) bombs are being disarmed PER YEAR in Germany?
5500.
www.spiegel.de/panorama/koe...
You wanna guess how many (mainly WWII) bombs are being disarmed PER YEAR in Germany?
5500.
www.spiegel.de/panorama/koe...
Go visit #Trier for more #archaeology!!
For #MosaicMonday a charming duck.
Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD
📷 me
On display at Museum am Dom, Trier
🏺 #archaeology
Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD
📷 me
On display at Museum am Dom, Trier
🏺 #archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Go visit #Trier for more #archaeology!!
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This is a good start, but people should also be free to drive on whatever side of the highway feels appropriate to them.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is a good start, but people should also be free to drive on whatever side of the highway feels appropriate to them.
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🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate?
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate?
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
October 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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In preprints: gastruloids get (a)head
Wilhelmus A. Brouwer @wesselbrouwer.bsky.social and
Luca Braccioli @bracciolilab.bsky.social discuss the #preprint by Balaskas et al. "An advanced head-to-tail mouse embryo model with hypoxia-mediated neural patterning”
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Wilhelmus A. Brouwer @wesselbrouwer.bsky.social and
Luca Braccioli @bracciolilab.bsky.social discuss the #preprint by Balaskas et al. "An advanced head-to-tail mouse embryo model with hypoxia-mediated neural patterning”
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
October 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In preprints: gastruloids get (a)head
Wilhelmus A. Brouwer @wesselbrouwer.bsky.social and
Luca Braccioli @bracciolilab.bsky.social discuss the #preprint by Balaskas et al. "An advanced head-to-tail mouse embryo model with hypoxia-mediated neural patterning”
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Wilhelmus A. Brouwer @wesselbrouwer.bsky.social and
Luca Braccioli @bracciolilab.bsky.social discuss the #preprint by Balaskas et al. "An advanced head-to-tail mouse embryo model with hypoxia-mediated neural patterning”
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Is it just me or are the jax.org websites very slow to load atm?
The Jackson Laboratory
The Jackson Laboratory's mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.
jax.org
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Is it just me or are the jax.org websites very slow to load atm?
Essential reading 👇
@tanjabueltmann.net
@tanjabueltmann.net
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
September 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Essential reading 👇
@tanjabueltmann.net
@tanjabueltmann.net
Sunshine on the Wirral - Royden Park yesterday afternoon. Winter is coming
September 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Sunshine on the Wirral - Royden Park yesterday afternoon. Winter is coming
Kardamom bollar - needs some optimisation. But tastes lovely
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September 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Kardamom bollar - needs some optimisation. But tastes lovely
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✍ If you're having difficulty writing #BioimageAnalysis code that enables others to follow your workflow, have a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.socials slides on „Reproducible Bio-Image Analysis using Python, Napari, Jupyter and AI“ from the #EMBOlsm25.
To the slides: 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
To the slides: 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
September 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
✍ If you're having difficulty writing #BioimageAnalysis code that enables others to follow your workflow, have a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.socials slides on „Reproducible Bio-Image Analysis using Python, Napari, Jupyter and AI“ from the #EMBOlsm25.
To the slides: 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
To the slides: 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Does anyone here 🍽️ have a recipe to share about a Swedish dark malty but soft and melt in your mouth bread? No seeds, a bit spongy?
I had it in the summer at the Bakfickan near the opera in Stockholm. Delicious! Thanks 🙏
I had it in the summer at the Bakfickan near the opera in Stockholm. Delicious! Thanks 🙏
September 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Does anyone here 🍽️ have a recipe to share about a Swedish dark malty but soft and melt in your mouth bread? No seeds, a bit spongy?
I had it in the summer at the Bakfickan near the opera in Stockholm. Delicious! Thanks 🙏
I had it in the summer at the Bakfickan near the opera in Stockholm. Delicious! Thanks 🙏
Fascinating episode with intriguing points about vanity of male politicians… similarities to living personalities are hinted at??
#PaulvonHindenburg
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#PaulvonHindenburg
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Paul von Hindenburg
Podcast Episode · In Our Time: History · 19/06/2025 · 52m
podcasts.apple.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Fascinating episode with intriguing points about vanity of male politicians… similarities to living personalities are hinted at??
#PaulvonHindenburg
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
#PaulvonHindenburg
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Always great when a PhD student makes it through their viva despite all kinds of stumbling blocks along the way.
So I am happy to report that Katherine Trivino is the latest of my PhD students to pass her viva! 🎉
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social
So I am happy to report that Katherine Trivino is the latest of my PhD students to pass her viva! 🎉
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Always great when a PhD student makes it through their viva despite all kinds of stumbling blocks along the way.
So I am happy to report that Katherine Trivino is the latest of my PhD students to pass her viva! 🎉
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social
So I am happy to report that Katherine Trivino is the latest of my PhD students to pass her viva! 🎉
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social
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📚 Wishing all developmental biologists an AMAZING new academic year! 🚀 Boost your teaching & learning with SDB CoRe: a FREE, peer-reviewed online database of stunning images, movies & diagrams for all things development! 🌱🐣🦎 Explore here: www.sdbcore.org 🌟 #DevBio
August 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📚 Wishing all developmental biologists an AMAZING new academic year! 🚀 Boost your teaching & learning with SDB CoRe: a FREE, peer-reviewed online database of stunning images, movies & diagrams for all things development! 🌱🐣🦎 Explore here: www.sdbcore.org 🌟 #DevBio
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Eine Regierung, die Museen „säubert“, Diversitäts-Programme verbietet, Uni wg. ihrer Lehrpläne Mittel streicht und Medien auf Milliarden (!) verklagt, bescheinigt Deutschland ein Problem mit Meinungsfreiheit. 🤯
US-Regierung sieht Mängel bei Meinungsfreiheit in Deutschland
Ein Bericht des US-Außenministeriums sieht in Deutschland eine Verschlechterung der Menschenrechtslage. So gebe es Einschränkungen der Meinungsfreiheit. Ein Jahr zuvor - unter der Biden-Regierung - fi...
www.tagesschau.de
August 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Eine Regierung, die Museen „säubert“, Diversitäts-Programme verbietet, Uni wg. ihrer Lehrpläne Mittel streicht und Medien auf Milliarden (!) verklagt, bescheinigt Deutschland ein Problem mit Meinungsfreiheit. 🤯
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Preprint servers are strugging with an influx of AI content. "How do you do quality assurance while keeping things relatively light touch so the system doesn’t collapse on itself?"
by Traci Watson | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
by Traci Watson | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back
Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Preprint servers are strugging with an influx of AI content. "How do you do quality assurance while keeping things relatively light touch so the system doesn’t collapse on itself?"
by Traci Watson | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
by Traci Watson | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I'm thinking of the market in Odesa bombed by Russia. For those of you who want to look inside and see what a special place it is, here is one of my favorite videos of all time, the work of the magical conductor Hobart Earle:
Official version - Flash Mob for Peace and Brotherhood ( Hobart Earle /OPO )
YouTube video by Caraqueno E
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July 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I'm thinking of the market in Odesa bombed by Russia. For those of you who want to look inside and see what a special place it is, here is one of my favorite videos of all time, the work of the magical conductor Hobart Earle:
Reposted by Bettina Wilm
To learn more about this work, we spoke to the first author, Suad Alsukari, and the corresponding author, Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Life Course and Medical Science, University of Liverpool, UK:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
July 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
To learn more about this work, we spoke to the first author, Suad Alsukari, and the corresponding author, Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Life Course and Medical Science, University of Liverpool, UK:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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New insights directly link WT1 and smooth muscle cell lineages
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Suad Alsukari, Huei Teng Ng, @gastruloids.bsky.social, Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Suad Alsukari, Huei Teng Ng, @gastruloids.bsky.social, Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
July 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New insights directly link WT1 and smooth muscle cell lineages
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Suad Alsukari, Huei Teng Ng, @gastruloids.bsky.social, Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Suad Alsukari, Huei Teng Ng, @gastruloids.bsky.social, Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...