🎄✨ Early Christmas gift! The abstract submission deadline for #ECE2026Tours has been extended to 31 January 2026 🎁🐜 For more information about the XIII European Congress of Entomology ➡️ www.ece2026.org @irbi-tours.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social

Don't forget to register for #ECE2026! Early bird registration until December 15th 2025. Great opportunity to learn about insect biology. In wonderful setting (Tours, FR) and great speaker lineup. Keynote Speaker: Insect development Yohanns Bellaiche @ybellaichelab.bsky.social www.ece2026.org

Interested in insects? Every topic will be covered in the upcoming ECE2026 meeting. In beautiful Tours (France) during early summer. June 29th – July 3rd 2026 Abstract submission & early bird registration until December 15th 2025 www.ece2026.org

How do epithelia regulate cell number upon cell loss? Check it out our new preprint! THX to @b-tesson.bsky.social, Eric van Leen, Sam Amirebrahimi, Raphael Thinat and @ybellaichelab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

FlyBase needs help. Similar article last week in Science www.science.org/content/arti...

#standupforscience2025 Institut Curie Developmental Biology Unit

In her Essay, Renata Basto highlights the huge budget cuts facing the scientific community in France. In response to the cuts, a group of researchers has formed the ‘Pour une Recherche d'Avenir’ initiative to secure the future of French research. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

📢 Submissions are now open for the CellMap Segmentation Challenge. Build the best method for segmenting cellular organelles in vEM using our 289 annotated volumes, 40 organelle classes, and 22 diverse cell and tissue types. 🔗 hhmi.news/410evJQ

First official post! A new paper out about #cytokinesis in #epithelia www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Explore our journey as we uncover how regulators of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions modulate cytokinesis efficiency, while revealing new roles for the Dystrophin-Dystroglycan complex.

To kick start the New Year, I'm delighted to share the lab's first preprint - now online: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... See below for a couple of highlights👇 Any feedback is welcome! "TEsky" HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone! 🥂

Looking for a job still connected to acamedia and research ? Do you like interacting with a lot of people, outreach activity, organising scientific events ? Do you have good writing and organisation skills ? We may have a job for you👇 (permanent position) emploi.pasteur.fr/offre-de-emp... 🙏RT

For the dev bio crowd : there is a call for junior group leader at Institut Pasteur in Paris and one of the axis covered is related to development. Come and join us in this exciting place and become one of our colleague @devstempasteur.bsky.social Please RT !! research.pasteur.fr/fr/call/call...

📢We have a 3y postdoc position available in our interdisciplinary team at the Institut Curie. Join us if you're interested in epithelial tissue morphogenesis using live imaging, quantitative biology & (opto)genetics. institut-curie.org/team/bellaiche Please spread the word.