I'm sorry what? The whole thing sure reads as AI slop www.the-scientist.com/how-super-re...

Are tapes a good option for long-term cold storage of microscopy data? I'm looking at storing ~200 TB with no recurring fee (no cloud) and with as little esoteric server/command line fuss as possible www.ibm.com/fr-fr/produc...

Excited to share our new paper, now published in Nature Cell Biology! 🎉 We asked a fundamental question in cell biology: How do cells maintain polarity while migrating? Especially how do cancer cells navigate confined spaces? www.nature.com/articles/s41556-026-01981-1

Ah ben le CIR c'est pas le CNRS, on veut pas que des clubs de première division et des champions olympiques (A. Petit). Lambda c'est bon ça passe, par ici la monnaie

Tired of AI-generated figures? I asked our talented scientific illustrator Manon Zuurmond to draw some of the instruments and lab equipment we missed in NIH's otherwise fantastic BioArt resource. First batch now available as CC BY. Free for everyone to use in publications: github.com/Center-for-P...

This brilliant young woman has ACED her baccalaureat. Mention Très Bien! I'm a very proud dad

Wait, nowhere I see explicitly written in the FIFA rules that it's the round of 8 winning team who get to play the quarterfinal. Go USMNT

I'm genuinely surprised that some otherwise decent Americans can defend state-level cheating at the soccer world cup. Exceptionalism is a hell of drug

An evolutionarily conserved, short linear actin filament-binding motif (SFM), present in >100 proteins. Great collaboration with the Windhorst and Marlovits labs. Happy to have contributed, by using macrophage podosomes as a readout. Publication in Nat Cell Biol: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What the Whatsapp looks like when the lab has postdocs from Australia 🇦🇺 @harrisonyork.bsky.social, Argentina 🇦🇷 @guadagazal.bsky.social and Canada 🇨🇦 @wiesner-t.bsky.social ⚽

Une enquête dans Libération sur Etienne Klein avec des détails sur le statut de son HDR/direction de recherche (@monniauxd.bsky.social) www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Today I learned how to use a sewing machine (never too late at 47) and tried to make a custom frame bag at a nonprofit bike workshop. I just butchered some old tent tarp but it's so satisfying to make things!

This image was taken after an RCM demo in 2020 at our facility @ncis-marseille.bsky.social, using a sample slide I gave them: neurons in culture labeled for map2 (magenta) and ßII-spectrin (green). Manufacturers: ask and credit when scientists help you #FAIR

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Cast yourself as a villain

For the very first time, biologists packed nonliving components into a cell-like membrane, piece by piece, and slowly witnessed the bag of molecules start to behave like life. @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/for-the-firs...

A quite clever way to use simultaneous organelle tracking to correct motion in live-cell PALM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

"Over the same period (2018-2025), biomedical papers that were never posted as preprints were retracted at roughly twice the rate of those that were."

☕Mani, Tardif, Rossier et al. show that mechanical stress triggers caveolin-1 release from caveolae, enabling its diffusion in the plasma membrane and interaction with signaling effectors to regulate intracellular signaling. 👉https://rdcu.be/frvPe www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For a minute I thought they found an antidepressant molecule from shark brains, and wondered how they would harvest it with flashbacks of the best/worst shark movie ever, Deep Blue Sea

Wow - this is worth a few minutes of your time today: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/06/30/l... Living cells grown on micropatterns to match the architecture of the musée d’Orsay An amazing art/science fusion from the indomitable @manuelthery.bsky.social and colleague in @focalplane.bsky.social

Last chance to apply for Associate or Senior Editor in Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine for Science magazine @science.org jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/679035/a...

Delighted to share our latest preprint "NucleiSky enables cross-scale multimodal registration of microscopy data using nuclei constellations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code and App: github.com/CellMigratio...

This: ‘if AI is part of the problem, it also has to be part of the answer’ is a truly insane thing to say. Next up, a Frontiers spokesperson on how to rescue a burning building using flamethrowers.

*Checks the author of "Why AI should replace human reviewers"* "Elena Vicario Orri is Director of Research Integrity at Frontiers." Nothing to add your honor

My contribution to the ongoing "1%" science discourse is this picture you can send to your favourite preprint author(s) after reading their papers to tell them you liked their work! #SciArt #PawReview

Scientist goals: get @quantamagazine.bsky.social to write about our work. Check this super nice article about Sophie Dumont's lab poking mitotic spindles:

Today we have the pleasure to host @seancoakley.bsky.social from Brisbane for a seminar at @inp-marseille.bsky.social. He's showing us how the periodic spectrin scaffold exists not only in axons, but also in skin cells that encase them in C. elegans! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

News: "The heatwave is over!" Marseille: Hold my beer

"Preprints from le terrier". Only the best underground work

It's not enough to ridicule the Slop score and those who boast it. So I'll try to post more cool preprints on here. Is my selection biased? Yes.

*Reads people arguing with the qed account* If there's one thing chat bots already do better than humans it's gaslighting

Will be hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work on primary cilia and/or mechanics in brain cell types, primarily neurons. Expertise in cilia biology is important, but most importantly we are looking for a true cilia enthusiast. Experience in neuroscience is not required.

The sad truth is that there's a significant proportion of PIs that now view "doing science" as a purely managerial activity, outsourcing experiments, writing and now thinking as much as possible (thanks AI!) to optimize productivity (measured as papers published and grants obtained)

Hot weather Sunday cooking: Turkish eggs Çilbir and chickpea salad

Look at that dinosaur reading and reviewing claims himself rather than asking Claude how good it is, as we all know now proper independent review should be done /s

Honey what do you mean when you say "You already have those sneakers at home"?

Degenerative AI at the cartoon festival. Make a prompt, put a coin and the natural cartoonist inside the box will draw something!

I am curious about AI and have tested many forms including QED, I continue to be unsurprised so far by its normative outputs. All of this is normal development; it will get better over time. This unsolicited exploitation however must stop.

Say what you want about Softbank's CEO goose presentation but at least it's visually striking with the right amount of text and a single message per slide #protip

I know for a fact that this list is 100% human-generated! For that reason, there are almost certainly some excellent research that I've missed.... Drop me a message if you have any suggestions that I should add to the list.

[ #VeilleESR #LPPR ] Durcissement des règles d'attribution pour l'appel à projets générique ANR. Notamment : réduction du nombre de dépôts et augmentation du délais de carence. L'argumentaire est : plus les scientifiques ont besoin de l'ANR, moins il faut que les scientifiques sollicitent l'ANR.

“the academic community is enormously heterogeneous and it’s almost impossible to keep everyone happy” Never a truer word said in this analysis of downstream consequences of openness by @jacoates.bsky.social ripplingideas.org/2026/06/26/t...

Finally someone addresses the elephant in the culture room

And while you're on @prelights.bsky.social to find human-curated gems.of.preprints, look at this beautiful 100% AI-free picture of neurons from yours truly 🧪

It was the goose that created value

Chotiner: so, he stopped under the trap but was not crushed Wile E. Coyote: just so Chotiner: but then you stepped under it a moment later and were smashed into a pancake Wile E. Coyote: a pancake. That’s correct. Chotiner: and had similar events occurred previously? Wile E. Coyote: ok, look

Yesterday I lost my keys at the busiest intersection of downtown Marseille. This morning I went back, can you find them in this picture?