The provisional program for The 6th Crick Bioimage Analysis Symposium (#CBIAS2025) is live! Join us at the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social in London in November for incredible talks, posters and insightful discussions. Space is limited - register now! www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...

Happy to share that ShapeEmbed has been accepted at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 🎉 SE is self-supervised framework to encode 2D contours from microscopy & natural images into a latent representation invariant to translation, scaling, rotation, reflection & point indexing 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01009 (1/N)

I’m speaking at the Euro-BioImaging Virtual Pub! I’ll share my journey into microscopy support, introduce UCL’s Light Microscopy facility, and show how we help researchers from planning to analysis — plus reproducible workflows & community building. www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...

🧵1/14 Preprint thread! Can we predict a cell’s fate based on its dynamics? 🔮 Our new study unveils a framework for watching development unfold in real-time, revealing how a cell's shape and movement encode info about its future fate. 🔬📄 Preprint: tinyurl.com/4shf8v4x

For last 10 years - we have worked with thousands of organizations around the world helping support them in integrating foldscope programs. To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!

Truly chuffed for our fearless food physicists @mpipks.bsky.social + collabs from AT @istaresearch.bsky.social, IT & ES who won this year’s Ig Nobel - the #NobelPrize of hearts❤️for cracking the science of perfect pasta !🍝Kudos to all for intrepidly consuming lots of cheese in the name of science!😋

I will give the UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences. If you are in London on December 3, come say hello. Registration is required but free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-prize-...

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026): www.embl.org/about/info/e... We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them

Oxford Biology is growing 📢 We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in: 🌱 Plant Sciences 🦉 Animal Behaviour 🔬 Molecular Cell Biology 3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7 Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going. @harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2) @socdevbio.bsky.social #devbiol #scicomm

I am excited to announce that we are looking for a Lab Manager @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel. If you want to be part of a growing team investigating development and tissue formation, and are enthusiastic about helping set up a new lab, please check out the role: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

I am excited to share that I will join the Friedrich Miescher Institute @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel as a group leader, starting my lab in March 2026 🎉 We will explore cell fate regulation during organogenesis, with a focus on how cell elimination underlies the emergence of functional tissues.

Our paper on central complex evolution in Heliconiini butterflies is now available as reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social 🎉🎉. Please check out the helpful and constructive reviews which we are going to address in the next weeks 🤗 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... @ebablab.bsky.social

ICYMI, the recordings of our #DevPres webinar on gene regulation are now available. Check out the talks from @dev-journal.bsky.social PI fellows Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social. thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-... #devbio 🎥

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Save the date! The @pasteur.fr Pasteur course on image analysis is announced: It will happen from the 1st of June to the 5th 2026. This year there will be only one track: the Early Career Investigator track (beginners). 👇

Our Scientific Ambassador @virsicas.bsky.social interviewed Robert Lees, an expert in multiphoton & light sheet microscopy at the 🐙 Octopus facility, part of Euro-BioImaging’s UK Node @bioimaginguk.bsky.social. 🔬Learn more about his role in the full interview🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/meet-ro...

Preprint alert! We combined microfluidics, proteomics, and RNA-seq to map spatiotemporal protein expression during mouse somitogenesis and found a novel regulatory strategy: dynamic antagonistic gradients fine-tune signalling strength. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Very attractive position at EMBL Heidelberg

Just out in @dev-journal.bsky.social - important discussion on the availability of human embryos for research. Thanks @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social and co-authors for contributing this: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

BIIG seminars are back! 🎉 12-1pm on 12th September: - Kaixiang Shuai (LMCB, UCL): Creating the first Drosophila imaginal wing disc atlas - Aikta Sharma (UCL Mechanical Engineering): Predicting Osteoarthritis in the Tibial Epiphysis with Synchrotron X-ray CT and Digital Volume Correlation

Check out this new paper on programmable cell culture matrix #DyNAtrix www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our paper on the nonequilibrium mechanics and remodelling of collagen-IV networks is finally out on @prxlife.bsky.social! It has been a long and exciting scientific journey, led by @billiemeadowcroft.bsky.social! @ivnpla.bsky.social @yanlanmao.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

Thirst for knowledge? The 2025 Stem Cell Summer School starts next Friday! We have an uncommonly spectacular array of faculty, and have no doubt that our delegates will also be spectacular Follow ‪@stemcellsummer.bsky.social‬ and #SCSS2025 for updates during the meeting

Time to 3D (bio)print with GRACE! @natureportfolio.nature.com Excited to share a new #3dprinting approach, to automatically create designs and prints that conform to living cells, particles or any object embedded within a printable resin for light based printing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Maria Leptin | EMBO Science Journalism Fellowships support life scientists pursuing a career in #ScienceJournalism and science journalists who wish to further their scientific education. Apply now: www.embo.org/funding/fell... #LifeSciences #ScienceCommunication #SciComm #Funding 🧪

Thrilled to share 🎉 I’m starting my lab at University of Zurich, DMLS as Assistant Professor (tenure track) from Jan 2026! The Neural MorphoGenomics & Developmental Dynamics Lab will be exploring how genes + morphogenesis shape brain development with organoids, imaging & spatial genomics 🧠🔬🧬

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

Many years in the making but now finally online! What determines the temperature scaling and thermal limits of cell cycle duration in embryos? We tackled the question using a combination of dynamical systems analysis and experimental measurements in embryos and in cycling Xenopus extracts.

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 30th September...pass it on! www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

Exciting day for @crick.ac.uk today: Edith Heard takes over as Director We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...

A thousand bravos for Núria Ros-Rocher, who just secured a permanent @cnrs.fr researcher position in our lab. These positions are (too) rare but give much-needed job security to young scientists and allow long-term projects. Núria will dive deep into the natural history of C. flexa 🧪🌊 #ProudPI

Females are larger than males. How? Here is one solution- they have MORE nuclei in their flight muscles and grow LARGER heart and fat body cells with MORE ribosomal mRNAs. Fun collaboration of @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social with @soumitrakp.bsky.social & Brian Oliver www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - August 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/19wfG... #Art #SciArt

These are great - and could support your attendance to the 2025 CBIAS napari workshop for example! www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...

Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!

Next guest speaker at #CBIAS2025 is Christa Walther, community manager for @globias.bsky.social‬. GloBIAS is a worldwide association that brings together all those interested in #bioimageanalysis, offering opportunities for knowledge exchange, events, training, and resources. 🔗👇 www.globias.org

Very honored to receive the Royal Society Research Culture Award - this represents the work of a great team who've worked non-stop since we launched bioRxiv in 2013 royalsociety.org/news/2025/08... www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-s...

Super excited that our latest work is out! We use optogenetics to dynamically control and study the formation of morphogen gradients. If you are interested in optogenetic tools and/or how cells shape and process extracellular signals, check out @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social's thread and the paper.

Need time to think in an inspiring environment? A new institute for advanced study (#vicas) is emerging @univienna. SENIOR- and EARLY-CAREER FELLOWSHIPS are available here: https://vicas.univie.ac.at Deadline is Sep 1. There is still enough time to apply!

The #CBIAS2025 abstract deadline is this Sunday, August 31st. Submit your #BioImageAnalysis work, whether it’s a new tool or a biological discovery. #EarlyCareerResearchers, this is for you! Short and flash talk slots are up for grabs. www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...

Check out the latest work by @dbenzinger.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social ! Building gradients in space and time. I am extremely biased but the Dec 15 issue of Dev Cell is 🔥🔥

Once is an exception, twice is a trend, thrice is a tradition! Save the date for our now-traditional annual OME-NGFF extravaganza in Zurich! Whether you’ve just heard about OME-NGFF and are curious to learn more or if you are working with it every day, there is something for everyone this year!

Dear [email protected], dear [email protected], to learn more about the importance of #Drosophila and crucial role of @flybase.bsky.social, and how it gave rise to at least 9 Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine, please see this link: droso4schools.wordpress.com/why-fly/

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Want to help us image and understand those incredible samples Felix just collected at UBC - and many more? 2 more days to apply! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology 🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠