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Although highly topical, kleptoparasitism does not get nearly the attention it deserves! Here, a plant exploits the kleptoparasitic behavior of a fly that likes to snatch ants killed by spiders. 🕷️🐜🪰🌿 So the thief itself gets taken advantage of. Nice going, plants! www.cell.com/current-biol...

For this #FluorescenceFriday, a gorgeous image of an adult mouse kidney labeled with AQP2 and alpha SMA antibodies. AQP2 (green) marks the collecting duct and distal connecting segment while SMA marks the arterial tree. Courtesy of talented postdoc Sarah McLarnon.

If you are looking for young faculty to join your Department, it would be tough to do better than @vdeneke.bsky.social

🎉Congrats to our @vdeneke.bsky.social, postdoc in the @pauligroup.bsky.social, who has received the 2025 Life Sciences Research Award Austria from the ÖGMBT! She's recognised for her groundbreaking work on the molecular mechanisms of fertilisation: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

It’s no Hallstatt, but not far behind.

Excited to share that I’ve been awarded an @snsf.ch Ambizione grant to begin my independent research, starting summer 2026 at the Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich! I will use (epi)genomics to study altitude adaptation in Arabis alpina - stay tuned for more updates & PhD opportunities!

🪱New research from the Wang Lab shows how changes in a worm’s lysosomes promoting longevity are transferred to its offspring through the epigenome, revealing how epigenetic modifications that help organisms cope with environmental stress can be inherited. 🔗 www.janelia.org/news/leaving...

I am happy with bioRxiv. Everyone can post reviews there. It has all the infrastructure you need 🙂

So flattering! Thanks @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social for this deeply meaningful award! All credit goes to my lab members and collaborators. @scilifelab.se @ki.se

Paper alert! 📢 How do cells strike the perfect balance during meiosis? ⚖️ A new study from the Matos lab in @natureportfolio.nature.com uncovers how Holliday junctions and the synaptonemal complex safeguard crossovers ➡️ tinyurl.com/2k4mmpzu @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

I often ask myself the same. Just paid a high APC, although an almost identical version of the work was already freely available as a preprint. Feels like we’re overspending on validation, not access.

A very sad case of greed #thalidomide podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/c...

Very grateful that my team was represented by three talks at #isplore2025jp and two posters 🇯🇵🌱🫚

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you! Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear @dfg.de & @erc.europa.eu Why don't you do the same? What's stopping us from adopting this model to all tax-payer funded research in Europe? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Congratulations @sciezgin.bsky.social !!! Richly deserved.

Erdinc Sezgin to Receive 2026 Early Independent Career Award www.biophysics.org/news-room/er...

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A recent cool preprint by John Whitney's lab on a new family of antibacterial proteins secreted by Gram-positive bacteria that enter and kill a broad spectrum of bacteria. Cell entry is receptor-independent and relies on cleavage by a co-secreted protease and the PMF. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our lab is 1 year old! 🎂Celebrated with a casual lunch together 🎉

I am excited to share our new preprint on the CAGE complex, a mysterious hollow protein complex that I first saw years ago while surveying Tetrahymena ciliary lysate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #cilia #protistsonsky 🧬🧪

Thrilled to make my first post here 🌱 Right after presenting at #ISPLORE2025JP, where I shared our work on how anatomy & habitat shaped the oxygen-sensing machinery of angiosperms. Please check out our new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now @bzh-hd.bsky.social Jonathan Friedman is talking in #mitochondria organization

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Our latest issue is out!👇 www.cell.com/current-biol... On the cover: Nautilus ≈ 🐙+🐚 (Maybe — like the Nautilus — our journal is a living fossil, believing in the interest and inspiration our readers might draw from the diversity of biological systems, questions and approaches we try to feature🙏 )

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!

Excited to share our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social where we describe evidence of a Jurassic nurse log from Scotland! Great work led by @anajusagasti.bsky.social Sophie Burne and @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social 🧵 👇 1/6 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

We recently celebrated the 7th anniversary of @theustunlab.bsky.social with a barbecue! Our journey began in Tübingen in September 2018 and has continued in Bochum since 2022. Excited to see what the coming years will bring!

Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

Are you interested in the mechanisms of mRNA regulation in the early embryo and are looking for a great lab to start your PhD? Then check out this amazing opportunity with my outgoing postdoc @lorenzoorts.bsky.social who will start her own lab - I can highly recommend to apply!

I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October. More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...

Wow 🤩 such amazing news! Congratulations @lorenzoorts Prospective students-run for it!!! You’ll thank me later.

Closing down physics departments?!? You may as well close the whole university. What on earth are they thinking? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Our article on human multidomain protein biogenesis is now published in @natsmb.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Want to learn more about our speakers and how Life of P.I. came to be? Check out our website www.lifepi-hd.com

We have a lab slack channel called Bad Plots. I added this beauty today (boxplots always give me problems), but at least my lab is extremely supportive.

If you are leading a team, you have a responsibility to be a “pragmatic optimist”. Otherwise, you risk being disloyal to the amazing young people you work with. #FridayThoughts

Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

Alessia Del Chiaro, Nenad Grujic, Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social @gmivienna.bsky.social and colleagues dissect autophagy in Arabidopsis with a nine-fold ATG8 knockout. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Join me, @needhibhalla.bsky.social @rachelzamzow.bsky.social and Gabriel Stein on Oct 6th 12.30 pm ET to discuss trust in open science shorensteincenter.org/new-event/ca...

Good read www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

We are open to every topic within this field, from research on plant viruses to herbivory! Exclusively apply through the link provided, but feel free to contact me with any questions about the position.

Are you ready to lead ground-breaking research in Infection Biochemistry? We are recruiting outstanding scientists to establish research groups based at @cssbhamburg.bsky.social tackling fundamental questions in molecular mechanisms of infection. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...