the deadline is coming soon👇 don't miss it, we are looking forward to welcoming all teleost (not just zebrafish 😉) afficionados in Vienna! 🙂🐟🐠🤓

3900 signataires, déjà, de la tribune de Stand Up for Science ! Et vous? standupforscience.fr/tribune-2/

*Recruiting new group leaders* The @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London are looking for outstanding candidates to sponsor for career development fellowships. Fellows would then be assessed for tenured positions at the end of the fellowship term.

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

Protist lovers: Please apply for a week of rhapsody! Learn by doing: MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. opbc.sciencesconf.org #protistsonsky

Want to join a happy bunch 🥳 to organise meetings, outreach activities and other initiatives about developmental biology in France? Apply and/or vote 🗳️!

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Today, I was happy to be able to include a map of my favourite island in my HDR manuscript. Mixing hollidays memories and science. 😍

Group Leader Call at the @cbitoulouse.bsky.social in Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :) cbi-toulouse.fr/wp-content/u...

Dear UK #drosophila @FlyBase Cambridge is now able to accept PO orders for support. So please get in touch with https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase

... credits for the 🎥 go to @theajacobs.bsky.social To learn more about our work on #tricellular junction assembly and dynamics, open positions etc., see www.uni-muenster.de/Biologie.IMZ... @uni-muenster.de @sfb1348.bsky.social

Don't miss this great opportunity!

A 🆕 #Ichthyosporea story Led [email protected], in Co. @gautamdey.bsky.social & @hiralshah.bsky.social+🔥team across @embl.org & @sciencesunige.bsky.social We finally have a look at what #microtubules are doing during #cellularization in #Sphaeroforma ▶️ tinyurl.com/MTSARC #ProtistsOnSky

How does the piRNA pathway solve the self vs. non-self problem? 🧬 Since piRNAs come from single-stranded RNA, how does the cell choose the right ones? For years, "piRNA clusters" were seen as THE privileged source. But are they really special and earmarked for biogenesis? (1/19)

#stuffthatmatters but 0.2% yield in 72 days... 🤷‍♂️

Beauty of today #protistsonsky

Abstract submission and registration for the *10th Euro Evo Devo Meeting 2026* at University of Glasgow (June 8-12, 2026) is open. Early bird deadline: March 5, 2026. More info: https://www.evodevoconference26.com/ #conference

Extremophile alert! Registration is OPEN for the 2026 EMBO Archaeal workshop in Cambridge. Spaces are limited, so register soon with an abstract if you’d like to give a talk. If you can’t come in person, we are welcoming virtual attendees. So join us online where all talks will be screened!

from viruses to lipid transfer and multiple symbiosis in early eukaryotes... #cellbiologyofeukaryogenesis @sbcf.bsky.social

fantastic start for our Eukaryogenesis meeting with a vivid overview of membrane remodelling systems in Archae!

finishing with a path to multicellularity via ultrastructure complexity #cellbiologyofeukaryogenesis @sbcf.bsky.social a big thank you to all speakers!

Please repost and consider applying: we work in such a fantastic context, we ask so interesting questions, and we have such a collegial and best-willing atmosphere… CRBM = Happy & Good Science

Nicole King will give a seminar in College de France on the 10th of february at 11.30, telling us about the secret lives of choanoflagellates. Don’t hesitate to join!

The origin of eukaryotic cells continues to be one of the greatest mysteries in biology. EMBL Grenoble is excited to welcome Florian Wollweber, who will use cutting-edge imaging techniques to study Asgard archaea — microbes closely related to our earliest ancestors. 🦠🔬 www.embl.org/news/people-...

We are also recruiting a Postdoc in cell/molecular biology! 3yr, fully funded by @cancerresearchuk.org more details here: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/11/27/s... Apply here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere. 🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Nicole King will give a seminar in College de France on the 10th of february at 11.30, telling us about the secret lives of choanoflagellates. Don’t hesitate to join!

If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the "Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples" at Stazione Zoologica in Naples. WIth great teachers from Naples […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Our research scientist Núria Ros-Rocher won the 1st prize @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social microscopy contest with this beautiful choano colony www.zeiss.fr/microscopie/... 🥳 C. flexa might not yet be a genetic model, but it is now at least a calendar model, which counts for something. I think.

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social for this opportunity to contribute to your centenary collection with our take on the state of the field - 10 years after its modern reincarnation 🧪🌍 W/ @alebenoit.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @fritzlaylin.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at

📣 #Job alert! Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo? The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research. Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...

My lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!

Sampling in…. Institut Pasteur. Beauties!

Crawling motility of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum, our favorite Asgard Archaeon.

Hey, this is a long shot but maybe someone on here can help. My sister and her wife were accepted to university in Rennes and need to move there before the January term starts, but they’re having trouble finding housing. Can anyone rent them a room? Even short term is helpful.

Intramolecular regulation of the MT-severing enzyme Katanin prevents futile ATP hydrolysis, say Nicolas Joly and Lionel Pintard @ccdlab.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton #Biochemistry

don't forget the @sbcf.bsky.social special symposium on #eukaryogenesis! we have available slots for oral presentation

Our lab is actively looking for posdocs and there is NOW an Open Call for Postdoc contracts (3 years) here: www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on induced proximity 🤜🤛 and functional genomics! Join our team in Toronto 🇨🇦 to tackle major challenges in oncology and neurodegeneration. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Our story on Srs2/PARI family DNA helicases linking chromatin bridges to the Aurora-B dependent NoCut checkpoint is now out in its peer-reviewed version. Thanks to @reviewcommons.org and @jcb.org for a smooth review process! Original preprint thread here: bsky.app/profile/long...

We have wondered what a complex archaeal cell might look like ever since 2014. It’s been a long road (and the journey is far from over), but it’s a good time to pause for breath and look. These Asgard archaeal cells are a surprise! And that is the joy of being a cell biologist.

Our lab is actively looking for PhD students and there is NOW an Open Call for PhD fellowship at the IRB Barcelona!!!!! phd.irbbarcelona.org

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🤯This is wow! Molecular mechanism of mRNA export. by @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social @plaschkalab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌊 A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualised the inner workings of hundreds of marine species for the first time www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

Success. Nearly 259 Foldscope deployed in hands of unsuspecting candy crazy kids. Halloween is always more colorful with the microscopes - specially in a few weeks they could look at the micro-fauna of the teeth with so much sugar consumption.

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...