Gain #training on correlative #LightElectronMicroscopy techniques in the eponymous EMBO Practical Course "Correlative light electron microscopy" in Utrecht, Netherlands, 13–18 September 2026. Deadline: 3 July 2026 meetings.embo.org/event/26-clem#training#LightElectronMicroscopy#EMBOCorrelativeLight #EMBOevents 🧪

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

This AI stuff.... Anyone else feel like they're one of the remaining unbitten characters in a zombie movie?

I know it seems like a heretical idea, but one way to figure out if a preprint is really interesting (to you) is... to read the preprint. Then, in the spirit of sharing, send a note to authors: a simple kudos or a more detailed question. I do this a dozen times a year. It's awesome. Try it.

New preprint! In collaboration with the Steinmetz Lab at PSI we report cryo-EM structures of microtubules at up to 1.9 Å (!) resolution & in different nucleotide state mimics, suggesting a mechanism for lattice-induced GTP hydrolysis and why it leads to catastrophe: tinyurl.com/7cjrf863

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Cryo-ET gives unparalleled views of cellular structures, but targeted sample preparation by cryo-FIB milling has been a constraint. No longer! A new workflow yields close to 100% targeting success for centrioles & other small structures. Read the preprint ⤵️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

And the award for the worst AI-slop images of beta cells goes to: www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

With a motivating push from @christlet.bsky.social I made a new Fiji plugin, CurveMorph. The idea was to create a tool for kymograph generation along the dynamic (bending/shaking) filament shapes (microtubules, cilia, neurites, etc). The logo was made using the plugin. github.com/UU-cellbiolo...

I made a small VR app for looking at our beta cell reconstructions in 3D. I can also control it from my PC, which makes it nice for outreach events. Pretty happy with how it turned out.

Better vitrification = better cryo-ET. We've opened an RFA for two-year grants to advance vitrification techniques for biological samples—welcoming applications from researchers in heat transfer, cryogenics, and materials science. Apply here: bit.ly/4uip6eJ

Important new work from Chia-Hsiang Chang, @nachury.bsky.social and colleagues identifying the composition of neuronal cilia in an unbiased way. Lots of surprises herein: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to see my image of a beta cell cilium included.

My friends and colleagues were thrown out of the ADA meeting by the ADA for handing out copies of an editorial published in the ADA's own journal. We're talking 2 past ADA presidents and distinguished awardees including the 2025 Banting Award recipient. ADA needs to reverse course and apologize.

Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting. The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real. We have to stand up.

I guess here we are with censorship? Diabetes experts removed from conference

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life” is the promotion committee’s way of saying that scientific achievements prior to your last promotion don’t count

We are organising a trainee pre-meeting ahead of the EMBO Workshop @embo.org @isrbio.bsky.social If you’re an undergrad/MSc/PhD or postdoc interested in regenerative biology, join us in Vienna for trainee talks, networking, and discussions with keynote speakers about their scientific journey.

Join us again for the Bioimage Computing workshop at ECCV 2026! Paper deadline July 13th 🔥

A fossil nervous system meets modern neurobiology. We found that a living comb jelly preserves neural architecture remarkably similar to those inferred from Cambrian fossils over 500 million years old 🤩. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

One, perhaps two, of our postdocs are moving on to faculty positions this year (more news soon!). While they're truly irreplaceable, it does mean that we have openings for new members to join our team studying #cilia. If interested, please apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15526

Please come join me in Washington, DC August 2-6th for the FASEB SRC on Cilia and Centrosomes meeting! Over 40 talks will be selected from abstracts. We are also excited to launch our first North American Ciliopathy Summit, held at the same venue on August 2. events.faseb.org/event/cilia-...

Hey y’all 👋 repost magic appreciated. The Solecki lab is recruiting multiple postdocs at St. Jude for a chromatin imaging project at the edge of live-cell imaging, neuronal cell biology, chromatin regulation, and quantitative image analysis. Ever dreamed of touring chromatin like this? We CAN 🔥

Preprint 🧵! I’m really excited to introduce BIGSMALL, an interleaved multi-magnification cryo-ET scheme bridging molecular and cellular scales in a single acquisition! BIGSMALL = 𝐁road 𝐈nformation 𝐆athering 𝐒trategy by 𝐌ultiscale 𝐀cquisition of lame𝐋𝐋a www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

Calling all #cilia researchers. Our new Community Page presents CiliaKB, a manually curated #KnowledgeBase that serves as a one-stop platform for researchers to rapidly access mechanistic #data and mine for translational clues about cilia. 🧪 #CellBiology plos.io/4d4QaYr

Whoa. Check out this tardigrade eye, comprised of just four cells, one of which has a cilium (CI) that expands into a labyrinth (orange, outer segment equivalent?) with ciliary Opsin. See preprint from Soumi Dutta, Vladimir Gross, Georg Mayer and colleagues: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

On April 19, 1898, Camillo Golgi first described what we now call the Golgi apparatus - a structure so striking and unusual that it took more than 50 years for scientists to accept it wasn’t just an artefact. April 19 is #GolgiDay! Celebrate the cell’s most iconic and best organelle.

Original image from 2011 of what I just had seen under the microscope when I ran into @oliverrocks.bsky.social’s office to show him. Turned out he’d observed this too, had no idea what it was either, but was just as stunned and curious as I was. This is how it all started... /1

Rods have a continuous multilamellar architecture - unlike any known cellular membrane organisation - and occur across all cell types tested /3 🙏 @andimicroscopy.bsky.social

Happy to have contributed to this. Really exciting findings on new structures in cells. Congrats to @pm-mueller.bsky.social, @oliverrocks.bsky.social and everyone involved.

I am excited to share our most recent work collaborating with @centriolelab.bsky.social and @stearnslab.bsky.social to look at the ciliary base of mammalian multiciliated cells w/ cryo-ET, XL/MS, and U-ExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Molecular architecture of the ciliary base in mammalian multiciliated cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.05.716577v1

In their Review, Prasanna Katti, Antentor Hinton, Jr and colleagues discuss how imaging techniques have advanced our understanding of mitochondrial biology. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

We've spent the last year building something at @humantechnopole.bsky.social that we think is genuinely needed: #AI that works across biological scales and data modalities, not just within them. A thread on what we're doing, why, and who we're looking for. A 🧵... 1/9

📣 The Cilia2027 Best Image Competition is open! 🧬✨ 🏆 1st Prize: Cover of the program & website + FREE registration to Cilia2027 🥈🥉 2nd & 3rd: Featured in the event screensaver + website Submit your best cilia visuals: forms.gle/jUC2tnsa5Cs8... #Cilia2027 #Microscopy #SciArt #Cilia

The new release of #BigVolumeBrowser (0.1.0) finally adds animation render functionality to it, plus some other navigation improvements and bug fixes. Here is a movie I've made for the microtubule network (via ExM) in different cell types. Contact me if you want it for educational/research purposes.

🚨Job Alert -- again!🚨 You are into disease risk prediction based on images or other data modalities? This is for you! 🫵 careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc-... Part of our Scientific AI Flagship @humantechnopole.bsky.social and part of our mission to benefit society via biomedical #AI solutions.

A unique opportunity to lead the most wonderful company in scientific publishing (I might be slightly biased here). The Company of Biologists are searching for a CEO. www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

Excited to share our work on the structure and function of cytoplasmic lattices within mouse embryos. A collaborative effort with @niakanlab.bsky.social and work led by @kashishsingh.bsky.social and @inaharasimov.bsky.social . It is now out on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For #BrainAwarenessWeek, I'm hosting 'That Sugar Film' at #ThaliaKino on March 18th. After the film, Luise Molling (@foodwatchde.bsky.social), Friedrich Johenning (#ChariteBerlin) and I will discuss the impacts of sugar to the 🧠and to society! Tickets here: www.kinoheld.de/Kino-Potsdam...

Excited to share our new paper (CVPR 2026 🚀): "MuViT: Multi-Resolution Vision Transformers for Learning Across Scales in Microscopy" which enables local predictions to use global context. Great work led by @albertdm.bsky.social & another fun collab w @gioelelamanno.bsky.social! @scadsai.bsky.social

We opened 4 PhD positions at @humantechnopole.bsky.social together with Polimi (see 👇). My lab offers a PhD project on "Computational Morphogenesis": use state-of-the-art machine learning methods together with realistic simulations to build digital twins of developing tissue. Apply by March 26.

Looking for a theory partner for an #HFSP project? #morphogenesis in cells and tissues, #chemotaxis, #cilia? Feel free to reach out! Deadline for letters of intent 26.03.2026. physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-gro...

pH-dependent trapping of cationic amphiphilic drugs perturbs insulin granule homeostasis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.19.706757v1

AI based analysis of human pancreatic histology provides a foundation for future research into relevant diagnostic and therapeutic targets, refining several hypotheses regarding tissue alterations associated with #T2D www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There are just a few days (and spots!) left to apply to this EM course with a focus on marine samples 🌊 do not miss it!

🌍 Cilia2027 | Mar 8–12, 2027 | 📍 Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy Join the global cilia community for science, collaboration & discovery (+ fun!!). #Cilia2027 #CiliaBiology

Villin-SNAP25 interaction regulates insulin secretion downstream of ICA512 signaling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.699220v1

🔬🔦Our latest ‘Imaging spotlight’, by @carlesbosch.bsky.social, Ana Diaz, @adrianawanner.bsky.social & @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social, highlights the non-destructive X-ray tomography pipeline that the authors developed to map mouse brain ultrastructure & considers future applications & developments.