Sometimes you see things sooo wrong that you can only but hope it is AI-derived (T-DOM at the telomere, of course..and C-DOM...😖). For once, it is fortunate that the authors do not (could not) refer to the original work 😃 #Epigenetics, it is claimed.

Belgium friends, we salute you 👏 Vous faites plaisir!

They mentioned August Pyramus De Candolle and his 'eloquent' passage saying: 'Nature is at war'... But please note that they do not talk about 'Natural selection' (at this stage) but 'By Natural means of selection'.. 🤓

A sonday in Paris. What a city! From the terrace of @college-de-france.fr Enlightenments in every sense of the word 💡

Amazing swiss polytechnic schools with European ranks #2 (13 grants @ethz.ch) and #3 (9 grants @EPFL) institution-wise, right after Oxford University (13)😮👏

IMPORTANT study from @hocinerekaik.bsky.social @denisduboule.bsky.social and a significant validation of SCBEMs, #gastruloids in particular, as a discovery tool www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

Fantastic performance of #JR at Pont-Neuf in Paris 😮👏 #Plato

Course #4 of Claude Desplan, invited Professor @college-de-france.fr this thursday June 18th at 4pm. The World According to Ants 🐜 Videos of the entire series soon available online @ www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...

One problem fixed 👏👍. Let's have a vote against G. Infantino now.

C'est pas qu'on le savait pas... 🤔

Back home 😀!

Course #3 of Claude Desplan, invited Professor @college-de-france.fr this thursday June 11th at 4pm. Will be about ants and their strange social practices. Free access, pheromones accepted, cicadas forbidden. Course #2 now online (en français). @sfbd.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=faVj...

Claude Desplan visiting @college-de-france.fr and the lab🙏🏻 Great and challenging guest🥸

The 2026 symposium talks are now online (in english). Just click and enjoy🙏. And if you enter the @college-de-france.fr website, check the previous symposia, they all rock! 🤘

Amazing how the simple colours of the background retrieve immediately the sleeve of the vinyl LP... #NoFutur 🎸

The first course of Claude Desplan, invited Professor @college-de-france.fr is now available online. Next one today thursday June 4th at 4pm www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...

Apologies. In the 1982 version, it is Ava1 which is wrong, not EcoR1 😖

Yet with a mistake in EcoR1 sequence I remember, likely not found in the Bible 🥸

The first lesson of Claude Desplan, invited Professor @college-de-france.fr will soon be online. The second one is already coming this thursday June 4th at 4pm. Be determined to attend and take a seat stochastically. Free access, no registration, in french🤘

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From this thursday May 28th onwards, Claude Desplan @NYU will give four seminars as a guest Professor @college-de-france.fr Dont' miss this great colleague and teacher, on a super interesting and timely topic! Free access, no registration and an air-conditioned auditorium🤘

Super symposium 2026 @college-de-france.fr on 'The Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms'. Thanks everyone for delivering great talks, soon to appear online. A wonderful🌞day in Paris🤘

Hocine Rekaik @hocinerekaik.bsky.social now closing the first afternoon session exploring the roles of Hox genes during axis formation in mammalian pseudo-embryos. #CJM26 @denisduboule.bsky.social

Tomorrow Thursday May 21st! Come and enjoy!

One of my dream projects, ever since joining here in Basel, out now in @nature.com : single-cells 🤝 eco-morphological proxies rdcu.be/fiyso How cells and tissues adapt to dietary niches... Thanks and congrats to Antoine, Walter, and all the other co-authors for this great collaboration!! 🙏🥳

Strasbourg was sad today. Beautiful and sad 😞

Wonderful time @Clinical Genomics and NGS course in Bertinoro castle, Italy 🙏 Lots of energy, friends, long reads and various pasta haplotypes🤘#MarcelDuchamp

👏 No pasaran ! 💪🏼

In the meantime, negotiations going on in Switzerland 🇨🇭

Pierre Chambon was a great scientist. And a good man too. He alone opposed to leading British embryologists during the evaluation of a case of scientific misconduct more than 40 years ago, to defend young scientists against an establishment to which he belonged. An unforgettable lesson. RIP Pierre 💐

🙏 #FlorenceRosier @lemonde.fr for advertising Evo-Devo🤘 If you want more of it or some teaching material, see the full course 2018 @college-de-france.fr www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co... www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Scientific misconduct is not merely manipulating figures in a publication, getting caught and retracting papers. It has many other facets, some of which still being subjects to different perceptions by the scientists themselves, while they should not. Two classical examples:

Wonderful bois gentil Daphne mezereo (or striata?) @Arolla. Right after the snow, there they come. Sooo smelly, sooo cool 🤘

This year, the annual symposium of my Chaire @college-de-france.fr will be on The Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms. An impressive lineup of speakers and weirds animals, including humans. Free entrance and coffee breaks. Come, have a seat, relax and enjoy the best possible basic science🤘RT🙏

Chers Collègues et Amis de Strasbourg, je serai à la Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire (BNU) le 21 avril à 18h30 pour partager mes souvenirs d’embryon. Apportez les vôtres! Consultation gratuite.

Great retreat of the UMR 3664 @institutcurie.bsky.social in wonderful #RoyaumontAbbey. Great science, lots of positive energy 🤘, frogs and coypus. A swan too.

#Science #Biologie 🧬 « L’#ADN, acteur et témoin de l’évolution des animaux » 🖥️ Le cours du Pr @denisduboule.bsky.social#Science#Biologie#ADN,itulaire de la chaire #Évolution du développement et des #génomes, est terminé... mais toutes les vidéos sont à (re)voir sur notre site web ! 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4c6ndrrt

Garden party, late last night. Dont' know why 'blaireau' (badger) has a negative connotation in french? They are so cute, calm and well educated too 🙂

Mes cours de cette année @college-de-france.fr sur le développement et l'évolution de la queue sont disponibles online. Grands singes, souris funambules et tout le toutim. Et l'ADN dans tout cela, il (a) fait quoi ?🙄 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/audios-vi...

Friends in NY, I shall be giving a public lecture at NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, 19 Wash. square at 5pm April 2nd as part of a NYU/ @college-de-france.fr visiting program. With Diderot, Haeckel, Isidore G. St Hilaire, Meckel, Perec and the embryo as guest stars. Also about the Enlightments💡😕 Please RT🙏

Phil's birthday (round number+1) @roysocmed.bsky.social London 💐🍾. Lots of friends and many fun memories. Time flies 😲

Hungarian women who had voted for Orban, this was a good choice indeed 👏🤔

Demain Vendredi 20 à 10h, oubliez les municipales et venez à mon 3ème cours 2026 @college-de-france.fr Comment donc avons-nous (les grands singes) perdu notre queue? Et les souris arboricoles, peuvent-elles nous aider à comprendre? 🤔

Wonderful retreat of Cell and Dev Biol @cirbcdf.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr 👏👍 Great talks from young colleagues, lot of energy and good vibes🔥 (also karaoké, I heard) 🙏 organisers, you rock!

Friends Davor Solter and Azim Surani receiving the wonderful Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Genomic Imprinting👏 👍 @Frankfurt Germany. With official talks from politicians using words like Education, Knowledge, Democracy 🙏 @maxplanck.de @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Ce vendredi 13 à 10h, bravez l'adversité et venez à mon 2ème cours 2026 @college-de-france.fr. L’histoire mouvementée et le mirage du Locus T. Depuis un siècle et les rayons X de @institutcurie.bsky.social aux grands singes sans queue. Comment donc l’avons-nous perdue? @cirbcdf.bsky.social

Midnight, the badger spills the bird house to make seeds available. After eating for 28’, he brings it back as it was…😮 and terminates diner. At 4.30am, he/she leaves the garden and knows is hasn’t yet been re-filled… See you soon, friend. #NatureSooooCool

Demain Vendredi 6 mars à 10h, premier cours 2026 @college-de-france.fr L’ADN, cause proximale ou cause ultime? Intro, bref rappel Evo-Dévo, Développement et importance de la queue ainsi que sa perte cruelle chez les hominidés, histoire du locus T.