Who can identify in the mirror the gentleman taking the pict (with moustache and a Hox-proofed 5 digits hand) ? (@vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social disqualified).

No pasaran !

..et Champollion prêt au départ, pour une nouvelle jeunesse 👋🏼

Great moments of 2025🙏 With old friends at the #AnneEphrussi @embl.org farewell symposium 🥲

Good morning Geneva! Massif du Mont Blanc, mythical grandes Jorasses🤘

Results of the @erc.europa.eu consolidator grants. 25 for🇨🇭👏 ETH-EPFL: 9 UNIZH-UNIBS: 12 UNIL: 1 UNIGE: 0 🥸

Here are some facts and figures from the 2025 Consolidator Grant call: 🔶 €728 million in funding 🔶 349 mid-career researchers from Europe and beyond 🔶 44 different nationalities All of them pushing the frontiers of knowledge. Congratulations! #ERCCoG #FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope

10 ans après la dernière, mes chroniques 'scanner' publiées dans le journal suisse Le Temps @letemps.ch entre 1998 et 2015. Time flies, la science aussi. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/81c8c...

Début de la leçon inaugurale de Maria Melchior @college-de-france.fr ´santé mentale et addictions’ 🍟🍰🍷⚽️

Great visit and talk of Per @perahlberg.bsky.social in Paris 👍@college-de-france.fr Vertebrate paleontology on the terrasse, with a view of Sacré-Cœur under the sun 😮

Many congrats to all! Special congrats to Fanny and Jesse, you rock! 👏

Enfin une bonne nouvelle dans ce climat de morosité et d'anxiété latente. La France reprend son rang naturel, le premier 🏆🥇dans cette discipline exigeante.

This coming wednesday Dec. 3rd @college-de-france.fr, the annual #FrançoisJacob symposium. This year is about ‘Biology in the Flow of Time’⏱️. Superbe line up of speakers on various aspects. Come and enjoy (should you have time), free access, no registration🤘

Veggies in Madrid: you better like fried eggplants 😲

First retreat of our #DynaTrans @erc.europa.eu synergy consortium. Great science and interactions, (little) wine testing and (lots of-) Poisson distributions with the Gregor @pasteur.fr, Tkacik #ISTA and our @college-de-france.fr labs, in wonderful #Ermenonville castle🤘

🙏🏼 A wonderful meeting indeed. Full of great science and energy 👏 @fsscr.bsky.social

Congrats Alexandre! And 🙏🏻for having initiated and supervised the work!👍🤟

Tomorrow November 18th 17.30h, last lesson (#4) from #EmmanuellePassegue, guest prof @college-de-france.fr on Hematopoietic stem cells in ageing and stress. Free access, no registration. Young and relax people welcome too. All 4 videos soon accessible online.

Breaking symmetry #manifesto

Today November 13th at 5.30pm, 3rd lesson from Emmanuelle Passagué, guest Prof @college-de-france.fr on Myeloid cells production. The first lesson is now available online 👇🏼 Free access, no registration. www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...

Demain mercredi 12 nov. 17h30, leçon #2 de #EmmanuellePassegue @columbiauniversity.bsky.social , Prof. Invitée @college-de-france.fr sur les cellules souches hématopoïétiques🩸 ‘Environmental crosstalk and niche regulation’ 🧫. Free access, no registration.

´Leçon d’honneur de #MartinVetterli @icepfl.bsky.social ex-President de l’EPFL! Well done Martin! And have a great journey wherever you go🙏🏼👏🤟🎸

Was truly a must to have @neilshubin.bsky.social visiting for a month as a guest Prof. @college-de-france.fr, spending time with colleagues, with lab members 👍 and delivering a superb series of 4 talks (see below)🙏. This is what science is about. I’ll miss the morning coffees ☕️🤘

📣 The Institut Jacques Monod congratulates Stéphane Nedelec ( @spinalorga.bsky.social ) on receiving the @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant! More informations 🔗 erc.europa.eu/news-events/... @cnrs.fr @upcite.bsky.social @institutcurie.bsky.social @inserm.fr

Check out my third lecture at the Collège de France. On the origin of bones and teeth. Thanks to my host @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation and the community in Paris for a warm welcome! 🧪 youtu.be/4-UyXZTAgZc

Tomorrow Wedn 5th, lesson #4 of @neilshubin.bsky.social , guest Professor @college-de-france.fr ‘How do new biological inventions arise in evolution?’ ⚠️ Final seminar on his Paris tour 2025 😲 Dont’ miss this last opportunity to meet him and his inner fish. 11am, aquarium Guillaume Budé 🐠Free swim.

With @neilshubin.bsky.social at the amazing archives @academiesciences.bsky.social🇫🇷 🙏 #CesarManrique #MarcKefer. Darwin was elected there very late, due to internal resistance. When eventually asked to send his files, he wrote as ‘honours’: ‘’Member of most of the scientific societies of Europe..’ 🤓

Hominoids meeting Champollion in Paris @college-de-france.fr @neilshubin.bsky.social #JeanJHublin #DanLieberman #PhilippeJanvier. Amazing group of friends but now seriously worrying about paleo-anthropo-contamination 🥸

After all these years, It eventually got the frame it deserves. Respect 🪰

Tomorrow Wednesday 29th at 11am, lesson #3 of @neilshubin.bsky.social guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The evolutionary origin of bones and teeth’. The second lesson is available @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... . No registration, Free access, dentures accepted.

Dès le 7 novembre at 5.30pm, 4 courses on the biology of hematopoietic stem cells from Dr #EmanuellePassague @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, guest Professor @college-de-france.fr. How to produce and rejuvenate your blood cells? Free attendance, no registration, no compulsory blood test🤘

Catch my new lecture at the Collège de France entitled “The Origin of Walking.” Thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for hosting! 💙🧪 m.youtube.com/watch?v=fNim...

Tomorrow wednesday 22nd at 11am, lesson #2 of Neil Shubin, Guest Prof @college-de-france.fr ‘Discovering how fish evolved to walk’. Wonderful first lesson @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... Fish friends in Paris, please RT🤘 Swim the Seine till St Michel, then get out and walk left. Free access

When I grow up, I will be a paleontologist 🥸 #PhilippeJanvier @mnhn.fr and guest Prof @neilshubin.bsky.social, fossil hunting in Paris @college-de-france.fr

Tomorrow wednesday October 15th at 11am, first seminar of @neilshubin.bsky.social , guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The history we share with fish’. Come, have a seat and enjoy learning where we come from. Free knowledge, no registration🤘

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#Science #Biologie « Nos ancêtres les poissons » 📌 Cycle de conférences de Neil Shubin (université de Chicago) ⏰ 15 octobre → 5 novembre 2025 👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/conferencier-invite/nos-ancetres-les-poissons

'In the absence of shared standards, complexity becomes an elastic notion' 🥸

Some good news, if one looks carefully 👏

Fully-funded 4-year PhD Opportunities available at the @crick.ac.uk , including a project in our lab on human #embryomodels Feel free to share with anyone interested, and apply through the online portal before 5th November! 👏 www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Vertebrate Genome Evolution. Annual Symposium of the @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social Foundation in Geneva. Free access on site and on line. Great speakers for a super interesting topic. #SvantePaabo #HenrikKaessmann organisers 🙏 See you there! @biology-unige.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social

Wonderful meeting @embl.org to celebrate the amazing career of #AnneEphrussi 👏🎉🤟

#ResultatScientifique 🔎| Faire taire les gènes est aussi crucial que les activer : le répresseur Snail révèle son rôle essentiel dans le développement embryonnaire 🧬 ✍️ @laghalab.bsky.social et Ovidiu Radulescu 📕 @natcomms.nature.com | buff.ly/pmtzA1t

Glad the the graphiste @franceinfo.fr was not conceived in this way..🥸

This is what happens when using Safari to search for Bach, the Art of Fugue 😖. So depressing.

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Demain soir mardi! Auditoire Louis Jeantet, Genève 🧠🐣📱📞

Pavillon Allemand (Barcelona Pavillon) by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1929). The purity of lines, magical. Form follows function 😮

Nature research paper: Co-option of an ancestral cloacal regulatory landscape during digit evolution go.nature.com/3K576D7

Having fun @amartinezarias.bsky.social party! 🙏🏻🎉💐 Great meeting #InHoxWeSortOfTrust