Now published in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development as part of the special issue on Genome Architecture and Expression. 🧬 Part 1: doi.org/10.1016/j.gd... Part 2: doi.org/10.1016/j.gd...

Excited to share my first preprint from my PhD w/ @justinmcrocker.bsky.social. We show that cell type-specific regulatory dominance promotes robustness and evolutionary innovation through interallelic transcriptional hubs, potentially expanding the mutational paths available to diploids. (1/18)

Our latest manuscript on (Harry Potter and) the effect of elevated temperature on embryonic development in flies. Even a small increase in temperature causes developmental defects, indicating problems in the face of global warming! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why would a species of ocean plankton coil its shells to the right for millions of years and then suddenly, flip to the left? To find out more see Flipping Plankton in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... by Bridget Wade , Paul Pearson, David King and Valeria Luciani

JCS congratulates our Editor-in-Chief Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social on his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. royalsociety.org/news/2026/05...

"research librarians...wasting up to 15% of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to" via @cyrilpedia.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

These findings confirm studies on chatbots and the recent US presidential election that my lab conducted with @proofnews.bsky.social apnews.com/article/ai-c...

Excited to say that my new paper with @maxlechte.bsky.social (and others not on bluesky) has come out in @nature.com! Study of sediments, geochemistry and fossils from rocks 1.75 to 1.4 billion years old indicate that the oldest known #eukaryotes were aerobic and benthic! #protists rdcu.be/fjNgL

Did you know? Educational policies can strengthen climate coalitions. Authors' findings suggest that well-designed educational programs can have a role to play in broadening coalitions and increasing support for costly climate policies. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.

And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...

We have an open-rank professorship position open @unileiden.bsky.social Institute of Biology: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan... welcome to apply! due: 7 June

Thrilled to share the updated video of my paper in Nature with Maciej (under supervision of @simonemattei.bsky.social & @jomaalab.bsky.social) Proud to use Cryo-ET to uncover how hibernation factors are key to translation restart! To model PTMs in situ and render animations fulfilled my PhD dream!🥹🎉

And so it began. The CNRS Jacques Monod Conference 2026 #CJM26 in beautiful Roscoff kick started masterclassfully by Marianne Bronner on the development and evolution of the vertebrate neural crest.

That’s a wrap for #JCSimaging, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @drmichaelway.bsky.social & Giulia Zanetti. Thanks to everyone who joined us and made the conference such a wonderful community event. journals.biologists.com/jcs

Multinucleate cells challenge deeply-held assumptions about complexity, ecological success and evolution. Postdoc extraordinaire and gifted writer @mrosjac.bsky.social tackles this subject with aplomb - tell us what you think! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social

Origins of eukaryotic metabolism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.08.723234v1

1/13 So excited to share our new preprint!! How do organelles pack together in a crowded cytoplasm? we know organelles interact via contact sites, but how does competition for space contribute to organelle morphology and interactions? @wallaceucsf.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to have started my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social through the @dfg.de Emmy Noether program. In this project we will be looking at the mechanisms of host invasion by fungal pathogens 🍄🌱 Check it out and drop me a line if you are interested! uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

New paper alert! Led by David Montagnes, this one is for scientists and non-scientists alike. The history, benefits, and future of Learned Societies. We need community, fostering of critical thinking, and communication, more than ever! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #protistsonsky

@jlarsch.bsky.social and I are organising the 2026 CIG Symposium on June 11-12 in Lausanne on "Information transfer: from genes to behaviour", featuring an eclectic set of brilliant scientists. Details and registration here (abstracts by May 1, registration by June 1): www.unil.ch/fbm/en/home/...

Very excited to share our new paper out in Nature. Congrats to Xiaoqian (Annie) Yu and all the coauthors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

but as with so many nice ideas, this one doesn't seem to be true. Niklas Steube in @gautamdey.bsky.social lab has been studying centrin phylogeny, and he was able to show that the learning-related EF hand protein is not a centrin family member at all, but a far distance relative

Dear PhD students and postdocs — we want to hear about your science firsthand at our annual Early Career Microbiologists Mini-Symposium @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK) this September. For more information and to apply: www.jic.ac.uk/event/early-...

An interesting essay by educationalist Will Ellis - raising serious concerns about AI, with studies showing that cognitive engagement shrinks in direct proportion to the degree of AI assistance - with adolescent brains particularly vulnerable: reclaimchildhoodmedia.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...

What membrane properties do cells maintain through regulation of lipid metabolism? In a new paper, we identify intrinsic curvature stress as one such parameter and show how different (eukaryotic) cell types employ different lipids to do that www.cell.com/cell-reports...

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

RCC1 depletion drives protein transport defects and rupture in #micronuclei. From Molly G. Zych, Maya Contreras, Anna E. Mammel, and Emily M. Hatch: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 From #Cancer Cell Biology 2026 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

How much does it cost to buy your way onto a scientific paper? To answer this question (and better understand the global market for academic reputation manipulation), we compiled BuyTheBy, a massive dataset of thousands of advertisements from paper mills in seven different countries. Link below!

Got a good photo about your work as a scientist? The @nature.com #ScientistAtWork 2026 photo competition is open for entries - deadline 8 May. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hi all, I'd like to share some news - I will soon be moving to Lisbon, Portugal to start my very own lab @gimminstitute.bsky.social! The Epithelial Biology of Apicomplexan Infections lab (Epi-Api lab for short) will focus on the special relationship between #epithelial cells and #Cryptosporidium.

The Jacques Monod Conference on the mechanistic and evolutionary basis of programmed DNA elimination is approaching. There are selected talk slots available. Abstract submission deadline: Tuesday, May 5, 2026.

I know late to the party and all but very excited to see this: support for the hypothesis that increased prey specificity correlates with more tightly integrated kleptoplasts – from @mixotrophe.bsky.social lab (wrong image associated with link) #protistsonsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

Check out our work on E. coli capsules! Including a 3x extended catalog of capsule loci from >37K genomes, a scalable tool to type them in silico (kTYPr) and new associations with ecology and disease! A joint effort from @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social at @ethz.ch.

Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA

Very pleased that after a rigorous (and lengthy) review process, our paper visualizing how myosin generated forces modulate actin filament structure for mechanosensitive recogntion by α-catenin has appeared in @nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Link to paper in @CurrentBiology. Thank you to co-authors @aralbright.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social and more. @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

There is still much left to learn – for both Stentors and the humans who study them! Which other molecules drive Stentor habituation? What else can they learn? By researching how a single cell learns, we can begin to shed light on the origins of intelligence. 13/n

When Stentors receive repeated weak mechanical stimulation, however, they habituate and thus stop contracting and remain in their elongated state. Below is a video of Stentors that have become habituated after an hour of repeated stimulation. 5/n

How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my paper with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social! We discovered that single cells may learn using molecules similar to those that animal brains use to learn, like CaMKII. Cells can also propagate memory states to their progeny!

The GloBIAS Working Group survey 2024 has reached another important milestone with the publication of a short communication: GloBIAS: strengthening the foundations of bioimage analysis, in Nature Methods. doi.org/10.1038/s415... A big thank you to everyone involved Join GloBIAS at www.globias.org !

#EMBOExM is in full swing! On day two of the EMBO course 'Ultrascructure expansion microscopy: from cells to tissue' participants are learning hands-on how to prepare samples, perform gelation and immunostaining and how to map cellular biodiversity with expansion microscopy 🔬🧫

Day 2 of the EMBO U-ExM Workshop at EMBL Heidelberg #EMBOExM. Gels are ready and expanding nicely! We also had a lively poster session and inspiring talks from @sabsalon.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social. A very engaged group, great to see such thoughtful discussions around expansion microscopy

New paper out in @natureportfolio.nature.com @commsearth.nature.com! A major bottleneck in coral restoration is that newly settled corals rarely survive. We show that simple engineered substrates can increase early-stage survivorship by ~4×. Link to paper: rdcu.be/femTN

bbc.com/audio/brand/... Now free for all archaea lovers to hear!

How to tell complex stories in an engaging way: Leonid A. Klimov takes up Nature Marsilius Visiting Professorship for Science Communication at Heidelberg University www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...