Calling scientists based in the #Americas, it's not too late to register for the @embo.org Lab #Leadership live online course spread over 4 days between 9am – 3:30pm NY time on 17-20 March. Sign up now to avoid disappointment: www.embolableadership.org/course/embol... #EMBOLabLead

Missed the abstract deadline for 'Cellular mechanisms driven by phase separation'? You now have some extra time so make sure to send it over by 22 Feb! Together, we can address the open challenges in cellular organisation, adaptation, and robustness. 🧬🦠 #EESPhaseSeparation s.embl.org/ees26-08-bl

A Review in Nature Medicine outlines the science behind psychedelic medicine and integrates mechanistic knowledge with clinical evidence across neuropsychiatric indications, highlighting challenges, controversies and opportunities. go.nature.com/4amcefC #medsky #Neuroskyence 🧪

This year, we're celebrating a decade of the International Booker Prize in its current form. Ten books, authors and translators who have carved a route into a world where boundaries are permeable and magical things happen. Tap the link to discover every International Booker Prize winner since 2016:

Rewiring of oncogenic signaling in #DrugResistance is a moving target. In our new study, we used biophysical phosphoproteomics to investigate #BRAF mutant cancer, linking phosphorylation changes to protein function and #MolecularMechanisms through #Multi-Omics integration. tinyurl.com/funsignaling

Fancy a visit to EMBL Heidelberg in summer where you can learn all about microtubules and network with peers at the same time? Then submit your abstract for #EESMicrotubules before the 11 March➡️ s.embl.org/ees26-09-bl

Deadline tomorrow! Learn how to reconstruct the demographic history of populations and more at the EMBO Practical Course "Population genomics: Background and tools" in Campania region, IT, 15–21 June 2026. https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-pop-genomics #EMBOPopGenTools #GeneSky #EMBOevents 🧪

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

“There are almost certainly stories we’re missing out on by only reading English-language fiction… The more translated fiction we read, the more our view of the world expands.”

If you are interested in doing your research in Catalonia (highly recommended). This call is for you! 👇

Morgan Russell, Color Form Synchromy (Eidos), 1922-23 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134606

What happens when Booker Prize–winning novelists turn the pen on themselves? Discover the personal lives of some of the greatest Booker winners through a handpicked selection of autobiographies and see why truth can be just as compelling as fiction. Tap the link below for the full list of memoirs

🔊All 2026 EMBO Courses & Workshops are online! You can go through the list here ➡️ www.embo.org/conferences-... And download the poster listing all meetings here ➡️ www.embo.org/documents/co... 🧪 #EMBOevents #AcademicSky #LifeSciences #ScientificConferences

The National Institutes of Health has announced it will no longer fund research involving human fetal tissue from elective abortions. https://scim.ag/49D4Zkj

Engineered living glues secrete therapeutic proteins for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease go.nature.com/4pJHFpL

Last chance to register and join us in person for #EESAIBio! 🤖🧬 Attend talks, network, socialise, and experience the EMBL Heidelberg campus atmosphere! Register by 30 January: s.embl.org/ees26-02-bl Bonus: Join the TrustworthyAI4Health Workshop, organised by @elsa-ai.eu,#EESAIBioon 9 March 2026!

Have a guess: What's the global macroeconomic burden of diabetes mellitus from 2020 to 2050? Including losses in effective labor supply due to mortality and morbidity, treatment-related resource diversion and informal caregiving costs... 👇🏻 1/2

🧠 #AI works best when it’s shared! The @ai4life.bsky.social project, co-led by our @florianjug.bsky.social, and Anna Kreshuk @embl.org, received the highest possible score in the @ec.europa.eu’s final review. 🔬 With open, ready-to-use resources! humantechnopole.it/en/news/ai4l...

A reminder to sign up for the 2026 EMBO archaeal meeting im Cambridge: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc.... Registration is open. We are looking forward to hosting you!

📣 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...

Rates of ADHD have been rising quickly over the past few decades, for reasons that are not entirely clear — a mystery that underscores how much we still have to learn about the condition. go.nature.com/49TQWG5

Cover girl Veronika is making headlines across the globe🐂 (animal cleverness trumps human stupidity) Notably, she is a 'companion cow' not used for meat or dairy. Maybe if we saw other creatures less as a means to an end, we could appreciate their richness better... www.cell.com/current-biol...

💡 Did you know? Methods are among the most cited research outputs. For #LoveMethods26, join experts for interactive sessions: 👉 Jan 21: @protocolsio.bsky.social Hackathon 👉 Jan 22: Methods Mythbusting Panel spklr.io/633288eAVM#LoveMethods26 #OpenScience

Preprint alert: Jiangyuan Liu developed a new workflow for chromatin loop calling across Hi-C datasets, e.g., during differentiation. Most loops are shared between datasets/cell states. Important work for all interested in chromatin loops and how to identify them! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

EMBL is deeply saddened by the passing of our Interim Director General Peer Bork, a pioneering scientist who left an indelible imprint on life science research in Europe and beyond. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. www.embl.org/news/people-...

I wrote a guide on constructive peer review. This is a polished version of an internal guide I had for my group. Of course, constructive feedback is welcome, peers! deboer.bme.ubc.ca/2025/12/09/g...

"These findings imply a model of #eukaryogenesis in which key features of eukaryotic cell organization evolved in the Asgard lineage leading to the last eukaryotic common ancestor" ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #evolution #archaea

Forest Witches https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/forest-witch-1938

Congratulations and welcome to the ten scientists awarded EMBO Installation Grants 2026! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/ten-scientists-awarded-embo-installation-grants-2026/ #LifeSciences #research #funding

We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/

The EMBO Workshop "#Centrosomes: From fundamentals to diseases" in #Lausanne, Switzerland, 1–4 September 2026 will highlight the advances in the field of centrosome #research. Register now! Deadline: 1 June https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-centrosomes#Centrosomes#Lausanne#research#EMBOCentrosomes #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

Congratulations to EMBO Members Yasmine Belkaid and Fiona Doetsch, who were awarded the Collen-Jeantet Prize for Translational Medicine and the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, respectively. https://www.jeantet.ch/en/ #LifeSciences #research #award 🧪

Interplay between cohesin and RNA polymerase II in regulating chromatin interactions and gene transcription www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does ageing influence the way our bodies handle infection? go.nature.com/4sMZuqW

What if animals emerged by installing a new biological operating system that repurposed what already existed, much like the rise of the smartphone? Here's our new paper in @embojournal.org @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @melisupf.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

TF-MINDI is out! A new method to learn cis-regulatory codes through rich embeddings of TF binding sites. TF-MINDI decomposes motif neighbourhoods, and works downstream of any sequence-to-function deep learning model. We deeply study the enhancer code in human neural development, check out the thread

Registration now open for @embo.org workshop on the evolution of biological interactions on April 24 - 27, 2026! Come join us in Taipei, Taiwan to see how interactions shaped the genomes of various organisms and meeting people from across the globe. Info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...

Want to learn more about pangenomics or find solutions to problems you are already facing? Join us on 07–13 June 2026 at the EMBO Practical Course on Pangenomics, in the Campania region, Italy. Applications are now open and close on 3 February! Find out more: meetings.embo.org/event/26-pan...

Learn new techniques for #imaging and #histopathology at the EMBO Practical Course "Sample2Image: Cell & tissue processing for 3D imaging and histopathology" in #Oeiras, PT, 3–9 July 2026. Deadline: 25 April https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-sample2image#imaging#histopathology#Oeiras#EMBOcourseS2I #EMBOevents #training 🧪

Congratulations to @groth-anja.bsky.social on receiving the Novo Nordisk Foundation Jacobæus Prize 🏆 we’re proud to see Anja's mentorship, leadership, & pioneering work in epigenetic cell memory getting top recognition 👏 celebrating the contributions of past & present lab members to this work too 🥳

Our Mini Review went online last night in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development "Block copolymer concepts of how transcription organizes the stem cell genome" doi.org/10.1016/j.gd... Fig. 1: Stem cell–typical organization of the genome and transcription, and the block copolymer sorting concept.

We're organizing a one-day, in-person workshop on trustworthy healthcare AI, with leading experts discussing key dimensions such as robustness, fairness, privacy, explainability, and clinical validation. Register now and submit your poster: elsa-ai.eu/elsa-worksho... 📅 March 9, Heidelberg DE

📢 The Louis-Jeantet Foundation is happy to announce the 2026 #LouisJeantetPrizes, awarded to YASMINE BELKAID @pasteur.fr and to FIONA DOETSCH @doetschlab.bsky.social hlab.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch CONGRATULATIONS!!! 👉 jeantet.ch/en 👇 follow thread

📣 We are delighted to announce that Marta Miączyńska, Director @iimcb.bsky.social, and Anders H. Lund, Director @bric-ucph.bsky.social, have been appointed the new Chair and Co-Chair of EU-LIFE, as of 1 January 2026. 🔗 Full press release: eu-life.eu/newsroom/new...

🦴🔬 773,000-year-old #fossils from Morocco illuminate the shared ancestry of H. sapiens, Neandertals & Denisovans. Study @nature.com by an intl. team led by J.-J. Hublin, incl. @matthewskinnerphd.bsky.social & P. Gunz @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/yxz4kcff & www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Artificial skin changes colour and texture in a controllable way, inspired by the natural camouflage ability of octopuses ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/d41... #syntheticmaterials #bioengineering

Understanding why cancers relapse - sometimes years or decades after successful treatment - is a major challenge in the cancer field This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...