Far-red kinase biosensors are applied to image kinase signaling networks at super resolution go.nature.com/3GfqrzL rdcu.be/faNLM

New paper (with lots of cute animal videos!) Ever watch your dog "run" while asleep and wonder what’s going on in their brain? In Current Bio we suggest that those twitches aren't just leaky dreams—they’re a vital maintenance system for the most precise movements www.cell.com/current-biol...

🎉Congrats to CeMM PI @bocklab.bsky.social on being awarded an 𝗘𝗣 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗠𝗲𝗱 grant for personalized treatment in children! The consortium’s 3-year project, 𝗣𝗵𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗮𝗦𝗧, focuses on improving the use of high-dose glucocorticoids for acute pediatric immune-mediated diseases. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3NPGAzV

We have updated the yeast AlphaFold3 co-folding map. The 15GB docker also has an updated streamlit app that is more responsive and easier to search through if you want to just browse the results. There will be many false positives ! We added known interactions for those wanting to filter.

Presenting the shortlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies. Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026

Last chance to join us in person for #EESPhaseSeparation!🧫🧬 Register by 7 April: s.embl.org/ees26-08-bl#EESPhaseSeparation!🧫🧬 This interdisciplinary conference brings together scientists from diverse fields to foster new discoveries and discuss emerging principles in condensate biology.

Big day for proteomics and in good company! Matthias Mann @mannlab.bsky.social @mpibiochem.bsky.social, John Yates and Ruedi Aebersold receive the 2026 GairdnerAwards for transforming how we measure and understand proteins at scale. #SystemsBiology #Proteomics #Gairdner2026

Welcome, Tony Hyman! EMBL welcomes its new Director General, Tony Hyman, as he takes up the mandate of leading EMBL's six sites. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

Congratulations to John R. Yates III, Ruedi Aebersold and Matthias Mann, recipients of the 2026 Canada Gairdner International Award. Prof. Yates: www.gairdner.org/winner/john-... Prof. Aebersold: www.gairdner.org/winner/ruedi... Prof. Mann: www.gairdner.org/winner/matth... #2026GairdnerAwards

I'm developing an #AI bot name HAL to assist with our research. Here's our first conversation with it over Slack (didn't tell the lab before deploying it) 😂

A paper in Nature Biotechnology presents a tissue-engineered esophageal segment that is functional in minipig, which could have future implications for treating infants born with a ‘long gap’ of the esophagus. go.nature.com/4uLBpS8 #medsky 🧪

Two new studies of Neanderthal DNA from @massilanilab.bsky.social, @hrougier.bsky.social, @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and others show our ancient cousins survived for millennia in small, geographically isolated groups. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧬🏺

protein conformational changes are detected on a proteome-wide scale in live cells by LiP-MS method from @picottilab.bsky.social, which they use to show changes in biomolecular condensates upon arsenite stress ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

♻️Part 2 of our guide on how to apply #CircularEconomy principles in your academic events is out. Learn more on additional principles and how to apply them to organise more sustainable academic events:

We are excited to see that members of our consortium contributed to the 10th-anniversary issue of Cell Systems as 'Voices'. 💻🔬 👏 to Prof. Klingmüller @klingmuelab.bsky.social , Prof. Saez-Rodriguez, Dr. Ramirez Flores @saezlab.bsky.social 📖Read more here: www.lisym-cancer.org/news/2026-02...

In a meeting yesterday, someone said: "Quick-and-dirty approaches are usually just dirty" – and I thought this was great sentiment.

@erinweisbart.bsky.social & @bethcimini.bsky.social discuss our recent paper on anomaly-based representations for image-based phenotypic profiling. They explain how we encode morphological inter-feature dependencies while maintaining biological interpretability 🔥 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

The network of neurons that fuel eczema symptoms in response to stress have been identified go.nature.com/4lO7XqI

While #DNAbindingdomains & #IntrinsicallyDisorderedRegions individually do not show binding specificity, "ensembles of diverse, unstructured interactions" collectively enable emergent #TranscriptionFactor specificity ➡️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #generegulation #IDRs #TFspecificity #chromatin

The Czech #ERC_CZ program is the best thing the country has done for research. Czech @erc.europa.eu wannabes who did not get the EU grant receive support from the Czech ministry for 2 to 5 years (depending on the ERC grade (A/B)). It supports research that would otherwise never see the light of day.

Archaea hit prime time: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Could the shape of phylogenetic trees contain hidden information? Siqi Liu @campy-bara.bsky.social @danielfalush.bsky.social show that the "backboned" shape of the phylogenetic tree of #Klebsiella pneumoniae may reveal a history of diversifying selection on an unknown trait 🧪

How can we tap into the enormous functional diversity of microbes on this planet? Join us at EMBL Heidelberg (8–10 Dec 2026) to learn about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and present your science.

Johan Elf, Professor at Uppsala University, former EMBO Young Investigator and EMBO Member since 2022, speaks with us about his work and the importance of EMBO to his #career. 🧪 Continue reading: https://www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/embo-communities-by-country/focus-on-sweden/

Please repost! There's a few spots left on our Journal Editor Training Workshop (March 20) for PhD students and Post-docs wondering what the next step in their scientific career might be. 👇 Taught by our former journal editors. www.lifescienceeditors.com/workshop3-si...

New preprint on the limits of detecting higher-order interactions in microbial communities. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We find that the dominance of additive and pairwise interactions on community function may not reflect biological simplicity, but fundamental limits of statistical detection.

On my way! I will talk in and chair the first session Thai afternoon, make sure to be there! #gfe2026

Do you have a great idea for starting a company? Would you like advice on how to pitch to potential investors? Join us for the EMBO #webinar on 1 April at 16–17:00 CET. 🧪 Register here: https://embo-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7SLofSfuTPewgC2VZQVIUw#/registration#webinar#/registration#startup

A study of social media content 18-24-year olds see in #Finland, #France and #Romania shows that algorithms overwhelmingly feed them right-wing political content - whether or not the users are interested. Three country average for right wing content was 58% - in Finland, 67%! yle.fi/a/74-20214134

Bird Wandering Off https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/484867

Preliminary data show the 2025–2026 winter was unusually warm, with most days above normal temperatures and reduced snowfall despite significant rainfall.

Really grateful for the opportunity to be part of this workshop, thank you @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @pioneercampus.bsky.social for the great collaboration! #Bioengineering #SciencePolicy #BiomedicalEngineering #LifeSciences

Registration is now open for the EMBO Workshop "#Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in health and disease" in #Monopoli, Italy, 28 Sep–2 Oct 2026. Registration deadline: 31 May Abstract submission deadline: 15 Jun https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-ubiquitin#Ubiquitin#Monopoli#EMBOubiquitin #EMBOevents 🧪

GLP-1 medications might help people avoid becoming addicted to drugs, including alcohol, cocaine, and opioids go.nature.com/3N5l49Z

Discuss advances in #epigenetics, #immunity and more in the EMBO Workshop "Aged #hematopoiesis & myeloid #leukemia: Molecular medicine insights" in #Kolkata, India, 16–19 Nov 2026. Deadline: 15 July https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-hematopoiesis#epigenetics#immunity#hematopoiesis#leukemia#Kolkata#EMBOAgedHematopoiesis #EMBOevents 🧪

Do you have a great idea for starting a company? Would you like advice on how to pitch to potential investors? Join us for the EMBO #webinar on 1 April at 16–17:00 CET. 🧪 Register here: https://embo-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7SLofSfuTPewgC2VZQVIUw#/registration#webinar#/registration#startup

March is #Endometriosis Awareness Month, and this Editorial by Alex Tosun (@atosun.bsky.social) discusses why greater awareness, education, funding and research for this systemic condition is imperative to redefining pain, equity, and investment in women’s health 🧪🌻 #Medsky plos.io/4slvscE

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment. (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268

Germany has the opportunity to extend its strength as an engineering powerhouse into medicine and the life sciences. Vasilis Ntziachristos explains how this can be achieved using three key levers. A comment by Vasilis Ntziachristos @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social www.helmholtz.de/en/newsroom/...

Editorial by me, in our March issue! Negative results are a thorny issue in essentially all fields of scientific research, and deserve a renewed look by authors and editors 👇

Now published! www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Interested in kinase-driven signaling interactions? Check out our (now peer-reviewed) paper together with @savitski-lab.bsky.social on reconstructing signaling networks from phosphoproteomics data and prior knowledge: ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Disruption of a single gene, tnaA, encoding tryptophanase makes E. coli mutualistic to stinkbug, resulting in the accumulation of tryptophan and the reduction of toxic indole. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And just like that, #EESCollectivity is done! These last four days just flew by and we want to thank every participant, speaker, and organiser for making the first edition of the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Collectivity in living systems' such a success. We hope to see you at another event soon! 👋

Please consider attending this conference in the Swiss Alps meetings.embo.org/event/26-pla... . Exciting science & great venue, lots of opportunities for selected talks from abstracts. Join the conversation on Bluesky with #EMBOispp2026

Latest from the Nature Careers Podcast 🔊 Why an industry career move is a taboo topic in academia go.nature.com/4kYCu4G

It was a very cool experiment! The author-centric perspective makes a lot of sense. An important next step is to benchmark multiple AI review platforms. Maybe this can also pave the way for benchmarking human peer review across journals and defining "quality features" of the peer review process.

It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).

Don't miss the EMBO Global Lecture "Building a minimal DNA segregation system for synthetic cells" by EMBO Global Investigator Prof. Marileen Dogterom (TU Delft, Universiteit Leiden) in #Bengaluru, India, 6 March 2026. 🧪