So happy to see my new book "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" published today with @hopkinspress.bsky.social! #histmed #histsci #plague #rats #pandemic www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... The book is also available Open Access via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_mon...

Explore theory and practice, from experimental design to #DataAnalysis, at EMBO Practical Course "Targeted #proteomics: Advanced tools for biomedical research" in #Barcelona, Spain, 8–13 November 2026. Deadline: 30 May 2026 meetings.embo.org/event/26-tar... #EMBOtargetedProteomics #EMBOevents 🧪

Roy Lichtenstein, Interior with Mobile, 1992 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134980

We are proud to host the life streaming of 💚Green Science Festival 💚 at our location in Heidelberg. May 28, 2026 from 9 am-7 pm. Sign up here: pretix.eu/uni-heidelbe... www.greenlabs-nl.eu/green-scienc... @greenlabsnl.bsky.social @dkfz.bsky.social @embl.org #UniversitätHeidelberg

There’s a LOT going on as researchers and public health experts race to respond to the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda before it grows bigger. Some really important questions still open, but also a few answers coming into view🧪 My overview in @science.org is here (and thread coming):

Is a net growth advantage necessary for #multicellularity? We often assume groups must outperform single cells locally. But @ctarnita & colleagues show that spatial heterogeneity can drive this transition via indirect benefits www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Iconic British naturalist David Attenborough, whose work has shaped science for decades, turns 100 today go.nature.com/4dbRFUB

🚀 What an amazing #SBMC2026! From inspiring welcome addresses, to the MTZ Award ceremony, scientific sessions, panel discussion, poster sessions, and Poster Awards — thank you to everyone who made these three days so special. Wonderful science, great discussions, and even better networking! 📸✨

Yesterday, EMBO was visited by the delegation of the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India. During the meeting, the EMBO Programmes and the future of the #cooperation between EMBO and #India were discussed. 🧪 #LifeSciences #research

foundingGIDE is having a community event 4–6 May to shape the future of the Global Image Data Ecosystem. Thomas Lemberger from EMBO spoke about #DataSharing policies in #publishing at EMBO Press. 🧪 Read more about #OpenScience Implementation at EMBO: https://www.embo.org/policy/open-science/

Did you know authors are welcome to include a translation of their abstract in an additional language in all our journals: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social?

10 days left – Sign up now for the EMBO Workshop "#RNA metabolism: Perspective from physiology to brain disorder" in Darjeeling, #India, 25–28 Oct 2026. Deadline: 15 May https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna-metabolism#RNA#India#EMBOrnaMetabolism #RNAsky #LifeSciences #research #conference #EMBOevents 🧪

Last Thursday, we wrapped up #EESSexDifferences 🧬 The symposium was an amazing opportunity to bring together a brilliant and engaged community. A huge thank you to the organisers, participants, and speakers for making this meeting a success. See you soon at another EMBL event: www.embl.org/events

Females are still commonly left out of animal studies—and studies that include them often fail to analyze results by sex, according to a new study. https://scim.ag/4uffLoi

This week on the pod: 🥐 How eating can boost the immune system ☢️ The pressing need to plan for future nuclear disasters go.nature.com/48YH9Pa

Great to see Biohub's investment in the future of AI and cell biology with its 5-year Virtual Biology Initiative programme. Beautiful alignment with the roadmap for HCA 2.0, and lots of excitement about future synergies.

Very interesting paper showing ex and in vivo neutrophil engineering (from our former postdoc Jie Luo and colleagues, so you get treated to some nice whole body microscopy images) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It is the final week to register for the EMBO Workshop on RNA 3' ends and beyond. This will take place 07 – 11 September 2026 in Oxford. There is a fantastic lineup of speakers. Join us!! @xrnchew.bsky.social @christinemayr.bsky.social #RNA meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna3

The best time to get an infection might be after a meal, suggest experiments that found that immune cells seem to get a boost from food go.nature.com/4vV91Od

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

Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent. We’ve seen record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, while glaciers have been shrinking and snow cover melting. The evidence is unequivocal: climate change is not a ‘future’ threat. It is our present reality. ⬇️

Does identifying thousands of plasma proteins mean more biology? Not always. Over half of 210 published datasets contain contamination markers reported as disease biomarkers.

Join the EMBO Global Lecture "Genome dynamics across environmental and cellular reprogramming" by Gianni Liti at the National Taiwan University in #Taipei, #Taiwan on 30 April. 🧪

Discovery of gene functions in #Mycobacterium #tuberculosis has been slow. This study tests a genome-wide barcoded #transposon library across 95 environmental conditions, providing a rich resource of new gene functions, including metabolic & resistance pathways @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4vG0mz1

Yet another spurious non-linear Mendelian randomization paper has been retracted by a journal academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a... Kudos to the editors of the Journal of Public Health for following through and retracting spurious publications. What is shocking is that many other journals /cont

Very proud of this and so cool that enhancer-level models can predict the effect of genetic variation. There is so much personal variation in terms of gene regulation in the human brain, it is fantastic to uncover this thanks to technology (whole-genome sequencing and single-cell multiomics) and AI

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 🧪