Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

It would be beneficial for French politicians to learn from other established parliamentary democracies. In Canada, there is a long-standing culture of minority governments, but a significant difference is that elections are called as soon as a vote of no confidence is lost.

Best time of the year

Mechanical constraints disrupt gastruloid polarisation without changing gene expression - uncouples morphogenesis & patterning Gregor & co use tunable hydrogels to show cell motility, not gene expression, drives axis formation in gastruloids journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Suite à cet article Radio Canada vient d’annoncer qu’on aurait pu avoir les Bleus en camp de base à Montréal en 2026 mais que la ville a refusé parce que trop cher… c’est un peu rageant, il y aurait eu un soutien enorme !!! www.lapresse.ca/sports/chron...

So much this (the "but" part).

This is just astonishing. Amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRzg...

Magdeine Vallières, allez allez ! Énorme exploit !!! Ça va être le feu demain !!!

I felt very moved by this too. Not because we yet have a cure, but because of the reminder of the passionate and humane commitment that goes into such research, contrasted with the vicious idiocy with which medical research is being treated right now by the US administration.

"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

In France we call him ‘Guillaume le Conquérant’ to remind people where he came from and what was conquered :) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_...

In our Forest of Biologists we fund the restoration and preservation of ancient woodland and dedicate these trees to our peer reviewers. There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews! Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more: forest.biologists.com #PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

(edited repost) Thrilled to see our computational work on adaptive shaping of behavior (we call it outcome-based curriculum learning) in PLoS Comp Biol! @wl-tong.bsky.social, @gautamreddy.bsky.social & I formalize curricula in any RL task that can be framed as sequential simple-to-complex behavior.

Only single cell sequencing of the all these post docs will reveal why

Brillantissime Gorafi.

Au Canada, les coupes budgétaires de 15% proposées au sein du gouvernement fédéral auraient un effet dramatique sur la recherche & la science. Demandez au premier ministre Mark Carney de préserver le financement promis en 2024. Envoyez une lettre: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

Best slide caption of the conference. @kjhealy.co is a font of sass ans I am HERE for it. 😅

Just realized that I defended my PhD exactly 20 years (one generation !!!) ago. Incidentally the very same day my last PhD paper was published. One month later, we flew to New York city and basically never came back (except for visits to family).

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September strikes again ! (Same here …)

I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

A deep dive into the destruction of US cancer research by @jonathanmahler.bsky.social “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” a former top official at NIH told him. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” Gift link: nyti.ms/48iH3Cr

Je ne suis pas objectif mais la chimie verte c’est fascinant quand même :) www.ledevoir.com/societe/sant...

Me: With an autosomal dominant trait, everyone who has the trait inherited it from a parent with that trait. Student: I have this condition which is listed as autosomal dominant. But neither of my parents have it. How does that work? Me:

Priyom's preprint is out on biorxiv. See below for a detailed thread. In a nutshell, she has discovered and characterized the oscillator that times notochord and spine segmentation in zebrafish. Turns out that there are uniform Erk oscillations across the entire tissue that act as timekeepers!

Super impressive study by the group of Stefano di Talia on the segmentation of zebrafish notochord. There might even be a SNIC ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bravo @audreymoores.bsky.social !

Super excited that our group will be supported by an ERC Starting Grant! In project "InfoFate" we will study how cells use information in dynamical, neighborhood & mechanical signals to make decisions. We'll have PhD and Postdoc positions available, please get in touch if interested!

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

@margaretatwood.bsky.social is a goddamn national treasure.

This sushi-shaped Japanese Music Box tells a horror story (sound on)

There are also many things you learn by doing, in a form of apprenticeship. If you read a physics book from first to last page without doing any calculations by yourself, you are not learning physics …

One of those days when, despite everything, I am still surprised that no major media in the US is asking for immediate resignations at the highest level.

Very happy to be in Sapporo this week to teach and give a seminar as part of the Hokkaido Summer Institute

Très vrai. Uber a mis en place une file comme les taxis, plus aucun interet. La dernière fois j’ai bêtement pris le 747, ce fut plus rapide au final. Pour des voyages courts ça incite à venir en voiture et se garer à l’econoparc, ce qui contribue au traffic …

Very sad to hear this. I did not know him well, but from my post doc years at RU I remember an impressive scientist, always enthusiastic, very insightful. He wrote beautiful papers at the interface between biology and dynamical systems theory (eg trying to figure out criticality in hair cells)

A. James Hudpseth, who died 16 August at age 79, devoted his 50-year career to untangling how the ear converts sound into electrical signals. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/hearing/reme...

This is nothing compared to military/government, but I am also wondering if all the agreements made by universities with Microsoft are really worth it. I only use Word/PPT/Outlook either because other people use it, or because of rules (e.g. for email). I kind of miss the physics' Latex/Linux ethos.

Heartfelt obituary of Ben Shilo by Stas Shvartsman

´What if AI doesn’t get much better than this ?’ Generally speaking, we give too much credit to extrapolations of tech. It was true way before AI, I remember times when Google people were basically treated like dark magicians. ‘don’t be evil’ www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Une liste des choses à faire ou ne pas faire en vélo à Montréal. Assez d’accord. urbania.ca/article/smas...

This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

Rare footage of Marie Curie. This clip is terrific. Here she receives the ACR Gold Medal and talks a bit at the end #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEa...

Worth reading. The greatness of a university - or any institution - isn't forever. It can be squandered very quickly.

Refusing to "trust the experts" is meant to be a brave, responsible position. But (as Carl explains in the thread) there is too much knowledge in the world. You have to trust *somebody*, much of the time. If you have no trust in experts, you end up trusting the idiots.

Latest on Waddington Landscapes: Computational methods to fit dynamical landscapes directly to single cell data Applied to neural tube patterning shows morphogen-signalling landscapes can be linearly interpolated Connects interpretable landscape models with data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In light of many things happening those days : I have never read more history, philosophy and philosophy books than today. This is extremely useful to me, both as a human being and as a scientist. If anything, I believe we should integrate way more humanities into any science curriculum.

I suspect there’s going to be a new round of this when the dust settles from 2025-2027. From the Archive: I wonder what happened to that lab? drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/i...