I am honnestly a bit worried by the latest fuss about qed (the IA driven review). While the results are indeed quite impressive (it is very good at listing the claim and finding potential improvement), I don't quite see how this will eventually reduce the reviewing burden or help us

Thinking about doing a PhD with us? We're running an online Q&A session just for you! Hear practical advice directly from our experts in the Training and Academic Office and register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/26a7dc...

New PhD opportunity studying oocyte biology. Excited about this new direction in the lab.

Glad to share that the website for the MZT EMBO workshop that I organize together with Ana Boskovic (EMBL, Rome), Antonio Giraldez (Yale U) and Melissa Harrison (U Wisconsin) is out: meetings.embo.org/event/26-awa... Please spread the word and join us in beautiful Seville next 4-7 May!

Oh wow - pre-made templates :) - EB I am happy to present our latest research at the ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting, taking place in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026. #ISSCR2026 invt.io/1bxb7uh48oo @isscr.org

Thank you! I had a great time, and even found my way around the building by late afternoon @biozentrum.unibas.ch :)- EB

Is there any data from academia illustrating how short deadlines for things like awards or funding opportunities disadvantage people from groups who tend to take on or are assigned more thankless labor (women), and advantage those who focus more on the work that benefits them (men)?

The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍

moonbow last night over our neighborhood

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility. See below 2 calls👇

🟣🟡Call for abstracts! #IDIBAPS will host the Women, Biology & Health Workshop #WBHW - a meeting point to highlight the role of women in biomedical research We invite researchers to submit their abstracts and be part of the program👉https://f.mtr.cool/ccejqnjqut Deadline 30/9

Epithelial crowding drives membrane depolarisation by ENaC/Na+ entry which triggers rapid volume loss, piezo activation and live cell extrusion. Importantly, low intracellular ATP primes cells for live extrusion by preventing the restoring of mb polarisation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you know human oocytes “switch off” to protect themselves? ➡️ A new #CRGenomica study shows that as eggs mature,they partially shut down their cellular clean-up systems.    This pause may help them stay healthy for decades until fertilization  👉Read more:

Thanks for highlighting our recent work in human oocytes! :) -EB

Great to see our work featured in @natsmb.nature.com!! Thanks editor @dimitristypas.bsky.social for your coverage! @bokelab.bsky.social

ISSUE 16 Review on metabolic diversity of plants Resource: mouse organ-/age-specific proteome profiles Cardiolipin inhibition of non-canonical inflammasomes Optochemical profiling of NMDA receptor diversity Cover: @gzaffagnini.bsky.social et al @bokelab.bsky.social www.embopress.org/toc/14602075...

Here we go again! Our paper on #proteostasis in human oocytes appeared on the latest @embojournal.org cover! A great collaboration with Dexeus Mujer @bokelab.bsky.social ! 🥂👏🏻💪🏻

We’re so happy that our review on “Proteostasis in cellular dormancy” was chosen for the cover of the August issue of @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social in the old-school way; we were invited! Many thanks to our editor, Sannie Culbertson, and the reviewers for a great experience - EB

It’s been truly wonderful to share these years with you all. Thank you so much for the many great times and all the advice along the way. I will definitely miss you. Look, how could I not?

A bittersweet and slightly late! post: we celebrated @aidaronu.bsky.social as she heads off to start her own lab in the Department of Physiological Sciences at the University of Barcelona! 🥂 From postdoc to PI, we’re so proud and can’t wait to see all she accomplishes! Go shine, Aida! 🌟🥂

Sorpresa en la familia vegetal: la patata es hija del tomate elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

We’re hiring for a major role in the US, an investigative journalist to cover what’s happening with science in the US and beyond. This is extremely important territory for us. 🧪 workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795 The Guardian :: Senior Science Investigative Reporter

🚨🚨🚨 Please RT! We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets. Deadline: 30/09/25👇

Excited that the Gordon Research Conference on Fertilization and Activation of Development 2025 (and associated GRS) is just a few days away! www.grc.org/fertilizatio... www.grc.org/fertilizatio... #GRC #GRS #fertilization #development #egg #sperm

Pleased to share my new review: Ovulation: A cellular symphony in three movements 💥🥚 Ovulation is more than egg release—it's a tightly regulated, tissue-scale process. Here, I present a temporal framework structured as a symphony performed by the cells of the follicle. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.se...

Proud to share what we hope will be a reference study on human oocyte proteostasis. Young-donor eggs show globally reduced organelle activity vs. somatic cells, with an even steeper drop as they mature. 👇 for @zaffagg3 's detailed explanation www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

The proteostatic landscape of healthy human oocytes Elvan Böke and colleagues @bokelab.bsky.social find that mature human oocytes show reduced activity of lysosomes, proteasomes and mitochondria, highlighting reproductive differences between humans and mouse www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

📣 Paper alert!! Excited to share the 2nd research paper from my time in the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu, out today in the @embojournal.org! We asked: "how do human oocytes regulate proteostatic organelles under physiological conditions?" 1/

Excited to share that this July I will be starting my #marie-skłosowska-curie #MSCA fellowship @ec.europa.eu to continue working on ovarian proteostasis and oocyte dormancy in the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-aw...

🧬 We're thrilled to close this semester of Reproseminars with Dr. Elvan Böke (@crg.eu‬, Barcelona)! 🗣 Talk (in English): "Evading ageing: metabolic and proteostatic adaptations in oocytes" 🗓 Monday 07/07, Special time! 🕐 1 PM ARG🇦🇷 | 12 PM 🇺🇸 East | 6 PM 🇪🇺 Europe Join us!

Book your calendars for the 2026 ISSCR meeting in Montreal in 1 year! An exciting speaker line up! @isscr.org www.isscr2026.org/overview

So well-deserved!!! We are so lucky to have @sramundo.bsky.social as a colleague @vbcscitraining.bsky.social !!! Kudos Silvia and all the cool Ramundo lab members!!!

Honoured to present my work at the Fertility Conference in my dream city, Paris. Huge thanks to @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for organising such an inspiring event! Grateful to all the amazing contributors for their thought-provoking talks and discussions.

At least for science in the #oocyte community, the future looks bright with so many curious & young minds thinking about big open questions in oocyte and reproductive biology! Thanks so much to @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for organizing and bringing us all together in Paris!

Many thanks for joining us :)

Such a great start to the week at the amazing ‘Fertility, contribution of the maternal inheritance’ meeting at Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris! Definitely the most beautiful room I’ve ever presented in. Thank you so much to @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for organising! 🥚🙌🏼

Happy Sunday! On my way to Paris to attend the amazing conference "Fertility, contribution of the maternal inheritance" organised by @bokelab.bsky.social and @mhverlhac.bsky.social. But before, as usual the latest papers on #oocyte biology: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... #cebooc

This video interview comes with the bonus of a very pregnant me - and it was much more fun than expected :) w/ the one and only @benlehner.bsky.social + organised by @bancosabadell.bsky.social - EB

Mark your calendars for May 18-22, 2026- in Roscoff, Brittany, for the next iteration of the Developmental Biology Conference Jacques Monod!

How do dormant cells keep their proteostasis in check? @gzaffagnini.bsky.social & our PhD student Stephanie Rosswag take a deep dive in our featured review @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social Don’t miss it! - EB www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

EMBO is delighted to announce that this year the EMBO Gold Medal is awarded to Tanmay Bharat @tbharat-lab.bsky.social ‬ @mrclmb.bsky.social and David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social @pasteur.fr for their remarkable contributions to the #LifeSciences. www.embo.org/press-releas... #award 🧪

👏 Congratulations to Professor Aleksandra Trifunovic on receiving the Max Delbrück Research Prize 2025 from the University of Cologne for her groundbreaking work on #mitochondria, #aging, and cellular stress responses. A proud moment for #CECAD! ➡️ uni.koeln/Y6WSC @unicologne.bsky.social

Many cells during development are exposed to caspase activation and yet survive. Why some die and not others ? We found out that the memory of previous caspase activation bias significantly later death comitment and bias death distribution and single cell decision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Catalunya sufre una fuga de cerebros por falta de plazas para científicos que despuntan" www.lavanguardia.com/ciencia/2025...

Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Building AI models or the data to train them? Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30. www.nature.com/naturecareer... acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... pls RT!

When the conference organizers ask if you can send in your slides a week in advance

The Americans are doing to Kseniia what the Russians did to Brittney Griner for having 0.7 grams of cannabis oil. Except no one is coming to negotiate her freedom and Harvard is sitting on their hands. I am so ashamed. Please share this story. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

Excellent opportunity for a #postdoc to join Kate McDole’s group in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social, where you’ll get to investigate how cells form tissue during early organogenesis in developing mice. More details: mrc.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... #Postdocjobs #ScienceJobs

IMBA is recruiting a Junior Group Leader! Are you interested in starting your own lab, pursuing curiosity-driven basic research in the life sciences? Apply now to our group leader position. The deadline is May 28. Link is below.

Abstract submission deadline for our *FREE* meeting, "Fertility, contribution of the maternal inheritance" in Paris is on MONDAY. Do not forget to submit your abstract for short talks :) - EB www.singer-polignac.org/fertility-co...