Different worldviews and knowledge systems influence the ways people interact with and value nature. 🌿- IPBES #ValuesAssessment All these values must be considered to effectively address the #biodiversity crisis. 🌍🧪 Read the Values Assessment Report: www.ipbes.net/the-values-a...

As an undergraduate who loved physical chemistry and was just starting biology, I thought the Meselson-Stahl experiment was the coolest thing ever. It was so simple in its application of physical theory and experiment to prove a biological truth that it was perfect. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/s...

Very happy to soon be able to count you among our #PRBBcommunity 😍 Congratulations @monicabettencourt.bsky.social!

Congratulations Monica. I am so proud and glad to see you take on this rile in such a rich research ecosystems as what is available in Catalonia!

Great news not only for the #CRG but also for the wider Barcelona cell biology research community! And of course also for all #centrosome and #cilia aficionados!

Happy to be the next (and 1st female) @crg.eu director. The CRG always stood out to me, for its excellence in understanding life's principles, with implications for health and biodiversity, & its collaborative, open and innovative way of doing science. Thrilled to join its amazing community in 2026!

Excited about this new role! I have admired CRG for long, its amazing science, and how it constantly innovates in how research is done and how it connects with society. Happy to follow Luis Serrano´s work with this incredible community + the ecosystem it is part of & push the boundaries together!

🧑‍🔬📰🚀 #RxivMaker is here! A framework automating the creation of publication-ready scientific #preprints from simple Markdown. Goodbye manual formatting, and hello gorgeous manuscripts! A great adventure with @guijacquemet.bsky.social's lab 📜: zenodo.org/records/1575... 👨‍💻: github.com/HenriquesLab...

Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it Colette Delawalla, Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@eu-life.bsky.social Directors and main reps at the #Mendel Monastery @ceitec.eu #Brno

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

Agora para o turno do fim de semana. Tudo o que sempre quiseram saber sobre o que partidos têm a dizer sobre política de ciência. Zoom ou presencial, na Academia de Ciências de Lisboa

De seguida, comentários de @joanagsa.bsky.social, @speraltalisboa.bsky.social, Miguel Seabra e @pedrobizarro.bsky.social. (2/2)

Dia 13 de maio, às 10h, na Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, vou moderar uma conversa entre representantes dos partidos representados na AR sobre o que propõem para as áreas da ciência e do ensino superior: www.acad-ciencias.pt/events/debat... (1/2)

Congratulations Susan! Super deserved!

🌍🌱 Happy #EarthDay! Day 3 at our @embo.org Workshop "Cell Biology for Climate Resilience" featured vibrant roundtables & World Café discussions with scientists, funders & policymakers. Watch the highlights! youtu.be/XhOQu3Q6JIA?... via @YouTube #EMBOClimateResilience #EMBOCells4PlanetHealth

📣On climate, health, science and equity. Grateful Sir @JeremyFarrar (Chief Scientist, @who.int) joined @embo.org workshop. His plenary was powerful — we captured this short interview so his insights can travel far beyond. Do share! #EMBOcells4PlanetHealth #EMBOClimateresilience youtu.be/sDr-CT35GBA

Cool system of the day (so far...) at #EMBOclimateResilience: Bryopsis, a giant unicellular seaweed, >10 cm long. Gohta Goshima found that a bacterium (Ruegeria sp.) is essential for growth & development. So we need to check effect of climate change on bacterium as well as seaweed...

Tomer Antman uses machine learning scrutiny of >1000 metagenomic tetranucleotide sequences to infer temperature of sample (gives R^2=0.82). Finds that marine & soil microbial GC content have opposite relationship to temperature, even when correcting for taxa. #EMBOclimateResilience

Can we prioritise sampling of fungi to maximise translation, to capture “practical” biodiversity while fuelling curiosity science? Need to accelerate analysis & fund biobanks, etc. @gladfelterlab.bsky.social at #EMBOclimateResilience. Also role of condensates in evolution of thermotolerance...

Another neat factoid at #EMBOclimateResilience, this time form @abbasz.bsky.social: "Global healthcare, if it were a country (Healthcareistan) would be the 5th greatest carbon emitter."

Samuel Lovat #EMBOclimateResilience: "We cannot continue to produce food the way that we do." Economic/impact sanity check on proposed solutions - #VerticalFarming? Nope: electricity costs alone challenge sustainability.

Sir Jeremy Farrar (chief scientist at WHO) laying out the issues at #EMBOclimateResilience. Loss of US fed employees from national & international organisations (e.g. 12% of WHO experts) is an acute loss of global expertise at a time when we can least afford it.

From science... to art. Visual artist @dianapolicarpo.bsky.social talking to #EMBOclimateResilience about her exploration of extreme environments, ciguatoxins, lab collaborations, space and the oceans.

Nina Gunde-Cimerman @extremefungi.bsky.social looks at fungi on the "dry edge" - environments where (liquid) water is scarce. Some spectacular finds from her global trawl of extreme environments (one - in the Kalahari? - lives in 4M NaBr and nearly 2M CaCl2!). #EMBOclimateResilience

We have been very active in our meeting #EMBOcells4planethealth #EMBOclimateresilience @embo.org see what happened in the second day! Wonderful talks. youtu.be/Gy3pWoBiu6I

Great talk from @floravincent.bsky.social - working on Chaetoceros diatoms' symbiosis with bacteria (needed for survival in challenging environments) and ciliates - complex interface between diatoms & ciliates revealed by cryoEM (ciliate rapidly creates a glue) #EMBOclimateResilience

Eric Danquah (U of Ghana) looking at engineering African food crops for improved properties, including bambara groundnuts, pigeon peas, taro, etc. #EMBOclimateResilience [N.B. I have eaten bambara beans, and can confirm that they are "flatus-causing," a property that Eric proposes to correct!]

#EMBOclimateResilience welcomes @ronmilo.bsky.social to Bluesky!

Here's one of the incredible dataviz images that Ron Milo just showed at #EMBOclimateResilience, from the excellent Greenspan et al PNAS paper www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

O poder invisível contra a crise climática: a célula www.publico.pt/2025/04/17/c...

Pride of place for my #EMBOclimateresilience badge back in the lab - this was a special one. We have much to share with you over the coming weeks! www.youtube.com/@Cells4Plane... @monicabettencourt.bsky.social @gladfelterlab.bsky.social @samreckpeterson.bsky.social

Thanks to @gladfelterlab.bsky.social @samreckpeterson.bsky.social @monicabettencourt.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social for organising such a great program & forming this new community

Thank you @monicabettencourt.bsky.social for organising this magnificent workshop and starting the conversations! It's been a pleasure.

See all the fun happening at the second day of #EMBOcells4planethealth #EMBOclimateresilience @embo.org youtu.be/Gy3pWoBiu6I.

Congratulations @hannaszafranska.bsky.social for the best poster prize! @embo.org #EMBOcells4climateresilience #EMBOcells4planethealth.

💥 Call out to amazing colleagues championing Cells 4 Climate Resilience!!! 🧪

It’s been a very inspirational #EMBOclimateResilience workshop so far. I’m looking forward to the table discussions starting tomorrow. Here are some fancy highlights from the opening night 🧪🍿

Thanks a lot Roli! It’s very exciting to be at this #EMBOclimateResilience 🧪🌍meeting. Here’s a link to the associated paper by @florentwaltz.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/scie...

Beautiful CryoET of mitochondrial respiratory chain (from a rather acute angle!) by @cellarchlab.com at #EMBOclimateResilience

From one @embo.org meeting into another … First of its own workshop bringing together scientists, funding agencies, key stakeholders to tackle scales and climate resilience. Fun fact: I took that SEM picture during my PhD, @taraoceans-science.bsky.social sample ;) #planetary #health

Great ressource for #diatom #ecologists, from the Bowler Lab ! We can now cite a more recent paper on top of the Malviya et al :):) #protistsonsky

Two other points of interest from @floravincent.bsky.social's #EMBOclimateResilience talk... a) Bringing the lab to the field - cool "lab vans" (EMBL TREC project). b) Vindication of the Tara project, once viewed with scepticism, and now seen as a massive resource for the marine micro field.

For those who want to know more about the Tara expeditions, name-checked by @floravincent.bsky.social at #EMBOclimateResilience, here are two articles about Tara Oceans and Tara Pacific in @plosbiology.org: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

“No Water, no Life. No Blue, no Green.”💙💚 @floravincent.bsky.social from @embl.org revealing the beauty of diatom symbiotic interactions, which enable these globally important phytoplankton to adapt to environmental stresses and pollutants. Such cool science here at #EMBOclimateResilience 🧪🌊🌍

We are following #EMBOclimateresilience online because cell biology matters

Really nice work from Katelyn Sageman-Furnas (@luciastrader.bsky.social lab) - she used 230 Arabidopsis accessions to do GWAS on biomass plasticity in response to eCO2 (400 ppm versus a dystopian 800 ppm), getting some very unexpected hits. #EMBOclimateResilience

I was today years old when I first heard this gorgeous quote at #EMBOclimateResilience: “The way in which our universities have divided up our sciences does not reflect the way in which nature has divided up its problems” (Kurt Salzinger) - thank you @luciastrader.bsky.social!

See the best of the 1st day of #EMBOcells4planethealth #EMBOClimateResilience youtu.be/KFRFSPHdjFM?..., amazing people and very inspiring discussions!! @embo.org. We will be posting interviews so that you can actually follow some of what is happening!!