Dafni Hadjieconomou
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Team Leader at the Paris Brain Institute. Organ to organ nodes. Brain within a body.
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Hello from me and the GutSense Lab!
about 1 year ago
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Here we go!!! Please do consider signing! Olivia
@olivia.science
and her peer peeps act as scholars owe to do, as we all owe to.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
18 days ago
Paulina Borsook "warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through The Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, a book based on her 1990s writing"
www.thenerdreich.com/she-warned-a...
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One pic saves a thousand words. Applied in all layers of the living experience for most. Good reminder.
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Oh congratulations on this very beautiful body of work
@longweibai.bsky.social
and
@francoisleulier.bsky.social
:)
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Marc Dionne
3 days ago
James Watson died yesterday. He was a bad man with many bad ideas. We owe a debt of gratitude to the unknown hero who uploaded this picture of him to Wikipedia.
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Love for Parisian doors.
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Starbucks Workers United
5 days ago
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
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Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starbucks-workers-union-strike-november-13-red-cup-day/
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Seeing a colourbows everywhere! Flybow to Pinbow
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Irene Miguel-Aliaga
3 days ago
Pleased to have had a hand in shaping the new edition of Comprehensive Molecular
#Insect
Science. The insects provided the complexity; the chapter contributors made sense of it
www.sciencedirect.com/referencewor...
#Physiology
#Reproduction
#Neurobiology
#Ecology
#Immunity
#Symbiosis
#Endocrinology
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Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science
Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science, Second Edition is a unique resource that provides extensive review articles on contemporary topics in insect s...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780323958189/comprehensive-molecular-insect-science
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Let's hope this is going to be different than the hopes up and people cheering on for Tsipras! One can only be satisfied with the news of course! Gunpowder day and all :)
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Kwaze Kwaze
6 days ago
Cigarettes were heavily marketed as modern, progressive products. Whether new health benefits or just keeping up with the times. The tobacco industry absolutely used this tactic. Fine to be ignorant of such things but ignorance requires discretion.
cancerhistoryproject.com/article/how-...
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How tobacco companies sold women a pack of lies
“Mild As May, with red tips to match your pretty lips and fingertips” How Tobacco Companies Sold Women a Pack of Lies Excerpted from The Center for the Study of Tobacco
https://cancerhistoryproject.com/article/how-tobacco-companies-sold-women-a-pack-of-lies/
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FPbase
6 days ago
The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!
www.fpbase.org/spectra/
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FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer
An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.
https://www.fpbase.org/spectra/
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FMI science
6 days ago
Now in
@embojournal.org
: Researchers in
@labgrosshans.bsky.social
& UCSC found that similar molecular machineries control daily circadian rhythms & developmental timing—showing that evolution can repurpose core timing systems to coordinate both daily cycles & growth.
www.fmi.ch/news-events/...
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One clock, two functions: from daily rhythms to development
Scientists at the FMI and the University of California-Santa Cruz have found that similar molecular machineries control daily circadian rhythms and developmental timing. Their work in worms shows that...
https://www.fmi.ch/news-events/articles/news.html?news=652
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Hello... pumpkin!
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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli
12 days ago
Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
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Irene Miguel-Aliaga
15 days ago
Deadline approaching for the EMBO meeting "Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila" 21 – 27 June 2026. Both new and established PIs welcome. Apply by Nov 3rd!
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...
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Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila
The principal theme of the EMBO Workshop is the Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila. Supported by EMBO over four decades, this will be the 24th biennial “Crete meeting”. With the a…
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-drosophila
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Metabolism in Development and Physiology, Virtual Seminar Series
13 days ago
We are thrilled to announce the inaugural Metabolism in Development & Physiology virtual seminar, a new series connecting researchers across all stages & disciplines in metabolism! 🗓 13 Nov 2025, 16:00 CET 🎙 Alexander Aulehla (EMBL Heidelberg), & 🎙 Christopher Bell (Uni of Oxford) See you there!
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Nature
13 days ago
Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection
go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
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Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?
https://go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
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So who defines what is criminal and who the criminal is?
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Amazing 🥰
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
15 days ago
he won't see it and won't learn, but you all should take notes... we even have universal suffrage for the archbishop LMAO we're maximally vibing
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eLife
16 days ago
Hunger guides new brain cells to their destination Blood flow and a hormone called ghrelin help new neurons travel to where they are meant to be in the brain of adult mice.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
16 days ago
"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves." 1/n
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
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Δέσποινα Κουτσούμπα
17 days ago
Το κείμενο αυτό το έγραψα με πολύ πνευματικό και ψυχικό κάματο, αλλά όχι εν θερμώ. Θα ήθελα να το διαβάσετε και θα ήθελα και τη γνώμη σας. Από τη Μακρόνησο στον Άγνωστο, η τεχνολογία διακυβέρνησης της δεξιάς έχει τον ίδιο πυρήνα.
epohi.gr/articles/kat...
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Not bad :)
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
17 days ago
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be
you rule 🖤
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Ohhhh nice!!!!
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François Leulier
18 days ago
Beautiful "fundamental physiology" paper in a glamour journal - there is still some hope!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neuroendocrine control of calcium mobilization in the fruit fly - Nature
The peptide hormone Capa is responsible for regulating extracellular fluid Ca2+ levels in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09670-z?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202510
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Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD
19 days ago
Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of
@currentbiology.bsky.social
. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Michalis Averof
18 days ago
How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵 Check our latest preprint
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A toolkit for testing membrane-localising tags across species
Transgenic markers and tools have revolutionised how we study cells and developing organisms. Some of the elements needed to construct those tools are universally applicable (e.g. fluorescent proteins...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.12.623055v2
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Missing home a tad more! Olive oil making time of the year.
#oreinoevoo
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Parag
20 days ago
Comet Lemmon on Oct 21, 2025. I really like how the ion and dust tails are clearly visible. This image is a stack of 226 ten second exposures. Total exposure about 40 minutes.
#cometLEMMON
#astrophotography
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Zayna Chaker
19 days ago
A must read for Neuro-Physio lovers! How estrous cycle phase interacts with hunger states to dictate aggressiveness towards pups! Discussing the Biorxiv version at journal club was a blast. Congrats Jonny kohl and colleagues!
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Michael Rera
19 days ago
Ageing is a discontinuous process
shorturl.at/D5uGi
across a broad variety of organisms, nematodes, zebrafish, drosophila
shorturl.at/RSs0Q
and now mice. If you study ageing... Smurf your model!
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Michael Rera
19 days ago
Popopop Finally out
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Started thanks to an ATIP grant from
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
in 2018 with the recruitment of Dr. Céline Cansell (now CR
@inrae-france.bsky.social
) This work validates the evolutionary conservation of ageing as a biphasic process in mice
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Two-phase model of ageing in mice for improved identification of age-related and late life metabolic decline - BMC Biology
Living animals reach their end-of-life through a stereotypic set of fascinating but poorly understood processes. The discovery, first in flies and later in nematodes and zebrafish, of the “Smurf pheno...
https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-025-02421-6
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Mothers in Science
20 days ago
Join us tomorrow to hear Dr Isabel Torres speaking live on maternity bias in STEMM. 📢 Spread the word & share your story anonymously to help us raise awareness:
https://forms.gle/y99a5RnBCD879c1P6
Register now👇
https://www.mothersinscience.com/scimomchats
#BreaktheBiasSTEMM
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Bryon Silva
20 days ago
Cool cool cool!
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Oxytocin modulates respiratory heart rate variability through a hypothalamus–brainstem–heart neuronal pathway - Nature Neuroscience
Buron et al. show that oxytocin enhances heart rate variability linked to breathing during recovery from stress. This calming and cardio-protective effect is produced through a hypothalamus–brainstem ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02074-2
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Living in constant jetlag! Night owl ❤️🦉
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Javier Lazaro - illustration
22 days ago
Two slugs mating. Collecting material for the next
#invertefest
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#biology
#wildlife
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Very cool initiative ❤️. Φεμινιστική ιστορία της τέχνης online!
23 days ago
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Society for Developmental Biology
24 days ago
🧠Talk about having guts! 💪Embryonic mouse intestines stained for ❤️💚 nerves and 💙 endothelial cells, forming the early circuits that keep things moving (literally!) 🔬 Image by Nathan Burns.
#FluorescenceFriday
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The lipidomic architecture of the mouse brain
Lipids are fundamental components of the brain, crucial for synaptic transmission and signal propagation. Altered brain lipid composition is associated with common and rare neuropathologies, yet, the ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.13.682018v1
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Daniel Kronauer
24 days ago
New preprint from the lab: A reference brain for the clonal raider ant. With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The British Academy
25 days ago
Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more:
https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
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How many times, I wonder, will I post that Greece hurts you wherever you go.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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General strike against 13-hour work day brings Greece to a halt
Transport systems, hospitals and schools hit, as workers say laws kill hopes of work-life balance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/general-strike-against-13-hour-day-brings-greece-to-a-halt
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Apply now!!!!!
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Gaspar Jekely
25 days ago
The version of record of our paper on the emergence of metachronal waves in the #Platynereis larval ciliary band is now out. Together with Rebecca Poon and Kirsty Wan
@micromotility.bsky.social
#platynereis
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw4067 funded by
@ERC_Research
@wellcometrust
@bbsrc
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Thomas Andrillon
25 days ago
Sleep is still a bit of a mystery! Beautiful article from
@vyazovskiy.bsky.social
!
aeon.co/essays/two-b...
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Two billion humans are doing something bizarre right now: sleeping | Aeon Essays
It is our biggest blind spot, a bizarre experience that befalls us every day, and can’t be explained by our need for rest
https://aeon.co/essays/two-billion-humans-are-doing-something-bizarre-right-now-sleeping
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Philipp Brand
25 days ago
Excited to share our new
#biorxivpreprint
We discovered that the fruit fly
#drosophila
erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion. Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit
shorturl.at/gGYm7
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