“If your neighbour’s house is on fire, you don’t wait and watch. You help to put it out before the fire spreads to yours. That’s the interconnected world we live in, and an important lesson for all politicians watching the crisis unfold.” Excellent from @profdevisridhar.bsky.social

The olfactory receptor SNIF-1 mediates foraging for leucine-enriched diets in <i>C. elegans</i>

“Tommy Chooses Love”. Something positive from this disgusting hate march

Something that stung at end of being on Infinite Monkey Cage were frequent backstage invites for various anti trans activists - including to our small party for 201st episode - people who wrote vicious things about me & then lies about me after resignation. It was really rotten. www.robinince.com

So great to see @usbumer1's cool story out at @commsbio.nature.com! Funding thanks DBT and India Alliance. Umer et al have found a role for the neuropeptide FLP-15 in worm foraging. Thanks to all authors and our collaborators @monikakscholz.bsky.social lab. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The third round is now open! I will be hosting a webinar with my colleagues on Monday 27 April at 1pm. To sign up please go to: shorturl.at/Vuwib International applicants are eligible to apply!

🚨Preprint Alert 🧠 Our new preprint „Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development“ is now online! 👉 Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Super-cool work from the Ch’ng lab

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Come and join us!

Fantastic opportunity to come and join us!

UK Scientists Launch C. elegans Nematode Worms To Support Future Moon Missions astrobiology.com/2026/04/uk-s... #astrobiology #microgravity #microbiology #ISS

abstracts back in the day were crazy work. Ed Hedgecock, 1981 #Celegans meeting at CSHL.

Excited to share this study where we identified the functions of ZFH-2, a large (181 kDa) transcription factor of the evolutionarily conserved ZFHX family. ZFH-2 has 19 DNA binding domains: 16 zinc fingers and 3 homeodomains! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... (1/n)

It's a bit gusty out there, but on the plus side, the UK is currently running on 77% renewable electricity right now. 🎉🎉💨💨 Yay nature! (screenshot from grid.iamkate.com )

Celebrating Professor Anne Warner, an extraordinary woman whose pioneering work in cell biology and belief in opportunity and education continues to shape lives today. https://www.mba.ac.uk/donate/leave-a-gift-in-your-will/ #InternationalWomensDay

New preprint alert 📣 We are sharing our protocol for calcium imaging of acute brain slices from Octopus vulgaris hatchlings during application of neurotransmitters. Another fruitful collaboration between the Schafer and Seuntjens labs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Interested in mapping the 🐙 octopus hatchling connectome? Come and join us! mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Do YOU live with joint pain? Do YOU experience poor pain management? Have you got 2-minutes to tell pain researchers about it? If yes 👉 forms.gle/7NTwma2gnVN1... We hope to gain insight into lived experience for those with joint pain & involve people in our #PainResearch 😃

"It is what transforms rejection into redirection and crisis into continuity..." Ogochukwu Uweru on the stress that politics & bureaucracy create & the importance of relationship building as part of scientific endeavour. edin.ac/3PN1mAQ

This is so, so well-articulated.

#BlackInNeuro, #BlackInSTEM? Heads up that this fantastic postdoc opportunity opens for applications this month (closing date 17th May). Come and join us at @mrclmb.ac.uk! mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-...

Congratulations to the legendary scientist Judith Kimble!!! We stand on the shoulders of giants. #womeninSTEM #celegans

Looking to get back into research after a career break? Come and join us!

Exposure to different viruses linked to Alzheimer's and vaccines prevent this, more and more proof accumulates over time (reviewers in higher impact journals: "but what's the mechanism?")

⚒️ NEW TOOLBOX for #Celegans researchers 🪱 Theresa Gibney and Ariel Pani developed a method that allows for a standardized workflow to generate N-terminal and internal tags in any background and without the need for genetic balancers. Paper in #GENETICS:🔗 buff.ly/wXMml3x

Congratulations to all the newly elected @aaas.org Fellows, including LMB alumnus Andrew Chisholm! Andrew completed his PhD in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social in 1989 and is now a Distinguished Professor in the @ucsandiego.bsky.social School of Biological Sciences. #LMBAlumni

Proud to share the yeast telomerase structure, led by the talented @hongmiaohu.bsky.social in collaboration with the Wellinger and Chartrand labs. Discovered 37 years ago and took us nearly 7 years but totally worth the wait 😍. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFE4...

Tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Lalita Ramakrishnan’s group, @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social & @medcambridge.bsky.social, studies how TB thrives, including what drives its drug tolerance. Read more: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/GdOa... #LMBintheNews #WorldTBDay #EndTB

Archaea hit prime time: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On today’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, @buzzbaum.bsky.social, Group Leader in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social, joined for a discussion on all things archaea. Check it out here (requires BBC login): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #LMBintheNews

@lancasterlab.bsky.social, Joint Head of the LMB’s Cell Biology Division (@cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social), was recognised in the 2026 Suffrage Science Awards for her work on brain organoids 🧠 Congratulations to Madeline and the other 2026 awardees! Read more: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBNews

Scientific excellence can be found everywhere. However, we need to encourage it & create spaces for it to blossom. The Rising Talent Fellowship offers such an opportunity @mrclmb.bsky.social. The call will be open soon so keep an eye & reach out the LMB labs! mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-...

One week left to register and submit your abstract for the UK C. elegans meeting. Southampton, April 15th-17th. @gensocuk.bsky.social genetics.org.uk/events/uk-c-...

2026--Six years. Still sick. Still raising awareness for prevention & treatments! #LongCovidAwareness #LongCovid #LongCovidKids #LongCovidHeartbeats #LongCovidAwarenessDay #LongCovidAwarenessWeek #LongCovidAwarenessMonth #LitForLongCovid #OneInfectionAway #TakeActionAgainstLC

Rainy #caturday = more sleep

New #LMBResearch led by @drbatmo.bsky.social in John O’Neill’s group (@cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social) has identified the molecular switch decides day or night. Click here to read how the mTOR pathway controls when mammals are active and the role it’s played in evolution: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/...

Congratulations to @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social, Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, who has been named the Life Sciences Laureate at the 2026 Blavatnik Awards in the UK 🎉 Read the full news story here: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBNews #Blavatnik2026

📢 Appel à témoignages : #CovidLong (adulte et pédiatrique) dans le #Nord, le #PasdeCalais et la #Picardie 👇👇👇

Opinion: When a mere few months’ hiatus in UKRI funding opportunities imperils the futures of those without permanent posts, it only underlines the fragility of UK biomedicine, says a researcher #AcademicSky #Research ow.ly/q32l50Yhv9m

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

Excited to share that GMB grad student Fred Koitz's paper is published @dev-journal.bsky.social Fred is graduating soon, and I am recruiting a postdoc to continue the work. Please reach out if you're interested, and share if you know folks who might be! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Drivers and ethical impacts of insufficient validation of antibodies in research https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.19.706766v1

Registration and abstract submission for the international CE neuro meeting are now open!

“I never protested before in my entire life. I watched 4th and 5th grade kids run away from our govt... I’m not gonna stand by and watch my neighbors run away scared... I love the US, I love NJ...It’s not who we are I never want to see another child run away from our own govt ever again."

Led by grad student Xinchang He and in collaboration with @michellefrei17.bsky.social and @yaochen20.bsky.social we developed a new series of chemigenetic FRET-based biosensors by pairing fluorescent protein donors with HaloTag–far-red dyes, providing enhanced dynamic range over FP-based designs.

🚨🚨Double preprint alert! 🚨🚨 Two papers went up on Biorxiv this week! The first presents new chemigenetic FRET-based biosensors: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... And the second presents an improved version of our C-Y FRET PKA reporters, AKAR6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 🧵 1/5