Happy 2026 everyone- the time has come to apply! Registration for this exciting Dev Bio conference is until the end of January!

Pathways of Pain. @ameliejoly.bsky.social and I enjoyed writing this perspective on science.org/doi/10.1126/... science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Season's greatings! #Drosophila

Fil RH #CNRS de la semaine #VeilleESR Dans la continuité du sujet précédent et comme nous sommes dans une période de prise de fonction, voici un fil sur les concours externes CNRS des ingénieurs et techniciens. Comment les concours externes IT évoluent au CNRS ? 1/12

Today is the December solstice at 15:03 GMT/16:03 CET. This @eumetsat.int MTG‑I1 image from 19 December 2025, 06:00 GMT, shows Earth’s day–night terminator tilted near its annual maximum of about 23.5°.

Côté CRCN, les concours chercheurs CNRS restent attractifs avec une moyenne de 20 candidatures par poste ouvert. Le nombre de candidats a pourtant fortement baissé durant les années 2010, découragés sans doute par la chute du nombre de postes (-30% en 4 ans) et sans doute d’autres facteurs. 2/9

Fil RH #CNRS de la semaine, part 2 #VeilleESR Suite du fil sur les concours chercheurs, passons aux postes DR, en grande partie consacrés au changement de corps CR-DR en interne au CNRS. 1/6

As the year ends, we decided to select our favorite papers of 2025 Turns out, it is impossible as we love them all! So, we picked 'some' that exhibit the range of microbiology highlighted through the columns of Nature Microbiology. Here is a glimpse into #EditorPicks of 2025 #MicroSky 🦠

Happy end the year from the lab!!!

#RejoignezleCNRS 🫵 Envie de repousser les limites de la science ? Le #CNRS recrute des chercheurs (F/H) passionnés. 📅 Concours ouverts jusqu’au 12 janvier 2026. Candidatez dès maintenant ! 👉 carrieres.cnrs.fr/concours-ext... #Recrutement #Innovation #Recherche #Icicarecrute

#JointheCNRS 🫵 Want to push the boundaries of science? The CNRS is recruiting passionate researchers (F/M)! The campaign runs until January 12, 2026. 👉 carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-... #Recruitment #CNRS #Innovation #Research #Icicarecrute

Pourrait-on voir émerger des traitements contre la douleur à la fois efficaces et dénués d’effets secondaires graves ? C'est la question à laquelle tente de répondre Aziz Moqrich, biologiste CNRS à l’Institut de biologie du développement de Marseille 💊 ➡️ youtu.be/R3rbrMBVi6E

Excited to share our story nutrition and cell quiescence in sea anemones, great postdoctoral work of @eudaldpascual.bsky.social Finally out in @plosbiology.org And thanks to @msarscentre.bsky.social for the nice news piece: www.uib.no/en/michaelsa...

A great scientist and person!

"Don’t mourn his loss—be grateful that you knew him". Bacteriologist at Pasteur then at INEM, Alain Charbit spent most of his career working on Intracellular bacteria and notably Francisella tularensis to decipher the role of its metabolism in virulence. He was a colleague and a friend.

Another great collaboration with Grangeasse Lab from @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social 🔗 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #phagebiology #microbiome #drosophila #symbiosis #prophage #Lactobacillus

In this study, we show that a stress-inducible prophage in Lactiplantibacillus plantarum triggers controlled lysis, releasing phage particles and bacterial components that act as symbiotic cues promoting host development. 🦠➡️🪰 Thanks to everyone involved!

🌟 New preprint alert! 🌟 We’re excited to share the latest work from @francoisleulier.bsky.social lab, now on bioRxiv!

Phages matter in beneficial symbiosis! Congratd @renatafcmatos.bsky.social and collaborators

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A great move!

The research org CNRS will end access to the Web of Science, shifting towards qualitative research assessment and open tools. It’s a strong move for #OpenScience, reducing reliance on proprietary metrics and supporting fairer, more transparent evaluation.

A JAK/STAT-Pdk1-S6K axis bypasses systemic growth restrictions to promote regeneration #Drosophila

Apply for a PhD in Paris!! A project to come and work with me and my team at the GutSense lab included in the list! 🪰🧠⛽

Mitochondrial function & dynamics are essential for maintaining cellular homeostasis. This study shows that the metabolic regulator dPGC1 controls #mitochondrial dynamics when Yorkie is upregulated, acting as a context-dependent #tumor suppressor in #Drosophila @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4474g7Y

Mobilité interne CNRS : l’IGFL recrute un·e assistant·e ingé pour renforcer ses travaux sur modèles aquatiques et biologie cellulaire. Environnement technologique solide, missions variées recherche/élevages. Candidatures jusqu’au 15/01/2026. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/MOBIN...

#Communiqué 🗞️ L'@academiesciences.bsky.social et le CNRS signent un accord de coédition pour développer un modèle de publication scientifique en libre accès et gratuit. ✍️ 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/la...

Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

🚨🚨🚨 The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to [email protected] by December 4th Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th Please share the info

We’re back with the Metabolism in Development & Physiology online seminar series 🎉 Thu 11 Dec 2025, 16:00 CET Speakers: Heather Christofk (Professor, UCLA) Yuanlingzi Tian (PostDoc, University of Glasgow)

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

International Call: recruitment of an Early-Career Team Leader in Virology at CIRI! For further information: ciri.ens-lyon.fr/nous-rejoind...

People born during China's Great Famine, from 1958 to 1962, show a 13% higher risk of infectious diseases in adulthood, with smaller effects extending to their children, highlighting the multigenerational impact of prenatal malnutrition. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/OXnN50Xzuui

Having witnessed many HHMI labs during my postdoc, my impression was that many of them struggled to even productively spend all their money. At some point it seems logical that you just hit diminishing returns; systematic studies have come to the same conclusion. www.science.org/content/blog...

ERC Starting Grants: ~14% success, thousands rejected. Solution? Let’s add €7M mega-grants for a lucky 30 people instead of funding 4–5 extra StGs each. Truly the best way to ease early-career pressure. 🙃 #ERC #PlusGrant

Now published as version of record at @elife.bsky.social ! Layers of Immunity: Deconstructing the Drosophila effector response. The tools are now deposited in the VDRC (link ⬇️) elifesciences.org/articles/107... shop.vbc.ac.at/vdrc_store/d... #Drosophila #IDsky #SymbioSky #Infection #Immunology

📣 Parisians please come along @institutducerveau.bsky.social next Monday, for a treat of a seminar by Vassilis Pachnis from the @crick.ac.uk and the wonders of the enteric nervous system!

Worth about 200M€ = 150 ERC StG! Not convinced this is a good move for Europe research!

Excited to share the latest work from the lab: rdcu.be/eRWuD Great team effort, led by @enriberti.bsky.social first at @unil.bsky.social and now @unifr.bsky.social; with fantastic collaborators @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and @dahaniel.muench.bio.

Our new study out @BMC Biology. The first Mosquito study from the lab, driven by a great effort of phd student Yusuke Kato with the hard work of Chisako Sakuma. Amino acid economy meets a blood-sucking insect. link.springer.com/10.1186/s129...

An open webinar on our reproducibility project 'WHAT 400 DROSOPHILA PAPERS Teach Us about Doing Better Science' on December 9th 2PM EEST time (1PM Swiss time). Registration below

#RejoignezLeCNRS 🫵 Les concours chercheurs CNRS 2026 ouvrent le 8/12 ! Envie de faire avancer la science au sein d’un des plus grands organismes de recherche ? 👉 carrieres.cnrs.fr/concours-... #ConcoursChercheurs #Science #Recherche #Icicarecrute #recrutement

📅 Mardi 2/12, 17h45-19h | site Monod – Amphi Bio SVT @ensdelyon.bsky.social #SciencesEnRésonance La 3e voie du vivant Rencontre avec Olivier Hamant animée par Mathieu Couttenier. Un contre-programme au modèle dominant de performance ? ➡️ urlr.me/bxR3VB #Biologie #Économie #Société #RencontreBDL

Ever wonder how host genetics shape the microbiota? We found that heparan sulfate biosynthesis is a major host driver of L. plantarum levels. During infection, NF-κB increases HS, expanding commensals, enhancing resistance and maintaining gut homeostasis. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Thanks for beating me to the punch! So so many times folks in vertebrate fields totally ignore findings from the 'lower organisms'. Let's value and respect the work across species!

Revised refereed preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Revision work lead by @longweibai.bsky.social Our work reveals how the #microbiota helps buffer #malnutrition: L. plantarum sustains intestinal activity of the steroid hormone ecdysone, expanding the midgut and supporting systemic growth.

Editorial: Society journals matter—supporting science through renewed commitment Editorial in @femsjournals.bsky.social microLife by @paulbrainey.bsky.social and colleagues academic.oup.com/microlife/ad...

New Neuron paper by Mitchell, Dahly, Bishop tears apart the “autism is caused by the microbiome” story. Tiny n, noisy 16S, contradictory taxa, vague “dysbiosis”. It reads like an autopsy of a hype bubble. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

How does the #tumor #microenvironment modulate sensitivity to nutrient restriction? @joannaqd.bsky.social @chengflylab.bsky.social &co show that this is regulated by the SCL36 AA transporter Pathetic at #BloodBrainBarrier glial cells in #Drosophila #brain tumors @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ibwXWY

A couple of days left to submit your abstract for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on the Molecular Basis of Symbiosis ! Great line up of speakers :) #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky