🚨🚨 We're hiring! 🚨🚨 The Single-cell Analytics Innovation Lab (SAIL) at @mskcancercenter.bsky.social is looking for a Junior Technician to join our wet lab team! You'll work with spatial genomics and single-cell technologies, helping us push the boundaries of cutting-edge analysis in cancer research.

Our first extraordinary biologist for this week is Jim Smith, former Editor-in-Chief of @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social Director, who was also part of the Biologists @ 100 organising committee. #100biologists

What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations? I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!‬

Proseg is a segmentation tool for single-cell spatial transcriptomics data that uses unsupervised probabilistic modeling of transcript spatial distribution, for accurate segmentation without multimodal staining. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@david-j-barry.bsky.social perfectly summarizes this - very flattered to see our work featured at the top of the EMBL-EBI AI Ready list @bioimagearchive.bsky.social. A truly fruitful cross-disciplinary collaboration made possible by the incredibly talented STP scientists at @crick.ac.uk 🔬💻🐟!

We’re excited to share the first publication from our lab, now out in @EMBOPress! @shayma-a.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Using live imaging in the mouse embryo, we tracked how heart progenitors migrate and assemble into the heart tube.

📢New publication alert! Exciting new research on start points for DNA replication in human cells by Dr Torsten Krude, students here in Zoology and colleagues @crick.ac.uk Read more about it: bit.ly/3F1PYvN

We found that cells use emergent collective memory—arising from simple chemical reactions—to outperform physical limits of detecting chemical gradients. Curious how? 1/n 8 min talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7XH... bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #biophysics #cellbiology

Ahhh cell migration, so much cool reading to do!

What governs where DNA replication begins in human cells? Here, we show that origins of replication in human DNA are epigenetically specified and that crucially, this epigenetic mark is required for both DNA replication and cell proliferation! @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

What drives cytoplasmic mRNA organization? We created unbiased, genome-wide maps of mesoscale RNA-RNA spatial proximity, revealing impact of encoded protein function. Fantastic work from @lindsayabecker.bsky.social @sofiquinodoz.bsky.social @davidaknowles.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Calling all... 🔬 Microscopists 💻 BioImage Analysts 👩‍🔬 Life Scientists 📅 Save the Date The 5th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium will take place on November 24/25th 2025. More details to follow... #CBIAS2025

Happy to share our review on methodology for measuring and manipulating mechanical forces with specific focus on developmental biology! Congrats to authors @clemvilleneuve.bsky.social @mccreery.bsky.social and hats off to the community for developing awesome tools www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Watch this space for some fascinating science! Excited to see this, congratulations @tsakiridis.bsky.social 🥼🔬!

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

This! I've seen this a couple of times at conferences from established, well-known PIs and it is amazing. It's also a great opportunity to network with them and talk science.

Here it is, in collaboration with @lankylaste.bsky.social, Lina Gerontogianni & Gavin Kelly: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... * Stats tests often used inappropriately * Masses of data points are often unnecessary * Inferring biological significance almost impossible without appropriate controls

OK this is super-cool. I want to try it immediately! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing opportunity with an amazing scientist/person!

The #nucleus contains the info of a #cell, but it does much more than that !! Since the nucleus is *big*, acts as the main intracellular obstacle, and during #CellMigration can get 'trapped'/stuck until the cell pushes it FWD. #scicomm @focalplane.bsky.social @cellcommlab.bsky.social #Skyscience

Great to see the mTurquoise2 plasmids that we've generated used as markers of subcellular structures rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Zero, yes 0, cases of cervical cancer in women who received the HPV vaccination at 12-13 years in Scotland. Vaccines Save Lives. academic.oup.com/jnci/article...

How it feels to be working on a grant application right now.

After the directed #cellmigration #GRC I want to point out, that I added new scientists to my starter packs! Comment, if you want to be added (doesn't matter if you were on the GRC). Also, even if you "followed all" months ago, please check for newcomers 😁! #cellbio #devbio #morphogenesis

For early career researchers interested in the Fibronectin, Integrins and Related Molecules GRS/GRC this May, don’t forget to sign up! The deadline for submitting an abstract to be considered for an oral presentation for the GRS is less than a week away! Register here: www.grc.org/fibronectin-...

As my first post on here it would be remiss of me not to express my sense of wonder and scientific awe following the Directed Cell Migration GRC/GRS! It was a privilege to chair the latter alongside @tlnagy.bsky.social. The people, as always, make the meeting and I am so happy to have met you all!