Open-rank search: 2 (!) PI positions in Pulmonary Biology at @cuanschutz.bsky.social 🌄 We are looking for new colleagues @cupediatrics.bsky.social, working in lung fibrosis, focusing on #devbio, stem cell, & regen.biology of the lung 🫁🫀. Please help spread the word! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Hey y’all 👋 repost magic appreciated. The Solecki lab is recruiting multiple postdocs at St. Jude for a chromatin imaging project at the edge of live-cell imaging, neuronal cell biology, chromatin regulation, and quantitative image analysis. Ever dreamed of touring chromatin like this? We CAN 🔥

Come and work with us on #cryoEM of alpha-synuclein amyloid filaments from #Parkinsons disease! 🥳 fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

When the CDC conveys uncertainty, but the evidence is certain, public trust is compromised and it fosters science denialism; results of a randomized study of ~3,000 participants @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#microtubules in orange hot, #F-actin greyscale, Fibroblast, spinning disc. @marcoenriquez18.bsky.social @aibnatuq.bsky.social #fluorescenceFriday

John Gurdon (1933-2025) Sir John Gurdon was a towering figure in developmental biology, respected and admired throughout the world. In this Obituary, Jim Smith writes about his legacy. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Just some random data I collected from a while back, actin and myosin in a U2OS cell imaged on our lattice light sheet microscope.

Calling all #cilia researchers. Our new Community Page presents CiliaKB, a manually curated #KnowledgeBase that serves as a one-stop platform for researchers to rapidly access mechanistic #data and mine for translational clues about cilia. 🧪 #CellBiology plos.io/4d4QaYr

Paying peer reviewers is one of the methods @biologyopen.bsky.social uses to offer quick turnaround times whilst maintaining high quality. We’ll still be at #DynamicCellVI all day if you want to talk about submitting to BiO, applying to become a reviewer or OA publishing more generally.

Our flagship conference celebrating everything centrosomes and cilia returns this year and it promises to be another exceptional scientific event in the beautiful city of Lausanne, 1–4 September. 👉 Abstract submission+registration deadline 1 June Don’t miss the opportunity to share your research 🤩

Hooke Medal winner Stephen Tait @mitosrus.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social is presented with his medal by BSCB president Laura Machesky before his fantastic medal talk on 'mitochondria, death and something in between' #DynamicCellVI

Science wisdom drop 💡 #ProTip straight from the mistress of masterful presentations 🎤

We are still accepting applications for an image analyst within the Optical Imaging Core at Van Andel Institute. If you know anyone that is looking for a career in image analysis, please encourage them to apply! vai.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/VAICar...

Two weeks left for abstract submission - please do register; it's a great UK meeting, and lots of opportunities for ECRs to share their work 👇

Calling all ECRs at #DynamicCellVI come along to our scientific speed-dating event tonight!

We kicked off our 55th @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium. Open the gates-how increasing permeability in TZ mutants can rescue retrograde IFT mutants- diffusion & EVs carlamcabreu.bsky.social Deep read: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #UKCilia2026 /1

Tuesday is finally our next big session on all things #cilia, #centrosomes & gloriously kick-ass #CellBiology. Free, open to all aficionados, and frankly no excuse not to join. 👀 Unregistered? Easily fixed 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso...

New Title Alert: MiCSPARC- is a CryoSPARC-based cryo-EM pipeline for microtubule image processing that combines automated filament tracing, particle picking, fast 3D refinement, protofilament-number assignment, alignment, register correction, & seam search. Learn more here: buff.ly/f1Jmkqe #SBGrid

📢Call for images Our FocalPlane-ELMI2026 @eulimi.bsky.social image competition is open for entries. Share your favourite images for your chance to win £200 and see your image on the cover of @jcellsci.bsky.social. Deadline: 18 May 2026 #ELMI2026 @ppbioimaging.bsky.social

Beautiful work from @computingcaitie.bsky.social and colleagues, showing the power of combining multiple approaches to studying complex in situ cell biology!

❗We are recruiting❗ A PDRA based in the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics at Cardiff University investigating the #molecular & #cellular changes in #schizophrenia, building on the work of the #MURIDAE cluster @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social Please see link 👇 tinyurl.com/32u753js

To supplement our cryo-ET and generate candidates for proteins that localize to different ciliary regions, we took a trip to the local butcher to pick up some cow trachea to build a mammalian multiciliated cell interactome using XL/MS (enjoy this vid of @cellarchlab.com shaking cilia off trachea)

I am excited to share our most recent work collaborating with @centriolelab.bsky.social and @stearnslab.bsky.social to look at the ciliary base of mammalian multiciliated cells w/ cryo-ET, XL/MS, and U-ExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A welcome and much needed reopening of pplicant-led grants today at MRC, with no closing date. It brings massive changes to assessment, with more details now available. Focus is on evaluation by a "college of experts" but its composition is still not clear. 1/6 www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Molecular architecture of the ciliary base in mammalian multiciliated cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.05.716577v1

Our Spring meeting starts today in Glasgow! All the best to all those presenting @bspparasitology.bsky.social

Just over two weeks until our 55th @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium Tuesday April 21st 2026 15:00-17:45 BST! Join us for 6 talks from the latest rising talent!! Free & open to all. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... 1/2

🥁Calling all Cilia & Centrosome enthusiasts! Registration for the UK Cilia & Centrosome Network Spring meeting in Leeds is open. A homecoming to the place where '9+2' was discovered! Great opportunity for trainees + ECRs to share work + get community feedback. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-cilia-c...

Excited to be heading to Paris next week for @embo.org Structure and Function of the #Cytoskeleton! Please say hi if you're around and want to chat about publishing, @jcellsci.bsky.social or any of @biologists.bsky.social grants and community initiatives! share.google/P4XMcNbsHnog...

We're hiring: PhD students, postdocs, AI experts, and more — in disease risk prediction, generative imaging, multimodal AI, and research software engineering. → careers.humantechnopole.it If this resonates, reach out… apply! See you soon! 🔬🧠💻 9/9

We've spent the last year building something at @humantechnopole.bsky.social that we think is genuinely needed: #AI that works across biological scales and data modalities, not just within them. A thread on what we're doing, why, and who we're looking for. A 🧵... 1/9

Have you ever seen a #ctenophore poop? 🪼💩 While it was widely accepted that comb jellies expel waste from both ends, Mnemiopsis shattered dogma with the presence of a through-gut. Intrigued? Read the original research: www.cell.com/current-biol.... Credit video to William Browne. #CtenophoreFunFacts

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...

And the @bsdb.bsky.social Waddington medal goes to... @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social. Could not be more highly deserved, I'm so delighted to hear this 👏

Are you attending @bsdb.bsky.social 2026: Molecules to Morphogenesis in Warwick this week? Visit our stand to complete our quick survey and be in with a chance of winning a special goodie bag.

Arp2/3-dependent actin assembly shapes endosomes and promotes intracellular trafficking in fission yeast The work from Alejandro Melero @ameleroc.bsky.social and Miguel Basante-Bedoya just out in Current Biology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @biology-unige.bsky.social

We're still accepting submissions for our upcoming special issue - Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics - which is being coordinated by @franbottanelli.bsky.social and Giulia Zanetti, working alongside our Editor @guijacquemet.bsky.social Deadline: 1 April journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/im...

Hello, world! We are starting a worker cooperative to build, maintain, teach, and support open source scientific imaging software. image.coop/blog/posts/2...

Registration is now open for our two-day **"Heidelberg Wild Thinking Workshop - The organism, its self and its environment: from philosophy to physics"**, https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/wild-thinking-workshop-1 an interdisciplinary event on **19-20 […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Interested in one of the top jobs in European biology? @embo.org has opened a call for its next Director, to succeed Fiona Watt Really spectacular opportunity! Spread the word... www.embo.org/features/emb...

i’ve come to believe that we will never solve the literacy crisis by talking about reading as “watering the garden of your mind” or whatever. books are, and have always been, the favored medium of God’s purest freaks and degenerates. Reading isn’t a salad. If you’re doing it right, it’s a vice.

MRC curiosity-driven research reopens with new approach www.ukri.org/news/mrc-cur... MRC applicant-led funding opportunities reopen 7 Apr, experimental medicine opportunities opening 30 Apr Complete change in selection of project: no boards, shortlisted applicants -> in-person panel interview.

Join the #EMBL conference "Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems" 🗓️ June 17-20! Register for in-person at @embl.org Heidelberg or Virtual 👉 www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESMicrotubules @events.embl.org

Zooplankton larvae shoot up in the water column when exposed to high pressure. Mediated by special pressure-sensory photoreceptors. From our paper on the mechanism of barotaxis. https://elifesciences.org/articles/94306 #cilia #plankton #neuroscience

If change doesn’t come from reviewers, publishers, or the courts, one remaining lever is for funders to set clearer standards for journals publishing publicly funded research.

Litigation could force structural change, but in this case the courts declined to intervene. That leaves regulation by research funders.

Demand side: publishers could adopt new models if they believe it improves their product or business. Across the industry, however, there is little economic pressure pushing publishers to change long-standing practices.

There are at least four possible drivers of change. Supply side: reviewers could refuse to provide free labor. In practice this is unlikely because peer review norms (reviewing for free) are deeply embedded in academic culture.

The case raises a broader question: how does change happen in scientific publishing? In the peer-review labor market, reviewers supply labor and journals demand it, yet the price of that labor has long been set at zero.

The argument was essentially that scholars provide valuable labor (peer review) for free while publishers generate billions in journal revenue.