Such fun collab with the @vjesticalab.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social, revisiting the first question I became obsessed with as a PhD student: why do cells that fuse during sex need to differ genetically even when they look the same? 🙌 Celso Martin and Harry Booth for beautiful experiments+theory work

And finally thank you @crick.ac.uk for the beautiful summary of our work and the wonderful @zenahadjivasiliou.bsky.social who made this into an awesome collaboration! www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-07...

Why did the two gametes (egg♀️ and sperm♂️) start to become different? It's a strategy to optimize the costs and benefits of investing into offspring! Read our brand new @pnas.org story that finds a molecular mechanism behind this evolutionary idea proposed in 1972 by Parker, Bell and Smith.

💡 Pourquoi, chez la plupart des êtres vivants, les deux partenaires sexuels ne contribuent pas de la même manière: l’un investit beaucoup (comme l’ovule), l’autre beaucoup moins (comme le spermatozoïde)? Des réponses dans cette nouvelle étude @vjesticalab.bsky.social 👉 www.unil.ch/news/1782827...

A planetary atlas of plankton 🪐 Closing the year with a bang: out @cellcellpress.bsky.social the @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social labs used ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal the stunning cytoskeletal diversity of over 200 plankton species! A #sciart 🧵 @embl.org