It was great to be back @crick.ac.uk to attend #YEN2026 @yen-network.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 It was our lab's first poster presentation by PhD student Maria Pantelidou who did great 👏 Great talks and lovely science artworks narrating the journey from conception through birth 🎨 #reproduction #embryology

Great to see this from @vmetzis.bsky.social & co published Dissection of CDX2 regulatory elements identifies a repressive element that converts to an enhancer with a nuclear receptor motif switch www.cell.com/developmenta...

We’re excited to welcome Prof Allan Young as the new Head of @imperialbrains.bsky.social 🎉 Check out the Q&A below where he discusses his journey into neuropsychopharmacology, his vision for the department, and his research into psychiatric illnesses.👇 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268155/...

🚨🚨 New pre-print from the lab. led by the amazing @alejotorrescano.bsky.social ! Alejo & Co. elegantly decode the spatial logic of progenitor cell organization in the developing pancreas — from individual cells to structured cellular communities 🔬🔬🧫🧪 Check-it out ⤵️

Exciting day for @crick.ac.uk today: Edith Heard takes over as Director We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...

Sex determination doesn't cease to amaze me!!

Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s

great to see this work published, well done ! www.nature.com/articles/nco...

Just like we need women in STEM and "Girls Who Code", we need “Men Who Nurse” and “Guys Who Teach,” pipeline programs that can offer boys pathways forward in female-typed fields. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social time.com/7286184/worr...

EVENT alert 🚨 Academic Women Association (AWA) is inviting people to a short online presentation by Dr Ilaria Belluomo on 16 May at 10:00 am. Open to all women at Imperial, fostering an inclusive academic network for mentorship and career development. Link to register: tinyurl.com/2bhdpsr6

As tighter immigration policies are announced today, scientists continue to stress the importance of attracting international talent. Our director Paul Nurse spoke to the Observer about how this affects science in the UK: observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Best post of this Friday everybody👇

We are happy to announce student and postdoc speakers. Thanks to all who submitted an abstract! #yen2025

Hello, Bluesky 👋 This is the official account for the Society for Reproductive Biology (Australia and New Zealand). We aim to keep you up to date with our SRB and affiliated events, disseminate key reproductive biology research and connect with a broad audience 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬🔬🌏

Change what you eat, and what you eat will change you! 🍽️ 😍I love this work which supports an healthy diet is more effective for microbiome recovery and health than interventions such as microbiome transplant! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Re-growing adult organs: mothers do it best Tomotsune Ameku from the lab of @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk tells the behind the paper story of their work looking into maternal intestinal growth in mice during reproduction: thenode.biologists.com/re-growing-a...

🚨Excited to share my first postdoc paper, now published in Nature Communications! We uncover a key regulator of testis development and its link to differences of sex development (DSD). 🧵 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/7

Interested in starting a PhD to explore ovarian biology through a cross-disciplinary approach combining live-cell microscopy and biophysics? Get in touch for more details—and please share! 🔬🙌🏼

The Society For Reproduction and Fertility is hosting a 1-day symposium to celebrate its 75th birthday! Programme includes talks from world-leading reproductive scientists. When: 21st June 2025 Where: the Zoological Society of London. Early-bird rates until 30th April! Register: lnkd.in/e_SNQqxw

we've put a Review together 👇 Just came out at www.nature.com/articles/s41... hoping it is useful for those in the field but also for those not in the field who would like an overview on chromatin/epigenetics/replication/nuclear organisation in early embryos Enjoy :) - feedback welcome

EUWIN - European Women in Endocrinology - join us in Copenhagen this May!

A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated #womb. Mr Richard Smith from @imperialnhs.bsky.social led the organ retrieval team and has been researching womb transplantation for more than two decades. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #MedSky

expert reaction to first baby being born from a womb transplant in the UK

🎨🔬 Art meets science this Wednesday (2 April)! Don’t miss our in-person Research Image Competition exhibition at the College Main Entrance 🏛️ Add it to your calendars 🔽 www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18983...

Essay competition! Win £250! Share your ideas on a more sustainable future for scientific events! Please spread the word to anyone who you think might be interested. Closing date: World Bee Day! (that's 20 May, but you knew that didn't you) #Sustainability www.biologists.com/stories/essa...

Cracking the Code of Protein Degradation: Led by #LMBalumni @leokiss.bsky.social, the Schulman Lab @mpibiochem.bsky.social in collaboration with Leo James's group at the LMB has developed new 🧪 science tech #UbiREAD to decipher the ubiquitin protein degradation code within cells.

Great to be in Liverpool this week for the @biologists.bsky.social @100 conference. Looking forward to speaking to early-career researchers at the Career Session in room 3 today 12:45-3PM. @bsdb.bsky.social

fascinating study! congrats @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social and the team! #pregnancy #gut #science

It's my inaugural lecture @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on May 28th www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19099... Please come along and listen to me talk about my science (and all the amazing people who have helped me along the way) BTW it's free! @imperialmed.bsky.social

A beginners guide to scientific conferences! Perfect timing since our entire lab is off to either @bscb-official.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 in Liverpool or @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social 2025 in Harrogate next week

"If I had stopped at the first thoughts of self-doubt, I’d never be where I am now." Dr Roberta Migale's career is a story of persistence & mentorship. Discover how she’s supporting #WomenInSTEM & shaping reproductive health research ⤵️ www.imperial.ac.uk/news/261854/... @imperialmdr.bsky.social

We're growing! Super happy to welcome the FIRST member of our lab (I can now use plural!!) this month 😃 Welcome Maria 👩🔬 #newPI @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialmdr.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social

Join our Structural Studies Division, leading a research group developing computational methods to address questions in molecular & cellular biology! You will be supported by core funding, excellent facilities & enthusiastic colleagues. Apply by 18 MAR www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Just two days left to register to join us at a unique scientific conference, celebrating our 100-year anniversary and bringing together our different communities #biologists100 View the programme: bit.ly/4h1cmCC Register by Friday 28 February: bit.ly/3Ddp0QV

The early registration deadline is coming up for the new female repro Keystone! Register by Feb 26 to save $!

"Maybe I have an optimistic view of humanity." Professor Wendy Barclay (@wendybarclay.bsky.social) on #BirdFlu, pandemic preparedness—and the day she was mistaken for the tea lady (‼️) Read more in @theguardian.com ⤵️ #WomenInSTEM @imperialinfect.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Can you really boost your #immune system? From kombucha to cold water swims, does any of it help protect us from getting a #virus? BBC Radio 4 (Inside Health) investigate the evidence with Prof @prof-tregoning.bsky.social . Catch the replay!👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Join our Structural Studies Division, leading a research group developing computational methods to address questions in molecular & cellular biology! You will be supported by core funding, excellent facilities & enthusiastic colleagues. Apply by 18 MAR www.nature.com/naturecareer...

The Society for Developmental Biology has released a statement on the Unprecedented Disruptions to Biomedical Research in the United States.

I have a wonderful scientist in my lab who is looking to move to Europe. Is anyone looking for a staff scientist? She has a PhD. She is particularly in her element doing field work. Great skills with rodents and very open to non-rodent positions as well. Please send leads, please amplify!

Great to be at @fogenomics.bsky.social presenting our poster on #ovary development. Also do check out my contribution to the Multi-Omics Playbook put together by @flgenomics.bsky.social advertised on the FoG App 👌🤓 Download here: lp.frontlinegenomics.com/multi-omics-...

📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Small but mighty! An important study by Jeremie Subrini from @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk shows that the Y chromosome harbors genes very important for male fertility. The Y chromosome is not going to disappear anytime soon ;) Congratulations! www.crick.ac.uk/news-and-rep...

We're looking for a talented postdoctoral #scientist with a background in computational biology (bioinformatics) to join the Genomic Variation and Disease Group at the LMS! 🧑‍🔬🖥️ #HiringNow Find out more and apply 👇

Next week! I'll be there 😊

The LMB Rising Talent Fellowship for Black heritage scientists is open for applicants! With this 3 year postdoc position we want to enable scientists of Black heritage to learn & grow their experience. To apply and for full details check here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/recruitment/...  Please share!

The Department of Mathematics @imperialmaths.bsky.social is now on BlueSky 💙 Give them a follow to hear about what #OurImperial mathematicians get up to

Registration reminder for The Festival of Genomics & Biodata! We're now down to single digits, with just 9 days to go until we kick off proceedings at ExCeL London. Secure your place and join our growing community: hubs.la/Q02Tn5140 #FOG2025 #genomics #biodata #lifescience

Day 2 of #Fertility2025 is underway! Later I'll be presenting our work on ovarian sex maintenance spearheaded by Michelle Neumann during her PhD in Robin Lovell-Badge Lab At The Crick 🧬 Do come around and give us your feedback!

Good papers lead to more questions than they answer. That's because (as Blaise Pascal wrote) knowledge is like a sphere: the larger it gets the larger also its surface, which is its interface with the unknown.