If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT

Great turnout - Together Alliance March

Join us to establish your lab @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk - very supportive environment & state-of-the-art imaging, mass spec and genomics tech platforms!

Made it! Looking forward to 3 days of great developmental biology.

We are looking for a new group leader to join the IGH (Montpellier, France). I can’t wait to meet my future colleague! Apply :-) More infos here: igh.cnrs.fr/join-igh-as-...

Beautiful #devbio talk today at our @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social Seminar Series by @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social Sarah Bowling!

Wow! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here we report all five canonical nucleobases—purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine and uracil)—in samples returned from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Knicks’ Mohamed Diawara at Marcus Garvey Park after sharing iftar at Keur Yayeu Dara, a beloved Senegalese restaurant in Harlem.

Your turn! What's My JND? 0.0065 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

We also have PhD scholarships available for UK citizens to work with us as the UCL Plastic Waste Hub. You get to hang out at Institute of Making too which is like enhancing. More info on our general vibe here: UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub - Institute of Making share.google/Y2C03GiZgkMO...

If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪

Come and join us @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk We are looking for new colleagues. The LMCB offers a very supportive environment and is a great place to be!

Nuclear blending - Jepson lab #UCLSTPisymposium2026

Optical clearing & LSM with Rob Campbell @ucl SWC #UCLSTPisymposium2026

Apply for ‘Beam time’ ! @uclengineering.bsky.social

Great programme for our one-day annual @ucl.ac.uk STP imaging symposium @slcuplants.bsky.social

Lovely Worcester Cathedral

Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)

New preprint @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social by Harshath Amal and colleagues from our lab @uni-muenster.de shows how a BMP #morphogen gradient is translated into graded junctional permeability by tuning adhesion and actomyosin contractility in #Drosophila See tinyurl.com/yhbwd9xh @sfb1348.bsky.social

Group Leader Call at the @cbitoulouse.bsky.social in Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :) cbi-toulouse.fr/wp-content/u...

Very interesting study from the Schweisguth lab - Pulsatile dynamics propagate crystalline order in the developing Drosophila eye: Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

Relaunch of our London Fly Meeting - whole afternoon of amazing science @ucl @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social sponsored by @gensocuk.bsky.social

Brand new UCL entrance rehearsing for the UCL200 celebration!

Helpful update into UKRI and research council funding changes from Zoe Kleinman @zsk.bsky.social But please more focus on 2 things... 1) Immediate effects (eg funding decisions expected in March) 2) Likely disproportionate effects on early career scientists www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is for you – and a great opportunity – if you are establishing a group in Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Türkiye...

Great 20k run today — one of my all-time favourite spots!

Words to live by!

Great visit at UBC- impressive student facilities on campus!

Entered 🇩🇰 airspace!

The great “enshittification” 🧪 theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Galette des rois @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social , courtesy of @joadelas.bsky.social 👑

How does signalling control cortical tension? Using optogenetics and AFM, we show that myosin recruitment and cortical tension increase proportionally with RhoA signalling. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Super work by Pierre Bohec with Guillaume Salbreux and @dianakhorom.bsky.social

Nice image from Anamul Hoque "tidied up" a bit by ChatGPT - won us the "best image" prize at UCL Life Sciences. Ernst Haeckel, eat your heart out.

Breaking... Very good news. A first step towards...? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

It is the most luminous time of the year !

Six new members join the ERC Scientific Council: 🔸Michel Campillo 🔸Emmanuelle Charpentier 🔸Kateřina Králová 🔸Susana Narotzky 🔸Karin Roelofs 🔸Eleftheria Zeggini Read more: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

I don't think scientists should work for anyone else. They should work for discovery and for their own curiosity. – Maria Leptin, ERC President @marialep.bsky.social (From the episode of the Night Science Podcast coming out next week @nightsciencepod.bsky.social )

We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables. This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands. jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob

Paper for the #Drosophila community on a food recipe that rears dozens of species. This was a full team effort, with key contributions from UG, MSc, and PhD students! 👩‍🎓🎉 Plus an #infection observation re: Diet x #Microbiota 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #EvolBiol #AcademicSky #SymbioSky 1/4

Looks like OpenFold3 has been formally released in a public "preview". Not quite on parity with AlphaFold3 on a few benchmarks shown, in particular for antibody interactions. All info on the github link. I am sure we will hear more about this from the developers github.com/aqlaboratory...

For over 20 years, the mouse model organism has helped scientists uncover the biology behind human health and disease. But the mouse reference genomes still have missing pieces. The first collection of telomere-to-telomere mouse genomes are now available for two key mouse strains. 🧬💻

Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Folks whose jobs, postdocs or grad school fellowships or applications were cut short--drop them a line

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

LMB PhD studentship available in the Baum lab to use informatics to infer cell structure from genomic data in collaboration with the brilliant Tom Williams. If you write to me and I don’t reply - try again - the spam filter is hungry…

The #EDS has the pleasure to announce that, after #EDRC2027 in Bonn, we will have #EDRC2029 in Szeged! Don’t forget these hashtags!