Franck Pichaud
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Cell & Developmental Biologist
#cellbiology
#developmentalbiology
#imaging
#genetics
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Carl Zimmer
1 day ago
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)
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Stefan Luschnig
2 days ago
New preprint
@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social
by Harshath Amal and colleagues from our lab
@uni-muenster.de
shows how a BMP
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gradient is translated into graded junctional permeability by tuning adhesion and actomyosin contractility in
#Drosophila
See
tinyurl.com/yhbwd9xh
@sfb1348.bsky.social
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Bertrand Benazeraf
3 days ago
Group Leader Call at the
@cbitoulouse.bsky.social
in Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :)
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https://cbi-toulouse.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/AO_CBI_2026.pdf
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Very interesting study from the Schweisguth lab - Pulsatile dynamics propagate crystalline order in the developing Drosophila eye: Developmental Cell
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Pulsatile dynamics propagate crystalline order in the developing Drosophila eye
Couturier et al. show that the development of regular rows of light-receiving units in the Drosophila eye is accompanied by pulses of proneural gene expression and Notch signaling activity. Pattern pr...
https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807%2825%2900637-9
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Relaunch of our London Fly Meeting - whole afternoon of amazing science @ucl
@lmcb-ucl.bsky.social
sponsored by
@gensocuk.bsky.social
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Brand new UCL entrance rehearsing for the UCL200 celebration!
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Matthew Freeman
15 days ago
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...
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UK’s £8bn research fund faces “hard decisions” as it pauses new grants
UKRI boss Ian Chapman said it had been told by the government to
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e50x1r237o
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Matthew Freeman
16 days ago
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...
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Great 20k run today — one of my all-time favourite spots!
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Words to live by!
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Great visit at UBC- impressive student facilities on campus!
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Entered 🇩🇰 airspace!
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Mike Fainzilber
about 1 month ago
The great “enshittification” 🧪
theconversation.com/the-5-stages...
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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
https://theconversation.com/the-5-stages-of-the-enshittification-of-academic-publishing-269714?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm_source=theconversation.com
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Galette des rois
@lmcb-ucl.bsky.social
, courtesy of
@joadelas.bsky.social
👑
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Guillaume Charras
2 months ago
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
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Robert Insall
2 months ago
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.
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Matthew Freeman
2 months ago
Breaking... Very good news. A first step towards...?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/uk-to-rejoin-eu-erasmus-student-exchange-programme
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Denis Wirtz
2 months ago
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-...
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It is the most luminous time of the year !
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European Research Council (ERC)
2 months ago
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/...
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Six new members of the ERC Scientific Council
The European Commission has appointed six new members to the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council. The term of one current member has also been renewed. In par...
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/six-new-members-erc-scientific-council-2025
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Itai Yanai
3 months ago
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
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Marc Somssich
3 months ago
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
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Head of Cell Biology KWS Vegetables
Head of Cell Biology KWS Vegetables
https://jobs.kws.com/job/Wageningen-Head-of-Cell-Biology-KWS-Vegetables-GE/1271269501/
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Mark A. Hanson
3 months ago
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
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Pedro Beltrao
4 months ago
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...
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GitHub - aqlaboratory/openfold-3: OpenFold3: A fully open source biomolecular structure prediction model based on AlphaFold3
OpenFold3: A fully open source biomolecular structure prediction model based on AlphaFold3 - aqlaboratory/openfold-3
https://github.com/aqlaboratory/openfold-3
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EMBL-EBI
4 months ago
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. 🧬💻
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine
mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03432-7
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Ian Weissman, DO
4 months ago
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...
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How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment
Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/lego-mri-scanner-anxiety-sedation-children.html
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Drosophila Spain
4 months ago
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
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
4 months ago
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...
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
4 months ago
Folks whose jobs, postdocs or grad school fellowships or applications were cut short--drop them a line
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Barack Obama
4 months ago
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
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Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/10/world/nobel-peace-prize
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Buzz Baum
5 months ago
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…
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European Drosophila Society
5 months ago
The
#EDS
has the pleasure to announce that, after
#EDRC2027
in Bonn, we will have
#EDRC2029
in Szeged! Don’t forget these hashtags!
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Denis Wirtz
5 months ago
This work was done by an amazing team of PhD students, undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and wonderful colleagues at Hopkins, Yale (Rong Fan, Xiaoyu Qin, and Mei Zhong), UCSD (Lingyan Shi and Yajuan Li), the Max Planck Institute (David Zwicker), and U. Florida (Mark Atkinson and team).
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John Ngo
5 months ago
🚀 Our new paper is out
@natmethods.nature.com
! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬
www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
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Matthew Freeman
5 months ago
Another exciting opportunity
@dunnschool.bsky.social
! Come and be a colleague to a great group of scientists working on the fundamental mechanisms underlying disease, and how to transform health Please help us find great applicants
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Matthew Freeman
6 months ago
Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab
@dunnschool.bsky.social
by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 30th September...pass it on!
www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...
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Group Leader Career Development Fellowships - Dunn School
Are you an early career researcher interested in the cell or molecular mechanisms underlying disease? Do you have an outstanding record and an innovative research plan?
https://www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us/career-development-fellowships/
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Daniel Durocher
6 months ago
JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at
@sinaihealth.bsky.social
. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Katja Röper
6 months ago
Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab
@cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social
@pdncambridge.bsky.social
and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
6 months ago
The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community,
@flybase.bsky.social
, is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
6 months ago
if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom,
@skypeascientist.bsky.social
brings scientists to your class. Sign up at:
www.skypeascientist.com
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Kevin Mitchell
6 months ago
Last chance to apply for this tenure track position in Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! Come join us!
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Denis Wirtz
6 months ago
Download our database of POSTDOC fellowships for cancer research/oncology in the US. We found 46 different fellowships. For each entry, we provide link, description, deadline, amount, eligibility criteria. Good luck! Here:
research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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6 months ago
🔎 Spotted in
@natcomms.nature.com
! Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology used 7 of DSHB's mAbs in a study on how younger gut cells can slow intestinal aging and extend lifespan in fruit flies.
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The Transmitter
6 months ago
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By
@claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
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Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/community/harvard-university-lays-off-fly-database-team/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250813-harvard-lays-offs-fly-database
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Today’s hike: deadman’s bay path. Beautiful but very technical!
6 months ago
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Cape spear to Maddox cove, and back - Amazing- challenging, but worth it !
#Newfoundland
7 months ago
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Pierre Vanderhaeghen
7 months ago
Beautiful and inspiring work from Gero Miesenböck and colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature
Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09261-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202507
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Mill_lab
7 months ago
Peak
#SummerFun
- our amazing line-up for our 52nd
@bscb-official.bsky.social
@gensocuk.bsky.social
@ukcilianetwork.bsky.social
e-symposium 19/08/2025 15:00-17:45 is now live! Join us for all things
#cilia
&
#centrosomes
- free & open to all. Register for here-
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1220921258...
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BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series
BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/122092125835?aff=oddtdtcreator
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