C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

Interested in morphogens and how they can robustly specifiy different cell types with single-cell resolution? Check out this preprint combining experiments and modelling by our colleagues and partners in crime @ucl-cdb.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

That feeling when you wake up and realize that the POTUS "disparaged renewable energy sources and challenged the scientific consensus on climate change"

🔔 Applications are open for the #FKNE Online Training Series for New PIs in Europe! Launching 11 November 2025, this 6-week course helps new PIs in Europe strengthen leadership, communication and lab management skills. 🧠 🗓️ Deadline: 15 October 2025 Apply now 👉 https://loom.ly/Ceus8Ys

The #FKNE Leadership Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Application deadline: 15 Oct. 2025 fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders... @fens.org

Very excited to share an excellent review from @teresa-urli.bsky.social, published one week before her PhD defense! We did a deep dive into the fascinating biology of the variant Polycomb complex, PRC1.6 (1/5) journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

In Greece, the words "antifascist" and "in solidarity" are used as an insult by a large fraction of the population and that's all you need to know about contemporary Greece

That's not possible - at some point nature (not the journal) has to read some textbooks and stick to them...

🧠🦈Excited to present our latest work🧠🦈Interested in brain evolution? And shark embryos? Then read on… Our work sheds light on the deep origins of our brain’s most complex regions.

At long last, the version of record of our paper on the #platynereis #connectome "Whole-body connectome of a segmented annelid larva" is out. Explore the rich online presentation with all the videos, figures and source data here: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97964 @eLife @biology […]

At FKNE @fkne-scholars.bsky.social we believe in community empowerment and skill building. The registration for the Leadership and Soft Skill Training Series for the starting PIs is now open (deadline October 15)! Apply and network! 💪🏻

Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns? To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠 #preprint thread ⬇️1/8

New preprint, taking our lab into ecotoxicology, with a nifty combination of experimental evolution and CRISPR screening in cells, to help unravel the still-mysterious resistance of Drosophila sechellia to its favorite fruit: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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...

Stop killing children Stop killing civilians

Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6

Looking for motivated postdoctoral researcher to join us! Research on neuronal & glial cell mechanisms of circuit formation. Approaches: advanced quantitative imaging, cell, molecular biology, circuit manipulation, cross-species study. Info link in comment, deadline 8th Sept.

It is with infinite sadness that we learned of the passing of Clarisse Orniacki. She joined @vdoye.bsky.social lab and defended her thesis in December 2022 and pursued her career with a postdoc in‬ @tedfon.bsky.social at McGill University in Montreal . Tribute 🔗 www.ijm.fr/tribute-to-c...

A brilliant greek composer, Manos Hadjidakis, once said "When you get used to the monster, you start to resemble it". Gazans are still being starved.

Excited to share that the lab will be supported by #Atip-Avenir and @cnrs.fr! Huge thanks to @ibdm.bsky.social and @neuromarseille.bsky.social, and to my mentors past and present. Students & postdocs: stay tuned, positions will open soon!
On the menu: axons, gene regulation, live imaging and more 🧠🔬

#jobAlert We are hiring! If you like #imaging ,gene regulation and a dynamic group please apply. We are looking for a research assistant with a master degree and prior experience in academia.

🆕🧪‼️ New lab preprint! We study how germ cells (the cells that give rise to gametes, in this case sperm) are supported by somatic (non-germ) cells of the gonad. This matters for our understanding of reproduction - without germ cell development, animals are sterile. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very happy to share this preprint from the lab led by @cmiehl.bsky.social, Sebastian and Maurycy on how to flexibly learn with nonlinear dendrites and inhibitory context-dependent gating, putting biological detail in ANNs. Check out Christoph's post below for a preview or the paper for more details!

I posit that it should NOT be retracted! Reading this paper as a young PhD student was very influential to my career. I said to myself that whatever happens in the future, I cannot be THAT wrong, so I should go on and become a scientist.

Gazans are being murdered in the worst possible way, while the world is watching. When I first visited a WW2 concentration camp, I could not comprehend how people living next to it could continue their lives as if nothing is happening. I am slowly getting there. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

📢 We are recruiting! Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies. Please share and RT 🙏

With partners @imbb-forth.bsky.social Delidakis lab @vassotheodorou.bsky.social and Lavigne lab, @irbbarcelona.org Bioinformatics, @nkonst4.bsky.social @igbmc.bsky.social Giagrande and Cattenoz lab and our hosts @mannerviklab.bsky.social

How long is the world going to allow this horror to go on?

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

We finally know that international law does not exist. ICC, UN were paper tigers, theatrical stages that powerful countries used to justify their actions as convenient. They got dropped, humiliated, attacked, as soon as tables turned. There is no justice without enforcement. No law without order.

στις ειδήσεις τα βλέπεις και τρως 🍉

It is time to appreciate our sponsors for making the last #Drosophila JEDI meeting possible! Thank you! @fly-eds.bsky.social ‪ @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social

🎉 Thrilled to share our new paper in @narjournal.bsky.social! We uncover how the Hox TF Ultrabithorax controls alternative splicing to shape muscle patterning and homeotic identity 🧬 @igmm-montpel.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Moreover, on top of their brilliance and scientific excellence, Jacob and Monod embodied a broader ideal of integrity and courage compared to the, let’s say, controversial personality of Watson and Crick.

Calling all meeting organizers… @biologists.bsky.social now have a calculator to estimate your event’s carbon footprint and to test various reduction scenarios. thenode.biologists.com/event-carbon...

In our new preprint we describe the synaptic #connectome of the nerve net in the ctenophore gravisensory organ. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661250v1 #biology #neuroscience #ctenophore #vem

🎉 Congratulations to the #DiversityPrize Winner! 🏆 At the 2025 #FENS Regional Meeting in Oslo, Norway, @network-alba.bsky.social and the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence (#FKNE) awarded this year's Diversity Prize to Prof. Aikaterini Fotopoulou. 🧠 👉 https://loom.ly/dphSwoM#DiversityPrize#FENS#FKNE)#DiversityInSTEM

Hello world! So lucky to host the one and only @lboulan.bsky.social tomorrow - come for the science, stay for the experience! @igred.fr

🏃 Ce dimanche 15 juin, les membres de l'Institut Jacques Monod se sont mobilisés pour Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale en marchant et en courant à la Course des Héros ! 🎖️Félicitations à tous les participants ! @frm-officiel.bsky.social‬ ‪upcite.bsky.social‬ ‪cnrsbiologie.bsky.social‬

Check out our deep dive into the molecular genetics of male-specific cell type : the gorgeous UV-iridescent scales of Sulphur Butterflies by lab wizards 🦋🔬 🖥️ 🧬 Ling Sheng Loh @hanliconius.bsky.social and a big team 1/n

extremely happy to present the final version of our "smurf mice" paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..., led by Céline Cansell when she was a postdoc in my group (now an independent @inrae-france.bsky.social researcher). Disclaimer: no blue mice here alas BUT clearly a biphasic ageing process

This is a piece that I and @karsten-rippe.bsky.social discussing a lot, and a topic that is very close to my heart. The editors @naturerevgenet.bsky.social gave us the stage to do so, and the final version of our review is now available under this link: rdcu.be/erP1u A short thread follows 1/n

Ldb1 was discovered in flies as essential for long range enhancer-promoter (E-P) function, and subsequently for chromatin loops in mice & humans. Now with @babisgalouzis & Yacine - we find other roles for Ldb1, being essential for ZGA & recruitment of CBP to E & P pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40494353/

Happy that our preprint from early this year, uncovering the regulation a somatically "hot" endogenous retroelement locus, has now found its home in @narjournal.bsky.social. "TEsky" doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Ever wondered how a single ribosomal protein dictates cellular survival in competitive environments? Our research reveals that RpS12 marks cells as "losers" by inducing the short isoform of stress factor Xrp1. Special thanks to my incredible collaborators and friends. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We want to thank everyone who attended this year's #Drosophila JEDI meeting at Château du Feÿ! Three days of amazing talks, great ideas and chat at the camp fire. We are looking forward to meeting everyone again at the next meeting!

Interested in Long term potentiation? Come and join our symposium at @fens.org regional meeting at Oslo on 16 June. #FRM2025 #neuroscience www.frm2025oslo.no

Don't miss our scientific symposium in Oslo, Norway at #FRM2025 in less than 2 weeks! Already looking forward to all the fierce discussions!👩🏻‍🔬 @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fens.org @kavlifoundation.org @berlinualliance.bsky.social @embl.org

How do brain circuits evolve? We started looking for some answers by using synapse-resolution cross-species comparative connectomics on an entire olfactory circuit 👇 bit.ly/44aVm9E

"some bridges are better burned (...) We’re often told to keep every connection intact, especially in academia, where so much depends on reference letters and reputation. (...) But when a space becomes harmful (...) walking away is not failure. It is self-respect and self-preservation."