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Aarushi
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Neuroscience/Stem Cell PhD student 🧠 👩🏽‍🔬 @grocottlab.bsky.social
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Virtual Events Officer @womeninneurouk.bsky.social

Alumni @blizardinstitute.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
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The power of the media: core culture conditions direct gastruloid development

This Research Highlight showcases the work from Tina Balayo, André Dias @dias-andre.bsky.social, David Turner @gastruloids.bsky.social and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
NDiff227 gastruloids display a developmental delay in comparison to HM-N2B27 gastruloids. (A) Quantitative analysis of the roundness (perimeter2/4π×area⁠) of gastruloids cultured in either HM-N2B27 or NDiff227 showed that HM-N2B27 gastruloids are significantly less ‘Round’ than their NDiff227 counterparts at 96 h [unpaired two-tailed t-test; t(4)=−4.9541, P=0.008]. Each datapoint is the average roundness of an independent replicate experiment containing between ∼40 and 90 individual gastruloids (see Fig. S4B). (B) The frequency of morphologies from the data in A, with examples of gastruloids that would fall in each category (bottom; the left 'Protrusions' image is also shown in Fig. S4). (C) Light-sheet representative images (maximum projection images) highlighting the expression patterns of Cdh1 (magenta) and Cdh2 (cyan) between HM-N2B27 gastruloids at 96 h and NDiff227 gastruloids at 90 h and 96 h. Gastruloids developed in HM-N2B27 have upregulated Cdh2 by 90 h, unlike NDiff227 gastruloids, which show enhanced Cdh2 only at 96 h. Scale bars: 100 μm. (Ci) Qualitative analysis of the average expression pattern of Cdh2 (N-cadherin). The expression patterns were grouped into two categories (phenotypes I and II) and represent the average of three independent replicate experiments, each containing at least seven individual gastruloids per condition. Examples of the two categories are shown below. The leftmost example for ‘Phenotype I’ is shown in the middle row of 90 h HM-N2B27 (Cdh2) in C. For the box and whisker plot, the central line in the box is the median, the lower edge of the box is the first quartile, the upper edge of the box is the third quartile, and the box height is the IQR. The lower and upper whiskers indicate the smallest datapoint within 1.5xIQR below Q1 or above Q3, respectively.
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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acmedsci.bsky.social
Pleased to announce our new five-year strategic partnership with @wellcometrust.bsky.social ✨

The agreement, worth over £27m, will boost support for biomedical and health researchers across the UK and address key challenges facing the research workforce.

Explore the details: bit.ly/481qgn5
Professor Andrew Morris, Academy President, next to a quote that reads: "This five-year agreement with Wellcome is about building a workforce that can turn scientific discoveries into better patient care." Professor Rachel McKendry, Executive Director of Discovery at Wellcome Trust, next to a quote that reads: "This renewed commitment will provide future leaders in health and biomedical research the opportunities to develop skills through every stage of their careers."
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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juliet-turner.bsky.social
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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womeninneurouk.bsky.social
🌞You can survive your PhD write-up without becoming a recluse.

Here’s how @becky-pope.bsky.social managed to stay motivated, keep her weekends, and hand in a thesis she’s proud of🎉

www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/how-to-...

#PhD #ThesisWriting #Advice #WomenInSTEM #EarlyCareerResearcher
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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mads100tist.bsky.social
"Postdoc in the job market"
A headline: Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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alicegodden.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint alert!
Our latest work from @immler.bsky.social lab 🐟🧬

Sex-specific responses of small RNAs and transposable elements to thermal stress in zebrafish germ cells

#TESky #TE #piRNA #miRNA #zebrafish #DanioDigest
🔗 Read here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sex-specific responses of small RNAs and transposable elements to thermal stress in zebrafish germ cells
Environmental fluctuations influence heritable phenotypes through complex molecular mechanisms. In zebrafish (Danio rerio), the interplay between temperature variation, transposable element (TE) activ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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fens.org
🚨 Big news for the neuroscience community!

The Call for Abstracts, Travel Grants and Registrations for #FENS2026 is officially open! 🧠

👉 Register and submit your work today: https://loom.ly/usQR0ao
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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uclbrainscience.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Rachel Honeyghan-Williams (@sciwithrach.bsky.social) on receiving the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social award for Neuroscience Communicator of the Year 2025!
We've loved working with Rachel this year. Check out some of the content we've made together below: 👇
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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houartlab.bsky.social
How does foxg1 impact pineal gland development? What are the implications for FOXG1 syndrome?

Lewis Hill, masters student, investigates this in #zebrafish. His image shows in-situ HCR + immuno in foxg1,Gal4;UAS,GFP zebrafish at 24hpf revealing foxg1 mRNA/protein with pineal markers aanat2 & exorh.
July 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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crick.ac.uk
This image shows a mass of human stem cells, collectively known as an ‘organoid’.

We stained the neural crest cells of this organoid to better understand diseases related to defects in their development, such as Hirschsprung's disease and Neuroblastoma.

Image credit: @carmenmorenogon.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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manavpathania.bsky.social
Please share or forward to anyone interested in joining our lab for a postdoc, details can be found via the link below

shorturl.at/GMbW0
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November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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jonathanstea.bsky.social
Measles vaccination averted more than 60 million deaths between 2000 and 2023.

In 2023, there were an estimated 107 500 measles deaths globally, mostly among unvaccinated or under vaccinated children under the age of 5 years.

www.who.int/news-room/fa...
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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stemcellpodcast.com
We're very excited to welcome Dr. @sumrubayin.bsky.social from the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social onto the next episode of the podcast! 🎉

Her lab studies the mouse #cerebellum to better understand the regulation of #neural stem cell behavior. 🧠
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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jung-sillah.bsky.social
Ok, that's wild! Space grown human brain organoids! "The team co-cultured mature neurons and astrocytes on the ISS, and within 72 hours, the cells self-assembled into 3D brain organoids—a feat not possible on Earth"
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Space-Grown Brain Organoids Help Advance New Neurological Treatment
Did you know some viruses don’t cause illness and can instead be used to treat disease?
issnationallab.org
November 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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meadekrosby.bsky.social
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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womeninneurouk.bsky.social
⭐ Congratulations to Dishaa Sinha (@ox.ac.uk) — winner of the Research Support award at the #WiNUKAwards2025!

Dishaa led setup of 27 UK research sites for the FAST Brain Health study, managed genetic and actigraphy data collection in the Great Minds cohort and provided community outreach.
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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britishneuro.bsky.social
"The UK cannot become a science superpower unless it exploits the full range of talent that we have" - @nramnani.bsky.social

We are now welcoming applications to our BNA Scholars Programme.

🔗 Find out more and apply: www.bna.org.uk/policy-advoc...

#BNAScholars #DiversityInSTEM #Mentorship
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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gocastelobranco.bsky.social
Our latest collaboration with @rongfan8.bsky.social, spatial triomics to investigate myelin and cortical brain development, and demyelination, spearheaded by Leslie Kirby in our lab @ki.se and Di Zhang in Rong's lab! Check it out @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spatial dynamics of brain development and neuroinflammation - Nature
A tri-omic atlas of the mouse brain from postnatal day 0 to P21 reveals that layer-specific projection neurons have a role in coordinating axonogenesis and myelination.
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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mag2art.bsky.social
An iPSC-derived heart muscle cell assembling sarcomeres videoed through a spinning disk confocal microscope by Burnette Lab graduate student, Emma Koory. Alpha-actinin-2 is shown. Colors denote Z slices (red-bottom; green-middle; blue-top). Movie length- 40 hours.
November 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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manavpathania.bsky.social
The Pathania lab will be moving to the Ludwig Institute in Oxford in early 2026. We'll be recruiting postdocs and research assistants soon, so keep an eye out for those job ads and reach out if you want to find out more about the science we have planned!

shorturl.at/thpyK
Ludwig Oxford welcomes Dr Manav Pathania
Ludwig Oxford is delighted to welcome Dr Manav Pathania as an Assistant Member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford Branch.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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the-node.bsky.social
Want to catch up on all the #DevBio, #StemCell (& related) preprints that came out in September?

Check out our September #preprint list👇
thenode.biologists.com/september-in...
September in preprints - the Node
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv – use these
thenode.biologists.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
aarushivaidya.bsky.social
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womeninneurouk.bsky.social Women in Neuroscience UK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 24d
Highlights from the UK Stem Cell Network – Inaugural Meeting @manchester.ac.uk blog post from @aarushivaidya.bsky.social. She enjoyed presenting her poster and learning from the inspirational talks. @grocottlab.bsky.social @lscn.bsky.social #UKSCN2025 #StemCellResearch #iPSC
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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womeninneurouk.bsky.social
Highlights from the UK Stem Cell Network – Inaugural Meeting @manchester.ac.uk blog post from @aarushivaidya.bsky.social. She enjoyed presenting her poster and learning from the inspirational talks. @grocottlab.bsky.social @lscn.bsky.social #UKSCN2025 #StemCellResearch #iPSC
November 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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sangerinstitute.bsky.social
PhD Applications now open! Join a world-class community training the next generation of genome scientists and clinicians.

Apply now 👉 lnkd.in/g_JfNuFE

📅 Closes 27 Nov 2025
#ScienceCareers
October 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM