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Luis Javier Galindo @luisjagago.bsky.social · 19h

Our study on the first rhodopsin channels known to respond to UV light is now published in PNAS! And they come from our favourite protists, apusomonads! #protistonsky

www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 17h

During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 19h

In Paris, at @pasteur.fr #GastrulationReloaded organized primarily by @jeromegros.bsky.social (in picture). This will be FUN!

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 19h

Gastrulation Reloaded begins with @jeromegros.bsky.social talking about how this meeting came to be 🧪

Jerome standing in front of a projected slide. The slide shows the poster of the meeting, with the title GASTRULATION RELOADED.

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EMBL @embl.org · 23h

EMBL’s 2025 Kendrew alumni award recipient may know how to make fairy tales come true.

Irma Querques (@irmaquerques.bsky.social) repurposed the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ transposon as a genetic tool for new therapeutics, particularly against cancer.

www.embl.org/news/people-...

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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 1 week left to apply for the Pasteur-Paris University International PhD Program (PPU)!

Join an international community of scientists at the Institut Pasteur 🌍 Dedicated support, mentorship & world-class labs included.

📅Deadline: Oct 20, 2025
🎓Program start: October 2026

👉 Apply: bit.ly/CallPPU

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CharrierLab @brownalgaedev.bsky.social · 4d

📣 SBIS, a new vital fluorescent probe for live imaging of #brownalgae #kelp in 4D. Just published in J. Cell Science by the Charrier team at the @igflyon.bsky.social. Download PDF on our team webpage here ➡️ shorturl.at/H5A9p
with first author Marie Zilliox featured here ➡️ shorturl.at/AMMoH

Developping Fucus embryo labelled with the orange fluorescent probe SBIS (autofluorescent chloroplasts in red).

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d

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...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 2d

a man stands in front of a sign that says ' triathlon ' on it

Alt: Raoult eyeballing p-values

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Sigolène Meilhac @meilhacsigolene.bsky.social · 18d

New publication :
Despite being a core member of the PCP pathway, Vangl2 can play roles unrelated to planar polarity. This is the case during mouse heart morphogenesis.

bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · Sep 5

VANGL2 shapes the mouse heart tube from adjacent epithelia and without planar polarity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674213v1

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know how your weekend is going, but I had a nightmare in which I was collaborating with Didier Raoult, in case you needed a reminder that things could be worse

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 3d

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

Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 5d

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 3d

😁 that would be funny, although I guess the direct regulation of cell cycle genes (cyclins etc) by Yorkie is pretty well-established in Drosophila. Who knows, perhaps it's cell cycle *and* ECM

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · 5d

I might be in a lot of pain rn but on the bright side I finally got my hands on the Haeckel tee-shirt

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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 5d

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Lecture

📅 October 17th
📍 IJM

Next week, Bruno Lemaitre, will present the Institut Jacques Monod lecture « A retrospective analysis of 400 publications reveals patterns of irreproducibility across an entire life sciences research field »

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 10d

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to share the last version of our story @currentbiology.bsky.social on the role of interfacial tension in mechanical cell competition led by @leovalon.bsky.social and Alexis Matamoro Vidal
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Iana V. Kim @ianakim.bsky.social · 6d

Really grateful to see our work featured by @quantamagazine.bsky.social in this piece on the evolution of genome regulation. Huge thanks to @philipcball.bsky.social for such a beautifully written article.

Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 6d

I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous.
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...

Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

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Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to share that the lab has been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award to keep exploring the evolution of 6-methyladenine #6mA in Eukaryotes. We'll open postdoc (3️⃣) and tech (1️⃣) positions to start in 2026, please share with candidates or reach out if you’d like to join us.

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Sally Warring @sallywarring.bsky.social · 9d

A new preprint from us using a single-cell genome pipeline to investigate diversity of uncultured Bodo spp. flagellates.

We isolated 7 Bodo spp. cells from a single environmental sample and show that they represent 3 Bodo sp. each with a unique species of bacterial endosymbiont. #protistsonsky

Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts

Bodo is a cosmopolitan genus of free living bacterivorous single-celled flagellates in the class Kinetoplastea. Members of genus Bodo are considered the closest free-living relatives to the parasitic ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 7d

Pour chaque vie, la science agit.
Le Pasteurdon, c’est maintenant !
Soutenez la recherche et celles et ceux qui la font avancer ↘️ pasteurdon.fr
#Pasteurdon

Pour chaque vie, la science agit. Le Pasteurdon, c’est maintenant ! Soutenez la recherche et celles et ceux qui la font avancer. Faites un don sur pasteurdon.fr

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 7d

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EMBO @embo.org · 7d

Learn all things #cytoskeleton #research in an interdisciplinary environment at EMBO Workshop "Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton" in Paris, FR, 7–10 April 2026.

Deadline: 20 December 2025

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cytoskeleton
#EMBOCytoskeletalFunction #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton

The cytoskeleton, a dynamic and intricate network of protein filaments, is found within the cytoplasm of all cells, from bacteria and archaea to complex eukaryotes. This essential cellular component …

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EMBO @embo.org · 7d

Learn all things #cytoskeleton #research in an interdisciplinary environment at EMBO Workshop "Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton" in Paris, FR, 7–10 April 2026.

Deadline: 20 December 2025

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cytoskeleton
#EMBOCytoskeletalFunction #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton

The cytoskeleton, a dynamic and intricate network of protein filaments, is found within the cytoplasm of all cells, from bacteria and archaea to complex eukaryotes. This essential cellular component …

meetings.embo.org

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 7d

Great opportunity to do bioimage analysis in an exceptional environment!

Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 7d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
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Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

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