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Group at MRC HGU using genetics, cell biology and lots of imaging to unlock the mysteries of mammalian #cilia. #cilia. #centrioles #cytoskeleton #RareDisease www.cilialab.co.uk
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Today at 17:00 CET - the first #MembraneTrafficking seminar of 2026.
Giovanni D’Angelo (EPFL) and Sean Munro (MRC-LMB), explore protein trafficking, retention, and sorting at the Golgi.
Join us for exciting discussions about the best organelle!
Details at felixcampelo.wixsite.com/membranetraf...
Giovanni D’Angelo (EPFL) and Sean Munro (MRC-LMB), explore protein trafficking, retention, and sorting at the Golgi.
Join us for exciting discussions about the best organelle!
Details at felixcampelo.wixsite.com/membranetraf...
MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING | Membrane Trafficking
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January 29, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Today at 17:00 CET - the first #MembraneTrafficking seminar of 2026.
Giovanni D’Angelo (EPFL) and Sean Munro (MRC-LMB), explore protein trafficking, retention, and sorting at the Golgi.
Join us for exciting discussions about the best organelle!
Details at felixcampelo.wixsite.com/membranetraf...
Giovanni D’Angelo (EPFL) and Sean Munro (MRC-LMB), explore protein trafficking, retention, and sorting at the Golgi.
Join us for exciting discussions about the best organelle!
Details at felixcampelo.wixsite.com/membranetraf...
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We're hiring! JCS is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves cell biology and wants to stay connected with the field (and be part of an organisation that believes in supporting the community).
www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
Work for us
Working for us We’re always looking for talented and motivated people to work as part of our close-knit team. Roles range from editorial to production, marketing to event co-ordination, HR to accounts...
www.biologists.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:08 PM
We're hiring! JCS is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves cell biology and wants to stay connected with the field (and be part of an organisation that believes in supporting the community).
www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
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IFT imaging in trypanosomes was made possible thanks to Spencer and his team who trained Johanna Buisson and many others, for example for FRAP development
See @jcellsci.bsky.social for more videos
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
See @jcellsci.bsky.social for more videos
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
January 29, 2026 at 7:52 AM
IFT imaging in trypanosomes was made possible thanks to Spencer and his team who trained Johanna Buisson and many others, for example for FRAP development
See @jcellsci.bsky.social for more videos
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
See @jcellsci.bsky.social for more videos
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
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Science and Technology Facilities Council seeking £162m in cuts by 29-30, with existing research projects facing axe, @resprofnews.bsky.social reveals.
Backdrop is wider funding shift at UKRI.
Big story from @francesjones.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Backdrop is wider funding shift at UKRI.
Big story from @francesjones.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UK physics research and science facilities face ‘substantial’ cuts - Research Professional News
Exclusive: Science and Technology Facilities Council seeks £162m cost savings, with existing projects facing axe
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Science and Technology Facilities Council seeking £162m in cuts by 29-30, with existing research projects facing axe, @resprofnews.bsky.social reveals.
Backdrop is wider funding shift at UKRI.
Big story from @francesjones.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Backdrop is wider funding shift at UKRI.
Big story from @francesjones.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🧪✊🔬
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC.
We're mobilizing the fight for science and democracy. In the face of assaults on our families, freedoms, and futures, we're taking back science!
Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (linked in bio)
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC.
We're mobilizing the fight for science and democracy. In the face of assaults on our families, freedoms, and futures, we're taking back science!
Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (linked in bio)
January 28, 2026 at 5:03 PM
RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🧪✊🔬
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC.
We're mobilizing the fight for science and democracy. In the face of assaults on our families, freedoms, and futures, we're taking back science!
Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (linked in bio)
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC.
We're mobilizing the fight for science and democracy. In the face of assaults on our families, freedoms, and futures, we're taking back science!
Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (linked in bio)
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We tested 25 classes of neurons using neuron-specific ablations + mutants (huge thanks to the C. elegans community for sharing so many strains!) and found H2O2 avoidance requires not only many nose sensory neurons (amphid/labial) but also several sensory neurons in the pharynx, the feeding organ. 4/
January 28, 2026 at 5:44 PM
We tested 25 classes of neurons using neuron-specific ablations + mutants (huge thanks to the C. elegans community for sharing so many strains!) and found H2O2 avoidance requires not only many nose sensory neurons (amphid/labial) but also several sensory neurons in the pharynx, the feeding organ. 4/
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We set out to identify which neurons are required for chemotactic avoidance of hydrogen peroxide.
Our first surprise was that cilium structure mutants (with strong defects in chemosensation) reduced but did not abolish H2O2 avoidance.
How did the worms retain some of the avoidance behavior? 3/
Our first surprise was that cilium structure mutants (with strong defects in chemosensation) reduced but did not abolish H2O2 avoidance.
How did the worms retain some of the avoidance behavior? 3/
January 28, 2026 at 5:27 PM
We set out to identify which neurons are required for chemotactic avoidance of hydrogen peroxide.
Our first surprise was that cilium structure mutants (with strong defects in chemosensation) reduced but did not abolish H2O2 avoidance.
How did the worms retain some of the avoidance behavior? 3/
Our first surprise was that cilium structure mutants (with strong defects in chemosensation) reduced but did not abolish H2O2 avoidance.
How did the worms retain some of the avoidance behavior? 3/
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Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint!
Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago.
How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thread 1/
Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago.
How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thread 1/
January 28, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint!
Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago.
How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thread 1/
Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago.
How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thread 1/
'We have become familiar with videos of people we do not know getting detained & ripped from families and beaten by agents whose salaries we pay. As social media does its work putting pieces together about each unfolding tragedy, more of us will realize that those pieces belong to someone we know' 🥹
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:07 PM
'We have become familiar with videos of people we do not know getting detained & ripped from families and beaten by agents whose salaries we pay. As social media does its work putting pieces together about each unfolding tragedy, more of us will realize that those pieces belong to someone we know' 🥹
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"WK: NIH is a little tricky now. You don’t know who’s running it. It’s hard to trust what’s coming down from on top.".... "It’s pretty clear to everybody in NIH that the executive branch may not value what we do."
thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
‘Peer review is our strength’: Q&A with Walter Koroshetz, former NINDS director
In his first week off the job, the former National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke director urges U.S. scientists to remain optimistic about the future of neuroscience research…
thetransmitter.org
January 27, 2026 at 9:23 PM
"WK: NIH is a little tricky now. You don’t know who’s running it. It’s hard to trust what’s coming down from on top.".... "It’s pretty clear to everybody in NIH that the executive branch may not value what we do."
thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
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Just talked with a staffer of my NJ congressman Frank Pallone. I thanked him for voting against the DHS spending bill & asked to endorse impeachment of Kristi Noem
Next, calling my senators @booker.senate.gov & @kim.senate.gov
Please call your representative & make your voice heard
5calls.org
Next, calling my senators @booker.senate.gov & @kim.senate.gov
Please call your representative & make your voice heard
5calls.org
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
January 26, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Just talked with a staffer of my NJ congressman Frank Pallone. I thanked him for voting against the DHS spending bill & asked to endorse impeachment of Kristi Noem
Next, calling my senators @booker.senate.gov & @kim.senate.gov
Please call your representative & make your voice heard
5calls.org
Next, calling my senators @booker.senate.gov & @kim.senate.gov
Please call your representative & make your voice heard
5calls.org
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Latest work from the lab by Aude Nommick et al., in which we propose a "size-scaling" model for microtubule force exertion that regulates centrosome centration vs decentration during embryo development!
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 26, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Latest work from the lab by Aude Nommick et al., in which we propose a "size-scaling" model for microtubule force exertion that regulates centrosome centration vs decentration during embryo development!
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 26, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
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Excited to share our latest work on dissecting the mechanism of processive telomeric DNA synthesis by telomerase. Led by amazing PhD student Sebastian Balch in collaboration with lab members,@automnenine.bsky.social @rachael-kretsch.bsky.social,@rdaslab.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Structures of nucleotide-bound human telomerase at several steps of its telomeric DNA repeat addition cycle - Nature Communications
To maintain genome stability, the specialised reverse transcriptase telomerase processively adds telomeric DNA repeats to chromosome ends. Here the authors reported structures of human telomerase at t...
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Excited to share our latest work on dissecting the mechanism of processive telomeric DNA synthesis by telomerase. Led by amazing PhD student Sebastian Balch in collaboration with lab members,@automnenine.bsky.social @rachael-kretsch.bsky.social,@rdaslab.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
January 23, 2026 at 6:41 AM
📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
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Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review
Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...
journals.plos.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Villeneuve, C., McCreery, K. P., & Wickström, S. A. (2025). Measuring and manipulating mechanical forces during development. Nature cell biology, 27(4), 575–590. #EpithelialMechanicsReview
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January 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Villeneuve, C., McCreery, K. P., & Wickström, S. A. (2025). Measuring and manipulating mechanical forces during development. Nature cell biology, 27(4), 575–590. #EpithelialMechanicsReview
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As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.
January 21, 2026 at 8:59 PM
As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.
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We are recruiting a Postdoc in computational biology, together with @mariasecrier.bsky.social
4yr, fully funded by @cancerresearchuk.org, ideal for Postdocs wanting to develop their independence
Applications open now: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
4yr, fully funded by @cancerresearchuk.org, ideal for Postdocs wanting to develop their independence
Applications open now: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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January 21, 2026 at 12:58 PM
We are recruiting a Postdoc in computational biology, together with @mariasecrier.bsky.social
4yr, fully funded by @cancerresearchuk.org, ideal for Postdocs wanting to develop their independence
Applications open now: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
4yr, fully funded by @cancerresearchuk.org, ideal for Postdocs wanting to develop their independence
Applications open now: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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This from Carney is a version of the “progressive realism” that David Lammy and his adviser Ben Judah championed at the Foreign Office but that Starmer never embraced as his own. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 AM
This from Carney is a version of the “progressive realism” that David Lammy and his adviser Ben Judah championed at the Foreign Office but that Starmer never embraced as his own. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”
As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:56 PM
“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”
As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
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UKRI pauses several funding calls amid priorities shake-up
The applicant-led MRC funding calls on pause include research grants, partnership grants and new investigator research grants made available through the council’s research boards.
www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...
The applicant-led MRC funding calls on pause include research grants, partnership grants and new investigator research grants made available through the council’s research boards.
www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...
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January 19, 2026 at 5:24 PM
UKRI pauses several funding calls amid priorities shake-up
The applicant-led MRC funding calls on pause include research grants, partnership grants and new investigator research grants made available through the council’s research boards.
www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...
The applicant-led MRC funding calls on pause include research grants, partnership grants and new investigator research grants made available through the council’s research boards.
www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...
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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social
We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social
Laboratory Engineer (Senior), in Advanced Imaging, 1.5.2026-31.12.2028
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January 15, 2026 at 2:04 PM
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social
We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social
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Happy New Year all. I know it's been a draining and difficult year for science in general, but wanted to share some good news: our intrabody paper has now been published in Science Advances with lots of additional data.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
AI-assisted protein design to rapidly convert antibody sequences to intrabodies targeting diverse peptides and histone modifications
AI-powered pipeline converts antibodies into functional intrabodies, enabling live-cell imaging of peptides and histone marks.
www.science.org
January 19, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Happy New Year all. I know it's been a draining and difficult year for science in general, but wanted to share some good news: our intrabody paper has now been published in Science Advances with lots of additional data.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...