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Giulia Paci
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Physicist having a go at biology, EMBO postdoctoral fellow @UCL in the Mao group, @EMBL alumna
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Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️
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📢 Enhance your bioimage analysis skills - 2-day hands-on napari workshop.

Learn to:
- Set up conda envis install napari
- Navigate napari GUI install plugins
- Jupyter notebooks for basic IA
- Apply new skills to real datasets w expert guidance

📅 Apply by NOW!
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...
CBIAS napari workshop 2025
www.crick.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Incoming deadline - 7 November 2025

Apply for a @jcellsci.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social Training Grant to support your attendance at a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course.

Open to ECRs in #cellbio. For more info: www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Very excited to share an advert for a new lecturer position in Computational Cancer at UCL! Permanent position at assistant professor level- join a growing community at UCL in a cutting edge discipline.

Please share widely!

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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🚨 Come join us @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a PhD on the evolution and development of feathers and flight! 🐣🔬

This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Save the date! The Open Software Summer School returns August 17-28 2026 in London, U.K.

There will be four separate tracks on animal behaviour, extracellular electrophysiology, anatomy and handling large data.

Applications open Dec 1st.

More details:
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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📢 Fully-funded 4-year MRC DiMeN PhD opportunity in our lab.

🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer

👇Apply by 4th Dec

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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I’ll be speaking about the mechanical development of crocodile and tortoise head scales next Wednesday at 4pm for the @tlmcambridge.bsky.social seminar series. Subscribe to the mailing list to hear more about my work, and that of @maltemederacke.bsky.social!

lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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🪰 folks! I spoke to the Transmitter about FlyBase. As noted at flybase.org, bridge $ ran out and many staff were laid off.

Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2

tinyurl.com/FlyBase
FlyBase secures funding for year, but future still uncertain
The FlyBase team’s fundraising efforts have proven successful in the short term, but restoration of its federal grant remains uncertain.
tinyurl.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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So looking forward to this. Please sign up!!
I am very excited to announce the opening of the submission site for the upcoming Conférences Jacques Monod on Developmental Biology, May 18-22, 2026 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Deadline approaching for the EMBO meeting "Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila" 21 – 27 June 2026.
Both new and established PIs welcome.
Apply by Nov 3rd!
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...
Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila
The principal theme of the EMBO Workshop is the Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila. Supported by EMBO over four decades, this will be the 24th biennial “Crete meeting”. With the a…
meetings.embo.org
October 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social

We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
🧵👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcoding
The formation of neural circuits depends on the precise spatial and temporal organisation of neuronal populations during development. In the vertebrate spinal cord, progenitors are patterned into mole...
www.biorxiv.org
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Are you interested in mechanics in biology? Ever wondered how to measure them in 3D & high-resolution? Come and learn all about the emerging field of Brillouin microscopy! Our Course will teach the necessary background & expose you through hands-on practicals. Deadline Nov. 3rd. Apply now!
Have you applied for #EMBLBrillouin yet? 🔬

📅 9 – 13 Feb 2026
👉 s.embl.org/brm26-01-bl

✅ Introduction to BM and state-of-the-art applications
✅ Hands-on training with real setups
✅ Guidance on project design, data analysis, and visualisation
✅ Skills to interpret and apply BM in your own research
Brillouin microscopy for life science applications
s.embl.org
October 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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A month to go! Will you be at #CBIAS2025?

The program is almost ready, and we look forward to welcoming you in London to discuss all things #BioImageAnalysis, from tool development, to biomedical applications and community building.

Register now! 🔗⬇️

www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025
www.crick.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting!

Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!

bsdb.org/meetings/

March 23-26, 2026 - UK
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Want to automate workflows in #FIJI?
Don't know where to start?
We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started.

Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding!

imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...
Batch Processing with the ImageJ Macro Language
The ImageJ wiki is a community-edited knowledge base on topics relating to ImageJ, a public domain program for processing and analyzing scientific images, and its ecosystem of derivatives and variants...
imagej.github.io
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Exciting News! 🥳 Our Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club website is now live! 🎉
👉 epithelialmechanics.github.io

Discover our #EpithelialMechanics threads and get to know our amazing delegates behind them.
Would you like to share your story? Please DM us!
🎉🎉 We finally have a website! 🎉🎉

Did you miss a thread?
Want to know who our delegates are?
Do you want to join our big club?
Check it out:
epithelialmechanics.github.io

Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!
Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club
epithelialmechanics.github.io
October 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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mStayRose is published in JBC 🥳🎉

Congratulations @wsctt.bsky.social @sporemohan.bsky.social and team for the monumental effort to make a non-natural amino acid incorporating fluorescent protein accessible. It's based on mStayGold, bright, and photostable:

www.jbc.org/article/S002...
StayRose: a photostable StayGold derivative red-shifted by genetic code expansion
Photobleaching of fluorescent proteins often limits the acquisition of high-quality images in microscopy. StayGold, a novel dimeric green fluorescent protein recently monomerised through sequence engi...
www.jbc.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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If you ever used napari in your research, take a moment to read this.
Napari, like many other resources in the bioimaging world, is freely available despite the fact that it costs many people much time and efforts to develop and maintain it.
Now you get a chance to give back, don't miss it :)
You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help:

napari.org/island-dispa...
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Register for your place at this exciting @embo.org workshop in China now! Places are filling up fast! @biologists.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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🧪 Please share!: My lab is currently recruiting graduate students (RAs and TAs) this cycle to start Fall 2026.

Howard University Graduate School early application deadline is 11/15/25 (to be considered for certain fellowships). We have additional deadlines in the spring (Feb/April) 1/n
Summary of Program Deadlines & Requirements
gs.howard.edu
October 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Our ForSys method to infer the mechanical state of a tissue in space and time is published now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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October 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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One more open position at the Data Science Centre here! This one is working on our recently open-sourced ELN/LIMS/all-in-one solution LabID (gitlab.com/lab-integrat...). If you have either full stack or scientific workflows experience, check it out! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Scientific Developer or Full Stack Developer
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is a world leader in scientific research and at the forefront in the development of cutting-edge technologies. EMBL core facilities and scientists gene...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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🎉 Big news! 🎉

We will be moving to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social in 2026!!

We're so excited to be joining such a dynamic and thriving department, university, and city - thank you to everyone who has already been so welcoming!

📢 But that's not all - come and join us! 👇
October 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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This fall, @megstampede.bsky.social & I are collaborating to create a 2026 calendar!

Each month features a different animal, facts about them, & actions we can take to help them!

Sales will fund our '26 Native Plant Project

Pre-order now, they’ll ship in early November! Squidfacts.net
October 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM