James Cleland
@jpcleland.bsky.social
Dad, partner, Aussie. Currently into liver sex differences at @dkfz.bsky.social + @embl.org. Formerly slicing worms at @mpi-cbg.de + @mpi-nat.bsky.social.
https://jpcleland.github.io/
https://jpcleland.github.io/
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Next X-inactivation meeting in Sapporo, Japan, 19-23 October 2026. Visit x-inactivation-meeting.org to join our mailing list. 🧬 speakers @dandergassen.bsky.social @marnieblewitt.bsky.social @heard65.bsky.social @crougeulle.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social @zhouqi1982.bsky.social
Next X-inactivation meeting in Sapporo, Japan, 19-23 October 2026. Visit x-inactivation-meeting.org to join our mailing list. 🧬 speakers @dandergassen.bsky.social @marnieblewitt.bsky.social @heard65.bsky.social @crougeulle.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social @zhouqi1982.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Next X-inactivation meeting in Sapporo, Japan, 19-23 October 2026. Visit x-inactivation-meeting.org to join our mailing list. 🧬 speakers @dandergassen.bsky.social @marnieblewitt.bsky.social @heard65.bsky.social @crougeulle.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social @zhouqi1982.bsky.social
Next X-inactivation meeting in Sapporo, Japan, 19-23 October 2026. Visit x-inactivation-meeting.org to join our mailing list. 🧬 speakers @dandergassen.bsky.social @marnieblewitt.bsky.social @heard65.bsky.social @crougeulle.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social @zhouqi1982.bsky.social
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🚀 Thinking about your next big career step in science?
The Int'l PhD Program at DKFZ could be a perfect fit for you.
🌍 Work in an international environment, with 500+ doctoral researchers
🔬 Do cutting-edge cancer research
Curious? Join our online info session on 20 Nov. Register here: t1p.de/ws7q3
The Int'l PhD Program at DKFZ could be a perfect fit for you.
🌍 Work in an international environment, with 500+ doctoral researchers
🔬 Do cutting-edge cancer research
Curious? Join our online info session on 20 Nov. Register here: t1p.de/ws7q3
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🚀 Thinking about your next big career step in science?
The Int'l PhD Program at DKFZ could be a perfect fit for you.
🌍 Work in an international environment, with 500+ doctoral researchers
🔬 Do cutting-edge cancer research
Curious? Join our online info session on 20 Nov. Register here: t1p.de/ws7q3
The Int'l PhD Program at DKFZ could be a perfect fit for you.
🌍 Work in an international environment, with 500+ doctoral researchers
🔬 Do cutting-edge cancer research
Curious? Join our online info session on 20 Nov. Register here: t1p.de/ws7q3
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New Call for Applications! Shaping the future of #women’s #health 🚀
#BioMedX & #GatesFoundation join forces to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in biomedical research: female-controlled, non-hormonal contraception. Submit your proposal via our CareerSpace: career.bmedx.com/call/2025-XF...
#BioMedX & #GatesFoundation join forces to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in biomedical research: female-controlled, non-hormonal contraception. Submit your proposal via our CareerSpace: career.bmedx.com/call/2025-XF...
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
New Call for Applications! Shaping the future of #women’s #health 🚀
#BioMedX & #GatesFoundation join forces to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in biomedical research: female-controlled, non-hormonal contraception. Submit your proposal via our CareerSpace: career.bmedx.com/call/2025-XF...
#BioMedX & #GatesFoundation join forces to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in biomedical research: female-controlled, non-hormonal contraception. Submit your proposal via our CareerSpace: career.bmedx.com/call/2025-XF...
beautiful work!! congrats to all the authors
We are thrilled to share our new preprint entitled “The origin and molecular evolution of the mammalian liver cell architecture” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
beautiful work!! congrats to all the authors
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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...
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October 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
couldn't agree more! and if you choose planarians, also patience and pain tolerance 😅
October 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
couldn't agree more! and if you choose planarians, also patience and pain tolerance 😅
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💫NEW: @telemanlab.bsky.social & co demonstrate that #AMPK can be activated by signaling metabolite, #adenosine, under non-stress conditions during #Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.
bit.ly/4gX6njF
bit.ly/4gX6njF
Remote control of AMPK via extracellular adenosine controls tissue growth - Nature Cell Biology
Zhang et al. demonstrate that AMPK can be activated by signalling metabolite, adenosine, under non-stress conditions during Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
💫NEW: @telemanlab.bsky.social & co demonstrate that #AMPK can be activated by signaling metabolite, #adenosine, under non-stress conditions during #Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.
bit.ly/4gX6njF
bit.ly/4gX6njF
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The platypus is possibly the weirdest animal: it's a mammal but lays eggs, its duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed and venomous. It has electroreceptors for locating prey, eyes with double cones, no stomach, and 26 pairs of chromosomes. It's fluorescent and glows under UV light.
September 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The platypus is possibly the weirdest animal: it's a mammal but lays eggs, its duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed and venomous. It has electroreceptors for locating prey, eyes with double cones, no stomach, and 26 pairs of chromosomes. It's fluorescent and glows under UV light.
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We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Biology at EMBL-EBI (Cambridge, UK). Focus: methods to study cell–cell communication from sc/spatial omics data (building on LIANA+ and NicheNet), in collab with @yvansaeys.bsky.social VIB/Ghent.
Details & apply by 13/10/25: tinyurl.com/4shdw8dk
Details & apply by 13/10/25: tinyurl.com/4shdw8dk
Current Vacancies
Whether you're a scientist, IT specialist, accountant or administrator, you'll help us tackle the challenges of improving human health & biodiversity in the face of climate change on a global scal...
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September 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Biology at EMBL-EBI (Cambridge, UK). Focus: methods to study cell–cell communication from sc/spatial omics data (building on LIANA+ and NicheNet), in collab with @yvansaeys.bsky.social VIB/Ghent.
Details & apply by 13/10/25: tinyurl.com/4shdw8dk
Details & apply by 13/10/25: tinyurl.com/4shdw8dk
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Listen to our director Edith Heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour - discussing her career, working with AI and the importance of attracting the best global scientific talent to the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Woman's Hour - Child benefit cap, Prof Edith Heard, Book banning - BBC Sounds
We look at the mounting pressure to scrap the two child benefit cap.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Listen to our director Edith Heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour - discussing her career, working with AI and the importance of attracting the best global scientific talent to the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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EMBL scientists found metabolism controls embryonic development tempo through signalling in a way separate from its established metabolic function.
More research related to this signalling could illuminate how it guides cell fate, developmental timing -- even disease.
www.embl.org/news/science...
More research related to this signalling could illuminate how it guides cell fate, developmental timing -- even disease.
www.embl.org/news/science...
When metabolism provides more than fuel | EMBL
A new study observed the key signalling role that metabolism plays in controlling the tempo of development.
www.embl.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
EMBL scientists found metabolism controls embryonic development tempo through signalling in a way separate from its established metabolic function.
More research related to this signalling could illuminate how it guides cell fate, developmental timing -- even disease.
www.embl.org/news/science...
More research related to this signalling could illuminate how it guides cell fate, developmental timing -- even disease.
www.embl.org/news/science...
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Open Call for Expressions of Interest: become a Max Planck Director & redefine what’s possible in science! We offer scientific independence, long-term stable funding & exceptional infrastructure. Lead your own department & open new frontiers of research. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 → www.mpg.de/directors
Directors
The Max Planck Society offers Directors a unique platform for groundbreaking research and leadership in diverse scientific fields.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Open Call for Expressions of Interest: become a Max Planck Director & redefine what’s possible in science! We offer scientific independence, long-term stable funding & exceptional infrastructure. Lead your own department & open new frontiers of research. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 → www.mpg.de/directors
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Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
September 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
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Introducing ParTIpy, a python package for Pareto Task Inference that scales to large-scale datasets, including single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.
🔗 Manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 Code: partipy.readthedocs.io
🔗 Manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 Code: partipy.readthedocs.io
September 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Introducing ParTIpy, a python package for Pareto Task Inference that scales to large-scale datasets, including single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.
🔗 Manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 Code: partipy.readthedocs.io
🔗 Manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 Code: partipy.readthedocs.io
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Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Group Leader – AI in Biology
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Great meeting! The field is young and full of energy, hope and opportunity. Join us.
✨ That's a wrap on #EMBODevMet after four inspiring days of cutting-edge science, new ideas, and reconnections.
👏 A huge thanks to all participants, speakers, and organisers who made this event so special.
We can't wait to welcome you back to another EMBL event 👉 embl.org/events
👏 A huge thanks to all participants, speakers, and organisers who made this event so special.
We can't wait to welcome you back to another EMBL event 👉 embl.org/events
September 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Great meeting! The field is young and full of energy, hope and opportunity. Join us.
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Edith Heard our new CEO shares ten lessons from her life in science, from curiosity, courage and coffee to the secrets of our genetic code.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Edith Heard life lessons
Edith Heard, the Crick’s new Director and CEO, shares ten lessons from a life in science, spanning curiosity, courage, coffee, and the secrets of our genetic code.
www.crick.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Edith Heard our new CEO shares ten lessons from her life in science, from curiosity, courage and coffee to the secrets of our genetic code.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Beautiful work lead by one of the best (and most humble) developmental biologists I know, @bruvellu.bsky.social. Congrats to the whole crew!
Dresden researchers @paveltomancak.bsky.social @bruvellu.bsky.social, Carl Modes, @cuencam15.bsky.social & colleagues published in @nature.com that a tissue fold in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses & may have evolved in response to mechanical forces. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Mechanical forces drive evolutionary change
A small tissue fold present in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses and may have evolved in response to mechanical forces.
www.mpi-cbg.de
September 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Beautiful work lead by one of the best (and most humble) developmental biologists I know, @bruvellu.bsky.social. Congrats to the whole crew!
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‘Our Ancestors the Fish’, a course by Prof. @neilshubin.bsky.social, Univ of Chicago, invited Prof @college-de-france.fr. in Paris @psl-univ.bsky.social. Four conferences, free access, open to everyone, with Tiktaalik as a guest star. Friends, colleagues and fossils in Paris and around, please RT🥁
September 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
‘Our Ancestors the Fish’, a course by Prof. @neilshubin.bsky.social, Univ of Chicago, invited Prof @college-de-france.fr. in Paris @psl-univ.bsky.social. Four conferences, free access, open to everyone, with Tiktaalik as a guest star. Friends, colleagues and fossils in Paris and around, please RT🥁
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📢 Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open!
At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia and other sectors. Join us and get a head start on your career in life sciences!
bit.ly/47mmiFF
At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia and other sectors. Join us and get a head start on your career in life sciences!
bit.ly/47mmiFF
September 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
📢 Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open!
At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia and other sectors. Join us and get a head start on your career in life sciences!
bit.ly/47mmiFF
At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia and other sectors. Join us and get a head start on your career in life sciences!
bit.ly/47mmiFF
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Exciting day for @crick.ac.uk today: Edith Heard takes over as Director
We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story
www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...
We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story
www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...
Edith Heard
www.crick.ac.uk
September 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Exciting day for @crick.ac.uk today: Edith Heard takes over as Director
We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story
www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...
We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story
www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...
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It's been a while! If anyone still follows me, I have 1-2 postdoctoral positions open in planarian and zebrafish stem cell and regenerative biology. Please re-Sky!
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Post Doc Portal | OHSU
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August 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It's been a while! If anyone still follows me, I have 1-2 postdoctoral positions open in planarian and zebrafish stem cell and regenerative biology. Please re-Sky!
postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35509/p...
postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35509/p...
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We present our MetaProViz #Rpackage for #metabolomics analysis & prior knowledge integration to generate mechanistic hypotheses on how metabolic changes affect metabolite classes, pathways & environment interaction
🔗
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📦
saezlab.github.io/MetaProViz/
🧵 Thread ⬇️
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📦
saezlab.github.io/MetaProViz/
🧵 Thread ⬇️
August 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
We present our MetaProViz #Rpackage for #metabolomics analysis & prior knowledge integration to generate mechanistic hypotheses on how metabolic changes affect metabolite classes, pathways & environment interaction
🔗
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📦
saezlab.github.io/MetaProViz/
🧵 Thread ⬇️
🔗
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📦
saezlab.github.io/MetaProViz/
🧵 Thread ⬇️
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Want to help us image and understand those incredible samples Felix just collected at UBC - and many more?
2 more days to apply!
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#ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology
🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠
2 more days to apply!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
#ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology
🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠
August 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Want to help us image and understand those incredible samples Felix just collected at UBC - and many more?
2 more days to apply!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
#ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology
🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠
2 more days to apply!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
#ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology
🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠
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Happy to report that the Xenium system for spatial transcriptomics in the Single Cell Open Lab www.dkfz.de/en/single-ce... @dkfz.bsky.social was the first one worldwide to pass the mark of 100 runs according to @10xgenomics.bsky.social. And it keeps on running with another one, so stay tuned...
Single-cell Open Lab - German Cancer Research Center
www.dkfz.de
August 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Happy to report that the Xenium system for spatial transcriptomics in the Single Cell Open Lab www.dkfz.de/en/single-ce... @dkfz.bsky.social was the first one worldwide to pass the mark of 100 runs according to @10xgenomics.bsky.social. And it keeps on running with another one, so stay tuned...