Lucas Waltzer
@lucaswaltzer.bsky.social
Group leader at iGReD Clermont-Ferrand, drosophila & epigenetics, food & mushrooms
https://www.igred.fr/en/team/ero-epigenetic-regulations-ontogenesis/
https://www.igred.fr/en/team/ero-epigenetic-regulations-ontogenesis/
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Happy to share scHiCAR, an ultra-high throughout (millions of cells), low cost (5 cents/cell including NGS), and trimodal platform for integrated single-cell level analysis of mRNA, open chromatin, and 5-kb resolution looping with ground-truth data the same individual cell.
Trimodal single-cell profiling of transcriptome, epigenome and 3D genome in complex tissues with scHiCAR - @yaruidiao.bsky.social @dukehealth.bsky.social go.nature.com/4rZqimf
Trimodal single-cell profiling of transcriptome, epigenome and 3D genome in complex tissues with scHiCAR - Nature Biotechnology
Trimodal single-cell analysis reveals gene-regulatory architecture in complex tissues.
go.nature.com
February 20, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Happy to share scHiCAR, an ultra-high throughout (millions of cells), low cost (5 cents/cell including NGS), and trimodal platform for integrated single-cell level analysis of mRNA, open chromatin, and 5-kb resolution looping with ground-truth data the same individual cell.
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🔬 Recruiting a Postdoc!!!!
I’m looking for a motivated postdoc to join my lab and work on characterizing the role of a heterochromatin protein involved in a sex-ratio meiotic drive system in Drosophila.
If you know someone who might be interested, please share widely!
I’m looking for a motivated postdoc to join my lab and work on characterizing the role of a heterochromatin protein involved in a sex-ratio meiotic drive system in Drosophila.
If you know someone who might be interested, please share widely!
February 19, 2026 at 5:21 PM
🔬 Recruiting a Postdoc!!!!
I’m looking for a motivated postdoc to join my lab and work on characterizing the role of a heterochromatin protein involved in a sex-ratio meiotic drive system in Drosophila.
If you know someone who might be interested, please share widely!
I’m looking for a motivated postdoc to join my lab and work on characterizing the role of a heterochromatin protein involved in a sex-ratio meiotic drive system in Drosophila.
If you know someone who might be interested, please share widely!
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This will feature an #EPIC scientific program. Something you have not seen before. Trust me 😉 CBG Alumni of all nations, unite!
2026 marks the 25th Anniversary of @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. We invite all Alumni to reconnect and celebrate 25 years of science together August 24-25. Sign up, if you would like to receive further updates, formal registration will follow: www.mpi-cbg.de/25th-anniver...
February 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
This will feature an #EPIC scientific program. Something you have not seen before. Trust me 😉 CBG Alumni of all nations, unite!
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Dear UK #drosophila @FlyBase Cambridge is now able to accept PO orders for support. So please get in touch with
https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase
https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
February 17, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Dear UK #drosophila @FlyBase Cambridge is now able to accept PO orders for support. So please get in touch with
https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase
https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase
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Un poste de Professeur des Universités va être ouvert lors de la campagne d’emploi 2026 à l’université Claude Bernard Lyon1 -
Profil Recherche : Biologie Moléculaire des Eucaryotes.
Profil Enseignement: Biologie Moléculaire.
Profil ci-joint.
Merci de diffuser dans vos réseaux.
Profil Recherche : Biologie Moléculaire des Eucaryotes.
Profil Enseignement: Biologie Moléculaire.
Profil ci-joint.
Merci de diffuser dans vos réseaux.
February 17, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Un poste de Professeur des Universités va être ouvert lors de la campagne d’emploi 2026 à l’université Claude Bernard Lyon1 -
Profil Recherche : Biologie Moléculaire des Eucaryotes.
Profil Enseignement: Biologie Moléculaire.
Profil ci-joint.
Merci de diffuser dans vos réseaux.
Profil Recherche : Biologie Moléculaire des Eucaryotes.
Profil Enseignement: Biologie Moléculaire.
Profil ci-joint.
Merci de diffuser dans vos réseaux.
Reposted by Lucas Waltzer
Expertise Before Augmentation: A developmental framework for sequencing AI use in PhD training doi.org/10.59350/ja1...
February 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Expertise Before Augmentation: A developmental framework for sequencing AI use in PhD training doi.org/10.59350/ja1...
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Spineless, Gutless RepubliKKKans.
February 17, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Spineless, Gutless RepubliKKKans.
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Wow, big time preprint drop from @jacobsenucla.bsky.social lab! One of the holy grails of DNA methylation research. Also, the 2-figure paper reminds me of the classic Science Brevia from Simon Chan and Steve showing RNA-directed DNA methylation drives de novo DNAme www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Wow, big time preprint drop from @jacobsenucla.bsky.social lab! One of the holy grails of DNA methylation research. Also, the 2-figure paper reminds me of the classic Science Brevia from Simon Chan and Steve showing RNA-directed DNA methylation drives de novo DNAme www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Reposted by Lucas Waltzer
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
robertreich.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
Reposted by Lucas Waltzer
Sleep-dependent clearance of brain lipids by peripheral blood cells
#Drosophila
#Drosophila
Sleep-dependent clearance of brain lipids by peripheral blood cells
#Drosophila
PubMed link
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
February 12, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Sleep-dependent clearance of brain lipids by peripheral blood cells
#Drosophila
#Drosophila
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Come join us for a great week of science in Dublin this summer! @brianstrahl.bsky.social @vanrechemlab.bsky.social @bonalditiziana.bsky.social @garcialabms.bsky.social @metorrespadilla.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Come join us for a great week of science in Dublin this summer! @brianstrahl.bsky.social @vanrechemlab.bsky.social @bonalditiziana.bsky.social @garcialabms.bsky.social @metorrespadilla.bsky.social
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🚨🚨🚨 1/2
SFBD & JSDB joint meeting, June 9–12 in Hiroshima. Travel grants cover registration + part of travel/housing. Short talks & posters available. Students, postdocs & early-career researchers encouraged to apply by Feb 28.
pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/jsd...
SFBD & JSDB joint meeting, June 9–12 in Hiroshima. Travel grants cover registration + part of travel/housing. Short talks & posters available. Students, postdocs & early-career researchers encouraged to apply by Feb 28.
pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/jsd...
The 59th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists | Confit
第59回日本発生生物学会大会の電子抄録サイトです。
pub.confit.atlas.jp
February 11, 2026 at 11:38 AM
🚨🚨🚨 1/2
SFBD & JSDB joint meeting, June 9–12 in Hiroshima. Travel grants cover registration + part of travel/housing. Short talks & posters available. Students, postdocs & early-career researchers encouraged to apply by Feb 28.
pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/jsd...
SFBD & JSDB joint meeting, June 9–12 in Hiroshima. Travel grants cover registration + part of travel/housing. Short talks & posters available. Students, postdocs & early-career researchers encouraged to apply by Feb 28.
pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/jsd...
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Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes (@hugheslabpenn.bsky.social) & Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social)
Deadline: 1 March 2026
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes (@hugheslabpenn.bsky.social) & Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social)
Deadline: 1 March 2026
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes (@hugheslabpenn.bsky.social) & Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social)
Deadline: 1 March 2026
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes (@hugheslabpenn.bsky.social) & Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social)
Deadline: 1 March 2026
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...
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The hard truth about how hard it is to publish in Development
Editor-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social leads our team of Academic Editors in addressing the perception that Development is ‘too hard to publish in’ by discussing the journal's review process.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Editor-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social leads our team of Academic Editors in addressing the perception that Development is ‘too hard to publish in’ by discussing the journal's review process.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
January 12, 2026 at 10:36 AM
The hard truth about how hard it is to publish in Development
Editor-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social leads our team of Academic Editors in addressing the perception that Development is ‘too hard to publish in’ by discussing the journal's review process.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Editor-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social leads our team of Academic Editors in addressing the perception that Development is ‘too hard to publish in’ by discussing the journal's review process.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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Today, in news that shock nobody:
"We found that none of the tested language models were ready for deployment in direct patient care. Despite strong performance from the LLMs alone, both on existing benchmarks and on our scenarios, medical expertise was insufficient for effective patient care"
"We found that none of the tested language models were ready for deployment in direct patient care. Despite strong performance from the LLMs alone, both on existing benchmarks and on our scenarios, medical expertise was insufficient for effective patient care"
Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine
In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone ...
www.nature.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Today, in news that shock nobody:
"We found that none of the tested language models were ready for deployment in direct patient care. Despite strong performance from the LLMs alone, both on existing benchmarks and on our scenarios, medical expertise was insufficient for effective patient care"
"We found that none of the tested language models were ready for deployment in direct patient care. Despite strong performance from the LLMs alone, both on existing benchmarks and on our scenarios, medical expertise was insufficient for effective patient care"
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#PressRelease🗞️ A specific molecular mechanism has been identified as the cause of the most frequent genetic forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Charcot’s disease) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/discov...
👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/discov...
February 9, 2026 at 7:02 AM
#PressRelease🗞️ A specific molecular mechanism has been identified as the cause of the most frequent genetic forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Charcot’s disease) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/discov...
👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/discov...
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✨PPU Selection Week 2026
We welcomed 30 young scientists from 16 countries on our campus to dive into the heart of the PPU International Doctoral Program, offering a real immersion into what their next three years at the Institut Pasteur could look like 🎓
👉 www.pasteur.fr/en/education...
We welcomed 30 young scientists from 16 countries on our campus to dive into the heart of the PPU International Doctoral Program, offering a real immersion into what their next three years at the Institut Pasteur could look like 🎓
👉 www.pasteur.fr/en/education...
February 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
✨PPU Selection Week 2026
We welcomed 30 young scientists from 16 countries on our campus to dive into the heart of the PPU International Doctoral Program, offering a real immersion into what their next three years at the Institut Pasteur could look like 🎓
👉 www.pasteur.fr/en/education...
We welcomed 30 young scientists from 16 countries on our campus to dive into the heart of the PPU International Doctoral Program, offering a real immersion into what their next three years at the Institut Pasteur could look like 🎓
👉 www.pasteur.fr/en/education...
Reposted by Lucas Waltzer
X-rays impact gene expression
Exposing the wing discs of Drosophila to X-rays leads to heterogeneous changes in gene expression that are related to cell-cycle status and cell location.
🔗 buff.ly/6qXuLtV
Exposing the wing discs of Drosophila to X-rays leads to heterogeneous changes in gene expression that are related to cell-cycle status and cell location.
🔗 buff.ly/6qXuLtV
February 8, 2026 at 9:21 AM
X-rays impact gene expression
Exposing the wing discs of Drosophila to X-rays leads to heterogeneous changes in gene expression that are related to cell-cycle status and cell location.
🔗 buff.ly/6qXuLtV
Exposing the wing discs of Drosophila to X-rays leads to heterogeneous changes in gene expression that are related to cell-cycle status and cell location.
🔗 buff.ly/6qXuLtV
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Join the PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics🧬 🇸🇪
www.trippus.net/summerschool...
and learn data integration
-Single-cell multiome
-ATAC-seq+3Dgenomics
-Non-coding variants+Transcription Factors
-Large-scale epigenomics
-Spatial
@scilifelab.se
@kawresearch.bsky.social
@remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
www.trippus.net/summerschool...
and learn data integration
-Single-cell multiome
-ATAC-seq+3Dgenomics
-Non-coding variants+Transcription Factors
-Large-scale epigenomics
-Spatial
@scilifelab.se
@kawresearch.bsky.social
@remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Join the PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics🧬 🇸🇪
www.trippus.net/summerschool...
and learn data integration
-Single-cell multiome
-ATAC-seq+3Dgenomics
-Non-coding variants+Transcription Factors
-Large-scale epigenomics
-Spatial
@scilifelab.se
@kawresearch.bsky.social
@remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
www.trippus.net/summerschool...
and learn data integration
-Single-cell multiome
-ATAC-seq+3Dgenomics
-Non-coding variants+Transcription Factors
-Large-scale epigenomics
-Spatial
@scilifelab.se
@kawresearch.bsky.social
@remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
Apparently, USA asks your social media history for ESTA application since February 8th 👎
www.lefigaro.fr/voyages/cons...
www.lefigaro.fr/voyages/cons...
«Ne jamais mentir» : les voyageurs internationaux doivent désormais déclarer leur activité sur les réseaux sociaux pour entrer aux États-Unis
À partir de ce dimanche 8 février, les voyageurs souhaitant entrer aux États-Unis sans visa devront obligatoirement déclarer leurs activités sur les réseaux sociaux des cinq dernières années. Les Fran...
www.lefigaro.fr
February 8, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Apparently, USA asks your social media history for ESTA application since February 8th 👎
www.lefigaro.fr/voyages/cons...
www.lefigaro.fr/voyages/cons...
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Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.
February 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.
Reposted by Lucas Waltzer
International AI Safety Report 2026 internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/...
February 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
International AI Safety Report 2026 internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/...
Reposted by Lucas Waltzer
Here, the authors compile transcriptomic data from experimental evolution of a prokaryotic and five eukaryotic species in 22 environments to reveal that gene expression evolution is often repeatable and deterministic.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Repeatability of gene expression evolution in experimental environmental adaptation - Nature Communications
Experimental evolution enables evaluation of the relative roles of chance and necessity in evolution. This study compiles transcriptomic data from experimental evolution of a prokaryotic and five euka...
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Here, the authors compile transcriptomic data from experimental evolution of a prokaryotic and five eukaryotic species in 22 environments to reveal that gene expression evolution is often repeatable and deterministic.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
