Filipa Simões
@simoesfilipa.bsky.social
Development and Regeneration of the Heart | Cardio-Immuno Genomics | Group Leader University of Oxford IDRM-DPAG | playing with zebrafish & cardiac organoids | academic mama of 2 children & 1 dog | curiosity led
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Immune-mediated cardiac development and regeneration
The complex interplay between the immune and cardiovascular systems during development, homeostasis and regeneration represents a rapidly evolving fie…
www.sciencedirect.com
Just published! Our Review on how immune cells masterfully orchestrate heart development and regeneration. Beyond fighting pathogens, they're actually building & repairing your heart! Learn how cutting-edge technologies are driving therapeutic opportunities here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art.
She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S
She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S
January 29, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art.
She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S
She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S
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Plato's allegory of the cave is so relevant to the natural sciences, yet so many colleagues seem to think they can get away with writing about the shadows.
January 30, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Plato's allegory of the cave is so relevant to the natural sciences, yet so many colleagues seem to think they can get away with writing about the shadows.
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Using micropatterning & thousands of hours on the microscope
@manuelthery.bsky.social and the #CytoMorphoLab reimagined the Musée D’Orsay. Accompanied by an orchestra and poet, their images transported us into the cellular universe. I remembered why I am a cell biologist. All of this is in us. Wow!
@manuelthery.bsky.social and the #CytoMorphoLab reimagined the Musée D’Orsay. Accompanied by an orchestra and poet, their images transported us into the cellular universe. I remembered why I am a cell biologist. All of this is in us. Wow!
January 25, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Using micropatterning & thousands of hours on the microscope
@manuelthery.bsky.social and the #CytoMorphoLab reimagined the Musée D’Orsay. Accompanied by an orchestra and poet, their images transported us into the cellular universe. I remembered why I am a cell biologist. All of this is in us. Wow!
@manuelthery.bsky.social and the #CytoMorphoLab reimagined the Musée D’Orsay. Accompanied by an orchestra and poet, their images transported us into the cellular universe. I remembered why I am a cell biologist. All of this is in us. Wow!
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Huge congrats to @manuelthery.bsky.social and all the Cytomorpho lab. The "Living Architectures" performance at @museeorsay.bsky.social was breathtakingly beautiful
January 25, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Huge congrats to @manuelthery.bsky.social and all the Cytomorpho lab. The "Living Architectures" performance at @museeorsay.bsky.social was breathtakingly beautiful
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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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📡🧵 Excited to release an updated version of our preprint: Zebrahub-Multiome: Uncovering Gene Regulatory Network Dynamics During Zebrafish Embryogenesis
🧪🧬🖥️🐠
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
A tour-de-force by @yangjoonkim with an unexpected discovery!
🧪🧬🖥️🐠
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
A tour-de-force by @yangjoonkim with an unexpected discovery!
January 23, 2026 at 12:08 AM
📡🧵 Excited to release an updated version of our preprint: Zebrahub-Multiome: Uncovering Gene Regulatory Network Dynamics During Zebrafish Embryogenesis
🧪🧬🖥️🐠
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
A tour-de-force by @yangjoonkim with an unexpected discovery!
🧪🧬🖥️🐠
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
A tour-de-force by @yangjoonkim with an unexpected discovery!
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So much work still to do to break the glass ceiling!
Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones
@plosbiology.org
🧪 plos.io/4658FZN
Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones
@plosbiology.org
🧪 plos.io/4658FZN
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...
plos.io
January 23, 2026 at 5:30 PM
So much work still to do to break the glass ceiling!
Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones
@plosbiology.org
🧪 plos.io/4658FZN
Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones
@plosbiology.org
🧪 plos.io/4658FZN
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And it's out indeed! Huge congrats to @josanesousa.bsky.social, @gabrielalima19.bsky.social, @perezlouise.bsky.social & Hannah Schof! A true tour-de-force that highlights how emerging model systems can shed new light on long-standing macro-evolutionary questions. Go #axolotl, #polypterus #zebrafish!
It’s out! 🐟 We compared three regeneration superstars—axolotl, zebrafish, and Polypterus—to ask how animals regrow limbs and fins. We find shared core processes, and other programs fine-tuned by evolution in surprising, lineage-specific ways. tinyurl.com/mpftkn7y
January 22, 2026 at 5:59 PM
And it's out indeed! Huge congrats to @josanesousa.bsky.social, @gabrielalima19.bsky.social, @perezlouise.bsky.social & Hannah Schof! A true tour-de-force that highlights how emerging model systems can shed new light on long-standing macro-evolutionary questions. Go #axolotl, #polypterus #zebrafish!
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She was so excited to receive a copy of this in physical form, Komal (joint 1st author) even colour coordinated! 😂 So proud of the team who delivered this fab work 💪🏼 …and our first cover too! ⭐️
January 22, 2026 at 6:53 PM
She was so excited to receive a copy of this in physical form, Komal (joint 1st author) even colour coordinated! 😂 So proud of the team who delivered this fab work 💪🏼 …and our first cover too! ⭐️
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Registration and submissions for poster presentations will remain open for a few more weeks: meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom...
January 22, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Registration and submissions for poster presentations will remain open for a few more weeks: meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom...
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A beautiful cover from an exciting work by @benoitbruneau.bsky.social and colleagues illustrating the building blocks of the developing heart and their secret borders
21/01/2026
❤️Our January issue is out❤️Read about pathogenic mechanism of mutated ribosomal protein PRL3L, identification of cardiac progenitor lineage linked to congenital heart disease, multimodal vision graph for drug repurposing, and more.
www.nature.com/natcardiovas...
❤️Our January issue is out❤️Read about pathogenic mechanism of mutated ribosomal protein PRL3L, identification of cardiac progenitor lineage linked to congenital heart disease, multimodal vision graph for drug repurposing, and more.
www.nature.com/natcardiovas...
January 21, 2026 at 5:04 PM
A beautiful cover from an exciting work by @benoitbruneau.bsky.social and colleagues illustrating the building blocks of the developing heart and their secret borders
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🚀 PhD opportunity! The UNI PhD program is now open. Our lab is looking to welcome a new PhD student to the team. If you’re curious, motivated, and excited about microglial research using zebrafish, we’d love to hear from you! 🎓🔬 #PhDPosition #GradSchool
The international PhD program is now open to receive applications for the academic year 2026/2027! The deadline is March 1, 2026! Check our website to get more info before submitting your applications: uni.ulb.ac.be/phd-program/
Phd Program | ULB Neuroscience Institute
CALL FOR THE INTERNATIONAL Ph.D. PROGRAM 2026 The ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI) comprises more than 240 scientists including more than 50 Principal Investigators (PIs) grouped into 24 research grou...
uni.ulb.ac.be
January 20, 2026 at 8:49 PM
🚀 PhD opportunity! The UNI PhD program is now open. Our lab is looking to welcome a new PhD student to the team. If you’re curious, motivated, and excited about microglial research using zebrafish, we’d love to hear from you! 🎓🔬 #PhDPosition #GradSchool
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🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs).
Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬
Details in thread 🧵👇
#ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶
Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬
Details in thread 🧵👇
#ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶
CELL MIGRATION LAB
We study cell migration in health and disease
cellmig.org
January 21, 2026 at 7:57 AM
🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs).
Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬
Details in thread 🧵👇
#ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶
Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬
Details in thread 🧵👇
#ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶
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We're hiring! Enjoyed @jackholcombe.bsky.social PhD Prize talk @edrc2025.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social? We're recruiting a #postdoc to explore how cell biology is patterned in the #Drosophila renal system. Come join us for live-imaging, molecular cell biology and omics! Deadline 25th January.
January 19, 2026 at 3:29 PM
We're hiring! Enjoyed @jackholcombe.bsky.social PhD Prize talk @edrc2025.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social? We're recruiting a #postdoc to explore how cell biology is patterned in the #Drosophila renal system. Come join us for live-imaging, molecular cell biology and omics! Deadline 25th January.
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EXCLUSIVE: A quiet revolution happened at Great Ormond Street Hospital last week. A girl with a rare fatal condition received a custom drug under a new MHRA protcol that is 1st step towards process approval, a shift that could one day save millions of lives. www.economist.com/science-and-...
Treatment of a teenager with an ultra-rare condition is a medical milestone
It will change regulators’ rule books
www.economist.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:42 AM
EXCLUSIVE: A quiet revolution happened at Great Ormond Street Hospital last week. A girl with a rare fatal condition received a custom drug under a new MHRA protcol that is 1st step towards process approval, a shift that could one day save millions of lives. www.economist.com/science-and-...
Come and join us in Krems for the usual @embo.org #regeneration overload! @revillalab.bsky.social @maxyunlab.bsky.social @jordisolana.bsky.social
Investigate regeneration and repair using whole animals or organ/tissue systems at EMBO Workshop "The molecular and cellular basis of #regeneration and #TissueRepair" in #Krems, AT, 21–25 Sep 2026.
Deadline: 20 May
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-tissue-repair
#EMBORegeneration #EMBOevents 🧪
Deadline: 20 May
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-tissue-repair
#EMBORegeneration #EMBOevents 🧪
January 19, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Come and join us in Krems for the usual @embo.org #regeneration overload! @revillalab.bsky.social @maxyunlab.bsky.social @jordisolana.bsky.social
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📢 Open faculty position – Origins of Life
We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! 🧬🚀
SPREAD THE WORD
Apply here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! 🧬🚀
SPREAD THE WORD
Apply here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
a woman says " would you like to join us " with her eyes closed
ALT: a woman says " would you like to join us " with her eyes closed
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
📢 Open faculty position – Origins of Life
We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! 🧬🚀
SPREAD THE WORD
Apply here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! 🧬🚀
SPREAD THE WORD
Apply here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
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Issue 12 is complete!
Cover: Members of BiO's community, including a founding Editor, past & present Editors-in-Chief, our academic Editors and some of the reviewers from BiO's Fast & Fair peer review initiative. We would like to thank them all.
bit.ly/4piig6y
Cover: Members of BiO's community, including a founding Editor, past & present Editors-in-Chief, our academic Editors and some of the reviewers from BiO's Fast & Fair peer review initiative. We would like to thank them all.
bit.ly/4piig6y
January 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Issue 12 is complete!
Cover: Members of BiO's community, including a founding Editor, past & present Editors-in-Chief, our academic Editors and some of the reviewers from BiO's Fast & Fair peer review initiative. We would like to thank them all.
bit.ly/4piig6y
Cover: Members of BiO's community, including a founding Editor, past & present Editors-in-Chief, our academic Editors and some of the reviewers from BiO's Fast & Fair peer review initiative. We would like to thank them all.
bit.ly/4piig6y
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Start your independent as an ELISIR fellow right after your PhD, in one of the most terrific places in Europe !
January 14, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Start your independent as an ELISIR fellow right after your PhD, in one of the most terrific places in Europe !
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Couldn't be a better way to start 2026! Excited to share our latest publication. Tremendous effort by Rouf and coauthors to investigate how the zebrafish coronary network develops and interacts with the growing cardiac muscle.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Developmental single-cell atlas of coronary growth and cardiomyocyte interaction in zebrafish
Cardiac morphogenesis requires the intricate coordination of different cell types and molecular cues. Coronary vessel formation is essential for heart development, yet how coronaries grow and contribu...
journals.biologists.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Couldn't be a better way to start 2026! Excited to share our latest publication. Tremendous effort by Rouf and coauthors to investigate how the zebrafish coronary network develops and interacts with the growing cardiac muscle.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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There's still time to apply to be a 2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellow
For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers
- mentoring
- leadership training
- profile rising
- networking
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers
- mentoring
- leadership training
- profile rising
- networking
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Pathway to Independence programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
Pathway to Independence programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
Development's Pathway to Independence programme
Launched in 2022, Development’s Pathway Independence programm...
journals.biologists.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
There's still time to apply to be a 2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellow
For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers
- mentoring
- leadership training
- profile rising
- networking
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers
- mentoring
- leadership training
- profile rising
- networking
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
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I’m thrilled to share the first preprint from the Piacentino Lab @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social! We show that developing inner ear requires a secreted lipid chaperone, APOD, working in a positive feedback loop to amplify FGF/MAPK signaling. 👂 #DevBio Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Lipid-mediated reinforcement of FGF/MAPK signaling enables robust otic placode specification
The formation of cranial placodes requires groups of ectodermal cells to interpret inductive signals in a robust and organized manner, yet how signaling responses are coordinated across a developing f...
www.biorxiv.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:56 PM
I’m thrilled to share the first preprint from the Piacentino Lab @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social! We show that developing inner ear requires a secreted lipid chaperone, APOD, working in a positive feedback loop to amplify FGF/MAPK signaling. 👂 #DevBio Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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📣Registration deadline approaching !📣
Check out @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social workshop "biophysical & molecular mechanisms of animal homeostasis & repair" 6-10th April, with a fantastic lineup of speakers! meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom....
Register/Abstract submission by 10th January.
Check out @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social workshop "biophysical & molecular mechanisms of animal homeostasis & repair" 6-10th April, with a fantastic lineup of speakers! meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom....
Register/Abstract submission by 10th January.
Interfacing biophysical and molecular mechanisms of animal homeostasis and repair
The control of animal homeostasis and repair has been studied for decades, mostly from a molecular and biochemical perspective. Recent research shows that biophysical factors, such as mechanical forc…
meetings.embo.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:01 PM
📣Registration deadline approaching !📣
Check out @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social workshop "biophysical & molecular mechanisms of animal homeostasis & repair" 6-10th April, with a fantastic lineup of speakers! meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom....
Register/Abstract submission by 10th January.
Check out @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social workshop "biophysical & molecular mechanisms of animal homeostasis & repair" 6-10th April, with a fantastic lineup of speakers! meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom....
Register/Abstract submission by 10th January.
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Understanding why cancers relapse - sometimes years or decades after successful treatment - is a major challenge in the cancer field
This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why cancer can come back years later — and how to stop it
Researchers are targeting dormant tumour cells that might explain why some cancers reappear long after successful treatment.
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Understanding why cancers relapse - sometimes years or decades after successful treatment - is a major challenge in the cancer field
This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I cannot emphasize this enough, if you're cold-emailing me applying to my lab I would so much rather get the bulleted broken list of genuine interests than whatever letter ChatGPT spits out in its stead
If you're training with me, I'm working with you not an LLM. I want to see who you are!
If you're training with me, I'm working with you not an LLM. I want to see who you are!
January 5, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I cannot emphasize this enough, if you're cold-emailing me applying to my lab I would so much rather get the bulleted broken list of genuine interests than whatever letter ChatGPT spits out in its stead
If you're training with me, I'm working with you not an LLM. I want to see who you are!
If you're training with me, I'm working with you not an LLM. I want to see who you are!