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Omar El Hamoui
@oehamoui.bsky.social
CNRS Postdoc @ IJM | Cytoskeleton bio*(physics + chemistry) 🔬🩻 | Science and Technology Studies enjoyer 📖 | Keeping an eye on the return of race science 🧬
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🪼 How did the animal body plan evolve?

This ‘fundamental’ study in Clytia sheds light on how Wnt3 coordinates both gene expression and planar cell polarity during axis formation, offering key insights into the origins of morphogenesis.
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#DevBio
July 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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This fundamental study looks at the role of Ezrin, a membrane-actin linker that assembles signalling complexes, unveiling a critical endosome–lysosome network essential for #autophagy and cellular #homeostasis.
https://buff.ly/4gXlIiw
February 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"La définition de nos priorités scientifiques et des modalités de leur mise en œuvre est de la seule responsabilité du CNRS." Tiens visiblement notre PDG parle de lui-même par métonymie.
[ #VeilleESR #LPPR ] #KeyLabs : confirmation par un courrier du PDG du CNRS que le projet est maintenu, et que le moratoire n'est qu'un délais de quelques mois, sans modification ni du fond ni de la forme.
January 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The Cote d'Azur will simply become uninhabitable, and we can't even take comfort in the fact that Eric Ciotti will also suffer the consequences.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Extreme heat will kill millions of people in Europe without rapid action
Climate models predict that the number of heat-related deaths could soar in cities over the coming century, even when efforts are made to keep people safe.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Visibility matters in academia.

Our name-change policy gives authors who change their names an unobtrusive way to update their papers published in eLife, meaning they can get recognition for their contributions.
eLife Latest: New policy allows for name changes in published papers
eLife has announced a policy which enables authors, editors and reviewers to retroactively change their name in published papers and accompanying decision letters.
buff.ly
January 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Peter Visscher is a luminary in human genetics, but in this case, he is completely wrong. Here's why 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine? - Nature
We discuss the potential consequences and ethical concerns of polygenic genome editing of human embryos to alter specific variants associated with polygenic diseases, highlighting the possibility of r...
www.nature.com
January 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Researchers observe durotaxis, and its underlying mechanism, in amoeboid.
https://buff.ly/4gFKPac
January 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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"we propose educational strategies to promote evolutionary literacy, systems thinking and anticipatory competencies through socioscientific issues linked to sustainability topics" evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Evolutionary literacy as a catalyst for sustainable futures: connecting biological evolution education and education for sustainability - Evolution: Education and Outreach
In the face of growing societal, public health and environmental challenges linked to the functioning of the biosphere, strong evolutionary literacy emerges as indispensable to plan and achieve sustai...
evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Cytoskeleton rearrangements promote formation of a giant structure called a GUVac that stops cells from dying when they become detached from the extracellular matrix.

🔗 https://elifesciences.org/articles/104942?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights
January 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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📝 Pétition contre l'augmentation des droits d'inscriptions universitaire.

Le cas de l'Univ. Strasbourg fera jurisprudence

blogs.mediapart.fr/pascal-maill...

#VeilleESR #LPPR #LRU
3879 € de droits d’inscription : les étudiants étrangers exclus de l’université
Nous y sommes : le dispositif « Bienvenue en France » est devenu une machine d’exclusion produisant une véritable ségrégation financière, sociale et raciale. À l’université de Strasbourg on observe d…
blogs.mediapart.fr
December 17, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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Toutes les personnes qui sont dans le milieu universitaire devraient lire Bénédicte. Lisez Bénédicte et soyez meilleurs, pour elle et pour tout le monde.
December 12, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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13/ This framework provides a step-by-step checklist for researchers looking to evaluate, teach about, perform, and clearly document binding affinities.
https://buff.ly/4eNfAbC
How to measure and evaluate binding affinities
Simple guidelines and a checklist are provided for performing high-quality equilibrium binding measurements.
buff.ly
November 26, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD

Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:

We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!

We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.

Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.

Let's get into it!
December 3, 2024 at 2:00 PM
DNA can also be designed as finger traps.

DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
December 2, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Le diagnostic part mal : s'il y a un camp de la "politique de la pureté", il faut le chercher du côté de Trump et de Musk, qui sont à la fois nativistes et racistes et n'aiment donc l'Amérique que pour autant qu'elle est bien blanche. Et c'est pareil pour X, un repaire de fachos maintenant 🤷‍♂️
December 1, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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[ #VeilleESR #LRU ] Universités : le gouvernement veut aller « au bout de l'autonomie », sans tabou sur les droits d'inscription
par @mccorbier.bsky.social

Intéressant que « autonomie » soit enfin directement accolée à « droits d'inscription ».

www.lesechos.fr/politique-so...
www.lesechos.fr
November 24, 2024 at 12:08 PM
L'article est informatif mais le titre ne me semble pas bien choisi étant donné que si les partis actuellement au pouvoir ne sont pas autant dans le déni quant à l'origine du réchauffement climatique, leur "action" n'est pas plus à la hauteur.
« Le réchauffement est incontestable mais la part de l’homme n’est pas très clairement déterminée : le GIEC, lui-même, ignore ce qui relève de l’anthropique et ce qui relève des cycles ».
Au moins, c’est clair.
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Le Rassemblement national choisit la ligne de l’inaction climatique
November 24, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Check out my new book Trusting Science! Very different from my previous books. Draws on the recent history of science to reveal misunderstanding that school science teaching could amend!

global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 23, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Moving some old twitter threads over: Do adaptations create societies? Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology hypothesize that societies are, in large part, an epiphenomenal outcome of adaptive cognitive and behavioral specializations within individuals. There has been a test of this: Feralization
November 23, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Article très mesuré qui appelle, face à la multiplication des attaques contre la science, les scientifiques à se défendre elleux-mêmes. Et donc d'arrêter avec l'idée que "politique" soit un terme qui diminue la valeur de la science ou du/de la scientifique.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
www.science.org
November 23, 2024 at 3:50 PM
#HelloESR ici c'est le compte pro de celui qui a fait une thèse sur les hydrogels supramoléculaires et leurs applications en bio, qui actuellement travaille sur l'actine in vitro et ses partenaires, et qui à côté surveille les manifestations contemporaines du bio-déterminisme et de l'héréditarisme ✌️
November 23, 2024 at 9:29 AM
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Dr. Alan Goodman is delivering the Biological Anthropology Section Distinguished Lecture! “Anti-racist science is a rejection of the conflation of social race and human bio-genetic variation” #AAA2024Tampa
November 23, 2024 at 1:07 AM