Excited to share our work enabling imaging across scales, from molecular assemblies at a few hundred nanometers to living organisms and tissues at millimeter scale, with minutes time resolution.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Great news! @mariaingaramo.bsky.social 's company (Nonfiction Labs) made a remote-controlled antibody.
Its binding turns on and off with a magnet.
This is a HUGE step towards our dream of magnetically controlled drugs. Imagine a cancer drug that ONLY attacks the tumor, not the rest of your body.
🚨The Neurocyto lab is branching out in our latest preprint! We used tubulin microinjection to directly visualize microtubule turnover in developing hippocampal neurons, demonstrating the presence of in-lattice repair and a selective stabilization in the nascent axon. Check below, or read on 🧵 1/9
At the end of the day all experiments are hazy, our job as scientists is to synthesise incomplete data and peer beyond the veil, not just do every control (possible or not) that a chatbot tells us to!
Jokes aside I think this belies a concerning problem with the rise of AI tools in science. Reading scientific literature is not just about parsing the logic of the writing, it is also about assessing the quality of the data to evaluate the findings, to understand the context of the experiments
Testing out the new hyped AI peer review tool (@qedscience.bsky.social) on one of my old papers and saw many of the errors people are posting about online, but this comment made me laugh! Thank you LLM for blindly trusting my movies are amazing even if you have not seen them
Want to apply for an EMBO Postdoctoral #Fellowship? 🧪
Here are tips from the EMBO Fellowship Committee:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7c...
#LifeSciences #grant #funding
Job alert!
We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?
See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...
Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11
New NeuroCyto preprint about to drop! @wiesner-t.bsky.social 😎⏳
Despite their high rigidity, microtubules (MTs) dynamically bend and buckle in cells. MT-self repair is inherent to their metastable nature, but it remains unclear whether just inherent repair mechanisms are sufficient to maintain MT integrity🧵 (1/9)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to share that my paper on Tau–Microtubule interactions is now published in Nature Physics!🎉
Our work shows that tau goes beyond stabilizing microtubules—it also promotes the removal of defects in the microtubule lattice.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
FINALLY! Challenging to publish but we believe it is an important discovery: rdcu.be/eATFz
💚 Thanks to the team @biswashere.bsky.social, Omar Muñoz, ✨Q✨ C. Hoege, B. Lorton, R. Nikolay @matthewkraushar.bsky.social @dshechter.bsky.social @gucklab.bsky.social @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social 💚
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🍹Kletter et al. show that cell state-specific cytoplasmic density controls spindle architecture and scaling in neural differentiation, suggesting that the physical properties of the cytoplasm are a determinant in #organelle size control.
bit.ly/4mhMvsU
But imo the professional writer pitched in the article is instead promoting the idea of a factory line where the lab provides the data and figures and the writer writes. This to me isn’t collaborative and harms the scientific development of the lab as well as the paper even if the prose has improved
Absolutely! Collaborative writing like collaborative science benefits from diversity of perspective.
I don’t think that anyone is objecting to the idea of students or postdocs helping finish write a manuscript or tighten up a grant 1/2
My worry is that there is an intimate link between clarity of expression and thought that is important for both communication as well as for us to refine our ideas. The article refers to a writer “squeezing out explanations of figures and data” which belies a worrisome divorce in this central tenet
🚨Join us! We're soon opening 3 postdoctoral positions in #AIDrivenBiology. Seeking biologists (especially microbiology and infection biology), computer scientists, and microscopy developers. Ideal candidates are those eager to use or develop next-gen tech for cell biology. Get in touch (DM/email)
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We're hiring a Research Assistant – no PhD needed!
Join us to explore the molecular mechanisms of receptor sorting in endosomes.
Experience in protein expression/purification, cloning & cell culture desired 🧫🔬
Apply now 👉 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Finally here! Our preprint on the MOSAIC, a multimodal adaptive optical microscope enabling non‑invasive in‑vivo imaging from molecules to organisms, is out. MOSAIC captures everything from subcellular dynamics to neural activity in live mice.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks Simone! Ive also finally gotten around to getting back on science socials again 😅
