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If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪

Come and join us @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk We are looking for new colleagues. The LMCB offers a very supportive environment and is a great place to be!

Blebbing! Autocorrect…..
Great talk - thanks for sharing your work.

Nuclear blending - Jepson lab #UCLSTPisymposium2026

Optical clearing & LSM with Rob Campbell @ucl SWC #UCLSTPisymposium2026

Apply for ‘Beam time’ ! @uclengineering.bsky.social

Great programme for our one-day annual @ucl.ac.uk STP imaging symposium @slcuplants.bsky.social

Lovely Worcester Cathedral

Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)

New preprint @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social by Harshath Amal and colleagues from our lab @uni-muenster.de shows how a BMP #morphogen gradient is translated into graded junctional permeability by tuning adhesion and actomyosin contractility in #Drosophila
See tinyurl.com/yhbwd9xh
@sfb1348.bsky.social

Group Leader Call at the @cbitoulouse.bsky.social in
Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :)
cbi-toulouse.fr/wp-content/u...

Pulsatile dynamics propagate crystalline order in the developing Drosophila eye Couturier et al. show that the development of regular rows of light-receiving units in the Drosophila eye is accompanied by pulses of proneural gene expression and Notch signaling activity. Pattern pr...

Very interesting study from the Schweisguth lab - Pulsatile dynamics propagate crystalline order in the developing Drosophila eye: Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

Relaunch of our London Fly Meeting - whole afternoon of amazing science @ucl @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social sponsored by @gensocuk.bsky.social

Brand new UCL entrance rehearsing for the UCL200 celebration!

UK’s £8bn research fund faces “hard decisions” as it pauses new grants UKRI boss Ian Chapman said it had been told by the government to

Helpful update into UKRI and research council funding changes from Zoe Kleinman @zsk.bsky.social

But please more focus on 2 things...

1) Immediate effects (eg funding decisions expected in March)

2) Likely disproportionate effects on early career scientists

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is for you – and a great opportunity – if you are establishing a group in Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Türkiye...

Great 20k run today — one of my all-time favourite spots!

Words to live by!

Great visit at UBC- impressive student facilities on campus!

Entered 🇩🇰 airspace!

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

The great “enshittification” 🧪

theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Galette des rois @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social , courtesy of @joadelas.bsky.social 👑

How does signalling control cortical tension?

Using optogenetics and AFM, we show that myosin recruitment and cortical tension increase proportionally with RhoA signalling.

More here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Super work by Pierre Bohec with Guillaume Salbreux and @dianakhorom.bsky.social

polychrome AI-fuelled rendering of a macrophage

Nice image from Anamul Hoque "tidied up" a bit by ChatGPT - won us the "best image" prize at UCL Life Sciences.

Ernst Haeckel, eat your heart out.

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Breaking...

Very good news. A first step towards...?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research.

Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships.

Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

It is the most luminous time of the year !

Six new members of the ERC Scientific Council The European Commission has appointed six new members to the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council. The term of one current member has also been renewed. In par...

Six new members join the ERC Scientific Council:

🔸Michel Campillo
🔸Emmanuelle Charpentier
🔸Kateřina Králová
🔸Susana Narotzky
🔸Karin Roelofs
🔸Eleftheria Zeggini

Read more: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

I don't think scientists should work for anyone else. They should work for discovery and for their own curiosity.
– Maria Leptin, ERC President @marialep.bsky.social
(From the episode of the Night Science Podcast coming out next week @nightsciencepod.bsky.social )

We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables.

This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands.

jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening...

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob