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Franck Pichaud
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Cell & Developmental Biologist
#cellbiology #developmentalbiology #imaging #genetics
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fpichaud.bsky.social
Great 20k run today — one of my all-time favourite spots!
January 17, 2026 at 12:41 AM
fpichaud.bsky.social
Words to live by!
January 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
fpichaud.bsky.social
Great visit at UBC- impressive student facilities on campus!
January 14, 2026 at 9:25 PM
fpichaud.bsky.social
Entered 🇩🇰 airspace!
January 10, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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mfainzilber.bsky.social
The great “enshittification” 🧪

theconversation.com/the-5-stages...
The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
theconversation.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:50 PM
fpichaud.bsky.social
Galette des rois @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social , courtesy of @joadelas.bsky.social 👑
January 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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gcharras.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
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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robinsall.bsky.social
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.
polychrome AI-fuelled rendering of a macrophage
December 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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mjafreeman.bsky.social
Breaking...

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

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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deniswirtz.bsky.social
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-...
December 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
fpichaud.bsky.social
It is the most luminous time of the year !
December 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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erc.europa.eu
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/...
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...
erc.europa.eu
December 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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itaiyanai.bsky.social
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 )
December 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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somssich.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
Head of Cell Biology KWS Vegetables
Head of Cell Biology KWS Vegetables
jobs.kws.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
Paper for the #Drosophila community on a food recipe that rears dozens of species. This was a full team effort, with key contributions from UG, MSc, and PhD students! 👩‍🎓🎉

Plus an #infection observation re: Diet x #Microbiota 🦠

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#EvolBiol #AcademicSky #SymbioSky
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Phylogenetic signal of egg-to-adult development times and body mass of dozens of fly species reared on a common media. Egg-to-adult development times, lipid floating assay of larvae, and body mass of select fly species reared on various media. The Prop recipe we're using supports a rich microbiota, and when we flip adults on it, some species die to a coinfection(?) that occurs when flipped on the prop recipe, rather than the pathogen we introduced. One microbiota member we recovered from the Prop recipe was a virulent strain of Providencia rettgeri, a known pathogen of Drosophila. Fly species infected by P. rettgeri previously showed a high phylogenetic signal in infection susceptibility, and P. rettgeri has an interaction of critical importance with a single host gene (Diptericin/Dpt, shown in FigC). This microbe, alongside other potential pathobionts (e.g., Serratia, Pseudomonas) likely explains a key part of the susceptibility of different species to infection when flipped on the Prop recipe.
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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pedrobeltrao.bsky.social
Looks like OpenFold3 has been formally released in a public "preview". Not quite on parity with AlphaFold3 on a few benchmarks shown, in particular for antibody interactions. All info on the github link. I am sure we will hear more about this from the developers github.com/aqlaboratory...
GitHub - aqlaboratory/openfold-3: OpenFold3: A fully open source biomolecular structure prediction model based on AlphaFold3
OpenFold3: A fully open source biomolecular structure prediction model based on AlphaFold3 - aqlaboratory/openfold-3
github.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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ebi.embl.org
For over 20 years, the mouse model organism has helped scientists uncover the biology behind human health and disease.

But the mouse reference genomes still have missing pieces.
The first collection of telomere-to-telomere mouse genomes are now available for two key mouse strains.
🧬💻
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
fpichaud.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine
mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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drianweissman.bsky.social
Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...
How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment
Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.
www.cnbc.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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drosospain.bsky.social
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate
October 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Poster with QR code linking to the position
October 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Folks whose jobs, postdocs or grad school fellowships or applications were cut short--drop them a line
stephenturner.us Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Oct 10
Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
October 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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barackobama.bsky.social
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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buzzbaum.bsky.social
LMB PhD studentship available in the Baum lab to use informatics to infer cell structure from genomic data in collaboration with the brilliant Tom Williams. If you write to me and I don’t reply - try again - the spam filter is hungry…
October 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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fly-eds.bsky.social
The #EDS has the pleasure to announce that, after #EDRC2027 in Bonn, we will have #EDRC2029 in Szeged! Don’t forget these hashtags!
September 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM