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Harriet Taylor @harrytaylorcrick.bsky.social · 2d

Ready to start your own independent research programme?

We're inviting applications for early career group leaders in all areas of biology and biomedicine @crick.ac.uk

Apply by 27 Nov 2025:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

#EarlyCareerResearchers #GroupLeader #ScienceCareers

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 2d

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

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Gregor Rot 🌈 @grexor.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Martin!

Gregor Rot 🌈 @grexor.bsky.social · 2d

#pubscan mobile ready now @metagenomez.bsky.social 👍

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Gregor Rot 🌈 @grexor.bsky.social · 4d

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 17d

NEW EPISODE: Can we cure cancer?

Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of cancer research and treatment.

Listen on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSCancerBB

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Anna Pascual Reguant @pascual-reguant.bsky.social · 26d

🚀 Spatial Transcriptomics (Imaging) + Spatial-centric analyses by @helucro.bsky.social : the way to truly interrogate tissues!!!
📖 Read our pre-print on human tonsil architecture (full of tonsiLove ♥️) here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A transcriptional map of human tonsil architecture: beyond the sum of (single cell) parts

The tonsil is a highly compartmentalized organ in which different microanatomical structures orchestrate designated (immune) functions. We use this already well-studied tissue to survey spatial molecu...

doi.org

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Gregor Rot 🌈 @grexor.bsky.social · 25d

A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement

www.theguardian.com

Gregor Rot 🌈 @grexor.bsky.social · 28d

Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war

Educational bodies from Europe to South America are boycotting Israeli institutions, though Universities UK said it did not support the action

www.theguardian.com

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FMI science @fmiscience.bsky.social · 29d

📣The Turco group is seeking a computational biologist to analyze large omics datasets. Work on cutting-edge 3D organoid models of the human placenta and be embedded in our Computational Biology Platform (part of @sib.swiss). Apply here: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 29d

Want to enhance your image analysis skills with napari?

We’re running a two-day training event on how to use napari to effectively analyse your bioimaging data.

🕒 Applications close on 15 September.

Learn more and apply 👇

www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...

CBIAS napari workshop 2025

www.crick.ac.uk

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 29d

The power of RNA sequencing in molecular oncology. #RNAseq #MolecularOncology Genomics @natmed.nature.com 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · Sep 8

MoGAAAP: A modular Snakemake workflow for automated genome assembly and annotation with quality assessment. #GenomeAssembly #GenomeAnnotation #GenomeQuality #Genomics #Bioinformatics @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social 🧬 🖥️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Gregor Rot 🌈 @grexor.bsky.social · Sep 5

Beautiful app.flow.bio #flowbio web-app and Nextflow backend, this is how web-dev should be done in life sciences, very nice!

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · Sep 4

A spatial long-read approach at near-single-cell resolution reveals developmental regulation of splicing and polyadenylation sites in distinct cortical layers and cell types. #LongReads #SingleCell #Spatialtranscriptomics #IsoSeq #PolyA @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Gregor Rot 🌈 @grexor.bsky.social · Aug 23

Galimberti: La Bellezza

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Umberto Galimberti - La Bellezza. Legge segreta della vita - ASI CULTURA 26/07/2025 VILLAESTATE

YouTube video by Michele Cioffi

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Elisabetta Cacace @elisca.bsky.social · Aug 15

How diverse are E. coli capsules? How are they linked to ecology and disease? Find out with > 25,000 genomes and MAGs including undersampled environments and hosts from all over the world.
Great genomics - glycobiology synergy in Sunagawa and Slack groups at ETH!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧪🧫🔬

The natural diversity of E. coli transporter-dependent capsules

Serotyping of bacteria using genomic information ( in silico serotyping) has increasingly replaced serology. However, the E. coli capsule serotyping system has been largely abandoned since the 1990s, ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · Aug 10

Widespread 3′ UTR splicing regulates expression of oncogene transcripts through multiple mechanisms. #3UTRsplicing #TranscriptRegulation #Genomics @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

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Gregor Rot 🌈 @grexor.bsky.social · Jul 24

"my garden

in the sun and in the rain
and in the day and in the night

pain is a flower
pain is flowers

blooming all the time."

- Charles Bukowski

Gregor Rot 🌈 @grexor.bsky.social · Jul 18

Congrats everyone, such a tour de force!

"The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth's microbial ecosystems"

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