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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Alexis Barr @alexisbarr.bsky.social · 2d

Many of you know, we lost Béla Novák this year. John Tyson, Francis Barr & I tried to capture his wonderful character & great mind so that those that didn't know him can see what a fantastic person he was.

Thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for publishing.

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Béla Novák (1956–2025) – a legacy of scientific discovery and personal charm

In February 2025, we were shocked and deeply saddened to hear about the death of Béla Novák, Professor in Integrative Systems Biology at the University of Oxford, UK, and a beloved grandfather, father...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 1d

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Early career group leaders

We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 1d

Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance

Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 1d

"if anything employment outcomes are worsening more rapidly for those with fewer skills looking for blue-collar jobs than the highly skilled seeking knowledge work"

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@jburnmurdoch.ft.com as ever doing the essential work.

It's not just AI. And education still matters

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong

People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts

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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 2d

The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍

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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Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 New paper alert on telomeres! 🚨
Something different from the group! Thanks to Yuxin, a talented student in the lab, we used long-reads in 75 human trios to study telomeres and their inheritance.

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Barral Lab @barrallab.bsky.social · 2d

Looking for a PhD for 2026? We have 2 projects in collaboration with Clare Bennett (UCL) looking at macrophage metabolism in breast cancer. Check them out! @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social

www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-phd-pro...

crukradnet.colcc.ac.uk/phd-students...

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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 3d

Wonderful opportunity to work with Martin Howard and my group trying to understand how chromatin influences gene transcription and expression. Integration of theory, modelling, and experimentation. Come and join the team!
Please repost!

jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

John Innes Centre

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Aleksander Szczurek @aleksszczurek.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a computational biologist come, apply and join Howard & Klose lab in a joint Norwich-Oxford collaboration on chromatin dynamics!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

VACANCY - We have an opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group, working to develop computational models of epigenetic dynamics in the Polycomb system.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Closing date - 9 November 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 36 months, full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher (Howard Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Computational and Systems Biology.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social · 3d

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists.
🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

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Nuria Lopez-Bigas @nlbigas.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 New paper alert!

Sex and smoking bias in the selection of somatic mutations in human bladder

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

by @raquelbmi.bsky.social, @ferriol.bsky.social et al (in collaboration with Rosana Risques lab in @uwmedicine.bsky.social)

Sex and smoking bias in the selection of somatic mutations in human bladder - Nature

Sex bias and association with smoking history identified in the landscape of driver mutations and clonal expansions in normal human bladder tissue may explain the higher bladder cancer risk in men and smokers.

www.nature.com

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Duncan Sproul @sproullab.bsky.social · 4d

@alexisbarr.bsky.social does some very cool work. Do apply if you are looking for a postdoc!

Alexis Barr @alexisbarr.bsky.social · 23d

@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer.

Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions.

Please repost!

More details:
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Description

Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

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Nature @nature.com · 5d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Anders H. Lund @andershlund.bsky.social · 8d

We have an open group leader position in diabetes 1 research.
Please circulate!

www.nature.com/naturecareer....

164887 Professor or Associate Professor and Research Group Leader with special focus on molecular me - Copenhagen, Hovedstaden (DK) job with The Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), Universi...

BRIC wishes to recruit a strongly motivated scientist at Associate Professor or Professor level for an independent research group leader position. ...

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Elizabeth McKenna @elizsmckenna.bsky.social · 8d

Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: Epigenetic and Transcriptional Programs Define #Osteosarcoma Subtypes and Establish Targetable Vulnerabilities - by Eunice López-Fuentes, Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 11d

Please start following @natbiomedeng.nature.com! It's an alive account now and we will start posting good content!

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Mcclelland lab @mcclellandlab.bsky.social · 10d

Come and join us at the Barts Cancer Institute @qmbci.bsky.social ! Our medical school, part of Queen Mary University of London @qmulfmd.bsky.social is hiring 10 professors!! www.veredus.co.uk/job/job-747a/. Contact me for a chat if interested.

Professors x 10, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry | Veredus

QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Professors x 10, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry London Competitive Remuneration Package Queen Mary University of London seeks up to 10 world-leading translational re...

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 12d

Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems?

Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 12d

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social !
2 Associate Professorships in the areas of
- prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology
- metabolism

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Job Details

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Jamie Hackett @jamiehackett.bsky.social · 14d

❓Can a father’s environmental exposures before conception influence their offspring?

We systematically tackled this - identifying effects of paternal age, environment and genetics on early embryos - as well as confounding influences

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Embryonic signatures of intergenerational epigenetic inheritance across paternal environments and genetic backgrounds | The EMBO Journal

imageimagePaternal environmental exposures have been linked with modulation of phenotype and disease risk in offspring via largely unclear mechanisms. This study employs in vitro fertilization and sin...

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 14d

Application period for the Cedars-Sinai PhD Program in Health AI is now OPEN! Come study cutting-edge AI in a top hospital with clinical rotations, clinical collaborators, & easy access to clinical data - please RP! www.cedars-sinai.edu/education/gr... #artificialintelligence #bioinformatics #phd

PhD in Health Artificial Intelligence

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 14d

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
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Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco

Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 16d

This is a fascinating paper that particular types of RNA binding proteins with IDRs that target nuclear speckles also can recruit their own RNAs to nuclear speckles as a negative feedback mechanism for condensation the authors call "interstasis" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Collective homeostasis of condensation-prone proteins via their mRNAs - Nature

The authors discover a homeostatic process termed interstasis, in which an increased concentration of proteins within RNA–protein condensates induces the sequestration of their own mRNAs.

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Carmelo Ferrai @carmeloferrai.bsky.social · 16d

@jzylicz.bsky.social N. Stamidis @ucph.bsky.social @jamiehackett.bsky.social @gregersenlab.bsky.social

HDAC3 prevents enhancer hyperactivation to enable developmental transitions

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HDAC3 prevents enhancer hyperactivation to enable developmental transitions

Dynamic gene regulation requires precise cooperation between transcription factors and chromatin modifiers at regulatory elements to achieve not only activation or repression, but also appropriate tra...

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