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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 18h

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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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · 13h

yes... it is insane to see the valuation of the infrastructure being built. I can see the narrative: The LLMs will teach the world and we do not need schools etc... But it is nothing else than expensive deskilling!

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 2d

“For Gurdon to continue in biology would be a complete waste of time both for him and for those who would have to teach him”

He proved them wrong! RIP John Gurdon

www.cell.com/current-biol...

John Gurdon

John Gurdon is at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology in Cambridge. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he changed from classics to zoology. Dur...

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting how companies and the financial world is racing to spend mindboggling amounts of money to build the infrastructure to train computers. But we are leaving the infrastructure to train and educate humans crumbling. The question is who will train who?

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · 14d

Missing #EDRC2025, but the lab will be giving three talks: Ibo on the taste and feeding connectome on Friday at 15:00; Silvia on the microbiome and metabolic stress on Saturday at 10:30; and Rita on identifying the structure of metabolism at single-cell resolution in the same session. Enjoy!

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 21d

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition

Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we identify mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 a...

www.biorxiv.org

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 26d

This is a disaster if the EU doesn't follow up by doubling the budget 😬🧪

Derek Severi Lundberg @derekseveri.bsky.social · 26d

record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals

This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu

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Maria Paz Fernandez @mariadelapax.bsky.social · Sep 9

New publication from our lab, in Science Advances:

Synaptic targets of circadian clock neurons influence core clock parameters

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Synaptic targets of circadian clock neurons influence core clock parameters

A neuron type downstream of circadian pacemakers regulates daily sleep and activity timing in Drosophila.

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · Sep 7

Congratulations!!!!

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Giovanni D’Angelo @giodang.bsky.social · Sep 3

Happy to share our work on uMAIA, a framework for building metabolomic atlases from mass spectrometry imaging.
With uMAIA, we mapped the lipidome of zebrafish development, uncovering spatially organized metabolic programs .
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#developmentalbiology #MSI #lipidtime

Unified mass imaging maps the lipidome of vertebrate development

Nature Methods - uMAIA is an analytical framework designed to enable the construction of metabolic atlases at high resolution using mass spectrometry imaging data.

www.nature.com

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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · Aug 30

Excited to share work led by my PhD student Hayley McMorrow now published in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social. Hayley showed that GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonists rapidly inhibit AgRP neurons and that endogenous GIP is important for nutrient-mediated AgRP neuron inhibition. doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

JCI - Incretin receptor agonism rapidly inhibits AgRP neurons to suppress food intake in mice

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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · Aug 29

The #FKNE Leadership and Soft Skills Online #Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Applicat. deadline: 15 Oct. 2025 👉http://rb.gy/6dhmxh

fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...

FKNE Leadership and Soft Skills: Online Training Series for the Starting PI – FKNE

fenskavlinetwork.org

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · Aug 29

You have two discovery seminars on IRs back to back. ;)

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today is a good day.

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · Aug 7

Journalists should know that words matter. Can we please consider replacing “mainstream” with “evidence” whenever appropriate. It has a completely different connotation and in science mainstream is very often due to all evidences pointing in that direction. Especially for vaccines. Thanks!

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · Aug 6

attention 🪰folks. many of you received a survey from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social about potential future sites of the US Fly meeting. We are excited for #Dros26 Chicago, but future sites are in question, for many logistical reasons. GSA is hard at work planning, but we need to hear from you. please RT!

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · Aug 6

Link?

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · Aug 5

I would do the same if the alternative is RFK Jr.

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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · Aug 1

🚨 #FENS2026 NEW DATES 🚨

First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️

Find out more 👉: https://loom.ly/zMkMKcA

🔔 Stay tuned!

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you for the invitation to present in the presidential symposium and for putting together such an amazing meeting. Bravo!

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · Jul 30

I had a fantastic time sharing our work at the #ssib2025 @ssibsociety.bsky.social meeting in Oxford. What a fantastic community discussing everything you ever wanted to know about feeding. Made many new friends and I learned a lot. I hope we stay in touch! Thanks for the invitation!