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Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · 13h

This is a landmark paper and resource describing circulating proteome variation in human diseases. Congrats to many colleagues in 🇸🇪 @proteinatlas.bsky.social @scilifelab.se !

Jochen Schwenk @jochwenk.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 A new open-access resource of @proteinatlas.bsky.social

A human pan-disease🩸 atlas of the circulating proteome

👉 www.proteinatlas.org/humanproteom...
📖 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🤩 @buenoalvez.bsky.social and many more!

@kawresearch.bsky.social
@scilifelab.se
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Gilles Vanwalleghem @drgillesv.bsky.social · 1h

Only a few days left to apply to join the lab, come have fun with lasers and fish to answer some cool questions along the gut-brain axis. Denmark is also a lovely country to live in!

Gilles Vanwalleghem @drgillesv.bsky.social · Sep 1

We are recruiting a postdoc to join our team and study neuroinflammation along the gut-brain axis. Please share it with anyone who may be interested, and do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions.
international.au.dk/about/profil...

Postdoc position in Neuroinflammation - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Neurobiology, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 11h

Great Job - Great Colleagues - Great Science👍
Help us pick the next generation of @hhmi.org Investigators, Freeman Hrabowski Scholars, Hanna Gray Fellows, Gilliam Fellows
Relocation to DC is required, perfect for academic PIs looking for their next chapter
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Senior Director - Scientific Officer

Primary Work Address: 4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) advances the disco...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Jul 2

Super-impressive - I’ve seen this peer review training in action. Something other institutions should replicate prereview.org/clubs/hhmi-t...

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 14h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 1h

I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Staff Scientist

About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...

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Alexis Barr @alexisbarr.bsky.social · 20h

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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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 19h

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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Miki Ebisuya @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social · 1d

New preprint from the lab! We discovered a transient fluidization in the basal region of human forebrains by tracking microdroplets in cerebral organoids.This “basal fluidization”, absent in gorilla and mouse, may contribute to greater surface expansion in human forebrains
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

This was not a sample of academics.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

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Miguel Ramalho-Santos @mrsantos.bsky.social · 2d

John Gurdon was a true giant:
- founder of cell reprogramming;
- founder of molecular embryology;
- unabashed advocate for basic research;
- advisor to numerous successful trainees/PIs;
- gentle human that touched so many.
In dark times with science under attack, let his vision be a guiding light.

Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 2d

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

www.cam.ac.uk

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 2d

Saddened to learn of the death of John Gurdon today. He was the supreme scientist. And truly inspirational lecturer and speaker. The Gurdon Institute @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social has been a wonderful place to run a lab - and he will be truly missed.

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Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon Dies Aged 92 – Gurdon Institute

www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk

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Sumru Bayin @sumrubayin.bsky.social · 2d

John Gurdon's research inspired me in my own scientific pursuits as a stem cell biologist. Starting my lab at
@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social was therefore particularly exciting. Seeing him around daily only underscored his admirable dedication to science and research. RIP John.
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 2d

"The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value."
- John Gurdon

Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 2d

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

www.cam.ac.uk

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 2d

With grateful thanks for the life of the Nobel scientist, Sir John Gurdon: a man of immeasurable kindness & humility as well as a visionary biologist.

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

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Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 2d

It’s no underestimate to say that he founded a whole field of biology - reprogramming - and his influence on the #devbio field and community has been enormous. He’ll be sorely missed, but his legacy will live on.

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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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Filipa Simões @simoesfilipa.bsky.social · 2d

A huge loss for our community, truly sad news…

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Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social · 2d

An inspiration to so many of us. I can say with no hesitation that reading John Gurdon's papers as an undergraduate changed my life. I was reprogrammed from a slightly bored biochemistry student into a person with a life-long love of developmental biology. I have much to thank him for.

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 2d

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College

Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.

www.magd.cam.ac.uk

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 2d

A remarkable transformation in @rsc.org prizes.
30% of prizes recognise teams rather than individuals (up from 5%).
36% of prize-winners are early-career (up from 4%)
38% of prize winners are women (up from 25%)
Twice as many prizes for work outside universities.
www.rsc.org/policy-and-c...

Reshaping recognition: evolving how we celebrate excellence

A multi-year journey to transform our prizes

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Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social · 2d

🧠 Join us @uzh-ch.bsky.social ! We are a new lab looking for PhDs, Postdocs & Master’s students interested in studying how human neural systems emerge & go awry using brain organoids, light-sheet imaging & genomics. 🚀 Deadline for LSZGS 1st Nov! www.lifescience-graduateschool.uzh.ch/en.html.

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Konstantinos Miti @mitisbio.bsky.social · 2d

Our calcium paper is out in PLOS Biology!
Check it out! #Calcium #Embryo #Development

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 3d

During #development, distal visceral #endoderm (DVE) cells migrate to shape A-P axis specification. @m-stower.bsky.social @srinivas-lab.bsky.social &co reveal the role of Ca2+ dynamics in this, showing that inhibition of #calcium transients causes DVE arrest @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nHWxF4

Epiblast Ca2+ waves propagate from the apical to basal domain. The images show selected time points from movies of E5.5 GCaMP6f embryos imaged using a ZEISS lattice light-sheet 7 microscope. Top row: An example of an epiblast wave involving a large proportion of the tissue captured by imaging a volume of the embryo at 20-s intervals. A total of 9/16 embryos showed at least one epiblast Ca2+ wave. Bottom row: Faster imaging at 5-s interval revealed that the Ca2+ wave in the epiblast can be preceded by a transient in a neighboring VE cell—this was observed in 5/19 events from 9 embryos (white arrowheads).

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband Out on a digital detox in the western US backcountry, scientist Fred Ramsdell was startled when his wife let out a yell. He feared she had spotted a grizzly bear, only to discover a far better surprise – he had won the Nobel prize in medicine. The Nobel committee had been unable to reach the immunologist, whose phone was on airplane mode as he was on a hiking and camping trip, but finally got through to the couple early on Tuesday morning, Swedish time. Continue reading...

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 2d

Issue 18 is complete!

On the cover: Clones on Drosophila retina with activated Mbt kinase (pink), expanding Sdk protein (yellow) from tri- to bi-cellular adheren junctions & distorting the ommatidial lattice (cyan).

See Research Article by Gandhi et al.

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