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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · May 21

Brain tail axis!

Karen Echeverri @karenecheverri.bsky.social · May 8

Delighted to see this work from my lab published today, where we identify a population of ETV-1 positive glutamatergic neurons that are activated in the brain in response to a distant injury.

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

Neuronal activation in the axolotl brain promotes tail regeneration - npj Regenerative Medicine

npj Regenerative Medicine - Neuronal activation in the axolotl brain promotes tail regeneration

www.nature.com

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · May 21

Very cool!

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · May 21

Beautiful work!

Leo Otsuki @leootsuki.bsky.social · May 21

Delighted that our work on positional memory is now published. We asked how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura, Francisco Falcon and Elly Tanaka.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 14

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

The gates of Harvard University. The text reads: "Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration's Demands." Photo by Sophie Park for The New York Times.

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · Apr 14

Worth reading!

Tatiana Sandoval Guzmán @tatianasg.bsky.social · Apr 14

It has been known for a long time that if the starting point of limb regeneration is at the hand level or close to the shoulder, it would take about the same time to regenerate. Puzzling right?
Check out this preprint from our lab to know more about it:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mechanical control of tissue growth during limb regeneration

The axolotl is a highly regenerative species, capable of restoring full limbs, regardless of the amputation site. However, the regeneration rate is adjusted with the plane of amputation along the prox...

www.biorxiv.org

Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · Apr 1

If you think it’s time to move, stay tuned. This is a good opportunity.

www.vr.se/aktuellt/nyh...

Nytt bidrag för att rekrytera forskare verksamma utanför Europa

I mitten av april öppnar Vetenskapsrådet en ny utlysning om bidrag på två miljoner för att möjliggöra för svenska lärosäten och andra forskningsorganisationer att rekrytera framstående forskare verksa...

www.vr.se

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · Mar 22

Great opportunity, don’t miss it!

Enric Llorens @ellorens.bsky.social · Mar 21

Join us @ki.se in Stockholm to work on spatial genomics. A few days left to apply to the open postdoc position in our lab 👇

Enric Llorens @ellorens.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 We're hiring! Postdoc position available at our lab at the Karolinska Institute in beautiful Stockholm to work on exciting projects developing and applying spatial genomics.
Apply here: ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...
Email or dm to discuss
@ki.se #PostdocPosition #Spatial #Stockholm #ScienceJobs

Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · Mar 17

Super interesting paper on gene transfer from somatic to germline cells

bsky.app/profile/maya...

Maya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social · Mar 17

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇

Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Mar 13

Together with fellow @biologists.bsky.social EiCs we've written about the unprecedented cuts & policy changes to research in the US

We stand with our US colleagues during this challenging time

Science transcends borders—setbacks in one nation affect us all

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times

As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...

journals.biologists.com

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Andras Simon @andrassimon.bsky.social · Feb 12

A #Pleurodeles on the cover. Interested in this #giantgenome, #salamander #regeneration, #noncodingRNA landscape? Pls check out: www.cell.com/cell-genomic.... Many great labs involved, special thanks to co-senior authors
@maxyunlab.bsky.social, and @niche-leigh.bsky.social

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Josh Currie @joshcurrie.bsky.social · Feb 9

Universities need to make it crystal clear to parents that cuts to HHS will result in serious tuition hikes just to mitigate the immediate budget shortfalls while they fire employees and scale back research to adapt.

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Murawala Lab at MDI Bio Lab @murawalalab.bsky.social · Feb 7

We are grateful to @isrbio.bsky.social for their support of the ReBilD course @mdibiolab.bsky.social. mdibl.org/course/rebil... Please RT. 🙌

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Feb 7

Hello, Bluesky! ☀️

We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.

Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.