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Caro Goujon @carogoujon.bsky.social · Jul 9

New job offer in the team! If you're an experienced virologist (with a PhD), join us to work on Horizon Europe-funded APPEAL project in the vibrant city of Montpellier, South of France! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359640

Research assistant (postdoc level) in molecular virology, EU-funded project APPEAL (Montpellier, France)

The research assistant with a PhD in molecular virology (RA, 'ingénieur de recherche' in French) will work on the Horizon Europe-funded APPEAL project involving 13 partners from 6 countries, including...

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Diana Brychka @dianabrychka.bsky.social · Jun 30

My little brain organoid is in a contest. If you find it pretty, you can vote for it 🤍
Go look at the other images too, they’re stunning!

Here is the link to vote:
m.cmpgn.page/jxZjTb?sre=2...

#MicroscopyMonday #SciArt

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Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social · May 10

⚠️ Discovery of a new mode of viral transmission:

Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse !

These viral satellites that do not encode their own glycoproteins, are in fact physically encapsulated within their helper virus particles!

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

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Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social · May 9

The beauty and chaos of structure.

HFF cells stained for cytoskeletal proteins Actin (⚪), Septin (🟡), Tubulin (🟣) and DNA (🔵).

#FluorescenceFriday
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Diana Brychka @dianabrychka.bsky.social · Apr 4

My monocyte, with a fluorescent membrane (EGFP-CAAX 💛), is transmigrating across the brain microvascular endothelium (VE-cadherin 💙)

#FluorescenceFriday #SciArt

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Diana Brychka @dianabrychka.bsky.social · Mar 28

My little brain organoid with stained neurons ❤️ and nuclei 🤍

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Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social · Mar 28

Micro-rearrangement of DNA and proteins is a highly dynamic process!

As shown here with cell nucleus (DNA in gray) expressing a fluorescent protein (orange).

1 image acquired every 2 seconds for 2 minutes.

#FluorescenceFriday
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Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social · Mar 21

New cell line = New cell morphologies to explore!

This hepatic cell line has fully invested into membrane protrusions!

Actin is shown in 🟦 and DNA in 🟧

#FluorescenceFriday
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SBCF @sbcf.bsky.social · Mar 10

🎓 Bourses de voyage 🌍

📢 Appel à candidatures ! La #SBCF propose des bourses de voyage pour soutenir les jeunes scientifiques (docs et post-docs) souhaitant assister à des congrès en #BiologieCellulaire

📅 Dates limites de candidature en 2025 :
🗓️ 15 avril | 15 juin | 15 oct

sbcf.fr/fellowship/b...

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Raph Gaudin's team @gaudinlab.bsky.social · Mar 18

The Team moved from the 24th letter of the alphabet to Bluesky. Team's news will be here from now on 😁

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Diana Brychka @dianabrychka.bsky.social · Mar 14

One of my favourite images: monocytes 💙 infiltrating a little brain organoid, with post-synaptic protein PSD95 ❤️ and nuclei 🤍 visualized

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · Mar 11

Voting is open in our image competition with @the-node.bsky.social.

Thanks to everyone that entered, and congratulations to our final 15. Now it's your turn to pick your favourite!

Look out for our gallery of images at the Biologists @ 100 conference #biologists100.

Vote for your favourite image - FocalPlane

Vote for your favourite image - News

focalplane.biologists.com

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Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social · Mar 7

A Spiky Cell

A boa constrictor brain-derived cell stained for membranes (cyan), actin (yellow) and DNA (pink)

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Caro Goujon @carogoujon.bsky.social · Mar 7

I also have a few examples of my own… as a #FirstGen student, I started with a technical training. during my first intership, a postdoc asked me what I wanted to do afterwards and when I said pursuing my studies and do a PhD, the reply was ‘oh, but you’d need to be clever for that… didn’t you know?´

Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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oliviermoncorge.bsky.social @oliviermoncorge.bsky.social · Mar 5

Don't forget to register and submit your abstract for #NSV2025 in Montpellier! The abstract submission/registration system on the website will CLOSE Friday, April 11, 2025.
Visit www.negativestrandvirus.org/home

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Manuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social · Mar 5

Unique opportunity to join the CytoMorpho Lab (in Paris ❤️) as a postdoc to work on the self-organization and polarization of reconstituted networks made of microtubules, motors and actin filaments in vitro. Experience required.
Please Repost 🙏 thanks !

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Matison W. McCool @matwmccool.bsky.social · Mar 6

My favorite thing about the @standupforscience.bsky.social map is that the French people obviously maintain their solidarity and know the history of our joint venture in revolution. Those in power in the U.S. would have us forget this, but I ’ll be Santa Fe tomorrow, how’s about you?

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Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social · Feb 28

Proteins can do weird things sometimes...!

Anyone else heard of cytoophidia? A cool and understudied cell biology process!

In red is a mutant of an antiviral protein, in cyan is an influenza A virus protein and in yellow are cell nuclei.

#FluorescenceFriday
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Diana Brychka @dianabrychka.bsky.social · Feb 28

Primary monocytes (monocytic Occludin is 💙) transmigrating across the brain endothelium (F-actin is 🧡). Nuclei are 🤍

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Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social · Feb 24

3 years ago today we witnessed an act of war, shocking us all and changing the world we live in.

Over 3 years, we have seen support, people and countries uniting against this abhorrence.

Today, USA sided with Russia, refusing the UN's condemnation.

This #MicroscopyMonday we #StandWithUkraine

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Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social · Feb 21

Dark neon vibes from this one..!

Actin in orange, microtubules in purple and nucleus in gray.

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Diana Brychka @dianabrychka.bsky.social · Feb 21

Hello neurons 💛 in my little brain organoid. Nuclei are 💙

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Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy #ValentinesDay / #FluorescenceFriday everyone!! :)

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