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Jonathan Harris @jonathanaharris.bsky.social · 23d

"Killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births"

This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ale Mongera @mongeralab.bsky.social · 28d

📣Our project, “Mechanometabolic Control of Vertebrate Limb Elongation,” has been funded by Wellcome!
Over the next 8 years, we’ll collaborate with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Nathalie Agar’s group to understand the mechanics of ECM-rich mesenchymal tissues! Funded positions available!🎉

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Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social · 27d

Congrats Ale!! 👏👏

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Julia Eckert @juliaeckert.bsky.social · Aug 15

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🥳

👉 rdcu.be/eATn3

We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.

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Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Aug 11

🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Aug 4

Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until October 12, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #fellowship #PhD#Switzerland

Biozentrum PhD Fellowships

Share your passion for life sciences. If you are talented and highly motivated, want to broaden your horizons and are interested in a wide range of research topics, apply for one of the sought after B...

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gserranonajera.bsky.social @gserranonajera.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hi bsky!

Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity!

w/ A. Delahaye & ‪@bensteventon.bsky.social‬

shorturl.at/v01DO

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Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social · Jul 7

PhD position available in our team @dublincityuni.bsky.social from September. Please share/ contact me for informal enquiries.

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Kristina Stapornwongkul @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thank you for speaking with me about my research @iamshef.bsky.social! #newPI #metabodev #MetabolismMondays

Please check out Shefali’s weekly interviews with different ECRs about metabolism and development @the-node.bsky.social! What a great initiative 👏
thenode.biologists.com/author/shefa...

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Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thanks for the support Katherine!

Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thank you so much Bertrand! It means a lot.

Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thank you Louis!

Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thanks so much Kristina!! Lets join forces! :)

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Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social · Jun 27

Could I please be added too? 🙏

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Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you Maki! Counting on you for iPSC troubleshooting!

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Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you!!

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Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you Baptiste, you are next! 😀

Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to share I’m starting my group in Dublin this September, supported by a Research Ireland Pathway award. We will work on neurulation mechanics using chicken embryos and human iPSCs. Looking forward to this new adventure! #newPI #womeninSTEM

Research Ireland @researchireland.ie · Jun 25

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless, has today announced €23 million in funding to support early-career researchers through the Research Ireland Pathway Programme. Read more: www.researchireland.ie/news/pathways/ #ResearchIreland

r Marco Rosario Capodiferro, Trinity College Dublin and Pathway awardee, James Lawless TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and Dr Ruth Freeman, Director of Research for Society at Research Ireland.

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · Jun 2

Important changes on @erc.europa.eu grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

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Julia Eckert @juliaeckert.bsky.social · May 25

Our new review paper from @yap-lab.bsky.social is online - together with Virgile Viasnoff!

👉 'New directions in epithelial mechanoadaptation'

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Gabriel Galea @glgalea.bsky.social · May 20

#ApicalConstriction and #DevBio afficionados - we've got two new pre-prints you may be interested in, below:

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hpscenthusiast.bsky.social @hpscenthusiast.bsky.social · May 23

Hello Bluesky world!

🚨New Preprint 🚨

Thrilled to share my second paper from my PhD in the @glgalea.bsky.social lab. @ucl.ac.uk

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Patient-specific iPSC models of neural tube defects identify underlying deficiencies in neuroepithelial cell shape regulation and differentiation

Spina bifida and anencephaly are neural tube defects caused by failure of embryonic neural tube closure. Successful closure requires elongation and apical constriction of neuroepithelial cells. These ...

doi.org

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · May 7

Introducing the 2025 PI Fellows of our Pathway to Independence Programme

Over the next year, we will be supporting this talented group of eight postdocs, providing training, mentorship and networking opportunities as they apply for independent positions.
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

PI Fellows 2025 | Development | The Company of Biologists

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Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · May 6

Over on @the-node.bsky.social. Reflections on the end of an era: a look back at my time on Development. So many things I could have written about in this post - it's been a wonderful 13 years at Development - but these are some of the things that have particularly stuck in my mind...

The end of an era - the Node

As you may have seen in an earlier post, I'm moving on from Development after 13+ years as the journal's Executive Editor. The good news (for me at

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