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Alexandre Jan @alexandrejan.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 7d

Sad news: Jane Goodall has died. She did more than any other human for our understanding and appreciation of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees.

That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 13d

Fantastic presentation by @malinkjosavik.bsky.social at the Tutzing basal metazoan workshop 👏 She shared her work on starvation and metabolism in Nematostella, conducted in collaboration between the @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social lab and the Dept of Biomedicine @unibergen.bsky.social ✨

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 14d

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 21d

Huge congratulations to postdoc Guillaume Poncelet @guillaumeponcelet.bsky.social who was awarded a UiB Early Idea innovation grant 🤩🎉 Inspired by his work in the @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social lab, he will be developing a new product derived from naturally occurring compounds 🔬 Read more below ⤵️

Michael Sars Centre researcher awarded UiB Idé innovation grant

Guillaume Poncelet, postdoctoral researcher in the Christiaen group, will receive funding from the UiB Idé innovation program to develop a novel product inspired by marine life.

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Spirochrome @spirochrome.com · 28d

HAK-actin™ was developed in the labs of @centriolelab.bsky.social and @dudinlab.bsky.social.

Find out more about HAK-actin™ in the BioRxiv manuscript: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are grateful to @dudinlab.bsky.social for providing the creolimax frangantissima data used in the movie

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 29d

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Flagellar gliding in choanoflagellates

Freire-Delgado and Brunet discover a new mode of cell motility in choanoflagellates, the closest relatives of animals. Under mild confinement, choanoflagellate move over surfaces without cell deformat...

www.cell.com

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Inés Fournon Berodia @inesfournon.bsky.social · 27d

Congrats Paul! 👏

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 28d

Our lab is 2.5 years into #ERC funding✨

Grateful for the support that enabled us to uncover the syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore - a discovery reshaping our understanding of nervous system evolution. Stay tuned for more exciting discoveries to come @erc.europa.eu

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DAE...

Flying into sensory and mesogleal neurons from a ctenophore (comb jelly).

YouTube video by Pawel Burkhardt

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James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats to all those getting an ~ERCStG today! Also a small reminder that the University of Galway offers a permanent academic position to ERC StG holders so if anyone in the area of Chromosome Biology (broadly defined) is still looking for a home then please reach out!

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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Inés Fournon Berodia @inesfournon.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you 😊

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · Aug 27

Final year PhD students, I know you’re desperately trying to finish experiments/revisions/submissions/write a thesis & just survive - but please spare a few minutes to apply to your dream postdoc labs.

It easily takes A YEAR from first contact, even if everything goes to plan on both sides.

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Inés Fournon Berodia @inesfournon.bsky.social · Aug 27

I am still very much processing this!🤩 Feeling extremely happy and grateful to have finished my PhD at the @msarscentre.bsky.social 💜 Thank you to everyone who was part of this 4 year journey!

Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · Aug 26

Congratulations Dr. Fournon Berodia @inesfournon.bsky.social 🎉🤩 We are very proud of Inés for successfully defending her PhD thesis conducted in the @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social lab. Thank you to opponents @ragkousik.bsky.social & @levayerr.bsky.social for insightful discussions 👏

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Ines Fournon Berodia smiles widely, holding in place on her head a customized graduation hat.

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · Aug 7

Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you!

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

With @dudinlab.bsky.social
@embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · Aug 4

Marine biodiversity: Gone with the wind? Our dispatch out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social

New research shows that wind and currents act as invisible barriers, reshaping our view of ocean connectivity. 🌊🪼

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...
@iramaegele.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · Jul 4

Stretch it, wound it, pull it: ADIP-Diversin polarizes anyway. Characterization of a new mechanosensitive polarity module 🐸

First #preLight from @alinegrata.bsky.social, highlighting #preprint from Chih-Wen Chu, Satheeja Velayudhan, Sergei Sokol and team:
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/m...

Mechanical cues organize planar cell polarity during vertebrate morphogenesis and embryonic wound repair - preLights

Stretch it, wound it, pull it: ADIP-Diversin polarizes anyway. Characterization of a new mechanosensitive polarity module.

prelights.biologists.com

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Anna Ferraioli @annaferraioli.bsky.social · Jun 28

Excited to share our new work on the 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ!

We explored its remarkable cellular diversity and integration with the syncytial nerve net, uncovering connectivity and insights into the evolution of sensory complexes.

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

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · Jun 28

Our new paper is out: "The 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ & the evolution of complex integrative centers in animals.

We reveal a remarkable cell type diversity, nerve net condensation, a multilayered circuit & gene expression profiles.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ctenophores

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SFI MediaFutures @sfimediafutures.bsky.social · Jun 27

Science communication isn’t just for newspapers. @pintsworld.bsky.social takes research to bars. We made a MediaFutures edition, featuring three researchers sharing work in progress:
Samia Touileb – Bias in LLMs
Yuki Onishi – Eye Gaze in TV Galleries
PeteAndrews – AI Political Co-Pilot

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Inés Fournon Berodia @inesfournon.bsky.social · Jun 26

Wrapping up the night: Pete Andrews on AI & political debates 🎙️🗳️
How can tech help us debate proactively?
#Pint25 #AI #politics @pintsworld.bsky.social
@sfiMediaFutures.bsky.social

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Inés Fournon Berodia @inesfournon.bsky.social · Jun 26

Up next: Yuki Onishi asked whether our own eyes can direct the future of TV? 👀📺
Discovering how gaze tracking could revolutionise media production!
#Pint25 #FutureTV #MediaTech @pintsworld.bsky.social
@sfiMediaFutures.bsky.social

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Inés Fournon Berodia @inesfournon.bsky.social · Jun 26

Kicking off: Samia Touileb on bias in large language models 🤖 How does AI reflect or reinterpret the world around us?
Grab a pint and find out! 🍺🧠
#AIBias #MediaTech @pintsworld.bsky.social
@sfiMediaFutures.bsky.social

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Inés Fournon Berodia @inesfournon.bsky.social · Jun 26

Tonight’s the night! 🍻🧠
Join us at Statsraaden Bar for our spin off event about The Future of Media Technology with @sfiMediaFutures.bsky.social & @pintsworld.bsky.social
Three short talks, relaxed vibe — see you at 19:00! 🎯📺
#Pint25 #Bergen

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · Jun 17

Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳
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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Jun 17

Look at those #DIATOMS

LOOK AT THESE #Microtubules

Congrats to the team

Long-live #UExM #Expansion #Microscopy

Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · Jun 17

Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳
tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2

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