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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 9h

This was not a sample of academics.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 10h

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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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 1d

A good day to remember John Gurdon’s school report from his biology master at Eton

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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 1d

#goals

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 1d

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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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

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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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 4d

What a wonderful meeting it was! #EngineeredLivingMaterials

Barbara Gerratana @bgerratana.bsky.social · 5d

Two days of exciting science and discussion on the translation of ELMs to market/patients (regulatory and Path to Market) funded by #EIC under #EICPathfinder

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

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Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 6d

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT

We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.

See below 2 calls👇

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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 6d

7 year labiversary of our lab! Now with a new set of young researchers. Proud of what we’ve achieved and excited about the future.

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Madalena M. Reimão Pinto @madalenamrp.bsky.social · 6d

So incredibly grateful and excited to be joining the @mpi-cbg.de as a RGL from January 2026! If you are interested in becoming part of a growing team studying how zebrafish embryos know how much protein to make and when as they develop, embedded in a thriving research community, please apply.

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 6d

Are you interested in a PhD in the area of "Mechanisms of translational control during embryogenesis?" Apply now for a PhD @mpi-cbg.de! Overview of all participating RGLs: imprs.mpi-cbg.de/5761/researc...

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SUMO @sumoconsortium.bsky.social · 6d

Fantastic Annual Meeting of the #EngineeredLivingMaterials Portfolio, hosted at the stunning InnoRenew in 🇸🇮 (thx Anna Sandak!). New interactions & ideas for a more sustainable & healthy future 💚. Thx @bgerratana.bsky.social & @usymmons.bsky.social #EICPathfinder for supporting the future of #ELMs!

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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 8d

These benches with Hannah Arendt quotes in Ljubljana, Slovenia 🇸🇮! 💜💚

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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats Kate!! Awesome to see it out!

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Kate Miroshnikova @katemiro.bsky.social · 9d

Amazing to have our work finally out!!! 😍🤩😍

Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 9d

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells - Nature Cell Biology

McCreery, Stubb et al. show that mechano-osmotic changes in the nucleus induce general transcriptional repression and prime chromatin for cell fate transitions by relieving repression of specific differentiation genes.

www.nature.com

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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 11d

The hack definitely derailed things. But I just flew back from Heathrow that was affected by the same hack & there it’s business as usual… Good luck on Tuesday! I’m also flying again then, but from Dresden this time. At least not the getting to airport hassle (which is an ongoing issue…)

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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 11d

Yes — almost impressive how much worse it’s now. Handwritten boarding lists, phoning into HQ to confirm these. & travel to airport taking 4h b/c of neverending construction works. Which easily becomes 6h with @deutschebahn.com chaos. Shameful how Germany can’t get such basic stuff to run smoothly.

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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 11d

Yes — almost impressive how much worse it’s now. Handwritten boarding lists, phoning into HQ to confirm these. & travel to airport taking 4h b/c of neverending construction works. Which easily becomes 6h with @deutschebahn.com chaos. Shameful how Germany can’t get such basic stuff to run smoothly.

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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 12d

I can confirm that Berlin Airport is an absolute shitshow atm

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 12d

Berlin airport disruption is wild, gate agent is verbally conveying every boarding pass name and seat over a personal cellphone and getting a yes/no from HQ

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 13d

We are excited to announce the first Western VGZT of Season 7! 🎉

🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Our speakers:

👉 Antonia Weberling (@a-weberling.bsky.social)

👉 Sanjay Narayanaswamy (@sanjay-n.bsky.social)

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13d

I often emphasize that there are rarely "silver bullets" that magically solve problems but vaccines are one of the closest things we have and it's mind-boggling and enraging to watch this "debate" unfold during my lifetime

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14d

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955.

Look what happened next.

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Pierre Haas @lepuslapis.bsky.social · 13d

Rainy day @mpi-cbg.de.

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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 13d

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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 15d

Ig Nobel!

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 16d

This looks very promising 👇

kuba sędziński @kuba-sedzinski.bsky.social · 16d

🧵1/14 Preprint thread! Can we predict a cell’s fate based on its dynamics? 🔮 Our new study unveils a framework for watching development unfold in real-time, revealing how a cell's shape and movement encode info about its future fate. 🔬📄 Preprint: tinyurl.com/4shf8v4x

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