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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 1d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Juliette Mathieu @jujumathieu.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats benjamin, alison and the team!

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Postdoc position in regenerative biology on "Tracking the cellular origins regeneration" in the @michalis_averof lab in Lyon, France. Fantastic lab, great institute, nice city!
https://www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

#postdoc

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 4d

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · 4d

The Vienna BioCenter PhD Program application deadline is approaching: October 10!

Join one of Europe’s premier life science campuses, home to cutting-edge research across all areas of biology.
Apply and start your scientific journey in Vienna!

training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/

#PhD #LifeSciences

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 5d

You can read Mark's 2024 @dev-journal.bsky.social Review article here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

40 years since the Heidelberg genetic screen that revolutionized developmental and cell biology

ABSTRACT. Our current understanding of the molecular basis of embryonic development and the shared machinery underlying this remarkable process has its roots in three papers published 40 years ago, wh...

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 6d

Seems that we have a new reporter strain (pic: @jujumathieu.bsky.social)

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Alicia Michael @aliciakmichael.bsky.social · 8d

A place with fantastic colleagues, excellent facilities, a stimulating scientific environment, and a very international and vibrant city - it's got it all!

Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 9d

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬

The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

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Aydogan Lab @aydoganlab.bsky.social · 10d

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 10d

Now out on bioRxiv. 🥳My research on #cytokinesis, averaging thousands of #ExM images🔬, creating a dynamic atlas of cytokinesis 🦠⏳. Here's an animated sneak peek of what we found. Better resolution on bioRxiv😄 #PSFoftheGIF

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mhverlhac.bsky.social @mhverlhac.bsky.social · Aug 28

Three-Year Funded Postdoctoral Position to study organelle architecture in mammalian oocytes – Terret-Verlhac Lab, CIRB, Collège de France (Starting 2026).
For more information, please contact: [email protected]

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SBCF @sbcf.bsky.social · 24d

📢 Save the date!
🗓 Feb 3, 2026 • Institut Pasteur, Paris

SBCF Symposium – The Cell Biology of Eukaryogenesis (and beyond!)

Speakers: Buzz Baum, Thibaut Brunet, Yohan Decelle, Morgan Gaïa, Sven Gould, Purificación López-García, Andela Šarić.

Register: shorturl.at/IGEAY

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SBCF @sbcf.bsky.social · 22d

Bourses de voyage-congrès • 15 octobre

La SBCF offre des bourses de voyage (jusqu'à 500 € pour l'Europe et 1000 € hors Europe sur justificatifs) à de jeunes scientifiques (doctorant ou post-doc) pour assister à des congrès ayant une thématique de biologie cellulaire.

Postuler: lnkd.in/dAHnWk_U

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 24d

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

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Juliette Mathieu @jujumathieu.bsky.social · 27d

Really cool! I would be curious to know how they manage chromosome alignement in mitosis? It makes a disk of centromeres?

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Juliette Mathieu @jujumathieu.bsky.social · 29d

Congrats @maitefreired.bsky.social and @thibautbrunet.bsky.social for this super nice work!

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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...

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The Cecere Laboratory @cecerelab.bsky.social · Sep 7

🍽️🧬 How do diet and gut microbes shape fertility across generations? 🪱🔬 Our Laboratory at #InstitutPasteur is recruiting a PhD student to study epigenetic inheritance of fertility using C. elegans. Fully funded via the International PPU program. Apply now! 🌍 #PhDposition #Epigenetics #Inheritance

Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · Sep 1

🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry.

Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, [email protected], PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬

Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

Pasteur-Paris University International Doctoral Programme, The call for enrollment of students in October 2026 will be open from September 1st to October 20th, 2025

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Sep 3

📅Are you a passionate science communicator with research experience in #devbio or #stemcell biology? Only a couple more days to apply for the Community Manager position at the Node.

Deadline: 05 September

bit.ly/4m7Fn28

Could you be the Node's next Community Manager? - the Node

The Company of Biologists is recruiting a new Community Manager for the Node - a community site hosted by Development for developmental and stem cell biologists.

thenode.biologists.com

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · Aug 30

A thousand bravos for Núria Ros-Rocher, who just secured a permanent @cnrs.fr researcher position in our lab. These positions are (too) rare but give much-needed job security to young scientists and allow long-term projects. Núria will dive deep into the natural history of C. flexa 🧪🌊 #ProudPI

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Juliette Mathieu @jujumathieu.bsky.social · Aug 29

Faial is amazing! Also found many beautifull choanos there 😉

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 27

For some three billion years, unicellular organisms ruled Earth. Then, around one billion years ago, a new chapter of life began

go.nature.com/3JyRV4S

How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer

Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals.

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Aug 15

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · Aug 26

BIG NEWS!! We will be hiring a new professor with 25 years of endowed funding at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch, focused on using biophysics and structural biology to explore climate-related fundamental science topics. Come start an innovative research cluster with us! 🧪🔬🧶🧬🌾🌍

Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Aug 26

🧪 The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship in #ClimateBiophysics at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch, funded by the Georg H. Endress Foundation. This new professorship strengthens climate research @unibas.ch. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

New endowed professorship strengthens climate research at the University of Basel

The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology. This...

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Juliette Mathieu @jujumathieu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Can not like this post, feel awfully useless

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · Aug 22

Well said!!!

angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · Aug 22

New lab pre-print up! "Twelve species of human parasites make up half the literature on microbial eukaryotes"
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We (led by UG Joanna Lepper and with @hbrappap.bsky.social) quantified all mentions of protist species in the scientific literature 🧵

#protistsonsky #microsky

Twelve species of human parasites make up half of the literature on microbial eukaryotes

Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most research focuses on only a few species of human parasites. Her...

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