Always an amazing time at the collective behavior summer school in Konstanz!
Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 2w agoNow @allysonsgro.bsky.social is showing us how slime molds show amazing collective behavior
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How do cells work together and make decisions when people have so much trouble? Group Leader @HHMIJanelia. My views are mine, not my employer’s. She/They 🏳️🌈
Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 2w agoLast call!
Janelia Conferences@janeliaconf.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 Deadline approaching (Apr 16)! Don’t miss your chance to join our student-led #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop. Meals, accommodation + reasonable travel covered for accepted participants. Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26 @allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
🚨 Deadline approaching (Apr 16)! Don’t miss your chance to join our student-led #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop. Meals, accommodation + reasonable travel covered for accepted participants. Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26 @allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
Janelia Conferences@janeliaconf.bsky.social · 7mo agoStudents & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our hands-on #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop featuring participant talks, tutorials & lively discussions. ✅ No registration fee 🍽️ Meals & hotel covered ✈️ Travel support available Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26 @allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our Theoretical Biophysics workshop. Topics include active matter, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, development, behavior, evolution + more. ✈️ Meals, hotel & reasonable travel covered 🔗 janelia.news/THB26 @allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
Janelia Conferences@janeliaconf.bsky.social · 7mo agoStudents & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our hands-on #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop featuring participant talks, tutorials & lively discussions. ✅ No registration fee 🍽️ Meals & hotel covered ✈️ Travel support available Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26 @allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
Konstanz School of Collective Behavior 2026 is one of a kind school where students delve into state of the art research on collective behavior. Apply here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica... Deadline: March 15th, 2026 @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe have an amazing line up for KSCB 2026 Anastasia Bizyaeva from Cornell University. Her research group uses non-linear dynamics and control theory to understand collective systems. sites.google.com/cornell.edu/...
I left the US on 1/21 and am not back until late on 2/11. Feels like a century has passed in the news.
I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...
Washington, DC. March 7th, 2026. Rally with us to Take Back Science! 🧪✊🔬💥 The stakes could not be higher: we're facing attacks from an administration hell-bent on dismantling our science and our democracy. We have to stand up and fight back! GET IN, DORKS! www.standupforscience.net/ma...
On 1/30 we are shutting it down, and, on 1/31, we are gathering across the country to demand ICE Out of Everywhere, permanently!
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Excited for the third round! Co-organizing this workshop has been a joy and I’m looking forward to learning from everyone this fall.
Janelia Conferences@janeliaconf.bsky.social · 7mo agoStudents & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our hands-on #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop featuring participant talks, tutorials & lively discussions. ✅ No registration fee 🍽️ Meals & hotel covered ✈️ Travel support available Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26 @allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
Lab member: can I show you some data? Me, 9am: YES Me, 8pm: YES Me, 3am: YES Me, while undergoing surgery: YES
People, we need you in the streets today. Really, we do. We need to show them we won’t accept a regime that kills its own citizens. They do not have the consent of the governed.
Are you a junior scientist working in theoretical biophysics? @zamakany.bsky.social and I are organizing another workshop this fall here at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Travel and the workshop expenses are all covered! tinyurl.com/yc66fawc
Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Biophysics
Attendees will have the opportunity to present as well as learn from one another. They will give 20-minute talks on their own research questions, as well as in-depth 45-minute whiteboard tutorials on
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Want to join #EESCollectivity on site but haven’t registered yet? You can still submit an abstract for a poster presentation, so hurry up – you only have until 13 January! ➡️ s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
Interested in the MBL Physiology Course in Woods Hole and want to learn more before you apply? Join myself and Cliff at our Virtual Open House TOMORROW 2–3 PM ET. You will hear what the course experience is like and get all your questions answered. Register/Join: princeton.zoom.us/j/97673682905
Marine Biological Laboratory@mblscience.bsky.social · 7mo agoInterested in the MBL Physiology Course and want to learn more before you apply? Join our Virtual Open House on Tues, Jan 6, 2026 | 2–3 PM ET to meet the team, hear what the course experience is like, and get your questions answered. 🔗 Register/Join: https://go.mbl.edu/r5q
Thrilled that the lab's first @hhmijanelia.bsky.social project is up on bioRxiv! Story behind the story to follow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Memory from variability: Heritable short-term cellular memory emerges from stochastic biochemical reaction networks
Cells exhibit a mysterious form of selective heritable short-term memory, influencing outcomes as diverse as cell fate decisions in embryos and environmental responses in cancer cells and bacteria. He...
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Oh no! It’s the end of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” season! Happy start of the dark winter months!
Excited about summer research at Janelia or other HHMI labs across the country? Apply!
HHMI@hhmi-science.bsky.social · 9mo agoCalling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
Are authors fairly judged by assessing the #journals in which their work is published? @bihutchins.bsky.social &co reveal that most influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and more authors would be better recognized with #ArticleLevelMetrics #ALMs @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oV58Ed
#cellbio2025 The Women in Cell Biology (WICB) Committee has put together some truly fantastic events for this year’s meeting! We can’t wait for you to check them out:
Very excited to show off our latest data. Videos hot off the microscope! Come see what crazy things cells of al types are up to tomorrow!
Wallace Marshall@wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 8mo agoCells can hunt prey, solve mazes, and learn from past experience. Does this mean they can think, at some level? Find out more at our upcoming session on "Cell Behavior and Cognition" at the ASCB/EMBO #cellbio2025 meeting, Saturday 1-3 pm rm 115.
Into collective behavior? Looking to learn more? There isn’t a better place than the school @zamakany.bsky.social hosts yearly. Excited to be speaking again next year.
Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 8mo agoKonstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
