Science grows through conversation and by widening who gets to shape it. Join us in Sydney to explore the opportunities and roadblocks for AI in Bio, and how we build foundations for knowledge that is transparent, diverse, and robust. Benchmarks, failure modes, and surprisingly tough tasks welcome!

ICBINB-BIO@icbinbbio.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧬 We’re excited to announce the NeurIPS 2026 workshop, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: Failure Modes of AI in Biology (ICBINB-BIO), to be held in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 11 or 12, 2026! 📣 We welcome full and tiny papers sharing challenges in developing AI models for biological tasks. (1/n)

My grad student Oz and I are very excited to share our new work, Differentiable Design for Morphogenesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (waxMorph)

How are two embryos alike? As we collect spatio-temporal microscopy data, we want to quantify variability in the timing of key developmental events. Alignment of multiple recordings is a core engineering challenge here and we suggest a solution; read about it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A quantitative coordinate system for developmental dynamics

Quantitative comparison of morphogenesis across individuals remains a fundamental challenge, as developing embryos vary in shape, orientation and developmental tempo. Moreover, real-time three-dimensi...

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Leaving my office v happy this Friday. This thesis was hand delivered by the author (Mari) who visited our lab before there even was a proper lab. The visit led to nice science, recently published, and more importantly ongoing science and friendship 😊 thanks @kuba-sedzinski.bsky.social and team!

Excited to present our framework for interpretable disentanglement in multi condition data at ICML' 26 arxiv.org/abs/2506.17182 . While useful for different types of data, we think it's particularly useful if you have omics collected across distinct covariates like age or perturbations! Try it out!

Variational Learning of Disentangled Representations

Disentangled representations enable models to separate factors of variation that are shared across experimental conditions from those that are condition-specific. This separation is essential in domai...

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First lab photo w special guest!

We're looking for two postdocs to join us! Topic 1: interpretable diffusion models for multi-scale morphology + genomics data! Topic 2: generation and control of biomaterials! If interested, send me CV + 3 recommendation letters over email!

Our fantastic postdoc Lambda talking about her adventure to find multi-scale signals in spatial transcriptomics at CSHL Single Cell Analysis. Preprint coming out soon! 😊 🚀 🚲

An exciting collaboration with a wonderful team! Check out Kuba's tutorial!

kuba sędziński@kuba-sedzinski.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🧵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

Latest from the lab: a review led by @jamesehammond.bsky.social on the evolvability of vertebral counts and the developmental processes that make it possible.

James Hammond@jamesehammond.bsky.social · last yr.

Latest work: Review on the evolvability of vertebral number, and the developmental processes underpinning it Written by Callum Bucklow, @bertaverd.bsky.social, and myself Check it out here: doi.org/10.32942/X2K...

Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab! Thankful for any retweet! 🫶 imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980

Research Technician

IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology is one of the leading biomedical research institutes in Europe focusing on cutting-edge functional genomics and stem cell technologies. IMBA is located at t...

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Institute of Molecular Biotechnology@imbavienna.bsky.social · last yr.

We are hiring! Join the Stapornwongkul Lab as a Research Technician and investigate the tissue scale organization of metabolic processes and their impact on developmental processes. Apply using the link below.

Congratulations Kristina and happy for those lucky to join your group!

Kristina Stapornwongkul@kstapornwongkul.bsky.social · last yr.

Amidst these troubling times, I have some positive personal news to share: I will be joining @imbavienna.bsky.social as a new group leader this fall! 🎉 I am excited for fun projects, surprising discoveries, and great discussions within the fantastic science community @vbcscitraining.bsky.social

Thank you so much for the highlight and for the nice summary of our recent work!

Nature Methods@natmethods.nature.com · last yr.

Please also check out the News & Views highlighting this cool work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dr. Bianca Dumitrascu (bimidu.bsky.social) led a new study published in naturemethods.bsky.social on a computational pipeline linking spatial transcriptomics + mechanical forces in tissue development. Read more: bit.ly/4kCgT1q #CancerResearch #Mechanobiology #SpatialTranscriptomics #IICDColumbia

Some light yesterday at Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new book reading.

What a treat to be part of this effort! Congratulations @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social and team!

Jake Cornwall-Scoones@jcornwallscoones.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share my latest work with @joadelas.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social Predictable Engineering of Signal-Dependent Cis-Regulatory Elements www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/11

Check out our newest preprint on #bioxiv. We developed Patches, a tool for extracting joint and condition specific signatures from scRNA-seq data in complex experimental designs like wound healing: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... GitHub: github.com/Computationa...

Patches: A Representation Learning framework for Decoding Shared and Condition-Specific Transcriptional Programs in Wound Healing

Single-cell genomics enables the study of cell states and cell state transitions across biological conditions like aging, drug treatment, or injury. However, existing computational methods often strug...

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Very excited about this first adventure in looking at regeneration! Thank you Maria and @smeetonlab.bsky.social for a fantastic first collaborative project :)

Joanna Smeeton@smeetonlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢🧪For your holiday travel reading, check out our new pre-print! Using a new joint resection injury model, we describe an innate regeneration program in adult #zebrafish that reestablishes all major synovial joint cell types, including lubricated articular cartilage. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...