Julia Sero
@cellmorphosero.bsky.social
How cells stick to things and move around, microscopy, cats, garden bugs, forays into machine learning, occasional political snark. Asst Prof University of Bath, UK 🏳️🌈
New imaging tools target Africa’s neglected fungal diseases www.nature.com/articles/d44...
New imaging tools target Africa’s neglected fungal diseases
A £4.5-million international initiative is developing bioimaging tools to reveal how poorly understood fungal pathogens grow and cause disease, with UCT teams focusing on infections linked to advanced...
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This is another way we live in rape culture; we live in a culture where we have to hear about monstrosity all the time. Sometimes I look at those top stories lists and wonder if I'm the only one who notices that two or three or four of the ten are about violence against women.
Graphing and statistically analyzing data is challenging without coding expertise. This Community Page by @avishenoy.bsky.social introduces grafify online, a free, browser app for generating publication-quality graphs and performing statistical tests and comparisons. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/3RpUg6E
So happy about the rain! More of this, please, cloud-friends.
Very pleased to finally share the main story from my PhD, now published in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🎉 Using a sea anemone we discovered and characterised epithelial cell extrusion as the mechanism underlying starvation-induced cell loss. 🔗 Open-access article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Epithelial cell extrusion underlies starvation-induced cell loss in a sea anemone - Nature Communications
Epithelial cell extrusion in a sea anemone shares key hallmarks with bilaterians and is dynamically regulated by nutritional status. During starvation-induced body shrinkage, extrusion likely contribu...
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Booking is OPEN for Frontiers in BioImaging 2026! Sessions will span technical developments in light and electron microscopy, advances in image analysis and data interpretation, and biological applications across scales. Register now: https://ow.ly/ZN3950Zuj9j
has anyone unpacked christopher nolan casting a trans person to be the distraction sacrifice for a trojan horse to enter, and then destroy, civilization
New paper on DaBest 2.0, outlining its cool visualizations for complex designs. For both R and python, DaBest is a fantastic, easy tool for focusing on effect sizes and uncertainty. #statsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Getting over ANOVA: estimation graphics for multi-group comparisons - Nature Methods
Nature Methods - Getting over ANOVA: estimation graphics for multi-group comparisons
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England received only 7% of the long-term average rainfall for July. Southern England, just 1%. Factoid: There has been a weather station in Kew Gardens for 155 years. This July was the first month ever to record 0mm of rain. Tomorrow, London will again hit 30C+ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
July set to be driest on record for England and Wales after relentless heatwaves
Climate scientist urges better planning as southern England had just 1% of long-term average rainfall last month
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—the cul-de-sac we have managed to drive this discourse into, where higher education is wholly (or even primarily) about economic benefits that accrue to the individual student, would be unrecognizable to the architects of the public university system in any state, or indeed anywhere in the world.
When we don't adequately fund public universities, and instead force students to take out loans, what we as a society are really doing is borrowing money from the younger generation—their hard-earned future income—to fund a necessary project that benefits us all: building an educated society.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d ago1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
How do tissues safely remove cells? Join me, @marija-matejcic.bsky.social in this perspective on the past, present and future of epithelial cell extrusion 🧵 0/16
"The Scientific Integrity Act would safeguard the rights of scientists working at federal agencies and protect their work from political interference." Send your letter through the Union of Concerned Scientist with the link below. 👇 Fill out the form & click send. Easy. #Pinks #ScienceMatters
Urge Congress to Institute Scientific Integrity Protections for Federal Scientists
Scientists working for the federal government need safeguards to do evidence-based work and to inform our nation’s policymaking without political interference. Urge Congress to support the Scientific ...
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"And Exeter is not alone. Top UK universities are making dramatic cuts to faculty while the use of consultants continues to rise. Cardiff, which has been going through one of the most brutal rounds of cuts, spent more than £10 million on management consultants in less than two years."
John Heathershaw@jheathershaw.bsky.social · 5d agoI never thought that I would have to write this piece about my university. But after weeks of demonstrating privately to senior managers that their case is based on a false prospectus, that their data are inaccurate and their claims misleading, there was little choice. substack.com/@lucasamin/n...
I did not know about the namesake of E. coli!
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d agoThe headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.
Anne Frank wasn’t beat or shot to death. She died of typhus due to unhygienic conditions in her concentration camp. ICE isn’t just killing the people it shoots. A detention center is just a death camp by a different name. And they’re quietly murdering everyday. Post Here: interactink.vercel.app
By GAWD a new amazing (and objectively true) talking point in favor of Medicare for All just dropped
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 4d agoHe is so good at this
Happy #FluorescenceFriday. Embryonic myeloid cells are curious. They emerge early during development and disperse throughout an embryo. During this journey, they interact with different cell populations. This myeloid cell 🔴 is seemingly probing ectoderm cells 🔵 to the point of warping their nuclei.
RelB drives integrin-mediated stress tolerance and relapse in high-grade serous ovarian cancer
RelB drives integrin-mediated stress tolerance and relapse in high-grade serous ovarian cancer
Lujano-Olazaba et al. show that ovarian cancer cells expressing integrin αVβ3 have enhanced tumorigenic capacity and are enriched at relapse, suggesting that αVβ3 specifies stress tolerance. Using in vivo models, they demonstrate that genetic knockdown of NF-κB, a stress response pathway, in combination with αVβ3 inhibition reduced relapse and improved survival.
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To put it in perspective. The $16M spent on the Reflecting Pool is enough to fully fund 8 multi-year RO1 grants - the NIH’s flagship, gold-standard grant. That grant gave us statins, pacemakers, and LASIK (& lots more). It’s not just the waste. It’s the lost opportunity that the waste represents.
📢🚨 FAIRyfying Microscopy Data does not need to feel sisyphean. Talk to your local Data Steward or image analyst. They are fountains of knowledge zenodo.org/records/2085.... Also, please see our latest public data set on the Bioimage Archive: www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/b... Publication out soon 🎉
Our latest work linking the Golgi Calcium Pump to actin cytoskeleton defects in Hailey Hailey Disease keratinocytes has been accepted for publication in Am J Physiol-Cell Physiol. 🥳 Big thanks to our team and collaborators at UMich Skin Biol Diseases Res Ctr (UM-SBDRC) for making this happen! 🧪
New paper from the lab is out in Cell Reports: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Biphasic inflammation control by fibroblasts enables spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish
Fibrosis and persistent inflammation are interconnected processes that inhibit axon regeneration in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS). Here, …
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Get your calendars, because the new 2027 EMBL Annual Poster has arrived: s.embl.org/2027-poster Whether you'd like to enhance your skills in a practical course or engage with the latest research at one of our conferences, we've got you covered. See you at EMBL in 2027! 🙌 #LifeSciences #EMBL
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d agoICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
The goal now is just to discipline labor and crush any popular anticapitalist movement. They’ve achieved a level of wealth that makes profit and loss pure abstraction, now they’re just focused on social control. Fighting taxes isn’t about wealth, it’s about starving the state of resources
