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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab

@cheralab.bsky.social

We are using hiPSC-derived organoids, targeted cell ablation, genetic cell tracing, gene expression tuning and multiomics to study regulators of cell specification decisions and cell plasticity. 📍 UiB Norway 👩🏻‍🎓 UniGe Switzerland https://chera.w.uib.no/

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Anna Czarkwiani@aniaczark.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're very excited to announce the official launch of the Journal of Regeneration. Together with the amazing team from @pensoft.net and my two co-EICs Loriano Ballarin and Buki Rinkevich, it is such a pleasure to share this new platform for bringing together the regeneration biology community.

Journal of Regeneration

 Journal of Regeneration is an international peer-reviewed, Open Access journal aiming to provide a platform for the dissemination of research results on regeneration and tissue repair across phy...

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James Briscoe@jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Paying peer reviewers Interview with @danielgorelick.bsky.social about @biologyopen.bsky.social Fast & Fair trial in which peer reviewers were paid £220/review Spoiler: it works - fast, high quality reviews www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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MadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Still two weeks left to apply for the special "From Postdoc to PI" symposium at the Heidelberg meeting in September! If you're a postdoc and are in the job market, take this opportunity to tell everyone who you are 🐟🧪 There will be a prize an all!

MadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Deadline extended for the 1st German Fish Meeting to mid-June (woooo) www.germanfishmeeting.org/from-postoc-... and the deadline for the special "Postdoc to PI" session to mid-July (double wooo). There will be a Prize for the best Postdoc to PI talk and for talks and posters throughout the meeting 🧪

Fiona Tribe@fionatribe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Data is not transparent! And that's why looking without bias is hard to do. We asked undergrads what correlation they expected between wealth & happiness, before showing them a fictitious dataset. Faced with an identical graph, those expecting a positive correlation were much more likely to see one!

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MadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

9pm Switzerland time, y'all! I'll be talking about how neurons are like onions. Tiny onions. Sort of. Look, you'll have to be there 🧪🧅🐟

Society for Developmental Biology@socdevbio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, April 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch and Yiqun Wang @ucsandiego.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/42xUhYh #SDBPostdocSeminar

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, April 10, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Biozentrum at the University of Basel) Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity in zebrafish Yiqun Wang (University of California, San Diego) Asymmetric mRNA partition mediated embryonic patterning in spiralian development revealed by spatial transcriptomics
Lucas Unger@unger-lucas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share our new paper online ahead of print in Genes & Development @genesdev.bsky.social. We show how HNF1A affects GLI3 processing and drives #pancreatic and #intestinal development. It’s been amazing to see it come together thanks to the team @cheralab.bsky.social. Read it here:

Defective HNF1A hinders GLI3 processing favoring duodenal versus pancreatic fate, thus leading to intestinal elongation in vivo

A biweekly scientific journal publishing high-quality research in molecular biology and genetics, cancer biology, biochemistry, and related fields

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James Briscoe@jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations" Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations? rdcu.be/e7zx7

Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations

Nature Reviews Genetics - In this Perspective, Maizels and Briscoe discuss the limitations of current models of gene regulatory networks and outline solutions to harness data abundance without...

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