Want to know what it’s like to study an MB-PhD?🧑‍🔬💡 Watch this Day in the Life with Jean, a @manchester.ac.uk medicine undergrad who has taken time out to complete a PhD in Cancer Sciences. And explore our current MB-PhD projects: ow.ly/1fSo50Ttypu ow.ly/x0ZX50TtykG

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

I am super happy to see this published in @jcb.org ! If you are interested in cell adhesion and trafficking go have a look !

Ivaska Lab@ivaskalab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are very happy to share our latest work exploring the role of newly synthetized integrin-α5 using RUSH. We found that a subset goes to the PM via unconventional secretion! Big thanks to all involved! Read more at doi.org/10.1083/jcb.... @mathildemathieu.bsky.social @martina-lerche.bsky.social

Are you interested in cytoskeleton and looking for a postdoc position? I will be advertising positions in the new year but happy to chat in person if you are attending ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social in Philadelphia. Just drop me a line.

Image screening is going to fail. We need audit trails for data provenance.

Pedro Beltrao@pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.

Got that warm-up game in, at least 🏏 #AUSvsENG #Ashes #Cricket

Today has been a great three days of Test cricket. #Ashes 🏏

Two days left to apply for a Medical Research Council-funded PhD opportunity in the lab. This is a student-led project, so you can work with us to develop an exciting project in a research area of mutual interest! www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/resear... @mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social

MRC Doctoral Training Partnership

Find out more about the Medical Research Council (MRC) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) studentships for postgraduate researchers undertaking PhDs in biomedical, clinical and health services areas.

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UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.

Let's go! Super excited to partner with @richardsever.bsky.social and the fantastic @openrxiv.bsky.social team - Preprints have been the best thing that happened to science publishing during my lifetime, and we're happy @qedscience.bsky.social can make preprints do more 👊

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv

Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...

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We have a new academic post opening for a Lecture/Senior-Lecturer in Structural Biology @mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk The University of Manchester is ranked among the top Universities worldwide. QS world rankings: 34th (2025) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

We are excited to announce that Professor Graham Pavitt, Chair in Molecular Biology, has been appointed as our new Head of Division! Join us in welcoming Graham to his new role—we look forward to the exciting times ahead! research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/g...

Graham Pavitt

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

Chemists call for ban on generative AI for chemical structures: "serious errors could damag[e] the next generation of scientists" As ever, the problem seems to be not AI but lazy application of it and lack of checks. Whether _that_ problem is solvable... www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-che...

The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn

AIs like Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT still make serious errors rendering structural formulae

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Fantastic time at the Adhere2 conference on cell adhesion - on the lovely Dalmatian coast. #CellBiology #research #conference

Another paper bluetorial! Today: how does the spatial location of genes influence their function? (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The nuclear periphery confers repression on H3K9me2-marked genes and transposons to shape cell fate - Nature Cell Biology

Marin et al. report the role of lamin proteins and the lamin B receptor (LBR) in chromatin positioning at the nuclear periphery. Knockout of all lamins and LBR in mouse embryonic stem cells leads to h...

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🎉 Happy International #EpithelialMechanics Day! 🎉

Just back from a fantastic research visit to the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, working with Dr Paola Nisticò and the Tumor Immunology & Immunotherapy team 🔬 Amazing cancer biology research, inspiring discussions and such warm hospitality from the team ☀️ #CancerResearch #Collaboration

Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu

So excited to FINALLY be able to share exciting news from @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social on our newly awarded MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) in Exposome Immunology #ImmunoSky 🧪 🧵

Excited to share our most recent study on #integrintraffic #cancer #migration #focaladhesion by @ivaskalab.bsky.social @drpaulinamoreno.bsky.social Niklas Jäntti et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

EPLINα controls integrin recycling from Rab21 endosomes to drive breast cancer cell migration

Epithelial protein lost in neoplasm (EPLIN), an actin-binding protein, has been described as both a tumor promoter and tumor suppressor in different c…

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💥 Our latest @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is out ! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mechanical stress and caveolin-1 control the release of extracellular vesicles with increased tumorigenic properties

Mechanical forces within the tumor microenvironment critically influence cancer progression, in part by modulating extracellular vesicle (EV) dynamics. However, the molecular mechanisms by which EVs r...

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The first, first-author story www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from @felkohdigital.bsky.social & www.cancersystemsmicroscopylab.com exploring how the epithelial-mesenchymal (E/M) state landscape pre-determines EGF signalling responses. An analytical tour-de-force, with more to come on this theme!

Publishing scientific papers is an obstacle course. There are many aspects to this but lengthy review times are one. That's why I am very excited about the new initiative @biologyopen.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social open access journal: Fast & Fair 1/n 🧪 journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...

Ooh, very interesting 🔬 (And great pseudo-acronym coined!)

Stephen Royle@steveroyle.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out our lab's latest paper. Laura Downie found that the Lamin B Receptor (LBR) can be used to inducibly label all kinds of membrane contact sites in live cells doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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It was, indeed, quite warm ☀️🌡️ A really rewarding exchange that sparked lots of new ideas for collaborative research projects 🔬 💡 Thanks so much to the inspiring team in Rome! 🇮🇹 🌍

Byron Lab@thebyronlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Just back from a fantastic research visit to the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, working with Dr Paola Nisticò and the Tumor Immunology & Immunotherapy team 🔬 Amazing cancer biology research, inspiring discussions and such warm hospitality from the team ☀️ #CancerResearch #Collaboration

We continue working on the plans for the "Woodstock of Bioloy 2 & Night science in Prague" meeting and if you don't sign up you're totally crazy. A once in a life time opportunity and it'll be sold out soon. Go to the website and sign up now before it's too late!

Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Friends! The science that we love is under threat. World-wide, there're forces seeking to make it corporate-like, focused on deliverables, or even the enemy of society. Take a stand & celebrate science & music! #theconferencetoendallconferences - Registration starts NOW! woodstock.img.cas.cz

Thrilled to share the structure of dimerised human PINK1 docked to an endogenous translocase array on the mitochondrial surface, composed of two TOM complexes, bridged by a VDAC2 dimer! Published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @wehi-research.bsky.social @komanderlab.bsky.social