What a waste of my (and many others) time applying last Sept! "we unfortunately expect to make a reduced number of awards to applications currently being assessed by our four research boards and developmental pathway funding scheme." www.ukri.org/blog/mrc-fun...

MRC funding update

An update on MRC funding during UKRI’s transition, what’s changing, and the next steps for paused opportunities and reopening timelines.

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Closing the chapter: Goodbye from Joyce Our (former) Community Manager @joyceyu.bsky.social‬ bids farewell 👋 to the Node community. Check out her (almost) final post: thenode.biologists.com/closing-the-...

Closing the chapter: Goodbye from Joyce - the Node

Today marks the end of the chapter for my time at the Node and Development. What a ride it has been! I don’t think you can find many jobs like this one:

thenode.biologists.com

So frustrating... the site is down more often than not in the last week. You only fully realize what a wonderful/crucial resource it is when you cannot access it.

FlyBase@flybase.bsky.social · 2y ago

Once more with feeling! Hey! Are you using a script to scrape FlyBase? Just stop. NOW. You're crashing the site for everyone. Yes, we mean YOU.

Our 2024 Sir Michael Berridge Prize winner Alyssa Silva-Cayetano, a former postdoc with @linterman.bsky.social, spills the beans on the work recognised by the Prize, and wider aspects of her career and life outside science. #ImmunoSky www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2024/12...

Looking forward to an exciting meeting and congrats to Yeonjoo from @babrahaminst.bsky.social on being selected to speak in the ECR slot.

WntUK@wntuk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Registration and abstract submission is now open for the #WNT2025 meeting at @ox.ac.uk in Mar 2025 sponsored by @oxfordcancer.bsky.social and @cambridgebio.bsky.social. Join links below and lets showcase the best Wnt research the UK has to offer! www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-...

Excited about our pre-print on AXIN1 mutations in HCC! We found that AXIN1 mutations drive low but physiologically relevant levels of Wnt/β-catenin signaling, while being permissive to YAP/TAZ activation. This helps explain why mutations in AXIN1 and β-catenin are linked to distinct HCC subtypes.

bioRxiv Cancer Bio@biorxiv-cancer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hepatocellular carcinoma-associated AXIN1 mutations drive low levels of Wnt/β-catenin pathway activity that allow for niche-independent growth and YAP/TAZ signaling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.28.625941v1

Applications open for a new cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social *Pathway to Independence* fellows Know a #devbio post-doc about to enter the academic job market? Would they benefit from a little support & mentoring? Spread the word Deadline 31 Jan 2025 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Please welcome us to BlueSky and give us a follow! We are newly formed UK scientific society with interests in the structural, molecular and cellular mechanisms of Wnt signalling in development and disease. We are represented by all four corners of the UK and cover all aspects of Wnt signalling!

Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3

Are you aware of our collection of #Drosophila #history articles? Feel free to suggest more!!!!!!!! droso4public.wordpress.com/history/

Our new preprint is out - please share! We asked: How can we make CRISPR knockouts in vivo more efficient? And set up an assay that enables detection of CRISPR cutting with 100s-1000s of sgRNAs over entire chromosome arms in living animals. Grab a ☕ and let’s dive in. 🧵🧪 1/n #CRISPR #geneediting

Just under 2 weeks to get your abstracts in!

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 2y ago

Abstracts are due in one month for Biologists @ 100, a unique conference to celebrate our 100-year anniversary and bring together our different communities. We hope you can join us. Abstract deadline is 13 December. Submit yours at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/abstracts/ #biologists100

We love that #MicroscopyMonday is still a thing! Let us introduce our Imaging facility team, led by @smonw.bsky.social, together they make these beautiful images possible! 👇 Here are our favourite images but can you match them to our research programmes - #Epigenetics, #Immunology and #Signalling ?🧪