Please sign “Fund Science. Fund the Future” for a substantially stronger EU research budget: eu-life.eu/fund-rdi-fun... The farmers have tractors to convince politicians to fund agricultural subsidies, we have only our names and our reputation to lobby for research funding - please use yours!

Open call! The Genetics and Developmental Biology Department at Institut Curie-Paris is looking for a new Junior Group Leader. Ready to launch your own lab in a vibrant, collaborative environment? We’d love to hear from you. Deadline: Dec 18 👉https://jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr/

IT'S OFFICIAL!!!! LULA HAS BEAT FLAVIO BOLSANARO AND WON REELECTION IN BRAZIL. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Lula Wins a Record Fourth Term in Brazil in a Surprise Comeback

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran ha...

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📣Avec des collègues enseignant.e.s, des parents, et des spécialistes de l'éducation nous lançons une pétition sur le site de l'AN pour que les revendications de la jeunesse soient reprises par les parlementaires. Vous connaissez le chemin ✒️ petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

Call for a group leader in Evolutionary Biology The IGFL @igflyon.bsky.social in Lyon, France, is recruiting a group leader in Evolutionary Biology. An exciting place for exploring the interfaces of evolution with physiology and development. #EvolBiol #ecoevo #evodevo tinyurl.com/evolbiol

Our Dept. of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the Institut Curie in the heart of Paris is hiring a new junior PI. It has a nice start up package and excellent I. Curie facilities. Please spread the word: Deadline Dec. 18th! jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr

Bloop 🫧 bloop 🫧 bloop 🫧 Fluid-filled lumens are everywhere in our body How do they get soooo big? We find that osmotic pressure vastly dominates mechanical forces in controlling lumen swelling in mouse embryos biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @louise-dagher.bsky.social @matteo-bassanini.bsky.social

Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below.

My favourite long neck choano found again in Mediterranean sea. Finger crossed to get it grow this time! 🤞 #protistsonsky

📣Our department is hiring a new group leader!📣 Want to start your team in a vibrant scientific environment in the center of Paris? I was very lucky to do that 10 years ago, reach out if you have any question. Apply by December 18th: jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr

Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea

"I strongly condemn Russia’s violent attack on the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. We stand strong with our colleagues in Ukraine." 🇺🇦 Prof. Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council

Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 2mo ago

Today, science became a target for Russia. My heart goes out to the heroes searching for people trapped inside Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences. As well as to the families and loved ones of the victims of horrific attacks across the country.

New paper out with @kaylastoy.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Hey! Submit your papers, and spread the word, this will be great! Thanks for inviting us @jcellsci.bsky.social and great to work with @pihanson.bsky.social on this issue!

Journal of Cell Science@jcellsci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our second special issue for 2027 will focus on the topic of membrane dynamics and repair. We invite you to submit your latest research to this issue, which will be coordinated by our Guest Editors @jezcarlton.bsky.social and @pihanson.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/me...

Five years ago, on a walk with @mayavoichek.bsky.social through the third district around the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social we concluded that "every day we do not work on the mysterious Env-independent infectivity of MDG1 retrotransposons is a lost day ... " The birth of an entire research domain.

Maya Voichek@mayavoichek.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Super excited to share my postdoctoral work at @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social - We discovered that some retrotransposons, or "jumping genes" 🧬, are able to spread from cell to cell via a new viral infectivity route. A short thread: 🧵👇 (1/7)

Now online! Direct cell-to-cell transmission of retrotransposons

Direct cell-to-cell transmission of retrotransposons

Retrotransposons can infect neighboring cells using a mechanism that relies on a small fusogen-like protein rather than on the envelope protein that is typically required for infection.

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Our study on DFCP1 and lysosome membrane repair is live! We uncover a previously unrecognized role for omegasomes in the cellular response to lysosomal membrane damage, revealing another layer of regulation in how damaged lysosomes are repaired. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DFCP1-containing ER microdomains mediate lysosomal membrane repair - Nature Cell Biology

Radulovic et al. show that phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PI3P), produced by the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase PIK3C3, is formed on ER domains after lysosome damage. ER domain PI3P helps to recruit...

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📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 September 18th 📍Institut Jacques Monod Next week, Prof. Omaya Dudin ( @dudinlab.bsky.social ) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme "Exploring multicellular developmental programs at the root of animals and beyond" ➡️ buff.ly/mY66omK

📢master or PhD student interested in cell biology ? There are spots left for the Molecular Biology of the Cell course @pasteur.fr. Check the amazing list of lecturers + 1 week practical pocking choano cytokeleton with @thibautbrunet.bsky.social team. Registration 👇 www.pasteur.fr/fr/nous-conn...

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Choanoflagellates reorganize their global cytoskeletal architecture within seconds to explore confined microspaces. This is the main PhD work of the amazing @maitefreired.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A tread 🧵⬇️

Rapid repurposing of microvillar content drives a flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest relative of animals

Animal cells extensively remodel their cytoskeleton during differentiation and can notably switch between two major motility modes: flagellum-based swimming and actin-based crawling. We previously sho...

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Still undecided about the 36th FrenchDrosoMeeting? Take a look at the programme, in addition several microscopy companies will be attending, including Zeiss, which will be presenting its latest developments on 'Beyond Low Photobleaching: The Other Side of Lattice Illumination'

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Laminin α5 and integrins α3 and α6 coordinately regulate collective cell migration in vivo Read this Article from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by Anna Mertens, Virginie Lecaudey @vlecaudey.bsky.social and colleagues from @goetheuni.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

🎉CHECK OUT📣OUR PAPER📝 Happy😍to share with you our paper published in @currentbiology.bsky.social from @echardlab-pasteur.bsky.social @cnrs.fr The proteasome promotes cytokinetic abscission by relieving an Aurora B-dependent inhibition of ESCRT-III dynamics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The proteasome promotes cytokinetic abscission by relieving an Aurora B-dependent inhibition of ESCRT-III dynamics

Cytokinesis finalizes cell division by physically separating the daughter cells. After furrow ingression, the intercellular bridge (ICB) connecting th…

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Here is a new optogenetic tool developed by the Wang's lab @cbitoulouse.bsky.social in collaboration with us to shine light on nuclear protein's function. Using this tool, we discovered (among other things) a role for dLsd1 in border cell migration. Thanks to all the authors for their contribution!

Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 3mo ago

Using NLS-LARIAT in #Drosophila ovarian cells, Liu, @luisadistefano.bsky.social, Wang et al. reveal how rapid inhibition & clustering of GFP-tagged nuclear factors regulate border cell migration, nuclear mechanics, & the cell-fate consequences of nuclear protein dosage. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This time lapse shows a sea star embryo (Patiria miniata) undergoing early cell divisions. Imaged by Dr. Yash Rana, a student in the 2026 Embryology course.

Remember all you need is an account to post on @the-node.bsky.social; you don't need an invitation, permission or approval.

the Node@the-node.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Win £200 for your post on the Node This is your opportunity to publish your piece at last for a chance to win £200. We are hosting an exciting writing challenge to help motivate you to share your piece with the Node’s community of biologists by 4 September. thenode.biologists.com/win-200-for-...

Excited to share our newest work! We asked whether RNA molecules need to be in a specific place in the cell to do their job. We found that a single RNA must reach the midbody, the structure that pinches two dividing cells apart, for cell division to finish efficiently. 🧵⬇️

And another choanoflagellate sp isolated in Bretagne this summer! Growing slowly in the lab 😍 #protistsonsky

Our Dispatch "Evolution: Ancient monoamines in a neuron-less animal" out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Monoamine signaling and behavioral responses in placozoans suggest this system predates bilaterians. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYJl3QW8S... @annaferraioli.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social