Great vibes at the latest EMBO workshop :)

EMBO Workshop “RNA-Guided Genome Protection,” Caux 🇨🇭 My first time in Switzerland, and for such a great reason! Amazing place, great ideas, old friends and new faces all at once. @valeriyk1.bsky.social and I here with a slug story we’re thrilled to share 🐌 🧵

The Argonautes 2025 - we made a special gift for participants - a card set with 32 different Argonautes + an extension pack with four Nobel prize winners from the small RNA field. Mello, Fire, Ambros & Ruvkun as jokers :-) #argonautes2025

Kicking off our third day of #argonautes2025 with a talk by Nobel Prize winner and all around amazing person, scientist, and mentor, Victor Ambros! 🐙

Everything reminds me of #TCTeAC When are we doing this again?

Don’t miss this fantastic workshop at @imgprague.bsky.social !

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · last yr.

In Prague on Monday? Join my night science workshop on the creative process in science: openness, improvising ideas, how a hypothesis can be a liability, AI for hypothesis generation, import/export of ideas, puzzle switching, the 2 languages, questions, contradictions & awe 🙏 @svobodalab.bsky.social

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

Our mistake was that Petr knew about it… and chose to say “penis” 10 times 🥃 #TCTeAC

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · last yr.

Members of Petr Svoboda’s lab took a shot of gin every time he said ‘penis’ during his talk! @svobodalab.bsky.social

The killer to kill them all! #TCTeAC

Bojan Žunar@bzunar.bsky.social · last yr.

One last thanks to the #TCTeAC organisers, especially @svobodalab.bsky.social‬. And shoutout to all whom I met throughout the killing game: @majakuzman.bsky.social for organising, @da-bar.bsky.social for bodyguarding, @valeriyk1.bsky.social for scouting, @itaiyanai.bsky.social for enabling, /1

*when science gets too wild*

Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · last yr.

The Woodstock.Bio2+Night Science party was stoped by the police. We wouldn’t have it any other day. #TCTeACPp

INNAPROPRIATE SLUG SONGS COME SEE NOW #TCTeAC

Go go choker team! #TCTeAChoker #TCTeAC @itaiyanai.bsky.social

We give you the winners of yesterday's 'Wild frontiers of model organisms' pub quiz: Wildebeests 👏🏼🏆 Well done to all teams, it was a fun evening! #EESWildModels

Argonautes 2025 will cover progress in: Structural insights Effector complexes: formation, composition & function Post-transcriptional silencing Transcriptional silencing & DNA cleavage Post-translational modifications and regulations Medical aspects 27-30/8/2025 argonautes.img.cas.cz Pls RT!

It’s time to introduce slugs! These slimy creatures are now taking over @svobodalab.bsky.social lab and I am in part responsible for keeping them alive. Why do we have them in the lab? I’ll try to explain in this thread.