8 hours. That’s all fish need to heal wounds 🐟⏱️ Why are they so fast compared to humans? I break down the science of rapid regeneration in a microscopy story 🔬 Watch here: youtu.be/Mt9f61adaP0 #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy

That's right! EQDB made it all the way to Japan 🇯🇵! Many thanks to @laghalab.bsky.social @juliebatut.bsky.social @robinjournot.bsky.social @leopoldlab.bsky.social @clotilde-cadart.bsky.social Vincent, Emma, Miquel, Clara and Kai! Join us @sfbd.bsky.social for more outreach activities

Bardin Lab@bardinlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fantastic outreach by @maitrejl.bsky.social et al, who have brought Biology Quest (En Quête de Bio) of the @sfbd.bsky.social to Japan! Want to bring model organisms into your primary schools? See www.eqd-bio.org or contact me or @drosopachea.bsky.social . French, English and other languages!

There are two types of people in the world: those who discovered Persepolis and were richer for the experience, and those that still have to. RIP Marjane Satrapi. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

The French-Iranian artist and film director 'died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,' people close to her said.

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Now live @igred.fr 5 young kestrels ! 3 of them wandering around and staring at you!! @ucauvergne.bsky.social

🧪 Preprint claiming the genetic code wasn't universal until after LUCA: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "The 'universal' nature of the genetic code is not a simple consequence of common descent from LUCA, but also involved convergence of Bacteria and Archaea through horizontal gene transfer."

This sounds like SF but expansion microscopy sceptics have been wrong before, so let’s see. #stuffthatmatters

Ali Shaib@alishaib.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hello #world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy. A small gel would grow to the size of an Olympic swimming pool, while amino-acid-scale distances become visible with ordinary light microscopy. Led by Helena Hu from @eboyden3.bsky.social's lab, in collab with us. Story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

"I would like to emphasize the importance of question-driven science...young scientists might enjoy science more if they are thinking about questions rather than just collecting data" journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Interview with Noboru Mizushima – President of the Japan Society for Cell Biology

Noboru Mizushima is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he runs a laboratory studying the mechanisms and physiological functions of autophagy and o...

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#ESR 14 % des entreprises déclarant des dépenses de R&D au Crédit d'Impôt Recherche augmentent les dividendes de ce fait. 1 milliard € qui part directement du budget de l'Etat aux rentiers. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

« Le crédit d’impôt recherche est un dispositif qui vise à rendre les entreprises moins frileuses »

TRIBUNE. Pierre Courtioux, professeur d’économie, et François Métivier, professeur de géoscience, expliquent, dans une tribune au « Monde », comment économiser 1 milliard d’euros sur le crédit d’impôt...

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Dear colleagues, The 36th French Drosophila Meeting (Trégastel, Oct 5–8, 2026) website is now online! drosofrance26.sciencesconf.org We look forward to welcoming you in Brittany! Best wishes, The Organizing Committee Hadi Boukhatmi, Régis Giet, Roland Le Borgne

What if you got to work with some of your best friends on a science project? I can't publish how fun this was, but I can show you the data (🧵)! Last week, we posted our second neutrophil swarming paper to bioRxiv and I wanted to post my favorite videos here~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our latest work on shape-programmable tissues is out in @science.org. By positioning topological defects in cellular nematics, we encode frustrated 2D force fields that relax into predictable 3D shapes. Collaboration with Marino Arroyo’s lab, led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social at @ibecbarcelona.eu.

Drosophila border cells are beautiful to watch… but far from easy to image. Kudos to the brave and skilled @vitoryang.bsky.social, who took on the challenge of establishing border cell migration imaging in the lab! His movies are astonishing, and now our first-ever study on #cell #migration is out!

Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 4mo ago

Collective #migration requires balancing force and flexibility. @vitoryang.bsky.social, @polarityi3s.bsky.social et al. identify RhoGAP15B as a local brake on RhoA-#myosin contractility in border cells, stabilizing front protrusions and coordinating group movement rupress.org/jcb/article/...

"We want to see the academic publishing industry change in a way that benefits science, not just profits"

Theo@earthowned.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Cancer Research UK is fed up of paying too much for open access publishing so they are completely stopping funding this activity: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...

🤖AI tools for peer-review? I want to share my experience using q.e.d. science (www.qedscience.com), a reviewing tool with high-profile endorsements. I will report results and my impressions from the use /1

q.e.d Science

Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation

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📢 PhD position in our lab! (MSCA COFUND) About dystrophin in Drosophila muscle progenitor cells 🧬🪰 #PhDPosition #DevBio #Drosophila #StemCells For candidates from outside France or have lived in France <12 months in the last 3 years. More info 👇 (Project #16) www.muskle.eu/recruitment/

Open positions - MuSkLE

First competitive call open! The first competitive call in the frame of the MuSkLE programme, which aims at selecting 17 doctoral fellows, opens on 6th March 2026 and closes on 6th May 2026. The open ...

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Bravo Liza, Brendan and colleagues for the elegant work on multiple live imaging strategies to untangle mechanisms of muscular dystrophy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Impaired stem cell migration and divisions in Duchenne muscular dystrophy revealed by live imaging - Nature Communications

Using live-imaging in vivo and ex vivo, Sarde et al. show that dystrophic muscle stem cells have precocious differentiation through symmetric divisions and impaired migration, with differential impact...

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🚨🚨🚨 1/2 SFBD & JSDB joint meeting, June 9–12 in Hiroshima. Travel grants cover registration + part of travel/housing. Short talks & posters available. Students, postdocs & early-career researchers encouraged to apply by Feb 28. pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/jsd...

The 59th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists | Confit

第59回日本発生生物学会大会の電子抄録サイトです。

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How resilient are tissues to cell mispositioning and loss, and how do they restore their cell numbers? Check our latest work, from @ybellaichelab.bsky.social Congratulations to all authors. Artwork from the artist @lale-alpar.bsky.social (lalealpar.com) www.cell.com/developmenta...

Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation

Bosveld et al. identified a multilayered system of safeguards that reuses homeostatic mechanisms to maintain epithelial integrity and cell number in the face of spindle misorientation. This work delin...

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Our take on a really interesting new study by the Franz lab at UCL, a version of epithelial polarity where you would not expect it! Read our Spotlight and the original paper!

Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 6mo ago

Spotlight: Ball and Röper @pdncambridge.bsky.social discuss recent findings by Almasoud, Franz et al. (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) describing how apical–basal polarity regulates cell–cell adhesion in the #Drosophila fat body. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Adhesion #Cytoskeleton #Development

Sign up date coming quickly! Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

Bardin Lab@bardinlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

#art 🎨 | Quand l’art devient expérimental & que chaque spectateur devient 🧑‍🔬. A l'occasion du spectacle 'Architectures vivantes’ du @museeorsay.bsky.social qui aura lieu les 24 et 25 janvier prochains, @manuelthery.bsky.social, directeur scientifique du projet revient sur cette expérimentation en 📽️

📣First preprint of the lab📣 Did that really happen?😅 Enteric neurons, aka somatic postmitotic cells, must hold on to their sex identity tight, to deliver a tuned response to signals from the ovary that instruct the animal to engage sex-matched behavioural programmes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Genetic sex of enteric neurons enables ovarian relaxin to gate maternal gut plasticity

Animals must align intestinal plasticity and feeding with reproductive state, yet the checkpoint that gates these adaptations is unknown. Here we show that an ovary-to-enteric-neuron axis gates the on...

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Happy New Year 2026! This year, Hadi Boukhatmi, Régis Giet and I are delighted to be organising the 36th French Droso Meeting in Brittany, from 5 to 8 October. A great line-up of speakers Mark the date in your diaries ! The meeting website containing all the details will be opening very soon.

Call for papers Submit your latest in vivo and in vitro #DevBio research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya Deadline: 1 March 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...

So excited to share this as a new junior PI: My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀 www.bischofflab.com Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊 And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery! #CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science

I am very excited to announce the opening of the submission site for the upcoming Conférences Jacques Monod on Developmental Biology, May 18-22, 2026 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc... @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.

Want to join a happy bunch 🥳 to organise meetings, outreach activities and other initiatives about developmental biology in France? Apply and/or vote 🗳️!

SFBD_BioDev@sfbd.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨🚨🚨 The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to sfbd@sfbd.fr by December 4th Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th Please share the info

On the cover - Congrats @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...

Is science too obsessed with metrics, large-scale projects & “blockbuster” outputs? Desai & Jun argued that preserving the "auteur" spirit of individual creativity, exploration and risk-taking is essential for maintaining the creativity that drew us into science in the 1st place.

Glad to share our latest work showing that #drosophila epigenetic enzyme TET controls muscle development independently of its catalytic activity but prevents muscle aging in a catalytic-dependent manner! Congratulations to Vincent and Emilie @igred.fr ! links.springernature.com/f/a/L1ogzL3H...

TET exhibits enzymatic-independent and-dependent functions during Drosophila flight muscle development and aging - Skeletal Muscle

Background Enzymes of the Ten-Eleven Translocation family are responsible for 5-methylcytosine (5mC) oxidation and play a key role in regulating DNA demethylation during various developmental processe...

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