Cool new paper about ESCRT-III assembling around lagging DNA in the #midbody during cytokinetic #abscission of HeLa cells! New role for ESCRTs and Chmp1B! #midbodies are amazing.

Juan Martin Serrano@juanmartin-serrano.bsky.social · 3w ago

Very proud to see this paper out. This is an incredible collaboration with the labs of Wes Sundquist and Adam Frost. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#DBfeature A tribute to Gail R Martin, mouse geneticist and mentor extraordinaire (April 12, 1944 - Feb 9, 2026) By Alexandra Joyner doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2026.05.007

Free access to our article through this link until July 29th, 2026: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF5A2mzTo...

Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our paper is out in Developmental Biology! It's part of a special issue on Forebrain Development. Mouse KO of Togaram1, a Joubert Syndrome gene, has defects in forebrain morphogenesis and neurogenesis. 🐭🧠🧪 #cilia #devbio #cellbio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Postdoc position in a cool worm neurobiology lab! 👇

Anne C. Hart@ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Postdoctoral position available, focused on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood! Join the awesome Brown Univ. neuroscience community. Background in genetics (like C. elegans) and/or neuroscience is welcome, but not required. Contact Anne Hart for details and apply via apply.interfolio.com/188268

From @theathletic.com: After 53 years, the New York Knicks are NBA champions. With all due respect to Knicks greats like Patrick Ewing, Walt Frazier and Willis Reed, Jalen Brunson is now the greatest Knick of all time, our columnist writes. nyti.ms/4ovh6Wq

Cool paper from Rebecca Heald lab! "Triploid brain cells are less proliferative but do not exhibit differences in transcription" (me: !!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ploidy and neuron size impact nervous system development and function in Xenopus

Neuron size varies significantly over evolution, contributing to diverse nervous systems of variable complexity, while aberrant neuron size is associa…

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Trends in Cell Biology@cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Neuronal size and geometry shape brain function

One week left to submit your abstract! #SfN26 is where meaningful scientific exchange happens. Don’t miss your opportunity to be part of it. The deadline to submit is Wednesday, June 10. 🔗 vist.ly/56fwe

Heads up: Abstracts for @ascbiology.bsky.social annual meeting are due earlier this year. If you/your trainees want to be considered for a talk or early poster, submit by 9 June! You would save $75. Also... registration is not open until July

Cell Bio 2026 - An ASCB|EMBO Meeting

Registration and attend Cell Bio 2026 - An ASCB|EMBO Meeting and network

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In have made an effort to comment—more calmly and objectively that I through possible—on the proposed OMB changes. There are extremely strong non-partisan arguments that can be made. I urge my scientific friends to take the time and comment as well.

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So, if there are shenanigans we can fight for people as a group rather than people fighting for their individual comments. We have full records and are monitoring it nearly hourly at this point. Here is our public comment portal: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...

Our paper is out in Developmental Biology! It's part of a special issue on Forebrain Development. Mouse KO of Togaram1, a Joubert Syndrome gene, has defects in forebrain morphogenesis and neurogenesis. 🐭🧠🧪 #cilia #devbio #cellbio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Microtubule binding protein Togaram1 is required for proper development of mammalian forebrain and neural primary cilia

Proper forebrain development relies on precise spatial and temporal control of early neural stem cell (NSC) proliferation and later neurogenesis. Brai…

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ASCB provides a script to make it easy: Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your Representative or Senators’ offices.

American Society for Cell Biology@ascbiology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The White House has proposed cutting NIH funding by 12% & NSF funding by 54%. Call Congress today and urge them to reject these harmful cuts to biomedical research, scientific discovery & the future of US science https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/advocacy-alert-oppose-proposed-cuts-to-nih-and-nsf/

Our article in MBoC is now available in full text as HTML or formatted PDF! Lots of data added since the preprint! Double KO of Cep55 and p53 disrupts epithelial structure with "frankenstein" undead cells: www.molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10....

Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our latest #abscission paper is online at MBoC www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... . We looked at what happens when there are stochastic abscission failures in a polarized epithelium in vivo. 1/6

Job Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc (and soon a lab tech) to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes at the University of Virginia. Details at: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0.... Ads for postdoc+lab tech on salamander locomotion grant coming soon! 🧪🐟🦎

Research Associate in Biology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

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Interviewer: What do you think are the biggest problems science as a whole is facing today? Linda responds: "... I believe attempts at gaming the scientific publication system will get progressively worse over time. ..." And she didn't even mention AI-generated fake papers!

Hiten Madhani@hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is good. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Spending on new medical research by the National Institutes of Health has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects. Story by Ben Mueller & @irenatfh.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4ctOSqM

Polls are open until 7pm for the VA referendum today 4/21. Find your polling place here, and dont forget to bring your ID! #vote www.elections.virginia.gov/casting-a-ba...

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A nice depiction of the problem.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I was preparing for a talk I gave last evening to a lay audience and came up with this graphic to explain multi-year funding and why it leads to fewer competitive awards and funding investigators and projects. 6/8

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

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Our latest #abscission paper is online at MBoC www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... . We looked at what happens when there are stochastic abscission failures in a polarized epithelium in vivo. 1/6

Cytokinetic abscission failures in a polarized epithelium affect apical membrane size and cilia | Molecular Biology of the Cell

Cytokinetic abscission genes are linked to cancers and developmental disorders, but the consequences of disrupted abscission in vivo remain under-explored. Previously we showed that in the forebrain o...

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Reposting today since Bluesky was weird yesterday. Also for #fluorescencefriday image of green cilia on apical membranes of neural stem cells. See our new preprint for details! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Noelle Dwyer @noelledwyerphd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our preprint about Togaram1 mouse knockout brain phenotypes is on bioRxiv! This is a model of Joubert Syndrome ciliopathy caused by loss of Togaram1 (aka Crescerin1 aka FAM179B). Primary #cilia defects in neural stem cells. Neurogenesis, mitotis, apoptosis, morphogenesis phenotypes! #cellbio

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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 4mo ago

TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo: “weak on crime” “terrible for foreign policy” “catering to the Radical Left” “owes his position to me” “sit down and mind your own business” POPE LEO, unbothered: “We are called to love.”

From MBoC… Now accepting submissions for the Cell Biology of the Nervous System special issue. Share your research on nervous system cell biology with the community: https://www.molbiolcell.org/nervous-system/

Our preprint about Togaram1 mouse knockout brain phenotypes is on bioRxiv! This is a model of Joubert Syndrome ciliopathy caused by loss of Togaram1 (aka Crescerin1 aka FAM179B). Primary #cilia defects in neural stem cells. Neurogenesis, mitotis, apoptosis, morphogenesis phenotypes! #cellbio

bioRxiv Developmental Biology@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Microtubule binding protein Togaram1 is required for proper development of mammalian forebrain and neural primary cilia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.13.717734v1

Another Society journal doing the right thing! @socdevbio.bsky.social confirms that upon acceptance in @devbiol.bsky.social authors can upload the accepted and unformatted version of your manuscript to the NIH Manuscript Submission system, satisfying NIH and making it available to all

You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science? The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro.... Thanks for reposting!

We have a postdoc position available. Please forward to anyone who may be interested.

SDB is sad to announce the passing of Gail R. Martin (1944-2026) after a short illness in San Francisco. Martin served as SDB President in 2007 and was the recipient the Conklin Medal in 2002 and the @FASEBorg Excellence in Science Award in 2011. bit.ly/4aIfu5d

Amen. So many non-specific antibodies, so much wasted money and time.

bioRxiv Cell Biology@biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Drivers and ethical impacts of insufficient validation of antibodies in research https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.19.706766v1

Worth reading for possible explanations and their suggested experiments in Discussion. Note that peer review time was defined as the time from submission to acceptance, so includes time spent on revisions. Would have liked to see that separated out.

Siegenthaler Lab@siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review" from @plosbiology.org. After I read this sentence, I counted & I have 43 papers w/ a female first and/or last author. Lots of time wasted in longer reviews/revisions. 😕 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Happy to announce that our latest paper is now out! Have you ever wondered how neural tissues control their size? In this paper, we show that cell division orientation is critical in both the cortex and retina. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Oriented cell divisions induce basal progenitors and regulate neural expansion across tissues and species

A fundamental role for division orientation in progenitor output driving cortical and retinal growth is revealed.

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