Happy to see this fantastic paper finally out. Started as a PostDoc in our lab and finished in her own lab at @mpi-cbg.de talented Sandra Scharaw show how intestinal stem cells optimize niche signal reception by multiple lateral Golgi stacks facing Paneth cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Golgi organization regulates stem cell function in the small intestine - Nature Communications

Here the authors show that intestinal stem cells reorganize their Golgi apparatus to improve the delivery of receptors that receive signals from nearby support cells. This adaptation promotes efficien...

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When shift hit the fanerozoic

Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai@bigearthdata.ai · 2d ago

An Ancient Poop Explosion Could Have Helped Complex Life Evolve ->ScienceAlert | More info at BigEarthData.ai

I have a pet theory about bluesky: there's actually a silent majority of people with concern, but ultimately a nuanced opinion on AI. But this crowd is generally too hesitant to express any excitement or wonder bc there will be a hard-and-fast backlash from the vocal anti-AI contingent. Kinda sucks

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

Sailing in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ready for summer, our study on the iconic Portuguese man o' war 🪼 is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... We use (epi)genomics to understand a critter that fascinates me since childhood. Massive team effort with @obog.bsky.social, Cummins and Neely groups. 🧵

Happy to share the final version of our study on the evolution of chromatin states across eukaryotes, out today in @natgenet.nature.com Led by @crisnava.bsky.social and @seanamontgomery.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some highlights below

Diversity and evolution of chromatin regulatory states across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics

This study introduces iChIP2, a low-input chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing method that profiles histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) simultaneously across diverse eukar...

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#Twisting embryos and multiple #attachment sites in #Drosophila - now both available as #preprints. Proud of @giuliaserafini.bsky.social & @cuencam15.bsky.social, who worked together & established theory collaborations with @lepuslapis.bsky.social & @carldmodes.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de at its best

Non, le PIB, ce n'est pas directement la consommation de ressources fossiles. Encore une excellente vidéo d'@osonscauser.bsky.social sur l'émergence d'un découplage absolu. Il reste beaucoup de chemin à faire, mais la décarbonation a déjà largement commencé ! tournesol.app/entities/yt:...

Pour le climat, faut-il la décroissance ?

Osons Causer

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August as an academic

This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape

Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...

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A huge congratulations to Zheng and the entire Guo lab for this beautiful story! Very cool mechanism! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Intestinal stem cells count self-renewal divisions to switch multipotency - Nature

In Drosophila, cell fate switching in adult intestinal stem cells is determined through an epigenetic mechanism in which these cells count divisions, switching from producing enterocytes to producing ...

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Always one of the nicest cell biology conferences!

SBCF@sbcf.bsky.social · 7d ago

🔬 Cell la Vie 2026 📅 October 21–23 | Paris Three days of cell biology, scientific exchange, and networking across all career stages. 🎟️ Registration and poster submissions are open - but places are limited!

Ruibao's first paper from the lab is out in @nature.com . www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Collab with @multicellgenome.bsky.social & @jennahed.bsky.social. How did cells stick together and form the first animals? The protist Ministeria suggests cellular aggregation had a role. @iuqcb.bsky.social

A unicellular relative links aggregative multicellularity to animal origins - Nature

Aggregative multicellularity was key to the evolution of the multicellular animal genetic toolkit.

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'The Decline & Fall of the Human Empire', now in paperback in a land misruled by ignorant warlords. where pestilence scythes its way unchecked across the burning land, and purveyors of knowledge are persecuted like witches. Also, Canada.

Very happy to see this #MechanoGolgi story out (and in full open access, thanks to @upf.edu). Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed and helped make this possible, and, hopefully, more to come! rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Felix Campelo@felixmendu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🧵 I've been meaning to write a #Skytorial on our recently posted prepring in which we show evidence that the Golgi 🥞 is a mechanoresponsive organelle. Extracellular mechanical forces also tune Golgi export capacity! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Grateful to receive support from the ANR @agencerecherche.bsky.social for our collaborative project MiRiFIC with G. Michaux (Univ. Rennes) 🙏 We will explore subcellular regeneration through evolution.

ANR - Agence nationale de la recherche@agencerecherche.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 Appel à projets générique #AAPG 2026 : l’ANR publie la liste des projets sélectionnés pour financement (JCJC, PRME, PRC et PRCE) dans le cadre de l’ensemble des comités d’évaluation scientifique. ➡ anr.fr/fr/detail/ca...

New preprint! How does a cell "know" how big to make its nucleus? This has puzzled biologists since the 1800’s. We show the answer is physics: colloid osmotic pressure. 🧵1/5

bioRxiv Biophysics@biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nuclear size and physical properties of the nucleoplasm are determined by colloid osmotic pressure at the nuclear envelope https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.21.739918v1

Excited to share a new preprint from the lab, by @andrewmatheson.bsky.social and team, where we dive into the superpower of newts: plasticity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Like many good projects, this started with a serendipitous observation... 🧵1/5

Bhaskar Naidu, Vera Lillo, Manneville, Miserey, @felixmendu.bsky.social et al. show that extracellular mechanical forces reciprocally regulate #Golgi function. The study reveals a feedback pathway by which Golgi export supports cell spreading and mechanoadaptation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Enjoyed r summarizing this important & reproducible (yes we tried it) paper on how DMSO is sufficient to induce human balstoids from human naive PSCs, emphasizing (again) the great importance cell state has on embryo models formed. Congrat to Mo Li group & @KAUST . www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Signaling-independent boosting of human blastoid formation - Cell Research

Cell Research - Signaling-independent boosting of human blastoid formation

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There is more than cilia beating in the establishment of left-right symmetry! Proud to have contributed to this beautiful study by Amaia Ochandorena Saa @meilhacsigolene.bsky.social where Thierry Blisnick imaged mouse node by SEM doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx6486 @pasteur.fr @institutimagine.bsky.social

How do tissues safely remove cells? Join me, @marija-matejcic.bsky.social in this perspective on the past, present and future of epithelial cell extrusion 🧵 0/16

Our review paper on nerve nets has just been published!! @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy

The EMBO Journal@embojournal.org · 2w ago

Looking for weekend reading? New review by @kei-jokura.bsky.social and @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy revisits nerve nets, their functional organization, and evolutionary implications link.springer.com/article/10.1...

No, these images are not AI-generated, not even photoshopped. They do look artificial because there is something artificial about them: the extra 150 ppm of CO2 resulting from human activity, which has irretrievably transformed the world.

Auke-Florian 🪹@aukeflorian.nl · 2w ago

Welcome to the Anthropocene 🔥

From MBoC A new localization atlas maps more than 600 Giardia proteins, revealing the locations of hundreds of previously uncharacterized proteins and creating a valuable resource for functional discovery. https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E25-12-0590

Come work on exciting AI for biology projects in Paris!! 🇫🇷 Details and application below, deadline sept 1st!

Antigen Evolution & Design Lab@antigenevo.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨 JOB ALERT🚨 We are very excited to be hiring the lab's ✨very first postdoc✨! Work on new AI technologies for decoding antigen protein evolution in a fresh research environment, at the heart of Paris 🇫🇷 Details & link to apply: research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd... Deadline: Sep 1st

Funded places are available for early-career researchers at our Workshop on Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development, 18-21 April 2027, organised by Mauricio Rocha Martins and Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social Find out more and apply at www.biologists.com/workshops/ap...

We’re accepting abstracts for QBMM, come join an excellent set of speakers, due early Sept

⚡FINAL FLASH ABSTRACTS One last opportunity to share your research with the CGUE2026 community. 📅 Submissions open August 1 - 0:00 CET ⏰ Deadline: August 15 - 23:59 CET 👉 Submit your poster: comparativegenomics2026.com #ComparativeGenomics #Protistology #Genomics #ProtistsOnSky #Protist #Eukaryote