🏆 Congratulations to Tuuli Lappalainen, ESHG Award Lecturer 2026! In her Award Lecture, Professor Lappalainen will discuss the next steps in interpreting these effects and the tools that will help researchers uncover the molecular mechanisms underlying genetic variation. #Genetics #eshg2026

Excited to share our RegVelo paper in Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... We unify RNA velocity + GRNs into one model → better OOD prediction of perturbations (e.g. gene KOs), with examples incl. neural crest KO predictions 🔬 Big thanks to W Wang, Z Hu & T Sauka-Spengler 🙏

Been watching this great work evolve over the past two years! Congratulations to all!! Fantastic team and science of course 💪

Sergei Pirogov@biologsp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It was a fantastic exploration during my PhD, a new method, with new struggles. I had an amazing team of Artem and Aleksander to deal with all of them. Also my first experience of project supervision, it was hard but extremely cool. And thanks to @mardzix.bsky.social and Pepe for all the support!

Greetings fly community. We are organising a meeting in October this year at the exotic Chania/Crete! Have a look at the prelim programme, spread the news and join us! Drosophila invited speakers and beyond www.dev-cancer2026.gr

🧬 10 @dfg.de-funded PhD positions at @goettingen-campus.de 🧬 ❗Focus: Evolution of gene regulatory networks & Wnt signaling in emerging models (insects, snails, flatworms, cnidarians). 💻 Methods: 'Omics, Bioinformatics, CRISPR/RNAi & Imaging. 📌Start: June 2026. #EvoDevo #Genomics #Bioinformatics

Many thanks to Marc @amoyellab.bsky.social for the very inspiring talk linking metabolism and differentiation in the fly testis at the @imbb-forth.bsky.social Junior scientists retreat. And to our #EU_funded for sponsoring his travelling.

Meet Nicole Roos and Anthony Wokasch, winners of the popular vote of our image competition with the @mblscience.bsky.social embryology course. thenode.biologists.com/interview-wi...

Interview with Nicole Roos and Anthony Wokasch: winners of the MBL Embryology course image competition   - the Node

Last September marked the return of our image competition with the MBL Embryology course at Woods Hole. The 2025 cohort submitted

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We are highlighting Austin Smith, a @biologists.bsky.social Director, @dmmjournal.bsky.social Guest Editor and former @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @ausmith.bsky.social

5' for a good night read 10' including gazing at the photos 15' to think it over ‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures

At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

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👀Next Wednesday, Oct 22nd, at #FragileNucleosome seminar, we are excited to host @alicelaigle.bsky.social and @seungsookim.bsky.social to tell us about amazing work they are doing! 🗓️Register here for upcoming session and the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🧪 We are #hiring! ▫️#Postdoc fellows ▫️#Talent & Development Section Head ▫️Talent Technician (temporary) ▫️Health, Safety and Quality Section Head ▫️Health & Safety Technician (temporary) ▫️Engineering Officer ▫️ Senior Financial Project Officer & more! ➡️ bit.ly/3MR4wO8 #IRBJobs #Jobs #ScienceJobs

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SCENTINEL Twinning HE@scentinel.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our opinion can impact the future of european science and strengthen Drosophila research. Lets go!

This is so cool! It’s also nice to see how careful genetic dissection of loci is still at the forefront of discovery!

Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ever wondered what drives enhancer-promoter specificity? Why would an enhancer activate one gene rather than another neighboring one? Check our latest preprint, led by @mmasoura.bsky.social, to find out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Day 3 @edrc2025.bsky.social once again fantastic community, science and people. Grateful to be here!

@edrc2025.bsky.social almost there! Very much looking forward to meet up and listen to amazing #Drosophila research. Come by my poster (will have the jedi pin on it)

We have two open positions for a ML and a LLM engineer to launch a machine learning expertise unit in our center @vibai.bsky.social, see vib.ai/en/opportuni...

Enjoying the Nordic Autophagy Society meeting in Sånga Säby! Great community and with impressive science and good discussions! @arcticautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social @womeninautophagy.bsky.social

Meet George Garinis, professor at the University of Crete #Greece, affiliated group leader at imbb-forth.bsky.social and EMBO Member. “For me EMBO is all about connection,” he says, grateful for the role EMBO plays in facilitating #networking to other parts of #Europe: www.embo.org/people/creat... 🧪

Creating connections in Crete – People – EMBO

Meet George Garinis, professor at the University of Crete, affiliated group leader at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas and EMBO Member

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Our new preprint is out ! We uncover how adult Drosophila muscles respond to injury through a coordinated dialogue between hemocytes, tracheal cells, and muscles. Check it out and please share @igdrennes.bsky.social

flymuscles@flymuscles.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I read the preprint. It's very beautiful work from Hadi Boukhatmi's group. They test how if at all #Drosophila can repair their #muscles. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.ascb.org/society-news... It's official now 😁 Big thanks again to @ascbiology.bsky.social & MBoC

Maik Bischoff@maikbischoff.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Exciting news — I am super honored to receive the 2025 MBoC Early Career Paper Award 🎉 My very first award 😊 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... Couldn’t imagine a better send-off as I just wrapped up my postdoc at UNC and get ready to start a lab in Münster this fall 😃

Collective cell motion has many forms, but rotation is the coolest of them all. I'm @onenimesa.bsky.social , and in this short🧵, I'll highlight some instances of global tissue rotation like this one from @BauschLab

Amazing opportunity, join the Manzini Lab and become part of the Institute of Animal Physiology in Giessen!

Ivan Manzini@xenofrog.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨 We are looking for 2 PhD students! 🧠🐸👃 Join the Manzini Lab @jlugiessen.bsky.social to explore the olfactory system in #aquatic #vertebrates. We mainly use #amphibians, combining: 🔬 Imaging 👩‍🔬 Cell biology 🐝 Behavior 👉 bit.ly/neurophd 🌍 bit.ly/manzinilab Please share! #PhD #neuroscience #job

The first full central nervous system connectome dataset of an adult fly, with the most comprehensive annotation of sensory and motor neurons to date. A heroic effort with contributions from many groups, a product of the collaborative spirit of the Drosophila neuroscience community.

Matt Collie@mottcallie.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy Friday! The female adult fly brain-and-nerve-cord (BANC) connectome is now LIVE! Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I'll soon be advertising for a 3 year postdoc to join our lab at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social exploring #macrophages in salivary gland #development. Candidates should have a strong background in immunology/macrophage biology and/or developmental biology & key skills as below. Informal enquiries welcome!

Very happy and proud to share the latest work from our lab. Neuroendocrine control of intestinal regeneration through the vascular niche. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neuroendocrine control of intestinal regeneration through the vascular niche in Drosophila

Robust and controlled intestinal regeneration involves reciprocal interactions between the intestinal epithelium and its microenvironment. Here, we id…

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We are also highlighting Andrea Brand, who authored @dev-journal.bsky.social‘s most cited paper, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists

Very honored to receive the 2025 ISCB Innovator Award at #ISMBECCB2025 and present our lab’s journey—from mapping cells to modeling their future. Thanks to my amazing team and collaborators—this is our award! 🙌 📽️ Keynote: Atlases, AI & virtual cells 📝 doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

💡 Did you know that almost half of #HorizonEU topics required the use of social sciences & humanities (SSH)? Our new report reveals how SSH integration boosts impact & innovation across disciplines. Check it out to strengthen your next proposal! 👇 op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

Injury earlier in life rejuvenates the gut and extends life span. Way cool ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Age mosaic of gut epithelial cells prevents aging - Nature Communications

Qin et al. suggest how organ or individual aging can be understood at the level of cellular age composition. An age mosaic among Drosophila gut epithelial cells prevents aging, suggesting that a tissu...

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