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Luiza Ghila @luizaghila.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Looking forward to chairing the "Cells and their niche cross-talk" session at the next Nordic Developmental Biology meeting in Uppsala. We will be diving into some fantastic new research. Check out the full program here: www.swedbo.se/the-5th-nord... #DevBio

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Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We're very excited to announce the official launch of the Journal of Regeneration. Together with the amazing team from @pensoft.net and my two co-EICs Loriano Ballarin and Buki Rinkevich, it is such a pleasure to share this new platform for bringing together the regeneration biology community.

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Journal of Regeneration

 Journal of Regeneration is an international peer-reviewed, Open Access journal aiming to provide a platform for the dissemination of research results on regeneration and tissue repair across phy...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Paying peer reviewers Interview with @danielgorelick.bsky.social about @biologyopen.bsky.social Fast & Fair trial in which peer reviewers were paid £220/review Spoiler: it works - fast, high quality reviews www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Still two weeks left to apply for the special "From Postdoc to PI" symposium at the Heidelberg meeting in September! If you're a postdoc and are in the job market, take this opportunity to tell everyone who you are 🐟🧪 There will be a prize an all!

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

congrats! 👏 where are the balloons? or bees…

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Life in a research lab when PIs are stuck in meetings. #lablife

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We are very happy and grateful to the Diabetes Wellness Norge (DWN) Foundation for supporting our research! www.diabeteswellness.no

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Huge congratulations to Agnes Oline Sandvik for successfully defending her Master’s thesis! 🎓✨ Completing a complex research project and crushing the defense is a massive achievement. The whole lab is proud of you, and wishing you all the best! 🚀🔬 #MastersThesis #Graduation

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Luiza Ghila @luizaghila.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Excellent work 👏 by @unger-lucas.bsky.social explaining his work in under 2 minutes movie:

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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

MouseMapper An imaging-omics workflow of whole-mouse analysis Up to single-cell resolution!👹 vDISCO WildDISCO whole-mouse optical clearing #SpatialProteomics Trigeminal ganglia VR annotation of major organs, peripheral nerve & Mφ @erturklab.bsky.social Nature 2026 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Genes & Development @genesdev.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

📽️ G&D Tapes 📽️ G&D Author, Lucas Unger, tells us about an auto-regulatory loop between HNF1A and Hedgehog signaling that dictates stem cell lineage specification. New in #genesdev: ➡️ genesdev.cshlp.org/content/40/11-12… Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab‬ Lucas Unger Luiza Ghila

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Pål Rasmus Njølstad @njolstad.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We are hiring! Researcher position at Mohn Center for Diabetes Precision Medicine, Univ of Bergen. Focus: functional studies of transcription factors in monogenic diabetes. 3-year position. More information and how to apply: www.finn.no/job/ad/44030886 Please share with relevant candidates.

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Many thanks 🙏 to Julie Warin and @anne-grapin.bsky.social for a very nice outlook on our paper in @genesdev.bsky.social genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

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Genes & Development @genesdev.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🆕 ADVANCE ONLINE 🆕 RESEARCH PAPER: Defective HNF1A hinders GLI3 processing favoring duodenal versus pancreatic fate, thus leading to intestinal elongation in vivo By Unger et al. Luiza Ghila, and Simona Chera ➡️ ow.ly/8oTf50YVMEt Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab‬ Lucas Unger Luiza Ghila

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

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Luiza Ghila @luizaghila.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

@njolstad.bsky.social kicking off the 10th Meeting of the Study Group on Genetics of Diabetes #SGGD2026 at Solstrand

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Luiza Ghila @luizaghila.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Our dean, Marit Bakke is introducing Professor Anna Gloyn's lecture @annagloyn.bsky.social Professor Anna Louise Gloyn will be appointed honorary doctor @unibergen.bsky.social on May 21, 2026.

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Wallpaper* @wallpapermag.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

In Venice, ‘The Shape of Time’ sees Barry X Ball unveil 23 sculptures on The Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibiti...

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Barry X Ball’s sculptures inhabit a monastic island in Venice

In Venice, ‘The Shape of Time’ sees the artist unveil 23 sculptures on the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore

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Luiza Ghila @luizaghila.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Really great session on understanding the mechanisms of #diabetes at the 10th Meeting of the Study Group on Genetics of Diabetes #SGGD2026 with Anna Gloyn Anne Grapin Botton @anne-grapin.bsky.social and Simona Chera @cheralab.bsky.social

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Data is not transparent! And that's why looking without bias is hard to do. We asked undergrads what correlation they expected between wealth & happiness, before showing them a fictitious dataset. Faced with an identical graph, those expecting a positive correlation were much more likely to see one!

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

OMG! I would have died to have these toys during my PhD ❤️ Nowadays I feel that my students are not spending enough time to get nice images from their experiments #newPI 🤷‍♀️

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

9pm Switzerland time, y'all! I'll be talking about how neurons are like onions. Tiny onions. Sort of. Look, you'll have to be there 🧪🧅🐟

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Lucas Unger @unger-lucas.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Excited to share our new paper online ahead of print in Genes & Development @genesdev.bsky.social. We show how HNF1A affects GLI3 processing and drives #pancreatic and #intestinal development. It’s been amazing to see it come together thanks to the team @cheralab.bsky.social. Read it here:

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Defective HNF1A hinders GLI3 processing favoring duodenal versus pancreatic fate, thus leading to intestinal elongation in vivo

A biweekly scientific journal publishing high-quality research in molecular biology and genetics, cancer biology, biochemistry, and related fields

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📣 paper alert We are happy to share our latest work on how HNF1A's involvement in GLI3 processing affects #pancreatic & intestinal #development 5 years of work is 🆕 ONLINE ahead of print 🆕 in @genesdev.bsky.social I must say I'm really proud of my team! 👏 genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations" Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations? rdcu.be/e7zx7

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Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations

Nature Reviews Genetics - In this Perspective, Maizels and Briscoe discuss the limitations of current models of gene regulatory networks and outline solutions to harness data abundance without...

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

✨Crepidula fornicata (slipper snail) 🐚 A classic model for spiral cleavage! 🧬 Crepidula embryos reveal how early cell divisions shape body plans and establish left-right asymmetry in spiralian animals 📸 Image by Jake Leyhr #ModelMonday

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Registration and abstract submission link below: www.sggd2026.no/abstract-sub...

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Abstract Submission — SGGD Bergen 2026

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Last day to send an abstract for the: 10th Meeting of the Study Group on Genetics of #Diabetes #SGGD which will take place at the Solstrand Hotel in the magnificent landscape by the Bjørnafjord, just 30 km from the center of in Bergen, Norway.

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I used once proteomics to validate NGS. It was called "creative" but still not an qRT-PCT…

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Congratulations 🎉 to @unger-lucas.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD with the thesis “Dissecting HNF1A’s Role in Early Cell Fate Decisions and Their Impact on Pancreatic Islet”! 👏 🎓 #cellfate #devbio

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Luiza Ghila @luizaghila.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Professor Emerita Birgitta Åsjø @unibergen.bsky.social is introducing Lucas @unger-lucas.bsky.social as he starts his PhD work presentation focused on the Dissecting HNF1A’s Role in Early #CellFate Decisions & their Impact on Pancreatic #Islet @cheralab.bsky.social #PhDLife #PhDdefense #devbio

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Anne Grapin-Botton @anne-grapin.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The Elbe Program is offering positions for independent postdocs at the interface between theory (physics, maths, computing) and biology. Join us in Dresden! Deadline 13 March.

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

@unger-lucas.bsky.social will defend his PhD work 🎓@unibergen.bsky.social 🕒Tuesday, 24th of February at 12.15 📍Auditorium 2, BB-bygget, Jonas Lies vei 91 Trial Lecture at 10.15 “Transcriptional regulation in the developing pancreas: From genome architecture to phenotypes” #UiB 🇳🇴 #devbio #PhDLife

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Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (BCCR) @bjerknes.uib.no · 17/02/2026

🧪 Come work with us in Bergen! 🌊 Do you have a good understanding of paleoceanography & a masters degree in Geosciences, Marine Biology or similar - this might be your chance to become a researcher 💥 @i2b-erc.bsky.social @polhavet2050.bsky.social Read more and apply here: lnkd.in/e8KBAyPi

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European Association for the Study of Diabetes @easdnews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

⌛ Few days left to #nominate a colleague who’s made an outstanding contribution to #diabetes #research & #care. Each year, EASD honours pioneers & leaders with 6 prestigious #prizes. 📅 Deadline: 15 Feb 2026 | 🕛 12:00 CET Spread the word & nominate now 👉 www.easd.org/prizes/

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Webinar alert Learn how to generate 3D human multi-cell type neurospheres from iPSCs without necrotic core formation. Featuring Stefan Wendt, PhD (UBC) Date: March 25 | Time: 12:00 pm ET Free for all Register here: www.ascb.org/ascb-meetings/3d-human…

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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 10/02/2026

John Gurdon taught us that the beginning of life is never truly lost — only waiting to be reawakened. Long before his ideas were accepted, he showed that a cell remembers more than it appears to know: that within a differentiated nucleus lies the latent capacity to begin anew go.nature.com/3Mf8SD0

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John Gurdon 1933–2025 - Nature Biotechnology

Nature Biotechnology - John Gurdon 1933–2025

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Simona Chera & Cell Fate Lab @cheralab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Meet Skatt, my trusted grant advisor. He has strong opinions. Mostly about who's the Chair Master. #JellyBellyFriday

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Sigrid Jusélius Foundation @sigridjuselius.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Professor Ville Hietakangas calls for patience from research funders: the time frame in basic research is long, and financial concerns undermine creativity. Read more in our article: sigridjuselius.fi/en/news/scie...

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Scientific leaps cannot be taken overnight - Sigrid Jusélius Foundation

There are no quick wins in top medical research. Ville Hietakangas, who studies the effect of food on our physiology, asks for patience and trust from those who fund science.

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Carol Yang @yhcarolyang.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We are recruiting a postdoc to join a Wellcome Trust-funded project at LSI-Exeter, investigating the role of neural-pancreas dynamics in maintaining glucose homeostasis. 🐟🔬🧠 @lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet #postdocjobs jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Please repost 🙏

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Daniel Drucker @danieljdrucker.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Studies in cells and mice reveal that the human GLP1R A316T variant exhibits characteristics of constitutive activation but dampened GLP-1RA responses www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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In vivo functional profiling and structural characterization of the human GLP1R A316T variant

The GLP1R A316T missense variant displays improved glucose tolerance but impaired pharmacological incretin responses in vivo.

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

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