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Jethro LB

@jethrolb.bsky.social
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Wellcome Trust PhD student in the Philpott Lab at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute 🔬🧬 Interested in early embryo development, epigenetics & cell fate decisions

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Philippe Batut @philippebatut.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🧬🔬 Why are enhancers transcribed and how does that impact gene regulation? I’m really excited to share our new paper in @science.org showing that noncoding RNAs control the timing of gene activation in embryos. With Mike Levine #ScienceResearch @columbiamed.bsky.social A few highlights below... 🧵👇
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Noncoding transcription controls the developmental dynamics of long-range gene regulation
The genomic regions regulating gene expression are often themselves transcribed into a variety of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). However, the regulatory roles of this noncoding transcription remain largely ...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322
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Anahí Binagui-Casas @abinagui.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So happy & excited to see our paper out in @plosbiology.org ! 🎉 With contributions from many past & present members of the Lowell & Wilson labs @edinuni-irr.bsky.social , and a fantastic collaboration with @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social & @alberto-ceccarelli.bsky.social. 🧵👇(1/10)
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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Vicki Metzis @vmetzis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
How does an embryo generate the right cells in the right place? Delighted to share our latest findings on how neural crest cells acquire vagal or trunk identities Spoiler alert: The timing & combination of CDXs preconfigures cell identity & distinct HOX states www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Temporally distinct CDX programmes preconfigure vagal and trunk neural crest
Neural crest cells (NCCs) are progenitor cells vital in establishing the head, heart, gut and peripheral nervous system of vertebrate embryos. Disruptions to NCC development underlie neurocristopathie...
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...
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How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
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Sumru Bayin @sumrubayin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I had fun chatting with Nikolas and @jethrolb.bsky.social from @scicambridge.bsky.social @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social Great job with the #naivestemcells podcast! Check out all episodes on #spotify. open.spotify.com/episode/4zp0...
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Ep. 3 - Dr Sumru Bayin
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Surfin' NuRD @surfinnurd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
OK Kids, our ERK story is finally heading out into the world. After 9 years of having funding, losing funding, losing staff, getting funding, gaining staff...it's ready! We discovered a novel stage of what is an otherwise extensively studied process: how cells respond to extracellular signals. 1/n
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Mattias Malaguti @matt-mala.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Delighted to introduce KELPE: mESCs with two insulated genomic landing pads, which we use to generate new synNotch and PUFFFIN neighbour-labelling lines. They were named after kelpies, creatures from Scottish folklore, and they look pretty on a kelpie micropattern! #DevBio #SynBio
KELPE cells plated on micropatterned extracellular matrix forcing them to arrange in the shape of a kelpie.
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Optical clearing & time-lapse fluorescent imaging of Live mouse Brain (up to 800 μm of depth)🤯 An acute olfactory bulb slice(P11) loaded with GCaMP6f (Ca2+ sensor) was imaged with #2PM at a depth of 150 μm during clearing with SeeDB-Live👹 #NatMethods 2026 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Maria Alcolea @mariapalcolea.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🚨 New paper from our lab just published in Nature🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Discover how 🌱 tumour formation is shaped by tissue context from the very beginning. Cancer is not driven by genetics alone ✨Fantastic team led by Greta Skrupskelyte, Eduardo Rojo, @hariajith.bsky.social
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
🧬 @science.org A SWI/SNF-specific Ig-like domain, SWIFT, is a transcription factor binding platform | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @ckadoch.bsky.social @danafarber.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org @hhmi-science.bsky.social 🔬 #chromatin #transcription #cancer 🧫
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A SWI/SNF-specific Ig-like domain, SWIFT, is a transcription factor binding platform
Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes modulate DNA accessibility and gene expression; however, their genomic targeting mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Here, we identify SWIFT (SW...
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Job Dekker @jobdekker.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A major output of the 4D Nucleome project appeared today. This is the joint effort of many scientists working together and (publicly) sharing data and results for several years. We hope this is of interest to many genome biologists! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An integrated view of the structure and function of the human 4D nucleome - Nature
The 4D Nucleome Project demonstrates the use of genomic assays and computational methods to measure genome folding and then predict genomic structure from DNA sequence, facilitatin...
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Scientific journals: we don’t want you using generative AI because it makes shit up. Same journal: here is an AI summary or evaluation of this paper. This might be more useful than the actual abstract or paper that the authors freaking wrote Same journal: AI cover art which makes no sense? Oooh!
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Comparative ASCL1 interactome analysis reveals CDK2-Cyclin A2 as suppressors of differentiation in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
🚨 New call for preLighters!🚨 Help us highlight the most exciting biological #preprints. Share your insights, build your profile, and be part of a supportive community! 🌍 Interested? Apply today & help shape the future of science publishing! 📢 More info: prelights.biologists.com/news/join-th...
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Jethro LB @jethrolb.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I really enjoyed writing a few words to highlight this excellent new preprint from the Bayin lab - check it out, especially for fans of ASCL1 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/a...
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A conserved differentiation program facilitates inhibitory neuron production in the developing mouse and human cerebellum - preLights
How do progenitor cells in the brain give rise to such a diverse range of cell types? ASCL1 and FOXO1 work together to create inhibitory neurons from bipotent progenitors
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