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Merlin Lange

@merlinlange.bsky.social
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Scientist @ INSERM Institut de la Vision 🇫🇷 | Microscopy 🔬 | Transcriptomics 🧬 | Developmental Biology in 4D 🌟 - Ex Chan Zuckerberg Biohub SF 🇺🇸  / RIKEN 🇯🇵

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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
very cool!!
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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We have a lab website! cellmig.org Now fully hosted on GitHub. If you check it out, let me know what you think!
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Cell Migration Lab – We study cell migration in health and disease
The Cell Migration Lab in Turku studies cell migration, cancer–vascular interactions and filopodia using microscopy and quantitative image analysis.
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Loic @loicaroyer.bsky.social calls me the fish wizard but he's defintely the imaging wizard 🪄🔮🧙‍♂️ Great thread with tons of eye candy 👇
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Jeff Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨 New preprint from the lab! 🚨 Transcriptomic profiling identifies cellular and molecular transitions during Merkel cell regeneration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Transcriptomic profiling identifies cellular and molecular transitions during Merkel cell regeneration
Skin exhibits a remarkable capacity for regeneration, which requires the coordinated reconstitution of diverse cell types and structures. Merkel cells are mechanosensory cells that detect gentle touch...
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Gaëlle Recher @gaellerecher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Very soon, members of the @gdrimabio.bsky.social will fly to Burundi with this suitcase full of microscopes 🔬 + 🩷 --> ✈️ --> 🇧🇮
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Guardian has a great free article on Maps and World projections with beautiful visuals showing how Mercator distorts the world and the need for an equal earth map. (following up on a subject mentioned a few weeks ago for the cartography aficionados :)) www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
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‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔬🧪 We're hiring postdocs&engineers at Institut de la Vision in AMAZING Paris 🇫🇷!! Join a dynamic team working at the nexus of retina developmental biology, spatial omics & advanced imaging Ambitious science in a supportive & young inclusive team 🚀 DM me for more info & please share 🙏 #academicsky
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Sebastian Munck @sebastianmunck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Great Opportunity for our interuniversity course on advanced microscopy. Please register before the 14th of September www.flandersbioimaging.org/icalm26
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iCALM26 | Fbiv23
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Interesting article (in French) on how the Mercator projection misrepresents the world, and the African Union's push to adopt equal earth projection instead. I like the cartography topic, very relevant in Dev Bio, where we want to project a 3D embryo onto a flat map. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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La France abandonne la projection cartographique dite « de Mercator » et demande une représentation du monde plus équitable
Dans le cadre d’un mouvement porté par l’Union africaine, Paris a annoncé, vendredi, abandonner l’utilisation de ce planisphère. Pour respecter la réalité, la place de la France sera désormais plus pe...
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Very cool 🧪
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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Choanoflagellates reorganize their global cytoskeletal architecture within seconds to explore confined microspaces. This is the main PhD work of the amazing @maitefreired.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A tread 🧵⬇️
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Rapid repurposing of microvillar content drives a flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest relative of animals
Animal cells extensively remodel their cytoskeleton during differentiation and can notably switch between two major motility modes: flagellum-based swimming and actin-based crawling. We previously sho...
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Christopher Thomas @ovarylab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Excited to share this fantastic collaboration with the teams of @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social, where we identify and characterise the Zollo body — a transient RNP compartment that drives oocyte and follicle growth! 🥚🔬 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Microscopy image of a growing oocyte enclosed within an ovarian follicle. Mitochondria are labelled in magenta, revealing the Zollo body as a distinct region next to the oocyte nucleus. Myosin II is shown in cyan, highlighting the surrounding cell structure.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Do you work with microscopy images and segment to quantify or track? Do you study cell biology? development? Gather round! Let me tell you about FOCUS-3D, a segmentation algorithm that is fast, accurate and can be used on any model. We used it here to study zebrafish development. 🧪 (thread)
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FOCUS‑3D: Robust, generalizable volumetric cell segmentation for three‑dimensional fluorescence microscopy
Understanding how cells establish spatial organization within tissues is a fundamental question in life sciences. While modern three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy captures large-volume tissue ar...
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Great to see this one out. Congrats to the @hernanggarcia.bsky.social lab and everyone involved. Happy to have played a small part 🧪
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Watching an #eclipse is very special! From Spain and thanks to my dear friend Baptiste for the amazing pictures 🧪🔭
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Amazing! Great work congrats 🧪 🔬
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I found a Loic in Paris! Always great to catch up with my friend and mentor @loicaroyer.bsky.social, after 2hours of conversations I'm back in the lab full of motivation and fresh thoughts.
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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📣 Tracking cells through time – including divisions – is a core problem in live-imaging microscopy. We built HOCT, an edge-centric Transformer that hits state-of-the-art on the Cell Tracking Challenge without a pretrained image encoder. Work led by @jookuma.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2607.11754 🧪🔬💻
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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
1/ 🧬🧪 New preprint! Do you actually need a biology-specific foundation model to predict how cells respond to perturbations? Surprising answer: a general-purpose tabular model - never trained on a single cell - matches or beats the specialists. 🧵 📄 doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.28.735106 @biohub
Tabular Foundation Models Are Competitive Cellular Perturbation Predictors Across Biological Scales
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Great teaming up with MadScientist the for the 2nd place at the trivia 🐟. Thanks to @yorc-ezs-izfs.bsky.social for organising a fun night! #EZM2026
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European Zebrafish Society (EZS) @ezsociety.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🌟 Meet the Scientific Committee: @merlinlange.bsky.social 🌟 Merlin Lange is a member of the Scientific Committee of #EZM2026, and we are thrilled to have them join us in Vienna! Stay tuned to meet the outstanding scientists of EZM2026! 🐟🧬
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📢Check out our latest preprint list on FocalPlane In this list, we focus on the latest tools and techniques in imaging, including sample prep, probes, hardware and software. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/06/26/m... Let us know if you've been reading a preprint that we should add to our list.
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Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging - FocalPlane
Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging - News
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🧬 🧪Our RNA velocity benchmark is out in PLOS Comp Biol We tested 5 methods on mouse & zebrafish data. They often disagree (just 1/100 driver genes shared 😬). A hypothesis tool, not ground truth. Open access 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... Led by the brilliant Sarah Ancheta (not on bsky)
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Oded Mayseless @mayseless.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
1/11 Excited to share my postdoc work from @schierlab.bsky.social and Rainer Friedrich! 🐟👃 How does the brain decide whether an odor is good or bad? In larval zebrafish, we find that odor preference is reflected in spatially cohesive neuronal domains of the olfactory bulb. 🧵
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Accepted 🥳 "We thank reviewer 2 for the constructive suggestions, which helped strengthen the manuscript" 🥶
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Iván Hidalgo-Cenalmor @ivanhcenalmor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Excited to share my first PhD project: LabConstrictor 📒🐍 Have you ever created a Jupyter notebook with all your love 🫶, only for others to be unable to install it 🥲? LabConstrictor, comes to solve this! Check out how it works in the preprint 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2603.107... or follow this thread ⬇️
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Great work from my ex-colleague and friend @manu-leo.bsky.social Manu and his team are at the forefront of large-scale cell biology! Always publishing beautiful stories and resources for the community. 🧪👇
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Fantastic opportunity in a great environment with a super mentor
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Cabinet of curiosities straight from @laurentformery.bsky.social lab: Astrospartus mediterraneus. Looks AI generated bizarre video 🤯🧪🍿
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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"No one is remembered for the hills they climbed, but for the mountain they dared scale."
No one is remembered for the hills they climbed, but for the mountain they dared scale.
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Martin Weigert @maweigert.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Excited to share our new paper (CVPR 2026 🚀): "MuViT: Multi-Resolution Vision Transformers for Learning Across Scales in Microscopy" which enables local predictions to use global context. Great work led by @albertdm.bsky.social & another fun collab w @gioelelamanno.bsky.social! @scadsai.bsky.social
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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow! Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon! www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...
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10th European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meeting 2026
The European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology is delighted to welcome you to the 10th biennial meeting, to be held at the University of Glasgow from June 9th - 12th in 2026.
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Me after 2days answering the reviewer 2’s, 34 pages, of “minor comments” (true story)
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a man with ice on his face is standing in a snowy field
ALT: a man with ice on his face is standing in a snowy field
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Remote controlled antibody 🤯🧪 congrats to the team!
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Teun Huijben @teunhuijben.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Ultrack on the cover of Nature Methods! Thanks @alexandredizeux.bsky.social for helping us with the beautiful cover art! 😍
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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium @cbias.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Second speaker is @teunhuijben.bsky.social from @loicaroyer.bsky.social group at @czbiohub.bsky.social #CBIAS2025 Tracking is hard because segmentation is hard, especially in whole zebra fish embryos: Ultrack can help github.com/royerlab/ult...
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Super nice - check out this thread - tracking cell segmentation… 🧪🔬
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Great day at @institutcurie.bsky.social for the Multiscale Integration in Biological Systems course! Thanks to the students for the great discussions and to the organizers for the kind invitation. Always a pleasure to visit the historic Curie campus and catch up with colleagues
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Kudos @ritastrack.bsky.social for the great years at NMeth! And congrats to my former colleague Jordao Bragantini for ultrack (and the well deserved cover 🎉) and @teunhuijben.bsky.social for inTRACKtive. Glad I could contribute to these two wonderful endeavors. GO team @loicaroyer.bsky.social! 🧪🔬
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GdR ImaBio 🔬 @gdrimabio.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
#Mifobio2025 @merlinlange.bsky.social's Lecture is online ! 👉 "Building a Multimodal Atlas of Vertebrate Development" 👉 youtu.be/7pj8hMH0stA @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsingenierie.bsky.social @czbiohub.bsky.social @gdr-imabio-ysn.bsky.social #GDRimabio #InstitutdelaVision
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Merlin LANGE : building a Multimodal Atlas of Vertebrate Development
YouTube video by GDR Imabio - CNRS
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
On my way back from a great week at #Mifobio2025. Thanks to the organizers for the inspiring meeting. Cool microscope, nice atmosphere, science by the beach 🔬🧪
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Gaëlle Recher @gaellerecher.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Delighted to host Anne Beghin (@mbisg.bsky.social) ✈️ and @merlinlange.bsky.social (Institut de la Vision and @czbiohub.bsky.social ) 🐟 for the Module 4 Multiscale analysis of 3D biological samples Good science and great people. #MiFoBio2025 is really a grand cru 🍷 @gdrimabio.bsky.social
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Morning coffee with a nice view of the dune, getting ready for #Mifobio2025
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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Job alert! We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? See also on the forum: forum.image.sc/t/research-e...
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Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA
Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
So happy to join my first #Mifobio2025! It’s going to be super fun. If you’re not coming this year, consider the next edition. Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones. #DevelopmentAtlas 🧪🔬
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Update I'm back in France 🇫🇷! Joining Inserm to build a multi-omics team on retinal development, at the nexus of live imaging, omics & human embryology. Huge thanks to CZ Biohub SF folks, esp. my mentor, friend & science soulmate @loicaroyer.bsky.social for the amazing time. More cool science soon🧪
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Students & scientists interested in multiscale integration in biological systems don’t miss this international course at @institutcurie.bsky.social. Explore #computation #morphogenesis #biology #machinelearning & more 🧪 Deadline soon - registration here training.institut-curie.org/courses/mult...
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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