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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

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IBDM, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille @ibdm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🎥 Our researcher @shamtlili.bsky.social explores the physical laws governing tissue formation in this video, following the CNRS Bronze Medal she received last year 🏅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-22F...

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Médaille de bronze 2025 : Sham Tlili, décrypter les lois physiques de la formation des tissus

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Florian Schueder @florianschueder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Please check out our newest work on fluorogenic speed imager probes, in which we combine the strengths of speed-optimized imagers and fluorogenic imagers. #SuperResolution #DNAPAINT #microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Valentin Dunsing-Eichenauer @dunsingvalentin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Join us this Friday in the Euro-BioImaging #VirtualPub!🔬

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Mathilda Lennartz @mathilda95.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I am extremely excited that my first first-author paper from my PhD is finally out 😆!! We developed a new CLEM workflow to measure lipid densities at the nanoscale. So if you are into lipids and super-resolution imaging approaches, this one is for you: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Visualizing suborganellar lipid distribution using correlative light and electron microscopy - Nature Cell Biology

Lennartz et al. introduce a correlative light and electron microscopy workflow, Lipid-CLEM, combining near-native lipid probes and on-section labelling via click chemistry. Lipid-CLEM quantitatively a...

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Anaïs Bailles @anaisbailles.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Do not miss this amazing conference! And if you are interested in mechanical forces in Evo-Devo, there is a symposium for you!

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Two funded PhD positions investigating the evolution of sarcomeres @ibdm.bsky.social in @biancah0406.bsky.social and our lab, together with @cnidevo.bsky.social - Interested to explore how similar or different Jellyfish sarcomeres are to Drosophila or human ones? www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/ibdm_job/2-a...

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 30/01/2026

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses

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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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Florian Schueder @florianschueder.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

📄 New paper out! Please check out our latest publication, where we show how the gatekeeper protein InvE orchestrates hierarchical type III secretion in Salmonella Typhimurium via oligomeric assembly. #T3SS #DNAPAINT www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Oligomeric assembly of the gatekeeper InvE orchestrates hierarchical type III protein secretion in Salmonella Typhimurium | PNAS

Type III secretion systems (T3SS) are critical virulence machines in many Gram-negative bacteria, enabling hierarchical secretion of translocases f...

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Anne Grapin-Botton @anne-grapin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Congratulations to Rashmi and Karolina and also to the technology development studio of the MPI-CBG without whom the screen would not have been possible. If you are interested in high-content screening in organoid models, you may want to take a look.

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Stein Aerts @steinaerts.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

TF-MINDI is out! A new method to learn cis-regulatory codes through rich embeddings of TF binding sites. TF-MINDI decomposes motif neighbourhoods, and works downstream of any sequence-to-function deep learning model. We deeply study the enhancer code in human neural development, check out the thread

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Bruno C. Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I wrote a post describing a minimal set of principles that I've been using to make my research papers a bit more reproducible. Would love hearing what you think! #OpenScience brunovellutini.com/posts/daft-p...

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DAFT: minimal principles for reproducible research papers - Bruno C. Vellutini

DAFT principles are a minimal set of principles I've been using to organize my research papers that foster good scientific practice.

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Income inequality and the erosion of democracy in the twenty-first century www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Can't believe my postdoc paper is finally out. Christmas came early this year, holy moly 🎄 Molecular basis for de novo thymus regeneration in a vertebrate, the axolotl | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Molecular basis for de novo thymus regeneration in a vertebrate, the axolotl

The molecular, cellular, and functional restoration of the axolotl thymus after de novo regeneration is described.

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Pierre-François Lenne @pflenne.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Appreciate Quanta for shining a light on our joint work with Simon Gsell, Sham Tlili (@shamtlili.bsky.social), and Matthias Merkel (@merkellab.bsky.social).

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Congratulations @philipschoene.bsky.social on defending his Master’s thesis on the supremacy of mechanics in Hydra regeneration from aggregates of dissociated cells. Expertly guided by @anaisbailles.bsky.social. #experiment and #theory #LoPaTs @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social #stuffthatmatters

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Julia Schaeffer | Axon regulation and regrowth lab @axonreg2lab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

✨ Post-doc opportunity in axon biology, funded by #ATIP-Avenir! 👀 We are looking for an enthusiastic post-doc to join our team at @ibdm.bsky.social to explore translation dynamics in axon regrowth, using live imaging approaches. Apply at: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Thank you for sharing! 👋 🙏

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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Post-doctoral researcher in axon biology (M/F)

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Hydra are ~basically~ immortal. Shred 50 of the lil guys to bits and pack their cells in a blob, and that blob will grow into a new Hydra... albeit with a few extra heads! This week's post is a Q&A @anaisbailles.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de about the physics of how Hydra coax order from chaos.🧪⚛️

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Hydra are a cosmos in a cuvette

Anaïs Bailles on astrophysics and immortal animals

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Anaïs Bailles @anaisbailles.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thanks a lot to @elisecutts.bsky.social for nicely highlighting and putting in context our article! It was very interesting to discuss together, notably about the analogies between the emergence of order in Hydra and other physical phenomena.

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France-BioImaging @france-bioimaging.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

[PUBLI] Observing muscle growth brick by brick A research project at the @ibdm.bsky.social, led by Clément Rodier, has recently challenged long-standing scientific hypotheses about how muscles elongate during development, thanks to advanced #microscopy. 🔗 Our article in comments

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Females are larger than males. How? Here is one solution- they have MORE nuclei in their flight muscles and grow LARGER heart and fat body cells with MORE ribosomal mRNAs. Fun collaboration of @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social with @soumitrakp.bsky.social & Brian Oliver www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Raphaël Clément @raphclement.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Mechanosensation and fast reorientation of ciliary structures: Marvin's work on the surprising locomotion capabilities of Trichoplax, an animal without neurons! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Anaïs Bailles @anaisbailles.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Our beautiful Hydra made the cover!!! 😍😍😍 An experiment performed by Pavel Mejstrik with a HCR protocol by @giuliaserafini.bsky.social, @paveltomancak.bsky.social lab @mpi-cbg.de Actin fibers in blue, nuclei in orange.

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Anaïs Bailles @anaisbailles.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Very happy that the first article from my postdoc work in the Tomancak lab is now published @PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... We studied the self-organization of actin in aggregates made from Hydra cells. Thread below (1/9)

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 05/08/2025

Stretching the immortal Hydra. Publication by @paveltomancak.bsky.social group with Carl Modes @mpi-cbg.de & @zechnerlab.bsky.social shows how cells can create a new organism from scratch by coordinating their mechanical properties. @anaisbailles.bsky.social @pnas.org www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

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Stretching the immortal Hydra

Dresden researchers show how cells can create a new organism from scratch by coordinating their mechanical properties.

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Pierre-François Lenne @pflenne.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Katia took the initiative to start a Xenopus project in the lab a few years ago —and now her work is highlighted by Development! Huge congrats, Katia!

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Florian Schueder @florianschueder.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🚨 2 × PhD positions @EPFL! 🚨 Help us push the boundaries of fluorescence microscopy - DNA nanotech, custom optics & spatial omics in Lausanne 🇨🇭. Start Jan 2026. Send CV + motivation + 2 refs → fschueder@ethz.ch #PhD #Hiring #microscopy #SuperResolution #SpatialOmics #DNAPAINT #FLASHPAINT

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Microtubules: the architect of muscles. Watch how microtubules transport mitochondria in proximity to energy consuming sarcomeres in muscles of flies and mice. @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social with @gomeslabo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Sham Tlili @shamtlili.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Congratulations @alicegros.bsky.social @jules-vanaret.bsky.social & @dunsingvalentin.bsky.social for this huge team effort! Gastruloids morphogenesis is so fascinating and now we can explore and travel through them in 3D & at cell resolution day and night 🤩

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IBDM, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille @ibdm.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🥇Sham Tlili has been awarded the CNRS 2025 Bronze Medal! She studies how physical forces shape living tissues by using mouse stem cell models known as gastruloids. A unique blend of physics & biology. 🔗 Read more: www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/sham-tlili-w...

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Sham Tlili, winner of the CNRS 2025 bronze medal - IBDM | Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille

A distinction that rewards a promising and already fruitful scientific career.

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#LoPaT @anaisbailles.bsky.social bringing up the wonders of #Hydra, #physics, disorder to order transition and tissue mechanics to #TCTeAC

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Titin evolution, titin force and muscle contraction instruct sarcomere dimensions in insect muscles to allow high frequency flight, larval crawling and max force to cut leafs. @ibdm.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social @jfrupprecht.bsky.social @vincent-loreau.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Rita Mateus @ritamateus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Super proud of superstar postdocs @nerlielisa.bsky.social and @liujinghui.bsky.social for our lab's most recent preprint! We uncover how wound-induced electrical currents are generated and transmitted in tissues, triggering proliferation, essential for organ #regeneration #bioelectricity #QBio 👇

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Cédric Maurange @cedricmaurange.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

New lab paper out! 😀 We describe a new benchtop technique to isolate microRNAs from various cell types in a complex tissue (like the developing CNS). This is a fruitful collab with the Cremer lab from @ibdm.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosgenetics... 1/n 🧵

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In vivo AGO-APP identifies a module of microRNAs cooperatively preserving neural progenitors

Author summary MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs that silence messenger RNAs (mRNAs) by binding to partially complementary sequences. They play a crucial role in cell type specification during develop...

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Stein Aerts @steinaerts.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Our new call for VIB.AI group leaders is online! Junior and senior positions available to develop innovative ML methods in biology. With professorship at CS or Medical Faculty. Deadline 14th June. DM for more info.

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The @embo.org practical course on #lightsheet #microscopy is back! Join us in #Dresden for 2 weeks with #your #samples, try the complete line-up of #lightsheet microscopes, tackle big data image analysis, sample prep, OA hardware & much more Apply now! Repost 🙏 meetings.embo.org/event/25-lsm

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Light sheet microscopy

Light sheet microscopy is a technology that enables near-isotropic imaging of large biological specimens over time. It opens new avenues to study biological processes with unprecedented imaging speed…

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Humberto Basilio @humbertobasilio.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🚨This week, many Columbia scientists lost grants that funded over half their annual income. Others will no longer be able to do research that helps treat thousands of sick patients across the US. "It hurts," they told me. My story for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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‘My career is over’: Columbia University scientists hit hard by Trump team’s cuts

The US government has begun slashing US$400 million in research grants at Columbia University over pro-Palestinian campus protests.

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Jasper Janssens @jasperjanssens.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Thrilled to see the new version of our work out! A fantastic collaboration with @frankschnorrer.bsky.social @steinaerts.bsky.social @pierremangeol.bsky.social, Nikolai and Gabriele to do spatial transcriptomics in the adult fly -- huge thanks to everyone for bringing this to the finish line! 🙏🪰

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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Spatial transcriptomics in fly brain and body. Wonderful collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social led by @jasperjanssens.bsky.social @pierremangeol.bsky.social Nikolai Hecker & Gabriele Partel - look at mRNA patterns in muscles and brains spatialfly.aertslab.org elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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Bianca Habermann @biancah0406.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

mitoXplorer 3.0 has been published in the JMB issue 'Computational Resources': doi.org/10.1016/j.jm... Check out our web-tool to analyse bulk- and single-cell RNA-seq data from a mitochondrial perspective. mitoxplorer3.ibdm.univ-amu.fr

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Nicolas Chiaruttini @nkiaru.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Is it possible for a FP to bleach much faster in point scanning confocal microscopy than in spinning-disc confocal ? To the extent that it's barely usable in point scanning but works fine in SDC? A user seems to have observed this with an RFP variant - (and I tested 3 point scanners...).

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Sri Kosuri @srikosuri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We just released and uploaded a new version of *Mastodon*, the large-scale tracking and track-editing framework for large, multi-view images. Mastodon is available via Fiji, via a dedicated update site. mastodon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/do... Below is a thread that survey some of the novelties ⏬️

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