๐ฌ Registration is open for our pilot Introduction to napari Workshop!
napari is a powerful open-source image viewer for scientific data analysis in Python. This hands-on workshop will get you exploring multi-dimensional datasets fast.
#napari #Python #ImageAnalysis #DataScience #OpenSource
Many animals adjust or pause development in response to environmental conditions to maximise survival. To understand this potential, called diapause, @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social induces a diapause-like state in mice & embryonic stem cells. #gfe2026
@dev-journal.bsky.social interview with Aydanโคต๏ธ
๐ขWe are excited to announce the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium - a full day event at SLCU @slcuplants.bsky.social (and virtually) on 5 June 2026!
๐Come celebrate the 5th anniversary of the seminar series!
๐ฉRegister & submit abstracts by 3 April! Check out the details: t.ly/YYM3u
Please repost!๐
Applications open for the CENTURI Hackathon for Quantitative Biology 2026!
๐งฌ๐ป Join us in Marseille (June 5โ7) for a weekend of coding at the interface of CS & life sciences.
๐Apply by May 6: centuri-livingsystems.org/application-...
Event Details: centuri-livingsystems.org/hackathon-20...
Including a piece by Jenny Hounsome, @h-spiers.bsky.social, @em-stp.bsky.social and me on some @crick.ac.uk outreach we've been doing over the past few years with local primary schools
Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!
๐ข UK RESEARCHERS - Ever wished you could try a completely different imaging approach on your sample but lacked access to equipment or funds?
That's exactly what the Euro-BioImaging UK Node User Access Fund is for!
Applications are open year-round, with 3 deadlines/yr:
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31 Mar | 31 July | 30 Nov
We are very proud to present our newest paper on the role of Wnt signalling in abscission dynamics in stem cells! A brief thread to entice you to read Snjeลพanaโs exciting foray into signalling.
Drawing of the "Aeon" project, an open-source platform to study the neural basis of ethological behaviours over naturalistic timescales.
Are you a neuroscientist with great coding skills, or a software engineer interested in the brain?
We are recruiting for a research software engineer to help us build pipelines to process weeks of neural and behavioural recordings from freely moving animals.
More details: bit.ly/rse-2026a
๐คฉto see this behemoth of a story out !
Pushed by @nikobiota.bsky.social & the Amazing @embl.org AML Team (Tina, Michael, Paulina) and in Co. with the Best #science #family you can dream of!
This truck was #home, for weeks in a row & in my heart for a lifetime.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New paper from the lab led by @ericmulhall.bsky.social addresses how PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to different types mechanical forces. From nanometer-scale super-resolution microscopy to in vivo experiments, links single-molecule observations to physiological function.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Join us!
New from @dev-journal.bsky.social: we're launching a new initiative and hiring Preprint Editors to help navigate the growing world of preprints in developmental & stem cell biology
Join our community & shape the future of research
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Students in white uniforms collaborate on a science project using microscopes and worksheets at a colorful table.
Two children closely examining a specimen slide under a white microscope on a wooden table.
An 'Outreach and Education Special Issue' of infocus Magazine #RMSinfocus is coming soon! - highlighting some of the best initiatives and activities from the RMS and wider #microscopy community
Find out more: https://ow.ly/V6Bl50Yn1fH
Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here:
rdcu.be/e5EgU
#EvoBio #EvoDevo ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ฆ
๐ฃWeโre back ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๏ธ!
#CBIAS2026 returns 23โ24 November 2026:
Join the bioimage analysis community to discuss advances in quantitative imaging & computational methods for image analysis. Great opportunity for early-career analysts & microscopists to present and connect.
#CBIAS2026 #BioimageAnalysis
I am putting together a collection of video-protocols we (will) use in tissue mechanics research๐
I hope to help consolidate established methods, but also showcase a few up-and-coming ones in our blooming field.
Abstract submission by March 2026! Get in touchโจ
#JoVETissueMech
#ReproducibleTissueMech
@embl.org at its best: collaborative, open, transformative, and just the right amount of crazy. Dreaming of mechanistic cell biology *in the natural environment*? Dream no more, rent the AML.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jepb...
#WeFreezeOnTheBeach #ProtistsOnSky ๐ฆ ๐๐งช
Save the date!
We have an exciting conference coming up next year for the UK Mechanobiology community!
Spring PhD recruitment round @crick.ac.uk is now open and we have a project on offer: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud.... If you have a background in maths or physics and are curious about patterning and growth in biology this could be the project for you! Please help us spread the word ๐ฅ
"Precarity is the one constant of academic science. Themes of instability thread themselves through everything we do."
A brief blog post from me about the @ukri.org funding pause and who the real victims will be.
occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/2...
#AcademicSky
Check out our new publication @dev-journal.bsky.social! If you thought that cell divisions challenge tissue boundaries ... you got half of the story! Using in vivo quantitative microscopy and math. modelling we show that divisions fluidize tissues and facilitate boundary refinement. ๐งช #drosophila
Want to spend this summer improving open-source tools for neuroscience ๐ง ๐ and animal behaviour ๐ญ๐? Apply to work with us on BrainGlobe, movement and others.
We particularly welcome researchers who want to sharpen their software dev skills and contribute to the open-source ecosystem.
๐ข Institut Jacques Monod Seminar
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February 27th
๐ Institut Jacques Monod
Invited by the @ishier.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social will present the Institut Jacques Monod seminar "Evolution and diversity of mitosis"
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Thrilled to share this adventure on how zebrafish elongates its notochord! ๐ Kudos to Carlos Camacho de la Macorra and @bensteventon.bsky.social for leading it. Alberto Ceccarelli and I had so much fun modelling & uncovering unexpected predictionsโฆ A nice mix of maths ๐, computing ๐ป & experiments ๐ฌ!
Happy to share this work from Carlos Camacho de la Maccora that reveals how rates of posterior progenitor addition and anterior vacuolation are balanced across the notochord. With Alberto Ceccarelli and @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social we present a model of long-range communication to provide robustness.
My latest post digging into the Measles situation in England
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
๐งช๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ง๐จ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ (ISMB2026) - 1st European edition in Glasgow, UK, 12โ16 Jul 2026.
โฐ Check our impressive cohort of international invited speakers and submit your abstract (by 22 Feb or 8 Mar 2026) at www.isocmb.org
#Mechanobiology #ISMB2026 #Biophysics #CellMechanics
Our latest with @torres-sanchez.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...
Breaking isnโt always a bad thing! Think of birth, seed release...
We highlight how living tissue not only tolerates fractures but actively fracture to grow, shape, reproduce, or adapt โ across species and scales.
๐ข Applications are now open for IPLS and Biological Physics Undergraduate Summer Research Studentships for #multidisciplinary #research projects.
Details on our website๐
www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
