This account of the eLife saga will provoke much debate. One aspect isn't accurate: eLife wasn't "designed as an experiment in removing gatekeepers". The original intent was to publish "outstanding papers" but have the gatekeepers be academic not professional editors 1/2 nikomc.com/2026/03/05/e...
Happy to announce I've launched a new service for the fly community: flyRoom, a web-based comprehensive stock manager for all your fly pushing needs. Organise all your stocks, maps all your genotypes, plan your crosses, print and scan your labels. Give it a try and let your colleagues know!
Thanks to #Appose hackaton with @jytinevez.bsky.social, @ctrue.bsky.social, @nkiaru.bsky.social, @msphan.bsky.social, @strigaud.bsky.social, Carlos, Thomas and Julie, DeXtrusion can be **INSTALLED** and run to detect cell extrusions directly from Fiji 🤩! Appose is amazing
Seen @TrainingVbc nice to link that to Mendel but actually is a thought expressed by Gustav Mahler about his music which, surprisingly, had a similar fate to the most famous peas in the world.
1/ The Advanced Bioimage Analysis with Artificial Intelligence course.
This course inherits from the NEUBIAS courses, and is now in its 3rd installment, with a new name
research.pasteur.fr/en/course/ne...
Whelp, it was nice while it lasted. Where are we going next?
Do you have a great idea for starting a company? Would you like advice on how to pitch to potential investors? Join us for the EMBO #webinar on 1 April at 16–17:00 CET. 🧪
Register here:
https://embo-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7SLofSfuTPewgC2VZQVIUw#/registration #startup
🔬✨ For #IWD2026, we’re highlighting the voices of #WomenInScience!
In our short interview with Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social shares what might surprise teenagers about a career in research and the skills that shaped her journey.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/yjts9v
#CMCB #TUDresden
We have just published 2,474,166 records of plant species occurrences from the Czech Vegetation Database in GBIF: doi.org/10.15468/94b...
These records represent 74% of the plant occurrence data and 30% of all organism occurrence data in the GBIF database for the territory of the Czech Republic.
Congratulations to Stephen Cusack, EMBO Member since 1998, for receiving the 2026 Lennart Philipson #Award! 🧪
More info here:
https://www.embl.org/news/awards-honours/announcing-the-2026-embl-alumni-award-recipients/
Major plot twist in the Firefly TV series and Serenity movie
New research group at the CRTD @tudresden.bsky.social !🎉🔬
Supported by the ERC Starting Grant, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social is launching a new group to study the sense of gravity and #regeneration in the inner ear in axolotl.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/buva24
#CMCBnews
Even more excited — our paper is featured on the cover of Science Advances!
Huge thanks to @alexandrejan.bsky.social who took this incredible photo of a ctenophore (aka comb jelly) and the editors.
Here’s the cover 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🚨 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
DO NOT MISS the opening session of #DROS26 this evening - beginning at 7pm.
You are going to be in for a treat listening to @lucksmith.bsky.social and Tara Finnegan perform "The fly song"
#Drosophila
Politruk. Been there…
Meet Eosteus, a tiny bony fish from the Silurian - paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Megamastax, a mighty chew from the Silurian - paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
is there a direct crosstalk between actin and vimentin intermediate filaments? Our work shows that vimentin promotes actin assembly by stabilizing ATP-subunits at the barbed end.
Fantastic work done by @lilianpaty.bsky.social with @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🤖 How can #AI unlock the full potential of biological data?
🔬 Our @florianjug.bsky.social develops advanced AI methods to help life scientists extract deeper insights into health and disease within the MIND innovation ecosystem.
Watch the interview 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucZl...
2026 has been a remarkable year for me so far (despite the current world events): opening my lab at the University of Zurich, assembling an amazing group of people in the group, and celebrating it with a fantastic lab warming party. Figured it's also time for a small profile refresh.
With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268
Congratulations, Lisa Maier and Stephen Cusack!
The two EMBL alumni have received the 2026 John Kendrew and Lennart Philipson awards for their outstanding contributions to host–microbiome research and structure-guided drug development, respectively.
Learn more: www.embl.org/news/awards-...
We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment.
(1/9)
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Wonderful to be part of exciting Program at Harvard University & CMSA, Mathematics &Biology: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics. Thank you 🙏🏼 and congrats to organizers for their invitation. Great to see and discuss with wonderful colleagues, not least @akankshi.bsky.social! 🤩
Can contractile forces that internalize cells and rearrange tissues cause harm? They can, if not mitigated. We show that built-in high stretchability of the extraembryonic cells protects gastrulating Drosophila embryo from being ripped apart. (1/9) doi.org/10.64898/202...
To increase the use of gene editing in corals, we have made a comprehensive methods paper describing the protocol. We hope this helps the field of functional genetics in corals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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
Yep, it lags a little. But still quite impressive considering that each "pixel" is a 150 MPixel multires image. Overall the total number of 'adressable' pixels in this 2D image are 225x225x150 Mpix = 7.6 Tera pixels. #ImageJ #Fiji #BigDataViewer
After 5 years of developing, a new preprint from the lab - introducing our workflow for comparative insect connectomics, aimed at democratizing connectomics. @erc.europa.eu @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
