“You don’t need to be a “genius”… to succeed in science — but you do need curiosity, rigor, & persistence. Experiments fail all the time. What matters is how thoughtfully you learn from failure & that you keep improving. The best scientists I’ve met are simply resilient.” @ramankaushik.bsky.social 🐟
Excited to announce I’m starting a new lab at @gmivienna.bsky.social (Vienna BioCentre) in Sept 2026
We study how carbon fixation is inherited and maintained in algae using cryo-ET, imaging, environmental sampling&more
Looking for people who want to build the lab together, get in touch!
#teamtomo
Thrilled to see this published! 😄
Our dispatch examines potential additional fungal symbionts in lichen partnerships and the key challenges in unraveling their biology.
Thanks for involving me in this @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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This species can become multicellular using two mechanisms previously thought to be mutually exclusive
go.nature.com/4aTKdfF
I had fun writing this N&Vs on two fascinating new papers on centromere evolution in yeast. If you’re interested in how centromeres adapt yet stay functional, here’s my take. rdcu.be/e6DD0 @nature.com @gautamdey.bsky.social @gsherloc.bsky.social @helsenjana.bsky.social @maxhaase.bsky.social
Really nice to see @marstonlab.bsky.social's News & Views piece cover the evolution of budding yeast centromeres in @nature.com. Check it out for a clear and concise breakdown of @maxhaase.bsky.social’s new paper and ours! 🧬
You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science?
The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....
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A woman by a flipchart during a course. Text highlighting the EMBO Lab Leadership for group leaders online course 23 – 25 March still has places available
PI? Places still available on @embo.org lab leadership for group leaders online course 23 – 25 March. Take time to master your interpersonal skills, get tools for team growth and elevate your communication style. Sign up now: www.embolableadership.org/course/embol... #EMBOLabLead #PI #GroupLeader
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.
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Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!
The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer
Apply to become a Preprint Editor Development
We are inviting experienced researchers to apply to become Preprint Editors, a new type of editorial role responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles and forging links with preprint literature. #prepints
Learn more and apply before 30 March 2026:
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The Summer Call for our prestigious, fully funded #PhDFellowships is now open to talented early-career scientists worldwide.
🔬 Rotation-based program
🌍 International community
🗓 Apply by May 8, 2026
Apply now and join a leading life sciences institute!
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/phd/internat...
Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).
A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)
MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. MicroSEA course integrates lectures, field sampling, and lab-based practicals in advanced techniques, such as flow cytometry, microscopy, culturing, and molecular analysis. The main objectives of MicroSEA course are: Fostering a deep understanding of marine protist diversity, ecology and biology; Providing hands-on training in advanced single-cell methods that are not commonly available in university programs; Building participants' confidence in designing and conducting research projects from field to data analysis; Promoting international collaborations and peer networking among students and speakers/trainers. The course will take place at the Station Biologique de Roscoff - SBR (France) - 7th to 12th of June, 2026 (arrival on the 6th, departure on the 13th). 20 participants will be selected, including 10 from EuroMarine member institutes. https://opbc.sciencesconf.org/
Protist lovers: Please apply for a week of rhapsody! Learn by doing:
MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. opbc.sciencesconf.org
#protistsonsky
We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders!
We offer:
🔬 Core funding
💻 Access to world-leading infrastructure
👩🏽🔬A network of world-leading scientists
…and much more.
Apply by 11 April: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
#ResearchCareers #Bioinformatics @timcoorens.bsky.social @embl.org
The best stories are the personal ones. So before we get to the new preprint, stay awhile and listen
#MobileLabs #TREC
But beyond the #Science ! This was undoubtedly the best #Human #experiment for me ! Putting enthusiastic scientists all together to find ways to better explore #Biodiversity in context ! & we have now hundreds of samples to look forward to !
way too many people to tag though in a post 😅
@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 🦠🌍🧪
Tom Cavalier-Smith in Cornwall UK 23 August 2017, photo by Neal C-S
I am happy to share the unfinished but nevertheless fascinating autobiography of the late Thomas Cavalier-Smith, written in 2020, shortly before Tom passed away in 2021. I thank Ema Cavalier-Smith for sharing the text with me. I recently finished curating […]
[Original post on biologists.social]
Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵
Institut Jacques Monod Seminar
Friday, Feb 27
Institut Jacques Monod
Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social (EMBL, Heidelberg) Evolution and diversity of mitosis
Exciting evolutionary cell biology: bridging genomics, experimental evolution, and stunning imaging across diverse protozoans
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5 new PhD positions open at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences!🎓
4 Team Science PhDs + 1 PhD project available
Students receive a £26,500 tax-free stipend, tuition fee coverage, consumables funding & visa support
Deadline: 10 March, 9am
Find out more about our new opportunities and apply👇
Explore how genetics, evolution and ecology intertwine at EMBO Workshop "Evolving together: From genomics to biological interactions" in #Taipei, TW, 24–27 Apr 2026.
Abstract submission/Registration by 20 Jan/28 Feb
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio-interactions
#EMBOEvoGenBio #EMBOevents 🧪
EMBL International PhD Programme - summer recruitment 2026! 👀
Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research.
Our cells are experts at navigating inherently noisy and complicated environments.
EMBL researchers are using theoretical physics approaches to uncover fundamental principles behind how cells use complex information to self-organise.
www.embl.org/news/science...
Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.
Apply by 17 March 2026.
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
📣 12 open postdoc positions in @ceplas.bsky.social !! www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...
We @teamthomma.bsky.social look for a postdoc on The Secret Lives of Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Intermicrobial Interactions in Soils (see project 4)
Super excited about this collaboration with @plantophagy.bsky.social ! We are looking for someone passionate about understanding the cause & consequence relationship between autophagy and regeneration across kingdoms of life. Heidelberg is a great place for science and for living. Come join us!!!
We‘re looking for a motivated Master student to join our team!
Do you want to optogenetically control metabolic activity to see how metabolism affects patterning and morphogenesis? 💡🧫🧬🔬
Then please apply!
#optogenetics #metabolism #devbio #hESCs
Please RT. Thank you!🙏
A quick digest :
#Cellularization runs on two separable modules:
🧭 MTs + #MTOCs → spatial patterning (where furrows go)
⚙️ #Actomyosin + membranes→ mechanical ingression (how furrows grow)
Disrupt either one and the process breaks — but in different ways.
