Giulia Paci

IPLS Undergraduate Summer Research Studentships 2026 The Institute for the Physics of Living Systems offers summer studentships to undergraduates interested in pursuing multidisciplinary research projects with biological and physical science components.

📢 Applications are now open for IPLS and Biological Physics Undergraduate Summer Research Studentships for #multidisciplinary #research projects.
Details on our website👇
www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

Apply now! The 2026 call for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is now open with a deadline of 1 April 12:00 midday CEST. 🧪

More info here:
https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/young-investigator-programme/
#LifeSciences #research #funding

Injury-induced electrochemical coupling triggers organ growth Organ repair and growth rely on coupling tissue-wide membrane depolarization with intracellular proliferative signaling.

New paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687

I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee..

A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...

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UK Bioimaging User Access Fund Up to £5000 funding available to access imaging technologies and analysis services at the UK Node of Euro-BioImaging

Did you know that if you are based in the UK, you can apply for funding to access #BioImageAnalysis services via the UK node of @eurobioimaging.bsky.social ?

Next application deadline is March 31st!

www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14762435 https://bsky.app/profile/falk-illustrations.de

AMAZING JOB OPPORTUNITY ALERT!!!

@calm-stp.bsky.social is hiring a Data & Systems Steward! 🧬

🔹Manage #bioimage data & #OMERO admin
🔹Automate via #Python/#Bash
🔹Support #FAIR principles
🔹Work closely with @crick-ia-team.bsky.social

⏰ Deadline: 08 Feb 2026

Apply: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Research Group Leader Do you want to lead groundbreaking research in computational biology? Join us at EMBL-EBI! EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is seeking talented and highly-motivated scientists to jo...

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group!

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

Go listen to @nikosirmpilatze.com's talks at FOSDEM this weekend!

If you can't make it, Niko is writing a blog series about how to write your research software in a way that it gets adopted by the wider community.

Read more about it on our website: neuroinformatics.dev/blog/trusted...

We are hosting an #Ilastik workshop on March 27th, led by Dominik Kutra, senior research software engineer @ilastik-team.bsky.social

The course is open to students and staff at @crick.ac.uk and partner universities (@ucl.ac.uk, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social)

Exchanging with the BioImage Analysis Community On November 24-25 2025, Euro-BioImaging Scientific Ambassador, Virginia Silio, attended the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium (CBIAS) 2025, held in London. The two-day event brought together around…

Another brilliant #CBIAS2025 review is out, thanks to Virginia Silio, scientific ambassador for @eurobioimaging.bsky.social and Imaging Specialist at the Centre for Molecular & Cell Dynamics @ucl.ac.uk!

www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/exchang...

🟥 We are pleased to announce that the call for Expressions of Interest (EoIs) for Round 2 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund is now open until 25 February 2026, 16:00 GMT.

Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/rsmf-ro...

Using micropatterning & thousands of hours on the microscope
@manuelthery.bsky.social and the #CytoMorphoLab reimagined the Musée D’Orsay. Accompanied by an orchestra and poet, their images transported us into the cellular universe. I remembered why I am a cell biologist. All of this is in us. Wow!

Thanks Buzz!

Our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026.
biologists.com/grants/trave...

The physics of the cell surface: from molecular rules to cell-scale behaviour at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The physics of the cell surface: from molecular rules to cell-scale behaviour at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

I am recruiting a #PhDstudent in Computational #Biophysics at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social for October! Deadline February 28.

Details 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please share with interested students!
#PhD #PhDposition #PhDSky #AcademicSky #computationalphysics 🧪⚛️

Thank you Yanlan for your incredible support ❤️!

Thanks Ethan !

Thanks so much @rashmi-priya.bsky.social and congratulations to you!

Thanks Max!

Very excited to receive this award and truly grateful to the @bscb-official.bsky.social who have been supporting me throughout my postdoc since I moved to the UK!

Thanks Helen and Gautam ☺️!!

Guillaume Pernollet shows that epithelial cells adjust their shape to locally flatten, forming scutoids for any geometry, changing our view of cell packing. Thanks to all! @clairedessalles.bsky.social @juanmagararc.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

International Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series Please fill out the following survey if you are interested in the 2025-2026 International Zoom Seminars on Developmental Mechanics.

🎉 The Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series is back!
🗓️ Thurs, Jan 22
🎙️ Opening talks:
🧬Guy Tanentzapf (UBC)
— How cell adhesion molecules wire into the cytoskeleton
🌀Juan Manuel Gomez Elliff (EMBL)
@gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social
— Mapping tissue mechanics with Brillouin microscopy

Cow Tools!

We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them

It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS

Here I describe our study

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social

Data and Systems Steward Salary for this Role: From £43,630 with benefits, subject to skills and experience. Job Title: Data and Systems Steward Reports to: Kurt Anderson Closing Date: 08/Feb/2026 23.59 GMT Job Description: D...

We Are hiring!! 👨‍💻👩‍💻 CALM's new Data and Systems Steward Role is live 🎉https://crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/London/Data-and-Systems-Steward_R2551 closing date 8th Feb!

Are you a postdoc with a passion for cell biology? We are looking for a postdoc representative to join the BSCB committee!

Applications are open to existing BSCB postdoc members. See our website for further details.

Apply by 31st Jan

bscb.org/call-for-app...

Call for Applications: Editor-in-Chief of Biophysical Journal The Biophysical Society is seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s flagship publication, Biophysical Journal. This appointment will begin January 1, 2027, for one five-year term. The…

BPS is seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s flagship publication, Biophysical Journal

Time is running out to apply for this year's @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social Intro to Image Analysis course in Cardiff - deadline is tomorrow!

Spread the word!

Three of our early career participants wrote about their experiences at #CBIAS2025 on @focalplane.bsky.social. Check out the blog post!

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

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