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…

The oldest articulated bony fish from the early Silurian period - Nature A tiny, articulated, near-complete osteichthyan from the early Silurian Chongqing Lagerstätte, represents the oldest osteichthyan occurrence including microfossils, and the earliest articulated remain...

Meet Eosteus, a tiny bony fish from the Silurian - paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Largest Silurian fish illuminates the origin of osteichthyan characters - Nature New findings from articulated head and trunk material of Megamastax amblyodus yield previously unseen morphological details of a Silurian stem osteichthyan.

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...

YouTube video by MIND Milano Innovation District MIND POPS | Florian Jug - Human Technopole

🤖 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)
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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...

Efficient genome editing using CRISPR–Cas9 in reef-building corals - Nature Protocols In this protocol, the authors present straightforward and efficient methods to genetically modify corals and study gene function throughout various life-history stages using CRISPR–Cas9-based mutagene...

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...

The very first chapter will bring it home I think. It’s been a while… Simmons went crazy recently

Nice touch Thibaut. In my recent talk I managed to connect #Hydra and Dan Simmons (rip) #Hyperion saga.

Great thread, including the #Threebodyproblem. C. flexa keeps on giving.

Our joint study with EMBO is just out! We are proud to be at the forefront of this sea change. AI will reinforce the central role of scientists in this new era. Strong science should be seen!

@embo.org @reviewcommons.org @tlemberger.bsky.social

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People sitting on stairs discussing a project. Text highlighting the next EMBO Lab Leadership for Scientists in the Americas live online course running on17-20 March 2026 still has places available.

Scientists in the #Americas: spots still open for the @embo.org Lab #Leadership online course. Spread over 4 days, March 17-20, 9am-3:30pm NY time. Built for life science researchers. #EMBOLabLead Register before places fill up: www.embolableadership.org/course/embol...

Flexible paths to multicellularity Close relatives of animals can become multicellular if distinct individuals join together or if dividing cells remain attached. A species has been found to use both mechanisms.

Thanks to reviewers who helped us considerably improve and extend the work (which is now very large indeed), and to the editor @endofthepier.bsky.social for shepherding this to publication. S Coelho and
J Lotharukpong wrote a News & Views with a cleverly punny title. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

✨ One year on, we honor Spencer Shorte.

On Jan 28, 2026, Institut Pasteur paid tribute to a visionary scientist and human leader.

His legacy lives on through the PPU–Research & Technology track, uniting research & innovation as he envisioned.

Inspiring future generations.

It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and
@reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).

It was a very cool experiment! The author-centric perspective makes a lot of sense.

An important next step is to benchmark multiple AI review platforms. Maybe this can also pave the way for benchmarking human peer review across journals and defining "quality features" of the peer review process.

On this day on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was formally founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, in the cafeteria of the KWS's aerodynamic testing facility in Göttingen.

Happy birthday to....well, to us, actually! 😉🎂🥳 On this day on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was formally founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, in the cafeteria of the KWS's aerodynamic testing facility in Göttingen.

Interview with Aníbal Vargas Ríos, LiSIUM initiative coordinator - FocalPlane Interview with Aníbal Vargas Ríos, LiSIUM initiative coordinator - Interviews

Our Community Manager @helenzsci.bsky.social chats with Aníbal Vargas Ríos @anvargasr.bsky.social about the LiSIUM initiative, which is democratising access to light-sheet microscopy in Chile and throughout Latin America.
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/17/i...