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)
Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
25.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 49 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 2
ShineGAL4 FLP-out clones
#Drosophila calling. Delighted to share our new collection of ShineGAL4 drivers for CNS, FB, muscles, enterocytes, oenocytes and MTs made by @vgirard.bsky.social, @sebsorge.bsky.social and colleagues @crick.ac.uk. All at Bloomington @bdsc.bsky.social
@dev-journal.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4jpw9jd6
Bravo Liza, Brendan and colleagues for the elegant work on multiple live imaging strategies to untangle mechanisms of muscular dystrophy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
21.02.2026 13:05 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
How resilient are tissues to cell mispositioning and loss, and how do they restore their cell numbers?
Check our latest work, from @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
Congratulations to all authors.
Artwork from the artist @lale-alpar.bsky.social
(lalealpar.com)
www.cell.com/developmenta...
Group Leader Call at the @cbitoulouse.bsky.social in
Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :)
cbi-toulouse.fr/wp-content/u...
Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! Please spread the word!
@mads100tist.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
Congrats, it looks very nice, definitly on my reading list !
28.01.2026 22:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tumours aren’t just a messy mix of cells—they’re highly organised and hierarchical societies!
Just like in all societies, small chats between individuals can drive collective emergent behaviours - we reveal how these sustain tumour growth and cellular heterogeneity. 🧵👇
Took advice from @parismarx.com a couple weeks ago and it's been great. Most all changes I've made have zero impact on my day-to-day, but mean I'm supporting a wide diversity of non-US platforms. A couple are even a genuine improvement.
Combat both US tech capitulation and Enshittification at once.
That's it...that's my post, period.
21.01.2026 07:50 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maybe one of my favourite cover (and this you can only find in @currentbiology.bsky.social ). Loved the broom experiment.
20.01.2026 11:43 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re hiring!
@jcellsci.bsky.social is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves #cellbiology and wants to stay connected with the field. A great chance to work for an organisation that believes in helping the community!
Details below👇
Won best thesis award with this video! 4 years of research and play in 3 minutes :')
youtu.be/so0fPlK1-LM
Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
Fluorescence microscopy image of an ovarian follicle (light blue/magenta), with a bright central oocyte.
💥🥚 ANR-funded Assistant Engineer position open in our “Control & Dynamics of the Ovarian Cycle” group at IBDM Marseille 🇫🇷
Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!
Happy New Year 2026!
This year, Hadi Boukhatmi, Régis Giet and I are delighted to be organising the 36th French Droso Meeting in Brittany, from 5 to 8 October.
A great line-up of speakers
Mark the date in your diaries !
The meeting website containing all the details will be opening very soon.
Interested in the biophysics of organoids? We just published a review in Dev Cell—take a look! dlvr.it/TPyTb8 #Organoids #Biophysics
06.01.2026 10:27 — 👍 81 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 2
How does signalling control cortical tension?
Using optogenetics and AFM, we show that myosin recruitment and cortical tension increase proportionally with RhoA signalling.
More here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Super work by Pierre Bohec with Guillaume Salbreux and @dianakhorom.bsky.social
I was trying to get in the christmas vibe despite the overwhelming end of the year...but then I bumped into the videos of @acapellascience.bsky.social and I fill much more ready now...
www.youtube.com/shorts/bGqDO...
Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...
27.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 48 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 3Amazing ! Congrat Ina really happy for you and your lab (a lot of exciting dynamics signaling analysis to come)
09.12.2025 13:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?
08.12.2025 10:56 — 👍 35 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 1Oh no, they are going to experience Lautreculin...😱 (but this is really cool and quite an achievement to bring cytoskeleton there)
05.12.2025 18:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
Reviewing process has always been painfull, but it will just become useless and impossible to publish if we start accepting this (we are not helping science...and better refusing to review if you have no time rather than using these tools without filter)
04.12.2025 08:25 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0It's been several times that I am pretty sure to witness during reviewer crosscommenting assesment mostly generated by AI (composed of hundred of unnecessary and finicky points that would lead to years of revision). For the human reviewer out there, speak up to editor if you notice this !
04.12.2025 08:25 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building.
medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...
I am just afraid how it could be badly used to overfocus on millions of non important details that would make reviewing even worst than it is already...(and to be honnest I suspect I have already seen in crossreviewing reviewer report looking very much like AI style...which is worrying)
03.12.2025 22:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
