I am so grateful to the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences for this honor. Can’t wait to be back to the lab and celebrate with lab members on this special recognition of their hard work.
25.02.2026 19:58 — 👍 81 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 2Spectacular study revealing multiple ways by which Choanoeca flexa forms monolayers! Congratulations to @thibautbrunet.bsky.social Núria Ros-Rocher @pasteur.fr and all partners involved 👏👏👏
26.02.2026 07:18 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
UKRI head commits to ‘consulting widely’ on funding reforms.
Ian Chapman tries to reassure researchers amid uncertainty over paused calls and cost pressures.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
A brief communiqué on the temporary funding pause recently announced by UKRI detailing a summary of the main changes can now be found on the network website.
www.cilianetwork.org.uk/news/4687/uk...
Great to know about this new flagship research programme on Ciliopathies launching at the Human Technopole in Milan!
15.02.2026 10:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Abstract deadline looming! Coming join us in June for a great meeting on developmental origins of paediatric cancers, including neuroblastoma organised by @tsakiridis.bsky.social and friends @childrenwithcancer.bsky.social #neuralcrest www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/dev...
15.02.2026 01:57 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Cool new story which discovers a novel role for the multiciliogenesis-linked transcription factor McIdas (aka Multicilin) in centriole duplication.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A 3D printed model of limb epiphysis with in culture loading rig (in a tissue incubator)
Another new phD position in sunny (usually) Southampton www.findaphd.com/phds/project... - if you like the space between biology and engineering please reach out to myself or Charles Burson-Thomas
12.02.2026 14:42 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Interesting article and accompanying spotlight on the cross-talk between ciliary homeostasis and ubiquitination (written by Jonathan Pruneda and @rbdamgaard.bsky.social).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Proud and excited to share our work with the community! Helen @helenfoster.bsky.social Foster et al. study how #cilia axonemes are built. 👀 Don't miss the gorgeous and insightful movies by @margotriggi.bsky.social, they really show our discoveries in full action!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Incredible new work on ciliary axoneme assembly spearheaded by @helenfoster.bsky.social (#NewPI) from the @gaiapigino.bsky.social. Like all good science, answers many questions & opens up many new ones!
Kudos to the entire team for this important advance in cilia biology. Lovely animation!
There was so much to unpack with this data, we teamed up with the marvellous @margotriggi.bsky.social to help explain what we think is going on. (Please also check out our model of central apparatus assembly here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...)
06.02.2026 11:20 — 👍 48 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 3Very happy to say that our work on how axonemes are generated is now available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - if you’ve ever wondered how the incredibly beautiful, complex structures within motile #cilia are constructed then this is for you!
06.02.2026 11:20 — 👍 84 🔁 29 💬 8 📌 3Check out this thread for a nice breakdown (with videos!) of some of our questions about how dyneins generate a beat, all from our new preprint:
10.11.2025 22:29 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
No two cilia are the same!
Spatial cilia atlas reveals intrinsic cell-type dependent heterogeneity
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perturbations to primary cilia disassembly pathways underlie focal cortical dysplasia!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
3D printed micro-cilia that can move under low voltage! so cool
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After 15 years as Editor-in-chief (EiC), Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social will be stepping down at the end of 2026 & we are seeking feedback from the cell biology community as part of the consultation process for appointing a new EiC.
We'd love to hear from you: www.surveymonkey.com/r/GZCC9F9
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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'We have become familiar with videos of people we do not know getting detained & ripped from families and beaten by agents whose salaries we pay. As social media does its work putting pieces together about each unfolding tragedy, more of us will realize that those pieces belong to someone we know' 🥹
27.01.2026 23:07 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
PhD position in my lab!
28.01.2026 17:25 — 👍 40 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 0
Have been trying to piece things together. Ian Chapman increasing his fiscal headroom from 5 to 20% for ‘sweeping changes’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r... and @cianodonnell.bsky.social found this - ARIA budget almost doubling by 2029/30 www.gov.uk/government/n...
30.01.2026 09:38 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Cilia2027, the 7th European Cilia Conference to be held in Italy from March 8th- 12th, 2027.
🌍 Cilia2027 | Mar 8–12, 2027 | 📍 Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy
Join the global cilia community for science, collaboration & discovery (+ fun!!).
#Cilia2027 #CiliaBiology
We are back April 21 2026- volunteer or nominate yourself or someone with hot cilia and centrosome science to speak by dropping me an email or use the google doc forms.gle/9QoSvkmQ3gZL...! /FIN
13.01.2026 23:05 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Viscosity-mediated signal amplification enables robust left-right symmetry breaking in the mouse node https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.699291v1
14.01.2026 21:46 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Ooh! A few of my favorite things #Cilia #Signaling #L/RPatterning #NodalFlow #Biophysics- congratulations @vermotlab.bsky.social @jvermot.bsky.social! 🤩
14.01.2026 21:54 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Amazing to hold @lottepedersen.bsky.social & my @jcellsci.bsky.social Special Issue on #Cilia and #Flagella in all its glossy glory & muscle-engaging brain-boosting weight! So much fabulous content from the community! Fab cover @centriolelab.bsky.social 🥰🥰 journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/ci...
16.01.2026 19:30 — 👍 48 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
Promotional graphic for Biology Open announcing that Editor-in-Chief Dan Gorelick will attend Cell Bio 2025 in Philadelphia, December 6–10. The text invites attendees to visit The Company of Biologists booth (#1232) to ask questions about publishing in Biology Open and learn about the “Fast & Fair peer review” initiative, which offers high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission. The image includes the Biology Open and Cell Bio 25 logos, a rectangular banner highlighting the peer review initiative with an icon of stacked papers and a checkmark, and social media handles for Biology Open on X and Bluesky.
Our Editor-in-Chief Dan Gorelick will be attending #CellBio2025
@ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org.
Come and visit Dan @danielgorelick.bsky.social to discuss Biology Open, our Fast & Fair peer review initiative and other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.
If you’re at #CellBio2025, please do reach out if you’d like to find out more about publishing in @jcellsci.bsky.social
(and if you’re not, here’s a list of reasons for why you should choose JCS:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...
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Bummed to miss #ASCB this year (one of my fav meetings), but the lab is well represented!
Stop by poster B169 today and Maneesha will tell you all about her work on basal bodies and cilia homeostasis in multiciliated cells 👇 #CellBio2025
