Claudio R. Alonso

Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy Prof Sir Paul Nurse says the UK is "shooting itself in the foot" with its visa system for researchers.

BBC News - Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy
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Fascinating! There is a busy cellular universe there, in our vertebrate blood…

Many congratulations!

Beautiful and mysterious…and all that actin action packed in less than 10 seconds across less than 100 square microns of tissue. Cells are incredible…

Impressive tour de force on the molecular and structural principles underlying mRNA export from the nucleus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Cellular ballet, and with chirality…!

Amazing! A true exploration… how do you deal with the issue of variable pressures not destroying the samples during mount?

When you are that small, you don’t need much to take off!

The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.

Muere Antonio García-Bellido, descubridor de las fronteras invisibles dentro de los seres vivos El biólogo, fallecido a los 89 años, deja un legado científico que roza las alturas de los nobeles Santiago Ramón y Cajal y Severo Ochoa

Very sad news… Antonio Garcia-Bellido was a scientific giant and one of the founders of developmental genetics R.I.P. elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

An interesting perspective on the evolutionary origins of synaptic communication

🦎THREAD: We just published something wild in @asn-amnat.bsky.social - lizards missing entire limbs not only survive, but some appear to actually thrive in the wild?!

Let me tell you about the "three-legged pirate" lizards 🏴‍☠️

[Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... ]

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John Gurdon obituary: Biologist who made cloning possible He showed that specialized cells retain the genes to form an organism.

Nice piece on John Gurdon written by Ron Laskey www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sir John Gurdon, 1933-2025 | Wellcome A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 October. He made a discovery that opened up the field of cloning research, and created one of the best environments for res...

wellcome.org/news/sir-joh...

This is very sad news… an outstanding scientist and experimentalist, a superb writer and mentor. He will be greatly missed…

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Gosh, isn’t that like phalloides the source of alpha-amanitin? Keep all your RNApol IIs away and protected!

Amazing! Look forward to reading the piece. Many congratulations to all authors!

Great, thank you very much!

This is excellent. Are you planning to discuss and produce a set guidelines to guide the field and policy, like in the famous (and crucial) Asilomar meeting on Recombinant DNA in the 70s? If so, will the meeting produce a report on the discussion? Many thanks for sharing!

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Thank you very much!

Here is the flyer

We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!

Ah, thank you for clarifying!

Many thanks! We are currently looking for 2x postdocs to join my lab in Brighton, UK. We are very keen on scientific curiosity, independence, rigor and passion. Happy to support fellowship applications too. Please could you add me to the list as a PI? Thank you ever so much

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Many congratulations Max!

It's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor. It is the magic that lets us tell the origin stories, beginning with this ancient relative, of everything from mushrooms to man.

Thanks Tom!