Angelo Iulianella

Yeah, but that’s a lot of fish cakes.

(Kidding, good to see those magnificent and delicious fish rebound)!

*gutting (not hitting)

This is terrible. A rapid hitting of US science seed stock. Talented students should not give up on science, we certainly need their skills more than ever. But maybe look at doing PhDs in other countries.

This developing quail embryo looks like it's thinking fiery thoughts for #FluorescenceFriday 🐣🔥🧪. Imaged by the fantastic @vanderspuy.bsky.social

Looks cosy. All you need is a plug and table, and you can type away in seclusion.

SAVE THE DATE: The Atlantic Canada Regional Cell & Developmental Biology Symposium will be held on June 26th, 2026 at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. @anatomyorg.bsky.social @brchfx.bsky.social
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2 days of snow can cause quite a disruption to class scheduling and lab work.

A new paper published in @jcb.org by postdoc Jorge Diaz from the Mayor lab at UCL shows that during collective migration, epithelial-like clusters generate traction force mainly through cryptic protrusions at the centre, while mesenchymal clusters do so at their periphery:
doi.org/10.1083/jcb....

Save the date for the annual "Neural Circuits and Behaviour" satellite conference at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience annual meeting, cohosted by @franklandlab.bsky.social and myself on May 18, 2026. We have a great speaker lineup and will be selecting 4 trainees talks from our registrants!

A tragic experience of excessive pressure in academia, one that I suspect occurs too often. Snuffs out brilliant scientists. It’s important to publish work of graduate students and postdocs, but the focus on unreasonable expectations of aiming for high profile journals is unhealthy.

A ship in the Halifax harbour surrounded by sea smoke

Cold 🥶

Picture from my mom's place. Ship in the Halifax harbour with lots of sea smoke

Beautiful. Hope it inspires folks to admire the ornate intricacies of our cells, and illuminate the importance that science should still in our lives.

YouTube video by BruceCockburnVEVO Bruce Cockburn - Lovers In A Dangerous Time

You know the line…

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Effectively, a 🇨🇦 passport.

Growing up in Québec, KFC was known as Poulet Frite Kentucky. But one time, a radio announcer got mixed up and called it Poulet Freaking Chicken!

Wow

Every time I see an umpire, I think
of that episode of Bugs Bunny and the vampire: “you wouldn’t hit a bat with glasses?”.

A stunning report. The choice is stark: We will either cooperate to help each other out or succumb to our worst impulses in a zero-sum scenario for dwindling resources. And lab grown meat is an interesting idea but would likely be a luxury for the ultra wealthy.

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Canadian classic!

The Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series is back! 🎉
Check out the flyer for a great lineup of speakers for Lent Term 2026!
Don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list to get all the information, including the Zoom link. We are excited to see you again soon 👋

The deadline for the next Catalan #DevBio meeting @scb.iec.cat is today! Please register at actes.iec.cat/145016/detai...

It’s out! 🐟 We compared three regeneration superstars—axolotl, zebrafish, and Polypterus—to ask how animals regrow limbs and fins. We find shared core processes, and other programs fine-tuned by evolution in surprising, lineage-specific ways. tinyurl.com/mpftkn7y

*of course I mean hallucinations (not illusions).

In keeping with today’s mystery neurons theme, another cool fact about brains.🧠

Ha, good question. You’d to learn chimp and ask them after a meal of 🍄.

It may reflect the existence of neurons in our brains responsible for scaling perception, which express a receptor that’s tickled by a compound(s) from that shroom.

Mushrooms are great at making neuroactive chemicals

Wonderful. Congrats to Komal and all the co-authors.

Congrats 🎉

I'm thrilled to see this beautiful work by recent Prince lab members Theresa Christiansen and Vish Venkataraman now in print! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

So, we must tave “tiny people” neuronce, just like place cells, somewhere in our brains that are tickled by a psychoactive compound(s) in those 🍄.

If that is true next question is why would our brains have such cells?