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exceptional work, hiro & team 👏👏👏
it's wonderful to see 𝘓. 𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘮 dancing. live videos reveal so much more than stills!

ALT source: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dynamic protrusions mediate unique crawling motility in Asgard Archaea (Promethearchaeota) Crawling motility is a hallmark of eukaryotic cells and requires a dynamic actin cytoskeleton, regulated adhesion, and spatially organized signalling pathways. Asgard archaea (phylum Promethearchaeota...

And another Asgard paper. Cells in motion! Wow! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Revolutionary tracking study follows monarch butterflies to Mexico… Over 400 ultra-light transmitters deployed by over 20 partner organizations deliver unprecedented, individual-level view of monarch migration using…

Revolutionary tracking study follows monarch butterflies to Mexico using groundbreaking technology and continent-wide collaboration monarchjointventure.org/blog/revolut...htt

Sooo cool!

An Asgard Archaeon (Lokiarchaeum ossiferum) growing and retracting its arms

Crawling motility of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum, our favorite Asgard Archaeon.

Foto des Hauptgebäudes der Universität Wien, es fliegt feierliches Konfetti durch das Bild. Rechts unten ist ein Badge zu sehen, auf dem zu lesen ist: TOP 100 Austrian Excellence, International Impact. University of Vienna. THE TOP 100 umranden den Badge.

Meilenstein: Die Universität Wien ist erstmals unter den Top 100 im World University Ranking von @timeshighered.bsky.social - auf Platz 95! 🥳 Das stärkt Sichtbarkeit & internationale Vernetzung exzellenter Forschender und Studierender weltweit. #univie #THERanking 👉 www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...

Micrographs showing that myosin accumulation within IFM sarcomeres is abnormal when human UNC45 is expressed from the Actin88F-GAL4 promoter.

Daniel Smith, Sanford Bernstein and colleagues @sdsuresearch.bsky.social uncover the distinct impacts of human co-chaperone UNC45 paralogs on Drosophila muscle development and function.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader

Closing date 27th November

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

great and surprising results. Beautiful study! Congratulations, Fabian!

Three more weeks to sign up!

Re-upping this with a Bluetorial in a shameless act of self-promotion. 1/n

Rupert Riedl's intellectual legacy at the University of Vienna An adventurer, a biologist, a maverick and philosopher. One hundred years after Rupert Riedl's birth, biologists at the University of Vienna reflect on how his systems theory of life contributed to ev...

An adventurer, a biologist, a maverick and philosopher. 100 years after Rupert Riedl's birth, biologists at #univie are reflecting on how his systems theory of life contributed to evolutionary biology. 🎂⤵️

Fantastic news. Congratulations to Sascha!!

Congratulations, Periklis!

Great! Congrats, Tom and Emily!

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

“At 15, he was ranked last out of 250 students in a notorious biology report. His teacher wrote: “He will not listen but will insist on doing his work in his own way. I believe he has ideas about becoming a scientist; on his present showing, this is quite ridiculous.”

The evolution of facultative symbiosis in stony corals - Nature Genomic sequencing of the thermotolerant coral species Oculina patagonica, single-cell transcriptomic analyses of symbiotic and non-symbiotic specimens and comparisons with obligate symbiotic coral species reveal adaptations that provide resilience to coral bleaching.

Nature research paper: The evolution of facultative symbiosis in stony corals

go.nature.com/43bS70Q

Oben: Die Rue de Rivoli in Paris heute.
Unten: Die Rue de Rivoli 1983.

Und nein, die Autos fahren nicht einfach woanders. Sie haben sich in Luft aufgelöst, weil die Autofahrer zu Fahrradfahrern geworden sind.

Liebe alles daran❤️

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...

A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 Oct. Not only did he make a discovery that laid the foundations for stem cell research, he also created one of the best environments for research at the Wellcome/CRUK Gurdon Institute wellcome.org/news/sir-joh...

Very sad indeed. Such a clear mind and inspiration for a whole generation.

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Notch coordinates self-organization of germ layers and axial polarity in cnidarian gastruloids Dissociation and reaggregation experiments in several animal systems have revealed the stunning capacity of self-organization. Reaggregated early gastrula cells (here called gastruloids) of the sea an...

Sanjay's amazing story is available on www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Congratulations to @sanjay-n.bsky.social, @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social and everyone else 🎉

Just came back from a great meeting in Tutzing on the biology of basal Metazoa. Excellent talks, fantastic posters and very kind and vital community. Thanks also to our keynote speaker, Cassandra Extavour. She was the highlight of the meeting. Thanks everyone for contributing.

Finally, Andi Denner finished his PhD. Congratulations for a a long and successful thesis work.

Happy to be presenting our story on Nematostella self-organization :) tune in if you like to hear what organizes the organizer in cnidarian gastruloids!

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Microtubules in Asgard archaea Discovery of heterodimeric, microtubule-forming tubulins in Asgard archaea, the closest known relatives of eukaryotes, reveals snapshots of microtubule evolution.

Microtubules in Asgard archaea (h/t @lanzen.bsky.social) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #jcampubs

Congrats, Paul!
Too bad, I could not be there.

We knew that cnidarians have stunning regenerative capacities. But the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the self-organization of gastruloids of Nematostella surprised us. A story of cell sorting and Notch signaling. Please check out the work of Sanjay's PhD work: doi.org/10.1101/2025...