Monika Piwecka

China is on a trajectory to lead the world in science, a development that will reshape technological advancement, innovation and the balance of global power go.nature.com/4yT9FwA

I'm going to have to update my neurogenetics class in the Fall with this cool new result (July Nature Medicine): 🔥a 34-circRNA "circular RNA" blood signature detected biomarker-confirmed Alzheimer’s disease with AUC=0.945 ...

Have a favorite European colleague who should be recognized for their work in non-medical biotechnology? Pls nominate them for the Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Biotechnology. (Prior awardees at novonordiskfoundationprize.com/awardees). Thank you! novonordiskfoundationprize.com/nominate-bio...

Hello RNA Community! @rnasociety.bsky.social You are invited to join the next RNA Collaborative Seminar on Wednesday, April 8th at 10 am ET, 4PM CET. Seminar is hosted by Regensburg Center for Biochemistry (RCB) and University of Michigan. Registration link below us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Not much time left... but still! Please share/circulate or apply!

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Not much time left... but still! Please share/circulate or apply!

Exciting news: Our RNA community in @uniregensburg.bsky.social is set to grow! We are opening a Junior Group Leader position in RNA biochemistry / ribonucleases / RNA stability. A great opportunity to start your own team within our collaborative RNA network. Details & application 👇

Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear. Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L... So, hang in there, #academicsky! 🧪🌏🐵

When insomnia hits, it’s not just “having trouble sleeping.” For many people with MS, it’s a brain that won’t slow down, a body that feels wired and exhausted at the same time, and nights that don’t offer real rest.

Sign up now for the EMBO Workshop "#RNA metabolism: Perspective from physiology to brain disorder" in Darjeeling, India, 25–28 October 2026. Deadline: 15 May 2026 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna-metabolism #EMBOrnaMetabolism #RNAsky #LifeSciences #research #conference #EMBOevents 🧪

New year and new opportunities! There is an open call for a PhD student to join our lab. #RNA biology #circRNAs #miRNAs #neuroscience #neuroedocrinology Please share with potential candidates 🙏🫶. A link to the call & more details here: www.phdscanner.com/opportunitie...

yo 🦋 NEURO SKY 📣 the website is live and registration open for the Young PI Symposium 2026 - the day prior to FENS Barcelona! @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists! youngpisymposium2026.com

🧪 An EMBO Meeting on Axon Biology in Okinawa, Japan Iconic science at an amazing venue. Please join us! EMBO | COB Workshop on Axonal degeneration and regeneration meetings.embo.org/event/26-axo...

New year and new opportunities! There is an open call for a PhD student to join our lab. #RNA biology #circRNAs #miRNAs #neuroscience #neuroedocrinology Please share with potential candidates 🙏🫶. A link to the call & more details here: www.phdscanner.com/opportunitie...

When RNA Degradation 🤝 meets 🤝 Protein Degradation! tinyurl.com/E3TDMD In a collaboration of @bartellab.bsky.social and Schulman lab, we show that, in target-directed microRNA degradation (TDMD), 2-RNA-factors recruit an E3 ligase and induce the degradation of not only a protein but also RNA (1/5).

Exciting opportunity to learn about #humanbrainmodels and #singlecelltechnology! July 13-17 2026 we for the first time will offer the Utrecht Summer School titled "Advanced human brain models in the single-cell era" for master and PhD students. Apply now: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/life...

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

Announcing the 2026 edition of the EMBO workshop on RNA localization and local translation! This meeting will be held June 30 - July 4 near Porto, Portugal. Come for exciting updates in the field from both established investigators and trainees. See the link below for details!

Join us in Porto for the forefront of RNA localization & local translation research! Registration is live!

Hey everyone, the RNA Society is running an RNA Infographic Contest! Get your team together and create! There are prizes!

"Features and biomedical relevance of circular RNA biogenesis" by Xiaolin Wang & Ge Shan "Recently, modulation of circRNA biogenesis to generate tissue-specific expression patterns is coming into focus. We summarize various mechanisms involved..." authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Still a couple of weeks to apply for a fully funded PhD position in #AI and #RNA biology!!!

Join our upcoming course on cutting-edge evolutionary & genomic methods for Evo-Devo studies! We'll cover: comparative & single-cell transcriptomics,ATAC-seq, phylogenomics, comparative genomics, gene regulation, and much more Spots still available: sites.google.com/view/evodevo...

Some good news New data published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows the 2025/26 vaccine is currently 70 to 75% effective at preventing hospital attendance in children aged 2 to 17 years and 30 to 40% effective in adults. www.gov.uk/government/n...

🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:

Yuka The Woolly #Mammoth Just Gave Us The Oldest #RNA Ever Sequenced www.sciencealert.com/yuka-the-woo...

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

How to tackle emerging questions in cellular organisation, adaptation, and robustness? Join #EESPhaseSeparation! 🧬🦠 Bringing together scientists from diverse fields to foster new discoveries in condensate biology. Submit your abstract by 10 Feb: s.embl.org/ees26-08-bl 📅 19 – 22 May 2026

Ever wondered if analyzing your images by using intensity Z-projections impacts your data? Happy to announce my guest article in Microscopy & Analysis on that topic. It's a very short read but worth for everyone dealing with image analysis! buff.ly/KJ147tI #Microscopy #ZProjection #ImageAnalysis

1/6 We are hiring!!! 🐣🐣🐣 Fully funded postdoc position in my group! humantechnopole.it/en/research-...

Our RNA condensate work is finally out! Using simulations, we uncover the origin of the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) behaviour underlying thermo, iono-sensing functions in pure RNA condensates. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Exciting news for the RNA research community! The Human RNome Project has been launched: a global effort to map all human RNAs and their chemical modifications. Proud to support it and contribute to the article in Genome Biology doi.org/10.1186/s130... #RNA #bioinformatics #RNAstructure #modomics

An extraordinary result for ipilimumab immunotherapy given as a first line therapy for glioblastoma share.google/485XFZxmBm26...

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

⏰ Last week to apply! Don’t miss the chance to join our lab and explore the fascinating world of meiotic recombination 🌿 👉 Deadline: Nov 1, 2025

For obvious reasons, I've become fascinated with retrotransposons. So we ( @alexwhiteley.bsky.social and I) wrote an article now out in Neuron @cellpress.bsky.social on how we think retrotransposons influence brain function and health! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

🎉 RNAcentral Release 26 is here! This release introduces our biggest structural change yet: gene-level entries for ncRNAs across 204 organisms. For the first time, you can explore RNA data at the gene level, not just individual sequences. 🧵👇

excellent essay: The Origin of the Research University open.substack.com/pub/asterisk...

Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.

Want to connect with researchers in #GeneRegulation, small RNAs, #StructuralBiology and more? Sign up for EMBO Workshop "RNA-guided genome protection" in Caux, Switzerland, 16–20 June 2026! Deadline: 15 March meetings.embo.org/event/26-gen... #DNAsky #RNAsky #EMBORNAGenomeProtection #EMBOevents 🧪

🚨New preprint from the lab! This work led by @akshayjg.bsky.social & @smfernandezmoya.bsky.social shows how the RNA binding protein STAU2 regulates the timing of neurogenesis in iPSC-derived human cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nauka i badania, w kraju, który jest 20-tą gospodarką świata, powinny być priorytetem ponad podziałami. Apelujemy do wszystkich, którzy rozumieją potrzebę prowadzenia badań naukowych w Polsce o zapoznanie się z treścią listu i poparcie Apelu. www.petycjeonline.com/list_otwarty...

Please consider signing a petition to increase the spending on science in Poland / List otwarty w sprawie finansowania nauki, w tym @ncn.gov.pl www.petycjeonline.com/list_otwarty...

Submit an abstract for our 2nd @italianglianetwork.bsky.social Symposium by Oct 10. We want to see your cool #glial research!!! The 2nd #IGN Symposium will be online on November 26 at 2 pm CET, and everybody can attend 😍 We will post the link to connect here: tinyurl.com/ye232mx9

The specific motif built up by these two RBPs cannot be identified by studying each of them in isolation, so one important question we would like to raise is: How many RBPs form heteromultimeric complexes with specificity other than the sum of the individual RBPs?

Our work on the function of miR-51/miR-100 is out! miR-100 is widely conserved across eumetazoans but its function has been mysterious. Emilio Santillán found in worms it regulates signaling and extracellular matrix genes, some of which seem to be conserved targets! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are you @ the late stages of your postdoc ? Want to pursue a PI career ? Then this 👇👇 is for you ! Apply for a spot @ our Talent Forum www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/stem-cell... Peer-networking / Career orientation and more !!! Please distribute :) 🙂

The Argonautes 2025 - we made a special gift for participants - a card set with 32 different Argonautes + an extension pack with four Nobel prize winners from the small RNA field. Mello, Fire, Ambros & Ruvkun as jokers :-) #argonautes2025