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✨Thanks to amazing students @tobiaskletter.bsky.social, postdocs @biswashere.bsky.social & collaborators @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social‬ & ALMF @embl.org ✨ 👉Cytoplasmic material properties control spindle architecture and scaling 👉 out today @natcellbio.nature.com rdcu.be/eqPr8

Not all nuclei are the same. We went to some of biology’s most exceptional nuclei 👉 dinoflagellates with genomes 80× ours 👉 Giardia’s twin nuclei 👉 ciliates carrying two nuclei in one cytoplasm & asked a simple question: what sets nuclear density? 🧵 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dan Bergstralh, @lovegrovelab.bsky.social et al develop a computational model exploring contributions of astral microtubule pushing & cortical pulling forces to spindle positioning & dynamics across diverse mitotic geometries - with validation in fly & fish cells link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Congrats @mario-kddb.bsky.social - you rock!!!

We have a position open in our core facility in the @pasteur.fr . Please share it and / or apply! forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Heartfelt congrats to our neighbour Peter Hegemann! #nobel 🍾🍾🍾

I'm hiring for a new interim team member at Nature Communications - Cell and Developmental Biology Interim Associate or Senior Editor (Cell Biology and Development) Location: Pune, Shanghai/Beijing(hybrid) Closing date: Oct 10th, 2026 springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

This is the kind of idiocy you get on Threads. I think the main purpose of pursuing a PhD is to develop your thinking, research, and communication skills, which you can't do in 45 minutes on Claude.

Also check out the preprint by the Skotheim lab that reaches similar conclusions using and orthogonal system to alter non-coding DNA content. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congrats Marianna et al. 🍾🍾🍾

Two days left to apply for a PhD position in our group, see below!

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2026 Xenopus Researcher Survey - OPEN NOW - forms.gle/uDUkGCrhpXCc... Your feedback is highly valuable. Help us make Xenbase more helpful to your research! #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs

🌟 Thanks to @katemiro.bsky.social @mpi-muenster.bsky.social for visiting & discussing the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin! 🌟

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I'm looking for a new PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at NUS! Apply to join my team in Singapore, studying the dynamics and mechanics of collective cell organization in animal epithelial tissues. Send me your CV and a cover letter explaining your motivations via PM or email by July 22!

📅 Save the date: November 4–6, 2026 We are happy to announce this year’s Vienna BioCenter PhD symposium: 🔬 A trail of twists and turns: non-linear paths to discovery Join us for a symposium that celebrates the unexpected journeys behind scientific breakthroughs. Stay tuned for more details!

Registration for the 2026 Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium is now open! Students who want to present a poster can submit an abstract. For first year Master’s students, there are limited travel grants. 📝 Register here: tally.so/r/449zoo ⏳ Deadline: 04.10.2026 📅 Date of the symposium: 04–06.11.2026

📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr We have fantastic speakers and registration is free! training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve... @karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social

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New preprint! In collaboration with the Steinmetz Lab at PSI we report cryo-EM structures of microtubules at up to 1.9 Å (!) resolution & in different nucleotide state mimics, suggesting a mechanism for lattice-induced GTP hydrolysis and why it leads to catastrophe: tinyurl.com/7cjrf863

Call for Papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus Submit your research on nuclear organization, genome regulation, and stem cell biology to MBoC’s special focus. Rolling submissions are now open. Learn more and submit: molbiolcell.org/nucleus-stem-cells

How can one dynamically change the stiffness of a material? Nature knows how to do this, but would be a synthetic solution? Read our answer published in J Mech Phys Solids doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

🔎 New #sciencejob opportunity: The Monoclonal Antibody Facility at the Perutz is looking for a motivated research technician to join the team and contribute to the development and production of monoclonal antibodies ➡️ tinyurl.com/mw398bzd

😎 to have this out! --> stay tuned, this is a series about 📊#dataviz for #science 🧪

Doing a PhD is not simply generating data. It’s learning how to be a scientist. It’s teaching and science communication, and writing, and presenting and FUCKING THINKING.

2nd Asian Xenopus Conference: August 24 (Mon) - 26 (Wed), 2026 - ST Convention Center, Seoul, Republic of Koreahttps://www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNewsRead.do?id=1051 #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs

Only FIVE DAYS LEFT to register for the 2026 Santa Cruz Dev Biol meeting! Great speakers! Tons of talks selected from abstracts! Workshop with Scott Fraser! Workshop with Rashmi Priya! Redwoods trees! 🧬🐸🐟🪰🐭🪱🍃🔥🔬. @devbiol.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

This is good. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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New opportunity with the Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training Team! 🙌 As PhD Program Manager, you’ll play a key role in empowering and shaping the careers of the next generation of world-class researchers ➡️ tinyurl.com/yrk23na2

🚨 We are hiring! Personally, I think this is a fantastic job, good salary, and fun work place with exceptional colleagues. ⚠️ Warning, I’m quite biased… but still right! 😜 Join us! Apply!!! 🎉 careers.humantechnopole.it/job/AI-Exper...

Happy birthday to 🇨🇦Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of

Wrote this for @gucklab.bsky.social 💔 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YG8NRH...

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

In vitro reconstitution is powerful: we can rebuild Plasmodium microtubule architectures from purified components and recapitulate what cells actually do 🤩 Thanks to an incredible team that made this possible 🙌 @carolynmoores1.bsky.social in particular rdcu.be/e7eM2

Density. Crowding. Tomato. Tomato 🍅 @gabepopkin.bsky.social kin.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social Thx for covering the debate! We promise we're all friends 🥰 @liamholt.bsky.social & @gwgl.bsky.social Nothing would have been possible without @gucklab.bsky.social @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social

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Lipids are kind of the ignored middle children of origins of life research. It's time they got a bit of attention, too! This week's post is a Q&A with geoscientist-turned-??? (interdisciplinary folks know the struggle) @jamessaenz.bsky.social about why there's no cutting the fat from origins. 🧪

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! Please spread the word! @mads100tist.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Applications for our Fellowship Mentorship Programme are open! The programme supports promising early career researchers to submit fellowship applications and move towards research independence. Find out more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/BioIRF

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2nd postdoc job alert in the Crick Institute in London. Project will examine the role of motors & the cytoskeleton (actin, septins and microtubules) during vaccinia virus egress using biochemical, structural & cellular approaches + live cell imaging. spread the word. crick.ac.uk/WayPostdoc20...

PhD position in my lab!

CLOSING SOON: Applications for Group Leader roles at our Janelia Research Campus close Feb. 3! Have original, transformative ideas for experimental approaches in imaging, molecular engineering, protein chemistry, mass spectrometry, & beyond? Learn more: janelia.org/groupleader 🧪

Mitosis has a timing system. If chromosomes attach properly, cells divide on schedule and keep proliferating. If attachment is slow or incomplete, the delay is recorded — and daughter cells stop dividing. We explore this link in our new preprint. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Chirality shapes life & infection! 😍 Beautiful work by @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social & @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social labs! Congrats 🍾🍾🍾 rdcu.be/e0rGu

We encounter some bureaucratic problems importing our fish...Does anybody have a transgenic zebrafish line that marks the basement membrane/ECM in the UK? Would need to mark optic cup and final eye for our purposes. And/or an ras-GFP/RFP line? Thanks for looking and reposting!

#HappyBirthday Ernst Abbe 💐 Auf den Gründer der Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung! Abbes sozialpolitisches und philanthropisches Wirken ist bis in unsere Zeit beispielgebend. Wir setzten seinen Willen in zeitgemäßer Form um, indem wir Forschung und Lehre in den MINT-Disziplinen fördern.