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“…prudence cannot mean timidity, nor can it risk looking like it.”

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Excited to announce the 10th "Choanoflagellates & Friends Workshop" over May 20-22 in our own Institut Pasteur in Paris: 2025choanocon.wordpress.com Registrations open til March 15, abstract til March 5. Pre-conference event for students/postdocs on 19/05. Plenty of slots for selected talks/posters!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Happy to share our paper’s final version on the evolution, structure, and membrane binding / remodeling of Asgard ESCRT-III proteins! And my first 🦋 post! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The evolution of shape diversity through the lens of physics—explored in our new paper! A fruitful collaboration between our lab @EMBL, Salbreux’s lab @unige & others, led by @BailleulRichar1—now independent at @ENS_ULM—& Nicolas Cuny. bit.ly/3WRqdEa

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I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa

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New paper from the lab🎈. Introducing Micro Immune Response On-chip (MIRO), a device that replicates tumors and their microenvironment to better understand responses to immunotherapies (cyan=immune cells, red=cancer, green=CAFs). www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ibecbarcelona.eu

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

Death has visited us too often, thrice in 9 months. Puja brought joy, bountiful energy, and heaps of pure doggy love into our home. Goodbye my beauty.

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Hi folks, I'm excited to share a whale of a tale (sorry, bad pun), where we engineer snowflake yeast to express sperm whale myoglobin, and explore how oxygen-binding proteins may have helped overcome anatomical limitations to early multicellularity. 🧪 #MEvoSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

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#Multicellularity enthusiasts! Mark your calendars! EMBO Workshop on "Evolution and Origins of Multicellularity Across the Tree of Life" 📅 October 9-11, 2025, Barcelona 🔗 Pre-register here: coming-soon.embo.org/w25-102 @csic.es @embopress.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxKj...

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Thrilled to see #choanoflagellates on the cover of Science Advances🤩. Our latest work "Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals" out now. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👏 @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

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This has to be my new favorite phase diagram.

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Happy New Year from invertebrates that look like fireworks. Credits Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live Anemone: Cathy Lewis Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute

submitted 57 days ago • 26 comments

Very happy to share my first story in @levayerr.bsky.social lab, where we show that localized apoptosis drives JNK-dependent developmental delay to ensure global tissue size robustness 🪰

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Season’s greetings - here’s to another year of wee organisms helping us answer big questions ❤️ Colony of festive choanos

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Hello World! We finally made it! 🎉🎉🎉

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

From the other place - I don’t think ISOP is on Bsky yet protistologists.org/upcoming-pro... #ProtistsOnSky in 2025

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Come to be our colleague @pasteur.fr! center of Paris, great colleagues, outstanding facilities, permanent position, crème brûlée every Friday - what else could one want?

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

Frogs: A biologists best friend Get up close and personal with the exotic amphibian helping students in CSHL’s Xenopus course study how life begins and operates. Watch the video clip on YouTube!! #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6wu...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations!! We’re very proud of you @thibautbrunet.bsky.social Behold the Thibaueca Bruneta

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s poem is called ‘The Importance of the Oxford Comma’.

submitted 98 days ago • 31 comments

When life gives you flies…

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.

submitted 96 days ago • 51 comments

Even though there are great #devbio and #biophysics starter packs, I felt #morphogenesis & #organogenesis was missing as a subfield :D Far from complete or full. Tell me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/PB6s8PQ

submitted 98 days ago • 72 comments

[looking at Bluesky over the past 2 days] So this is what the Cambrian explosion must have felt like

submitted 106 days ago • 27 comments

Long-range chemical signalling in vivo is regulated by mechanical signals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.15.580459v1

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🥳Our paper on the interplay between mechanical and long range chemical signals in #nervous system #development is now available as a #preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #mechanobiology #chemicalsignalling #piezo1 #axonguidance #xenopus.

submitted 375 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone needs a writing cat. 10/10 would recommend.

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Happy New Year! Read the latest Development editorial from @katemmabrown1 & me - why you should choose Development for your next paper - welcome new editors Kat Hadjantonakis & Peter Rugg Gunn - Pathway to Independence (PI) programme update - and more journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Kristian & I wrote a review!🧠⚙️ Interested in mechanics in the nervous system? We’ve got you covered from development to disease! Hot off the press: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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How adorable are these Halloween cupcakes?! Appreciating the spooky-sweetness 🎃👻 #PasteurInstitute

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#DevMeeting23: where I’ve given the first talk on my postdoc research! Plenty of brilliant people and cool discussions. Looking forward to the next few days of exciting questions answered in strange critters.

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