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Have you had a good mentor that has influenced you or your career in a profound way? Here’s how to show your gratitude - the Nature Award for mentoring in science is open for nominations! This year our focus is on mentors in the UK #academicSky 🧪 www.nature.com/nature/award...

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🧫Looking for a PhD to start Autumn 2025? We're recruiting! 🧪 The project will focus on using #embryomodels to explore #development & could cover a range of specific questions. Please RT! 🙏 Apply via the portal, and get more details here: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

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Machine learning approaches for image classification in developmental biology and clinical embryology Read this Spotlight from Camilla Mapstone and Berenika Plusa @official-uom.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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and here's where you're all from so far. If you don't see your country, MAYBE IT'S TIME TO REGISTER!!!

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🚨🚨 MEGA JOB ALERT 🚨🚨 Independent Group Leader Positions in Computational Biology @humantechnopole.bsky.social! Are you ready to start your own lab? Do you know someone who is? Repost this + share with everyone who might want to know about it. Thanks!!! 🙏 More details below... check it out! 🧵 1/3

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#DevPres speakers are chosen from @dev-journal.bsky.social's PI programme applicants but sometimes they're virtually all based in Europe or the US. Help us diversify by nominating yourself to speak if you're currently based outside of these regions. Details & eligibility on @the-node.bsky.social ⬇️

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#Cellpose 3 paper now out. Not all images are perfect. Restore your images with Cellpose3 to get better segmentations, w/ @marius10p.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Do you want one of the most influential jobs in dev bio? Would you like to work with the best group of editors & publishing professionals in the business? Are you interested in leading the premier not for profit community focussed journal in the field? Come be Development's next Executive Editor

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Big news - I'm going to be moving to a new position at The Company of Biologists, working across all our journals. This means my job is up for grabs! If you're an experienced editor with a love of developmental biology and its community, this could be the role for you. Full details in the link.

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After a long journey, Segment Anything for Microscopy is now published in Nature Methods! We significantly improve SAM for interactive and automatic segmentation in light and electron microscopy and build a user-friendly tool. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The 2025 Stem Cell Summer School! We get outstanding feedback each year & should probably update our testimonials page 🙃 www.stemcellsummerschool.org/testimonials This is an advanced course for experienced PhD students (2nd yr & up), postdocs & Junior PIs It will be great. Please spread the word

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Hi folks! napari is officially on bsky now! 🥳 Let's hit the ground running with a reminder that all are welcome at our next (Atlantic) community meeting on Feb 12, 8:30am SFO / 11:30am NYC / 5:30pm Paris. Agenda and details here: hackmd.io/BXWDZ3i8Q6OA...

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Here it is, in collaboration with @lankylaste.bsky.social, Lina Gerontogianni & Gavin Kelly: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... * Stats tests often used inappropriately * Masses of data points are often unnecessary * Inferring biological significance almost impossible without appropriate controls

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Our Data Analysis in Imaging (DAIM) Committee has launched a new Slack channel with @bioimaginguk.bsky.social UK to help image analysts find support, advertise events and share resources. Find out more and join the community! rms.org.uk/resource/dat... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

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A membrane proximal actin probe (MPAct) in fly macrophages unveils an actin cortex interconnected with the lamellar network. The homeostatic balance of these two actin networks is coordinated by the cortical-regulator, Moesin. Amazing work from @besaizsanchez.bsky.social and team. rdcu.be/d8Yxr

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Immagine you could image two cellular structures in the same fluorescent channel and still reliably get them separated afterwards… What would you do with this? Now… what would you do if that also worked with 4 structures at once? 👇 #MicroSplit #preview🧵

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Dear All, I believe that this thread will become one of my most important contributions to the fly field (I hope I will make other contributions)! Here, I introduce the Soy Milk Machine Fly Food Method, a.k.a., DeepCook!#Drosophila#NewPI

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🔬 Calling all early career researchers seeking an understanding of 3D+ microscopy data & eager to learn about image analysis basics. 💻 Yours truly is giving a workshop on Introductory Biomedical Image Analysis of Fluorescence Microscopy Images in 3D+ with Fiji 👩‍🏫 tinyurl.com/7yc64aa6

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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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📢 Submissions are now open for the CellMap Segmentation Challenge. Build the best method for segmenting cellular organelles in vEM using our 289 annotated volumes, 40 organelle classes, and 22 diverse cell and tissue types. 🔗 hhmi.news/410evJQ

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Let’s spread the wonder and beauty of developmental biology! This was such a fun project to be part of with the @bsdb.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social and Cambridge Film Works. youtu.be/avrmIs3vPUQ

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🚨NEWS! We are organising a new monthly event: The Young Biophysicists Virtual Meetings where early career researchers can present their work in a friendly environment. All the info and abstract submission on our website sites.google.com/view/theoret... Host by Divya Choudhary and Satyam Anand

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Very excited that the lab's first paper is out! We showed that in stem cells, Aurora B controls abscission dynamics by regulating microtubules stability and MCAK recruitment. Very happy with this streamlined version of our 2024 preprint. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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There's a new wave of discussion to improve the clarity of Fiji's original menus and plugins. If you have opinions or suggestions to make, don't hesitate to participate on the forum! forum.image.sc/t/houseclean... #microscopy #imagej #fiji

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Do you work on collective behavior emerging from complex biological systems? Or simply would like to know more? An amazing summer school in an amazing Venice, with an outstanding lineup of speakers: 👉 almadalcoschool.github.io Deadline to apply in Feb 2025, 🏃‍♂️!

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Only a few days left to register for our upcoming developmental biology symposium #beddingtonconf. 📅 10-11 Feb 📍 The Crick 🎟️ 24 Jan registration deadline www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-3rd-cr...

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In a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the Kräusslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:

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Excited to share that IBDM (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) is expanding its research groups this year! A great place for developmental biology and interdisciplinary research located on the beautiful Marseille-Luminy campus! Deadline for applications: March 30th, 2025

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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social has opened applications for their 2025 ASAPbio Fellows Program. Find out more about what the past Fellows have been up to, and if you're interested in #preprints and #SciComm, consider applying: thenode.biologists.com/asapbio-fell...

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New preprint alert ! In this article, we try to understand the consequences of compressive stress on the growth of actin networks : arxiv.org/abs/2501.05335

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How oncogenic clones can eliminate their neighbours to take over space ? There are different ways combining growth and interfacial tension induced compaction. Check out our latest preprint led by Léo Valon and Alexis Matamoro-Vidal to learn more about this 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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📢 Exciting news!! 🌟We have a stellar line up of speakers this Lent Term. Join us for online and hybrid talks that you won't want to miss. ✉️Subscribe to attend our online sessions: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr... Don’t forget to follow us for more details and online links!

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Call 4 Help Pilot Event by GloBIAS, 22 Jan–5 Feb 2025! Offering life scientists a chance for hands-on guidance & support for #bioimage_analysis using Napari, Ilastik & CellProfiler. 💡 Details: www.globias.org/activities/c... 🔗 Sign up! Application until Friday 17 Jan: forms.gle/7hsJgramrFXB...

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Together with other JEDIs @michaelrera.bsky.social @drosostalis.bsky.social @ksiudeja.bsky.social @felsenberg.bsky.social and Gerit Linneweber, we are trying to restart this awesome initiative that was unfortunately silenced during COVID. More information here: flies-jedi.github.io Please repost!

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Listen to Professor Jonathan Chubb talking about slime moulds, the brainless organisms that can find their way around a maze, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time at 9am this morning (02/01/25). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Our interdisciplinary MRes is recruiting students for Sept 2025 entry : www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences...

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Ever wondered how to manipulate mechanical forces in the developing zebrafish heart?🤓 Check out our new protocol by @cvagenapantoula.bsky.social and Hajime, where we describe magnetic bead grafting as an effective approach to study #mechanotransduction!🐟🔬 app.jove.com/t/67604/mani...

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I released the LUT finder: A plugin to see all your ImageJ / Fiji LUTs in a table with previews, auto generated descriptions and filtering! You can try it with the KTZ_LUTs update site or from github.com/kwolbachia/L.... I'm looking for your feedbacks! #FluorescenceFriday #MicroscopyMonday

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Dear Droso peeps, we re-announce the upcoming JEDI meeting that will take place at Château du Feÿ from June 3rd to 5th in 2025. You'll find a prelim program flies-jedi.github.io/projects/202... We're hoping to gather about 45 of more or less young droso PI to reboot the community. -> Register Now!

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At the heart of biology is the mantra: structure dictates function.Biological structures are also beautiful in their intricacy. David Goodsell brought this into public view. As he leaves "Molecule of the Month". here's a huge thank you for helping me see more clearly🧪1/2 cdn.rcsb.org/rcsb-pdb/gen...

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Very cool paper, the videos in the suppl.mat. are fun to watch www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Reflecting on this 2024 as it comes to an end. This year for me was marked by the postdoc → PI transition (#workingprogress) and many #newPI #firsts moments. Some highlights from this rollercoaster year in the thread below.

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🥳Alrighty - end-of-year push to get the final version of #CellSeg3D out! 👩‍💻 pip install napari-cellseg3d==0.2.2 📚 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We extended benchmarking, new videos, extended text, and a demo on cFOS 👋

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🚨 New pre-print out! 🚨 The world’s first fully 3D printed microscope! Is Santa bringing you a 3D printer for Christmas, or maybe you need a gift for your favourite microscopist - print the lenses, print the frame, and start imaging! ✨🔬 Check it out below and please repost!👇🏻🙏🏻 (1/N)

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Yay, officially publicly available online, with a DOI for the whole collection of posters. The holidays have come early. 🎁

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Muscles growth by sarcomere divisions - how your muscles add new sarcomeres during developmental growth: they divide! Cool collaboration @friedrich-group.bsky.social @raunser-lab.bsky.social @Dirk Görlich @univ-amu.fr @cnrs.bsky.social sciencecast.org/casts/aspy9l... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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New paper out! We share our experiences from conducting #bioimageanalysis workshops, using open-source software and building a community around training: doi.org/10.1002/jemt... Thanks to the dream team of rockstars, @david-j-barry.bsky.social, @martinjones.bsky.social and Tom Slater

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Happy to share the latest work from Preeti Sahu, with Adriana Sanchez-Danes on the biomechanics of cell fate choices during tumor initiation! We implement/test a 3D vertex model with proliferation and fate choices for multilayered tissues! See 🧵 below (1/n) bit.ly/3ZXxJzk

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Very happy to be a part of this story, connecting like-charge attraction, condensates and cell division 🤩 Check out @vsorichetti.bsky.social's beautiful skeetorial! 📃https://t.co/usF1E6q5jm

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What if plate tectonics had something to do with development? We found a new framework for dynamic origami in tissue folding in a nerveless animal. Will share thread; but if you are at #cellbio2024, see @cbrannon.bsky.social poster B399 today. Not at ASCB; read www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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