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irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social
Eternally asking questions. Likes guts. Has guts. And a lab at the Francis Crick Institute @thecrick.bsky.social https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/irene-miguel-aliaga
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Does what's happening in your gut affect what's happening in your brain? Researchers at the Crick are continuously learning new things about this complex relationship. Read more about their work and the gut-brain connection. 👇 www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-01...

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Small but mighty: multiple Y chromosome contributions to mouse spermatogenesis @lab-turner.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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"Rejection of molecular reductionism or determinism does not necessitate a commitment to the idea of biological agency. Researchers need not embrace the agency perspective in order to acknowledge the importance of multi-level complexity, emergence, and downward causation."

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Excellent, timely and thought-provoking article by my colleague James DiFrisco @crick.ac.uk : academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-.... I am *almost* persuaded...

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We have a new opening! Amazing environment colleagues and facility! Join us!

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Bacteria sticking to fly guts, live. What's not to like? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Leg muscle pulses can drive behaviour. 21st century physiology at its best!

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often overlooked in EDI strategies and key to perceptions of excellence. Language coaching not the only solution (takes extra time too): need to normalise non-native accents/accept different ways of expressing oneself

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Our latest preprint, Lena Lampe, Clare Newell and colleagues figured out how metamorphosing #Drosophila avoid drying out. The larva makes a lipid barrier of hyper-long hydrocarbons (>C27 and longer) and stores it in the fat body until needed by the pupa. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Upcoming Development Special Issue 'Lifelong Development' Beyond the embryo: tissue maintenance, regeneration & plasticity Guest eds: Meri Huch & Mansi Srivastava Deadline: 15 May 2025 All article types welcome #DevBio #Regeneration #StemCells journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/li...

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Amazing: 3D organ-wide spatial analysis. (Almost) all of it: real-time methods for 4D analysis next? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Finally moved to #Bluesky and happy to share our recent work! We found that hexokinase 1 rapidly forms rings around #mitochondria during energy stress to regulate mitochondrial fission: www.cell.com/molecular-ce... For a quick summary of our findings, check out the comment section.

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A top european science job opened to applications: Scientific director @pasteur.fr research.pasteur.fr/en/job/insti...

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Second European top science job of the week! Nominations and applications are open…

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Job opportunity for a clinician scientist @ims-mrl.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49273/

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My first post on Blue Sky - moving over ! For all post-docs out there - fantastic opportunity @EMBL. Independent group leader position: Core funding, state-of-the-art core facilities, access to fantastic Ph.D. students, and of course amazing colleagues. Please apply www.embl.org/jobs/positio...

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Migrant guts hoping for a blue sky

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