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Crossing the Pyrenees to attend the BI/CRG International Postdoc Symposium in sunny Barcelona ☀️ #CRGBIpostdocs @crg.eu @babrahaminst.bsky.social Here, I will represent @prelights.bsky.social in a panel discussion on “how to highlight and disseminate your science”. Looking forward to it! 🙌 #SciComm

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Check out our latest podcast episode ( #spotLights ) in which we talk to the creator of #tidyplots: Jan Broder Engler🎙 Ep. 7 🎧: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0kl... Also, please take a look at the related #preLights post prepared by Felipe Del Valle Batalla: prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...

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New @prelights.bsky.social podcast episode about the story behind #tidyplots 🎙 Thanks to @ethanewe.bsky.social, Shreya Pramanik and @fadelvalle.bsky.social 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0kl... #rstats #dataviz #phd

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So happy to share this great conversation with @jbengler.de that we had at @prelights.bsky.social 's spotlights together with @ethanewe.bsky.social and Shreya Pramanik. Here we discussed Jan's R package 'Tidyplots'. youtu.be/o0kl2kJp1hc?... . Find a preLight about his work down here 👇 😄

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The megakaryocyte: trapped in a cage of its own making 𐂺 In this #preprint, @wclairemasson.bsky.social & colleagues report the discovery of novel structures controlling megakaryocyte protrusion events. Excellent #preLight from @simoncleary.bsky.social ⬇️ 👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/m...

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Not long left to submit your images to our image competition! Details 👇

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PREPRINT OUT ✨ "hack" your microscope to work as a 3D printer! print micrometer sized features at cm scale. a method for easy and cheap microfabrication, with a focus on biological applications. THREAD ↓ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Our preprints list is now up on FocalPlane! This week we focus on research that has applied microscopy to answer questions in biology. As always, let us know if there are any recent preprints that you think we should highlight. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/02/21/m...

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Just one week left to register for our #biologists100 conference. Join us in Liverpool to discuss fantastic science, meet friends old and new and be part of our sustainability journey. View the programme for more details & register by Friday 28 February: bit.ly/3Ddp0QV

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Our methods paper made it to bioRxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Full #cryoET workflows for #plant tissues. Plus some general tricks and tweaks on serial Lift-Out and cryo-FLM. 🧪🧵1/5 #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM #CLEM

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❓ Do preprints establish priority of discovery❓ Yes! ✨Preprints have a time stamp. ✨Preprints are publicly available. ✨Preprints can be cited. #OpenScience #research #science #OpeAccess

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If you like snowflakes, check our new preprint about axial patterning in brittle stars ⭐ We looked at the expression of anteroposterior patterning genes in Amphipholis squamata juveniles, and compared it with existing data from other classes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @lowelab.bsky.social

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Another @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social preprint of work led by @wenfeixian.bsky.social. With our Lausanne colleagues, we revisit the Napoleon Oak. An earlier long-read genome had revealed a relatively low number of somatic mutations (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). 1/2

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As we start a new week, please take a quick look at the latest #preList compiled by @ethanewe.bsky.social & Jawdat Sandakly highlighting some exciting, recent #genetics & #genomics #preprints 🙌 Explore their picks of the month! 👀 #preList ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/prelists/ear...

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Targeting the root of NLRP3 inflammation 🎯 This #preprint from Rebecca Coll & team “highlights the complexity of immune signaling and the importance of considering many variables (...) when developing (…) therapeutic compounds.” #preLight by Roberto Amadio prelights.biologists.com/highlights/d...

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🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Excited to share our new preprint "Dynamic nanoscale architecture of synaptic vesicle fusion in mouse hippocampal neurons" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We combine optogenetic stimulation of neurons with in situ cryo-ET to characterize membrane dynamics during synaptic vesicle fusion ❄️🔬⏱️

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Another excellent preLight prepared by Felipe @fadelvalle.bsky.social 🙌 He highlights work showing that Fis1 regulates dendritic mitochondrial dynamics by promoting fission/fusion balance & motility, impacting neuronal function & connectivity. 🧠 #preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/f...

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1/n Excited to share our new preprint! Using live imaging in Drosophila embryos, we show that RNA Pol II clusters switch from sites of initiation to elongation during zygotic genome activation and that they are stably associated with an active gene: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Huge analysis out as a preprint today! For every 9 years an animal spends in the wildlife trade, it shares an additional pathogen with humans. Clear long-term impacts based on 40 years of global trade data 🧪😷 biorxiv.org/content/earl...

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Here's the promised natural product preprint: Flavoaffinins, elusive cellulose-binding natural products from an anaerobic bacterium. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Still pretty attached to immunology 😅 so I'm glad to share this little contribution under @prelights.bsky.social's initiative of preLists. With Marina Schernthanner, we selected some interesting articles for those looking for updates in immune cell biology 🙌 prelights.biologists.com/prelists/com...

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Hearing impaired songbirds keep their songs on track using visual cues 🐦🎶 Read this new #preLight from Maitri Manjunath, highlighting a recent #preprint from Nicolas Giret and colleagues: prelights.biologists.com/highlights/v...

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With a month left to register, there is still time to book your place to join us at our 100-year anniversary conference in March. Register by 28 February 100yearsconference.biologists.com/registration Discover all that awaits in Liverpool in our video:

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📃January in preprints – the CellBio edition This latest cell biology #preList was curated by Barbora Knotkova, Vibha Singh, Matthew Davies, @fadelvalle.bsky.social and @girishkalephd.bsky.social Explore their favourite #CellBio #preprints! ⬇️

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Muscles in Motion: How Stressful Dance Floors Turn Cells into Synchronized Superstars 🪩🌟 Vibha Singh and Prasanna Padmanaban highlight research from @yoannletoquin.bsky.social, Sushil Dubey, Christophe Marcelle, @bladoux.bsky.social & colleagues. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/m... #preprint

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NIH intramural researchers are being told they're not allowed to post preprints. To raise awareness of the vast research affected, and show support for our colleagues, we're making a thread of past NIH IRP preprints. ✴️ 1 like/repost == 1 preprint ✴️ ‼️Please share‼️ https://buff.ly/3PTy6oL

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Time flies when you’re… a cell! ⏱️ Jessica Chevallier highlights a #preprint from Yael Gurevich Schmidt, Eytan Ruppin and team on IMMClock—a machine learning model that infers the biological age of immune cells from single-cell and bulk transcriptomic data: prelights.biologists.com/highlights/i...

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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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This week, we are also highlighting Sadaf Farooqi as our extraordinary biologist. She is a former Company Director and a plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference. #100biologists

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Breaking paradigms: Finding 6mA DNA methylation in eukaryotes Francisco Falcon @ffalcon.bsky.social highlights research from @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and team on 6mA in eukaryotes. #preprint #preLights 👀⤵️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/a...

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📢WHO – The X and Y. WHEN – Since the beginning. HOW - From a distance Mansi highlights a #preprint from Daniel Snell, James Turner and team @crick.ac.uk on the early impact of sex chromosomes in preimplantation mouse embryos. 👀⤵️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/s...

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Tim Schwanitz and Lukas Weiss #Princeton have uploaded a #postLight. 👀 They revisit work (from Einat Couzin-Fuchs & team) exploring the neuronal basis of olfactory-mediated foraging behaviour in locusts, published in @naturecomms.bsky.social 🦗 postLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/s...

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The smoking gun: Plastic is harmful for your neurons 🚯 Manuel Lessi highlights a #preprint describing molecular mechanisms altered by polystyrene nanoplastics in neuronal cells. #preLight includes a thoughtful discussion with the first author Winanto ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/p...

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Another #spotLight is up! 🙌 @guyteichman.bsky.social talks about a #preprint showing that “neuronal perception of the environment on its own is sufficient to drive meaningful and heritable epigenetic changes” (@odedrechavi.bsky.social Lab) Learn more about it ⬇️🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCkF...

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Fibrin gels to glue granular units “…the concept of gluing granular systems using thrombin as a catalyzer is novel and can open up new ways in jam-packed granular microgel applications.” #preprint Armstrong & team #preLight of @castrojohnbosco.bsky.social ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/c...

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Exciting new #synbio engineered living materials work from Chao Zhong, Peng Huang and Bolin An's team in Shenzhen has just come out on bioRxiv. Lovely demonstration of how engineered E.coli can sense and treat in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Adriani Felix just posted two preLights as part of a #preprint review initiative led by Marcus Oliveira #UFRJ 1️⃣ Adriani covers work presenting BeHepI as a valuable tool for heparin quality control & structural analysis—paving the way for safer blood thinners prelights.biologists.com/highlights/e...

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Towards community-driven visual proteomics! Excited to finally share this large-scale curated & annotated dataset of 1829 high-quality #cryoET tomograms of the little green alga that just keeps giving— Chlamydomonas! 🧪🧶🧬🌾🌊🌍 Preprint📜: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread🧵👇

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Feeling tense? Macrophages sense that! Macrophages prefer to "nibble" (trogocytose) soft targets and "engulf" (phagocytose) stiff ones. Stiffness matters for immune responses! #preprint #FletcherLab Check out the #preLight written by @fadelvalle.bsky.social prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...

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Happy New Year from The Company of Biologists! 🎉 In 2025 we will be celebrating our 100th anniversary. Follow us on social media or visit biologists.com/100-years to find out more about our activities throughout the year. #biologists100

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Happy new year! December may be behind us, but if you want to know what #DevBio and #StemCell biology #preprints came out last month, check out our latest preprints list ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/december-in-...

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Two new #preLights to kick off #2025 🎊 1⃣ The trophoblast: where instability is intrinsic. First demonstration that aneuploidy is a feature of trophoblast stem cells & may confer cells with an advantage during placental development. From: Carly Guiltinan ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...

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In preprints: oxygen and NFκB signals shift the timing of hindlimb formation Alberto Rosello-Diez and Sergio Menchero @sermenchero.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk discuss a recent #preprint "Shifts in embryonic oxygen levels cue heterochrony in limb initiation": https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204578

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Finishing the year strong with another cell biology preList! 🙌 This month the list was curated by Matthew Davies, @fadelvalle.bsky.social, Sristilekha Nath, @girishkalephd.bsky.social & Barbora Knotkova Explore their favourite #CellBio #preprints! #preList⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/prelists/dec...

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