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Research fellow in @leopoldlab.bsky.social 🪰 at @institutcurie.bsky.social. Interested in metabolism during development, cancer biology, and inter-organ communication. Former postdoc @universityofga.bsky.social 🦟
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From @yalesom.bsky.social. Yale has sunk in my estimation, maybe it's following the spirit of our times since Jan 20th. This is like phrenology.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

The discovery of a digestion-slowing hormone in the Gila monster's venom paved the way for Ozempic. When a Gila monster named Pebbles needed medicine in return, a pharmaceutical chemist pivoted to help save the species. nyti.ms/4i5w40U

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Researchers have developed a deep learning protein language model, ESM3, that enables programmable protein design. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/3Qo3HPw

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The rise of dark proteins

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Let’s stop treating "leaving academia" as negative. Scientists train for academia, industry, or what suits them. Industry isn’t an alternative; it’s a choice. In fields like engineering, most PhDs go to industry, and no one calls it "leaving academia." We should train scientists for diverse paths.

submitted 31 days ago • 31 comments

I love this article partly because it details how this little fly has been vital for all sorts of research, including for human health. But I really love the part about where fruit flies originated and how they’ve conquered the world. 🍓🍒🍷🪰 🧪 🪲 🪳 phys.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

How are #phospholipids transferred within #mitochondria? A study in #Drosophila shows that SLMO transfers phosphatidylserine (PS) from the outer to the inner mitochondrial membrane, where it is converted into PE, so contributing to mitochondrial form & function 🧪 #PLOSBiology plos.io/4iHc9qg

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

A simple MiMIC-based approach for tagging endogenous genes to visualise live transcription in Drosophila Read this Techniques and Resources Article by Lauren Forbes Beadle, Catherine Sutcliffe and Hilary Ashe @official-uom.bsky.social: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204294

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging. www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

submitted 77 days ago • 10 comments

The European Drosophila Society is delighted to join Bluesky! Follow us for the latest European fly news. #EDRC2025 #Drosophila #Drosofeed

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks to a new technique, scientists can now see where RNAs are inside a brain without slicing into it. That and more of the best from Science and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging: the impact of protein tags on biomolecular condensation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 93 days ago • 10 comments

How the #brain talks to the #gut and vice versa! 🧪🧠💩 Check out the great primer on gut-brain communication and #interoception by @amberalhadeff.bsky.social and Nilay Yapici 👇👇👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

submitted 93 days ago • 11 comments

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

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

submitted 95 days ago • 45 comments

Excited to see my project carried out in the Léopold lab at Institut Curie (Paris) published in Developmental Cell. Check it out if you are curious about how amino acids are strategically stored and then used efficiently during development www.cell.com/developmenta...

submitted 259 days ago • 0 comments