We are recruiting! Fully funded post-doctoral positions are available. Interested in #morphogenesis #imaging #zebrafish? Join us The Crick to help us understand how embryos build a functional beating heart during development. Please RT 🙏 crick.ac.uk/careers-study/…

My dad was my favorite person to share random facts with. I felt his loss keenly at the last conference (#evodevo talks are full of fun beasties). It’s been 31 days. I miss his indomitable spirit and 3 sentence phone calls. He’d have liked Darwin’s orchid & it’s moth #Xanthopan

Paris to Barcelona by #train, the stretch after Marseille is glorious.

Congratulations Thibaut Brunet for the greatly deserved award!👏👏

On twitter it’s #FluorescentFriday Institut Pasteur, since 1887 it’s #cremebruleeFriday

Preprint alert! We show that the electrical maturation of neurons is regulated by environmental mechanics in vitro & in vivo, and we identify a mechanotransduction pathway. A tour de force by Eva Kreysing et al, great collaboration with Thora Karadottir Lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Perks of this summer: pre-work Olympics by the Seine #JO2024 swimming marathon (and new vocab courtesy of Team Marco 😂) #Paris2024

Want to learn everything cool happening in the Xenopus community? Want an outstanding networking opportunity? Want to just hang out and have fun Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). Join us for the Xenopus Resources and Emerging Technologies (XRET) meeting! Please RT! mbl.edu/research/resou…

Roger Tsien’s Cambridge Philosophical Society lecture in 2015 was one of the most memorable talks I’ve *ever attended. He literally illuminated our field -from brain activity to every glowy 💡creature we have today. A trailblazer and inspiration!

Any candidate interested in #Multicellularity ? #Experimental Evolution ? #Electron Microscopy of Cell junctions ?

Incredibly excited to share that I have joined The University of Sheffield as an Early Career Research Fellow in the Physics of Life. My lab will use and develop fancy microscopes to investigate all things actin. I will soon be recruiting a PhD student, if you are interested, get in touch!

Please RT: Job alter! We're looking for a postdoc working at the interface of developmental neurobiology & mechanobiology.If you want to figure out how local tissue mechanics interacts with chemical signals to regulate brain folding, apply! European Research Council (ERC) nature.com/naturecareers/…

The BINDER Innovation Prize 2024 goes to Alba Diz-Muñoz, Diz-Muñoz Lab, EMBL. Join us online for the 2024 DGZ, @DGZ.bsky.social award ceremony on October 7th at 12:30!

Can't wait to get my first letter from a pre-Scientist this year! #TogetherLPSConnects, #STEMforAll or #STEMPenPals

European Research Council (ERC) One week left to apply: If you are looking for a postdoc position in mechanobiology/developmental neurobiology, and you want to work in a fun environment with amazing colleagues, go for it: nature.com/naturecareers/… Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin FAU Erlangen-Nbg European Research Council (ERC)

New Preprint! How can cells polarize in the absence of a stimulus? We suggest a surprising biophysical mechanism, protein caging! We reveal how the complex mechanical interactions at the cell surface lead to symmetry breaking. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Let's talk about numbers and human embryos. In 2019, 675 human embryos were donated for research in the UK, and 172,915 human embryos were discarded. Meanwhile, 58% of patients would like to donate their embryos for research theguardian.com/science/2023/d….

I am so happy to see our biorxiv preprint now published in pnas PNASNews. Reverse development in a ctenophore. Joan J. Soto-Angel Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #ctenophores

Thrilled to see our latest work on ctenophore reverse development featured on the cover of PNASNews 🤩 Work supported by Michael Sars Centre, Universitetet i Bergen, European Research Council (ERC) #ctenophores #evolution #rejuvenation👏👏👏Joan J. Soto-Angel & stunning📸from Alexandre Jan pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…