ICYMI We've got a new paper out in Nature Neuroscience and I want to tell you about it. Here's the paper, and here's a short explainer - a thread. Cerebral organoids at the air–liquid interface generate diverse nerve tracts with functional output nature.com/articles/s4159… 1/11

A quoi ça tient, la place des femmes dans les sciences... Il n'y a pas assez de combinaisons à la bonne taille dans l'ISS pour les sorties dans l'espace 🤦🏼‍♀️ nytimes.com/2019/03/25/sci…

Utter chaos. Disaster. A national act of self-harm - Brexit has already irreparably damaged research nature.com/articles/d4158… @naturenews

"We're told science self-corrects. The candidate gene literature shows that it often self-corrects very slowly & wastefully, even when the writing has been on the wall for a very long time" Marcus Munafò to Ed Yong is not here as the SLC6A4 house of cards collapses theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

CR5-∆32 is deleterious in the homozygous state in humans - Rasmus Nielsen and Xinzhu Wei report in Nature Medicine So much for "judicious" genome engineering... rdcu.be/bFvPu

C'est bien triste quand même de voir que lorsque des femmes admirables sortent des sentiers battus et ont enfin un certain écho, d'autres -qui n'ont jamais rien fait mais se croient brillantes- sont immédiatement là pour les rabaisser. lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/l-…

"Y'en a qui aiment être battues. Y'en a qui sont pas battues parce qu'elles ont pas besoin d'être battues"... Des témoignages glaçants au sujet des violences conjugales dans les années 70 (attention, certains propos peuvent choquer) #GrenelleViolencesConjugales #Feminicides

By replacing meat with protein-conserving plant alternatives, Americans could satisfy key nutritional requirements while eliminating pastureland use and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. go.nature.com/309sEGb

By replacing meat with protein-conserving plant alternatives, Americans could satisfy key nutritional requirements while eliminating pastureland use and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. go.nature.com/2mLZ0Vh

Oh COME ON Economic Times!

« Jusqu’où laisserons-nous passer la haine des musulmans ? » lemonde.fr/idees/article/…

The working culture of scientific research can be toxic. This perspective explores what the problems are, and what some of the solutions may be. Nature Chemistry #WorkLifeBalance #DiversityinSTEM nature.com/articles/s4155…

Excited that our work on somatic gene editing for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy is out this week in Nature Medicine! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Immigration shouldn’t only be open to exceptionally talented people. But the refusal of residency to Asiya Islam shows it’s closed off and hostile *even* for the most exceptionally talented theguardian.com/education/2020…

Our lab's work on dissecting the mechanisms of heart regeneration by cardiac progenitors in an ex vivo primate heart model (and in vivo pig model!) is now accessible on #bioRxiv

Cheap supermarket chicken risking ‘catastrophic’ new pandemics, report warns independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Deciphering the epicardial signals that promote myocardial growth Anna Meier highlights a preprint by Jihyun Jang, Deqiang Li(DQ), and colleagues. prelights.biologists.com/?p=30806

Build-it-yourself human thyroid for regenerative therapy Anna Meier highlights a preprint by @MirianRomitti and colleagues from the Costagliola lab. prelights.biologists.com/?p=31254

The main project from my PhD is out today in Nature Biotechnology! 🫀 Excited to see future applications of epicardioids in disease modeling and more