Behold, the flAI.

Just published a new edition of “Principles of Development’ from “Wolpert’s Principles of Development’ to honour his memory and the origin of this textbooks that aims at distilling the, sometimes elusive, principles underlying animal and plant development shorturl.at/LrOxn

Interested in fund raising? Want to work for an iconic Cambridge College? We are looking for a new head of development...see this! kings.cam.ac.uk/about/work-at-…

"Somebody who gets a Nobel Prize had people say no to them right out of college too." 2024 medicine laureate Gary Ruvkun was interviewed by Ravi Liyanage from Study in Sweden. Hear how Ruvkun learned about receiving the Nobel Prize and his thoughts on how humour sparks

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The cat is simultaeously charged and not charged until you throw styrofoam balls on it.

"Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4k6Zqgn

A huge challenge I face when doing ML + genomics analysis is *friction*: the stupid error messages (wrong device!) and dumb implementation issues that snap you out of the zone. I wrote a vignette on how tangermeme has helped me reduce this friction.

Spell checks are overated.

With organoids, assembloids and a growing toolkit of bioengineering tricks, scientists are stitching together models of the developing human brain — and pushing the limits of realism and control go.nature.com/4kqk6QB

Researchers in the #FunabikiLab have devised a way to visualize molecules that are very rare, very small, or hard to produce naturally—including some viruses. eLife - the journal #RockefellerScience rockefeller.edu/news/37486-new…

Edward Lewis's work on fruit flies Caltech laid the foundation for what is now known about genes that regulate the development of specific regions of the body. He found that the positions of fruit flies' bodily organs matched the corresponding genes' positions on the chromosome.

Research from 2022 found that RNA molecules can grow peptides all by themselves—no ribosome required—which may have helped kick-start life on Earth. #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/3Sdf8e2

A molecular analysis of axolotl limb regeneration identifies a positive genetic circuit that maintains posterior cell identity and can be used to reprogramme anterior cells into posterior cells, according to a paper in nature. go.nature.com/4kh3SK8

The new Vienna BioCenter Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Program (VIP³) is here! We have 16 fully-funded positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics etc. The call opens on 1st June. More information: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vip3… #VBCPostDoc

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Happy birthday to Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), trailblazing geneticist, GSA President (1945), and Nobel laureate! 🧬 Her work transformed biology and continues to inspire. Explore her legacy in this profile by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: buff.ly/sUqaxYG 🔗

Spotted one of my illustrations on stage at the Fondation Singer-Polignac #fertility meeting today!! Big thanks to Andrea Pauli for the shout out! 💫 #sciart #scicomm

I don't know art, but I know what I like...

Big congratulations to all the newly elected @embo.org Members! A special shoutout to IMP #ClemensPlaschka Plaschka Lab for this well-deserved recognition. embo.org/press-releases…