Little hut that looks a bit like a strawberry (green roof, red walls) selling berries and asparagus on the side of the road. Red and white striped umbrellas in front of of it.
Waited for this all winter: The ‘Erdbeerhäuschen’ on my way to work is back! local berries 🍓 for breakfast from now on!
Nice white butter cream cake with an image in the middle of a blue cartoon figure with blood shot eyes, an academic hat and the text: ‘you did it’
Today’s tasteful celebratory cake of a successfully defended PhD thesis … congrats Aga!
Thank you to Jim Smith for writing about the legacy of #devbio giant and former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social's Board of Directors, Sir John Gurdon.
there goes the central dogma, i guess. is nothing sacred anymore?
Lucasfilm drops The Mandalorian and Grogu final trailer at CinemaCon arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
Finally published at long last (at least in the pre-view version). Explore the wild and woolly world of archaeal histones! Interactive archaeal histone graph incluced rdcu.be/fdFjv. Congratulations to first author Shawn Laursen
A belted galloway cow walking into the mist, towards a bold, unpredictable future.
“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”
New preprint from the Bhalla Lab! Thread will be available later today!
They’re beautiful!
Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them.
We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢
Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded.
Aarhus University 🇩🇰
Deadline May 1 👇
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
"Chromatin organization in Asgard archaea: Histones, SMC complexes, and the archaeal roots of eukaryotic chromatin"
by Remus Dame & colleagues (@damelab.bsky.social)
"Understanding chromatin organization in Asgard archaea is key to understanding how eukaryotic chromatin evolved."
shorturl.at/6bLvx
“Sakura” in Japan.
Cherry blossoms symbolize the fleeting nature of life, mortality, renewal, and spring in Japanese culture. ☺️
TT: ThaoThao
Yodo station, Kyoto
An unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale found that mother and calf were supported by other whales throughout the process. n.pr/40THi23
We are hiring POSTDOC now!🚨please repost! Fully-funded 5-year position 👩🏻🔬👨🔬🧬Looking forward to your application!✉️
Some work life impressions of the week:
Huge-a&& KIT logo downtown, our new slogan #scienceforimpact (I like it)
Friday evening Campus North institute sunset panorama
Drosophila testes imaging for revisions with @erhardtlab.bsky.social lab, samples looking great! #FluorescenceFriday #latergram
Happy Birthday, Needhi🍹
🧵 CTCF is essential for embryonic development, but why has remained unclear. By combining gastruloids with a temporal degron system, we uncovered a surprising dual function — and it changes how we think about CTCF's role in development. 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Pink magnolia tree and blue sky!
A beautiful spring morning!
A scarecrow who has just watched Monty Python's The Holy Grail for the first time.
THREAD. A collection of excellent scarecrows I have met on walks in the countryside.
You will find the all-important caption to each photo in the alt text.
I finally had some time to improve my poster about staging Drosophila embryos in collaboration with @stramerlab.bsky.social and we would like to share this with the community! You can find it here or at a higher resolution on my portfolio: www.behance.net/gallery/2458...
#DrosophilaEmbryogenesis
Friends Davor Solter and Azim Surani receiving the wonderful Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Genomic Imprinting👏 👍 @Frankfurt Germany. With official talks from politicians using words like Education, Knowledge, Democracy 🙏 @maxplanck.de @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
The Cambridge branch of FlyBase will need continuing support! But it's good news that there is restored funding for the US groups of FlyBase.
Schedule of the TriRhena Gene Regulation Club 2026 symposium listing times, speakers, and topics on gene regulation and chromatin accessibility, organized by IGBMC Strasbourg, FMI Basel, and MPI-IE Freiburg.
Next week, the Gene Regulation Club has its first stop in 2026. The 1-day symposium brings together researchers from TriRhena 🇫🇷🇨🇭🇩🇪 region including IGBMC, MPI-IE & FMI.
This time at the @igbmc.bsky.social (Strasbourg) with a NewPI talk by @simonelsasser.bsky.social
More: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/grc
and also the KIT @kit.edu! Congratulation!
Check out this collaboration between Kellie Jurado’s lab and mine. We find that paternal immune activation reprograms the epididymis and, subsequently, small RNAs in sperm, which modulate post-fertilization embryonic gene expression and immunity in offspring in a sex-specific manner.
The amazing colors on this purple harlequin toad [📹 indicator_species]
Original post
Flyer for symposium: https://ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org/
Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org
Spring Snowflakes in the Austrian Alps.
Spring arrived in the Alps!
