Tuesday is finally our next big session on all things #cilia, #centrosomes & gloriously kick-ass #CellBiology. Free, open to all aficionados, and frankly no excuse not to join. 👀 Unregistered? Easily fixed 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso...
New Title Alert: MiCSPARC- is a CryoSPARC-based cryo-EM pipeline for microtubule image processing that combines automated filament tracing, particle picking, fast 3D refinement, protofilament-number assignment, alignment, register correction, & seam search.
Learn more here: buff.ly/f1Jmkqe
#SBGrid
📢Call for images
Our FocalPlane-ELMI2026 @eulimi.bsky.social image competition is open for entries. Share your favourite images for your chance to win £200 and see your image on the cover of @jcellsci.bsky.social.
Deadline: 18 May 2026
#ELMI2026
@ppbioimaging.bsky.social
Beautiful work from @computingcaitie.bsky.social and colleagues, showing the power of combining multiple approaches to studying complex in situ cell biology!
❗We are recruiting❗
A PDRA based in the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics at Cardiff University investigating the #molecular & #cellular changes in #schizophrenia, building on the work of the #MURIDAE cluster @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social
Please see link 👇
tinyurl.com/32u753js
Congratulations Caitie and team- excited to see the preprint live and look forward to a deep dive into this important work!! 👏😍
To supplement our cryo-ET and generate candidates for proteins that localize to different ciliary regions, we took a trip to the local butcher to pick up some cow trachea to build a mammalian multiciliated cell interactome using XL/MS (enjoy this vid of @cellarchlab.com shaking cilia off trachea)
I am excited to share our most recent work collaborating with @centriolelab.bsky.social and @stearnslab.bsky.social to look at the ciliary base of mammalian multiciliated cells w/ cryo-ET, XL/MS, and U-ExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A welcome and much needed reopening of pplicant-led grants today at MRC, with no closing date.
It brings massive changes to assessment, with more details now available. Focus is on evaluation by a "college of experts" but its composition is still not clear. 1/6
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Molecular architecture of the ciliary base in mammalian multiciliated cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
Logo for the 2026 BSP Spring meeting of buildings in Glasgow and parasites flying above them
Our Spring meeting starts today in Glasgow! All the best to all those presenting @bspparasitology.bsky.social
A full session of rising international talent across 6 hot talks from ciliary gates to tips, centriolar satellites to centrosomes, signaling & centriole remodelling- we'll cover it all!!
#cilia #centrosomes #centrioles #CellBiology #StructuralBiology #CentriolarSatellites #Hedgehog #Kinesins
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Just over two weeks until our 55th @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium Tuesday April 21st 2026 15:00-17:45 BST! Join us for 6 talks from the latest rising talent!! Free & open to all.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso...
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🥁Calling all Cilia & Centrosome enthusiasts! Registration for the UK Cilia & Centrosome Network Spring meeting in Leeds is open. A homecoming to the place where '9+2' was discovered!
Great opportunity for trainees + ECRs to share work + get community feedback.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-cilia-c...
Excited to be heading to Paris next week for @embo.org Structure and Function of the #Cytoskeleton! Please say hi if you're around and want to chat about publishing, @jcellsci.bsky.social or any of @biologists.bsky.social grants and community initiatives!
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We're hiring: PhD students, postdocs, AI experts, and more — in disease risk prediction, generative imaging, multimodal AI, and research software engineering.
→ careers.humantechnopole.it
If this resonates, reach out… apply! See you soon! 🔬🧠💻
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We've spent the last year building something at @humantechnopole.bsky.social that we think is genuinely needed: #AI that works across biological scales and data modalities, not just within them. A thread on what we're doing, why, and who we're looking for. A 🧵... 1/9
Have you ever seen a #ctenophore poop? 🪼💩 While it was widely accepted that comb jellies expel waste from both ends, Mnemiopsis shattered dogma with the presence of a through-gut. Intrigued? Read the original research: www.cell.com/current-biol.... Credit video to William Browne. #CtenophoreFunFacts
Proud to share the yeast telomerase structure, led by the talented @hongmiaohu.bsky.social in collaboration with the Wellinger and Chartrand labs. Discovered 37 years ago and took us nearly 7 years but totally worth the wait 😍.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFE4...
Pictures of james briscoe, one avec mullet
And the @bsdb.bsky.social Waddington medal goes to... @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social. Could not be more highly deserved, I'm so delighted to hear this 👏
Tote bag, lunch bag, travel mug, postcards, stickers, coaster, charging cable
Are you attending @bsdb.bsky.social 2026: Molecules to Morphogenesis in Warwick this week? Visit our stand to complete our quick survey and be in with a chance of winning a special goodie bag.
So jealous! 😍
Arp2/3-dependent actin assembly shapes endosomes and promotes intracellular trafficking in fission yeast
The work from Alejandro Melero @ameleroc.bsky.social and Miguel Basante-Bedoya just out in Current Biology.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@biology-unige.bsky.social
We're still accepting submissions for our upcoming special issue - Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics - which is being coordinated by @franbottanelli.bsky.social and Giulia Zanetti, working alongside our Editor @guijacquemet.bsky.social
Deadline: 1 April
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/im...
Hello, world! We are starting a worker cooperative to build, maintain, teach, and support open source scientific imaging software.
image.coop/blog/posts/2...
Phyllodesmium and Prionospio | Peter Godfrey-Smith, Jürgen Berger, Gáspár Jékely | CC BY 4.0
Registration is now open for our two-day
**"Heidelberg Wild Thinking Workshop - The organism, its self and its environment: from philosophy to physics"**,
www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/wild-thinking-worksho...
an interdisciplinary event on **19-20 […]
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Interested in one of the top jobs in European biology?
@embo.org has opened a call for its next Director, to succeed Fiona Watt
Really spectacular opportunity! Spread the word...
www.embo.org/features/emb...
i’ve come to believe that we will never solve the literacy crisis by talking about reading as “watering the garden of your mind” or whatever. books are, and have always been, the favored medium of God’s purest freaks and degenerates. Reading isn’t a salad. If you’re doing it right, it’s a vice.
MRC curiosity-driven research reopens with new approach
www.ukri.org/news/mrc-cur...
MRC applicant-led funding opportunities reopen 7 Apr, experimental medicine opportunities opening 30 Apr
Complete change in selection of project: no boards, shortlisted applicants -> in-person panel interview.
Imagine the admin hours wasted on chasing rogue academics like us…. This was the last time (? 🙏)- hope you took a moment to reflect on all the anti joy it brought you over the years!
