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This topic is particularly on point at the moment given today's MBIE webinar on public research funding priorities.

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Come to Auckland - you guys will be almost here anyway!

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MitoTracker transfers from astrocytes to neurons independently of mitochondria The mitochondrial dye MitoTracker is commonly used to investigate intercellular mitochondrial transfer (IMT), particularly between astrocytes and neurons. Hole et al. compare MitoTracker with a geneti...

⚡️We are excited to share a new paper from the lab by @drkhole.bsky.social in @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social - suggesting MitoTracker dyes are not a reliable tool for detecting intercellular mitochondrial transfer❗️ www.cell.com/cell-reports...

“Can I show you some data I’ve been working on?” Seems to get a more enthusiastic response in science!

Fruit fly and mitochondria pins

Tomorrow (the 16th) is last day I'll be taking orders in the Etsy shop. All proceeds go to support @flybase.bsky.social . Last chance to fill your stockings with pins, patches and stickers of your fave model organism! www.etsy.com/shop/Picosti...

Thanks for posting - definitely seen patterns of fission and fusion like this in flies - Leonor Miller-Fleming and I dubbed them petrol stations. Great work putting together a proper exploration of them Sam and team! So much still to explore.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

A Keystone at Keystone - jealous. Hope it’s great science, snow and people.

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After 15 years as Editor-in-chief (EiC), Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social will be stepping down at the end of 2026 & we are seeking feedback from the cell biology community as part of the consultation process for appointing a new EiC.
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This is for you – and a great opportunity – if you are establishing a group in Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Türkiye...

Thank you for sharing this - adding to the list of terrifying things.

So sorry - it’s brutal at the moment - so many friends on so many continents facing the same thing.

Thank you from the antipodeans - I hope they appreciated the effort.

Hope you guys get it turned back on soon! The tiny dribble here is barely keeping things going. Makes no sense.

We're hiring: Kaimanaaki Pāpāho | Media Advisor role - Science Media Centre The Science Media Centre (SMC) is looking for a media advisor to join our dedicated team working to improve the reach, relevance and accuracy of news media reporting on science and related topics in Aotearoa...

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Hello, BlueSky! This is the official account for Janelia conferences & workshops.

We’ll share calls for applications, deadlines, and meeting updates.

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The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.

Submitted a paper and at the end of the process the system asked for my ‘Twitter [sic] handle’

I gave it as “I do not use Twitter/X as it is no longer conducive to scientific discussion. I use BlueSky”

I only hope they’ll read it

ROV pilots filmed this giant phantom jelly, or Stygiomedusa gigantea, at 253 meters during an ROV descent to explore the Colorado-Rawson submarine canyon wall. #ArgentinianDeepSeeps

Anyone to help my man @npanayotis.bsky.social who's looking for a mouse with sparsely-labeled neurons?

Employment - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us!
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If you are enthusiastic, this is an ideal position for you to hone your leadership skills. Many initiatives, like FlyCROSS mentor-match, were the brainchild of our trainee reps. If you want to know more or be considered, reach out to me, @iamshef.bsky.social, or @shyama13.bsky.social by Nov 17! 3/

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My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
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Required reading for cell biologists to get a sense of basic statistical principles!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community” attributed to Aneurin Bevan

This needs reappearing, over and over

Defend our NHS

I try and send something to Wikipedia at least once a year, academics use it so often and so blithely...