Médailles CNRS Biologie 2026 : les lauréats dévoilés Chaque année, l’attribution des médailles du CNRS distingue des scientifiques et des personnels dont les travaux et l’engagement contribuent de manièr

#TalentsCNRS Découvrez les médaillés d'argent et de bronze 2026 de CNRS Biologie !

Félicitations aux lauréates et lauréats ! 🎉

👉 www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

And of course, ot was good to feel in the path of d’Arcy Thompson at St Andrews, in a place he moved to after publishing his famous opus 😊

Wonderful visit at the
university of St Andrews, beautiful campus and city 🤩. Thank you Marcus Bischoff for the invitation, and the great discussions with you and your colleagues, especially Jochen Kursawe.

It's funky axons time 🔬 🧪

Data-Driven Biological Modeling — CSM 2026 - Centuri Living Systems Data-Driven Biological Modeling CENTURI Scientific Meeting – 2026 The Event – CENTURI Scientific Meeting CENTURI is pleased to announce the 2026 Edition of its Scientific Meeting, once again bringing ...

📢 Registrations are open for the 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐈 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔!

🗓️ Oct 26–30, 2026
📍Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse, Corsica

Topic: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚-𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨: centuri-livingsystems.org/csm-2026/

‘Why is publishing so expensive?’ For many of us who work in scientific publishing, the title of this Editorial is a question we hear all the time when we're out talking to academics. And it's a perfectly reasonable one. After all, re...

A question I get asked all the time by @dev-journal.bsky.social authors "Why does it cost so much to publish a paper?"

We break down the finances and explain where the money goes

Spoiler: quality publishing takes a village (people + infrastructure)

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

This was a terrific talk. Thank you for visiting us in Marseille. 🤩🙏🏼

The mistral was very strong yesterday… this iconic pine tree near our home, so majestic that the street was built around it, is a sad victim 😢. No human casualty and the house was left intact…

🧫 Et si la science devenait une œuvre d’art ?

Au @museeorsay.bsky.social, des images de cellules observées au microscope deviennent une performance visuelle pour faire sortir la biologie du laboratoire et révéler l’architecture du vivant.

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNQM...

Our study on shape diversity in cnidarians is now published. The final version includes extensive new data that substantially extend the original bioRxiv preprint. Congrats to everyone who contributed to this work! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@embl.org

Thank you Jose Pastor-Pareja and colleagues for writing a nice comment in @currentbiology.bsky.social on the article by Stefan Harmansa and Alex Erlich:

doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

New piece on the mechanics of squamous epithelial shape transition highlighting the role of tensile forces, force transmission by Dumpy & elastic resistance by the ECM in the developing wing. Terrific work from Stefan Harmansa @morphomechanics.bsky.social with Alex Erlich🍾👏:

tinyurl.com/2p58b3w3

This is so very sad. Catherine was a fearless, exceptionally rigorous and wonderful scientist. I have fond memories of discussions with her, such as at an EMBO conference on membrane trafficking somewhere in a small village in Austria covered with tons of snow. 🙏🏼 for who you were.

The cell biology community mourns the loss of Catherine Rabouille, an exceptional scientist whose determination, innovation, and fearless engagement with ideas reshaped how we think about cellular organization. #InMemoriam from @adamgrieve.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

I really enjoyed a lot visiting @ISTAustria, discussing intensely many interesting problems with the students and posdocs all day long 🤓, and for giving a talk. Thank you 🙏🏼 @ehannezo.bsky.social for the invitation and for the very nice dinner with Gasper Tkacik 🤩. Wonderful day, and see you soon!

Applications open for the CENTURI Hackathon for Quantitative Biology 2026!

🧬💻 Join us in Marseille (June 5–7) for a weekend of coding at the interface of CS & life sciences.

📝Apply by May 6: centuri-livingsystems.org/application-...

Event Details: centuri-livingsystems.org/hackathon-20...

"Forme et croissance" de D'Arcy Thompson : le vivant, mode d'emploi “Forme et croissance”, livre phare de D’Arcy Thompson paru en 1917, a marqué un tournant en biologie en expliquant la variété des formes du vivant par les lois physiques. Comment ce premier travail de...

A 16h sur @franceculture.fr Sciences Chrono parle de "Forme et croissance" de D'Arcy Thompson. Comment ce livre paru en 1917 a-t-il transformé l'histoire de la biologie et de notre compréhension de la morphogénèse? Quelles lois physiques et mathématiques sous-tendent les formes multiples du vivant ?

Wonderful to be part of exciting Program at Harvard University & CMSA, Mathematics &Biology: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics. Thank you 🙏🏼 and congrats to organizers for their invitation. Great to see and discuss with wonderful colleagues, not least @akankshi.bsky.social! 🤩

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate - Nature The choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa forms motile and contractile cell monolayers purely clonally, purely aggregatively or through a combination of both processes depending on environmental condi...

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Spatial patterning of contractility by a self-organized mechanogen activity gradient underlies Drosophila gastrulation - Nature Communications During morphogenesis patterned contractility drives tissue shape changes. Here they show that GPCR signaling and integrin activation give rise to a dynamically translocating gradient of contractility ...

New paper out! In this project, we focused on the question how tissue mechanics is spatially controlled during development. We show that the GPCR ligand Fog acts as a “mechanogen” during Drosophila gastrulation, driving a self-organized wave of tissue invagination:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spring is just around the corner in Marseille 😊

Very sad news. Gail Martin (1944-2026) was a figure in developmental biology. She pioneered the field of ES cells.
A great colleague, a friend and a lovely person.

Huge congrats to @manuelthery.bsky.social and all the Cytomorpho lab. The "Living Architectures" performance at @museeorsay.bsky.social was breathtakingly beautiful

A few seconds of eternity: From microscope to museum❣️
It was truly delightful to be part of this project, celebrating life as a continuous dance of creation, collapse, and renewal. 🔄
Kudos to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social #cytomorpholab members, and @museeorsay.bsky.social

This weekend we projected cells and filaments on the roof of the @museeorsay.bsky.social in Paris, then we contracted it with a pinch of myosin.
And it was fabulous!

Grateful to have been part of this art/science project & thx to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social & the CytoMorphoLab

Very nice dinner with colleagues from Institut Pasteur, Francois Schweisguth, Romain @levayerr.bsky.social , Thomas Gregor and @jeromegros.bsky.social 🤩. I look forward to more discussions and to giving my seminar tomorrow ! Thank you for the great invitation.

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Last but not least, @NCBS_Bangalore hosts remarkable plants and biodiversity. The garden is beautiful, at any season. Always refreshing to be exposed to nature while working on « life in a lab »… a glimpse below 🤩

Another treat visiting ICTS, welcomed & stimulated by @vijaykrishnamurthy.bsky.social Exciting work on non-trivial & remarkable interactions btw mechanics & geometry in morphogenesis.
Check what will come out…
+ Do visit ICTS biological physics groups. 🙏🏼 for hosting me!

A very interesting article « De novo emergence of metabolically active protocols ». Complex chemistry, organisation from few input constituants. Very intriguing.
Congrats Shashi Thutupalli and colleagues @stpalli
Link:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11013