Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me:
Nature-inspired neuroscience
We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨
tinyurl.com/y5y9du27
New tool from the lab...check out Novabrowse: An interactive and customizable tool for interpreting BLAST results in genomic context!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Does your favorite gene seems to be missing from your species of interest?
Are you sure?
🧵👇 1/n
I may have missed those but will happily dig into that as well, thanks for the info! Nonetheless, your editorial is also really well written and digestable so I just had to fan girl over it a bit ☺️
I am absolutely in awe of this editorial laying out the details of the Company of Biologists publishing and financing models. Such a welcome air of transparency that is so rarely seen in any institution, doing wonders for building trust within the community. The CoB team are an absolute role model 🫡
Who is making jokes at scientific conferences? Which type of joke land?
To find out, we collected quantitative data on jokes at 14 scientific conferences – now published OA in @royalsociety.org ProcB:
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
w/ @rcorreia.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social and more
Woah what a cool cover!!! Beautifully merges some of my favourite things - science, sci-fi and of course, axolotls 😍
New preprint from our lab! Rita Aires et al., looked into how tissue remodelling is regulated during limb regeneration. In short, depending on what tissues are injured, a tailored response ensures the right immune cells are recruited to ensure skeletal integration.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🔬✨ For #IWD2026, we’re highlighting the voices of #WomenInScience!
In our short interview with Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social shares what might surprise teenagers about a career in research and the skills that shaped her journey.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/yjts9v
#CMCB #TUDresden
In animals with large genomes, finding cis-regulatory elements can be very challenging. Enhancers can be located tens/hundreds of kb away from their target promoters. We face this challenge in Parhyale, with >3 Gbp genome.
We just published a preprint describing how we are tackling this problem. /1
New research group at the CRTD @tudresden.bsky.social !🎉🔬
Supported by the ERC Starting Grant, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social is launching a new group to study the sense of gravity and #regeneration in the inner ear in axolotl.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/buva24
#CMCBnews
Sometimes, just sometimes, for an ECR, "in submission" just means "I am on my 3rd glam journal submission with this paper that took me 5 years and still not allowed to preprint" 🥲
Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful!
here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments
I wrote a post describing a minimal set of principles that I've been using to make my research papers a bit more reproducible. Would love hearing what you think! #OpenScience
brunovellutini.com/posts/daft-p...
Flyer announcing the next Panel Discussion event organised by AWAD. The title is "Escape the pyramid! Can we have a non-hierarchical academia?"
Join us at malobeo on February 8 at 6 PM to share your perspective on the hierarchical structures of the scientific institutions we work at!
Bring your colleagues -we'll bring snacks- and let's have an open conversation on how to improve our working conditions and science.
Exciting news! I was interviewed by @currentbiology.bsky.social for their Q & A section, where I talk about the future of palaeontology, dangers of AI in education, social media and science communication. Featuring, my doodles!
cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01552-0
This interview is SUPERB.
What a pleasure to get a glimpse of the world & science through @nataliajagielska.bsky.social's eyes. @currentbiology.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
A bit late but a paper from our lab has been published!
Human fingertip regeneration is a fact, it happens in children and adults (not only in children as it has been long believed). We describe here the regenerative phases and analyse the proteome of wound exudates.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📣 #Job alert!
Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo?
The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research.
Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions
c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...
#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Mastodon: the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...
A new #ScienceImmunology study finds that juvenile axolotls can regenerate their thymus from scratch after complete removal, which could inform future therapeutics for aging or immune-compromised patients. https://scim.ag/3Y1XbBQ
Axolotls are famous for regenerating limbs. Turns out they can also regenerate their thymus—and that may show us how to someday to the same. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
This month’s cover features the Mexican axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum, which has the ability to regenerate its thymus de novo, an apparent exception among vertebrates.
The December issue of #ScienceImmunology is out!
This month's cover highlights the juvenile axolotl's ability to regenerate its thymus after complete removal—possibly making it an exception among vertebrates. Learn about this research and more: https://scim.ag/4anWlqv
One proposed strategy to promote a youthful immune system and human healthspan is to rejuvenate our thymus gland. Can we learn from this exceptional (and peculiar looking) vertebrate that can do this?
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Can't believe my postdoc paper is finally out. Christmas came early this year, holy moly 🎄
Molecular basis for de novo thymus regeneration in a vertebrate, the axolotl | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🔔 Please share 🔔 I have two open developmental biology/genetics/evo-devo PhD project vacancies for October 2026 start.
1 = 🐚 🐌 🔬(embryos!!)
⏱️📆 DEADLINE 15th DEC 📆⏱️ (competition)
sleightlab.com/vacancies/
2 = 🦪 🐌 🧬
⏱️📆 DEADLINE 14th JAN 📆⏱️(fully funded)
sleightlab.com/phd-vacancy-2/
I love this. And not just because of the axolotl costume, the content is great too ❤️
🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate?
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
