This microscopic freshwater organism, Limnias malicerta, is a rotifer, recognized by its rotating wheel-like structures. It uses spinning cilia on its head to swim and capture tiny food like algae and bacteria.
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Absolutely terrible news. I knew Alan as he was a long-serving Director @biologists.bsky.social. Our research interests were very far apart but I loved chatting with him about running, gait analysis and GPS. He was a data nerd just like me. So sad. My thoughts are with his family.
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
Rapid RSV tests linked to less antibiotic prescribing in kids
An Italian study finds an RSV-positive rapid antigen test in children aged nine to 36 months was associated with a 48% reduced risk of receiving an antibiotic.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
2nd- or 3rd-year PhD student? Applications for @hhmi-science.bsky.social's #GilliamFellows Program open 9/1! Robust dissertation support, an incredible community of scientists, tailored professional development (for you *and* your faculty thesis advisor), & so much more. Bookmark bit.ly/4qQArRh!
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"the application-led research bucket, which maps to responsive mode applications, as you used to know them..... So curiousity driven research is protected in scale and in scope"?
Because LMB isn't traditionally thought of as funding for "responsive mode applications" (nor is it QR).
Interesting thing about the UKRI funding diagram: the research councils are invisible with their programmes now (maybe?) inputs to funding bucket outcomes. Disciplines not the organising principle, but pieces of delivery channels. That’s the enormous structural shift. Universities better catch up
*Recruiting new group leaders*
The @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London are looking for outstanding candidates to sponsor for career development fellowships. Fellows would then be assessed for tenured positions at the end of the fellowship term.
Amazing legacy of lab culture & talent hothousing Piali!! Congratulations 🥂
This poses an intriguing question: how is cytoplasm robustly and accurately organized in absence of physical barriers, and how is cytoplasmic partitioning achieved within the constrained time window of rapid embryonic divisions? (2/9)
One more week to finalize your applications for the 2026 MBL zebrafish course at Woods Hole!
Application deadline extended to March 9.
Please repost and forward to anyone interested in learning 'everything zebrafish'!
www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Change can be positive and may lead to better outcomes. This is just a plea for more information or to be clearly told when more information will be available.
Simple things like cashflow in HEIs. If MRC £ a key income stream then knowing the exact length of the pause is critical to planning.
We are #Hiring! Our lab is looking for a LabTech/Lab Manager! Take a look to our research here!
physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-gro...
Drop a line if you are interested to know more details!
#labtech #labtechnician #biology #labtechnicians #labmanager #labwork #Xenopus #zebrafish #devbiol
Just published: chemotactic sperm cells become phototactic 💡- by loading photo-activatable second messengers. This allows to "reverse-engineer" chemotactic signaling dynamics and expose cells to signals they would never see in the wild. Honoured to be part of this collaboration with the Kaupp lab.
I am so grateful to the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences for this honor. Can’t wait to be back to the lab and celebrate with lab members on this special recognition of their hard work.
Millions of moms struggle with depression during their pregnancy.
America deserves a Surgeon General who can state plainly that SSRIs are SAFE for the majority of pregnant women.
We don't need more junk science charlatans. I'm voting NO on Casey Means' confirmation.
LOL- let the #FlexYourOrganism Top Trump games begin #MotileCilia #UNICIL
In which we show that Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome due to a pathogenic variant of DNA methyl transferase DNMT3A can be associated with Familial Pneumothorax 🫁🧬
#RareDisease
#Pneumothorax
@cuh.nhs.uk
@royalpapworth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com
Congratulations @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social - amazing!!
A deep day of discussion on modelling & simulations waveforms & flows to perturbing & capturing ciliary dynamics across scales & a veritable menagerie of ciliated creatures to real world applications in #RareDisease & airway infections #UNICIL! /fin
Fantastic launch to our exciting @wellcometrust.bsky.social #UNICIL project in Exeter with a symposium entirely dedicated to our favourite things #MotileCilia with our teams & new friends! Great things ahead under @micromotility.bsky.social ‘s helm.. @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy /1
Our department at Genentech is hiring. We're looking for a freshly-minted PhD (0-3 years) protein biochemist / structural biologist to join as a Sr Scientist. A rare opportunity to join our group leader job family at a more junior level than we usually hire.
Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Rassemblement de fascistes à Nice
Fascistes avec des torches
En ce moment à Nice, rassemblement de fascistes.
J'ai passé la journée à prévenir mes ami.e.s racisé.e.s et LGBTQIA+ de ne pas sortir. Une amie a été menacée par 6 hommes.
On se rend compte de la dinguerie ? ?? ?
Interviewer: "When you look at today's numbers, what do they tell us about the effectiveness of Donald Trump's tariffs."
Me, very serious economist: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahahahaha... oh, wow."
Sometimes all you can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all.
An agentic system for rare disease diagnosis with traceable reasoning www.nature.com/articles/s41...
DeepRare: github.com/MAGIC-AI4Med...
Super happy to share that our last paper published in @jcb.org is out !
