Mathis Riehle

a marriage made in heaven - rightwing Blöd & Daily Fail together under one Kommandör Jawoll that's going to be great :-/

WATCH | German Chancellor Friedrich Merz Mimics Trump - Crowd Bursts Into Laughter During a CDU event, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz entertained the audience with a humorous impression of US President Donald Trump, mimicking his speech patterns and gestures. The audience responde...

Merz actually... www.timesnownews.com/world/europe...

a whale flying overhead every 5 or 6 days is OK - not?

You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science?

The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....

Thanks for reposting!

BTW if you are tempted you have until 21st of May to get all the numerous industry, University ducks in a row, write a scientific proposal and the organisational part sorted?

When there are signs that a "call" isn't a call but putting the sheen of legitimacy on a done deal...

One centre to rule them all;
20% Industry/University input
≤£25,000,000 altogether,
£20,000,000 by the financially beleaguered MRC

Pre-clinical translational models hub Apply for funding to establish a UK Hub for the development of pre-clinical translational human in vitro models.

www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Interesting call by UKRI MRC
No fellowships, no ECR grants but...

Full moon setting in an early cloud free dark morning sky as seen through pine trees across the pond in Victoria Park, Glasgow

MoinMoin

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu this is the way.

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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PANDORA: Worst. Unboxing. Video. Ever. Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 25 February · 1h 31m

This @alexpodyssey.bsky.social Podessy episode is amazing listening 👂 Pandora her “box” and everything else

Highly recommended

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Are you a computational postdoc or even in the last year of your PhD and you want to set up your own lab? Want to work in one of the most multi-disciplinary and multi-national institutions in the world? Want to be a leader in understanding biology - molecules up? Apply below!

What's the best way to change research fields? These three scientists have ideas Planning to switch fields? Be bold, know your limits and choose your institution wisely, say three UK research leaders.

...warum nicht 'einfach' einen "pivot' machen und mal so eben das Feld wechseln - geht doch so für einen Nobelpreisträger oder eine Universitätspräsidentin...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What's the best way to change research fields? These three scientists have ideas Planning to switch fields? Be bold, know your limits and choose your institution wisely, say three UK research leaders.

ahhhhhhh of all the people they could have asked it's those (well but one) who pivot whilst in a position of security and with much privilege :-/
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Save the date!
We have an exciting conference coming up next year for the UK Mechanobiology community!

it's all about the $.

…weil das bei social media auch so gut geklappt hat…
alles nach dem Motto nicht hinschauen dann sieht man auch nichts
Wenn der Mark und der Elon und der Sam und wer auch sonst noch aus der AI Billionärsriege das gut finden wird das doch gut gehen

Image showing the bottom of a webpage by @UKRI asking to share this page on X (formerly known as Twitter) LinkedIn and FaceBook My addition are a red X through X/Twitter link and the added text in BOLD & Red: "DO BETTER @UKRI"

DO BETTER @ukri.org NO MORE X

Thank you for your attention in this matter.

🧪 The replication efforts only worked after ppl traveled to the lab with the original setup, learned to the satisfaction of the host lab the methods, returned and established the protocol locally. Scientist exchange is essential.

Nanoscience is latest discipline to embrace large-scale replication efforts A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 we were part of NanoSafe II an EU FP7 grant looking at aspects of nanoparticle safety - one of our efforts was to standardise in vitro methods & cells across 6 labs - and it failed. We could not - with the same chemicals, cells & protocols get the same results. 1/2

Police arresting 1,000 paedophile suspects a month across UK National Crime Agency says rise in child sexual abuse being driven by technology and online forums

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
So shocking 😮 - so many - how?

Either I t’s 💩 season or
It’s not 💩 season

Development presents... Wednesday 25 February – 15:00 GMT/UTC Chair: Polina Kameneva Joaquín Navajas Acedo (University of Basel) ‘Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity’ Carlo Donato Caiaffa (Universidade de São Paulo) ‘Decoding the role of HNRNPH2 in neural development using brain organoids and antisense oligonucleotides’ Clarisse Brunet (Institut Curie) ‘Decoding the gliogenic switch: how human brain organoids reveal the secrets of glial cell fate’ #DevPres @dev-journal.bsky.social theNode.biologists.com/devpres The Company of Biologists logo Development logo QR code

📢Register for our #DevPres webinar on neurodevelopment

The webinar, chaired by Polina Kameneva, features talks from Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social, Carlo Donato Caiaffa & Clarisse Brunet @clarissebrunet.bsky.social.

🗓️25 February, 15:00 GMT/UTC

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨 New Preprint from the Paluch & Chalut Labs 🚨
Ana Raffaelli et al show that the stiffness of substrate (in vitro) / basal membrane (in vivo) determine how cells interpret biochemical signals (BMP4) and which fates they acquire
#mechanobiology #hESCs #substratemechanics
doi.org/10.64898/202...

Excited to highlight a new preprint about mechanical contributions to tissue homeostasis, from the Manning group in collaboration with the amazing Carien Niessen and Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social labs, spearheaded by Dr. Somiealo Azote: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

More than 60 children infected in north London measles outbreak Cases reported in seven schools and a nursery in Enfield amid concern over low levels of MMR vaccination in capital

A reminder that measles cannot be treated, it can only be prevented.

It is one of the most contagious diseases in the world and can cause blindness, deafness and life-threatening lung and brain infections.

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?

Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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Arthur Snell: Life on a Warmer Planet - Theatre by the Lake

Hello everyone. No idea if I have followers in the Lake District (or within striking distance) but I'll be speaking at the Keswick Book Festival on 14 March at 1430 about my new book on the geopolitics of climate change. Tickets at this link👇
www.theatrebythelake.com/event/arthur...

Tread -1- EpiSci - I am very proud to share with you our new study that you can access on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (see link below)
"The Interaction with Nanotopographical Environment regulates nuclear mechanoresponse in mESCs via Histone Demethylase KDM3A.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...