In Nature Physics , researchers from Gulliver (CNRS 🌍 ESPCI Paris - PSL ) described the collective actuation of an elastic network of mini robots. Really elegant and smart work from Olivier Dauchot Paul Baconnier , congrats! ➡️ PR: espci.psl.eu/sites/www.espc… ➡️ 📜 :doi.org/10.1038/s41567…

Really excited to present the results of a great collaboration with the lab of Ophir Klein! 😃 A truly interdisciplinary effort, led by Neha and Pengfei, that reveals how tissue pressure sets the main tooth signaling center. Out today in Nature Cell Biology ➡️ nature.com/articles/s4155…

The inability to download data and compute at local institutions will stifle innovation and crush the utility of the UK Biobank. The costs are prohibitively expensive for computationally intensive work and this will hinder most ML/AI/network-neuro research.

The Royal Society's University Research Fellowships are now open for applications. This scheme provides the opportunity for outstanding early-career researchers to build an independent career and pursue cutting-edge science. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/univers…

Less research, better research!

We are hiring! Our new team is looking for a motivated postdoc to investigate how organs compensate for a growth perturbation in Drosophila. Please contact me if you're interested. And please RT!

Kevin Mitchell Eiko Fried We'd love to give zombie-fighting a good push! osf.io/nx4pd Should we chat Eiko Fried Kevin Mitchell ?

Preprint alert! We show that the electrical maturation of neurons is regulated by environmental mechanics in vitro & in vivo, and we identify a mechanotransduction pathway. A tour de force by Eva Kreysing et al, great collaboration with Thora Karadottir Lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🐒 Humans are not the only species with culture. Based in a reserve in #SouthAfrica, Erica van de Waal Université de Lausanne investigates the different dialects, sleeping patterns, & food preference displayed by vervet #monkeys. Read more 👉 bit.ly/3YgIGvq Inkawu Vervet Project #FrontierResearch

Our lab at INSTITUT PASTEUR initiated the #Olympiome2024, a MetaSUB Research initiative to study changes in the urban microbiome during the #joParis2024! If you want to know more, here a thread about it. (1/X)

I am super excited to say that come September I will be joining Imperial College London as a Lecturer in Bioengineering 🌟 I have PhD studentships available (home fees) to work on methods combining MRI and microscopy for microstructure imaging. Please get in touch if interested!

Scavenger’s Reign (2023) is one of the best pieces of science fiction I’ve come across. Both horrifically grotesque and stunningly beautiful; alien yet a deeply human story. And it looks damn good while doing it.

Just published! ‘Ten simple rules for recognizing data and software contributions in hiring, promotion, and tenure’ offers practical steps to update institutional processes to recognize open data & software on their own merits. PLOS Comp Biol journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

Our short report on a remarkable feature of #ctenophores out now: Reverse development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis. We show that Mnemiopsis is capable of reversal from mature lobate to early cydippid🤩. Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen bioRxiv #rejuvenation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our paper on the brain size allometry in Euarchontoglires is out in the Journal of Mammalogy! 🧠🐒🐿️🐇 We used the most complete dataset of brain mass and body mass data for primates, colugos, treeshrews, rodents & lagomorphs. Check it out! 👇 1/13 academic.oup.com/jmammal/advanc…

One thing you can guarantee about social media is that if you want 20 million views of your films, don't put up clips from student maths lectures. Unless the lecturer is Philip Maini. He's back with 3 lectures on Mathematical Biology. 40 million? No 1: youtu.be/Kvu1ZiD_nNI

Pig casually eating apples in a tree

In an Asian country, 7 suns appeared as a result of the refraction of light.

hey! Did you know that 🌟Prof. Leah Krubitzer🌟 will be at INSTITUT PASTEUR on Friday 11 of October! Get in touch if you are in Paris and want to come listen and talk with her. katja heuer (🐘 @[email protected])