Julien Delpierre @JulienDelpierre@qoto.org

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01359-9 "The phenotypic landscape of essential human genes" (via @erictopol ) "Here, we combined pooled #CRISPR-Cas9-based functional screening of 5,072 fitness-conferring genes in human HeLa cells with microscopy-based imaging of DNA, the DNA damage response, actin, and microtubules. " #genetics #phenotype

MIT are looking to build a more equitable and inclusive culture, and have created 15 postdoctoral fellowships for engineers from groups that have been historically excluded from MIT. The scheme is open to international scholars. #WomenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #Inclusivity
Find out more and apply by 31/01/23: https://engineering.mit.edu/the-mit-postdoctoral-fellowship-program-for-engineering-excellence/

#feditips Mastodon doesn't have DMs. Don't tell people that it has, because it is conceptually confusing. DM triggers the idea of a private chat separate from the timelines. Again, Mastodon doesn't have that.

Mastodon has visibility options. If you choose “Mentioned people only”, and add the handle of a person you are complaining about, then they will be able to read your complaint because you are mentioning that person!

So again. No DMs. Just visibility options. This ain't Twitter.

#introduction

Hi all! I'm Vera, a #molecular and #cell biologist to study #vascular #development in cells and in fish! I like #microscopy, #statistics and interested in developing my #rstats skills, #openscience and #communication. I'm a PhD student and I enjoy topics across scales from molecules to cells to tissues to organism level. Keen to meet and talk to new people across all fields of science.

Here comes the #Introduction. I am a postdoc original from #Colombia interested in #insects, #evodevo #genetics 🧬 and #patterning.

I work with butterfly 🦋 color patterns as a model to study #wnt #signaling, #generegulation, and #morphological evolution. Connecting the #genotype to the #phenotype is the goal!!!

I am a #Latina, working at GWU, in DC. #FirstGen

Done tons of #CRISPR experiments in different species of #Lepidoptera

I am a #DevelopmentalBiologist on the faculty in Genetics at Harvard Medical School and in Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. My lab studies the #development of #muscle and #skeleton. We are particularly interested in vertebrate #segmentation. We also examine how #metabolism crosstalks with #cell signaling and #mechanics during development. We develop in vitro #stemcell derived models recapitulating #somite formation with human pluripotent stem cells.

I’m part of the #TwitterMigration, first joining Mastodon-dot-Social and ending up here! Bummer posts don’t migrate, so I’ll do another #Introduction

I’m Sarah (they/them), a #biology PhD candidate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)! I work with @thecowbirdlab, studying the development of baby #birds, mostly the hormones in eggs that influence their growth!

I’m a #queer #trans person, a #birder #birdnerd who loves #nature #photography (mostly birds though) and #SciComm !

Hey everyone !

Time for my #science #introduction

I am the PI of the @cellcommlab @ the UKE in Hamburg, Germany. We use #microscopy & #imageanalysis to study how cells move & communicate.

I am from #Chile, where I did my #PhD at PUC, then moved to Paris to work at the Institut Curie and IPGG.

After quite some years in #science (20 since I started my BSc !) I keep my fascination to observe how cells do things, like these migrating leukocytes.

#scicomm #sciencemastodon #nomoa

I installed this Firefox add-on to make clicking the "Follow" button on external servers slightly less of a pain. You need to set your handle in the preferences. I also checked the no-pop-up option. You still need to click a couple extra times compared to following from your own server (Are you sure? something like that). Works for me. Thanks @rugk !
Images below show screen caps of the preferences and changed dialog.
QT: https://chaos.social/@rugk/103810871178820703

Here some #microscopy of #optogenetics to locally generate protrusions in cells!

@pj_saez we need to bring the love of inverted LUTs to Mastodon

Hey people! Time for an #introduction! I lead a research group at the University of Sussex, UK. I’m interested in how the #brain controls its #blood flow, and what happens in the brain when there is a slight disruption in this energy supply, as happens before people develop symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. We image neurons, glia and blood vessels in mouse brain to try to understand what they do in different situations and when they go wrong. 1/4

I feel like Mastodon doesn't have enough cells doing weird things. #cellbiology

These are neutrophil-like WAVE-null HL60s doing "serpentine blebbing" when confined under an agar pillar.

Wild that cells with such a messed #cytoskeleton can still move so well. They're moving ~10um/minute here.

How developing tissues know what size they should be, even when growth is perturbed, is still deeply mysterious (at least to me)

This preprint shows JNK,
JAK/STAT, Wg are not required to restore normal size & shape of wing disc after 1/3 cells are killed

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.04.515194v1

@albinokid

Tip 1: Use hashtags. There's no algorithm to suggest followers or shove posts into your feed in the hopes you follow someone.

Tip 2: Boost (re-post) toots liberally. *You* are the algorithm.

Tip 3: Use CW (content warnings / content wrappers) to discuss politics, the meta.

Tip 4: To create "threads", make the first post public and each reply "unlisted" to prevent clogging up your instance's feed.

Tip 5: Provide text descriptions, even just basic ones, when attaching photos or media.

Tip 6: Use the "report" features for moderating trolls so your admins can take action.

Hello folks, are there people here doing #python and #deeplearning 🤖 for #biology? Comment below, I wanna follow more such people! 😀

Birdsite refugees may have to learn protocols of symmetric follow of friends, or else they may get muted in Mastodon.

In 2008, the contrast with asymmetric follow was surfaced. #BenjaminEllis wrote:

> Asymmetric follow is a hack in social software to enable ‘relationships’ to scale. It is broadcast, not conversation”

@timoreilly responded:

> Not so. I follow 400; am followed by 16,000. But I respond to lots of people (like you) who I didn’t know before. Not just broadcast.”

"Asymmetrical Follow: A Core Web 2.0 Pattern" | James Governor | Dec. 8, 2008 at https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2008/12/05/assymetrical-follow-a-core-web-20-pattern/