Evolutionary cell biology / evolution of morphogenesis / animal origins / choanoflagellates @institutpasteur.bsky.social
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/evolutionary-cell-biology-and-evolution-of-morphogenesis/
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Thibaut Brunet
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@paveltomancak.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.socialVive la France
@evgenii-protasov.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.socialThe archaeon Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, associated with dinoflagellates, has a genome of only 238 kbpđ§Źđ€Ż
#archaea #symbiosis #eukaryotes #protists #MicroSky
@currentbiology.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
@jgschraiber.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.socialI'm not a software engineer but in my experience as a computational scientist, most individual parts of my job are basically automated. The thing that's not there (yet) is stringing them together in an interesting way. Then again I've never tried launching 10k agents at a problem!
@thibautbrunet.bsky.socialTerence Tao is great, but also, we donât understand how paracetamol works (the same for: propofol, lithium for bipolar disorderâŠ)
@harmitmalik.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.socialMost animal species pack sperm DNA with protamines instead of histones. Protamines are essential for male fertility. They are among the fastest-evolving genes in animals. That makes little sense. We think we know why, in a new paper led by @ching-hochang.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@ewanbirney.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.socialThe @embl.org PhD programme closes in 48 hours - you still have time to rush in an application if you are a science, maths or computer science undergraduate wanting to do a PhD in one of the world's leading biology and AI institutes
@itaiyanai.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.social1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria. 2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae. 3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish. The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists following their curiosity, and this is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!
@thibautbrunet.bsky.socialJâai entendu cela aussi ! Sous une forme encore plus Ă©trange : la Chine nâaurait *jamais dans son histoire* tentĂ© de conquĂ©rir ses voisins (le Vietnam, la CorĂ©e, la Mongolie⊠ont tous fait lâobjet de guerres de conquĂȘte rĂ©pĂ©tĂ©es). Jâimagine que plus câest gros, plus ça passe.
@micromotility.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.socialPlease enjoy this new offering from the lab: we discover that #excavates - ancient flagellate lineages with a voracious appetite for bacteria - change their behaviour depending on the availability of said prey!
Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@christlet.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.socialNikon Small World does the right thing
@thibautbrunet.bsky.socialOne never knows with Trump, but he seems to only know of the meaning of "artificial" as "fake" (antonym: "real"), and not really as "man-made" (antonym: "natural"). He thinks AI is "real" intelligence and thus not "artificial".
@thibautbrunet.bsky.socialThe etymology of the color "sepia" is my new favorite etymology (h/t Wikipedia)
@nicolasberrod.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.socialInfo Le Parisien : Kyan Khojandi est le nouveau parrain du Pasteurdon, qui vise 3 millions d'⏠de dons cette année.
"En tant que comique, je ne sauve pas des vies. Mais si je peux apporter un coup de projecteur Ă mon humble niveau, tant mieux !"
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@thibautbrunet.bsky.socialThis kind of nuanced take addresses the concerns of both sides... which I hope/feel are anyway less polarized irl than on social media
@thibautbrunet.bsky.socialI found this proposal by @caseywdunn.bsky.social et al interesting: distinguishing LLMs "off the data path" (used to produce code one can verify/use; usually fine) vs "on the data path" (less verifiable, potentially problematic) www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
@biologists.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.socialApplications close on 23 October for funded ECR places at our Workshop on Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development, 18-21 April 2027 organised by Mauricio Rocha Martins @rocha-lab.bsky.social and Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social
Apply at biologists.com/workshops/ap...
@plantophagy.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.socialEuropean Union, Marie Curie, EMBO should triple postdoc fellowships! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@hannamariahakkinen.bsky.socialReposted by @thibautbrunet.bsky.socialHow do long-lived multipotent stem cells cope with mechanical stress in vivo?
We found that neural crest cells are protected from mechanical stress during migration in confined tissue environment.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@thibautbrunet.bsky.socialHow fast can speciation be? In less than 100 years, certain strains of lab mice have already (partly) lost the ability to hybridize with each others. The molecular mechanism has just been worked out - read below for a genetics detective story âŹïž