Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪

loicaroyer.bsky.social

08 July 2026 15:21

1/ 🧬🧪 New preprint! Do you actually need a biology-specific foundation model to predict how cells respond to perturbations? Surprising answer: a general-purpose tabular model - never trained on a single cell - matches or beats the specialists. 🧵 📄 doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.28.735106 @biohub

Ravi Nath

ravi-nath.bsky.social

06 July 2026 17:04

Beautiful imaging of Killifish!

Phil Abitua

ohnolog.bsky.social

06 July 2026 17:03

Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

asamelson

asamelson.bsky.social

06 July 2026 16:59

After a long review process, I'm excited that our paper is finally in print: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... TL;DR: We use CRISPR screens in iPSC-derived neurons to find a new tau E3 ligase and a relationship between oxidative stress, the proteasome, and tau proteolytic fragments. More below 👇

Ben Collins

bencollins.bsky.social

01 July 2026 15:14

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.