We hosted together with @poldresden.bsky.social a course for the Physical Biology of the Cell, Oct 5-9. The course was held by two leading biophysicists: Rob Phillips @caltech.edu, and Jane Kondev @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

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In 2002, success rate at the ERC starting grant was 14%. This already felt too low to both panel and applicants, but was constrained by government funding. Well, 5 years later, it is now projected to be 5%. This is not sustainable.

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#Mastodon paper was published in @dev-journal.bsky.social. A great home for this outstanding piece of software, long in the making. @preibischs.bsky.social ambitious plan for SPIM data processing and analysis from 2007 is finally finished 😀 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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🎉 Our paper is out today in @science.org! How does the intestine maintain the right balance of cell types? We find that signalling rhythms matter! So proud of our three shared first authors, Sonja Weterings, @hiromuneeto.bsky.social & @jddeleede.bsky.social! 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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It appears that many big institutions are gearing up to do biology with #AI and #robots. I remain skeptical, since, for example, #smartmicroscopy is still more of a buzzword than reality. The price tag on the infrastructure required will be enormous - unreachable by 99% of the research community.

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