Giulia Paci
Physicist having a go at biology, EMBO postdoctoral fellow @UCL in the Mao group, @EMBL alumna
- Reposted by Giulia PaciApply now! The 2026 call for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is now open with a deadline of 1 April 12:00 midday CEST. 🧪 More info here: embo.org/funding/fellowships… #LifeSciences #research #funding
- Reposted by Giulia PaciNew paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687
- Reposted by Giulia PaciI watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.. A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting... A 🧵
- Reposted by Giulia PaciDid you know that if you are based in the UK, you can apply for funding to access #BioImageAnalysis services via the UK node of @eurobioimaging.bsky.social ? Next application deadline is March 31st! www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciAMAZING JOB OPPORTUNITY ALERT!!! @calm-stp.bsky.social is hiring a Data & Systems Steward! 🧬 🔹Manage #bioimage data & #OMERO admin 🔹Automate via #Python/#Bash 🔹Support #FAIR principles 🔹Work closely with @crick-ia-team.bsky.social ⏰ Deadline: 08 Feb 2026 Apply: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciWe are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciGo listen to @nikosirmpilatze.com's talks at FOSDEM this weekend! If you can't make it, Niko is writing a blog series about how to write your research software in a way that it gets adopted by the wider community. Read more about it on our website: neuroinformatics.dev/blog/trusted...
- I'm heading to @fosdem.org this weekend to present 2 research software-related talks. Come say hi, tune into the livestream, or watch the recordings later. #FOSDEM fosdem.org/2026/schedul... I'm also using this as a chance to kick off a short blog post series. Details in the thread.
- Reposted by Giulia PaciWe are hosting an #Ilastik workshop on March 27th, led by Dominik Kutra, senior research software engineer @ilastik-team.bsky.social The course is open to students and staff at @crick.ac.uk and partner universities (@ucl.ac.uk, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Giulia PaciAnother brilliant #CBIAS2025 review is out, thanks to Virginia Silio, scientific ambassador for @eurobioimaging.bsky.social and Imaging Specialist at the Centre for Molecular & Cell Dynamics @ucl.ac.uk! www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/exchang...
- Reposted by Giulia Paci🟥 We are pleased to announce that the call for Expressions of Interest (EoIs) for Round 2 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund is now open until 25 February 2026, 16:00 GMT. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/rsmf-ro...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciUsing micropatterning & thousands of hours on the microscope @manuelthery.bsky.social and the #CytoMorphoLab reimagined the Musée D’Orsay. Accompanied by an orchestra and poet, their images transported us into the cellular universe. I remembered why I am a cell biologist. All of this is in us. Wow!
- Reposted by Giulia PaciOur journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026. biologists.com/grants/trave...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciI am recruiting a #PhDstudent in Computational #Biophysics at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social for October! Deadline February 28. Details 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please share with interested students! #PhD #PhDposition #PhDSky #AcademicSky #computationalphysics 🧪⚛️
- Very excited to receive this award and truly grateful to the @bscb-official.bsky.social who have been supporting me throughout my postdoc since I moved to the UK!
- We are delighted to announce that @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @ucllifesciences.bsky.social has been awarded the 2026 BSCB Postdoctoral researcher medal You can read about Giulia's work on how tissues withstand mechanical stress here: bscb.org/postdoctoral...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciGuillaume Pernollet shows that epithelial cells adjust their shape to locally flatten, forming scutoids for any geometry, changing our view of cell packing. Thanks to all! @clairedessalles.bsky.social @juanmagararc.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Giulia Paci🎉 The Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series is back! 🗓️ Thurs, Jan 22 🎙️ Opening talks: 🧬Guy Tanentzapf (UBC) — How cell adhesion molecules wire into the cytoskeleton 🌀Juan Manuel Gomez Elliff (EMBL) @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social — Mapping tissue mechanics with Brillouin microscopy
- Reposted by Giulia PaciCow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social
- Reposted by Giulia PaciWe Are hiring!! 👨💻👩💻 CALM's new Data and Systems Steward Role is live 🎉https://crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/London/Data-and-Systems-Steward_R2551 closing date 8th Feb!
- Reposted by Giulia PaciAre you a postdoc with a passion for cell biology? We are looking for a postdoc representative to join the BSCB committee! Applications are open to existing BSCB postdoc members. See our website for further details. Apply by 31st Jan bscb.org/call-for-app...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciBPS is seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s flagship publication, Biophysical Journal
- Reposted by Giulia PaciTime is running out to apply for this year's @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social Intro to Image Analysis course in Cardiff - deadline is tomorrow! Spread the word!
- ✨New Year's resolutions involve learning something new?✨ Then apply for our “Introduction to Image Analysis” workshop in Cardiff in May 2026! Deadline for applications is January 16th. 🔗⬇️ www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca... @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @david-j-barry.bsky.social @martinjones.bsky.social
- Reposted by Giulia PaciThree of our early career participants wrote about their experiences at #CBIAS2025 on @focalplane.bsky.social. Check out the blog post!
- Jacqueline Chalakova, @afoix.bsky.social and @denzibubs.bsky.social share their highlights from #CBIAS2025 @cbias.bsky.social, with all three emphasising the welcoming atmosphere. Check out the reasons that #CBIAS2026 should be in your calendar⤵️ focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/12/c...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciWe've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
- Reposted by Giulia PaciA quick reminder to apply to this summer school by end of January 👀 It will be a fun mix of hands-on training and collaborative open-source hacking for #neuroskyence and #animalbehaviour I'll be leading the "Animals in Motion" track!
- Three weeks left to apply for the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Summer School, August 17-28 2026 in London, UK! Bringing together researchers and open source developers of ephys, behaviour and image analysis tools. neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar... Deadline January 31st. Apply now!
- Reposted by Giulia PaciDear #Drosophila researchers, the year starts with good news! The date and venue for our next meeting is confirmed: June 1st to 3rd at the beautiful Historic Hotel Castle De Palmela in Portugal! Mark the dates, registration will open soon!
- Reposted by Giulia PaciOn this day in 2021, I landed in a snowy, lockdown-silenced Heidelberg to start my lab. 5 years later we are a force to reckon with in our field, and the first generation are striking out on their own. I couldn’t be more proud, & grateful to them and our wonderful collaborators around the world 🌍 🧪
- Reposted by Giulia Paci🚨Introducing DevBioConnect ‼️ Developmental Biology launches a new author webinar series showcasing recently published research, presented by the authors themselves 🗓️ Jan 13 • Feb 10 • Mar 10, 2026 ⏰ 11am–12pm CST 📄 See flyer for details #DevBio #DevelopmentalBiology
- Reposted by Giulia Paci✨New Year's resolutions involve learning something new?✨ Then apply for our “Introduction to Image Analysis” workshop in Cardiff in May 2026! Deadline for applications is January 16th. 🔗⬇️ www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca... @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @david-j-barry.bsky.social @martinjones.bsky.social
- Reposted by Giulia PaciHas napari helped your research this year? Why not say thank you to free and open source software by making a small donation? Every bit helps your friendly core team fix bugs and bring new features to life! CZI will match up to $75K in donations! opencollective.com/napari/donate
- Reposted by Giulia PaciThanks @jcellsci.bsky.social for this opportunity to contribute to your centenary collection with our take on the state of the field - 10 years after its modern reincarnation 🧪🌍 W/ @alebenoit.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @fritzlaylin.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciWe're a bit late in ringing in the giving season, but it is indeed upon us. Enjoy our special edition holiday logo ☃️ and, if you can spare a bit and appreciate napari, please donate to our development efforts! 🙏 CZI will match donations up to $75K. opencollective.com/napari/donate
- Reposted by Giulia PaciExcited to be a speaker at Dynamic Cell VI. Always a great meeting
- Reposted by Giulia PaciHow does signalling control cortical tension? Using optogenetics and AFM, we show that myosin recruitment and cortical tension increase proportionally with RhoA signalling. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Super work by Pierre Bohec with Guillaume Salbreux and @dianakhorom.bsky.social
- Reposted by Giulia PaciMy lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!
- Reposted by Giulia Paci#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciMastodon: the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Giulia PaciHello, here is a review I wrote about how cells sometimes try to synchronise with surrounding cells so that they can do a good job of building tissues during development. It is called "Keeping up with the neighbours" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #DevBio 🧪
- Reposted by Giulia PaciMeeting schedule now online for @bsdb.bsky.social 2026 spring meeting: Molecules to Morphogenesis! ***Abstracts due in by January 16*** Join the outstanding line up! Submit your abstract for a short talk, flash talk, or poster presentation: 👇👇👇 bsdb.org/meetings/
- Reposted by Giulia Paci🔬 Hands-on bioimage data stewardship workshop 27/2/2026 Uni of Liverpool Learn the complete data lifecycle from acquisition to repository submission. Train-the-trainer format - take materials back to your facility! ✓ 25 places ✓ Up to £100 travel ✓ Apply by 7 Jan Apply👇 3 more in Scotland, SW, SE
- Reposted by Giulia PaciWant to carry a PhD in London, in one of the best Universities in the world? We have two calls for PhD students to join our lab at Imperial College. Deadline January 12th. More details for applications in the link below. Feel free to keep in touch!
- Reposted by Giulia PaciGreat to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciI'll be coordinating the "Animals in Motion" track of this summer school, in August 2026. Apply to join us for some hands-on learning and collaboration on open-source tools for video behavioural analysis. See neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
- Applications are open for the second Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Summer School, August 17-28 2025 in London, UK! Bringing together researchers and developers of open-source software for training and collaboration. Financial support available. neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciThe EMBO Practical Course "Hack your microscope" in Oeiras, PT, 20–25 Apr 2026 aims to innovate, democratize advanced #imaging technologies and shape the future of open-source #microscopy – Apply now! Deadline: 12 Dec meetings.embo.org/event/26-microscope #EMBOmicroscope #EMBOevents 🧪
- Reposted by Giulia Paci🌍 Heading to #CellBIO2025 meeting @embo.org @ascbiology.bsky.social ? Join us as we continue building Planetary Cell Biology, a cross scale field - from cells to biodiversity. Sunday, Dec 7 | 8:30–9:45 AM EST Curious? www.youtube.com/@Cells4Plane... 🌱 Join the community: forms.gle/AjQ6dVBL7QT5...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciVery excited to be running our @neuroinformatics.dev Open Software Summer School again in August 2026. This has been one of the most satisifying things we've done, especially as a number of participants have gone on to become collaborators. Full details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
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- Reposted by Giulia PaciPaper for the #Drosophila community on a food recipe that rears dozens of species. This was a full team effort, with key contributions from UG, MSc, and PhD students! 👩🎓🎉 Plus an #infection observation re: Diet x #Microbiota 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #EvolBiol #AcademicSky #SymbioSky 1/4
- Reposted by Giulia PaciPlease join us in London August 24-28 2026 for a week long BrainGlobe course. We will teach you how to use the tools and how to contribute back to the wider BrainGlobe ecosystem. Apply now! neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
- Applications are open for the second Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Summer School, August 17-28 2025 in London, UK! Bringing together researchers and developers of open-source software for training and collaboration. Financial support available. neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciRegistration deadline 20th Dec! We have generous travel grants for early career researchers! April is a beautiful time to visit China!
- Our interdisciplinary @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social workshop on Biophysical and Molecular Mechanisms of Animal Homeostasis and Repair will take place in beautiful Haining, China, 6-10 April 2026. Exciting line up of international speakers! Register now: meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom...
- Reposted by Giulia PaciAnd that’s a wrap for the @cbias.bsky.social napari workshop as well. Two days of learning, working collaboratively and finished off with a presentation from each of five project groups detailing the progress they made. Organised by Rocco D’Antuono, @giuliapaci.bsky.social and yours truly
- Reposted by Giulia PaciAnthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General. He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999. www.embl.org/news/people-...
