#PaperThemeTune
NICE! Congratulations to all authors! Your #PaperThemeTune is "The Shape I'm In" by The Band
July 1, 2026 at 8:56 AM
This is really great. Congratulations to @guijacquemet.bsky.social and all authors.

#PaperThemeTune can be anything from the atypical album Milijard by Circle, who are Finnish and also really great.
April 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"🎵 Efficient, logical, effective, and practical 🎶". Also: beautiful.

Congratulations @dbenzinger.bsky.social & @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social. Your #PaperThemeTune is "ChemiOptoGenetic Engineering" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oddg... #ShowingMyAge
August 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
How about 'wild horses' as your #paperthemetune?
March 24, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Absolutely beautiful work from @matt-mala.bsky.social and Aisling Fairweather with valiant input from undergraduate student Yana Slavova.

This excellent paper deserves an excellent #paperthemetune Anyone got any suggestions?
Delighted to introduce KELPE: mESCs with two insulated genomic landing pads, which we use to generate new synNotch and PUFFFIN neighbour-labelling lines.
They were named after kelpies, creatures from Scottish folklore, and they look pretty on a kelpie micropattern!
#DevBio #SynBio
March 24, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Finally, a career highlight, we made it into @cellysally.bsky.social 's #PaperThemeTune s:

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Strawbridge et al use genetic tricks and mathematical modelling to work out how donor ES cells displace host cells to build chimeric embryos

Do they politely converse with them via chemical signalling? Or do they just rudely push them out?

#PaperThemeTune “Push it out” by the Beta Band
#DevBio
Donor embryonic stem cells impede host epiblast specification in 8-cell stage chimeras by crowding and FGF4 signalling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.08.622647v1
June 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Differences in ECM composition & stiffness explains why digits sometimes regenerate, sometimes not.

Congrats @storerlab.bsky.social & co on these intriguing findings. Your #PaperThemeTune is "Alternative ECM" by Stiff Little Fingers www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlGm...

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Hyaluronic Acid and Emergent Tissue Mechanics Orchestrate Digit Tip Regeneration
Tissue regeneration is a dynamic process requiring coordinated cell fate decisions to restore structure and function. For instance, the tips of human and rodent digits fully regrow after amputation, a...
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January 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
SO INTERESTING!

#PaperThemeTune: Careful With That Axolotl Eugene, by Pink Floyd www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RnF...
May 27, 2026 at 11:51 AM
USEFUL INFORMATION!

Tissue-specific consequences of tag fusions on protein expression in transgenic mice

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Congrats Gillian Taylor @andrewwood.bsky.social & all authors. Your #PaperThemeTune is System Check by Degroni Size

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJmt...
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June 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Strawbridge et al use genetic tricks and mathematical modelling to work out how donor ES cells displace host cells to build chimeric embryos

Do they politely converse with them via chemical signalling? Or do they just rudely push them out?

#PaperThemeTune “Push it out” by the Beta Band
#DevBio
November 10, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Wow! Congratulations! May I invite you to celebrate with a delicious slice of Prince Far ITEC?
#PaperThemeTune
pressuresounds.bandcamp.com/track/the-ri...
The Right Way, by Prince Far i
from the album Crytuff Dub Encounter Chapter One
pressuresounds.bandcamp.com
March 17, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Congratulations to all authors! Your #PaperThemeTune is this lovely number from the Kasambwe Brothers, who, like your little fishies, are a) from Malawi and b) great.

thekasambwebrothers.bandcamp.com/track/mtima-...
Mtima Wanga (My Heart), by The Kasambwe Brothers
from the album The Kasambwe Brothers
thekasambwebrothers.bandcamp.com
April 22, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Oooh nice! 🥳 Do you wish to preselect a genre for your #PaperThemeTune or do you prefer to leave in in the incapable hands of the Management?
August 31, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Beautiful work from O'Dwyer Soufi & co unpicking the molecular basis of combinatorial TF logic

Clever comparative-reprogamming expts reveal an enhancer-signposting mechanism

#PaperThemeTune "Combination of the Two (or 3, or 4...)", Big Brother & the Holding Company
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugQP...
December 18, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Insect wings arose with a genetic circuit that extends the useful range of a BMP morphogen

Congratulations @jpvincentlab.bsky.social. Your #PaperThemeTune is "Further than we've gone" by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
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Insect wings arose with a genetic circuit that extends the useful range of a BMP morphogen
Morphogens are produced by a subset of cells to trigger a signalling gradient that provides positional information to surrounding tissues. At increasing distances from the source, the dwindling number...
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February 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM

🎵Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your voice is soft like summer rain
And I cannot compete with you
Proline 🎶

Cell competition as a nutrient sensor. Fascinating work from Shruthi Krishnan @tristanrodriguez72.bsky.social & co

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#PaperThemeTune: Jolene
#DevBiol
Sensing of extracellular L-Proline availability by the integrated stress response determines the outcome of cell competition
Cell competition is a quality control acting from development to the adult that eliminates cells that are less-fit than their neighbours. How winner cells induce the elimination of losers during this ...
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December 3, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Congratulations all! Your #PaperThemeTune is "Width of a circle" by David Bowie
January 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"A small alteration of the past / Can turn time into space"
#MESMonday #Wings #PaperThemeTune
February 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Congratulations to all authors!

Your #PaperThemeTune is "Patterns" by Laura Marling from her wonderful album Patterns In Repeat.
April 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Wow! This one definitely needs a #PaperThemeTune. Congratulations to all authors!

youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU?...
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (Official Video)
YouTube video by DeadOrAliveVEVO
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November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Seeing as how I'm from the 1980s, my brain read the 6th word of the abstract and immediately shouted
"WHAT YOUVE GOTTA DO
IN THIS DAY AND AGE
YOU GOTTA AGITATE
EDUCATE
ORGANISE"

So here you go. Congrats to you & coauthors & all fish everywhere ever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zptt...
#PaperThemeTune
Big Decision
YouTube video by That Petrol Emotion - Topic
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August 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Congrats Josh! Was just thinking of you while listening to this new Mekons session. Your ##PaperThemeTune can be the first track: it lacks chromatin, but does contain an age-appropriate dose of nostalgia... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Riley & Coe - Mekons live in session! - BBC Sounds
Marc is joined by legendary punk rockers Mekons live from the BBC's Maida Vale studios.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM