Calling for protocols on The Basics: get a protocol recorded and peer reviewed, and help a colleague learn the tips and tricks by *seeing how it's done*
You don't need to include new results and it does not have to be your original protocol. Just cite well and share the know-how 💕🔥
Get in touch!
Check out my contribution to the wonderful threads posted by @epimechfc.bsky.social !!
In this one I talk about #3DTFM!
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Interested in doing a PhD in tumor mechanobiology?
At Université Paris-Saclay, the upcoming PhD selection process is open, and I’m looking to put forward a candidate to join my lab.
If you’re excited about uncovering how mechanical signals regulate tumor progression, please get in touch!
You still have 3 days to apply to the postdoc positions available in my lab 😀
🔬Come and work with us 🔬
Congrats Carlos! I'm sure you will do great in this new stage!
I’m thrilled to share that I will join @gustaveroussy.fr as a Group Leader!
Our objective: to understand how mechanochemical feedbacks regulate tumor dynamics and plasticity, with the overarching goal of bridging tissue mechanobiology and tumor pathophysiology using human organoids.
Delighted to share our latest preprint "Filopodia-mediated trans-endocytosis"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Work driven by many people including Hanna, Marcela, Sujan, Marie-Catherine, Anna and Monika. Fantastic collaboration with Johanna Englund, Emilia Peuhu, and Eija Jokitalo
Writing is how science thinks.
Editors help that thinking become clear and coherent in journals.
Writing is where scientists and editors meet.
Worth reading ⤵️
How can cells use information from neighboring cells to improve the spatial precision of morphogen patterns? 🤔
We show that cells can gain positional information by "talking" to their neighbors - how much depends critically on spatial correlations of the patterns.
buff.ly/w56OUJT
Cells navigating microscale curved environments stretch their nuclei, triggering the membrane stretch-sensitive cPLA2 pathway, which in turn rewires cell signaling and morphodynamics to propel the cell forward and avoid steric hindrance pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
📝Check out our latest paper published in @commsbio.nature.com !!
Great work by Samet Aytekin and Laurens Kimps in this collaboration with @rochalab.bsky.social where they combined simultaneous FRET tension sensors and traction force microscopy!
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www.nature.com/articles/s42...
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social
Quick (20min) non-technical overview of genetic history of Europe by my colleague Johannes Krause @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. This talk is from Nov 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyz_...
I am looking for two postdocs to join our lab
- One (bio)image analyst
- One cell biologist interested to work on lymphatics!
The positions will open soon, be in touch!
I'm very happy to share my first article as a corresponding author published in @natmethods.nature.com !! 😍
Some groups (like us) have developed complex 3DTFM methods in the last 15 years.
BUT its usage in studies that help better understand disease or development has been almost non-existent.
I will be recruiting two postdocs early next year.
- One image analyst
- one biologist interested in working on lymphatics!
Reach out if you are interested 👍
I am putting together a collection of video-protocols we (will) use in tissue mechanics research🌀
I hope to help consolidate established methods, but also showcase a few up-and-coming ones in our blooming field.
Abstract submission by March 2026! Get in touch✨
#JoVETissueMech
#ReproducibleTissueMech
Talin didn’t evolve for integrins... integrins evolved for talin 🤯
pN force coupling via talin is ancient, conserved from amoebae to humans; signaling came later.
Read this amazing paper here 👇🏽
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wondering how to control the environment of cells?
Check out this insightful #EpithelialMechanics thread by @lhinderling.bsky.social 👇
Thanks, @focalplane.bsky.social, for giving us the opportunity to write a blog post about our @epimechfc.bsky.social!
Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.
Hi - I draw along talks for a hobby - making #sketchnotes, mainly #science, sometimes #politics that I publish on my blog:
bio-mat-sketches-mor.blogspot.com
Microfluidic pumping with active nematics! Self-organized and self-sustained. No external pumps.
@pnas.org @ub.edu
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ActiveMatter #Microfluidics #SoftMatter
Ten years ago, I saw a paper with some data that has bothered me ever since: B cells in a 0-100 ng/mL gradient of CCL19 are attracted to CCL19, but B cells in 0-500 ng/mL are repelled (see movie, ignoring the big clusters for now!). Why? Here's our model! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Poster announcing a funded Postdoc (3-year) or PhD (4-year) position in the lab of Dr. Jordi Alcaraz at the University of Barcelona to study immunosuppression in lung cancer. The project, funded by ISCIII through the ERANET-Transcan-3 program, involves collaboration with the Immunology Unit at Hospital Clínic (Dr. Manel Juan) and partners in the Curie Institute, University of Rennes, Medical University of Vienna, and Kaohsiung Medical University. Candidates should have a background in biomedicine or related fields; postdoc applicants need prior experience in cancer immunology and at least one first-author paper. Applications with CV, motivation letter, references, and academic record should be sent to jalcaraz@ub.edu . Starting date: first half of 2026.
Job Alert 📢
The group of Dr. Jordi Alcaraz (@ub.edu) offers a funded Postdoc (3y) or PhD (4y) to study immunosuppression in lung cancer.
In collaboration with @hospitalclinic.bsky.social's Immunology Unit.
📩 Apply: jalcaraz@ub.edu
🕒 Start: 1st half of 2026
ℹ️ More info: Attached image
Exciting News! 🥳 Our Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club website is now live! 🎉
👉 epithelialmechanics.github.io
Discover our #EpithelialMechanics threads and get to know our amazing delegates behind them.
Would you like to share your story? Please DM us!
Join the coolest club on the internet!
#EpithelialMechanics
Old habits die hard. I still call them tweets. 🐦
Congratulations @cperez-gonzalez.bsky.social
Beautiful work, beautiful 🧵!
And welcome to bsky 😉
