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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 7d

Beautiful work, Kate!

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 7d

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 14d

Very cool! It sounds like there could definitely be some sorting happening there. I'd be super interested in comparing your data to our model. Feel free to email me if you want to try it out!

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 15d

So awesome.

kuba sędziński @kuba-sedzinski.bsky.social · 16d

🧵1/14 Preprint thread! Can we predict a cell’s fate based on its dynamics? 🔮 Our new study unveils a framework for watching development unfold in real-time, revealing how a cell's shape and movement encode info about its future fate. 🔬📄 Preprint: tinyurl.com/4shf8v4x

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Ryan Savill @cryaaa.bsky.social · 26d

(1/14) I’m happy and proud to introduce: SpinePy – a framework to detect the "spine" of gastruloids and measure biological and physical signals in a local dynamic 3D coordinate system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 28d

www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com

Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium

www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com

Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 28d

So honored to be speaking today at the Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium! Hope to see you there! (Zoom registration link below)

Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · Sep 5

Incredibly excited for this year's iteration of the Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25! This is a fantastic opportunity to hear 10 minute talks describing fantastic cutting-edge science from researchers preparing to launch a faculty search. Please register (link below) & forward widely :)

Bria Castellano @queerentist.bsky.social · Sep 5

🗓️Join us for the 4th Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25!

We highlight the work of 18 exceptional early-career scientists across biomedical sciences.

Register and more information below:
www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni

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Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · Sep 5

Incredibly excited for this year's iteration of the Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25! This is a fantastic opportunity to hear 10 minute talks describing fantastic cutting-edge science from researchers preparing to launch a faculty search. Please register (link below) & forward widely :)

Bria Castellano @queerentist.bsky.social · Sep 5

🗓️Join us for the 4th Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25!

We highlight the work of 18 exceptional early-career scientists across biomedical sciences.

Register and more information below:
www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni

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Julia Eckert @juliaeckert.bsky.social · Aug 15

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🥳

👉 rdcu.be/eATn3

We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Sep 3

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · Sep 3

Massachusetts will not be bullied.

Screenshot of Boston.Com article reading: Judge reverses Trump administration’s cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University

The ruling delivers a significant victory to Harvard in its battle with the Trump administration, which also has sought to prevent the school from hosting foreign students and threatened to revoke its tax-exempt status.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Trump administration"used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities.” --Judge Allison Burroughs in a ruling finding the administration illegally withheld money from @harvard.edu www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Harvard Secures a Court Victory in Its Fight With Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · Sep 3

What an incredible win for American freedom, democracy, and the pursuit of knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Harvard Secures a Court Victory in Its Fight With Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · Sep 2

Friendly reminder that the deadline to submit an abstract for talk at #cellbio2025 is TOMORROW, Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 9 PM ET! Please consider submitting to our minisymposia "Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms (more details in the repost)

Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · Aug 4

Excited to announce our minisymp. “Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms” #CellBio2025 w/ Hernan Garcia and ‪@atmolines.bsky.social‬! Have an interesting story on how physical cell properties are controlled, coordinated across scales, or contribute to development and disease? (1/3)

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · Sep 2

Check out this really cool work on how developing embryos respond to the temperature of their environment!

Jan Rombouts @janrombouts.bsky.social · Aug 29

Many years in the making but now finally online! What determines the temperature scaling and thermal limits of cell cycle duration in embryos? We tackled the question using a combination of dynamical systems analysis and experimental measurements in embryos and in cycling Xenopus extracts.

A plot showing the duration of the early embryonic cell cycle of 5 different species as a function of temperature. Higher temperatures mean faster cycles, up to an optimum, beyond which the cycles slow down and eventually stop.

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · Sep 2

Really cool work! Congrats!

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · Aug 27

Friendly reminder that the deadline to submit an abstract for talk at #cellbio2025 is next Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 9 PM ET!

Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · Aug 4

Excited to announce our minisymp. “Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms” #CellBio2025 w/ Hernan Garcia and ‪@atmolines.bsky.social‬! Have an interesting story on how physical cell properties are controlled, coordinated across scales, or contribute to development and disease? (1/3)

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Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social · Aug 13

EMBL is an amazing place to start a lab and bring new direction to your research program (ask me how I know) - come join us in Heidelberg !

Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · Jul 30

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · Aug 6

We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky

Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!)
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · Aug 4

Abstract submission link:
www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/...

Cell Bio 2023-An ASCB|EMBO Meeting

Network, learn, and collaborate with top cell biologists from around the globe.

www.ascb.org

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · Aug 4

To ensure your abstract finds its way to our session, please select “Developmental and Stem Cell Biology” and “Biophysics, Structural Biology, and Mechanobiology” as your primary and secondary topics, and “Minisymposia talk” as your preferred presentation style. (3/3)

Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · Aug 4

Send us your abstracts! To be considered for a talk, please submit your abstracts by Wednesday, September 3, 2025 @ 9 PM ET. Information about the abstract fees, deadlines, and guidelines, can be found here. The abstract submission portal can be found here. (2/3)

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · Aug 4

Excited to announce our minisymp. “Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms” #CellBio2025 w/ Hernan Garcia and ‪@atmolines.bsky.social‬! Have an interesting story on how physical cell properties are controlled, coordinated across scales, or contribute to development and disease? (1/3)

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jun 14

NEW: Dallas, Texas right now.

Absolutely insane turnout. Tens of thousands of anti-Trump protestors have taken over downtown.

I have seen enough footage to be assured that millions have taken to the streets of America today. 👏

#NoKings #50501Movement

(🎥 Dallas Texas TV)

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doris dolores @nemaha.bsky.social · Jun 14

#Boise #Idaho showing up for #NoKings

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