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Theoretical Biophysics @theobiophysics.bsky.social · Feb 1

🚨NEWS!

We are organising a new monthly event:

The Young Biophysicists Virtual Meetings

where early career researchers can present their work in a friendly environment. All the info and abstract submission on our website

sites.google.com/view/theoret...

Host by Divya Choudhary and Satyam Anand

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 17d

Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.

Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks

Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.

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Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social · 17d

Dynamic Gene Regulatory Network Inference with Interpretable, Biophysically-Motivated Neural ODEs
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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bioRxiv SysBio @biorxiv-sysbio.bsky.social · 17d

Deciphering Global Patterns of Marine Microbial Community Assembly and Network Stability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677047v1

Theoretical Biophysics @theobiophysics.bsky.social · 26d

🚨Starting in 30 minutes (Friday 12/09 15:30 EU), Susann Müller (UFZ Leipzig) will present the talk

Ecological forces dictate microbial community assembly processes in bioreactor systems

at the Population Dynamics Seminars. Subscription sites.google.com/view/popdyn/

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Ollie Rando @epididymosome.bsky.social · 27d

E. coli transcription factors regulate promoter activity by a universal, homeostatic mechanism | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

E. coli transcription factors regulate promoter activity by a universal, homeostatic mechanism

Transcription factors (TFs) may activate or repress gene expression through an interplay of different mechanisms, including RNA polymerase (RNAP) recruitment, exclusion, and initiation. However, depen...

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Marco Mauri @marcomauri.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 PopDyn is back! Tomorrow, Friday 12/09 15:30 EU, Susann Müller (UFZ Leipzig) will present the talk

Ecological forces dictate microbial community assembly processes in bioreactor systems

at the Population Dynamics Seminars. Subscription sites.google.com/view/popdyn/

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 29d

The 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships applications are open, offering early-career scholars intellectual freedom, transdisciplinary collaboration with leading researchers, and a competitive salary with research and collaboration funds.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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arXiv physics.bio-ph Biological Physics @physicsbioph-bot.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ilya Nemenman, Pankaj Mehta: Randomness with constraints: constructing minimal models for high-dimensional biology https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03765 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03765 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.03765

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Brian Umberger @brianumberger.bsky.social · Aug 28

Please repost!

We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

Tenure-track Faculty Position in Biomechanics (Open Rank), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA - Biomch-L

The School of Kinesiology (http://kines.umich.edu) at the University of Michigan invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate...

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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · Aug 26

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

University Lecturer in Biostatistics

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Happy to see this paper finally out in @pnas.org!

#phage #microbiology #MicroSky #VirEvol 🦠 🧫 🔬

Gift link: www.pnas.org/eprint/YYDZ9...

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Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social · Sep 8

Disentangling the cost of gene expression
doi.org/10.21203/rs....

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Marco Mauri @marcomauri.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 Friday 12/09 15:30 EU, Susann Müller (UFZ Leipzig) will present the talk

Ecological forces dictate microbial community assembly processes in bioreactor systems

at the Population Dynamics Seminars. Subscription sites.google.com/view/popdyn/

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Pierre Haas @lepuslapis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Another #preprint: "Elasticity and plasticity of epithelial gap closure", from the #PhD work of Maryam Setoudeh:

arxiv.org/abs/2509.05110

This one required a lot of (I think) beautiful #mechanics!

@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

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Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social · Sep 8

closing at the end of this week!

Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Another PDRA position! Join our team exploring how the mammalian immune system shapes microbiome ecology & evolution, and vice versa. In collaboration with @hepworth-lab.bsky.social funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Microbial Ecology:Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products.
Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Please share!

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nonlinear memory in cell-division dynamics across species

#PNAS by Shijie Zhang, Chenyi Fei, and Jörn Dunkel

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nonlinear memory in cell-division dynamics across species | PNAS

Regulation of cell growth and division is essential to achieve cell-size homeostasis. Recent advances in imaging technologies, such as “mother mach...

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Sep 1

How did differentiation evolve to allow for complex multicellular systems? In this @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social‬ paper, Boolean networks are used to answer long-standing questions in the evolution of cell type diversity. @wcratcliff.bsky.social d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/115269531/j....

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · Sep 2

Höllring, K., Nuić, L., Rogić, L., ..., Hubert, M., & Smith, A. S. (2024). Capturing the mechanosensitivity of cell proliferation in models of epithelium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(45), e2308126121. #EpithelialMechanics
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · May 22

#Bacteria use weapons to outcompete rivals, but what happens if they're transferred? @prokaryota.bsky.social @jdpal.bsky.social &co show that HGT of toxin #plasmids is rare but recipients can thrive under relaxed nutrient competition, reshaping bacterial warfare @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43vC3X7

Modeling predicts that metabolic diversity increases the ecological impacts of weapon gene transfer. Modeling scenarios for each column are shown across the top row. Bottom row: Example dynamics of the strains (attacker, target, transconjugant) during a contest using parameters that correspond to the cross (X) shown in the parameter sweeps directly below.

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Sep 1

Structuring complexity by mapping the possible in microbial ecosystems

-in Current Opinion in Microbiology from @dbajic.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 New call for preLighters!🚨

Help us highlight the most exciting biological #preprints. Share your insights, build your profile, and be part of a supportive community! 🌍

Interested? Apply today & help shape the future of science publishing! 📢

More info: prelights.biologists.com/news/join-th...

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Biophysical Paris @parisseminar.bsky.social · Sep 1

PMMH seminar.
Friday 05/09 at 11:00 in the meeting room
You may also watch on Zoom (link upon request).

Irène Nagle of TU Delft, Netherlands

Mechanics of collagen networks with active cellular inclusions

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Sep 1

Quantification and Determination of Compatible Bacterial Consortia

in #MicrobialBiotech

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Quantification and Determination of Compatible Bacterial Consortia

This study presents a mathematical model to identify compatible bacterial consortia by analysing antagonistic and coexistence relationships. Introducing the Bacterial Coexistence Index (BCI), it eval....

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social · Aug 28

Season 5 is going to start 🔜

Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...

@kathlemon.bsky.social ‬ @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social

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