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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 1d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 1d

Mechanobiology across timescales

A Review by Bo Cheng, Moxiao Li, Min Lin, Hui Guo & Feng Xu ⚛️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Mechanobiology across timescales - Nature Reviews Physics

This Review explores how cells sense and respond to mechanical signals across timescales. By integrating mechanosensing at membranes, mechanotransduction in the cytoplasm, and nuclear reprogramming, it reveals a role of temporal dynamics in tissue development and disease.

www.nature.com

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EMBO @embo.org · 1d

Learn all things #cytoskeleton #research in an interdisciplinary environment at EMBO Workshop "Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton" in Paris, FR, 7–10 April 2026.

Deadline: 20 December 2025

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cytoskeleton
#EMBOCytoskeletalFunction #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton

The cytoskeleton, a dynamic and intricate network of protein filaments, is found within the cytoplasm of all cells, from bacteria and archaea to complex eukaryotes. This essential cellular component …

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SCNAT @scnat.ch · 20h

🧪 Last chance! Registration for the #RigiWorkshop 2026 closes next week! Our guest speakers include @dudinlab.bsky.social, @michaelraissig.bsky.social, @annikaguse.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & @jandevries.bsky.social. More details here 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

SCNAT @scnat.ch · 15d

Only 1️⃣ month left to apply for the #RigiWorkshop 2026! Are you a #PhD student or postdoc in #biology? Come join us for a 3-days interdisciplinary #workshop in the Swiss Alps 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 19h

Last Call !

Please Register. It will be fun, I promise.

"I have a plan of sampling mountain peak snow" fun, and "I can't not bring the lab's scope" fun ...

SCNAT @scnat.ch · 20h

🧪 Last chance! Registration for the #RigiWorkshop 2026 closes next week! Our guest speakers include @dudinlab.bsky.social, @michaelraissig.bsky.social, @annikaguse.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & @jandevries.bsky.social. More details here 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

SCNAT @scnat.ch · 15d

Only 1️⃣ month left to apply for the #RigiWorkshop 2026! Are you a #PhD student or postdoc in #biology? Come join us for a 3-days interdisciplinary #workshop in the Swiss Alps 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

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Yamini Ravichandran @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social · 1d

Had a great time at the biannual Tutzing meeting for basal metazoans, heading back energized! Thanks to the organizers UlrichTechnau and @reefgenomics for the opportunity to present my work!

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

Khalilgharibi, N., Fouchard, J., Asadipour, N., ... & Charras, G. (2019). Stress relaxation in epithelial monolayers is controlled by the actomyosin cortex. Nature physics, 15(8), 839–847. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #EpithelialMechanics

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Katrina Velle @katrinavelle.bsky.social · 3d

PhD or Master's position available for Fall 2026!

Interested in how actin drives cell crawling, eating, dividing, or osmoregulation? What about pathogenesis of a brain-eating amoeba? Or eukaryotic evolution? If so, apply through my website: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/cont...
Please share!

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Juanma García-Arcos @juanmagararc.bsky.social · 3d

*ALL*source data and Python notebooks are available (you can reproduce all figures!)
🔗 doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
We hope this helps make lifetime analysis transparent and comparable across setups.
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@rouxlab.bsky.social
#FLIM #FlipperTR #Microscopy #OpenScience

Data and codes

Data and codes corresponding to the preprint:

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Juanma García-Arcos @juanmagararc.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 New preprint out!
“Fluorescence lifetime estimation: a practical approach using Flipper-TR FLIM” with Tithi Mandal and @rouxlab.bsky.social
We benchmark and describe step-by-step Flipper-TR FLIM measurements across different set-ups and and strategies.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fluorescence lifetime estimation: a practical approach using Flipper-TR FLIM

Flipper-TR is a membrane dye sensitive to lipid packing widely used to probe membrane tension in live cells via fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM). However, no consensus currently exists ...

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myosinactncrazy.bsky.social @myosinactncrazy.bsky.social · 6d

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dynamic rigidity changes enable rapid cell migration on soft substrates - Nature Communications

Cells struggle to migrate on soft substrates, which don’t provide enough traction. Here, the authors show that rapid, cyclic changes in substrate rigidity allow cells to overcome this limitation and move quickly.

www.nature.com

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Institut Curie @institutcurie.bsky.social · 7d

🔬For the 2025 Fête de la Science, Institut Curie opens its doors to the public! Follow the steps of Marie Curie’s research in Paris and explore the fascinating world of biology.

⏩https://www.fetedelascience.fr/la-fete-de-la-science-2025-l-institut-curie

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 7d

Sad news: Jane Goodall has died. She did more than any other human for our understanding and appreciation of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees.

That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

www.nytimes.com

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Institut Curie @institutcurie.bsky.social · 7d

#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth | 60,000 women face breast cancer each year in France. Institut Curie, Europe’s leading BC center, is advancing early detection, innovative treatments & personalized care.

⏩ institut-curie.org/breast-cancer

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Hesso Farhan @hessofarhan.bsky.social · 8d

It was a great pleasure to work on this paper. What started as a small meeting in January this year resulted in this beautiful piece of work.

Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 8d

ER exit sites are dynamic ER subdomains that integrate signals, reshape membranes and steer secretion. Twelve groups in the field came together to map their diversity, regulation, unanswered questions and future directions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Towards a unified framework for the function of endoplasmic reticulum exit sites - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Endoplasmic reticulum exit sites (ERES) are specialized ER subdomains that regulate the export of secreted cargo. This Roadmap explores how ERES integrate biochemical and mechanical signals to coordinate trafficking and proposes a multidisciplinary strategy to investigate their function, including in disease.

www.nature.com

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 8d

Erdemci-Tandogan, G., Clark, M. J., Amack, J. D., & Manning, M. L. (2018). Tissue flow induces cell shape changes during organogenesis. Biophysical journal, 115(11), 2259-2270. #EpithelialMechanics doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

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Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social · 19d

Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social
More info below ⬇️

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells

Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya

📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026

journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...

#DevBio

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Cells & Development @cellsdev.bsky.social · 12d

In this intriguing paper published from the lab of @amartinezarias.bsky.social , they looked at the effects of size on morphology, tissue composition, and gene expression of gastruloid development. They found that AP elongation dynamics is size-dependent! Check it out here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 13d

Fantastic presentation by @malinkjosavik.bsky.social at the Tutzing basal metazoan workshop 👏 She shared her work on starvation and metabolism in Nematostella, conducted in collaboration between the @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social lab and the Dept of Biomedicine @unibergen.bsky.social ✨

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 15d

Shroff, N. P., Xu, P., Kim, S., Shelton, E. R., Gross, B. J., Liu, Y., ... & Klein, O. D. (2024). Proliferation-driven mechanical compression induces signalling centre formation during mammalian organ development. Nature cell biology, #EpithelialMechanics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 15d

It’s about who you know, not what you know. Uh Oh.

In this new post on the Node, Umaymah Ahmad discusses the importance of speaking to others, asking questions and making connections.

thenode.biologists.com/its-about-wh...

It’s about who you know, not what you know. Uh Oh. - the Node

When I attended my first networking event, I felt like I was sticking out like a sore thumb, but the thumb gets sorer and sorer and eventually the whole

thenode.biologists.com

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Barriga Lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social · 15d

Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!

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Yamini Ravichandran @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social · 15d

Hahaha what a problem to have!!