How to make your own robot! A review of people making awesome lab robots out of commercial 3D printers. Thank you @vsaggiomo.bsky.social and Sander for inviting me to help write this paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org. Beep boop! 🤖 #chemsky doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...

@commsphys.nature.com Collection open for submission on Bacterial physiology and self-organization through the lens of physics Editors: Eleonora Secchi, Anupam Sengupta & Kazumasa Takeuchi www.nature.com/collections/... #Bacterial_motility #Biofilm #Bacterial_interactions #Self_organisation

How common is multicellularity in bacteria? And archaea? And how does it evolve? We wrote a short review "On the architecture and evolution of prokaryotic multicellularity". Preprint link: bit.ly/4ta06Gq Sharing and comments are much appreciated. 1/4

Apply now to attend the next EMBO Bacterial Networks meeting #EMBOBacNet 🗓️13-18 September 2026 📍Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain 📝Program and registration info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac... 👩‍🔬Organised with co-chair @s-lab.bsky.social and ECR @coralietesseur.bsky.social #MicroSky

BIG UPDATES! OCTRON now supports the new SAM3 models (alongside SAM2)! We’ve also added a global switch for Detection vs. Segmentation: Use the same annotations to train either lightweight detection or full segmentation models. Plus, we’ve added support for the new YOLO26 models. ⤵️ 1/12

🤗 Next week, we are happy to welcome Marcelo Nollmann from @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social | @cnrs.fr | @umontpellier.bsky.social. His lab develops single-molecule and advanced imaging methods to investigate DNA organization, segregation and transcription in multicellular organisms. Join us at 3pm. ⬇️

PAPER OUT ✨ How can we make smart microscopy more interoperable? What are the technical and cultural challenges? 30+ people from academia and industry propose a roadmap: doi.org/10.1515/mim-... Also a review of applications and repo of implementations. Join the discussion! smartmicroscopy.github.io

Interested in microbial predation? Join us in Ticino Switzerland on July 27-31, 2026! More info at microbialpredation.ethz.ch #predation #ecology #evolution #microbes

Last 3 days to register for 𝐈𝐌𝐒𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 symposium organized by @itqbnova.bsky.social. DON´T miss these amazing researchers on 19/03: @seamusholden.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @silvapereiralab.bsky.social, @pinholab.bsky.social, @henriqueslab.bsky.social. 🔗: ims2026.itqbnovacommunity.org

Our BehaveAI paper has just come out! Easy & effective tracking & behavioural classification, even with tiny (2px), fast moving, camouflaged objects. Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Download: github.com/troscianko/B... @uniexecec.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social @jimamclgalloway.bsky.social

T4P anybody? sure enough! enjoy a great 🧵👇 #MicroSky

📢 Save the date! #Biophychrom2027 will take place at Paris-Saclay in July 2027. More details coming soon!

Do you want to be part of a diverse community building a comprehensive understanding of mechanobiology across kingdoms? 🔬🧬 Then join us in Heidelberg or virtually for the #EESMechanobiology symposium: https://s.embl.org/ees26-06-bl#EESMechanobiology Date: 9 – 12 June Abstract submission deadline: 3 March

How do cells orchestrate themselves to achieve a directional movement as a group? Hi, I’m @sayukihirano.bsky.social. In this thread, I’ll highlight key mechanisms of how cells communicate with each other to perform directional collective migration.

Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint! Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago. How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 1/

Analyzing single-molecule dynamics with both complex types of motion and complex transition kinetics: Benchmarking of ExaTrack https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.22.700663v1

an excellent resource for anyone who doesn't dare to draw themselves 👏👏👏

Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!

Our review article is now available in Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics: “Full-Integer Topological Defects in Polar Active Matter.” @luizaangheluta.bsky.social @emmalaang.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Aspect Ratio as Driver of Bacterial Competition! Our latest work uncovers this simple and powerful determinant of bacterial competition. We demonstrate that longer bacteria consistently dominate colony fronts—even when outnumbered. The mechanism? Collective alignment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚀📰 End-of-year news for #RxivMaker =). Now it generates both #pdf and #docx from #markdown. Docx makes it easier to collaborate on a document for non-markdown users, making it simple to loop between docx and #RxivMaker to a professional-looking #preprint Preprint updated: arxiv.org/abs/2508.00836

We are looking forward to sunnier days and some fantastic presentations at our #ProkaryoticCellBio meeting in Portugal next July! Grants, Early Bird pricing and Talk slots close on 12 Jan, register & submit today to join us! 🌞 👉https://bit.ly/48G29dP

New in JB: Yarrington & Limoli review recent exciting advances in understanding mechanisms of directional movement for type IV-mediated twitching motility in P. aeruginosa. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

📣 2nd meeting of France-BioImaging Mechanobiology Working Group 📆 March 26-27th, 2026 📍Institut Jacques Monod, Buffon amphitheater Registration are open until December 31st 🔗 buff.ly/cVzaoId @upcite.bsky.social @sbcf.bsky.social @gdraqv.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social

🚀⭐️ Trackastra update 🚀⭐️ We just released a new model that uses pre-trained image features from Meta’s SAM2 model. This improves performance on many datasets, most notably for bacteria tracking. To give it a try, simply install with the new optional dep `etultra` github.com/weigertlab/t...

🦠🔬🤖🧑‍💻 #mAIcrobe interface preview, a platform for #DeepLearning enabled bacterial image-based phenotyping. Check it out 💻: github.com/HenriquesLab... 📄: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@simonecoppola.bsky.social has made micromorph, the first native Python application and library for measuring bacterial morphology. It runs interactively in napari or can be easily integrated into automated Python scripts. It integrates deep learning cell segmentation and is easily extended 🔬🦠🧫

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

Are you investigating cell tissues and interested in stress patterns? TFM + BISM reveals them! 👇 With @luanger.bsky.social and P. Marcq, we summarise the applicability across different exp. conditions regularly used in the @bladoux.bsky.social @rmmege.bsky.social lab. Full pipeline on Lucas GitHub!

New preprint! Do you like ocean waves? We found similar waves on bacterial colonies! We found that this collective behavior, known as rippling, is nothing but surface waves on an active nematic. @princeton.edu @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher to join our Membrane Biophysics team at the CBS in Montpellier. Join us to reinvent Atomic Force Microscopy to image the most common interface on our planet: the surface of water @membranesbiophy.bsky.social @cbsmontpellier.bsky.social

📢 Paper alert 📢 Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

EarlyBird & Talk Submission Deadline for our Prokaryotic Cell Biology Conference is just around the corner, dont leave it too late to register and submit your abstract! Register or send your abstract to [email protected] before 12th January for consideration! ➡️https://bit.ly/4plmKtr

Abstract deadline extension alert! 🚨 You now have until 25 November to submit your abstract and be one of 22 selected short talk speakers for #EESCollectivity ➡️ s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl Explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems. 🦠🐒🧬

Happy to share the last paper form the lab: Specialized shuttle proteins recognize T9SS signals and target effectors to their final destinations. Great work by @maellepllt.bsky.social, led by @thicoz.bsky.social in collaboration with @audebertstephane.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The qbio #quantitative #biology is part of the IDIL Master program of the Montpellier University. @umontpellier.bsky.social idil.edu.umontpellier.fr

In two weeks, our #qbio #Master students learned to build, from drawing to full realization, their own : confocal FCS, TIRF microscope, and optical tweezers setup ! This is hand-on #microscopy ! Interested ? Join the qbio master next year at the Montpellier University ! qbio.umontpellier.fr

Excited to share our new preprint on Myxococcus xanthus! We show that two distinct motility motors can propel the same bacterial cell simultaneously, and that this dual propulsion is tunable by environmental calcium. 🧵 1/6 📄 Read it here →https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685086v1

ICYMI – Check out our latest #preprint list on FocalPlane, highlighting the latest tools and techniques in microscopy. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/22/m...

Last call for Les Houches! Apply now or never! ;) (ok, in 2 years again then) and share with your friends.

mAIcrobe: an open-source framework for high-throughput bacterial image analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.683709v1

🚀🔬 Announcing #IMS2026 at @itqbnova.bsky.social! We're assembling a #LifeSciences #Microscopy symposium packed with ✨ speakers and 🧑‍🔬 workshops. All about imaging cells with photons, electrons and AI! If you love microscopy, you need to be here. Join us on March 19! ims2026.itqbnovacommunity.org

Sign up for our annual Impromptu Symposium on Nov. 21 in the Biophore @unil.bsky.social organized by Christophe Keel and Jordan Vacheron, which will explore the fascinating world of microbe–plant interactions with an exciting speaker line up! Registration (lunch included): forms.gle/t4fC8uQV5HQF...

Everyone interested in bacterial signal transduction, environmental sensing and motility, don't miss this conference organised by Ariane Briegel @arianebriegel.bsky.social and myself! We have great invited speakers and a number of slots allocated to short talks: www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

We’re excited to announce the incredible speaker line-up for the Prokaryotic Cell Biology Conference! Join the leading researchers as they explore the latest advances in Nanoimaging, Cell Growth and Cellular Structures. Join our speakers & register today! ➡️https://bit.ly/47rtkbw #ProkaryoticCellBio

Have you submitted your abstract for #EESCollectivity? No? It's about time! This new event will discuss how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems, from cells to animal groups. 🦠🐾 👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl

When its meal turns toxic, the tiny worm #CElegans shuts down digestion thanks to a single protein that links its “taste” neurons to the gut.