I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held Friday, April 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch and Yiqun Wang @ucsandiego.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/42xUhYh #SDBPostdocSeminar

🐟!JOB ALERT!Duke, Durham, NC!🐟 We are looking for a research tech (our current tech is starting grad school this Fall (Yay!)). The candidate will contribute to our ongoing research projects on tissue morphogenesis using zebrafish. Please RT🙏 www.munjallab.com/join-us

I'm happy to present our new tool, EpiCure, a napari plugin to ease correction of segmentation and tracking of epithelia movies, developed in @devstempasteur.bsky.social

1 year technician position in the Roeder lab on how sepal morphogenesis is robust to environmental perturbations. Great position for a postbac. jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

New piece on the mechanics of squamous epithelial shape transition highlighting the role of tensile forces, force transmission by Dumpy & elastic resistance by the ECM in the developing wing. Terrific work from Stefan Harmansa @morphomechanics.bsky.social with Alex Erlich🍾👏: tinyurl.com/2p58b3w3

New paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687

Excited to share our new article, ‘Mechanical regulation of cuboidal-to-squamous epithelial transition in the Drosophila developing wing’, now online in Current Biology. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... There’s also a great accompanying Dispatch: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #MatrixMechanics #DevBio

We’re looking for a new team member! 🚀 Only 3 more weeks to apply to the fantastic Vienna BioCenter PhD program

Our study on shape diversity in cnidarians is now published. The final version includes extensive new data that substantially extend the original bioRxiv preprint. Congrats to everyone who contributed to this work! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @embl.org

Expansion microscopy of a loricate choanoflagellate, generated by Mylan Ansel in our lab 🤩 (yes, the lorica expands. No, we don't understand how either)

Despite it being chaotic, active nematic turbulence can give rise to arrested labyrinthine patterns! Check out our new paper @physrevresearch.bsky.social! Work led by Ido Lavi, with Jean-François Joanny and Jaume Casademunt. journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...

The Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar is back! We assembled an amazing lineup for you, kicking off the new term of the seminar series with a talk by @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social on the 27th of January, 2:30 pm (UK time). We are looking forward to seeing you all!

SCHEPHERD--the bioelectric cell herding platform built for YOU. Single cells, monolayers, organoids--this herds them all + new tricks. Plz try it-- we will *give* you parts! Teaser here of a steering a single cell. GS Yubin Lin's lifeblood with J. Yodh on piano; Celeste R. and Paul K. Thread 1/N

#Napari does a good job promoting the #Tribolium model. 🤔

How do pairs of DNA loci - such as enhancers and promoters - find each other inside the nucleus? 🤔 Most models assume the random forces driving locus motion are independent in space New preprint by @janniharju.bsky.social: this assumption fails in living cells 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are you fascinated by self-organised patterning processes? The brand-new Stuart lab at EMBL Barcelona is looking for a lab manager! Hannah @htstuart.bsky.social is a fantastic scientist and mentor. Building the lab with her will be a lot of fun! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Bar...

New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations" Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations? rdcu.be/e7zx7

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

Please check out our new preprint! Using single cell analysis paired with HCR to visualize transcript localization we have identified cell and tissue-specific expression of various genes encoding tubulins, kifs, and dyneins during neural crest development!

Finally I can join #FluorescenceFriday as a theorist 😊. This is a DNA-PAINT recording of E-Cadherin and F-actin in Drosophila embryonic epidermis. You can see E-cadherin clusters and their counterparts across junctions. Cover in @biophysj.bsky.social . doi.org/10.1016/j.bp... #devbio #cellbio

New preprint from Meri Saez & co How much information does a developmental landscape encode? Integrating information theory, dynamical systems & dev bio to quantify the number of signalling regimes that generate distinguishable cell fates biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.03.709461v1

🚨 New Preprint from the Paluch & Chalut Labs 🚨 Ana Raffaelli et al show that the stiffness of substrate (in vitro) / basal membrane (in vivo) determine how cells interpret biochemical signals (BMP4) and which fates they acquire #mechanobiology #hESCs #substratemechanics doi.org/10.64898/202...

🚨3-year Postdoc Position @halloulab.bsky.social (Kennedy Institute, Oxford) - on Spatial Biology & Bioinformatics of Fibrosis🚨 An exciting project combining #SpatialTranscriptomics & #Mechanobiology👇: shorturl.at/LLS5r Deadline: 16 March - Please RT 📢! @kiroxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Here's the link to the original article if you haven't checked it out already! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How moss makes a spiral of leaves through a rotating asymmetric division of the apical cell meristem--our paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social today! @soestrauss.bsky.social Richard Smith, Joe Cammarata www.cell.com/current-biol...

1 year ago at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally, scientists, students, advocates, & community members joined in cities nationwide. Now we're returning to the streets in nearly 30 cities & towns o demand scientific integrity, strong public health protections, & democratic accountability 1/n

In our latest preprint we show that Lifeact::mKate2 can reverse the chirality of active torques in the actomyosin cortex. This results in cortical flows with opposite handedness during left-right symmetry breaking, leading to the formation of situs inversus worms. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Send us your stem cell manuscripts! Very easy to transfer from biorxiv and we can also quickly consider a manuscript based on reviews received elsewhere. JCS does a tremendous job of supporting the scientific community (see the link below). Reach out if you have questions!

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! Please spread the word! @mads100tist.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Are you working on stem cell biology? Our Academic Editor Aryeh Warmflash (@warmflashlab.bsky.social) is committed to handling articles on this topic so send your article our way. There are lots of reasons to choose JCS – find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... #stemcells

New from us in @pnas.org : We considered the limits of condensate diversity, and engineered DNA droplets to form 9 distinct, homotypic, coexisting phases. Very hard to do this except with nucleic acids. Probably you can make more than 9. (1/3)

We summarised the many roles of material phase transitions in development (and they are not just mechanical 🤔)

Excited to share our new review in @dev-journal.bsky.social on tissue phase transitions during development! @karengrace12.bsky.social @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1242/dev....

New preprint @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social by Harshath Amal and colleagues from our lab @uni-muenster.de shows how a BMP #morphogen gradient is translated into graded junctional permeability by tuning adhesion and actomyosin contractility in #Drosophila See tinyurl.com/yhbwd9xh @sfb1348.bsky.social

We‘re looking for a motivated Master student to join our team! Do you want to optogenetically control metabolic activity to see how metabolism affects patterning and morphogenesis? 💡🧫🧬🔬 Then please apply! #optogenetics #metabolism #devbio #hESCs Please RT. Thank you!🙏

For those interested! Speakers include @dianapinheiro.bsky.social, @ritamateus.bsky.social & @streichan.bsky.social 🐟

A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Roeder Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY with a focus on researching Polyploidy. Apply by March 1. Please spread the word. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

Our latest with @torres-sanchez.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article-... Breaking isn’t always a bad thing! Think of birth, seed release... We highlight how living tissue not only tolerates fractures but actively fracture to grow, shape, reproduce, or adapt – across species and scales.

Very interesting study from the Schweisguth lab - Pulsatile dynamics propagate crystalline order in the developing Drosophila eye: Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

After being reviewed as a preprint in Elife our paper about endogenous FGF signaling in 2D human gastruloids is now published in Development: journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...

Postdoc position available!!! We are looking for a creative postdoc to develop independent research directions in tissue morphogenesis using embryos, stem cell/organoid systems, and quantitative imaging and/or biophysics. Here are the details: livejohnshopkins-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

El Paso is my hometown, and my birthday happens to be this week. Please join me in donating to Annunciation House (annunciationhouse.org). They help migrants, immigrants, and refugees in El Paso. More recently, they've sheltered people released from ICE detention: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Instructors include @akankshi.bsky.social, @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social, @dianapinheiro.bsky.social, @chloeroffay.bsky.social, & @streichan.bsky.social among others! 🐟

Seconded. If anything, it has never been a better time to be a biophysicist, a complex system physicists, etc…. And it is a bit sad that much of it now happens *outside* of physics departments (for good and bad reasons…)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Thanks Vincent E. Cerbantez-Bueno for a great conversation. @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/...

As students tap into #AI tools that can teach better than their instructors, what does the future of education look like? 👉 @abbybertics.bsky.social from our lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social explores this question for the #TheEconomist !

Looking forward to sharing my postdoctoral work in just a little over a week at the UCAM Morphogenesis Series! 🐟🔬🔦