Yearly Fuchs lab picnic 🧺

New paper alert! We report in @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social how serine regulates stem cell fate in physiology and upon wounding. Good work, Jesse and collabs! www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Dos decenas de sociedades científicas han solicitado a la Comunidad de Madrid que impida urgentemente el “riesgo de destrucción” del Museo Olavide, una joya de la historia de la medicina que incluye unas 700 figuras de cera de pacientes reales

It was heartwarming to join academic workers together in the fight against funding cuts, layoffs, and attacks to freedom of speech in our campuses. Scientists will not give up! @uaw.org

“…España, para cuyos ciudadanos la prioridad máxima debe ser la educación e investigación (40%, frente al 23% de media europea), mientras que la defensa cae al 20%” elpais.com/internaciona...

Submitting my PhD paper after 7.5 years 🫣

My thoughts on Heggie’s Moby-Dick at the Met, for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/clas...

Postdocs vs students @thefuchslab.bsky.social laser tag was barely a competition 😏

Yesterday we marched to oppose the hijacking of the NIH and the government by a nazi oligarch. Hands off the NIH!! No research, no cures ✊🏼

Great news! @greatysp.bsky.social @jorgealmagro.bsky.social

Congratulations to @jorgealmagro.bsky.social and @thefuchslab.bsky.social as well!! 🎊🎉🥳🥳 @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social @hhmi.bsky.social

New #Review! 🥳 @jorgealmagro.bsky.social, @thefuchslab.bsky.social et al. discuss the role of stem cell mechanics during developmental processes and what happens when the mechanics of the stem cell niche are disrupted in cancer. 👉 go.nature.com/3EsJzJx #StemCells #Mechanobiology #Cancer

Very happy to see our review out in @natrevmcb.bsky.social! Here we discuss how stem cells exert forces to sculpt tissues in development and homeostasis, and how stem cell mechanics go awry upon malignant transformation. Read it here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our first 2025 paper! We discuss in @natrevmcb.bsky.social how epithelial stem cells mechanically sculpt tissues, and how these forces are altered in cancer. Great work from our former and current tumor mechanobiology experts Vince Fiore & @jorgealmagro.bsky.social 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper of the Week! Norepinephrine oscillation during sleep regulates blood/CSF flow and waste clearance With @kevinng.bsky.social @fesubtil.bsky.social @rysazaman.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

What an exciting read 😍

Caltech has set up a disaster relief fund for Caltech and Jet Propulsion Lab community members affected by the fires. Many lived in Altadena, which has been very heavily damaged. Please consider giving. giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...

Reading a textbook may give answers to such essential questions 😅 From Kandel et al. “Principles of Neural Science” (5th edition, before Piezo was identified as the master mechanosensor)

The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2025 call is now open for applications from talented undergrads. It is the perfect preparation for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences arena. 9-week research project, accommodation and stipend for successful candidates.

Kicking off 2025 Paper of the Week with @kevinng.bsky.social & @fesubtil.bsky.social. Today we discussed our friend @martinaparigi.bsky.social et al. recent paper in @nature.com. How do epithelia unlink necessary drivers of regeneration from malignant transformation? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations Jimmy and @paigearnold.bsky.social 👏🏼

Birding (and lynxing🤞🏼) with @atalavera.bsky.social somewhere in La Mancha…

My first review of 2025 - Michael Mayer’s new Aida at the Met, for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/clas...

Cancers may arise in tissues with a low mutational burden. It’s up to the microenvironment! We discussed this in @natrevcancer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2024 was a year of exciting discoveries and scientific discussions! A thread 🪡 of this years’ publications from our lab 👇🏼

The Fuchs lab is now on Bsky and wishes you happy holidays!! 🎄

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

immunoglobulin M (IgM) is structured as a pentameter, creating high valency that aids in agglutination of larger particles such as bacteria

“Nadie en su sano juicio puede pensar que un país es mejor sin servicios públicos” elpais.com/espana/madri...

Big teeth

It’s finally NYC Skin Club at Mount Sinai with keynote Danelle Devenport showing us the beauty of cell polarization 🔬

Missing the Icelandic puffins 🐧

Yes!! Now Bluesky data is on BioRxiv Altmetric

UN chief Antonio Guterres says the situation in Gaza is "appalling and apocalyptic" and has warned that conditions faced by Palestinians in the besieged enclave may amount to the "gravest international crimes." 🔴 LIVE Updates: aje.io/gtzrt1

No es la primera vez que la universidad pública vive miseria, pero nunca sin una quiebra económica de por medio. Madrid es la comunidad que menos invierte por alumno de España. Y España presupuesta en educación superior un 24% por debajo de Europa https://buff.ly/3ZuF9cZ

Ayuso ahoga a la universidad pública elpais.com/opinion/2024...

Clovis birdwatching

Unusual fact for a country dependent on science and technology: only one US president has had a PhD degree, and he was elected more than 110 years ago. Thesis title: "Congressional government : a study in American politics" archive.org/details/cong...

Real science: 1. Is not correlated with the amount of funding 2. Progresses slowly, usually taking many years 3. Leads to more questions than it answers 4. Advances when we disengage & in improvisational discussions 5. Is too important a thing to be done in a non-playful way

Kilometre 10 vs 42

Even tumours can be beautiful under the microscope 🔬

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Conversation with the brilliant contemporary microbiologist and molecular biologist—HHMI and MacArthur Fellow Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University Pioneer in the chemical signaling mechanisms that bacteria use to communicate with each other known as “quorum sensing” www.hhmi.org/news/tapping...

Both #Cancer #Research starter packs are now completely full! ~300 researchers, oncologists, students, postdocs, patient advocates, and organizations supporting cancer research 🧪🔬⚕️ I hope you'll find these useful to build our community here Pack 1: go.bsky.app/FEoaJMc Pack 2: go.bsky.app/6EcjWNA