and if you don't know what we're talking about bsky.app/profile/oded...

Excited to embark on this scientific journey with Ewa Paluch and Daniel StJohnston to understand fundamentals of epithelial tissue and cell shapes! Thank you to @erc.europa.eu for the support!

Lecture online : youtu.be/ye-i6deGO1Q 😜👇

If necessary Pierre NASSOY's talk 😜 : 👉 youtu.be/ye-i6deGO1Q?... @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.fr #Mifobio2025 #GDRimabio

Our aftermovie shows some impressions of #NdW25 at #MPL & #MPZPM: from exciting insights into current #research projects and inspiring conversations to curious glances into our laboratories. It was truly a night, where #science came to life. 🎥 Billmann Event GmbH #physics #medicine #light #matter

📣 Paris Cytoskeleton day 2025 - Lest week to register! 📆 November 14th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod 🔗 pcd2025.sciencesconf.org Registration closes on 7 November @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social

A bit delayed, but excited to still share our latest paper, showing that intercellular forces transduced by E-cadherin activate EGFR-ERK signaling in epithelia by inducing EGFR ligand shedding! Mechanical and biochemical signals can act together within a single, linear cascade! tinyurl.com/mr9mj9j2

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

An intimate conversation about what drives me every day in “sharing experience” of science by getting tools of science in hands of kids everywhere. themicroscopists.bitesizebio.com/episodes/man...

[Last month to register] 📣 Forces at Play: Emerging Themes in Mechanobiology – In Memoriam of Professor Michael P. Sheetz 📆 January 19-21 📍Institut Jacques Monod, Paris Registrations at 🔗 mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @upcite.bsky.social @bladoux.bsky.social @rmmege.bsky.social @academiesciences.bsky.social

Kudos to @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social for the Innovation DGZ Prize for his work on #CellMigration A great Chilean 🇨🇱 in #STEM 💪🏽🔥 @dgz.bsky.social #DGZ50

⚠️ AU MOINS 83% DES MORTS DE GAZA SONT DES CIVILS. À partir des données chiffrées de la Direction du Renseignement militaire israélien, le quotidien britannique @theguardian.com & le magazine israélien @972mag.com ont révélé, vérifié et confirmé cette statistique stupéfiante, fin août dernier.

1/ 🎉Excited to share our new preprint @vignjeviclab.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social : "Self-organization of tumor heterogeneity and plasticity" biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Tumor heterogeneity and plasticity drive metastasis and relapse. How is tumor patterning coordinated? A thread👇

Terrifiant. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

Very nice paper on shear flows and nematic ordering in endothelial cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #activematter #Mechanobiology

Although our time working together at the MPZPM was far too short, I deeply valued our scientific exchanges and the beginnings of a friendship that I am sure would have grown even stronger. I will profoundly miss you as a colleague and as a person.

Excited to announce the first @cshlnews.bsky.social meeting on Cell Modeling in Space and Time, June 2026 💫 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp... Bringing together experiments, computation and theory to explore dynamic, multi-scale cellular organization and function! 1/3

With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend. mpl.mpg.de/news/article... @fau.de 📸 Stephan Spangenberg

Ahead of tomorrow’s #NobelPrize announcement, I went on a deep dive in search of the most obscure physics Nobel Prizes in history. That means it's time for a thread on...🧵 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 1 (1/n)

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

Happy to share that my PhD has finally taken the shape of a paper! ✨ Huge thanks to all authors, especially @davidbrueckner.bsky.social & @ehannezo.bsky.social for leading the modeling and @raimonsunyer.bsky.social & @xaviertrepat.bsky.social for their invaluable supervision. 🧵👇

So: can a cell hold hands with itself…and do we care? YES and YES! Read on to learn WHY, HOW, and what this has to do with…PARIS (and tree-hugging)? Swansong of Dr. Anamika; Hannah Kim on drums; and fantastic undergrads (Margaret/Lauren) ! 1/n advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣 Last chance to apply! Applications for our URO program close tomorrow, October 1st. Don't miss this opportunity: mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/uro-research... 👉 Funded 10-week research internship 👉 Learn from esteemed scientists 👉 No prior research experience required

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients. More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Now out in final published form - with a new title "Mechanical control of cell fate decisions in the skin epidermis" and simulations/quantifications! See below for thread of how unbalanced tensions can bias fate choices in minimal 3D models of tissues! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Grata, A., & Levayer, R. (2025). Epithelial cell extrusion at a glance. Journal of Cell Science, 138(8), #EpithelialMechanicsReview doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Indeed, fantastic job Dr. Tim Klingberg! Big thanks to @lennarthilbert.bsky.social for coming over to Erlangen @fau.de for the defense and for all continued years of collaboration that led to this!

Exciting science in Leipzig at the Physics of Cancer Meeting. conference.uni-leipzig.de/poc/2025/

IG Nobel Prize in #Physics 2025 to @mpipks.bsky.social researchers for elucidating the phase behaviour of cacio e pepe sauce. The work highlights how physics can also be applied to solve daily-life problems! nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03045-0

Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

We’re organizing a conference at @ijmonod.bsky.social in Paris, January 2026, in memory of M.P. Sheetz — pioneer in cell mechanics and mechanobiology, co-discoverer of kinesin, and founder of @mbisg.bsky.social. Join us to explore his legacy. mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org

Forces at Play: emerging themes in Mechanobiology - In memoriam of Pr. Michael Sheetz, In Paris,  at the Institut Jacques Monod,  from January 19th to January 21st 2026. The registration is now open, and the rates are quite low. Dead line: end of November mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org

Happy to share our new study @ijmonod.bsky.social and @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social with C. Duclut and J. Prost. on forces generated by active fluid transport in epithelia and their role in tissue dynamics. Congrats to Huiqiong Wu, G. Arkowitz and R. Chilupuri! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

⚠️ #Gaza: 83% de civils parmi les tués ; 75% de civils parmi les prisonniers. • À partir des données de la Direction du Renseignement militaire israélien, @theguardian.com & le magasine israélien @972mag.com révèlent ces chiffres terrifiants, sans aucune comparaison possible avec d'autres guerres:

🔥 "Gaza brûle !" annonce fièrement ce matin le ministre de la Défense Israël Katz, qui confirme le début de l'offensive terrestre sur Gaza-ville, avec l'engagement de 2 divisions (environ 30.000 hommes). Quelques données factuelles pour y voir clair, dans le flot des informations du moment:

Nature research paper: Energy deficiency selects crowded live epithelial cells for extrusion go.nature.com/42tmu2l

Hoffmann, L. A., Carenza, L. N., Eckert, J., & Giomi, L. (2022). Theory of defect-mediated morphogenesis. Science advances, 8(15), eabk2712. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/wUYJE0s

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Very happy to share our new study from CAM team @ijmonod.bsky.social and @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social (MPZPM) on the unanticipated “hidden fluidity” in jammed epithelia. Congrats to Yuan Shen and great collaboration with Walter Kob. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🤔Altruism versus selfishness: impact on collective dynamics? journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

📢 PhD Thesis defense 📅 September 11th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Tomorrow, Andreas Schoenit @andreasschoenit.bsky.social will defend his PhD thesis "Mechanical forces in cell competition and epidermal stratification" ➡️ buff.ly/yhtJMsu

Which city is the best for Cytoskeleton research? Dresden? Barcelona? Cambridge ? Noooo ... you all know its Paris, right? 😎 Registering to the annual meeting on Friday 14th of November is now open: pcd2025.sciencesconf.org Keynote speeches by @carter-lab.bsky.social and Verena Ruprecht !

Tuning collagen nonlinear mechanics with interpenetrating networks drives adaptive cellular phenotypes in three dimensions | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The #25EngLife conference is over and it was great, including the talks by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, @bladoux.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social. Many thanks to @stefandiezlab.bsky.social and the other organizers🙏🏻

Physics is a point of view: inspiring Nobel lecture by John Hopfield.