My first post on Bluesky! Very excited to share our work just published in @science.org. We find that “Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis” - in angiogenesis and other tissues! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

New(ish) preprint! 📰What whole-cell patterns emerge from the arrangement, morphologies, and interactions of organelles in the 3D space of the cell? What would we see if we could gather ALL the whole-cell reconstruction data that's out there in one place? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/11

@ucsusa.bsky.social is running a "science advocacy training webinar on writing letters to the editor to inform and influence different audiences about the impacts of federal cuts to science and science workers" next Thursday April 17 🧪 It will be recorded for those who register but cannot attend

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

REPOSTING this here just to officially leave "the other place" Our work on the role of endogenous electric fields in guiding collective cell migration during #morphogenesis is out @naturematerials.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

How is mitochondrial volume maintained across successive generations of dividing cells? In our new preprint, we show how fission yeast cells use mitochondrial activity to control division timing and maintain mitochondrial homeostasis! (1/n) 📖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

Posting this here now that the orange man has erasing scientific literature. What people, perhaps without any strong opinions on this, never understand is the barriers that academics have to overcome to publish papers on gender and trans identities. He can burn the journals, but we will keep PDFs 😘

Aaaand that’s a wrap at Asia Pacific Microscopy Congress 2025 in sunny Brisbane, attended by a big team from Single Molecule Science. Lots of exciting new 🔬 tools and translation in biomedical investigations. @ijayas.bsky.social @arindam92.bsky.social

U2OS labeled with OMP25-GFP, an outer membrane marker for mitochondria. Left shows a zoom-in on the dimmer cell. Imaged by OPM (oblique plane microscope). #Microscopy

Reading the paper in Cell about how to close the scissor plots in gender representation at senior academic positions, I feel just a touch of pessimism. Having reached a level of seniority (middle management) I didn’t think I ever would, I read these great ideas wanting more, much more /1.

My lab at UMass Chan Med School uses a variety of approaches to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of membrane traffic. Striving to make academic science a more diverse, equitable, welcoming and inclusive place. Incoming President for the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)! Opinions are mine.

I am delighted to share our new preprint in which we reveal the crucial role for mechanical forces in myoblast fusion. Great work from Yoann, Sushil and Aleksandra and great collaboration with Christophe Marcelle and Amin Doostmohammadi! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

I agree with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social's great synthesis here, it's a super exciting time for physical biology! We are in the process of transitioning from simply cataloguing the parts to actually understanding how they interact to produce the high-level behaviors we see.

Super cool work! Congrats to the authors!

So proud of Adam Fenton and his work defining the role of FMRP in the local regulation of mitochondrial fission in neurons via local translation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sunny Sydney Friday ☀️☀️

I *see* you BSKY. Cleared #lightsheet #microscopy of the human #eye from Marie Darche in Paris and rendered in www.syglass.io.

Check out our new quick guide in @currentbiology.bsky.social, all about Mitochondrial Nucleoids! t.co/QFTQrevZNu

Super excited to see all this activity on BlueSky! 👋 I'm a cell biologist/biophysicist interested in how the cell interior is organised by stochastic interactions between the cytoskeleton, motor proteins and organelles. I also care deeply about equity and inclusion in academia. 1/2

So happy to see familiar faces again! ❤️ For the new folks - I'm a neuroscientist by training and I'm passionate about scicomm and women in STEM. Previous works in this space include indscicomm.blog with @abhishekchari.bsky.social and biaswatchindia.com with @vaishananth.bsky.social

Final week for applications for up to 2 postdoc posts in advanced biomedical (super-resolution) microscopy with my team in Sydney, based at @singmolsci.bsky.social. The post is especially suited for ECRs interested in single molecule imaging, &/or image analysis. International applicants welcome 🧪

Interested in studying Computational Cell Biophysics at UCL? Applications are open for our innovative MRes programme at the interface between physics and biology! ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/mres-ccb Watch this video to find out more: mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/9h335dB3

Back on Twitter (I refuse to call it the other name) after a long-ish hiatus, and a challenging 2023. Here's hoping for a happier, science-filled 2024! Cat tax:

Latest paper from our team on variations in cellular staining with 14 different fluorescent dye esters when combined with expansion microscopy. Strategic deployment of these dyes with expansion 🔬 can not only provide EM-like images, but also highlight different sets of cellular organelles. 🧪

Thanks for highlighting our (@polybiotique.bsky.social) report and its coverage by @dyanilewis.bsky.social, Izzy. As we mention in our report, fixing this will require clearly earmarked resources, and importantly, the will and strong commitment to equity from the leadership in Indian academia.

“TIFR’s hiring policies and evaluation processes for scientists and academicians are completely gender-neutral,” they said. Their base rate is 8.8% Are these 'gender-neutral processes' working? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our thoughts on how to make conferences more inclusive and sustainable - with @vaishananth.bsky.social and a great international team. Check it out here: rdcu.be/dqHEM

"..the much aspired (true) diversity in STEM may never arrive until our narrow definitions of excellence as well as the myopia that leads us to overlook systemic inequalities are corrected". A must-read about the myth of meritocracy in academia. So grateful to be in the dept. headed by Izzy

Hoping to start some conversations around Indian #WomenInSTEM with our work! @vaishananth.bsky.social and I founded BiasWatchIndia back in 2020 during the pandemic and started collecting both base rate and conference data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Some of us are surviving. Yes. This is obvious. Some of us are thriving. Some of us squeaking by on fumes and prayers. Most of us yo-yo between these extremes...we will never reach our potential as scientists. Not in the way we witnessed the generation or two before us reach theirs."

Congratulations to the winners of the Nobel prize! I hope their stories, particularly KK's, force us to confront the misogyny, bias and assumptions about "impact" and "excellence" that very likely limit the recognition of similar innovations that could improve our world.

Our PNAS paper is out pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We showed that mRNA for microtubule polymerase XMAP215 is recruited to Drosophila oocyte by dynein. It produces more XMAP215 so that dynein can recruit more XMAP215 mRNA. This feedback loop is required to maintain oocyte identity.

First attempts at micropatterning in the lab - tubulin staining in HEK293 cells. Thanks to @ManuelTHERY for getting us started on this journey!

First attempts at micropatterning in the lab! Tubulin staining in HEK293 cells.

Finally made it on this platform! And to celebrate I have to share some #Ichthyosporea beauty! #Multicellularity | #Animal #Origins | #Evolution | #Embryo | #Development | #Protist | #Biodiversity | #Expansion #Microscopy | #Cell #Biology | #Cytoskeleton

🚨📢 SAVE THE DATE! pombe2025, The 12th International Fission yeasts meeting will be held on August 3rd-8th, 2025 @BostonCollege Stay tuned for more info in the coming months. Please spread the word.

If you're a woman of color or nonbinary person of color in ecology, evolutionary bio, or allied fields, sign up for our mentorship programs! We have both peer mentorship and 1-on-1 mentorship programs. Deadline to join is September 15. Please share widely! #WOCinEEB forms.gle/aayHUWwhzroF...

Hello world👋! I'm a cell biologist/biophysicist and my lab investigates how stochastic motor-driven processes integrate to give rise to intracellular organisation. I love all things cytoskeleton and motor proteins. I care deeply about equity and inclusion in science.

🧪🔬Really excited about this meeting, hoping that we can bring the global evolutionary cell biology community together. Join us in Spain next year! Registration opens in October www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

"students reported that through the process of conducting and publishing their research, they developed specific competencies...Further, they reported this process enabled them to identify as contributing members of the greater scientific community." micropubs for the fucking win! 🙌🏽🙌🏽

MORNING EVERYONE “One of the benefits of Twitter was how it created a sense of community for scientists, particularly for those from under-represented groups.” “Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty…” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

Here's a bit more about our paper just out in the Journal of Cell Biology, “Presynapses contain distinct actin nanostructures” (Twitter trained me to come up with short titles 🤏 and long threads 🧵, which are also doable in BlueSky I hope) 1/23

Check out @lets_experiment project by Greg (Postdoc) & Jack (PhD student) from the lab! Greg and Jack are awesome scientists working towards delineating antidepressant effects & hallucinations of psychedelics to inform future drug dev. Back them here:

The @ictpnews Workshop on non-equilibrium fluctuations in life at beautiful Trieste kicks off with a talk from Jim Hudspeth @RockefellerUniv Full program : @edgarroldankb

Felicity @felicitydavis2 and I have had numerous conversions in DEI (or the lack of it) in academia. Happy to see this article (with @theeliaslab) that collates our convos and provides a framework for inclusion. (1/2)

I’m finally ready to talk about the experience of appalling mistreatment we had with peer review of one of our papers. This was by no means the only time I’ve had to contend with bias in academic publishing, but it definitely is the worst thus far. A 🧵 (1/n)