957 proposals were submitted in the latest round of ERC Synergy applications. They expect to fund 50 which means around 5% success rate. This is really not sustainable and a lot of people are likely avoiding doing this knowing how poor the chances are. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Postdoctoral position in the team of Alessandro Barducci in the CBS, focusing on multiscale simulations of RNA-driven condensates, with applications in synthetic biology. More information : www.cbs.cnrs.fr/images/jobs/... The position is expected to start in early 2026, with some flexibility.

Next up, we are having Dr. Thomas Quail (EMBL) giving us a talk entitled "Biophysical Principles of Self-Organising Genomes" in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series next week. For more info, please visit cytophys.org

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

Join us this Wednesday for an exciting talk from Dr. Matthias Heinemann (University of Groningen) in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org

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

🧠 Join us @uzh-ch.bsky.social ! We are a new lab looking for PhDs, Postdocs & Master’s students interested in studying how human neural systems emerge & go awry using brain organoids, light-sheet imaging & genomics. 🚀 Deadline for LSZGS 1st Nov! www.lifescience-graduateschool.uzh.ch/en.html.

Polysomes and mRNA control the biophysical properties of the eukaryotic cytoplasm. A recent study by the Weis lab shows that intracellular diffusion is enhanced when polysomes are disassembled or when mRNA levels are reduced in eukaryotic cells. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

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 🧵 👇

This Wed, we'll have Dr. Allan Drummond (U Chicago) giving a talk on "Rethinking stress granules" in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm series. Join us. More info, visit cytophys.org

Next week, we have Ulises Diaz from UCSF giving us a talk in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org. Join us. @wallaceucsf.bsky.social

For many people (me included) writing is thinking If you're not thinking you're just the pretty front (wo)man in the band Do you want to be Noel or Liam? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Please join us for a talk from Dr. Aurélien Roux (University of Geneva) in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org

✨Thanks to amazing students @tobiaskletter.bsky.social, postdocs @biswashere.bsky.social & collaborators @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social‬ & ALMF @embl.org ✨ 👉Cytoplasmic material properties control spindle architecture and scaling 👉 out today @natcellbio.nature.com rdcu.be/eqPr8

Please join us this Wednesday for a Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm Seminar from Dr. Alan Kay (U of Iowa). For more details, visit cytophys.org

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density, which usually isn’t attainable. Lipid-CLEM brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Did you ever wonder how cytoplasmic properties influence mitotic spindle architecture? Come join us for an exciting seminar next Wednesday by @simonereber.bsky.social

A comparative analysis of planarian regeneration specificity reveals tissue polarity contributions of the axial cWnt signalling gradient. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.01.626254v1

We are excited to have Dr. Karsten Weis as our speaker next week. Join us. For more info, visit cytophys.org