Check out our latest paper in Acta Biomaterialia!! Excellent work by my colleagues Nele Vaes and Maxim Vovchenko on chondrocytes and #mechanobiology of #OA ! 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This is the first #3DTFM on chondrocytes! Initially, we thought they wouldn't do much but...👀

Our paper describing the development of ShapeSpaceExplorer is now out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... The software and documentation is available here: github.com/cmcb-warwick... Explainer thread below.

Interested in the biophysics of organoids? We just published a review in Dev Cell—take a look! dlvr.it/TPyTb8 #Organoids #Biophysics

A Perspective on 3D traction force microscopy provides practical experimental and computational guidance for users. @barrasa-fano.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm very happy to share my first article as a corresponding author published in @natmethods.nature.com !! 😍 Some groups (like us) have developed complex 3DTFM methods in the last 15 years. BUT its usage in studies that help better understand disease or development has been almost non-existent.

🫶 Muchas gracias @hectorsocas.bsky.social por tus palabras al principio del episodio de hoy de Coffee Break. open.spotify.com/episode/6h0P... Fue un verdadero placer conoceros a @conchilillo.bsky.social y a tí en el evento de divulgación científica que organizamos en CEBE el pasado lunes.

A paper in Nature Biotechnology presents CellWhisperer, which uses multimodal learning of transcriptomes and text to answer questions about single-cell RNA-sequencing data. go.nature.com/3XqzItR 🧬 🧪

¡Qué ganas de que llegue el 1 de diciembre! Si estás por Bruselas, no dudes en pasarte para conocer a 🌠 @hectorsocas.bsky.social y a 👀 @conchilillo.bsky.social !! Gratis y con tapas al final! Resérva aquí👇🏼 www.eventbrite.be/e/entradas-i... #CEBE_belgica @institutocervantes.bsky.social

Here’s a little cosmic perspective for your day. ✨ A profound and beautiful reminder from Carl Sagan that we are literally stardust:

We finally made it over here ! And excited to share our new paper on mechanical forces regulating stem cell plasticity in colorectal cancer, involving force transduction via mechanosensitive calcium channels! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩 We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What is a promoter? And how does it work? We very happy to share our latest work trying to understand enhancer-promoter compatibility. I am very excited about the results of @blanka-majchrzycka.bsky.social, which changed the way I think about promoters www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣Announcing the 4th edition of the EMBL‑IBEC Conference on “Engineering Multicellular Systems”, taking place 11–13 March 2026 in Barcelona. Exploring organoids, mechanobiology, embryo models, organ-on-chip systems, multiomics and more. Abstracts open now! events.ibecbarcelona.eu/embl-ibec-co...

>2,100 research projects funded by the NIH were terminated in 2025...In this comment, patients, care partners, and scientists share our perspective about what's at stake...and why advocacy is essential to our path forward @natureportfolio.nature.com @apha.org @aclu.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Awesome talk by @halloulab.bsky.social at #EMBLSpatialBiology. May the force be with you in biophysical phenotypes of spatial transcriptomics; out now in @natmethods.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Borges, A., & Chara, O. (2024). Peeking into the future: inferring mechanics in dynamical tissues. Biochemical Society transactions, 52(6), 2579–2592. #EpithelialMechanicsReview buff.ly/sntsjqb

I see that lots of scientists are posting AI-generated summaries of their papers on LinkedIn. I still like much more the thread versions in 🦋. Maybe because they are typically not AI-generated and it feels much more natural and less disgusting 😅 I hope scientific 🦋 doesn't die out...

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

The closing session is already underway. It's official, #cellmech2025 has come to an end 🥲. See you in 2027!!

I couldn't have imagined a better start for @cellmech2025.bsky.social 😍 And finishing the day with an email that starts like this makes it even better 😍🙈 #cellmech2025

😍Ready to spend 4 fantastic days here, during @cellmech2025.bsky.social #cellmech2025 !! #Leuven

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🥳 👉 rdcu.be/eATn3 We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The universe is not obligated to make sense to you. But you are obligated to try.

Hi I’m @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social , a postdoc interested in the mechanical induction of topological defect-mediated morphogenesis. I use different organisms to study the role of topological defects shaping development & regeneration. Below is an insight to the field!

🚨 Exciting News! As we count down to #CellMech2025, we’re highlighting our incredible keynote speakers! 🌟 (1/2) 🧬🔬 Dr. Pere Roca-Cusachs (@ibecbarcelona.eu) explores how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces! From transcription factor mechanosensitivity to ECM mechanics.

So great to have you in Leuven @gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social !!

Innovar consiste en solucionar problemas, no en crear nuevas necesidades.

You can still send your abstract! #mechanobiology #conference #cellmechanics

🏯 😍 Our conference will take place at the KULeuven University Hall !! But this beautiful building has gone through a lot... do you want to know about it? Thread! 🧵 👇 (1/5)

Hola #CienciaÑ ! Desde Científicos Españoles en Bélgica (CEBE) hemos lanzado la 4a edición de nuestro concurso Ciencia Con Ñ, donde premiamos a libros de divulgación científica escritos en español! Tenemos finalistas de dos categorías diferentes! 🧵👇

⚠️ Our abstract submission system will be closed on Sunday!! Hurry up and submit: https://buff.ly/3CH94pW

En los tiempos que corren, con la desinformación, los bulos y la anticiencia campando a sus anchas, que desaparezca una editorial como Next Door, cuyo objetivo era enfrentar todo eso con rigor científico, humor y cercanía, es una muy mala noticia. Gracias por publicar libros que son un refugio ❤️

👋Hey #Mechanobiology community! If you work on any of these topics you need to come and present your work at @cellmech2025.bsky.social, really: 🫀Developmental mechanics 👩‍💻Modeling 😷Cancer&Disease ⚙️Mechanotransduction 〰️ECM Biomechanics 🫧Organelles 🧫Cytoskeleton 🔬Bioengineering&Emerging Technologies

#Mechanobiology community! Start writing your abstract and submit soon to join us at @cellmech2025.bsky.social in Leuven 🇧🇪 !! 👀👇🏻

Caillier, @pwoakes.bsky.social et al. find that T cells form #integrin mediated focal adhesions to pull themselves through confined spaces. https://buff.ly/4jU4e9C In #Mechanobiology 2025: https://buff.ly/3EK0uaq

Despite the current uncertainty of being a scientist, I am excited to share our manuscript demonstrating an interesting mechanism of how swirling motion of breast cancer cells align collagen fibers radially at the tumor-stroma interface to enable their invasion (1/11) @thechaudhurilab.bsky.social

Hi, #mechanobiology community! 🇧🇪Join us in Belgium for the 10th Edition of @cellmech2025.bsky.social !! 👀Look at the list of speakers!! ... and there will be more exciting announcements soon... 🎨 And you can already submit your abstract 👍

From the teams of Hadi Nia, Rakesh Jain and Lance Munn, this Review defines the four physical hallmarks of cancers and discusses the methods and technologies for assessing each hallmark. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do cells translate molecular forces into mechanical actions? 🧬🔬💪 Our new research combines Traction Force Microscopy (TFM) with FRET-based tension sensors to uncover how focal adhesions manage vinculin tension and cellular traction. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📚Today I've finished a beautiful book and I'm starting another one. 😍... and I've already found a lovely connection between them... Llego tarde @aberron.bsky.social, pero lo cojo con ganas 🙂

Very useful toolbox for Abaqus-Matlab communication: nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentra... Until now I was using horrible Fortran user subroutines to write output files with displacements, stresses, forces, etc. Not needed anymore! 😍 🤓Using it for my collagen #TFM simulations...

🔥 As promised, a thread on our new paper on @biorxivpreprint! First-authored by @icfortunato.bsky.social (experiments) & David Brückner (theory), under the guidance of @ehannezo.bsky.social, @xaviertrepat.bsky.social , and myself www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵⬇️ 1/20

Last week I showed to MSc students this iconic movie of a #leukocyte chasing a #bacteria, just wait... Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s ! (as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy) #CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social

✈️🇪🇺 If you are a researcher planning to come to Europe you should listen to this episode 🎧 I also highly recommend following @bioeng-talk.bsky.social and listening to the previous episodes. I sometimes join them and say things. 👇🏽

Pre-announcing the 10th Biennial European CellMech conference organized in Leuven 🇧🇪 from September 30th to October 3rd, 2025. cellmech2025.org Save the date !

I love seeing stories published back to back. One of my favourite duos 👇I wish there was a ‘back story’ published by the teams….. @lammerdinglab.bsky.social

👋Hello #mechanobiology community! Next year we are organizing the CellMech conference in Leuven! We will soon be announcing (super amazing) invited speakers, registration deadlines, etc I'll try to keep the🦋community updated, but best is to subscribe to the mailing list 📧👇 cellmech2025.org