🧵 I've been meaning to write a #Skytorial on our recently posted prepring in which we show evidence that the Golgi 🥞 is a mechanoresponsive organelle. Extracellular mechanical forces also tune Golgi export capacity! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now isn't this just the best reason to accept to review JCS papers as well as our sister journals Development, Biology Open, DMM and J Experimental Biology!

I was Chair of @biologists.bsky.social when we started this initiative, the brainwave of the @stevenkelly.bsky.social It was an imaginative idea and I am thrilled to see this landmark Remember: @biologists.bsky.social are the goodies in scientific publishing!

A cell finding its way through the matrix, imaged with @joycemeiri.bsky.social on LLS.

What an excellent thing! Thank you @biologists.bsky.social And as someone who grew up in the Lake District extra great for this protected tree to be by Winderemere.

@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer. Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions. Please repost! More details: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

ICYMI an idea for a teaching session. Someone on Mastodon suggested it could be a podcast with contributions from the authors…

Our next extraordinary biologist is Tshepiso Majelantle, early-career researcher and postdoc at Witwatersrand University, South Africa, who attended @biologists.bsky.social's first Global South Workshop in 2024. #100biologists #NPAW2025

IDEA: "Where are they now?" but for big splash papers published in the 2000s. quantixed.org/2025/09/18/w...

Lovely to see David Stephens highlighted in 100 years of cell biologists at J. Cell Sci., alongside Linda Amos, Peter Medawar, Juan Bonifacino, and others journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Aggrieved editor post incoming... At @lsajournal.org we offer to consider manuscripts that have been declined after review at one of our partner journals. We have to be fast, fair, and accurate. It's hard! Instead of saying "no thanks" this author wanted to make a point.

Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

Come and join us in our new home - great colleagues and brand new facilities

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ICYMI: Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding #MRC #AcademicSky

From MBoC... Dr. Jonathan Scholey (UC Davis) highlights the reciprocal roles of membranes & the microtubule cytoskeleton in the mitotic spindle—regulating spindle mechanics, partitioning organelles, & supporting cell division. 🔗 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology

News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n

To expand the Fast & Fair peer review experiment to more subject areas, we are inviting our community members to join the Biology Open peer reviewer pool. Your participation and commitment are key to the success of this initiative. Apply at bit.ly/428Cszt #fastandfairpeerreview

Previous preprint is now published in RSC Chemical Biology. If you are interested in plasma membrane labeling, see the paper! 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Exciting preprint on organelle mechanoadaptation from Stephanie Miserey and Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social! Extracellular forces modulate Golgi secretory output by tuning carrier biogenesis via microtubule acetylation, DAG, and PKD. Golgi is a mechanoregulator! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #Reproducibility

preLighters go live! A light and lively face-to-face conversation between the preLighters @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh and the researchers probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez will be hosted at the @focalplane.bsky.social webinar. 4 Sept, 14.00-15.00 BST Tune in!

The Institute for Molecular Bioscience is seeking an exceptional academic leader to be the new Director of the Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery and lead our centre consisting of 10 group leaders, 40 staff and approximately 50 HDR students. Come and join us in sunny Brisbane!

🚨 New call for preLighters!🚨 Help us highlight the most exciting biological #preprints. Share your insights, build your profile, and be part of a supportive community! 🌍 Interested? Apply today & help shape the future of science publishing! 📢 More info: prelights.biologists.com/news/join-th...

Nice cell division observed on Zeiss LLS7 yesterday! Sample: @romainguiet.bsky.social

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please repost!

Final year PhD students, I know you’re desperately trying to finish experiments/revisions/submissions/write a thesis & just survive - but please spare a few minutes to apply to your dream postdoc labs. It easily takes A YEAR from first contact, even if everything goes to plan on both sides.

Automated optogenetic control of hundreds of cells in parallel. Each cell is individually steered, collectively acting as a "tissue printer". Preprint & code out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💥 Another Cryo-ET study from the Way lab by ‪@miguel-virus-cells.bsky.social‬ in collaboration with Rosenthal lab @crick.ac.uk‬ examining Vaccinia virus egress 😀👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ShapeSpaceExplorer: Analysis of morphological transitions in migrating cells using similarity-based shape space mapping https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671051v1

Thompson, Stevenson et al @bristoluni.bsky.social show that two cis-Golgi golgins, GMAP210 & Golgin-160, have distinct roles in maintaining #Golgi organization & that both are required to support the efficient secretion, assembly, and modification of ECM proteins rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Deadline for funded places has been extended to the 5th of September! So if your a PhD, post doc, newish PI and like imaging plants - this is a great chance to hang out and talk with some experts in a fancy English countryside house 🌱🔬😎

This is an airyscan confocal movie of mitochondria (white) moving around in a mouse astrocyte. Actin filaments are in orange and microtubules are in blue.

Beautiful mural honoring Henrietta Lacks painted by Baltimore community members popped up near Hopkins med campus recently.

Sad news - Catherine was an exceptional cell biologist with a force-of-nature personality that brought passion and integrity to everything that she did. She will be greatly missed.

Are you in the North of England and interested in Cell Biology? If so, join us this September for the NECB forum 2025 in Liverpool. We welcome you in our exciting city. Share your latest Cell Biology Research across model systems with peers and colleagues. Students, ECRs, all welcome!

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Our protocol for gene editing is online and all plasmids are on @addgene.bsky.social! CRISPR away everybody and get in touch if you need anything 🤩

Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna, who we have had the pleasure of working with at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, this is a great opportunity not to be missed! Just 2 more days to apply for a funded place if you are an ECR

Did you know that JCS publishes Tools & Resources articles? These articles describe a new tool, technique or resource that will have a significant impact on #cellbiology research. Tell people about your latest tool/resource and send your article our way! journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

In case you've ever wondered, I talked with @amjeve.bsky.social about science, myself, and the future of #DevBio as part of the Pathway to Independence Fellowship @biologists.bsky.social 🧪 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

What if the “trouble finding reviewers" problem is just an "overzealous junk email filtering" problem? Fished a second reminder peer review invitation out my junk email folder this morning. Never saw the first one... #PeerReview 🧪

Interested in gene expression? How about membrane proteins? Both, you say? Then here's a job you might be interested in with Warwick's newest group leader, @iqbaldulloo.bsky.social Pass it on

Excited to share our latest work with @simonbullock11.bsky.social! We looked at how diverse mRNAs get selected for subcellular localization and it turns out that a single protein can recognize different RNA elements using shared features that weren’t apparent before. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Open questions remain. Intracellular membranes have not so far been confirmed in Asgard archaea. And what of the origin of other eukaryotic organelles? Could they be stabilised versions of ancient tubular carriers? I'd love to hear your thoughts! New preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Congrats to Sandy Schmid , a scientific hero, winner of @ascbiology.bsky.social's E.B Wilson Medal. She shaped our understanding of molecular mechanisms & regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, is a leader in the cell biology community & a remarkable mentor🧪 www.ascb.org/society-news...

Hi everyone! New to the community and thrilled to be starting a lab @warwicklifesci.bsky.social focused on the intersection of membrane protein biogenesis and gene regulation. Looking forward to connect with fellow researchers. #AcademicSky #NewLab #CellBiology #Science #Research #MembraneProteins

I was looking through my old microscopy videos, and found this perfect shot of a macropinosome forming through the collapse of an actin-driven membrane ruffle (cyan). Immediately, CRYI-A (orange) is recruited to the vesicle to finish the job. Still in awe with this process after all those years!