Episode 17 - perhaps my favorite yet. How do you write a forum.image.sc post that will get you the answers you need without revealing information you don't want to tell? @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I go through what the experts need to know to help you. Post your sci q's today on forum.image.sc !

I’ve been regularly volunteering at a food bank for about a year and please, if you want to help, consider donating cash. For $3, they can provide 15 meals and what they can do with the money you might spend on a few cans can be converted to vastly more in fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, or meat.

"Electroboy" is my memoir about my battle with bipolar disorder and which is being made into a feature film with Timothee Chalamet. The book is out of print - I have h/c and p/b copies which I inscribe to you and ship overnight to you. The cost is $30 for a h/c and $20 for a p/c - send me a DM!

This is one of my fav bac cell div papers. It's remarkable how much we've learned about cytokinesis in the past decade, and how much we still don't know. This paper harmonizes many of the disagreements in the field, like what limits construction rates (1/4)

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!

Collective cell motion has many forms, but rotation is the coolest of them all. I'm @onenimesa.bsky.social , and in this short🧵, I'll highlight some instances of global tissue rotation like this one from @BauschLab

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

We all need both government and each other to survive in society. Let's contribite to support those who need.

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🍀🔬 CSLD5-mediated cell wall remodelling regulates tissue mechanics and shoot meristem growth @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Movies: Cell division orientation in wild-type (attached) and csld5 (comment) shoot apical meristem.

New preprint up now! Interested in the evolution of halophily within DPANN archaea we decided to investigate the sister phylum to the Nanohaloarchaeota, GTDB phylum EX4484-52, for which we propose the name Caliditerrarchaeota www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out this awesome study from my phenomenally talented colleague @accorsi-alice.bsky.social ! Apple snails can regrow their eyes! How do they do this? 👀 Read below ⬇️ to find out more! #regeneration

I'm tired of people "liking" my #Epstein and #Trump posts. The point, folks, is to "repost" them. Spread the word about these two disgusting #pedophiles and #rapists

With my memoir, "Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania," a chronicle of my battle with bipolar disorder about to be made into a feature film, I'm sharing this interview with Stephen Fry the English actor, comedian, writer, director, narrator, and broadcaster. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUpt...

Great opportunity! The Uni Vienna has launched a call (APART) for 4-funding for outstanding postdocs from a US institution. The host lab has to nominate by 1 August a candidate for further selection. Anyone interested in our work please contact me by email with CV/motivation letter. Hurry up!

Are you developing with TrackMate? If yes let's get in touch: I plan to make API breaking changes in the future version (v8, soonish) that will break existing detector and segmentation algorithms integration. Details on the forum: forum.image.sc/t/upcoming-b...

Excited to share our new paper in @cellreports.bsky.social that reshapes our understanding of chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots! Our work dives into the origins of the machinery that structures our very genomes. 🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA

Alright fellas. Come one come all, #amateurbiology poster presentation at #asmicrobe on our first set of methylation screening results on Halococcus. Come ask about an exciting new finding I couldn't put on the poster! #archaeasky EEB 1147 🧪🧫🦠

FINALLY out in #Science Advances! 🎉 3 years of hard work, a fantastic team — and I’m proud to be first and co-corresponding author! It's about Plexin signaling driving collective cell migration & organ sculpting. Check out the videos 😀 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #DevBio #CellBio #Microscopy

Special kudos to 1rst authors @serenaflori.bsky.social @fmikus.bsky.social @eliottflaum.bsky.social, @embl.org EMCF facilities, @yschwab.bsky.social, @embltrec.bsky.social for the TREC samples & of course unique ExM gourous, collaborators and friends @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social

Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳 tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2

The best post-COVID meeting I've attended. Each talk was a "wait, what?" moment. It is beautiful to see how technology and the expansion of different subfields have pushed prokaryotic cell biology from a model organism-focused enterprise to one that is question- and discovery-driven.

First post on Bluesky! Our paper on previously uncultured Group-TE Glissomonad protists has been published. Video teaser below. #protists #ProtistsOnSky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

XKCD’s take on archaea

Reposting as I hear about a German Pubmed-like initiative: let's build on Europe PMC which is already great

What it has become a classic review published every ~5y, Polschroder (UPenn) and Schulze (RIT) summarize the Mol-Cell Bio technical advances for Haloferax volcanii , the "E. coli" of the archaeal models. Proud of our community progress given the genome was published only 15y ago! asm.social/2qE

🧵 Excited to share our latest preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We developed a method to generate high-affinity binders against membrane proteins in their native-like environment! 🧪 #MembraneProteins #Nanobodies

Preprint: IntAct-U-ExM enables robust, isoform-specific expansion microscopy of actin networks in yeast and mammalian cells. A cool study led by @anubhavdhar.bsky.social in collaboration with Sudarshan and Deepak Nair. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today is the inaugural Duke Climate and Fungi symposium. Arturo Casadevall is the first keynote speaker. “Whenever the earth does poorly, the fungi do well” mgm.duke.edu/about-mgm/se...

AN IMMENSE WORLD: YOUNG READERS EDITION is out today! 🥳 I’m really grateful to AnnMarie Anderson for adapting it, Rebecca Mills for illustrating, Tom Russell for shepherding, and Rose Eveleth for reading the audiobook. (And it’s dedicated to Typo.) bookshop.org/p/books/an-i...

We don’t protect science by automating it. We protect it by funding the people who dedicate their lives to it. #AI #ScienceMatters

May is Foster Care month. I'm a foster and foster-adoptive parent, and have served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) since 2021. I have complicated feelings about participating in a system that is bad for kids. And cuts to social programs will only serve to push more kids into care.

well, that's what you get by trying to download all metadata from ScienceDirect. Now my IP is blocked there 🫣

Well well well… On top of everything, we have to play the game “Will my $10k quote come out as $10k or $20k?”

Excited to share new research led by our very own @lingdong-shi.bsky.social showing that many archaeal 23S rRNAs are circularized in active ribosomes. Check out the preprint below.

Apart of the sad week, I want to celebrate my quick but inspiring trip to UIUC, home of Archaea. I was gifted the nicest thing I ever owned: a set square that belonged to Ralph Wolfe, pioneer of methanogenic Archaea (Wolfe Cycle). TY, Abigail Finn and Chemical Biology Fellows. You're fantastic!

schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky #Archaea #ArchaeaSky #SymbioSky

Every time I review a grant/paper, I see the sentence: "Little is known about the mechanisms behind xxx" No hate from me (as I have done the same), but I don't understand why we do that. Is there anything at all that we feel comfortable claiming to know a lot? Please share examples in your field.

Hi, everyone! My name is Alex. I'm a microbiologist/cell biologist/biochemist, and I'm sharing some of my career biography today for #YoungScientistNetworking. 1/

I'm the biggest fan of Rikki. Elegant physics. Breathtaking biology. If you're looking for a seminar speaker...she's a fantastic communicator. Congrats for the new work, @rikkigarner.bsky.social!

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

Cell biology is producing mountains of microscopy data, usually a given paper got that data for some purpose, but what if you could find relevant data that you could use to answer your own questions? in her new preprint, @marymirvis.bsky.social develops Systematic Review methods to do just that

Excited to announce the Molecular Biology of Archaea (MBoA) 2026! Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated to Archaea.

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...

My lab and Chuck Farah's at the University of São Paulo (USP) are seeking a postdoc to join an exciting project focused on applying structural biology to novel and unexplored targets in antibiotic discovery.

What a beautiful work. Use a spectral detector and a drone to track the flow of your labeled microbes (like algae blooming) in their habitat. Put the detector in a microscope and you can study dense biofilms, microbiome, winogradsky collumn etc www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#hiring! come join us at the Advanced BioImaging Center at UC Berkeley to help us build the #CellObservatory! 1/2 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04858

Is the genome just a bag of genes? A new paper in Science now reports that for two thirds of an organisms' genes the position along the chromosome is actually very tightly constrained! Amazing work from my favorite night scientist Martin Lercher and his team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Finally got around reading this awesome study by the @archaeon-alex.bsky.social lab and collaborators and now I really wanna now which other microbes would show this behavior and whether they would show this phenotype in situ/vivo! Great work Alex and team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Beautiful work from Rados et al.: if archaea are exposed to compressive forces, they form tissue-like structures...and guess what? Scutoids emerge! (further evidence that "our" shape is a universal solution for efficient cell packing: scutoids rock! 🤓) @lmescu.bsky.social @epimechfc.bsky.social