Excited to see this paper out @pnas.org Microbial self-organization in response to self-made oxygen gradients! 🦠 🔄 🍥

PhD or Master's position available for Fall 2026! Interested in how actin drives cell crawling, eating, dividing, or osmoregulation? What about pathogenesis of a brain-eating amoeba? Or eukaryotic evolution? If so, apply through my website: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/cont... Please share!

We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Excited to release our latest work: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥 Bluetorial follows! [1/8]

1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to release our latest work: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥 Bluetorial follows! [1/8]

I'm so happy that I can finally share the results of my first postdoc paper with @baym.lol!!! Turns out plasmids are an amazing system to study multi-scale evolution and we can track within-cell and between-cell dynamics! (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...

The 🪱 mania continues! In our latest study, led by Rosa, we explored the locomotion and dynamics of living worms—acting as active polymers—navigating a porous environment made of 3D-printed pillar arrays. And we found something surprising...

Spatial population dynamics of bacterial colonies with social antibiotic resistance #PNAS by @marlis.bsky.social and late Kevin B. Wood www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Stickiness matters! From powder handling to geophysical flows, cohesion in granular material plays a crucial role. We review in Soft Matter @roysocchem.bsky.social experimental approaches to create and control inter-particle adhesion pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

🄱🄸🄾🄵🄸🄻🄼 🄱🄸🄾🄿🄷🅈🅂🄸🄲🅂 Fascinating work from Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte, Sujit Data, et al at CalTech on polymer-induced entropic attractions that hinder diffusion and lead bacteria to form long spaghetti-like cables within mucus and biofilms Paper in Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément

Starter Pack: Collective #CellMigration /Dynamics is growing. Looking at related emergent phenomena eg. #intercallation, dorsal closure or branching #morphogenesis? Reach out! Also modelers, soft-matter physicists & YOUNG scientists etc etc! go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3 #cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science

💥Beyond happy 💥 Our work is now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... With Gloria Canales & @mazi1.bsky.social we studied how the single celled alga Pyrocystis lunula 🌙 move their chloroplast in response to strong light. Get ready for some fun mechanics, signals and organelle motion! 🧵

Deformable bodies relaxing in a nematic liquid crystal. (I settled on Paraview!) I want to eat them. A review of 'Rigid and deformable bodies in nematic liquid crystals', with the amazing Tom Chandler, is out today in Phys. Rev. Fluids. @apsphysics.bsky.social 🧪⚛️ journals.aps.org/prfluids/abs...

Hello Bluesky! I will post about what we do in my lab on Fluid-Structure Interactions, Fluid Mechanics, Flow Visualizations, and Nonlinear Dynamics. www.umass.edu/fsi/index.html

Do you feel stressed? Is it one thing or a combination? Turns out bacteria can’t handle stress either! Excited to share my first first author paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Combining multiple stressors blocks bacterial migration and growth! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian activist who is serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.” nyti.ms/3Q6O3sL

7/ #31nightsofhalloween #microscreepy Gummy worms! ... or the tracks of cells before (green) vs after (orange) being squashed to a 5 micron ceiling. They tend to crawl faster when squished. Circles are the pillars holding up the ceiling.

We had a lot of fun doing this experiment! amoebae in a microgel ball pit!

The non-attached biofilm aggregate CommsBio Review by Kasper Kragh, Tim-Tolker Nielsen and Mads Lichtenberg www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Excited to share our latest work on the captivating "Interfacial activity dynamics of confined active droplets" now published at Journal of Fluid Mechanics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...