Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪

It was about time...

Cancer Research UK is fed up of paying too much for open access publishing so they are completely stopping funding this activity: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...

I really wish Wellcome and UKRI would follow the lead of CRUK!

70 yo insomniac here, this is a great start but we must also drop the glam pub reward effects during critical evaluation of researchers for promotion and research support. It's easier to get off the glam train once you've arrived. Alternative transportation is necessary.

Our Cell Scientist to Watch is Helene Knævelsrud @helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social. We spoke to Helene about her career, her research and her advice on mentorship. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #autophagy #kidneycancer #mentorship #conferences #procrastination #advocacy #beer

Presenting our exciting discovery of pointed end elongation at the Indian Organelle Biology meeting!

Golgi organization is altered on loss of adhesion. Axl inhibition leads to AMPK activation that controls golgi organization through Arf1 activation. Shared talk w/ student Vaishnavi Raut who presents link between autophagy & golgi organization. Nagaraj Balasubramanian, IISER Pune #OBMT26

The luminal domain (LD) region of Seipin/Fld1 is dispensable for lipid droplet biogenesis & function. Fld1-∆LD has gain of function activity but the LD is imp for TAG levels in the cell. Amit Khatri, Vineet Choudhary lab, AIIMS-New Delhi #OBMT26

So excited to have been awarded the ASCB COMPASS Outreach Grant for our proposal of “Beyond the Data” 🔬 The Aiken Lab will host a community-wide Graduate Science-Art Showcase & Reception in downtown Fort Collins, coming soon!🎉 @aikenlab.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

Fun to see this on the cover of Cytoskeleton! Microtubule and actin filaments captured by @sareenfiaz in the Aiken Lab 🔬 #Cytoskeleton #CellBiology #Microscopy #LabLife

Stentor is a unicellular species, but it has been known to aggregate into short-lived groups to feed more efficiently. www.newscientist.com/article/2356...

This is an awesome discovery: A single-celled organism with no brain called Stentor seems capable of Pavlovian learning. Yes, it can actually learn to associate two things despite having no neurons. My latest for @newscientist.com. 🧪 #science #memory #learning www.newscientist.com/article/2519...

Single-celled organisms can learn! Happy to share some my insights with @chrisnsimms.bsky.social Check out this piece by Chris for @newscientist.com

Go @saraheclark.bsky.social!

If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian will deliver Emory's 2026 Commencement address on May 11. He also will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the 181th ceremony, in recognition of his exceptional contributions to business and society. More ➡️ https://bit.ly/4suA0NT

Light, camera and action! BPS 2026. @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

Huge news for Dr. Shekhar, and for us. Congratulations 🎉

Incredibly honored for the Early Career Award in Mechanobiology by the Biophysical Society. @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @emorycollege.bsky.social @emorybiochemistry.bsky.social

Excited to share that I’ve been invited to speak at the New & Notable Symposium at the Biophysical Society (BPS) 2026 Annual Meeting! @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

Congrats 🐸

Happy to highlight our collaborative work from our @ijmonod.bsky.social team with @destriano.bsky.social, B. Goyeau and M. Chabanon. Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium that hinders macromolecular diffusivity. Plus: a clever way to measure cell volume. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mark your calendars, the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC is June 7 - 12, 2026. We have a terrific program that balances developmental biology, cell polarity, and adhesion and signaling. Please spread the word! www.grc.org/signaling-by...

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Go Alex!!

I am beyond excited to announce that the Bisson Lab has a new home!!! Starting January 2026, I will join the Biology Department at Indiana University Bloomington as Associate Professor with tenure. I am actively recruiting scientists across all levels. More in our website: bissonlab.com/join [1/4]

🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨 NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu 🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026 ⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP! #Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics

Can biological tissues "learn"? Our new preprint shows that epithelial tissues exhibit emergent behaviors akin to unsupervised learning. Local tension remodeling allows cell networks to store long-range memory and program global elasticity properties. Read more here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How does a macrophage decide to eat or simply nibble? Check out our latest paper! You can also read this nice review. Congrats Caitlin for leading this amazing work! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Reck-Peterson lab at Weill Cornell Medicine is seeking a technician or staff scientist to work on Aspergillus projects. Broad background in fungal biology and techniques required. Bioinformatics skills preferred. Find out more at: reckpetersonlab.org.

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

📢 Deadline approaching fast 📢 to submit an abstract for the great cytoskeleton extravaganza!

#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

This alternative view of “condensate” biogenesis is compatible with everything that LLPS claims for itself, including the apparent liquid-like behavior that people a bit ignorant of dynamics find so exciting. I explained this here www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Any protein crystallographer will tell you that almost any concentrated pure protein in isolation in a simple buffer can be made to phase separate in vitro. It’s an artefact.

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

So cool! Work from cell bio colleague Dorothy Lerit's lab @lablerit.bsky.social, featured in MBoC!

Ten years ago, I saw a paper with some data that has bothered me ever since: B cells in a 0-100 ng/mL gradient of CCL19 are attracted to CCL19, but B cells in 0-500 ng/mL are repelled (see movie, ignoring the big clusters for now!). Why? Here's our model! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Just out! Our work on active transport in epithelial tissues. Congrats to Huiqiong Wu, Greg Arkowitz and Ranjith Chilupuri in collaboration with C. Duclut and J. Prost! PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

While this does not excuse his other actions, for me it does illustrate the complexity of some human beings who can be truly dreadful in many ways and, yet, make some surprising and important positive contributions. 40/41

Somehow I missed this tentative but important news -- extension of the NIGMS MIRA (R35) mechanism simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

How do cells keep their #actin “highways” stable?🚦 Our paper @PLOS Genetics reveals surprising teamwork (and backup plans!) between tropomyosin isoforms in yeast. #imaging #cytoskeleton #celldivision This work was brilliantly led by @anubhavdhar.bsky.social @bagyasree.bsky.social t.co/RvUrzad5tL

Our latest preprint on the role of the Arp2/3 complex in mitotic entry is now available @biorxiv. This work was done by Dhanya Kalathil, a very talented postdoc in my lab. The story started in 2019 when we were investigating the role of branched actin in cytokinesis. 1/

Just started our @bcube-tud.bsky.social - organized Engineering Life 2025 #25EngLife conference in #Dresden! Excited to have everybody around!

📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT. RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to [email protected]. More info: www.shekharlab.org

Last week I was privileged to join the Board of the Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social . They publish five journals across diverse fields of biology, including two of my favorites, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @dev-journal.bsky.social. 1/n www.biologists.com

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!

Presenting our lab's first PhD graduate, Dr. Heidi Ulrichs! 🎉🎓 Congratulations Heidi on such a successful PhD!