napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀 Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: napari.org/dev/release/...

Announcing a new @embo.org Workshop on "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology" that we are organizing with Michael Krieg and Verena Ruprecht at @icfo.eu (Barcelona) on 16-20 February, 2026. Please, repost and spread the word! 🙏 #EMBOmechanobio meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...

Happily checking grant application instructions until I found that a collaborator, who is a co-applicant is part of the evaluation committee... why...why...

We are thrilled to announce that our Image Contest is back! 🔬🏆 Submit your best images & try to win your registration fees for one 2026 #microscopy related event. 📆Before November 14th, 2025 Info & entries👉 france-bioimaging.org/fbi-special-... We are all eager to see your work!

Do you know what happens when you touch a carnivorous sundew plant? If the touch is strong and large enough, a cytosolic calcium wave will spread from the site of touch throughout the whole plant, but if you only touch one tentacle (see post below), the calcium wave will be local and less intense.

Great to be invited to the 5th Inflammation & Imaging Symposium in Münster with exciting scientific talks and discussions! www.uni-muenster.de/Cells-in-Mot... @uni-muenster.de

Exciting FULL PROFESSORSHIP at the Vienna BioCenter - Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Mechanisms: www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/news/open-po... Come be our colleague!

Today 20 years after I started working in a scientific lab while still in 🇨🇱, my lab, the @cellcommlab.bsky.social has its 5th labversary. What a ride ! I'm thankful for the support of my family, friends, & so many great collabs & colleagues. Fig legend 👇🏽 + pending longer thread #PIlife #Science

Applications are now open for the Stanford Science Fellows postdoctoral program, opportunity to join an exciting community of scholars! stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu

Post an image from your summer that confers peace

Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!

Our first extraordinary biologist featured this week is Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, a @jcellsci.bsky.social Editor, @focalplane.bsky.social Scientific Advisory Board member and plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference. #biologists100 #100biologists

Out on today's issue! :) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our featured image on this #FluorescenceFriday is a 2D culture of mouse mammary fibroblasts. The image, titled ‘Unexpected guests’ was acquired by Krystyna Gieniec. Read our post to discover more the image and about Krystyna’s research: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/08/01/f...

If you are an "FFPE expert", could I ask you a few questions? Let me know and I'll DM you 😊 Please RT

EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics department is searching for a new director. A major position to lead this field in Europe and beyond. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

This should have never happened... Unscrupulous reviewer rejects a paper and then submits *a very similar story* to another journal 🤦🏽 "Incidentally", the plagiarized author is a #WomenInStem 👩🏽‍🔬 Painful but necessary read: retractionwatch.com/2025/07/25/r... @retractionwatch.com

Barely made ir for another #FluorescenceFriday Ahhh the #Nucleus ... it never gets old. This #cell has 2 bc why not !! It seems they are refusing to separate. This 👇🏽 is an excellent chance to put your last work in the nucleus in this issue edited by @abbybuch.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social

Join us for the first Mechanobiology of the Nucleus conference supported by @faseborg.bsky.social. Co-organized with @lammerdinglab.bsky.social, @katemiro.bsky.social and Verena Ruprecht, the amazing program is here: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan... Opportunities for talks! Abstracts by Aug. 31st.

#GloBIAS seminar coming up this week. We start the next miniseries on: 'Infrastructure - Best practices to build a bioimaging project starting from a user request' with Aastha Mathur from Euro-BioImaging. To receive the link, register here: tinyurl.com/msm6ts9b if you haven't done so already.

#HotFromThePress !! What if instead of analyzing 4-6 pathology markers you could check >100 in the *same* sample? @maltekuehl.com & co @puellesv.bsky.social lab introduce #PathoPlex, method that could even predict disease Full www.nature.com/articles/s41... @focalplane.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪🔬

One protein, two opposing roles: This ‘compelling’ study shows how the same signalling molecule can drive either protrusion or retraction in migrating cells depending on its concentration and activation dynamics. elifesciences.org/articles/931...

We finally made it to Bluesky—just a few billion years after the Big Bang, and only slightly late to the party ✨🌌 We’re sharing some of our best stories from the year so far to kick off our Bluesky journey!

Excited to be starting my research group as a tenure track Presidential Young Professor at the Mechanobiology Institute @mbisg.bsky.social, and the Dept of Physiology at @nusingapore.bsky.social in the fall! More about our work on vascular mechanobiology in health & disease mechano-medicine-lab.com

This is why we love #cellmigration #Leukocytes: #Neutrophils (cyan) #Macrophages (orange) chemotaxis. I couldn't share it before the retirement of @zebrafishrock.bsky.social, but cool #microscopy in #zebrafish continue to rock ! #scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬

📢 Czech BioImaging is organizing a one-week Advanced Course on Preclinical Imaging on Intravital Microscopy 🔬 💡Lectures and hands-on sessions 🗓️September 8-12, 2025 📍Prague & Brno 🇨🇿 ⌛️Register by July 9⤵️ www.iem.cas.cz/en/events/ad... Image credits to David Vondrášek

🧵 Neural networks meet cell migration in Valencia! Hi Bluesky! 👋 I'm Javier, computational biologist @cellcommlab.bsky.social l working at the intersection of AI and cell biology 🖥️🧫

Post yourself from another era. (20 years ago)

Do you know what happens if you squeeze a #cell? If the #confinement is high, the nucleus (green) will be super tense & the compressed cells will react like this👇🏽changing their #cytoskeleton (magenta) Full: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #scicomm #microscopy #sciencesky @focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬

We're just putting together our next #preprint list, covering research using #microscopy to answer biological questions. We've got a great list so far showcasing a whole host of imaging techniques, including some amazing ExM and vEM images, but we'd love to hear your recommendations! #preprints

Calling all #mitochondriaks - register now for our webinar together with @mitotalks.bsky.social. 🗓️ Thursday 3 July 17:00 CEST, 16:00 BST, 11:00 EDT, 08:00 PDT focalplane.biologists.com/2025/06/09/m...

#FluorescenceFriday #Mitochondria, powerhouse of the #cell were labeled (cyan) and it's possible to visualize how they reach *every* corner to provide energy. All recorded under the microscope @cellcommlab.bsky.social #scicomm #sciencesky #microscopy #organelles @focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬

This is why we love #cell dynamics ! Look at this #macrophage branching exploring the surroundings videoed under the microscope This what immune cells do in our body in search of bacteria, viruses and death cells #microscopy #cellbio #sciencesky @focalplane.bsky.social @cellcommlab.bsky.social 🧪🔬

Very excited to share the first preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... We investigated neural crest migration all the way from head to tail of the Zebrafish embryo and we found their nuclei suffer dramatic deformations. Want to know of they cope with feeling squeezed? 🐟🐠🐟

50 Years of Cell Biology: German Society for Cell Biology Meeting, October 26 – 29, 2025 | Heidelberg, Germany Early bird registration deadline: June 15, 2025

👋 Are you looking for a postdoc position? Do you think microtubules are fascinating? Then we might have the job for you! 2-year funded postdoc to join our lab! 👉 deadline 20/06 👇 check it out www.godinholab.com

@syncellbiolab.bsky.social: Thanks for organising! #microtubules 🤩

#Science Bluesky, do your thing: We're organising the International Symposium on Mechanobiology (ISMB) 2026 in #Glasgow & we're looking for research groups in Latin America & Africa who are doing great work in #Mechanobiology or adjacent areas. Can you indicate some names to me?

I’m excited to announce that my paper describing non-canonical mitotic mechanisms in the early mouse embryo is out in @science.org ! (link at end of 🧵)

It was a great @dgz.bsky.social session with a lot of #CellMigration and trafficking of #ImmuneCells Thanks to all the speakers: @liz-kurtz.bsky.social, #ZahraaA, @labliston.bsky.social and #StefanU

#CellMigration Join us today @dgz.bsky.social !! See you in 1 h (zoom id and password in the pic below)

100 years ago it was founded the most successful and popular football team in Chile 🇨🇱: #ColoColo ⚽🏆 This year I had the chance to be in, Valladolid, where David Arellano (the the founder of the club) died (Hotel Inglaterra). He died while playing for Colo-Colo. #centenarioalbo #ColoColo100

Join us for this @dgz.bsky.social seminar online with very cool talks about the Cell biology of the immune system There will be of course some #CellMigration of leukocytes ;) Speakers: @liz-kurtz.bsky.social, #ZahraaA, @labliston.bsky.social and #StefanU

The next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #CellBiology of the #ImmuneSystem will take place on April 29, organized by @pjsaez.bsky.social & Evi Kiermaier – join us! 🧑‍🔬🧑‍🔬🧬

Jueves, 20 de marzo ⏰ 12.30 SEMINARIO Ad Hoc en el #IIBmCSICUAM 📙 Pablo J. Sáez de la University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Alemania, dará una conferencia 🗣️"Decision-making during cell migration” @pjsaez.bsky.social @cellcommlab.bsky.social @csic.es @uam.es

New preprint out 🔥🔥 on my postdoc work with @manuelthery.bsky.social and @lblanchoin.bsky.social about how we can create sustained dynamic steady states of actin network inside microscopic wells that contract "forever" without collapsing! A thread 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hot from the press: #CellMigration #vesicles #organelles Jeppesen et al @mag2art.bsky.social lab introduce blebbisomes: organelle-rich motile vesicles, have immune checkpoint inhibitors, released by #cancer cells & used for #cellcomm @naturecellbiology.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🔬

The next deadline for the JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants is Friday 7 March 2025. These grants are open to ECRs that otherwise wouldn’t have sufficient funding to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis course to support their research in cell biology. www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

An oldie (10 y!) but goodie: cellular interaction at the top! #cellcomm Video of a T cell (orange) interacting with a target cell (blue) From Chen et al. @ Betzig lab (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social) game changing paper !! Full science.org/doi/10.1126/... @focalplane.bsky.social #scicomm #microscopy 🧪🔬

#CellMigration for #FluorescenceFriday 🧪🔬 If a metastatic #cancer cell is offered 2 paths it decides very fast, bc it does matter where it goes... OTOH, if a non-cancer #cell is offered 2 options it takes some time to explore and decide. More in the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...