I'm on the Board of @biologists.bsky.social. Many know them as publishers of @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social, @jexpbiol.bsky.social , DMM, and @biologyopen.bsky.social --but they also are a major funder of small grants that empower young biologists and enable scientific meetings 🧪

What an end to 2026! Super proud of this crew. Pandemic PhDs deserve special recognition ❤️ congratulations @christanny.bsky.social & @alexlibert.bsky.social!!!! ( & welcome to your PhD @tayzwisler.bsky.social ) #UQ

Classic #catOfAcademia

I review a significant number of #scientific #manuscripts. Hot tip 👉👉👉help your reviewers out- when you resubmit your revised paper- **put the text changes in a different colour font**. Bonus points if you crop that text & put it into your response to reviewers document.

Janelia is hiring! "Invent new imaging methods, molecular tools, or protein chemistry approaches" www.janelia.org/content/lead...

ARC says they’ll announce Centres of Excellence outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Dec). This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.

#NHMRC responses at #Estimates were deeply inadequate, uninformed and are not going to #SaveOzScience. #NHMRC has NOT requested more funding to save the majority of excellent science. Our science, our scientists and the public deserve better. Thankyou #DavidPocock and #DrMoniqueRyan.

The ARC is due to appear before Senate Estimates tonight. As usual, they're last on the schedule, at 9pm (Canberra time) ▶️ parlwork.aph.gov.au/committee/de... ("live" schedule). I hope the committee asks about the job losses & restructure the ARC are proposing👇

Go say hi to Seema!!! I’m so sad I’m missing it this year. Ultimate FOMO

Our Editors will be attending #CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org. Reach out to @seemagrewal.bsky.social and Amelia Glazier to discuss JCS, @focalplane.bsky.social and our other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.

Every opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important. Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG

@ginaravenscroft.bsky.social & #NARF are collecting impact statements from Australian researchers ‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’ lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG 1/

Hey ARC DPers with career interruptions- take a "print screen" of what you enter in your career interruptions boxes- seems like the ARC will never make this info roll over so do your future self a favour if it's a complicated set of dates 😭 (yes I have it saved elsewhere) @arc-tracker.bsky.social

ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov). In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).

I don’t know how they did it but someone found actual footage of @davidbryantlab.bsky.social and I on the dance for at the 2005 Cell contact and adhesion GRC.

"The ins and outs of microtubule regulation in centrioles and cilia" CSHL Keynote, Dr. Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University CSHL Leading Strand youtu.be/X0nm0xGjwOQ?...

We got a large Helmholtz Bioengineering grant with Oliver Daumke, Artur Yakimovich, Alina Bazarova, and Dietrich Ruess to use protein design to target cancer. Five open postdoctoral positions in Generative AI & Protein Engineering. Share & apply! jobrxiv.org/job/max-delb...

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

1/ Clare M. Waterman is a cell biologist who has worked on understanding the role of the cytoskeleton in cell migration.

There's not long left for you to submit your abstract for Signalling Circuits in Cancer! If your research falls into any of these categories, don't miss your opportunity to be included in this new conference topic. eacr.org/conference/s...

In preparation for Australian #grant season announcements this week… #NHMRC #ARC

Hot tip- when you remove references from your pre print for publication in journals that limit references- make sure the ones you cite *actually* support what you’re referencing…..

Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements. Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.

I have some BIG NEWS to share today! Today I begin my next adventure as Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!! (a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

How I recovered from a collaboration gone wrong www.science.org/content/arti...

Are you a postdoc or Asst. Prof on the job market? Check out our listing and consider applying! The search is very broad and it’s in a great department, location, university! Even with the crazy schedule that comes with being a PI- I love my job @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social!

Nature research paper: SIGLEC12 mediates plasma membrane rupture during necroptotic cell death go.nature.com/4hSSG5Q

Kinesin-1-driven microtubule sliding helps pancreatic β cells reorganise their cytoskeleton in response to glucose. buff.ly/r3BlzFj

Peiyao Fan, Yang Chen et al. @pku1898.bsky.social show that tubular ER extends into retraction fibers and #migrasomes through #microtubule-dependent ER extension and ER-plasma membrane contact sites in migrating cells. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #ER_literature #Migration #Organelles

I love to see the endoplasmic reticulum (ER, cyan) hitchhiking over microtubules (MTs, orange). Also the membrane dynamics are lovely. It's been a while, but here we are for a late #fluorescencefriday with some #microscopy #scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬

#Tubulin regulates stability and localization of STMN2 by binding preferentially to its soluble form, say Xiang Deng, Timothy Mitchison and colleagues @harvardmed.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #ProteinHomeostasis #Neuroscience #Biochemistry #Cytoskeleton #Neurodegeneration #ALS

ICYMI: New Online! Microtubules provide a mechanical link for YAP/TAZ signalling

Trying to catch up on some missed work on the weekend. Phoebe is not helping. #CatsOfAcademia #AustralianMist

Research | Amiad Pavlov, Heffler et al. demonstrate that stress transmitted to the cardiomyocyte nucleus by the microtubule cage drives LMNA-associated cardiomyopathy and may represent a promising therapeutic target. doi.org/10.1038/s441... rdcu.be/eOeTA

@charlesdcox.bsky.social defining what makes a ‘Piezo fanatic’ at #MechBio2025 #AusMB 👉 @ardemp.bskyverified.social ‘s commitment #STEM (it is a bit kettle-Pot really 😂 ).

☕Vanni et al. show a role for #microtubules in YAP/TAZ mechanosignalling. Mechanoresponsive microtubule reorganization into centrosomal arrays allows for AMOT delivery to pericentrosomal proteasomes and degradation, leading to YAP/TAZ activation. #mechanobiology #cytoskeleton bit.ly/4oS2Ju3

Looking forward to all things Australian #Mechanobiology tomorrow! #OzMechBio #ausmb. ausmb.org/meetings_202...

A single-component optogenetic toolkit for programmable control of microtubule https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685931v1

How augmin establishes the angle of the microtubule branch site www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Integrative Structure Biology with a focus on in situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and related methods. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/brswbymu

You've got just a few days left to submit your proposal to join us as a new Group Leader 📅 Applications close 2nd November Package includes: 🪙Multi-year funding 🧪Core Facility Access 🥼 #Postdoc & #PhD positions 🤝Mentorship Visit our website to apply: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...

Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs Editorial @nature.com this week And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/d41...

Day 2 Session 1 continued with presentations from A/Prof @samstehbens.bsky.social, Dr Gary Tincknell, @drdianaschuhmacher.bsky.social, and Ashna Kumar. #7thOzMRSScientificSymposium

I was just made aware that trans youth no longer have access to #gender affirming care here in qld via our public system. Please take a moment to sign the petition below to end the ban #UQAlly 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/qld...

On my way to the @ozmrs.bsky.social meeting! Looking forward to hearing about new findings in our effort to stop #metastatic #cancer.

Fresh in @natchemeng.nature.com Growing artificial cytoskeleton in the viscoelastic confinement of DNA Artificial Cells. Brilliant work bey Weixiang! #Syntheticcell #systemschemistry www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Excess surface area of the nuclear lamina enables unhindered cell migration through constrictions | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's mid-October & ARC haven't updated us since mid-July on the Brand New Grants System. When will we be told? What schemes will even run? ARC "paused" (cancelled?) the only Indigenous scheme, plus Laureates & all Industry Fellowships, and so far there's no replacements. ARC? Anyone?

In @jcb.org, Avilov, @plenart.bsky.social et al. @maxplanck.de used quantitative phosphoproteomics in #starfish #oocytes to identify downstream targets of the conserved Mos–MAPK pathway. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton #CellCycle #CellDivision #Physiology