This looks to be a very nice conference, would love to see some of you there! intcha26.sciencesconf.org

How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926

now i've seen everything... 😱 don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive

🚨 Late preprint alert! Why do biological process rates scale nonlinearly with temperature, deviating from the straight line on an Arrhenius plot? The key may lie in their inherent complexity! More in thread and here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers

Apply for our Master of Science in Physics of Life – training in cutting-edge research at the interface of physics, mathematics, engineering and life sciences. Scholarships available. Application deadline: 30 November. More: www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/education/de... @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch

Have you submitted your abstract for #EESCollectivity? No? It's about time! This new event will discuss how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems, from cells to animal groups. 🦠🐾 👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl

Torkel E Loman, Ruth E Baker Functional and parametric identifiability for universal differential equations applied to chemical reaction networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14140

We’re looking to fund short discovery projects to build community and dive into potential research directions for a programme and within our Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space, led by PD Alex Obadia. Find out more + apply by 12 November: link.aria.org.uk/TEE-disc-BS

Happy to share our latest in @natcomputsci.nature.com led by (amazing) Ryan Krueger + colab w M. Brenner! We introduce a framework to directly design intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) from physics-based simulations. 🧬 doi.org/10.1038/s435... 📰 www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/article...

Read and pitch an idea: press.asimov.com/articles/ma...

Our next book: "Making the Modern Laboratory" An illustrated, coffee table-sized volume, it covers the origins of the machines, organisms and tools used in modern biology research. More importantly, it's a call to imagine the FUTURE of the laboratory. Come help us write it!

I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous. www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...

Some scientists aren’t waiting for journals to catch up. They’re showing us what’s next. The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared. More details: pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin... Nominate or self-nominate here: www.experiment.foundation/beyond

Reading group alert!🔔 This term, our History and Philosophy of Biology reading group will be reading 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2000) by Susan Oyama. Online participants welcome! More details here: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...

After a long time in the making, my paper on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution has been published in Philosophical Transactions B. Updated version: arxiv.org/abs/2112.02809

There is still time to apply for an Independent Research Fellowship in our Department. Join us: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind...

"Universal Biology: The Physics of Life through the Macro-Micro Consistency Principle" will be soon published from Cambridge Univ Press. Brief introduction is here:https://cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/universal-biology/

Hi fellow C. elegans scientists, I've made a few videos that may be of use for new trainees working in worm labs. Hoping to add more in the future, but figured I'd share this resource as is in case it's helpful :) www.youtube.com/@Workingwith...

Excited to share a new pre-print in collaboration with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social, "Using Modern Coexistence Theory to understand community disassembly"! We set out to understand how techniques used to study coexistence can be extended to understand community disassembly. (1/X)

So happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈 A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately: rdcu.be/eITQH

Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients. More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems? Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Hi @micromotility.bsky.social!

New post! A round up of the latest advances in biotech and medicine by @nikomccarty.bsky.social and me. Prime editing, curing whipworm, a new narcolepsy drug, designing protein nanoparticles, the 3D structure of E. coli's genome and more! Read it all here: www.worksinprogress.news/p/whats-new-...

We're looking for highly motivated candidates for PhD positions in the physics of living systems. Our group uses theoretical physics to understand how cells collectively self-organize. If you're interested, get in touch & check out the Biozentrum PhD Fellowship program, deadline October 12th!

Call for a research scientist position (indefinite-term) in our group. Deadline: October 15 www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...

Where are memories stored in the brain? The textbook answer is that memories live in the synaptic connections between neurons. But there's long been a dissenting view, and it's showing signs of revival. From the archive, our interview with @gershbrain.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/of-molecules...

Center for Living Systems -- seeking strong post docs at the interface of physics and biology. Consider applying by Oct. 13! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This looks awesome! #livingphysics

Just out in press in eLife, a cool and brilliant piece of work by @amywebster.bsky.social: Gene expression variation across genetically identical individuals predicts reproductive traits. elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Nice! @emiliapsantos.bsky.social

📢We're #hiring Group Leaders! Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹5-year renewable appointment 🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches 🔹Collaborate across disciplines Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

The latest issue of Scientific American is the 180th anniversary, and they have a series of articles about "180 degree turnarounds" in science. Here's mine on RNA.

Beatiful article @tobykiers.bsky.social ! Source: NPR search.app/tP7Ep

What the life in the UK test is: When was the battle of Agincourt? A) 1215 B) 1415 C) 1348 D)1400? What the life in UK should be: You: Shall we bring something? Maybe a pasta salad or a green salad? Friend: That’s fine, we can make fish pie with peas..

You had me at “low dimensional behavioral manifold” 😍 #livingphysics

A note in here for other science philanthropists… we have a chance rn to help scientists rethink systems, technical & operational. They’re game to take useful risks, let’s help them. Coming soon: more open science research, experimenting outside journals… seemay.substack.com/p/from-syste...

Ccli.substack.com Sixty years later and we still can’t solve it—what’s going on?

A great podcast episode about this featuring @scientificdiscovery.dev

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures,” by Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. in 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑁𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence