8.5 years ago my friend @apek-shapeti.bsky.social told me that the Mechanobiology and Tissue Engineering Lab at KU Leuven, where she was about to start her PhD, was looking for someone with an image analysis profile...

Endothelial cells during angiogenesis in a vascular disease context, by @apek-shapeti.bsky.social Here we saw that mutant cells induce transcriptional reprogramming of healthy cells through force! 👀 bsky.app/profile/epim...

Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thanks to @apek-shapeti.bsky.social , Alejandro Apolinar, Laurens Kimps, @bart-smeets.bsky.social , José Antonio Sanz Herrera and Hans Van Oosterwyck for helping me draft this exciting paper!!

We're still accepting submissions for our next special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus Guest edited by @abbybuch.bsky.social and Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social. Submission deadline: 3 November journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu... #cellbiology #nucleus #notforprofit #freetopublish

CellMech2025!! Exciting!

We are excited to present the shortlists for the 2025 Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science. Congratulations to the thirteen excellent candidates who made it to this year’s shortlist. Read more about the candidates and learn more about the award: go.nature.com/46nlAWy #WomeninStem

👋Hello #mechanobiology community in 🦋! This is the official account of the 10th Edition of the Cell Mech conference! 🔧We will soon announce the invited speaker list! Visit our website, subscribe to the mailing list, and follow us!: cellmech2025.org 😍Join us in Leuven 2025!

We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

Amazing "pre-Christmas" gift for the Vascular Biology Community! What a treat!!! 💫 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#CerebralCavernousMalformation Visualizing the Flow architecture & Thrombosis (in peculiarly dilated vessels with sluggish flow) of ear skin lesions of CCM mice Cdh5-CreERT2::Ccm3f/f Sox7 as arterial #EndothelialCellMarker #ATVB 2024 @ahascience.bsky.social www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

Pre-announcing the 10th Biennial European CellMech conference organized in Leuven 🇧🇪 from September 30th to October 3rd, 2025. cellmech2025.org Save the date !