Im französischen Fernsehen haben sie den CSU-Chef Markus Söder analysiert - als "Gastro-Populisten". Und manchmal hilft der Blick von außen, um eine PR-Strategie besser zu verstehen. Sehenswert! Quelle: www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Warm goodbye to Dresden's @mpipks.bsky.social, my scientific home for the past 4 years. It's been amazing to start my group here! Thanks to the Max Planck Society, group members and everyone at the institute! Looking forward to the new chapter in Barcelona @ub.edu

Still can't believe this: WE WON THE IG NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Amazing!!! 🧪 The 2025 Ig Nobel prize goes to scientists from the @mpipks.bsky.social for discovering a bullet proof version to make the classic pasta alla cacio e pepe! Including a deep understanding of the pasta sauce in terms of phase separation physics 😃 Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al! Links👇

Congratulations to the Fritz Lipmann Lecturer Michael Rosen (Dallas) by the GBM president Harald Kolmar.

GBM Compact Focus on Condensate Biology is opened by Edward Lemke. Looking forward to a great meeting!

Oh man, I am so excited and happy to have been given this huge opportunity by the @erc.europa.eu It is by no exaggeration - a dream come true. An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)

🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu! With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠 #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG

A C. elegans model for a human disease

Paper alert!🧪 We derive a theory that underpins interface resistance with a physical foundation and look at how it changes droplet growth and recovery kinetics! Awesome collab with @bosste.bsky.social Tyler Harmon @hymanlab.bsky.social @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social 1/4

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

What started with many quail eggs and put me on stage in a chicken suit has now resulted in a preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Microsurgery with human eye-lashes, laser ablations, great analysis and insightful theory from @neipel.bsky.social told us more about avian L/R symmetry breaking.

(1/10) I am excited to finally share our work on avian left/right symmetry breaking with you. We reveal a tissue-scale active torque dipole generated at the Hensen’s node, thanks to crazy experiments by Julia @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social and some analysis by me. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Here is what I have been up to in the lab of @stephangrill.bsky.social together with @neipel.bsky.social and many others. Intrigued by avian left right symmetry breaking we found that a tissue-scale active torque drives chiral flow and requires mechanical coupling to the underlying tissue.

And that concludes our #kitp program on biomolecular condensates 😢 Wow, what an *incredible* experience, and unique place to learn and think and grow! 🤓

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Best way to travel to #EMBOcellularmatters: NightJet to Basel 😊 Looking forward to some awesome condensate biology and theory in Ascona!

Remember that absurd letter the acting US attorney sent to medical journals last week, asking threatening questions about why they don’t publish more heterodox science? The New England Journal of Medicine got one as well. @aniloza.bsky.social has the story.

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

We took part in the Girls’ Day, April 3 to encourage discussions with girls on female careers in science. A big thank you to Sandra Schwaraw, @juliapfanzelter.bsky.social, Émeline Bonsergent, @mihailsarov.bsky.social, & @geertsmalab.bsky.social for participating! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

You can't make this up :D The Gold/Trump card: apparently they want to sell a million for 5 million a piece. Well, outside the US, there are about 1.5 million people with a net worth of over 10 million dollars. Pretty sure I'd spend my money differently... www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...

Had a wonderful time at the Physics of Life Conference in Harrogate, UK with lots of great science and insightful talks like the one from @nerlielisa.bsky.social Thanks @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social for organizing and the poster price :-)

Happy to be part of Stefano’s latest feat: how are single molecule trajectories influenced by simultaneous phase separation and chemical reactions? Fun non-equilibrium physics applied to biomolecular condensates! 🧪

First submission from the new lab! Have a look at the method we developed for the 2024 Anomalous Diffusion Challenge arxiv.org/abs/2503.09422

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

What is the threshold of alcohol intake that poses health risk? A new feature @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... open-access

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

By putting a donut between our faces and each article we read, we were able to extract more information than ever before about MINFLUX. You can read the new review article from @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social by Lukas Scheiderer, myself, and @jonasries.bsky.social at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

It's only a temporary place until we renovate your max plack department

Das heißt das Klimageld, die schnelle Energiewende, eine gerechte Einhaltung der Klimaziele, Verbrenner-Aus, 49-Euro-Ticket, E-Auto-Subventionen, zusätzliche staatliche Klimainvestitionen, mehr Geld für die Schiene, mehr Schutz vor Hitzewellen und das Tempolimit kommen?? ok cool

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Trumps USA: Wählt die AfD! Putins Russland: Wählt die AfD! Und ihr meint wirklich, diese Partei würde sich für die Interessen Deutschlands und des "kleinen Mannes" einsetzen?

Your 'doom quote' for today: "We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe." Source: Elon Musk speech at Paris-Sorbonne University, December 2, 2015.

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Was? "Christian Lindner hat im Bundestag bei der namentlichen Abstimmung FÜR die Abschaltung der AKWs gestimmt. Das Abstimmungsergebnis ist hier dokumentiert: www.bundestag.de/resource/blo...

Trust me, bro.

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

Im Eilverfahren hat das Landgericht Berlin #X dazu verurteilt, @democracyreporting.bsky.social bis kurz nach der #btw25 einen unbeschränkten Zugang zu allen öffentlich verfügbaren Daten der Plattform zu gewähren, um zu potenzieller Wahlbeeinflussung forschen zu können - via @freiheitsrechte.org

Summer #internships in cell, developmental, and systems #biology, #biophysics, #mathematics (and more) @mpicbg.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social. Applications are open now: www.imprs-celldevosys.de/join/interns.... Join us in #Dresden over the summer!

Your Action Is Needed! Congress needs to hear from scientists. Call your representatives to oppose funding freezes and restrictions on research. Find contact info at govtrack.us and make your voice heard today! #SciencePolicy www.ascb.org/science-poli...