This looks very promising 👇

I was on a H1B visa for part of my postdoc. Also when I started as Assistant Professor. Several of my postdocs where on H1Bs. This new fee will affect more academia than tech or finance companies because there is no way universities can pay that… www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Truly chuffed for our fearless food physicists @mpipks.bsky.social + collabs from AT @istaresearch.bsky.social, IT & ES who won this year’s Ig Nobel - the #NobelPrize of hearts❤️for cracking the science of perfect pasta !🍝Kudos to all for intrepidly consuming lots of cheese in the name of science!😋

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👇

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going. @harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2) @socdevbio.bsky.social #devbiol #scicomm

Wow, this paper provides crucial understanding of local translation and processing of transmembrane proteins in axons, one of the big mysteries that have haunted the field for a long time!!!!!!!! Fantastic!!!!!!!! Nguyen et al., 2025, bioRxiv 2025.09.09.674816ff. -- doi.org/10.1101/2025...

This is indeed a unique opportunity for @ec.europa.eu. But to ensure that „excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected & shared“ the % of funded proposals needs to stay the same (or actually increase). Otherwise it’s just a waste of talent.

Similar huge trend at last round of @erc.europa.eu grant application. @ec.europa.eu must adapt to this trend!

📣 New preprint! We present SpinePy, a modular framework that enables automated 3D spatiotemporal quantification of #gastruloids & other multicellular in vitro systems. Spearheaded by @cryaaa.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de. Check out his thread 👇 & the paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

(1/14) I’m happy and proud to introduce: SpinePy – a framework to detect the "spine" of gastruloids and measure biological and physical signals in a local dynamic 3D coordinate system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations Ryan and @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social and all the team! 🎉👏 I am happy to have been able to help a bit make this happen. Really useful quantitative analysis for gastruloids and beyond! I am sure it will enable many discoveries 😃

This is an really amazing opportunity. If you get it, you can essentially pick you institute. The package really is rather competitive.

Understanding how embryos build themselves requires studying developmental trajectories. This is beautiful work from @santoslab.bsky.social!

Preprint alert! We combined microfluidics, proteomics, and RNA-seq to map spatiotemporal protein expression during mouse somitogenesis and found a novel regulatory strategy: dynamic antagonistic gradients fine-tune signalling strength. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I will be giving a talk in a month in Paris at the 'Gastrulation Reloaded meeting'. About neurons. Mwahahahah 🧪 #DevBio

Another #preprint: "Elasticity and plasticity of epithelial gap closure", from the #PhD work of Maryam Setoudeh: arxiv.org/abs/2509.05110 This one required a lot of (I think) beautiful #mechanics! @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

Yesterday me and my lab celebrated #20years @mpi-cbg.de. There is a lot to say about that but the pictures from the event tell it better. Thanks city of #Dresden for the nice fireworks. That was unexpected. 10 more years or so? #LoPaTs 💕

Congratulations to Kai Simons, one of our founding directors, for receiving the Cothenius-Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina @leopoldina.org for his insights into the function of cell membranes. 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

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)

The evolution of the #PAveloid @paveltomancak.bsky.social

This is an amazing piece of work! It was a true pleasure seeing this story come together. @mpi-cbg.de going on a streak of @nature.com papers!

New from the lab: Fatty Acid Metabolism Sets the Species-specific Tempo of Cortical Development through Protein Acetylation Dynamics. Led by amazing trio: @ryo2iwata.bsky.social , Isabel Gallego, @emirerkol.bsky.social, together with @steinaerts.bsky.social , @fendtlab.bsky.social

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🗺️🔬 A first-of-its-kind map of lipid traffic is demystifying an important yet elusive aspect of how cells work. Read the study, out now in @nature.com, by Allen Distinguished Investigators Alf Honigmann, @nadlerlab.bsky.social, and collaborators: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #FrontierScience

Congratulations to Aydan Bulut-Karslıoğlu on receiving the GSCN Young Investigator Award 2025! The award recognizes her lab’s research on dormancy. Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-gs... @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The last day of lectures at #LISH25 starts with Gustavo Medeiros presenting applications of light sheet microscopy to #organoid research. @priscaliberali.bsky.social lab. Gustavo is a physicist and a creative artist and the walk-up song delivers that message. Video in thread.

This was magical — @loicaroyer.bsky.social live on piano @mpi-cbg.de. Made my day! It’s always amazing to learn about unexpected talents apart from the amazing science.

Day 4 of EMBO #LISH25 Caffeinated drinks are flowing. Some with unexpected patterns in the spirit of the image analysis that awaits. @paveltomancak.bsky.social @ereynaud.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Looks like private funders, HHMI,CZI etc., are not going to “save” US research. Europe is setting up mechanisms to attract US researchers & it may work. But, common, target junior talent, don’t shower money on superstars who will be flying professors & return to US when the science winter passes.

Maybe it's time we rethink the idea that development is a cell centric process? In this beautiful review, María-del-Carmen and @stramerlab.bsky.social discussed how the ECM underlies and influences many morphogenesis processes from wing unfolding to mammary gland development. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Hot off the press!!! Proudly presenting our lab's new review on how do cells communicate to control organ size :) We focus specially on dynamic connections that operate at different timescales to regulate organ growth and morphogenesis. #devbio #SizeandShape www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Microscopy most especially. To be the first human to ever lay eyes on something. What a feeling.

Petr @svobodalab.bsky.social doesn't attend conferences. Conferences relocate to wherever he is. #TCTeAC

Stretching the immortal Hydra. Publication by @paveltomancak.bsky.social group with Carl Modes @mpi-cbg.de & @zechnerlab.bsky.social shows how cells can create a new organism from scratch by coordinating their mechanical properties. @anaisbailles.bsky.social @pnas.org www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

"Listen here, my good bitch. Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI."

To recognise and celebrate @svobodalab.bsky.social's pivotal contribution to Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science, #TCTeAC, I am starting this "What Petr Svoboda did at Woodstock?" thread. If you were there - #contribute and #retweet. "Petr Didn’t Submit an Abstract. #TCTeAC Submitted to Him."

No words can describe how legendary #TCTeAC was… but maybe this crazy video of the final moments of the party captures some of the craziness! Thank you @svobodalab.bsky.social & all the instigators & fixers for creating unforgettable memories. DJ‘ing with @odedrechavi.bsky.social was one of them!

Woodstock Night Science – the conference that took place June 10-13 in Prague – belongs to the ages now. Though Oded & I proposed the idea, it was Petr Svoboda (@svobodalab.bsky.social) who ran with it & made it such a huge success with his vision for organized chaos! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

Such a great paper, blowing the false dichotomy of genes vs. environment. Primate brain folds, connectome and even behavior is better predicted by brain volume than genes. Folds appear as a result of development with mechanical constraints (big brains get folded). No map of the brain in the genome!

Dresden 💜💚

(4/10) We quantified these chiral tissue flows in 25 quail embryos and inferred forces using a fluid model, suggesting a torque of 6μNμm is generated locally at the node.

(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.

"Figures should not be cartoons nor should they be too conceptual, focus on the science." This is an instruction to authors from Science magazine (@science.org). But a conceptual figure can certainly be scientific, so shouldn't this instruction should be removed?

Just a reminder that scalebars matter… (would be a seriously good idea to add them to assembly instructions)

Excellent work indeed, but I feel in this context @adrianobolondi.bsky.social fantastic work should also be mentioned www.cell.com/developmenta...

A master of disguise… but not always!

Just spotted a white peacock 🦚 🤍 in Greece 🇬🇷. Stunning 🤍