My postdoc work with @pcusachs.bsky.social is finally out! We find that fibrillar adhesions play an important role regulating the timescales of nuclear mechanotransduction. You can read all about it here : www.nature.com/articles/s41563-026-02590-x Huge thanks to everyone involved!!

If you’d like to learn more about our recent work, I’ll be giving a virtual talk on May 19th 👇👇👇

On May 19 at noon, the next DGZ Focus Workshop will take place, this time on #CellAdhesion and #Mechanobiology, organized by Andrew Clark and Ada Cavalcanti-Adam. Speakers: Irene Nagle, Meryem Baghdadi, @raimonsunyer.bsky.social, Jacopo di Russo - join us!

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Per Sant Jordi, us deixem una rosa feta de ciència 🌹🔬 Controlant la posició dels defectes topològics en nemàtics cel·lulars, s'han programat camps de forces 2D frustrats que es relaxen en formes 3D predictibles.

#SantJordiUB | 🌹📖 Bon Sant Jordi a tothom! Hi ha tradicions que no es qüestionen. #SantJordi és cultura, llibres i llengua. 💙 ➡️ Consulta les activitats de Sant Jordi a la #UniBarcelona: ub.edu/sant-jordi

Our latest work on shape-programmable tissues is out in @science.org. By positioning topological defects in cellular nematics, we encode frustrated 2D force fields that relax into predictable 3D shapes. Collaboration with Marino Arroyo’s lab, led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social at @ibecbarcelona.eu.

Just published in @science.org 🚀 By controlling how cells align, we show that living nematic tissues can be programmed to generate forces and fold into predictable 3D shapes. A new platform for tissue engineering and the design of smart active materials! 🫆 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How does an orbiting spherical tissue suddenly break symmetry and sprout invasive strands? We can predict this behavior from the initial morphology! Hi, I’m @jiwon-kim.bsky.social from @ianywonglab.bsky.social.

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a more than 100 year history of supporting science through its journals, meetings, and fellowships. Help lead it into its second century! pls share www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

My PhD work is finally out! Huge thanks to all the collaborators who made this possible 🎉 Looking forward to the next chapter as a postdoc 😁 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Physiomimetic culture bias durotaxis toward soft environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.24.713716v1

It’s been great working with @raimonsunyer.bsky.social and his group @ub.edu in Barcelona on this #durotaxis project. Postdoc @alonso-matilla.bsky.social, co-advised by colleague Paolo Provenzano and myself, did the modeling work. Our preprint is posted now on biorxiv (link below).

Since #durotaxis was described >25 years ago, most studies report cells migrating from soft → stiff New work from my team at @ub.edu (in collaboration with D. Odde's lab) suggests we may have been missing the point all along... 🔥 Check out our new preprint here 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

One concept. One minute. Better #microscopy. MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility just launched Light Microscopy Fundamentals—a new YouTube series breaking down the basics of light microscopy in quick, bite-sized videos. #microscopymonday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet #SciEd #AcademicSky 🧪 🍎

Calling for protocols on The Basics: get a protocol recorded and peer reviewed, and help a colleague learn the tips and tricks by *seeing how it's done* You don't need to include new results and it does not have to be your original protocol. Just cite well and share the know-how 💕🔥 Get in touch!

Check out my contribution to the wonderful threads posted by @epimechfc.bsky.social !! In this one I talk about #3DTFM! 👇

Interested in doing a PhD in tumor mechanobiology? At Université Paris-Saclay, the upcoming PhD selection process is open, and I’m looking to put forward a candidate to join my lab. If you’re excited about uncovering how mechanical signals regulate tumor progression, please get in touch!

You still have 3 days to apply to the postdoc positions available in my lab 😀 🔬Come and work with us 🔬

I’m thrilled to share that I will join @gustaveroussy.fr as a Group Leader! Our objective: to understand how mechanochemical feedbacks regulate tumor dynamics and plasticity, with the overarching goal of bridging tissue mechanobiology and tumor pathophysiology using human organoids.

Delighted to share our latest preprint "Filopodia-mediated trans-endocytosis" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Work driven by many people including Hanna, Marcela, Sujan, Marie-Catherine, Anna and Monika. Fantastic collaboration with Johanna Englund, Emilia Peuhu, and Eija Jokitalo

Writing is how science thinks. Editors help that thinking become clear and coherent in journals. Writing is where scientists and editors meet. Worth reading ⤵️

How can cells use information from neighboring cells to improve the spatial precision of morphogen patterns? 🤔 We show that cells can gain positional information by "talking" to their neighbors - how much depends critically on spatial correlations of the patterns. buff.ly/w56OUJT

Cells navigating microscale curved environments stretch their nuclei, triggering the membrane stretch-sensitive cPLA2 pathway, which in turn rewires cell signaling and morphodynamics to propel the cell forward and avoid steric hindrance pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

📝Check out our latest paper published in @commsbio.nature.com !! Great work by Samet Aytekin and Laurens Kimps in this collaboration with @rochalab.bsky.social where they combined simultaneous FRET tension sensors and traction force microscopy! 👇🏽 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮. If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index... #Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging @turkubioscience.bsky.social

Quick (20min) non-technical overview of genetic history of Europe by my colleague Johannes Krause @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. This talk is from Nov 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyz_...

When psychologists mislead us as.ft.com/r/ef98fc45-6...

I am looking for two postdocs to join our lab - One (bio)image analyst - One cell biologist interested to work on lymphatics! The positions will open soon, be in touch!

I'm very happy to share my first article as a corresponding author published in @natmethods.nature.com !! 😍 Some groups (like us) have developed complex 3DTFM methods in the last 15 years. BUT its usage in studies that help better understand disease or development has been almost non-existent.

I will be recruiting two postdocs early next year. - One image analyst - one biologist interested in working on lymphatics! Reach out if you are interested 👍

I am putting together a collection of video-protocols we (will) use in tissue mechanics research🌀 I hope to help consolidate established methods, but also showcase a few up-and-coming ones in our blooming field. Abstract submission by March 2026! Get in touch✨ #JoVETissueMech #ReproducibleTissueMech

Talin didn’t evolve for integrins... integrins evolved for talin 🤯 pN force coupling via talin is ancient, conserved from amoebae to humans; signaling came later. Read this amazing paper here 👇🏽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wondering how to control the environment of cells? Check out this insightful #EpithelialMechanics thread by @lhinderling.bsky.social 👇

Thanks, @focalplane.bsky.social, for giving us the opportunity to write a blog post about our @epimechfc.bsky.social!

Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.

Hi - I draw along talks for a hobby - making #sketchnotes, mainly #science, sometimes #politics that I publish on my blog: bio-mat-sketches-mor.blogspot.com

Microfluidic pumping with active nematics! Self-organized and self-sustained. No external pumps. @pnas.org @ub.edu www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ActiveMatter #Microfluidics #SoftMatter

Ten years ago, I saw a paper with some data that has bothered me ever since: B cells in a 0-100 ng/mL gradient of CCL19 are attracted to CCL19, but B cells in 0-500 ng/mL are repelled (see movie, ignoring the big clusters for now!). Why? Here's our model! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Job Alert 📢 The group of Dr. Jordi Alcaraz (@ub.edu) offers a funded Postdoc (3y) or PhD (4y) to study immunosuppression in lung cancer. In collaboration with @hospitalclinic.bsky.social's Immunology Unit. 📩 Apply: [email protected] 🕒 Start: 1st half of 2026 ℹ️ More info: Attached image

Exciting News! 🥳 Our Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club website is now live! 🎉 👉 epithelialmechanics.github.io Discover our #EpithelialMechanics threads and get to know our amazing delegates behind them. Would you like to share your story? Please DM us!

Join the coolest club on the internet! #EpithelialMechanics

1/ 🎉Excited to share our new preprint @vignjeviclab.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social : "Self-organization of tumor heterogeneity and plasticity" biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Tumor heterogeneity and plasticity drive metastasis and relapse. How is tumor patterning coordinated? A thread👇

We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

🚨JOB ALERT Dr. Buceta at @i2sysbio.es welcome applications for 36-month postdocs on: 👉 Mechanical markers of tissue dysfunction due to ageing – digital twins & machine learning Details here: fgcsic.es/convocatoria... 📩 Contact [email protected] to shape your proposal! @epimechfc.bsky.social

How do cells navigate up gradients of adhesive proteins? 🤔 Termed "Haptotaxis", this effect is ubiquitous in cell migration, but it's mechanism was poorly understood We show that passive friction directs cells & explains complex trajectories on gradients 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

😍Ready to spend 4 fantastic days here, during @cellmech2025.bsky.social #cellmech2025 !! #Leuven

Happy to share that my PhD has finally taken the shape of a paper! ✨ Huge thanks to all authors, especially @davidbrueckner.bsky.social & @ehannezo.bsky.social for leading the modeling and @raimonsunyer.bsky.social & @xaviertrepat.bsky.social for their invaluable supervision. 🧵👇

In this 2015 Editorial, Alan Hall and Ken Yamada discussed how science community can respond to #reproducibility concerns. rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 In Reproducibility and Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...