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...

🔥 Let's warm up for the #cellmech2025 !! Here are some fun facts about the history of the University!👇 🎉 Founded in 1425, KU Leuven is turning 600! That’s older than the printing press. Europe's oldest Catholic university still going strong.

Turns out my university is 575 years old today. Older than coffee and chocolate in Europe. Gaudeamus Igitur 🎉

Collective cell motion has many forms, but rotation is the coolest of them all. I'm @onenimesa.bsky.social , and in this short🧵, I'll highlight some instances of global tissue rotation like this one from @BauschLab

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🥳 👉 rdcu.be/eATn3 We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. Learn more:

Hi I’m @vpmechbio.bsky.social, intrigued by how cells regulate their shape, by means of cytoskeleton and how this influences cellular function. One way to study this mechanism is to impose cells to certain geometric shape. Allow me to welcome you to the world of micropatterning!

Dreaming of a swimming pool? Bacteria are surrounded by water! Water capillary forces organize bacterial colonies into gas, nematic streams, or droplet states. New paper @natphys.nature.com led by Matt Black and Chenyi Fei, with Ned Wingreen and Josh Shaevitz! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Y aquí va la distribución completa de proyectos: - 2/3 partes de los proyectos tienen 50.000€ o menos por año. Esto no cambia. - La financiación media por proyecto baja ligeramente (2%) respecto al PID2023. - El porcentaje de éxito cae al 46% (49% en el PID2023). La ciencia en España se estanca. 😕

This is so upsetting. Outsourcing writing does not "free up time to do more science" it's just a step further toward becoming the CSO at the top of a managerial pyramid rather than being a scientist

On cell extrusion in the #intestine! After 80 years of observations, we finally took a deeper look thanks to 2D #organoids. We report: 3D #forces, #extrusion still only in the villus even without curvature, #lamellipodia generate 3D force.. and more. Have a look! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper from the lab led by @marija-matejcic.bsky.social ! Supracellular force patterns driving intestinal cell extrusion. 👇

Have you ever thought about inflating tissues? Or maybe quickly deflating those inflated tissues? New #EpithelialMechanics pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧵 with pressure control, multiscale buckling, controlled wrinkling

🚨 Second preprint of the week! We uncover the multiscale dynamics of active viscoelastic buckling in epithelia. We harness these mechanical instabilities for synthetic morphogenesis. Led by @onenimesa.bsky.social 🙌. Theory by Marino Arroyo etal. @ibecbarcelona.eu www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷? Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces. Led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social‬ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

- A postdoc to work on cancer extravasation (4-year project). - A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year). - Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall. - We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).

New preprint out! We show how cellular nematic order can be harnessed to program tissue-wide force fields and guide 3D shape transformations. The tissue morphogenesis logic, now engineered into living, programmable materials. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ActiveMatter #TissueEngineering