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

Are you looking for a postdoc? I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !! Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!

Almost all Nobel Prizes are awarded for work that is exploratory, or absolutely basic science with no obvious commercial or medical benefit. You cannot predict where advancements come from, so you have to invest in science and scientists. Targeted (corporate) science investment will never do this.

Welcome all (new) followers! Besides our work on probes & biosensors I'd like to share what I know about #Rstats and #DataViz. So I composed a book on data visualization with R & ggplot2 (it's work in progress). Target audience = wet lab scientists. Link: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

"Even when explicitly prompted for accuracy, most LLMs produced broader generalizations of scientific results than those in the original texts."

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

S’acosta la #FestaCiènciaUB i, per això, busquem persones voluntàries que vulguin ajudar-nos a fer-la realitat. Les inscripcions ja estan obertes! web.ub.edu/ca/web/laubd...

Recordemos la herramienta denominada Fact Check Explorer que es parte de las herramientas de IA de Google al servicio del periodismo. Se pueden buscar noticias para ver su posible verificación (o falsación) por texto o por imágenes. toolbox.google.com/factcheck/ex...

I still often see papers treating categorical data (like percentages) as continuous... and running t-tests on them 😬 Please don’t! For better practices and more tips, check out this classic from the Pollard lab & co: 🔗 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #statistics #cellbiology #sciencemethods

Science is not a switch that can be flipped on or off. If we do not act now to alter our current trajectory it will undermine our prosperity, our democracy, and our children’s futures for decades to come. You need science. Science needs you. savesciencenow.org

Today is Sant Jordi in Catalonia, a day we celebrate with 🌹 and 📖 Our fellow professor @rsalallonch.bsky.social has made beautiful handmade bookmarks 🔖 for everyone in the lab... each with a unique rose. Bona diada!

#SantJordiUB | 🌹🐉📖 Molt bona diada de Sant Jordi a tothom! Consulta al web les activitats amb què la #UniBarcelona celebra la festa de la llengua i la cultura catalanes 👉 www.ub.edu/sant-jordi

1/14 “Epithelial” & “Mesenchymal” aren’t binary categories—they form a spectrum, or better yet, a multidimensional space. This becomes especially clear in collective cell migration, which often depends on a finely tuned degree of “mesenchymal-ness”. #cellbio #devbio #cellmigration

How do hydraulic forces impact critical processes such as tissue integrity, cell fate decisions, and embryo development? Hydraulics studies how fluids move and exert forces. Join me in exploring few articles on hydraulics in #EpithelialMechanics

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