New preprint! We show that cell fate can be predicted from a snapshot of combinatorial signaling — and the underlying map is a single angle in signaling space. Work by first authors Bassit Fijabi and Seth Teague and collaboration with @davidbrueckner.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

Fully-funded 4-year PhD Opportunities available at the @crick.ac.uk , including a project in our lab on human #embryomodels Feel free to share with anyone interested, and apply through the online portal before 5th November! 👏 www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Hi bsky! Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity! w/ A. Delahaye & ‪@bensteventon.bsky.social‬ shorturl.at/v01DO

Good PhD and Postdoc opportunity in a vibrant multidisciplinary lab. Check it out if you are looking for your next move!

Now, this is a very good perspective on dynamical Systems for cell fate decision. Congratulations to the authors!

“I think every human being has to ask himself: what do you do in the face of genocide?” “It couldn’t happen without the support of the western world. Any leader that is not doing whatever they can to stop it is part of this horror.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Can robots in a swarm act like the cells of an organism? Thanks to Sedeer El-Showk for the new article in @nature.com, which highlights the work of a number of research groups, including our own, on how “Robots demonstrate principles of collective intelligence”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nice! In-toto 3D imaging is definetely the way to go.

Man! your frying pan is "gastrulating" like a chick embryo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... . Did you cook chicken dumplings? 🤣

Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷‍♀️🔧 If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology royalsociety.org/science-even...

Attention #devbio and #stemcell crew! @natcomms.nature.com is looking for submissions related to developmental organizers, self organization, and symmetry breaking. More details on the collection page. www.nature.com/collections/...

📣 Preprint alert! We developed a framework to uncover Coherent Structures in flows on dynamic surfaces—revealing dynamic attractors, repellers and deformation directions in nematic vesicles, pancreatic spheroids, and beating zebrafish hearts. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Become the scientist you've been dreaming. Grow with us! #JoinUs in Dresden @imprs_mpicbg @mpicbg for #fullyFunded PhD positions! applications open until Oct 30th👇 digsbb-online-application.cmcb.tu-dresden.de/ausschreibun...

Our work on mesoderm development in 2D gastruloids is now published in nature methods www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa

In developing embryos, cells move a lot! Plenty of that movement is random. Is random cell mixing a feature or bug for tissue patterning? Turns out, it’s both! Excited to share the 1st preprint from my postdoc w/ Sean Megason @seanemcgeary.bsky.social and Allon Klein. 1/20 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🚨Next week, Wed 30/04 | 16:00 UK - Online Seminar🚨 "Learning the emergent order of living matter from bacteria" by Prof Yilin Wu from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. To attend online please register to our 📧 for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

Just landed (or should I say flew) on BlueSky. This is a first test post for something BIG that I'm going to release. Follow me, and stay tuned next week. 😏