Congratulations to Marie, a MSc student working in our lab, who did this beautiful and creative composition of zebrafish embryos to make a fish 🐟🤩 Bravo Marie!

Features new works from Stankunas Lab @uoregon.bsky.social, Ruprecht Lab @crg.eu & @campaslab.bsky.social (albeit mammals this time 😉)

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congratulations Shuo-Ting! 🎉👏 It is beautiful!

🎉 After a two-year break, #PoLDay returned stronger than ever! Over 160 members from our community came together for a full day of interdisciplinary talks, research posters, team building games and more.🌟Thank you to all the organizers! Read the event recap in our PoL news⬇️ tud.link/ca72se

It was great to have you as colleague at @poldresden.bsky.social ! I know you will do great science also at @mbisg.bsky.social. Probably we will continue to “work” together through the PoL-MBI partnership. See you soon either in Dresden or Singapore! :) Good luck with everything!

Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General. He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999. www.embl.org/news/people-...

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Is it just me or the new security verification step in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social has rendered it so slow that effectively does not work anymore? Does anyone else have the same problem?

@campaslab.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social labs use #gastruloids to explore axial extension in mammalian embryos www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... They find novel mechanisms involving and interplay of proliferation and mechanical constraining. #NotInTheGenes #CellsRUs

#IZFS is proud to announce Drs. Antonia Monteiro and Rong Li as our #SCZI2026 Keynote Speakers! We are honored to have them join us in Singapore to present on their science. See below for their presentation information, and a link to our program! www.izfs.org/education/11...

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

📣 New preprint! Stoked to share a fantastic collaboration with @campaslab.bsky.social! We discover a unique mammalian mechanism for body axis elongation using mouse and human gastruloids, and confirm central findings in mouse embryos. Check out the 🧵 👇 @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social

Really happy and proud to share my PhD work! This has been a fun and collaborative project that led to the discovery of a unique biophysical mechanism of axial elongation in mouse gastruloids and human gastruloids, and confirmed our key findings in vivo with mouse embryos. Check it out down below!

Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩 We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 #WeAreHiring a facility manager to lead our state-of-the-art research infrastructure at PoL! 🔬 Please share with your scientific network. What we offer: A dynamic, international, and supportive environment at the frontiers of biophysics. Curious? Apply here: tud.link/g4j5qy 🗓️Deadline: Nov 5.

🇬🇧Are you experienced as an administrative manager and thrive in an #international environment? We would love to hear from you! Please share with those who might be interested! 🗓️Deadline: 30.10.2025 Apply here: tud.link/f4wf13

Prof. Jochen Guck was one of the initial PIs that made our Excellence Cluster possible. He helped build the outstanding community at PoL, in addition to being a great scientist and person. You will be sorely missed Jochen. Read the obituary here: tud.link/q3k63e

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

New preprint from the lab! We discovered a transient fluidization in the basal region of human forebrains by tracking microdroplets in cerebral organoids.This “basal fluidization”, absent in gorilla and mouse, may contribute to greater surface expansion in human forebrains 1/ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Super fun collaboration with @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social lab to understand the mechanical differences between human, gorilla and mouse forebrain development 🧠 It turns out humans are different! Thanks Miki for making me part of this awesome project! 😀

🚨 #WeAreHiring! Wir beim Physics of Life suchen eine engagierte Persönlichkeit zur Verstärkung unseres Teams im infrastrukturellen Gebäudemanagement! Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung. 🗓️ Frist: 14.10.2025 Alle Details hier: tud.link/f4wf13 #wearehiring #sachsenjobs #joboffer #jobsdeutschland

🇬🇧Attention colleagues! We are hiring a new Building Manager to join our team at PoL. Please share with your network 👥 Learn more and apply here: tud.link/f4wf13 🗓️Deadline: 14.10.2025

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

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...

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.

📣 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...

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 😃

Congratulations Arthur! Really beautiful 🤩

🚨Attention image analysts, with expertise in programming and image/data science software! We are #hiring another scientific role at PoL to support our interdisciplinary research team. Please share with your network! 👨‍🔬 🔬 🗓Deadline: September 19th Apply here: tud.link/vj1kv9 #imageanalysis #jobad

We are #hiring for two scientific support roles at PoL - in light microscopy and biophysics instrumentation. Please share with your network! 👨‍🔬 🔬 Are you an expert in either of these areas? We would love to hear from you! The deadline for both roles is September 18th. 🗓️ Apply here: tud.link/vj1kv9

We are excited to announce our new #partnership with the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) in Singapore! 🇸🇬 This collaboration will combine MBI’s expertise on molecular, cell, and tissue mechanobiology with our research on spatiotemporal organization of living matter to understand how organisms form 🔬

Is anyone in continental Europe looking for a lab manager? I have a fabulous candidate - let me know and please RT!

Inspired by @deniswirtz.bsky.social and team, I'm collating a database of #PhD and #postdoc fellowships in the #EU. I'm standardising the information an entry needs, making it easier to (1) search and (2) contribute - and I would appreciate input, especially from other #ECR! Please share! 1/3

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...

🇬🇧 We are #hiring a Financial Assistant to join our admin team at Physics of Life! Do you thrive in an international environment and speak both English and German? We would love to hear from you! Apply and learn more here: tud.link/rywtux 🗓️Application deadline: 21st August #financejobs #dresden

🇬🇧 #WeAreHiring for a Building and Technical Infrastructure Manager at Physics of Life! Do you thrive in an international environment, and speak English and German? We would love to hear from you! Please share with your network. Apply here: tud.link/f4wf13 Deadline: 2nd September 2025

Excited to share the final version of the STRESS software paper 🎉 Do you want to measure cell or tissue stresses using deformable beads or droplets, please check this paper: nature.com/articles/s41... Full access: rdcu.be/ezlGj and the preprint thread below ⬇️ x.com/CampasLab/st...

🇬🇧 We are #hiring an IT Specialist to join our admin team at Physics of Life! Please share with your colleagues. 🗓️Deadline: 8th August. Apply here: tud.link/rywtux

I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.

On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Our fifth new #Research Avenue at PoL is Physical Measurements in Intact Living Systems 🔬 Developing non-invasive microscopy tech is key for measuring physical forces like electric fields, pressure, stress, and more. This will bring our understanding of the physical basis of life to a new level.

How does life organize itself? 🤔 PoL's fourth new #Research Avenue is Energy and Information Flows in Active Matter. Our aim is to reveal the physical principles underlying the emergent dynamic organization of the living state of matter. To do so, we harness the physics of life to investigate!

Congratulations Augusto! 🎉

Augusto Ortega Granillo, postdoc in the groups of @anne-grapin.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de & @campaslab.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social, received a postdoctoral fellowship from the @hfspo.bsky.social! Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Our third new #Research Avenue: Self-Organizing Active Molecular Systems! 🧬 We're uncovering the physical principles of self-organization leading to functional cytoskeletal and chromatin structures. Our research will reveal how these structures emerge from molecular behaviors and interactions!

Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence: Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. More information: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

I find myself at a loss for words… (not common)

Our second new #Research Avenue at PoL: Emergent Cellular Phases! 👩‍🔬🧫 RA2 aims to connect the physical principles and underlying molecular mechanisms of how membraneless compartments (like biological condensates) form, to uncover how cells generate, maintain, and control these distinct phases.