I am honnestly a bit worried by the latest fuss about qed (the IA driven review). While the results are indeed quite impressive (it is very good at listing the claim and finding potential improvement), I don't quite see how this will eventually reduce the reviewing burden or help us

Congratulations! In the current call of the European Research Council, Max Planck researchers have secured five Synergy Grants. Together with the University of Cambridge, we are among the top three most successful #research institutions in #Europe ! 🙌 www.mpg.de/25684336/erc... @erc.europa.eu

📣 Read the full news here: www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/press-releas...

Excited to embark on this scientific journey with Ewa Paluch and Daniel StJohnston to understand fundamentals of epithelial tissue and cell shapes! Thank you to @erc.europa.eu for the support!

Ever wondered how adult organs preserve epithelial barrier integrity while continuously exposed to mechanical stress? We tackled this question in our new preprint – led by our brilliant PhD student Vishnu Krishnakumar! (1/11) 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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...

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

Welcome @shiori-iida.bsky.social , it’s great to have you in the lab! Excited about new directions in chromatin rheology and cell fate 🤓

We are hiring!

So excited to announce lab alumni Dr. Helen Mengze He and Liana Boraas work at @yalecvrc.bsky.social in collaboration with the Kaelyn Sumigray lab @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social is published today in @natcomms.nature.com and highlighted in Yale News! medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

A recent preprint (Yang et al., doi.org/10.1101/2025...) challenges an article from my lab published in 2024 (Koh et al. 2024, PMID: 39537918). We strongly dispute their claims (please see our comment on bioRXiv). 1/4

Amazing talk today at #CABDseminars by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social! Sara explained work understanding mechanical regulation of cell states. She was hosted by @dariloops.bsky.social & @jrmarmor.bsky.social. Thanks for coming Dr. Wickstrom!

Terribly sad news. Jochen was a pioneer in cell mechanics, a great colleague and a wonderful person. He will be missed.

#CABDseminars "Mechanical regulation of cell states" by Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, @mpi-muenster.bsky.social 🗓️October 10th ⏰ 12 pm 📍Rosalind Franklin auditorium, CABD Co-hosted by @dariloops.bsky.social & @jrmarmor.bsky.social

Join @jcb.org Scientific Editor Gabriele Stephan at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium “Cell biology of the nucleus” during the lunchtime Meet the Editor talk Nov. 19. www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESNucleus @events.embl.org

It's online! In this series of perspectives @dev-journal.bsky.social, yours truly talks about the exciting open questions and many things to do in the field of dev bio and neuroscience #DevBio🧪 #PIsOfTomorrow journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Elegant new study in our journal by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social @katemiro.bsky.social & co!

💫NEW: @sarawickstrom.bsky.social @katemiro.bsky.social & co show that mechano-osmotic changes in the #nucleus induce general #transcriptional repression and prime #chromatin for cell fate transitions by relieving repression of specific differentiation genes. #pluripotency bit.ly/3VMcyNZ

Third paper to highlight! Here, Lisa Manning, @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, &c olleagues show contractility, pressure, signalling cooperating in vertebrate development, w/thorough combination of expertise in cell biology, signalling, & biophysics. (Open Access) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're still accepting submissions for our next special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus Guest edited by @abbybuch.bsky.social and Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social. Submission deadline: 3 November journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu... #cellbiology #nucleus #notforprofit #freetopublish

Nice work from the labs of @katemiro.bsky.social @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A landmark study by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social @katemiro.bsky.social and colleagues elucidating the relative contribution of GF and nuclear mechanics on cell fate decisions🤩 !! Many congratulations on this 'tour de force' 👏🎉 (pun on words intended 😉!) !!

Our paper is out in Nature Cell Biology! 🚀 Growth factors, mechanical forces, and osmotic stress work together to guide stem cell differentiation. Delighted to see these discoveries out in the world 🔥

Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells @natcellbio.nature.com @sarawickstrom.bsky.social @akistubb.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Many conserved exons in the heart and brain utilize weak 5 ′ splice sites, yet they are accurately spliced. But how? We show that splicing fidelity is actively enforced through a QKI-U6 checkpoint at the U1→U6 handover in essential cardiac genes during organogenesis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So proud of the exciting story from my PhD student Jakub Sumbal on contractile fibroblasts shaping branching morphogenesis! Fantastic collaboration with the lab of Zuzana Koledova in Prague! @sumbalovakoledova.bsky.social It just came out online, check it out here: rdcu.be/eIIKD

Amazing to have our work finally out!!! 😍🤩😍

Join us for the first @embo.org meeting on Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology! Registrations are open, submit your abstract by November 14: we have plenty of slots for short talks! #EMBOMechanobio

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Huge thanks to all of our peer reviewers! Thanks to your efforts, we’ve helped to restore and preserve over 10,000 trees in ancient woodland! 🌳 #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 #notforprofit #ForestofBiologists

We’re organizing a conference at @ijmonod.bsky.social in Paris, January 2026, in memory of M.P. Sheetz — pioneer in cell mechanics and mechanobiology, co-discoverer of kinesin, and founder of @mbisg.bsky.social. Join us to explore his legacy. mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org

Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going. @harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2) @socdevbio.bsky.social #devbiol #scicomm

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

Happy to share our latest publication on the role of Citrullination in the hair follicle stem cell lineage! Congratulations Kim Vikhe Patil and our fantastic collaborators from the Maria Kasper, Ryan Driskell and Priyanka Sharma labs! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Very happy to share our new study from CAM team @ijmonod.bsky.social and @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social (MPZPM) on the unanticipated “hidden fluidity” in jammed epithelia. Congrats to Yuan Shen and great collaboration with Walter Kob. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

From the lab of @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Piezo1 balances membrane and cortex tension to stabilize intercellular junctions and maintain the epithelial barrier journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

[email protected], @sarawickstrom.bsky.social & team discover that Piezo1 balances membrane & cortex tension to stabilize intercellular junctions & maintain the epithelial barrier. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess

Read more about this research in our ‘First person’ interview with Ahsan Javed @ahxanjaved.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The #25EngLife conference is over and it was great, including the talks by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, @bladoux.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social. Many thanks to @stefandiezlab.bsky.social and the other organizers🙏🏻

New preprint! 🚨 We uncover a slow adaptation to stretch that links star-bundling of keratin filaments with nuclear escape from its keratin cage. Led by @tomgolde.bsky.social‬ 🙌 @IBECBarcelona www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just started our @bcube-tud.bsky.social - organized Engineering Life 2025 #25EngLife conference in #Dresden! Excited to have everybody around!

Great session with flash talks at #25EngLife. Here @lettermann.bsky.social presenting his work on malaria parasite motility.

Is euchromatin really “open”? Our new study @bioRxiv suggests otherwise. Using super-resolution imaging @shiori-iida.bsky.social‬ @masaashimazoe.bsky.social reveals: Euchromatin forms condensed domains in live cells. Cohesin constrains them and prevents domain mixing. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Final call to register and submit abstracts for the @faseborg.bsky.social conference on the Mechanobiology of the Cell Nucleus (#MBNSRC) to be considered for platform presentations. The conference takes place in Melbourne, FL, Oct. 26-30, 2025. See more info at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...