Felipe del Valle Batalla
@fadelvalle.bsky.social
Cell biologist - PhD. What’s a cell? How does it really work? Why do we care? Loving running, reading, microscopy and coffee. Opinions are my own. fadelvalle.github.io Donlin-Asp Lab University of Edinburgh
Issue 18 is complete Explore our Toc: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13... Our cover image is an osteosarcoma cell visualised by structured illumination microscopy showing actin (magenta), paxillin (green) & myosin-X (cyan). See research by Popović et al. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Did you ever wonder how the leopard got its spots? Or how the zebra got its stripes? Wonder no more! In this #Short, @benswedlund.bsky.social talks about his #preprint describing reaction-diffusion architecture for engineering self-organised patterns in mammalian cells. 🎙️⬇️ youtu.be/_HMbr4KE1PI?...
spotLights Ep 23: Benjamin on programming self-organising cell patterns #syntheticbiology #biology
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Had a wonderful experience editing this one, thanks to the authors for sharing their comments and drafting answers together ! @lindithium.bsky.social @huanting-ong.bsky.social @jennyoung.bsky.social ng.bsky.social
preLights@prelights.bsky.social · 2w agoTwo #preprints detail new & complementary ways to match mechanical readouts from tissues to OMICs. #preLight by @fadelvalle.bsky.social - includes a discussion with the author teams @lindithium.bsky.social @huanting-ong.bsky.social @jennyoung.bsky.social ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/m...
Happy to see my latest preLight featured in this great issue 😬
Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · last mo.Also in #DevSIextracellular: ▪️Editorial ▪️2 interviews with our Guest Editors ▪️Spotlight on apical extracellular matrix development ▪️Primer on mechanics ▪️4 Reviews ▪️22 Research Articles and Reports ▪️2 Techniques and Resources ▪️1 Preprint highlight Full table of contents: tinyurl.com/bdr4ymvr
The clock under pressure 🕰️ Chun-Yen Sung & colleagues demonstrate how presomitic mesoderm cells sense physical rigidity to control developmental timing. #preprint #preLight by @fadelvalle.bsky.social ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/m...
Matrix Rigidity Governs Switch-Like Oscillatory State Transitions of the Segmentation Clock in Isolated Presomitic Mesoderm Cells - preLights
The clock under pressure: How presomitic mesoderm cells sense physical rigidity to control developmental timing
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Hämälistö, @fadelvalle.bsky.social, Yuseff, and @mattilalab.bsky.social review how #BCells have adopted specialized ways to use endolysosomal vesicles to promote adaptive immune responses. rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of #Lysosomes 2026: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
From cells to amino acids: 1000ExM pushes expansion microscopy even further 🔬 #microscopy @fadelvalle.bsky.social covers an impactful #preprint from the labs of @bergerlab.bsky.social, @alishaib.bsky.social, Silvio Rizzoli & @eboyden3.bsky.social #preLight⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...
Thousandfold Expansion Microscopy - preLights
From cells to amino acids: 1000ExM pushes expansion microscopy beyond 1000×, potentially resolving individual protein residues on standard microscopes. Bigger volume expansion opens a new frontier for...
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🚨 First preprint from the lab! @pdaphd.bsky.social summarises the findings in this thread. Congrats to @rhyslivingstone.bsky.social and @pdaphd.bsky.social for all the hard work I’ve witnessed 🎉🥳
Paul Donlin-Asp@pdaphd.bsky.social · 5mo agoExtremely excited to share the first preprint from the lab, led by postdoc @rhyslivingstone.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... What has he found? 1/7
Thanks to @jcb.org for featuring my PhD work ! So many interesting articles in this collection 🔥
Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 6mo agoB cell mechanotransduction via ATAT1 coordinates #actin & lysosomal dynamics at the immune synapse. From Pablo Aceitón, Isidora Riobó, @fadelvalle.bsky.social, María Isabel Yuseff et al. rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 From JCB Immune Cell Biology collection 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #AAI2026
The 2025 ASAPbio Fellows examined how large language models (LLMs) handle, interpret, and communicate information from preprints compared to peer-reviewed journal articles. The new blog post discussed their findings👇️ buff.ly/SSglQZG
Interim Findings From An Investigation Into LLM Responses About Preprints: A 2025 ASAPbio Fellows Project – ASAPbio
Contributors: Felipe Del Valle Batalla, Barakat Bakhit, Akanksha Gupta, Kendra Parson, Emiliya Taskova
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Best comment and summary of the whole situation
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 9mo agoI prefer scientists like our colleague Doug Zonkger, who are willing to put in the work.
"AI tools are democratizing Coding" My dude, R and Python are free and open-source
Happy fluorescence Friday ! First one of the year :)
In a short time, we’ll have fake AI scientists fabricating fake AI results reviewed by fake AI reviewers. This data will then be text-mined by AI and ultimately delivered to mindless AI consumers.
Pedro Beltrao@pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 11mo agoFinally the scary example. The image of a western blot with a time course experiment, staining a protein of interest, showing the increase of protein over time and a second staining with a control antibody that does not change over time
I love to see the endoplasmic reticulum (ER, cyan) hitchhiking over microtubules (MTs, orange). Also the membrane dynamics are lovely. It's been a while, but here we are for a late #fluorescencefriday with some #microscopy #scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬
Not all colormaps are created equal. Notice the nonlinear brightness scaling in two very popular ImageJ LUTs! (Glow & GFB)
This is what I actually signed up for ❤️ gloomy scientific vibes 🏴
As per usual: NEVER. Enough. L U T S
Kevin Terretaz@kwolbachia.bsky.social · last yr.I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager! I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...
Happy October 1st! A good time to share another #CellBio #preprint reading list put together by a team of preLighters: @sristi.bsky.social, Matthew Davies, @vibhasingh.bsky.social, @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Barbora Knotkova. Check out their picks ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...
September in preprints – Cell biology edition - preLights
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Could run forever with these views 🏴
