Thrilled to announce that together with Klaus Lehnertz and Timo Bröhl, Universitätsklinikum Bonn , Wolfram Barfuss, The University of Bonn and Mehrnaz Anvari, Fraunhofer SCAI we are organizing the XLVII Dynamic Days Europe 2027 in Bonn! #DynamicDaysEurope @mpinb.mpg.de

Cool new behavior caught on video! This is a special type of octopus known as a #papernautilus (aka #argonaut) and her shell is a little less than 5cm. Watch as she extends and retracts her fleshy mantle - at the end, she rapidly retracts it all! #blackwater #blackwaterdiving

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

Our review paper on nerve nets has just been published!! @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy

The EMBO Journal@embojournal.org · 2w ago

Looking for weekend reading? New review by @kei-jokura.bsky.social and @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy revisits nerve nets, their functional organization, and evolutionary implications link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣 Abstract submission and early registration are now OPEN for the 7th European Cilia Conference—an official EMBO workshop! 📅 8–12 March 2027 📍 Stresa, Italy Submit and register: meetings.embo.org/event/27-cilia www.eurocilia.eu #EMBOCilia #Cilia2027

Had a blast putting this video abstract together with colleagues for @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social story in @currentbiology.bsky.social on how the "vampire cell" P. collini builds the perfect feeding trap 👀. Be sure to check out the full paper: www.cell.com/current-biol... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikzm...

A cellular vampire builds the perfect feeding trap / Curr. Biol., June 24, 2026 (Vol. 36, Issue 14)

YouTube video by Cell Press

youtube.com

Do #tintinnids dream of electric sheep? 🤯 Here is a single cell capable of building a lorica and living inside it for protection... it also swims, feeds, hunts Can even detect and habituate to mechanical cues! #celllearning #protistsonsky #cilia Read more in our preprint doi.org/10.64898/202...

Last Friday, we wrapped up #EESMechanobiology 🧪 Thank you to our participants, speakers, and organisers for making this symposium a success. Together, we explored how new technologies and approaches are advancing mechanobiology across biological systems. We're looking forward to the next edition!

Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social and @katiepickup.bsky.social for the opportunity! It was fun to reflect on the years I spent in different labs and institutes.

Journal of Cell Science@jcellsci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our Cell Scientist to Watch is Mu He @mh-lab.bsky.social. We spoke to Mu over Zoom to discuss her research career, the challenges of establishing a lab under pandemic restrictions and the importance of balance in life. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Large-brained vertebrates are overrated

Science Magazine@science.org · 2mo ago

A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. https://scim.ag/4vs08dC

Exciting @embo.org Symposium @embl.org Heidelberg. Congrats to organizers. 🙏🏼 for the invitation! Inspiring to hear from so many systems bacteria, fungi, plants, ciliates, choanos, hydra, nematodes, insects, vertebrates to get at Principles. EMBL is a wonderful place, my Alma Mater 🤩 Great mug!

Cilia and Centrosome 2026 Meeting Update: We have extended the abstract deadline until June 23! Submit yours today to join a fantastic scientific program!

🔬 The #EMBO | #EMBL Symposium "Mechanobiology across the tree of life" is well underway here in Heidelberg. 💡 Come by our booth to talk about #photomanipulation, laser ablation, #FLUCS, and custom microscopy solutions for #mechanobiology experiments. 👋 See you at the booth! #EESMechanobiology

Very excited that #EESMechanobiology is about to start at EMBL Heidelberg. Check out the details on the website: s.embl.org/ees26-06-bl

Made it to Leeds for the annual @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social meeting! Great opening talk by @helenfoster.bsky.social on how ciliary axonemes are assembled!! #cilia

I've been just a wee bit swamped and so haven't managed to bleet/skeet about a few preprints we've posted lately. Will do soon. But in the meantime, please check them out. Lab's been on a tear! #cilia #thermosensory doi.org/10.64898/202... doi.org/10.64898/202... doi.org/10.64898/202...

Basal bodies (BBs) are what eventually become motile cilia. So, if they don't get positioned correctly on the apical surface, the whole tissue-level function can go wrong → ciliopathies. We know actin is involved… but how does it actually control this process? 🤔 (3/17)

And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...

Ben Larson@blarson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Video by Vittorio Boscaro. 1/n

Thank you very much to Prof Joe Howard, Yale University for his fantastic talk at the LSI Distinguished Seminar Series on “How molecular motors drive the motility of cilia and flagella”. @micromotility.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

ECRs - there is one month left to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective, organised by Elena Casacuberta & James Gahan jgahan.bsky.social More at biologists.com/workshops/de... #BiologistsWorkshops Deadline: 12 June

Classical conditioning of a mathmo: *Sees epsilon *Expands for epsilon <<1

Pierre Haas@lepuslapis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New #preprint: "Travelling waves of invasion in microbial communities with phenotypic switching" arxiv.org/abs/2605.10420 (I saw ε and expanded for ε ≪ 1 and a brilliant intern, Diego Manso Anda, realised that there was no need to.) @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Confocal image of a Schistosoma mansoni miracidium larva with alpha-tubulin stained cilia in green and nuclei in magenta. Imaged by Sarah Kerr and Karel Mocaer in the Nikon Imaging Center at Heidelberg University.

We are very pleased to announce Prof. Paul Guichard and Dr. Virginie Hamel @centriolelab.bsky.social as joint winners of the RMS Award for Light Microscopy 🔬 👏 🏅 Huge congratulations to both! Read more about Paul and Virginie's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/pro...

We still have a few places to register for our "Heidelberg Wild Thinking Workshop - The organism, its self and its environment: from philosophy to physics." 19-20 May 2026, Heidelberg https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/wild-thinking-workshop-1 […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Please come join me in Washington, DC August 2-6th for the FASEB SRC on Cilia and Centrosomes meeting! Over 40 talks will be selected from abstracts. We are also excited to launch our first North American Ciliopathy Summit, held at the same venue on August 2. events.faseb.org/event/cilia-...

This exciting paper is now out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

3D epithelial cell topology tunes signaling range to promote precise patterning | PNAS

Cell behaviors in multicellular organisms are coordinated via both diffusible molecules and by signals based on direct cell&ndash;cell contacts. The mode...

pnas.org

Yanlan Mao@yanlanmao.bsky.social · 12mo ago

An exciting new paper from the lab! Check it out:

Link here to a preprint of my short article about consciousness, "biological naturalism," and electrical brain rhythms published by IAI TV earlier this year. Preprint: petergodfreysmith.com/wp-content/u... Published (no longer open access): iai.tv/articles/stu...

Up close, these tiny organisms in cow stomachs are surprisingly beautiful and evocative. Known as rumen ciliates, these microbes could be playing a more significant role in climate change than previously understood, according to new research. https://wapo.st/422MqS5

Interested in working on the evolution of photosynthetic endosymbioses? Come join us! I have 2 open positions in my new group @cemess.bsky.social in Vienna 3yr postdoc info: tinyurl.com/4emkjpn4 4yr PhD info: tinyurl.com/mtxmsjpy Apply by 1st June! Please share/repost #Protists #Symbiosis #PhD

Hello everyone, we had a great meeting yesterday @institutimagine.bsky.social , thanks again to all the speakers for their very interesting talks on primary and motile #cilia #flagella #ciliopathies! Next one is organized by Caroline Brun, Marine Laporte, Véronique Morel in Aussois in September!