just considering the beat frequency of airway cilia (10-20 Hz), any contrastive timelapse should run on the scale of seconds, in which case basal cell/tissue movement should be imperceptible (minutes to hours)

Jeremy Reiter@reitergroup.bsky.social · 2w ago

What in the world am I looking at here? @Nikon? www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

Adaptive motility enables neutrophils to rapidly navigate confined capillaries | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Adaptive motility enables neutrophils to rapidly navigate confined capillaries

Neutrophils maintain migration speed in confined capillaries through adaptive actomyosin remodeling.

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"Odd Droplets: Fluids with Odd Viscosity and Highly Deformable Interfaces,” with Hugo França, now out! We study a new route for controlling interfacial flows using broken symmetries. 🔗 lnkd.in/e_jpUMQt #FluidDynamics #SoftMatter #NonlinearDynamics

A week ago I thought about how to bridge different microscope experiments by using nuclei positions for registration. Then this came out the day later! The BioImageAnalysis community is truly the best :) Thanks for putting out so many great tools to advance research 😊😊😊

Guillaume Jacquemet@guijacquemet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Delighted to share our latest preprint "NucleiSky enables cross-scale multimodal registration of microscopy data using nuclei constellations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code and App: github.com/CellMigratio...

Global topsoil contains ~110 quadrillion km of fungal threads, roughly one billion times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. A new study in @science.org maps this hidden arbuscular mycorrhizal infrastructure for the first time. Explore the Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map: buff.ly/PISOj8k

A hidden infrastructure

Mapping Earth’s underground mycorrhizal fungal networks — the hidden infrastructure beneath our feet.

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Very excited to be sharing our new paper, just out in Nature Cell Biology! The big question we investigate: How do migrating cells put their front 🔴 and back 🔵 in the right place?

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 · last yr.

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

Multinucleate cells challenge deeply-held assumptions about complexity, ecological success and evolution. Postdoc extraordinaire and gifted writer @mrosjac.bsky.social tackles this subject with aplomb - tell us what you think! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social

Multinucleation as a recurring evolutionary strategy for scaling and plasticity

Multinucleate cells — single cells containing multiple nuclei in a shared cytoplasm — are found across the eukaryotic tree of life. Having evolved ind…

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I am looking for a Post-doc in Oxford to work with me on morphogenesis at the cellular scale, with particular emphasis on growth processes and their mechanical and dynamical consequences. Please circulate my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... This bristle is created by a single cell! Let's model it.

1/13 So excited to share our new preprint!! How do organelles pack together in a crowded cytoplasm? we know organelles interact via contact sites, but how does competition for space contribute to organelle morphology and interactions? @wallaceucsf.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“In physics, we search for universality,” Jalaal said. “In biology, we embrace non-universality and biodiversity.” www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-m...

The Hidden Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells | Quanta Magazine

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense rays.

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Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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Our work on chloroplast packing was featured by @quantamagazine.bsky.social in @maxlevy.bsky.social's article. It was a fun colab with @mazi1.bsky.social and Eric Weeks during my PhD that led to this work. Article: www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-m... Paper in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The Hidden Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells | Quanta Magazine

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense rays.

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Sign up for the Dutch Society for Cell Biology meeting May 21st in Amsterdam dutch-society-cell-biology.nl with speakers: @buzzbaum.bsky.social Lucas Pelkman Geert van den Bogaart @leilaakkari.bsky.social Michiel Pegtel @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social @seemagrewal.bsky.social Martijn Nolte (ZonMW)

A clear/significant finding derived from the single cell (sc) analysis of biological systems has been the realization that phenotypically homogeneous populations are heterogeneous at the level of gene expression (GE). www.cell.com/fulltext/S00... 🧵

Nature, Nurture, or Chance: Stochastic Gene Expression and Its Consequences

Gene expression is a fundamentally stochastic process, with randomness in transcription and translation leading to cell-to-cell variations in mRNA and protein levels. This variation appears in organis...

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All you ever wanted to know about how to analyse the nematic nature of cellular tissues is right here 👀👇🏼! Bonus #1: we did it for many cell types and uncovered unexpected defect behavior 🐌 Bonus #2: for theoreticians looking for parameter values for your simulation🧑🏼‍💻 tinyurl.com/2s399yen

What if you got to work with some of your best friends on a science project? I can't publish how fun this was, but I can show you the data (🧵)! Last week, we posted our second neutrophil swarming paper to bioRxiv and I wanted to post my favorite videos here~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

There's an update of #EZreverse, it is much quicker and supports drag-and-drop joachimgoedhart.github.io/EZreverse.html

Just published in @science.org 🚀 By controlling how cells align, we show that living nematic tissues can be programmed to generate forces and fold into predictable 3D shapes. A new platform for tissue engineering and the design of smart active materials! 🫆 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pau Guillamat@pauguillamat.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint out! We show how cellular nematic order can be harnessed to program tissue-wide force fields and guide 3D shape transformations. The tissue morphogenesis logic, now engineered into living, programmable materials. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ActiveMatter #TissueEngineering

Check out our new release on BioRxiv co-lead by @pm-mueller.bsky.social 👉 rb.gy/lnrizk special🙏 to Severine Kunz #MDC @leventallab.bsky.social @andimicroscopy.bsky.social @ewerslab.bsky.social and Kedar Narayan @NCI CCR VolumeEM Are the days of discovering new cellular structures over?? /1

📣 New preprint alert! Co-authored by @spalaciosm.bsky.social and @andreacaldarola.bsky.social : Quantitative imaging of calcium dynamics with a green fluorescent biosensor and fluorescence lifetime imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

napari 0.7.0 is available now! 🚀🎉 It's a BIG release so read the full release notes, with highlights: https://napari.org/stable/release/release_0_7_0.html We want to thank everyone who has worked incredibly hard on this release including our 11 new brilliant […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Briefly, after organ injury, 100 milliseconds, we detected collective changes in membrane potential at the tissue level. This is so far the earliest detected wound-response!! This electric signal sparks the formation of a tissue-wide calcium wave👇

PAPER OUT ✨ How can we make smart microscopy more interoperable? What are the technical and cultural challenges? 30+ people from academia and industry propose a roadmap: doi.org/10.1515/mim-... Also a review of applications and repo of implementations. Join the discussion! smartmicroscopy.github.io

eurobioimaging.bsky.social@eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨Publication! New review on #SmartMicroscopy: current implementations and a roadmap for interoperability by @lhinderling.bsky.social & colleagues from #EuroBioImaging's #SmartMicroscopy Working Group! 🔗 www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/new-pub... 📸 Hinderling et al, 2026, (DOI: 10.1515/mim-2025-0029)

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

Hello epithelial mechanics fans!! I’m Juanma @juanmagararc.bsky.social 👋 I work on cell mechanics (see celldynamicslab.com) and use Flipper-TR FLIM to probe membrane biophysics in cells. Join me on this tour about Flipper: what it measures, strengths, advice, cool case studies, and cute drawings!

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

Hot out of press!!! Studying chloroplast organisation from the perspective of packing problems in confinement. chloroplasts show multiple configurations for different purposes (optimal light uptake in dim light vs. light avoidance in strong light for photo protection)🌿 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Optimal disk packing of chloroplasts in plant cells | PNAS

Photosynthesis is essential for ecosystem survival, but while plants require light, excessive exposure can damage cells. Chloroplasts, photosynthet...

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision

Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

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