How do cells combine cell-intrinsic & tissue-level cues create stable patterns during intestinal regeneration? 🤔 Our paper w/ @cschwayer.bsky.social @silviabarbiero.bsky.social @ehannezo.bsky.social @priscaliberali.bsky.social is out! 🥳 A thread on the theory part 🧵⬇️ www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning

During regeneration, tissues must translate transient cellular variability into stable spatial organization. Tissue architecture generates a density-dependent window of heterogeneity in the mechanosen...

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"If you wanted to cripple science research and were disappointed that Congress continued to fund it, this is the sort of document you would produce. It pulls US scientists out of the international community, leaves them unable to communicate their findings ..." arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

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A new paper by the @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social, @ehannezo.bsky.social, and colleagues from @sorbonne-universite.fr, and @unileiden.bsky.social, just published in @natcomms.nature.com, reveals how crucial this protein is for life itself. Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint from my Ph.D.: 'Mechanical organization yields degenerate dissipation beyond linear response' We asked how energy dissipation changes as an active actomyosin material is driven farther from equilibrium. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

University leaders are facing calls to apologize for their alleged treatment of a tenured neuroscientist who died by suicide after being investigated as part of Donald Trump’s China Initiative go.nature.com/4cKzNQr

Academics demand apology for scientist investigated for China ties but never charged

Jane Ying Wu, who took her own life, was cleared of wrongdoing by the US National Institutes of Health. Her family alleges that her employer destroyed her career.

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Happy to announce that I’m among the 55 awardees for the HFSP postdoc fellowship. Truly honored by HFSP committee’s recognition on the potential of the proposed science 😁. Science continues.

Human Frontier Science Program@hfspo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Attention scientists from all over the world🙃 The 2026 #HFSPResearchGrants are out! 🥳 117 scientists from 31 countries will pursue bold, interdisciplinary research, from #neuroscience to #ecology and beyond! 🧪 Are you one of the new #HFSPAwardees? 🔗https://bit.ly/4uGmMQ3 #sts #HFSP

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Very happy to see this out. 👏 @yinanwan.bsky.social Bogdan Bintu and team. Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis | free link Science www.science.org/eprint/5MHTM...

Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis

Gene expression patterns underlie development, but their systematic detection in whole embryos has remained elusive. We introduce a whole-embryo imaging platform using multiplexed error-robust fluores...

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Squishy Science Sunday is back at the Global Physics Summit! Join us for hands-on activities about physics, including the physics of slime, sand, and cotton candy! Find us at Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Use code APSSQUISHY26 for a discount on general admission tickets!

First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪

So proud of my amazing previous colleague at Yale, Sheng Chen and all the colleagues for this paper on topological control of spontaneous failure in active nematic solids! It's on @natmater.nature.com . www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Topological control of spontaneous failure in active nematic solids - Nature Materials

Topological defect quadrupoles orchestrate predictable failure patterns in active nematic solid networks.

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Thread highlights new work from @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social & @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social 🐟 Link to open-access article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Geometry-driven asymmetric cell divisions pattern cell cycles and zygotic genome activation in the zebrafish embryo - Nature Physics

Many different biochemical and mechanical signals control morphogenesis. Now it is shown that the geometry of the fertilized egg helps orchestrate spatial and temporal patterning during embryogenesis.

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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)@istaresearch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🔬 New paper in Developmental Biology 🐟 Our researchers have now tested a largely ignored hypothesis—that the geometry of an embryo drives its development. Read more in the 🧵below. 📷 Zebrafish in ISTA’s Aquatic Facility.

🔬 New paper in Developmental Biology 🐟 Our researchers have now tested a largely ignored hypothesis—that the geometry of an embryo drives its development. Read more in the 🧵below. 📷 Zebrafish in ISTA’s Aquatic Facility.

The human brain responds to the sounds of both familiar and unfamiliar languages in a similar way, according to research in Nature. The findings might guide future approaches to language learning and rehabilitation. go.nature.com/4ppvsHb #Neuroskyence 🧪

📢 Paper alert 📢 Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Excited to share our @sfiscience.bsky.social collab where we uncover universal scaling laws in thermal performance across the tree of life. We found one trait predicts critical temperature limits from viruses to mammals, which is useful to develop rapid forecasting under climate change.🌍📈

bioRxiv Biophysics@biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Scaling laws in biological thermal performances https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684462v1

For the third time in a dozen years, the U.S. scientific community is digging in for a potentially lengthy partial federal government shutdown that promises to disrupt research and funding programs. https://scim.ag/4pQ9y0K

U.S. scientists gird for yet another government shutdown

Political impasse to hobble research agencies—and perhaps enable layoffs

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📌 Join us for the next klogW seminar on October 21st at 12PM EST (register below) by Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social on "Emergence and Self-organization in Biological Systems". Registration link: apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I am hiring 2 PhD students to join my group in at University of Illinois, Chicago, starting Fall 2026. We will be studying smart materials, from learning active matter to adaptive sociohydrodynamics, using theory and machine learning. More information found here dsseara.github.io

A paper in Nature describes tiny, solar-powered floating devices that could support instruments in the high atmosphere. The devices could be used for climate monitoring and Mars exploration, without the need for conventional fuel to maintain their altitude. go.nature.com/3Jfvl0W 🔭 🧪

The summer school at Santa Fe Institute has truly been transformative in ways I think about complexity sciences. I’m extremely grateful for all the friendships, mentorships, and connections I’ve made along the way. Lots of valuable conversations, lessons, and loads of lifelong memories!

More than proud to have learned that this interdisciplinary conference (QBIO2025) has been going on for years and how much Peking University embraces interdisciplinary studies. Honored give a talk about my most recent newborn in research. Complexity Science is a global emergence!

Ever wished to become an actin star? 😎 Then try getting suspended above a non-adhesive substrate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A multicellular star-shaped actin network underpins epithelial organization and connectivity - Nature Communications

The combined role of cellular junctions and actomyosin networks in tissues remains unclear. Here, the authors identify a tissue-scale star-shaped network of actomyosin that preserves cell shape, limit...

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This piece of work from my PhD is FRESHLY out of the oven in @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Physics! It illustrates how architecture and active stress mutually regulate Criticality and exhibit Anderson Localization-like phenomenon. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Feedback between F-actin organization and active stress governs criticality and energy localization in the cell cytoskeleton - Nature Physics

Self-organized criticality can occur in cellular systems, but its origins remain unclear. Now it is shown that cytoskeletal criticality is influenced by the F-actin architecture and myosin active stre...

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