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Ankita Jha

@ankita13jha.bsky.social
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Cancer cell biologist, Research Associate @Clare Waterman lab, Blebs are life or death!!! LOVE to torture..Oops confine cells.. All about cell migration 😀 views are my own, not of employer

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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 5h
So cool!
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/09/2026
The last three months are the warmest on record globally, relative to every other June-July-August period since 1850. Data from NOAA/NCEI's NOAAGlobalTempv6.1.0.
Line graph time series of global land mean surface temperature anomalies for each June-August period from 1850 through 2026. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly averaged for June-August 2026 was 1.21°C for global land areas. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1901-2000 climate baseline. Data from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.1.0.
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICYMI: the recording of our second webinar on emergent models and quantitative analysis of cell migration is now available. 🔬🎥Check it out to see talks from @ankita13jha.bsky.social, @raphclement.bsky.social and @katrinavelle.bsky.social focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/25/f...
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FocalPlane features... cell migration recordings with Ankita Jha, Raphaël Clément and Katrina Velle - FocalPlane
FocalPlane features... cell migration recordings with Ankita Jha, Raphaël Clément and Katrina Velle - News
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Damn this is cool. And look at ll those movies of amoeba go!
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Stairs at UNC Med Biomolecular research building are pretty....so is the science!!! Thank you @stephgupton.bsky.social 🙂
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Yale Cancer Center @yalecancer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#Osimertinib appears to ⬇️ the elevated brain metastasis risk historically associated with two common subtypes of EGFR mutations, supporting osimertinib's role as a preferred first-line treatment for EGFR-mutant #NSCLC. medicine.yale.edu/cancer/publi... @oncoalert.bsky.social
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Osimertinib and Brain Metastasis Risk in Lung Cancer
This study shows that osimertinib reduces brain metastasis risk differences seen between two common EGFR lung cancer mutation subtypes.
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Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com · 16/09/2026
The Das lab has 1-2 open postdoctoral positions. Our lab investigates the fundamentals of cell-cycle-dependent cell polarity. Boston College has fantastic resources, including a cutting-edge imaging facility with state-of-the-art microscopes. Please apply here: bc.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wanna see blebs dancing & new models of #CellMigration? Join us tomorrow to see the great talks from @ankita13jha.bsky.social, @raphclement.bsky.social & @katrinavelle.bsky.social Thu 17 Sep. at 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST Register: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/03/f... @focalplane.bsky.social
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Don’t miss the second webinar in our new series on cell migration, featuring talks from @ankita13jha.bsky.social, @raphclement.bsky.social and @katrinavelle.bsky.social. 🗓️Thursday 17 September at 15:00 BST For more info and to register: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/03/f...
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FocalPlane features... cell migration webinar 2 - FocalPlane
FocalPlane features... cell migration webinar 2 - News
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So cool!
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A beautiful spotlight on our recent work on the polarity maintenance in bleb-based motility in metastatic cancer cells by @vickysanzmoreno.bsky.social and Dipanwita Das is published in Developmental Cell.
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📢One week to go! Join us on Thursday 17 September at 15:00 BST (UTC+1) for our webinar on new models for studying cell migration, hosted by @pjsaez.bsky.social & @valeriaventurini.bsky.social. You’ll hear talks from @ankita13jha.bsky.social, @raphclement.bsky.social and @katrinavelle.bsky.social.
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FocalPlane features... cell migration webinar 2 - FocalPlane
FocalPlane features... cell migration webinar 2 - News
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 07/09/2026
The cell biologist’s guide to detecting and modulating membrane #phospholipids. A review by Worcester, @gerryhammond.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 From our #Lipid and #Membrane collection: rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #EMBOLipidCode
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Looking forward to this!! Sign in if you want to hear about migrating cells and organisms. Also excited to share this space with Raphael who I know from my grad time and @katrinavelle.bsky.social who I have admired for a while now 😀
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😞
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sigh!
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
May be it only works for me but I have been using blebbing cells as calming patterns :)
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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Blebbing cell under confinement?
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
😀
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Real American heroes
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Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Reconstitution of actomyosin networks in cell-sized liposomes dissects distinct mechanisms of membrane blebbing and symmetry breaking
Actin network organization dictates how and where membrane blebs form, revealed through reconstitution and simulations.
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Scroll @scroll.in · 27/07/2026
Today on Scroll: open.substack.com/pub/scrollne... -India’s lost generation: Education was a secure investment, now it’s a gamble -‘Daddy, detain me’: The memes that humbled Modi -Opinion: The Modi government doesn’t understand Gen Z’s protest memes – but that doesn’t matter More⤵️
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Daily Brief: India’s lost generation: Education was a secure investment, now it’s a gamble
Your morning dose of news, stories and insight from Scroll.
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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I feel honored that my Perspective article with @mayorlab.bsky.social on collective cell migration has been featured in this special collection. Many thanks to the curators, @wumin-lab.bsky.social and Gabriele Stephan, as well as @jcb.org rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellBio #CellMigration
A collage of figures in the perspective article.
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Excited to share our new paper, now published in Nature Cell Biology! 🎉 We asked a fundamental question in cell biology: How do cells maintain polarity while migrating? Especially how do cancer cells navigate confined spaces? www.nature.com/articles/s41556-026-01981-1
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CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to polarize cytoskeletal signalling modules driving bleb-based migration - Nature Cell Biology
Jha et al. show that the transmembrane protein CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to maintain an EGFR–PI3K–Rac gradient during bleb-based cell migration.
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
We celebrated 25 years of @thomaslecuit.bsky.social Lab and it was all so wonderful. Having everyone around felt like we never left. Thank you Thomas for bringing us all together but also being such a strong and supportive presence in our lives even after so many years... as you say to many more...
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Thomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We just celebrated with alumni & current members the 25yrs anniversary of our group @ibdm.bsky.social and @centuri-ls.bsky.social. Lots of joy to witness the scientific paths of so many talented ex members. Big smiles, laughs and fun 🤩. So thankful for having had such colleagues. Let’s keep going 😊
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/06/2026
> Bias against non-native English speakers in peer review persists even when authors use large language models to improve their writing. Sounds to me like it's the bigotry that needs to change & structural support needs to be built up and not "chatGPT is a tool" rhetoric rolled out uncritically. 1/
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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Thrilled to share this #lipidtime mechanism story in @jcb.org where, led by Shiying Huang and in collaboration with Tamas Balla’s lab, we uncover plasticity in phospholipid metabolism to preserve plasma membrane identity and integrity in the face of disease-relevant perturbations!
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Yuki Maekawa @gatohamu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is my first paper. A brief introduction of myself.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Alot of happy cell migration!
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 29/01/2026
US researchers speak with Nature Careers about the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after Donald Trump returned to the White House. #Academicsky 🧪
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‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
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Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cell viscosity influences haematogenous dissemination and metastatic extravasation of tumour cells - Nature Materials
The viscosity of tumour cells is shown to govern their ability to disseminate through the bloodstream and extravasate, establishing a key biomechanical factor of metastasis.
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 17/01/2026
Been hearing some horrifying chatter about dealing with the new #NIH common form and #ScienCV system, so I put together a short video with some tricks for mitigating some of those pain points. Hope it helps? 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/emptymod...
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Dealing with ScienCV formatting
Some tips for composing and making your new NIH biosketch not look like garbage
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Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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Lipid transfer by ORP3 is required for the regulation of PI4P and PI(4,5)P2 at the plasma membrane in mitosis
Lipid transfer proteins are an evolutionary-conserved families of proteins that transfer lipids at sites of contacts between the membrane of distinct organelles and contribute to the regulation of org...
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Okay want to talk blebs, migration, life and more!!! I will be at poster session (sunday) at 2 PM at poster board- 247 at @ascbiology.bsky.social #Cellbio2025
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
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Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
It's always lovely to see you 💕 @thomaslecuit.bsky.social It's amazing how some things never change and we like it that way 😀
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Yeiii to a friend!!!!!
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Gioele La Manno @gioelelamanno.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A summary of training, fellowship, and career development awards Fiscal year 2025 (compared to fiscal year 2024) 1/12
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a dog is sitting on a rug in front of a brick wall and a plant .
ALT: a dog is sitting on a rug in front of a brick wall and a plant .
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Katrina Velle @katrinavelle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Happy #MicrosCreepy season!
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Katrina Velle @katrinavelle.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I have been slacking on the #microscreepy season! Thanks for reposting!
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Also you can do crazy awesome imaging and then put googly eyes on them during Halloween season!!
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Katrina Velle @katrinavelle.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
PhD or Master's position available for Fall 2026! Interested in how actin drives cell crawling, eating, dividing, or osmoregulation? What about pathogenesis of a brain-eating amoeba? Or eukaryotic evolution? If so, apply through my website: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/cont... Please share!
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Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Actin filament assembly driven by distributive polymerases clustered on membrane surfaces
Actin filaments created by the Arp2/3 complex form branched networks, that grow and push against cellular membranes. We employ theory and simulation to describe how membrane surfaces accelerate filame...
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
If anyone ever wants to brush up on a lot of cell migration concepts don't forget we have several wonderful scientists who have given talks previously in cell migration seminars. I find it so comforting to go look at old videos, maybe someone else who will do as well!! youtube.com/@cellmigrati...
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Cell Migration Seminars
Cell Migration Seminars every Tuesday at 16:00 BST.
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