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Cytoskeleton and Cell Shape lab. PhD UniHeidelberg. Div of biology, IISER Pune, India. Teaching and researching Cellular Biophysics. Account run by PI & Prof. Chaitanya Athale. #scuba 🤿 #sailing⛵ #fieldhockey 🏑 when free www.iiserpune.ac.in/~cathale

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We have a position open in our core facility in the @pasteur.fr . Please share it and / or apply! forum.image.sc/t/research-e...
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Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis. Institut Pasteur, Image Analysis Hub - 2026
Dear all Below is an announcement for a permanent position as a Research Engineer in the Institut Pasteur, Paris. There is a flyer attached at the bottom. We are looking ideally for a Bioimage An...
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The Man Who Broke Reality is comprehensive, authoritative and shrewd, and, like all of Philip Ball’s books, as entertaining as it is enlightening." I could not be more pleased with this review from the legendary John Banville. www.ft.com/content/e8a1...
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The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
Philip Ball’s entertaining biography is a guide to both the life of the Danish physicist and the mind-boggling quantum science that he, alongside Einstein, did much to advance
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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Hunt Lab, UGA Entomology @huntlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New paper from my lab out in Proc B 🎉 : Developmental bias of body size and caste by the fire ant social supergene doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @horacezhl.bsky.social
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Developmental bias of body size and caste by the fire ant social supergene
Abstract. Supergenes are clusters of linked genes that drive complex phenotypic divergence. In the fire ant Solenopsis invicta, a supergene determines poly
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Revisiting work by Melanie Müller and Reinhard Lipowsky from 2008. Antagonistic motors and tug of war of molecular motors
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
genAI has empowered mediocre people to create outputs that nobody wants, for the sake of creating outputs
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fergusson college #pune #botanical #garden is where I first did my ecology transect by a few methods way back in 1995. It's extremely well maintained and trees labelled with botanical names. A lovely place to walk. Contemtplate. Or paint. Or do some plant ecology.
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eucalyptus fruit and seeds on a white light box. I find the fourfold symmetry of the fruit fascinating
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eucalyptus fruit
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cabbage fractals
The cross-section of a red cabbage. It looks like a mandala with lots of trianglesAnother one. This one is more wiggly
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#SymbioSky take note of this 🧵👇
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Estimating Mosaic Loss of the Y Chromosome in Male Bladder Cancer Participants Using "All of Us" Data pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42394043/
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Estimating Mosaic Loss of the Y Chromosome in Male Bladder Cancer Participants Using "All of Us" Data - PubMed
Mosaic loss of the Y chromosome (mLOY) is a biologically important alteration in male bladder cancer, associated with tumor aggressiveness and immune evasion. However, scalable methods for estimating mLOY using data from "All of Us" Research Program (AoU) remain limited. This study aimed to develop …
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20/09/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "We've inherited a position of having to radically change the world's economy to have even a snowball's chance in hell of staying anywhere near 2°C, let alone 1.5°C." www.thriftbooks.com/w/our-bigges...
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Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History... book by Alice Bell
Buy a cheap copy of Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History... book by Alice Bell. Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientist...
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Chasing the question not the method...
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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Like many of you, I have always been fascinated by science. My reason is simple. It works,” Emmanuel Mignot says during his #Lasker2026 acceptance speech. Hear more about his path that took him “from pharmacology to genetics, even to zebrafish, and lately to immunology.” 🧪
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lighting up your screen: a larval zebrafish's cellular activity. Developed by researchers at our Janelia Research Campus, WHaloCaMP is a biosensor that detects calcium signals — a key part of cellular communication — & offers a window into how cells & organs work together. 🎥 Helen Farrants, HHMI JRC
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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wild zebrafish in their natural habitat (North Bengal). Credit to @jutfelt.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A developmental biologist's guide to mechanics Read this Primer from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by Jialing Cao, @raphclement.bsky.social, @pflenne.bsky.social and colleagues. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Intracellular force-generating mechanisms drive tissue-scale mechanical behaviors. The central schematic provides an overview of the major cellular force-generating mechanisms in developing tissues and serves as the basis for the four surrounding panels, which illustrate how these mechanisms generate distinct tissue-scale mechanical behaviors. It includes actomyosin contractility, actin polymerization, cell–cell adhesion and ion transport through membrane channels. These processes generate and transmit forces within and between cells. (A) ATP-dependent ion transport establishes an osmotic pressure difference (ΔP), driving water influx into the lumen. Black radial arrows indicate the outward mechanical effect of the luminal pressure during lumen expansion. (B) Actin polymerization at the tissue edge generates protrusive forces that drive coordinated, directional collective cell migration. Here, leading edge refers to the advancing front of a moving cell group, featuring specialized lead
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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 19/09/2026
Nicht jeder die Möglichkeit, jahrelang Biologie, Physik oder so zu studieren. Aber man braucht keine formelle Ausbildung, um Fragen zu stellen und verstehen zu wollen. Wenn ich Forschung erklären kann, mache ich das deshalb gerne. Und meine Erfahrung ist: Die meisten sind immer neugierig. 🧠🧪 2/5
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T.N.T.BOOM! @the1sttntboom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Weekend ride with #iranian cheesecake #pune #cycling with breaks. Is this training? 🤔
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
IMHO Could an intermediate solution to finding the gorilla, lie between lack of hypothesis or having one, to developing and falsifying the hypothesis and adjusting it. Like an optimization problem. Not dragging Bayes in here ...
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 08/09/2026
Is Nepal a turning point in climate coverage? Even formerly reticent news outlets are making the climate connection clear in their coverage of the deadly flooding in Nepal, where more than 1,100 are confirmed dead and an additional 4,000 are missing.
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Is Nepal a Turning Point in Climate Coverage? — Covering Climate Now
It’s been slow coming, but news coverage of climate change may at last be turning a corner. For years, reporting on climate-related disasters — the super-storm Hurricane Helene that blasted the southe...
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still life between cycle rides
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cycling still life
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
To be added to weekend plans: Are you prepared for your class on Monday morning?
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wow. Can't wait to read!
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EMBL Australia @emblaustralia.org · 28/08/2026
Ready to take the next step in your research career? 👨‍🔬 We're seeking an outstanding researcher to establish an independent research program as an EMBL Australia Group Leader at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) @monashuniversity.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 2 October 🔗 bit.ly/4qHYtjb
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🌾 We're hiring a postdoc! Join the Stomatal Biology group in beautiful Bern @unibe.ch How do grass leaves spatially coordinate development of veins & stomatal rows? 2 years (plus possible extension), funded by @snsf.ch @dfg.de within @cerealcell.bsky.social RU5325 jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
August as an academic
Tabbycat in tie say he hopes he doesn’t have a lot of meetings… while in the background is a lots of meetings factory
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A common-sensical critique of the concerns in the push (in India, from funding agencies) that "AI use is inevitable in research"... Ironically it will dull the very advantage the Indian science landscape had despite being underfunded. www.mariecuriealumni.eu/newsletters/...
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Special Issue - Proceed with caution: The potential negative impact of AI on scientific research | Marie Curie Alumni Association
Newsletter As scientists, we are constantly exploring new tools to advance our research. One of these tools that is very popular in recent years is called artificial intelligence (AI). AI can be very ...
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
IDK who needs to hear this but polio and smallpox never reached natural herd immunity. They were eradicated by vaccines.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🚨 Want to start your lab in Marseille on a broad neuronal/brain development theme? There's an exciting tenure track opportunity at @inp-marseille.bsky.social and others Marseille institutes! Check more details here: neuro-marseille.org/en/blog/juni... or contact me if you have any question
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Have sensor, will measure. Je mesure, donc jesuis (apologies to Descartes)
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Good start to the morning #bicycle #workout now hoping the research and grants work the same way....
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 01/06/2026
Are you a scientist with an interest in photography? We're delighted to announce that the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries until 14 August 2026! 🎉 Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp
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David Hearn @daveyph.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Diana Khoromskaia @dianakhorom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨Job Alert: PhD in Theoretical Biophysics 🚨 we are looking for a PhD student to join our group at Uni Münster to work on models of multi-layered active materials @uni-muenster.de More details here: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/6... Please share and contact me if interested!
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Doctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L, 67%)
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
What cell type is this (I assume DIC) movie of?
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
An older paper by Geraschenko et al. (2009) Using MFT-16 cells knocked down for Vimentin, showed rotations that were dynein dependent. Surprisingly the centrosome remained immobile. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19560548/
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Dynein is a motor for nuclear rotation while vimentin IFs is a "brake" - PubMed
The positioning of the nucleus is achieved by two interconnected processes, anchoring and migration, both of which are controlled by cytoskeleton structures. Rotation is a special type of nuclear moti...
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Cell architecture meets man-made architecture #cytoskeleton #microscopy #sciart
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Matt Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We are near the deadline for comments on the proposed OMB rule changes governing federal grants. I want to say again I think we need to connect basic/discovery research to national security. And, a way I'm finding makes sense is to highlight Vannevar Bush's original plan as laid out in 1945 1/n
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If potato wafer (crisps) packaging define inland waterways trash in the UK, I wonder what it will be in India? divemagazine.com/scuba-diving...
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Plastic wrappers top UK inland litter in Marine Conservation Society survey
Discarded plastic food packaging, including crisp packets and sweet wrappers, has been identified as the most common form of litter […]
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
These bright yellow frogs are male Indus Valley Bullfrogs (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus). They turn this color only during the breeding season — outside it, they're a more muted green or brown ... but still always look a little like they've seen something bewildering.
Bright yellow male bullfrogs sit on top of brown females in a shallow muddy pool bordered by grass.Bright yellow male bullfrogs sit on top of brown females in a shallow muddy pool bordered by grass.A bright yellow male bullfrog sits on top of a brown female. The male has blue cheek-like appendages puffed out.
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The idea of taking genomes, reducing them and claiming "synthetic cell" seems to stretch belief. I do not deny it's value. My issue is with the scope.
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Athale Lab @athalelab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
IMHO this bottom up reconstitution atleast allows one to imagine we understand what we put in. A chance hence of understanding what we got out (emergence notwithstanding).
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