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Elena Scarpa & The Squeezable Cells Lab @squeezycellslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Call for abstracts: the UK Cell Motility Club is back! Keynote speaker : Caren Norden 🐠 Fantastic early career talk opportunity and lovely community! Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/zNNCMfD5jF

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 8h

While we’ve heard that watching cell blebs (like watching larva lamps) can be relaxing, we think that @ankita13jha.bsky.social’s talk from our #CellMigration webinar will leave you feeling excited about #science & running to your #microscope! Full video @ focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/25/f...

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Saez-Rodriguez Group @saezlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy to see the peer-reviewed version of SpaCEy now out: 📄 Published paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻 Code: github.com/saezlab/SpaCEy

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share

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Isabel Stötzel @isabel-stoetzel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What a fantastic visitor! Thanks Pablo @pjsaez.bsky.social @cellcommlab.bsky.social for visiting Turku (organised by @mattilalab.bsky.social )! Especially, it was a pleasure to hear your experiences and thoughts during the career/science session. Thanks for taking the time and sharing your opinion!

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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In @pcusachs.bsky.social’s lab at @ibecbarcelona.eu we have a fully founded open PhD position! It’s a very nice working environment & can promise cool mechanobiology🔬🧫 Here all the info ibecbarcelona.eu/predoctoral-...

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Jan Lammerding - Lab @lammerdinglab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Looking for a faculty position combining research in fundamental cell and molecular biology with therapeutic discovery? Join our amazing faculty at the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32657 Apply by Nov. 15! Please share!

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#Mechanobiology rules! Today, it's not only Chile's independence day🇨🇱😋 ...but also Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social is getting the Körber Prize 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 for being a "curiosity's junkie" 😂 Of note, Kate photobombing is top @katemiro.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social @koerber-ip.bsky.social

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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

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Seema Grewal @seemagrewal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Working on #cellmigration? Join us online tomorrow for the second webinar in our series, hosted by @pjsaez.bsky.social and @valeriaventurini.bsky.social

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Relieved to remember that after 1 M versions + last minute changes somehow, somewhere there is light @ the end of the tunnel... Grateful for the work of my @cellcommlab.bsky.social Whenever is ready we'll post it to receive comments from the community 😉 Tks 4 existing @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social 🧪🔬

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 11/09/2026

Gourkanti et al. @neal-lab.bsky.social show that the rhomboid protease Rhbdl2 restrains #macrophage recruitment & wound repair in #zebrafish, positioning Rhbdl2 as a potential brake on macrophage-driven repair rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Migration #motility #Immunology

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Teresa Rayon @trayon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

‼️ Postdoc position open. We study how protein metabolism controls time. If you’re excited by this question, we’d love to hear from you! We’re looking for a motivated & collaborative researcher with a strong track record. 📅 30 September 2026 📢 Please share Apply here 👇👇

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Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Babraham

The lab investigates the molecular mechanisms that control biological timing in mouse and human stem cells (Azzi & Rayon, Curr Opinions 2024; Nakanoh et al., Dev Cell 2026). The central aim of this ex...

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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

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 09/09/2026

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

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Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting @tricytomeet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

LAST CALL FOR POSTER ABSTRACTS! We are just over 2 weeks away from the 2026 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting at the William and Ida Friday Center on Sept. 21st. Submit your abstract by Monday, Sept. 7th for the opportunity to present a poster. Registrations will remain open until Sept. 14th.

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very happy to share my postdoc paper is out now in @natcellbio.nature.com titled "Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarization and directional migration". If you love imaging and immune cells, this is for you! #microscopymonday www.nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵: 1/n

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 06/09/2026

Even with all the advancements in automated cell tracking getting us to 90%+ accuracy...that's still a lot of broken tracks over long movies! Our brains are pretty good at this so I made Vizsla 🐕, a little @napari.org plugin, to help you fix your tracks manually. 👉 pypi.org/project/napa...

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is why we love #CellMigratuon ! This beautiful story is now out, very interesting role for RhoA and also the cover, Neutrophils on the 'Rho'ad Congrats to all authors, especially to former colleagues and friends Full @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Adaptive motility enables neutrophils to rapidly navigate confined capillaries

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

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Katrina Velle @katrinavelle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm very excited to be included in this lineup! Thanks @pjsaez.bsky.social and @valeriaventurini.bsky.social for organizing!

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We are excited to invite you to the second webinar in our cell migration series. In this webinar, we focus on new models for studying cell migration with talks from @ankita13jha.bsky.social, @raphclement.bsky.social & @katrinavelle.bsky.social. More info⤵️: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/03/f...

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Another year is gone & I grow old and proud of the work of my team @cellcommlab.bsky.social To celebrate the 6th labversary, we did the best we can do: we submitted...now to cross fingers & to press F5. OK, to celebrate we also had pizza as tradition dictates ;) #CellMigration & pizza lovers 🧪🔬

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Blebbing cell under confinement?

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Caetano Reis e Sousa @reisesousalab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hope you enjoy this short piece, which came out yesterday. Some thoughts I’ve been musing on for a while about why adaptive immunity evolved. Read it for free at rdcu.be/fAO5P

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Why adaptive immunity?

Nature Reviews Immunology - Adaptive immunity is indispensable to vertebrates, yet most living organisms defend themselves perfectly well without it. Here, I ask why somatically diversified antigen...

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Isabella Backman @izzybackman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

For @science.org , I wrote about brain-eating amoeba 🦠 and fascinating new research led by @katrinavelle.bsky.social which could help explain how the usually harmless pond-dweller ends up in the brain. www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘Brain-eating amoeba’ appears to love crawling into narrow spaces

Claustrophilic behavior may help Naegleria fowleri find food—and accidentally travel up the human nasal cavity

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#cytoskeleton So, there is a small (very small) 9-aa motif that is an evolutionary conserved anchor to actin. It's named: short linear actin filament-binding motif (SFM), and it's *the same* found in LifeAct ! Full: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcellbio.nature.com @cellclub.bsky.social 🧪🔬

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Ivan Zanoni @lozanzi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#DAMPsPower!! Excited to share the 💥new 💥 review @ Science Immunology that @marcodigioia & I wrote about the immunological activities played by host-derived oxidized lipids in controlling infections & tumorigenesis! doi.org/10.1126/scii...

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Regulation of inflammation by oxidized lipids

Lipids generated by oxidative stress and their effects on immunity and cancer are reviewed.

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 10/08/2026

Ready for the next step in your scientific career? Apply now for a fully funded Biozentrum PhD Fellowship and explore a wide range of research fields before choosing your PhD lab. 🧪 Applications for the current call are open until October 18, 2026. More information 👇

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Biozentrum PhD Fellowships

Share your passion for life sciences. If you are talented and highly motivated, want to broaden your horizons and are interested in a wide range of research topics, apply for one of the sought after B...

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue: Proteostasis. This issue will be coordinated by two of our Academic Editors: Pedro Carvalho and Tamotsu Yoshimori. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/pr...

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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs

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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Booking is OPEN for Frontiers in BioImaging 2026! Sessions will span technical developments in light and electron microscopy, advances in image analysis and data interpretation, and biological applications across scales. Register now: ow.ly/ZN3950Zuj9j

Frontiers in BioImaging 2026 event details with date, time, and location over a colorful microscopic background.

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@sbcf.bsky.social can we have the link? 😇

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Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape

Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...

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UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center @uclastemcell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Watch a muscle fiber take shape. 🔬 This microscopic video captures a muscle cell fusing with a developing muscle fiber, with cell membranes visible in purple and yellow. The Rando Lab uses live-cell imaging to understand how cells coordinate muscle regeneration. Credit: Tamas Nagy/Rando Lab

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Decades ago in 🇨🇱 cellbio meeting immunologist delivers a ppt with 90% immuno and 10% cellbio. Everyone baffled. 1st row sitting senior PI rise the hand: -why did you come to this cellbio meeting? -yeah I wonder the same sometimes (laughs nervously) -I'm not joking, why?! This 👇🏽 is magnificent too

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AIC at Janelia @aicjanelia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This afternoon's imaging lab at #IALSJanelia is all about subcellular structures, highlighted here by myosin (white) and actin (orange). These membrane ruffles were captured on our lattice light-sheet microscope by @cmhobson.bsky.social

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Raphaël Clément @raphclement.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Our work on Trichoplax locomotion and mechanosensing capabilities is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Congrats Marvin Leria & all co-authors! authors.elsevier.com/c/1n8Ig3QW8S...

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 20/07/2026

Michaud, @andrewgoryachev.bsky.social, von Dassow, @xenresearchcenter.bsky.social et al. identify a versatile cortical pattern-forming circuit based on #Rho, F-#actin, Ect2, & RGA-3/4 rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 In "Collective Behaviors and Self-Organization in Cells" rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is not AI. This is real microscopy! 🔬 An intact gut, rendered transparent and imaged in 3D using light-sheet microscopy! 🤓 Looking inside organs to investigate where pathogens, immune cells, or disease processes may persist. More at: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Happy #FluorescenceFriday!

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Human Frontier Science Program @hfspo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

What does frontier science look like? 🧪 At #HFSPmtg2026, it spans everything from cell migration and photosynthesis to evolution, plant biology or ocean microbiomes. Different questions. Different approaches. One community exchanging ideas across disciplines! 💪 #HFSP #sts

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Another #FluorescenceFriday. When the world is going crazy, I find some peace watching at these myeloid cells (🔴) going about their day. They exist in tissue surrounded by other cells (🔵), and you can see them popping up and down, going in and out of plane as they explore their surrounding.

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Bringing together science & art, @manuelthery.bsky.social & the CytoMorpho lab describe their project on how cells adapt their shape to their environment using the Musée d’Orsay as their template! The full performance was presented over two nights at the museum earlier this year. #sciart #cellbio

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Living Architectures - FocalPlane

Living Architectures - Case studies

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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 30/06/2026

Bile acid retention in efferocytic #macrophages shapes their inflammatory status during #cholangitis. New study from Amirah Al Jawazneh, Imke Liebold, Stephanie Leyk, Lidia Bosurgi (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf) et al.: rupress.org/jem/article/... @pjsaez.bsky.social #inflammation

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. I really did. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

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My Peer Review of The 1%

I wanted to like QED's new 1% ranking. I don't.

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