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Andrew Savinov @biosavinov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thrilled to announce that the Savinov lab is now live at UT Austin @utaustin.bsky.social! Our lab employs massively parallel experimental and AI methods to discover and design protein fragments as universal regulators of protein interactions in health and disease. www.savinovlab.com (1/n)

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excited to announce that the Rikki Garner lab has opened its doors in beautiful Austin, TX! Our interdisciplinary lab @utaustin.bsky.social MBS investigates tissue fluidity as a universal physical regulator of multicellular patterning in health and disease. www.rikkigarnerlab.org 1/n

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

MULTIPLE JOB ALERTS 🚨 The newly minted Garner Lab (www.rikkigarnerlab.org) at UT-Austin is hiring at all levels, including undergrads, grad students, postdocs, and research staff! They are looking to build a kind, supportive, and interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers. More details in 🧵

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

We wrote two reviews on cell migration, published today in Nature Methods. They provides practical guidelines how to select a cell-migration assay and how to analyze cell-migration data Review 1: nature.com/articles/s41... Review 2: nature.com/articles/s41...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

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Rahul K @theresearch.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I’d like to invite everyone working on engineering living materials to share this starter pack. Please drop me a message or leave a comment if you like to join the #ELMs community. go.bsky.app/RinsDZh

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Hope to see you all at 10AM today!

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Flagellar length control in Chlamydomonas is a paradigm for organelle size regulation. In poster 163 at CellBio2025 Sunday Dec 7, I present work by Hiro Ishikawa using a synthetic biology approach to test a length-sensing model based on diffusion of kinesin in flagella

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I’m so excited to be at #CellBio2025 with my trainees! Elizabeth (#259) and Olivia (#251) have posters in Sunday’s session. Please stop by to hear about the work we are starting up in the lab looking at Rap1 GTPase signaling in epithelial migration in human carcinoma cells and in Drosophila embryos.

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Babli Adhikary @babliadhikary.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Attending #Cellbio2025? I am presenting two posters, stop by if you are interested in epithelial dynamics. Looking forward to all the amazing conversations and feedback!!

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A. T. Molines @atmolines.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

My former bench mate @joellemiere.bsky.social from the @fredchanglab.bsky.social giving a killer talk about nuclear size regulation in fission yeast at #ASCB #CellBio2025 Stay tuned for the paper to come soon ! Beautiful experimental data falling on the mathematical model, no fit needed 🤩

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Liam J. Russell @liamjrussell99.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Super excited to share some of my work in such a great session at #cellbio2025!! If you’re at the meeting come on down, I’ll be talking about cell density and its influence on tissue fluidization during epithelial morphogenesis 🔬👨🏻‍🔬🪰

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

🚨 Link up with me at #Cellbio2025 ! 🚨 Excited to present the majority of my postdoc work in the Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms Minisymposium. Thanks to the organizers for putting together such an exciting session 🤩

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Chris Miles @chrismil.es · 02/12/2025

I'm hiring a postdoc through Utah Math. Deadline Dec 15. If you work in math/comp bio (SciML, stochastic modeling, single-cell data), please apply! Vibrant math bio community & unbeatable outdoors. Mention me in your cover letter & reach out with any questions. www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27...

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you're at #cellbio2025, @atmolines.bsky.social Hernan Garcia and I invite you to attend our Minisymposium “Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms” for incredible talks on epigenetic mechanical memory, viscoelasticity, cortical flows, morphogenesis, tissue wetting, size scaling, et al!

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The #cellbio2025 is starting this week! I’ll be giving a talk on the first 1st day, in the session organized by @iaincheeseman.bsky.social and @abbybuch.bsky.social (Thx for the invitation!). If you’re interested in #oocytes, #proteostasis, and #aging come by to attend! @ascbiology.bsky.social

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Dr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Come find out how to make your science more accessible. Hear and touch mitosis during my talk. @ascbiology.bsky.social #cellbio2025 #mitosis #midbody #tactilelearning

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Jerry C @xianglejerry.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Hey everyone and fellow #actin people! Here's a preview video for my upcoming talk at #cellbio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social next Wednesday at 10am! Because it's gonna happen on the last day, so I promise to be a little funny, and I might even throw in a song and dance! And some nice data too.

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Any other shoalmates in attendance? #cellbio2025

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Aakriti Jain @aakritijain.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you will be at @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 this coming week, let’s connect! I'm giving a talk on Tue Dec 9 at 10 AM in the “From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Insights in Neurodegeneration” session and a poster on Mon Dec 8 in the “Organelles – Endosome and Lysosomes” session. See you there!

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Cells can hunt prey, solve mazes, and learn from past experience. Does this mean they can think, at some level? Find out more at our upcoming session on "Cell Behavior and Cognition" at the ASCB/EMBO #cellbio2025 meeting, Saturday 1-3 pm rm 115.

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Attending #CellBio2025? Come see the Cohen Lab - Monday will be a busy day for us, including my theatrical debut in WICB "Scripts of Success" skits!

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Presenting at #cellbio2025 this week? Please post your presentation info here on Bluesky so we can like and share!

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Looking forward to seeing everyone at #cellbio2025! Excited to share new work from my postdoc to measure, model, and control the interplay of tissue fluidity and multicellular patterning in a living organism. Come see me at my talk or poster (details below), or DM me if you want to meet up!

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Biophysical Journal @biophysj.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Too fluid, too rigid, no patterning. Garner et al. identify tissue fluidity—how freely cells move within a tissue—as a critical regulator of adhesion-based cell sorting. Read their study to learn how tissues can tune their fluidity to enable patterning.

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Tissue fluidity mediates a trade-off between the speed and accuracy of multicellular patterning by cell sorting

The organization of cells into spatial patterns is a fundamental aspect of multicellularity. One major mechanism underlying tissue patterning is adhesion-based cell sorting, in which a heterogeneous…

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irisjuanico.bsky.social @irisjuanico.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Who's going to #cellbio2025 in Philly? I am a PhD candidate and molecular biologist studying regeneration in Hydra vulgaris, an animal that can grow back its entire body. Looking to transition to industry next year. Let's connect!

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Eric (“VJ”) Rubenstein @vjrubenstein.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Just one week away until #CellBio2025! Please plan to join us for a sUPeR speakER lineup at the #EndoplasmicReticulum Minisymposium! Dec 10 at 9 AM @ascbiology.bsky.social

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Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It's an amazing time to be a cell biologist, as new tech makes probing cellular processes in physiological contexts more tractable. This is the theme of a Special Interest Subgroup that @iaincheeseman.bsky.social and I are hosting at #cellbio2025. Join us on Saturday 12/5! @ascbiology.bsky.social

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 24/11/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Yu Deng, winner of the 2025 Norton B. Gilula Travel Award! Yu is a PhD student from Dr. Peter Devreotes’ lab at @jhu.edu. Be sure to catch Yu’s talk during #CellBio2025! Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...

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Rockefeller University Press @rupress.org · 24/11/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Justus Francis (@justusfrancis.bsky.social), winner of the @jcb.org 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award! Justus is a graduate student in @sc-lab.bsky.social. Be sure to catch Justus’s talk during #CellBio2025! Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...

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Beata Science Art @beatascienceart.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

All #CellBio2025 attendees! Here’s our phenomenal lineup for our session on #SciArt & #SciComm: @ahnaskop.bsky.social, @jiwasa.bsky.social, @mag2art.bsky.social, @nat-prunet.bsky.social, and Julia Licholai. Please come by and spread the word! Huge thanks to @ascbiology.bsky.social and co-organizers!

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Mary Munson @marymunson4.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Super excited for the upcoming #cellbio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org meeting in Philadelphia! Check out the Special President's session on "The Rising Tide of Science Denial" on Saturday at 1pm!

Image of the four speakers for the "Rising Tide of Science Denial", special President's session on Saturday Dec 6 at 1pm: Kenneth R. Miller, Michael Mann, Paul Offit, and Gale M. Sinatra

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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Ten years ago, I saw a paper with some data that has bothered me ever since: B cells in a 0-100 ng/mL gradient of CCL19 are attracted to CCL19, but B cells in 0-500 ng/mL are repelled (see movie, ignoring the big clusters for now!). Why? Here's our model! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

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Rikki Garner @rikkigarner.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Happy to share that this work is now published in @biophysj.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

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Job #AJO30961, Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

Faculty Position in Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology
We are seeking an outstanding integrative physiologist (broadly
defined) for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) to join
our faculty in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell
Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), UC Davis. Our
department is a highly integrated group of faculty studying molecular,
cellular, physiological, and pathophysiological mechanisms of health
and disease. The candidate should have an active research program
that focuses on interdisciplinary physiology research using state-of-
the-art approaches. We welcome research which diversifies our
expertise, and/or that which complements existing strengths in
gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems as well as developmental biology. Candidates are expected
to expand access to education and provide opportunities in research
for students, trainees, and the community across various life and
professional experiences.
• Candidates must possess a PhD and postdoctoral experience in
physiology or a related field.
• Aptitude/experience in teaching broad-based physiology or
functional anatomy to professional or graduate students.
• Experience with grant writing.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication
skills, and a demonstrated ability to work
cooperatively and collegially within a diverse
community.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley,
I appreciated the opportunity to speak with you yesterday.
I welcome further engagement around how we can (a) enhance the long-standing
partnership between the federal government and this country's leading research
universities and (b) ensure that higher education stays focused on academic
excellence. As I shared on the call, I do not believe that the involvement of the
government through a compact--whether it is a Republican- or Democratic-led
White House-
is the right way to focus America's leading colleges and universities
on their teaching and research mission.
Our universities have a responsibility to set our own academic and institutional
policies, guided by our mission and values, our commitment to free expression, and
our obligations under the law. Staying true to this responsibility is what will help
American higher education build bipartisan public trust and continue to uphold its
place as the envy of the world.
We remain open to other ways to work with the federal government to enhance
higher education.
Best,
Sian Leah Beilock
President

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Matt Olm @mattolm.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

UVA becomes the first public university to reject the Compact. Bravo!🙌🏽

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Mia K. Markey @markeymk.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Reminder for UT Austin AAUP colleagues ... please check your personal email account for a message from the AAUP Chapter at UT Austin from the address "noreply@electionrunner.com" which is an opportunity to vote on the AAUP Chapter at UT Austin Resolution on the Trump Administration “Compact”.

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Dimitris Vavylonis @dvavylonis.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

We invite abstracts for “Physics of the Cytoskeleton” at the 2026 APS Global Summit in Denver. Join speakers Margaret Gardel @squishycell.bsky.social (Univ of Chicago) and Colm Kelleher (Syracuse)! This is @aps-dbio.bsky.social and @apsdsoft.bsky.social Session 04.01.03 with deadline Oct 23, 2025.

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

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