Reposted by @sameerthukral.bsky.socialJean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 20/11/2025We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following: 418275
Reposted by @sameerthukral.bsky.socialthe Node @the-node.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Now live = The Kahneman Chronicles #2: Loss Aversion and the Art of Quitting. Stay tuned for part 3 of this entertaining article series! Part 2 ⬇️👀 thenode.biologists.com/the-kahneman...thenode.biologists.comThe Kahneman Chronicles: Lessons from a Fly Lab - the NodeThe Kahneman Chronicles #2: Loss Aversion and the Art of Quitting Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) was a legendary psychologist who revolutionized our 021
Reposted by @sameerthukral.bsky.socialRIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) @riken-bdr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025🪰Yu-Chiun Wang’s team & Univ. of Hohenheim group discovered how fly embryos solve the “tissue tectonic collision” that occurs in morphogenetic movements between tissues and why the #cephalicfurrow evolved, a longstanding mystery to developmental biologists. In @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...doi.orgDivergent evolutionary strategies pre-empt tissue collision in gastrulation - NatureFlies have evolved two distinct strategies for managing mechanical stresses during embryogenesis: out-of-plane cell division in midges and transient out-of-plane tissue folding in fruit flies. 094
Reposted by @sameerthukral.bsky.socialYu-Chiun Wang @yuchiunwang.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Excited to be traveling to meetings.embo.org/event/25-cyt... in Pune, India. Looking forward to seeing friends not seen in years and revisiting for the first time since 2020. My lab is recruiting. Those interested, let’s meet up there! (Look out for ads up here soon.)meetings.embo.orgFrontiers in Cytoskeleton ResearchA key question in biology is how living cells adapt to highly complex functional requirements in the context of an organism, within which they need to develop complex morphologies, interact with many… 033
sameerthukral.bsky.social @sameerthukral.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Daniel Kahneman's imaginary sabbatical in a fly lab continues...this time: The art of letting go. Have you felt the pain of stopping while standardising a new method? Or letting go of a project? When to stop, when to persist? Have a read @the-node.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/the-kahneman...thenode.biologists.comThe Kahneman Chronicles: Lessons from a Fly Lab - the NodeThe Kahneman Chronicles #2: Loss Aversion and the Art of Quitting Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) was a legendary psychologist who revolutionized our 032
sameerthukral.bsky.social @sameerthukral.bsky.social · 28/09/2025What if the legendary psychologist and grandfather of behavioral economics, Daniel Kahneman took a sabbitical in a fly lab? How would the lab culture change? Explored this imaginary scenario in a blog post @the-node.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/the-kahneman...thenode.biologists.comThe Kahneman Chronicles: Lessons from a Fly Lab - the NodeThe Kahneman Chronicles #1: When a Nobel Laureate Fixed Our Lab's Scheduling Disasters Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) was a legendary psychologist who 132
Reposted by @sameerthukral.bsky.socialAkankshi Munjal @akankshi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Our latest preprint! Into morphogenesis, Yap, ECM, signaling, vertex models, feedbacks/robustness? There is something here for everyone. We discovered a positive feedback loop that extends inner ear canals, and a built-in mechanism that shuts it down when morphogenesis is done. tinyurl.com/464wsjhd 48027
sameerthukral.bsky.social @sameerthukral.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Happy to have shared my first post on The Node, on how hidden power dynamics may prevent creative science from blooming. @the-node.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/the-invisibl...thenode.biologists.comThe Invisible Cost: How Power Dynamics May Undermine Respect in Academic Labs - the NodeI'm a big fan of podcasts, and one of my favorites is Tim Harford's "Cautionary Tales." It tells true stories about disasters and what we can learn from 064
Reposted by @sameerthukral.bsky.socialNature @nature.com · 09/09/2025A long-standing mystery in the development of fly embryos has been resolved go.nature.com/4nhVxaago.nature.comFlies evolved a shock-absorber tissue used during embryonic developmentThe role of tissue that forms between the head and trunk of a fly embryo has been unclear. It turns out that it absorbs forces when nearby cells move and divide. 0188
Reposted by @sameerthukral.bsky.socialMarc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 17/09/2025'How to be a scientist in a post-journal world' @pracheeac.bsky.social & @mbeisen.bsky.social beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. 👍 #ScientificPublishing #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #Preprints #OpenSciencethescientistpapers.substack.comHow to be a scientist in a post-journal worldWhen we created this site to write about things in science that need to be fixed, we chose not to start with publishing, even though it has been our preoccupation for decades. 12914
Reposted by @sameerthukral.bsky.socialGiulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️ 510842
Reposted by @sameerthukral.bsky.socialYu-Chiun Wang @yuchiunwang.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Tissues transition between solid & fluid states in development & disease; cytoplasm turns crowded or inert to literally 'solidify'. Any connections? Turns out nothing's known. @sameerthukral.bsky.social & @bipashadey29.bsky.social pulled this review off brilliantly with a conceptual synthesis. 2208
sameerthukral.bsky.social @sameerthukral.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Excited to share our new review in Development, Growth and Differentiation(DGD) Journall! With the amazing @yuchiunwang.bsky.social & @bipashadey29.bsky.social,we explore how rigidity transitions bridge cytoplasmic & tissue scales. Read the full review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comIntegrating Tissue and Cytoplasmic Rigidity Transitions During MorphogenesisMulticellular organisms generate organizational complexity through morphogenesis, in which mechanical forces orchestrate the movements and deformations of cells and tissues, while chemical signals re... 1135
sameerthukral.bsky.social @sameerthukral.bsky.social · 22/02/2025What an honor to host @itaiyanai.bsky.social at RIKEN-BDR, Kobe! From learning Night Science creativity, to see them come alive with Day Science rigor, Itai truly demonstrated the "yes, and" attitude in person! Thank you for your great energy, passion and generosity! Can't wait to have you back! 172
sameerthukral.bsky.social @sameerthukral.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Excited to host @itaiyanai.bsky.social at RIKEN BDR, Kobe over the next few days! Looking forward to learning about "Tails" and how to use Night Science "Tales" to supercharge creativity in science! Thank you Itai for accepting our invitation! 062
Reposted by @sameerthukral.bsky.socialLi-Kun Phng @phnglab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Excited to announce that we will be holding another #mechanobiology across scales symposium this year in beautiful Awaji Island #Japan! We have a star-studded lineup of speakers and it's free participation (free accommodation and food!)! Register here: www.igm.hokudai.ac.jp/85th-fujihar... 0317
