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Leeba Ann Chacko @leeba.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Thrilled that our recent paper has received the SBMS November 2025 Paper of the Month award. Grateful for this recognition, to the entire team for their hard work, and to my mentor @vaishananth.bsky.social , for her constant support. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

If anyone wondering about academic funding in Aus, this is the stark reality at present. I have written countless letters to politicians like @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social, @davidpocock.bsky.social who like to say they are leading this conversation in Aus but it is really like shouting into the void.

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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

📣 We are hiring! An education-focused Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Biomedical or Biophysical sciences. It’s a chance to be a part of a team of single molecule /cellular biophysicists building a brand new undergraduate curriculum, here at UNSW in sunny Sydney. Happy to answer queries.

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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (Education focused)

The incumbent will contribute to undergraduate teaching in biophysics or quantitative biomedical sciences within the School of Biomedical Sciences.

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Shane Herbert @shaneherbert.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

My first post on Bluesky! Very excited to share our work just published in @science.org. We find that “Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis” - in angiogenesis and other tissues! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis

During tissue formation, dynamic cell shape changes drive morphogenesis while asymmetric divisions create cellular diversity. We found that the shifts in cell morphology that shape tissues could conco...

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Mary Mirvis @marymirvis.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

New(ish) preprint! 📰What whole-cell patterns emerge from the arrangement, morphologies, and interactions of organelles in the 3D space of the cell? What would we see if we could gather ALL the whole-cell reconstruction data that's out there in one place? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/11

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A scoping study of the whole-cell imaging literature: a foundational corpus, potential for mesoscale data synthesis, and implications for standardization of an emerging field

The level of cellular organization bridging the mesoscale and whole-cell scale is coming into focus as a new frontier in cell biology. Great progress has been made in unraveling the complex physical a...

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@ucsusa.bsky.social is running a "science advocacy training webinar on writing letters to the editor to inform and influence different audiences about the impacts of federal cuts to science and science workers" next Thursday April 17 🧪 It will be recorded for those who register but cannot attend

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Sharing Stories of Science through Letters to the Editor

The Union of Concerned Scientists invites scientists and experts to a science advocacy training webinar on writing letters to the editor to inform and influence different audiences about the impacts o...

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

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The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist

"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."

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Barriga Lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

REPOSTING this here just to officially leave "the other place" Our work on the role of endogenous electric fields in guiding collective cell migration during #morphogenesis is out @naturematerials.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

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Stretch-induced endogenous electric fields drive directed collective cell migration in vivo - Nature Materials

Electric fields guide collective cell migration in developing embryos of Xenopus laevis via a voltage-sensitive phosphatase.

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Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) @vaishananth.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

How is mitochondrial volume maintained across successive generations of dividing cells? In our new preprint, we show how fission yeast cells use mitochondrial activity to control division timing and maintain mitochondrial homeostasis! (1/n) 📖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Posting this here now that the orange man has erasing scientific literature. What people, perhaps without any strong opinions on this, never understand is the barriers that academics have to overcome to publish papers on gender and trans identities. He can burn the journals, but we will keep PDFs 😘

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UNSW Single Molecule Science @singmolsci.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Aaaand that’s a wrap at Asia Pacific Microscopy Congress 2025 in sunny Brisbane, attended by a big team from Single Molecule Science. Lots of exciting new 🔬 tools and translation in biomedical investigations. @ijayas.bsky.social @arindam92.bsky.social

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Some colleagues sitting around a dinner table

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Arindam Ghosh being introduced to the symposium by Liz Hinde.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

U2OS labeled with OMP25-GFP, an outer membrane marker for mitochondria. Left shows a zoom-in on the dimmer cell. Imaged by OPM (oblique plane microscope). #Microscopy

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Reading the paper in Cell about how to close the scissor plots in gender representation at senior academic positions, I feel just a touch of pessimism. Having reached a level of seniority (middle management) I didn’t think I ever would, I read these great ideas wanting more, much more /1.

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Closing the scissor-shaped curve: Strategies to promote gender equality in academia

Gender inequality in STEM fields remains pervasive and undermines the ability for talented individuals to excel. Despite advances, women still encounter obstacles in pursuing academic careers and reac...

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Mary Munson @marymunson4.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My lab at UMass Chan Med School uses a variety of approaches to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of membrane traffic. Striving to make academic science a more diverse, equitable, welcoming and inclusive place. Incoming President for the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)! Opinions are mine.

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Benoit Ladoux @bladoux.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I am delighted to share our new preprint in which we reveal the crucial role for mechanical forces in myoblast fusion. Great work from Yoann, Sushil and Aleksandra and great collaboration with Christophe Marcelle and Amin Doostmohammadi! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 19/11/2024

I agree with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social's great synthesis here, it's a super exciting time for physical biology! We are in the process of transitioning from simply cataloguing the parts to actually understanding how they interact to produce the high-level behaviors we see.

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Michael Morehead @michael-syglass.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I *see* you BSKY. Cleared #lightsheet #microscopy of the human #eye from Marie Darche in Paris and rendered in www.syglass.io.

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Sam Lewis, Ph.D. @samlewis.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Check out our new quick guide in @currentbiology.bsky.social, all about Mitochondrial Nucleoids! t.co/QFTQrevZNu

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https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2824%2901346-0

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Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) @vaishananth.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Super excited to see all this activity on BlueSky! 👋 I'm a cell biologist/biophysicist interested in how the cell interior is organised by stochastic interactions between the cytoskeleton, motor proteins and organelles. I also care deeply about equity and inclusion in academia. 1/2

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Shruti Muralidhar @polybiotique.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

So happy to see familiar faces again! ❤️ For the new folks - I'm a neuroscientist by training and I'm passionate about scicomm and women in STEM. Previous works in this space include indscicomm.blog with @abhishekchari.bsky.social and biaswatchindia.com with @vaishananth.bsky.social

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Innovating Scicomm for India

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Final week for applications for up to 2 postdoc posts in advanced biomedical (super-resolution) microscopy with my team in Sydney, based at @singmolsci.bsky.social. The post is especially suited for ECRs interested in single molecule imaging, &/or image analysis. International applicants welcome 🧪

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Advanced Biomedical Microscopy

UNSW Department of Molecular Medicine seeks an enthusiastic researcher in super-resolution microscopy to develop novel super resolution methods and leverage these techniques to study cellular architec...

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Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Interested in studying Computational Cell Biophysics at UCL? Applications are open for our innovative MRes programme at the interface between physics and biology! ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/mres-ccb Watch this video to find out more: mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/9h335dB3

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Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) @vaishananth.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Back on Twitter (I refuse to call it the other name) after a long-ish hiatus, and a challenging 2023. Here's hoping for a happier, science-filled 2024! Cat tax:

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Latest paper from our team on variations in cellular staining with 14 different fluorescent dye esters when combined with expansion microscopy. Strategic deployment of these dyes with expansion 🔬 can not only provide EM-like images, but also highlight different sets of cellular organelles. 🧪

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Differential labelling of human sub-cellular compartments with fluorescent dye esters and expansion ...

Amine-reactive esters of aromatic fluorescent dyes are emerging as imaging probes for nondescript staining of cellular and tissue architectures. We characterised the staining patterns of 14 fluorescen...

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Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) @vaishananth.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Thanks for highlighting our (@polybiotique.bsky.social) report and its coverage by @dyanilewis.bsky.social, Izzy. As we mention in our report, fixing this will require clearly earmarked resources, and importantly, the will and strong commitment to equity from the leadership in Indian academia.

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Shruti Muralidhar @polybiotique.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

“TIFR’s hiring policies and evaluation processes for scientists and academicians are completely gender-neutral,” they said. Their base rate is 8.8% Are these 'gender-neutral processes' working? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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One-third of Indian STEM conferences have no women

Women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics faculty are rare, and women speaking at conferences are even rarer. Women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics faculty are rare...

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Felicity Davis @davislab.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Our thoughts on how to make conferences more inclusive and sustainable - with @vaishananth.bsky.social and a great international team. Check it out here: rdcu.be/dqHEM

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Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) @vaishananth.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

"..the much aspired (true) diversity in STEM may never arrive until our narrow definitions of excellence as well as the myopia that leads us to overlook systemic inequalities are corrected". A must-read about the myth of meritocracy in academia. So grateful to be in the dept. headed by Izzy

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Shruti Muralidhar @polybiotique.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Hoping to start some conversations around Indian #WomenInSTEM with our work! @vaishananth.bsky.social and I founded BiasWatchIndia back in 2020 during the pandemic and started collecting both base rate and conference data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Women's representation in Indian academia and conferences

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

"Some of us are surviving. Yes. This is obvious. Some of us are thriving. Some of us squeaking by on fumes and prayers. Most of us yo-yo between these extremes...we will never reach our potential as scientists. Not in the way we witnessed the generation or two before us reach theirs."

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Congratulations to the winners of the Nobel prize! I hope their stories, particularly KK's, force us to confront the misogyny, bias and assumptions about "impact" and "excellence" that very likely limit the recognition of similar innovations that could improve our world.

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Volodya Gelfand; Northwestern University @vgelfand.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Our PNAS paper is out pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We showed that mRNA for microtubule polymerase XMAP215 is recruited to Drosophila oocyte by dynein. It produces more XMAP215 so that dynein can recruit more XMAP215 mRNA. This feedback loop is required to maintain oocyte identity.

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Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) @vaishananth.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

First attempts at micropatterning in the lab - tubulin staining in HEK293 cells. Thanks to @ManuelTHERY for getting us started on this journey!

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Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) @vaishananth.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

First attempts at micropatterning in the lab! Tubulin staining in HEK293 cells.

HEK293 cells grown on micropatterns with different shapes and immunostained for tubulin: clockwise from top left - circle, pacman, crossbow and triangle shapes.

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

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Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com · 26/08/2023

🚨📢 SAVE THE DATE! pombe2025, The 12th International Fission yeasts meeting will be held on August 3rd-8th, 2025 @BostonCollege Stay tuned for more info in the coming months. Please spread the word.

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Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) @vaishananth.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Hello world👋! I'm a cell biologist/biophysicist and my lab investigates how stochastic motor-driven processes integrate to give rise to intracellular organisation. I love all things cytoskeleton and motor proteins. I care deeply about equity and inclusion in science.

Fluorescent image of microtubules and dynactin subunit p150

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

🧪🔬Really excited about this meeting, hoping that we can bring the global evolutionary cell biology community together. Join us in Spain next year! Registration opens in October www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

"students reported that through the process of conducting and publishing their research, they developed specific competencies...Further, they reported this process enabled them to identify as contributing members of the greater scientific community." micropubs for the fucking win! 🙌🏽🙌🏽

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"Important enough to show the world": Using Authentic Research Opportunities and Micropublications t...

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