Have you ever thought about inflating tissues? Or maybe quickly deflating those inflated tissues? New #EpithelialMechanics pre-print: https://t.co/b7PVuHZVCO 🧵with pressure control, multiscale buckling, patterned wrinkling

How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷? Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces. Led by @pauguillamat @IBECBarcelona https://t.co/iwNhsfXC3H

Capturing Nematic Order on Tissue Surfaces of Arbitrary Geometry https://t.co/p5FatRdT6C #biorxiv_biophys

Shih-Yuan's awesome work on soft actuators (AKA ferromarbles) is on the arXIv!. These crazy guys can rock, roll, and hop - check it out here: https://t.co/m05cLB3ZOl

Excited to release our latest work, led by @almcalvo: https://t.co/1krxJjgK48! Here, we characterize the rich dynamics of surface-attached "active drops", and develop principles to predict & control their shape and motion (morphodynamics). 💧🦠 Tweetorial follows... [1/6]

Experiments show how mechanical forces influence morphology during tissue regeneration in #Hydra. When the animal is constrained into a narrow channel, it can develop a multiaxial body plan — including multiple heads. Read the paper: https://t.co/oITfzXkPjZ

👻🔬 Who knew stem cells could get into the #Halloween spirit? This #FluorescenceFriday , our cells are serving some serious spooky pumpkin vibes! 🎃✨ Science + Spooky Season = Perfection! #PumpkinSpiceCells

Mark them indeed! Great combo!

Active nematics (active) poster at the 17th #IBECSymposium. Thank you @IBECBarcelona community for the best poster award! (:

Academic ironies

🚨 @eurocurvobio is launching the EuroCurvoBioNet monthly Webinars on curvature in biological systems 📅 1st Wed of the month, 1:30 PM CET 📍Live on Zoom | Recordings on YouTube 🔗 full schedule & details: https://t.co/ObdDEcgVvV 🗓️ 09.10.24 - Chiara Micheletti @michelettic_🐡

We know that science is art, but this honorable mention took that sentiment to another level, using cells to replicate a famous painting by Johannes Vermeer. Impressive! https://t.co/WXPlnBfItR Credit: Catherine Porter, Aria Huang, Hunter Nichols, Dr. Alex Hughes

Happy #SmallWorldInMotionMonday! We're diving into the week with this captivating clip that shows the complex and unique method starfish larvae use to procure their food. https://t.co/eOAfnduwAO Credit: William Gilpin, Dr. Vivek N. Prakash, Dr. Manu Prakash

Hold on to your hats! The winners of the 2024 #NikonSmallWorldInMotion competition have finally been revealed, and they're sure to blow you away. View the full video gallery here: https://t.co/sQ5ahDQMC8

This 2024 #NikonSmallWorldInMotion competition 4th place winner really tickles the senses — watching it feels like getting a mental massage! https://t.co/jprdTcpCKh Credit: Dr. Ignasi Vélez Ceron, Dr. Francesc Sagués & Dr. Jordi Ignés-Mullolyear

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers: Revenue: Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Taylor & Francis: $800M Wiley: $1.8 billion They pay: Academic authors: $0 Peer reviewers: $0

just for the pleasure of it, the fine choreography of epithelial cell migration with a PI3K mutation. This is the complex behavior we have to drug to treat cancer ... Movie from @lhinderling . Switch sound on.

The head of a bearded dragon embryo (50 days old), imaged with light sheet fluorescence microscopy 🦎🔬

After 10 years' work we are excited that someone else gets to see this. (A thread) @EpiMechFC Spiral-eyes! A soft active matter model of in vivo corneal epithelial cell migration https://t.co/MZbgT9z7aM Team Stripe! at Univs. Aberdeen Dundee, Leiden @SilkeHenkes @sknepnek 1/

📢 Do cells migrating on a confined environment have a mechanical memory of their previous state ? We tried to answer this question in our new preprint 👇🏼 https://t.co/UZPyg5fhrB an outstanding work by @KYohalie and very great collab with @d_brueckner