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. bit.ly/3vvwDyx Credit: William Gilpin, Dr. Vivek N. Prakash, Dr. Manu Prakash

📢 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 👇🏼 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… an outstanding work by Kalukula Yohalie and very great collab with David Brückner

After 10 years' work we are excited that someone else gets to see this. (A thread) epithelial mechanics fan club Spiral-eyes! A soft active matter model of in vivo corneal epithelial cell migration biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Team Stripe! at Univs. Aberdeen Dundee, Leiden Silke Henkes Rastko Sknepnek 1/

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 Lucien Hinderling . Switch sound on.

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

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: bit.ly/47t3L8A

This 2024 #NikonSmallWorldInMotion competition 4th place winner really tickles the senses — watching it feels like getting a mental massage! bit.ly/4gmNhD3 Credit: Dr. Ignasi Vélez Ceron, Dr. Francesc Sagués & Dr. Jordi Ignés-Mullolyear

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! bit.ly/3TB6C9x Credit: Catherine Porter, Aria Huang, Hunter Nichols, Dr. Alex Hughes

🚨 Euro Curvo Bio Net COST 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: curvobio.com/webinars 🗓️ 09.10.24 - Chiara Micheletti @michelettic_🐡

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: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.07396

Academic ironies

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

Mark them indeed! Great combo!

👻🔬 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

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: go.aps.org/48HkbuN

Excited to release our latest work, led by Alejandro Martínez Calvo: arxiv.org/abs/2411.14636! 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]

Capturing Nematic Order on Tissue Surfaces of Arbitrary Geometry biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_biophys

How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷? Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces. Led by Pau Guillamat IBEC biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Have you ever thought about inflating tissues? Or maybe quickly deflating those inflated tissues? New #EpithelialMechanics pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… 🧵with pressure control, multiscale buckling, patterned wrinkling