This looks to be a very nice conference, would love to see some of you there! intcha26.sciencesconf.org

How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926

now i've seen everything... 😱
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive

The Power of Limit Thinking To make things better, first prove how good they can possibly be.

open.substack.com/pub/cell/p/l...

@micromotility.bsky.social

Did you hear about the two muffins baking in an oven?
One said "Phew, it's hot in here.
The other said,
"Holy shit a talking muffin!"

🚨 Late preprint alert!
Why do biological process rates scale nonlinearly with temperature, deviating from the straight line on an Arrhenius plot? The key may lie in their inherent complexity!

More in thread and here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Careers | Arcadia Science Evolve with Arcadia.

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look!

www.arcadiascience.com/careers

Apply for our Master of Science in Physics of Life – training in cutting-edge research at the interface of physics, mathematics, engineering and life sciences. Scholarships available. Application deadline: 30 November. More: www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/education/de...
@biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch

Have you submitted your abstract for #EESCollectivity? No? It's about time! This new event will discuss how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems, from cells to animal groups. 🦠🐾

👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl

Torkel E Loman, Ruth E Baker
Functional and parametric identifiability for universal differential equations applied to chemical reaction networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14140

Trust Everything, Everywhere Trust 'building blocks', like encryption, enable digital industries to flourish securely, but they don't extend into the physical world. With emerging technology blurring the line between digital and ...

We’re looking to fund short discovery projects to build community and dive into potential research directions for a programme and within our Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space, led by PD Alex Obadia.

Find out more + apply by 12 November: link.aria.org.uk/TEE-disc-BS

Happy to share our latest in @natcomputsci.nature.com
led by (amazing) Ryan Krueger + colab w M. Brenner!

We introduce a framework to directly design intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) from physics-based simulations.
🧬 doi.org/10.1038/s435...
📰 www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/article...

Oh this is useful! Can you share the outcome?

Our Next Book: Making the Modern Laboratory An update on a forthcoming book from Asimov Press, which will delve into the origins of the machines, equipment, organisms, and reagents that have become familiar features of molecular biology laboratories over the last sixty years.

Read and pitch an idea: press.asimov.com/articles/ma...

Our next book: "Making the Modern Laboratory"

An illustrated, coffee table-sized volume, it covers the origins of the machines, organisms and tools used in modern biology research. More importantly, it's a call to imagine the FUTURE of the laboratory.

Come help us write it!

Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.

I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous.
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...

Some scientists aren’t waiting for journals to catch up. They’re showing us what’s next.

The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared.

More details: pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin...

Nominate or self-nominate here: www.experiment.foundation/beyond

Reading group alert!🔔 This term, our History and Philosophy of Biology reading group will be reading 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2000) by Susan Oyama. Online participants welcome! More details here: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...

After a long time in the making, my paper on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution has been published in Philosophical Transactions B. Updated version: arxiv.org/abs/2112.02809

There is still time to apply for an Independent Research Fellowship in our Department. Join us: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind...

"Universal Biology: The Physics of Life through the Macro-Micro Consistency Principle" will be soon published from Cambridge Univ Press. Brief introduction is here:https://cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/universal-biology/

Working with C. elegans This channel provides clear demonstrations of core C. elegans lab skills, including: recognizing life stages and common phenotypes, picking and manipulating worms, and maintaining healthy cultures. De...

Hi fellow C. elegans scientists, I've made a few videos that may be of use for new trainees working in worm labs. Hoping to add more in the future, but figured I'd share this resource as is in case it's helpful :)
www.youtube.com/@Workingwith...

Using modern coexistence theory to understand community disassembly Community disassembly examines how species extinction alters ecological communities. Sometimes, the extinction of one species can trigger the loss of others, known as secondary extinction. These secon...

Excited to share a new pre-print in collaboration with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social, "Using Modern Coexistence Theory to understand community disassembly"! We set out to understand how techniques used to study coexistence can be extended to understand community disassembly. (1/X)

So happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:

rdcu.be/eITQH

Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients.

More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

@micromotility.bsky.social

Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems?

Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Innovator Circles, FROs, and a look into biological computation The latest from ARIA, including our new Innovator Circles initiative, inside Convergent Research's FRO-Founder Residency, and a Q&A with Nature Computes Better Creator Kirsty Wan.

Hi @micromotility.bsky.social!