Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪

Congratulations Falk! Thats a major newPI milestone!

It was about time...

Why we won’t be funding open access publishing any more - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News The open access movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…

Cancer Research UK is fed up of paying too much for open access publishing so they are completely stopping funding this activity:
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...

I really wish Wellcome and UKRI would follow the lead of CRUK!

70 yo insomniac here, this is a great start but we must also drop the glam pub reward effects during critical evaluation of researchers for promotion and research support.

It's easier to get off the glam train once you've arrived. Alternative transportation is necessary.

Helene Knævelsrud

Our Cell Scientist to Watch is Helene Knævelsrud @helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social. We spoke to Helene about her career, her research and her advice on mentorship.

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

#autophagy #kidneycancer #mentorship #conferences #procrastination #advocacy #beer

Congrats to you and the team, Elias!

Presenting our exciting discovery of pointed end elongation at the Indian Organelle Biology meeting!

Golgi organization is altered on loss of adhesion. Axl inhibition leads to AMPK activation that controls golgi organization through Arf1 activation. Shared talk w/ student Vaishnavi Raut who presents link between autophagy & golgi organization. Nagaraj Balasubramanian, IISER Pune #OBMT26

The luminal domain (LD) region of Seipin/Fld1 is dispensable for lipid droplet biogenesis & function. Fld1-∆LD has gain of function activity but the LD is imp for TAG levels in the cell. Amit Khatri, Vineet Choudhary lab, AIIMS-New Delhi #OBMT26

So excited to have been awarded the ASCB COMPASS Outreach Grant for our proposal of “Beyond the Data” 🔬 The Aiken Lab will host a community-wide Graduate Science-Art Showcase & Reception in downtown Fort Collins, coming soon!🎉 @aikenlab.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

Fun to see this on the cover of Cytoskeleton!
Microtubule and actin filaments captured by @sareenfiaz in the Aiken Lab 🔬
#Cytoskeleton #CellBiology #Microscopy #LabLife

Multicellular life may have begun with brief alliances between cells Single-celled organisms called Stentor can feed more efficiently by pairing up, illustrating a possible stage in the evolution of complex life forms

Stentor is a unicellular species, but it has been known to aggregate into short-lived groups to feed more efficiently.
www.newscientist.com/article/2356...

Single-celled organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learning A trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism seems able to predict one thing will follow another, hinting that such associative learning emerged long before multicellular nervous systems

This is an awesome discovery:
A single-celled organism with no brain called Stentor seems capable of Pavlovian learning. Yes, it can actually learn to associate two things despite having no neurons.

My latest for @newscientist.com. 🧪 #science #memory #learning
www.newscientist.com/article/2519...

Single-celled organisms can learn!

Happy to share some my insights with @chrisnsimms.bsky.social

Check out this piece by Chris for @newscientist.com

Lovely talking with you Chris!

Go @saraheclark.bsky.social!

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Talk slide title with images of testis defects

If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪

Delta CEO gestures and smiles while talking on stage in a dark suit and maroon tie, with the airline logo on a screen behind him

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian will deliver Emory's 2026 Commencement address on May 11.

He also will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the 181th ceremony, in recognition of his exceptional contributions to business and society. More ➡️ https://bit.ly/4suA0NT

Light, camera and action! BPS 2026. @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

Huge news for Dr. Shekhar, and for us. Congratulations 🎉

Thank you so much Mark!!

Thank you Kai!

Incredibly honored for the Early Career Award in Mechanobiology by the Biophysical Society.

@biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @emorycollege.bsky.social @emorybiochemistry.bsky.social

Excited to share that I’ve been invited to speak at the New & Notable Symposium at the Biophysical Society (BPS) 2026 Annual Meeting! @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

Congrats 🐸

Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium reducing macromolecule diffusion | PNAS Intracellular transport of macromolecules is crucial for the proper functioning of most cellular processes. Although intracellular crowding is know...

Happy to highlight our collaborative work from our @ijmonod.bsky.social team with @destriano.bsky.social, B. Goyeau and M. Chabanon.
Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium that hinders macromolecular diffusivity.
Plus: a clever way to measure cell volume.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mark your calendars, the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC is June 7 - 12, 2026. We have a terrific program that balances developmental biology, cell polarity, and adhesion and signaling.

Please spread the word!

www.grc.org/signaling-by...

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