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Delphine Gourdon - Prof. in Biomedical Engineering - Univ. of Glasgow 🧪
#Mechanobiology #BreastCancer #Biomaterials #ECMatrix #TumorMicroenvironment #Tribology #WomenInSTEM
www.gourdonlab.org
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🔔🧪 Call for Papers – #Mechanobiology of the #ExtracellularMatrix 🧬🛠️

Excited to serve as Guest Editor — together with Jacopo di Russo and Jennifer Young — of a new 𝐧𝐩𝐣 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬 Collection on “Mechanobiology of the ECM”.

Deadline: 14 May 2026!

www.nature.com/collections/...
Mechanobiology of the Extracellular Matrix
This Collection aims to highlight fundamental and translational advances in ECM mechanobiology.
www.nature.com
🚀 #DaftPunk has just released a new video for their track #Contact, which came out 12 years ago on the album #RandomAccessMemories. The clip features two helmeted figures flying over Earth with audio from the #Apollo17 mission enhancing the experience. Love it! 🥰

youtu.be/ZbbTmR6Xaag?...
Daft Punk - Contact (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Daft Punk
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🚀What a week for our group! Huge congrats to #LolaAjayi on passing her #PhD viva yesterday! I’m so proud of you! 🥳🎉

🧪Thanks to the exam panel: #JiranuwatSapudom (NYU Abu Dhabi), #KarenBlyth (CRUK Glasgow) and @oanadobre84.bsky.social from @theglasgowcemi.bsky.social of Univ. of Glasgow
October 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🌅 Serene beauty of sunrise on the Clyde River this morning. Happy Sunday! 🥰
#Sunrise #ClydeRiver #Glasgow
October 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🚀Huge congrats to @NadiaSoulioti.bsky.social on passing her PhD viva yesterday! I’m so proud of you! 🥳🎉

🧪Thanks to the exam panel: Andrew Hoy (UNSW Sydney, external), @MarcoCantini.bsky.social (internal), and Catherine Berry (convener) from @uofglasgow.bsky.social @theglasgowcemi.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My Happy Sunday post 🥰
#Scotland #sheep #Hebrides
October 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🧪Fantastic program! It's wonderful to see both familiar and new faces. Kudos to the organizers of #CellMech2025!
October 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Reposted by 🦋 Gourdon Lab 🦠🔬
Glasgow representation is strong @cellmech2025.bsky.social with @unistrathclyde.bsky.social & @uofglasgow.bsky.social @theglasgowcemi.bsky.social cell mechanobiologists united 😊!
October 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🌅 Nice sunset yesterday on the #Clyde in #Glasgow 🥰!

#WestEnd #Scotland
September 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🏚️😢🖤 Tragedy in silence!
#Afghan #women and girls #die in rubble as male #rescuers, following Taliban gender rules, refuse to #touch them after the massive September #earthquake. ⚫️😖

#AfghanWomen
#StopTalibans
#SilentSufferingAfghanistan

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Afghanistan earthquake: What we know and what we don't - BBC News
Hundreds of people are thought to have died in the quake, which struck in a mountainous eastern region.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Une de Libé 🤣🤣
September 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🤜 #Scotland First Minister said his government now recognizes the #State of #Palestine, has stopped public payments to #armsfirms selling to #Israel, and urged the UK to suspend all #arms export licences to Israel.

❌🗡️💣 Stop #selling #weapons to Israel!

www.gov.scot
The Scottish Government
The devolved government for Scotland has a range of responsibilities that include: the economy, education, health, justice, rural affairs, housing, environment, equal opportunities, consumer advocacy ...
www.gov.scot
September 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
No, summer is not gone yet🌺
September 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Reposted by 🦋 Gourdon Lab 🦠🔬
rdv le dimanche 07/09. 🥳🔥
cc @laradionova.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🌺 It not the North Shore in Oahu, nor is it Nazaré in Portugal. Nope, it’s Lacanau in France, where the waves are just as nice 😎
#nicewaves #surfing #gironde #StormErin
August 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My Happy Friday post 🌺.

Storm Erin - induced waves at “my” ocean 2 days ago 🥰 Last days of vacation but it feels so good 🌊

#Landes #Tarnos #Beach #Waves #HouleCyclonique #LifeIsGood
August 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
🌺 My Happy Sunday Post
Taking a break from science and politics to share my favorite local #cuties with you all! 🥰

#HighlandCows
#FurryCoo #Scotland
#IsleOfMull
August 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🧪From 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲: Over three million #citations, an #h-index approaching 1,700 and many 2025 papers that have been cited over 1,000 times. Can this be #legitimate ??? 👿😳🤬

#PaperMills #Fraud
#Fake #Publications
#GoogleScholars

(Google removed the page but archived at buff.ly/0yVjvpu)
August 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
My happy Sunday post! 😍
#Scotland #LoveScotland
#Donkeys #EquineSky
August 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🔔🧪 Call for Papers – #Mechanobiology of the #ExtracellularMatrix 🧬🛠️

Excited to serve as Guest Editor — together with Jacopo di Russo and Jennifer Young — of a new 𝐧𝐩𝐣 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬 Collection on “Mechanobiology of the ECM”.

Deadline: 14 May 2026!

www.nature.com/collections/...
Mechanobiology of the Extracellular Matrix
This Collection aims to highlight fundamental and translational advances in ECM mechanobiology.
www.nature.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🔔🧪This PNAS article shows that #fraud is more #common than we think: Paper #mills products are fabricated, #fake papers sold for a #fee to authors! Unfortunately, #universities are omitted, and I'm unsure if all actively discourage fraud, especially to boost #rankings 🤔

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS
Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some c...
www.pnas.org
August 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🌺 My happy Sunday post!
#Puffins
#IsleOfMay
July 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I liked this article about how #protests are planned in #Scotland, but opponents of #Trump's golf courses fear they may bolster his ego 🥺

#ScotlandIsAlreadyGreat
#StopTrump
#AntiMAGA

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘People have seen through him and he’s not welcome’: Scotland tees up for Trump visit
Protests planned but those who spent years opposing president’s golf courses worry about playing to his ego
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🌺 Happy Sunday!
Snapshot from the Farne Islands puffin webcam 🥰

#Puffins
#FarneIslands
July 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🧪Reposting from @lammerdinglab.bsky.social
If you know anyone with Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy (#EDMD) or want to support research on this disease, a patient family we have been working with for many years has started a new foundation, cureEDMD, to raise awareness for this devastating disease: www.cureedmd.org
Please share widely!
cureEDMD
cureEDMD is a patient and family-led, scientist-supported foundation to advance research into a treatment or cure for Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy (EDMD)
www.cureedmd.org
July 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM