A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her)
@samstehbens.bsky.social
Everything microtubules, movement, and microscopy. ARC Future Fellow, lab head University of Queensland #CatsOfAcademia advoCATe. UCSF Wittmann lab alumni.
Pinned
What we do: work out how cells move by watching them. (Movies by Robert Ju; you can check out his work (art?) here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
> I'll repost the paper tutorial later for those who are interested). #microscopy #microtubules #cytoskeleton #cellmigration #confinement
> I'll repost the paper tutorial later for those who are interested). #microscopy #microtubules #cytoskeleton #cellmigration #confinement
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I'm on the Board of @biologists.bsky.social. Many know them as publishers of @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social, @jexpbiol.bsky.social , DMM, and @biologyopen.bsky.social --but they also are a major funder of small grants that empower young biologists and enable scientific meetings 🧪
We believe that, as our future leaders in biology, it is vital to provide #ECRs with the right support during the early stages of your academic career. We offer a number of practical ways to help you meet the unique needs and challenges you may encounter: www.biologists.com/about-us/ear...
Supporting early-career researchers
On these pages we highlight the range of resources that we offer to early-career researchers.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I'm on the Board of @biologists.bsky.social. Many know them as publishers of @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social, @jexpbiol.bsky.social , DMM, and @biologyopen.bsky.social --but they also are a major funder of small grants that empower young biologists and enable scientific meetings 🧪
What an end to 2026! Super proud of this crew. Pandemic PhDs deserve special recognition ❤️ congratulations @christanny.bsky.social & @alexlibert.bsky.social!!!!
( & welcome to your PhD @tayzwisler.bsky.social ) #UQ
( & welcome to your PhD @tayzwisler.bsky.social ) #UQ
December 17, 2025 at 4:28 AM
What an end to 2026! Super proud of this crew. Pandemic PhDs deserve special recognition ❤️ congratulations @christanny.bsky.social & @alexlibert.bsky.social!!!!
( & welcome to your PhD @tayzwisler.bsky.social ) #UQ
( & welcome to your PhD @tayzwisler.bsky.social ) #UQ
I review a significant number of #scientific #manuscripts. Hot tip 👉👉👉help your reviewers out- when you resubmit your revised paper- **put the text changes in a different colour font**. Bonus points if you crop that text & put it into your response to reviewers document.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I review a significant number of #scientific #manuscripts. Hot tip 👉👉👉help your reviewers out- when you resubmit your revised paper- **put the text changes in a different colour font**. Bonus points if you crop that text & put it into your response to reviewers document.
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Janelia is hiring! "Invent new imaging methods, molecular tools, or protein chemistry approaches"
www.janelia.org/content/lead...
www.janelia.org/content/lead...
Lead a lab at Janelia
www.janelia.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Janelia is hiring! "Invent new imaging methods, molecular tools, or protein chemistry approaches"
www.janelia.org/content/lead...
www.janelia.org/content/lead...
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ARC says they’ll announce Centres of Excellence outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Dec).
This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.
This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.
December 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
ARC says they’ll announce Centres of Excellence outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Dec).
This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.
This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.
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#NHMRC responses at #Estimates were deeply inadequate, uninformed and are not going to #SaveOzScience. #NHMRC has NOT requested more funding to save the majority of excellent science. Our science, our scientists and the public deserve better. Thankyou #DavidPocock and #DrMoniqueRyan.
December 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
#NHMRC responses at #Estimates were deeply inadequate, uninformed and are not going to #SaveOzScience. #NHMRC has NOT requested more funding to save the majority of excellent science. Our science, our scientists and the public deserve better. Thankyou #DavidPocock and #DrMoniqueRyan.
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The ARC is due to appear before Senate Estimates tonight. As usual, they're last on the schedule, at 9pm (Canberra time) ▶️ parlwork.aph.gov.au/committee/de... ("live" schedule).
I hope the committee asks about the job losses & restructure the ARC are proposing👇
I hope the committee asks about the job losses & restructure the ARC are proposing👇
ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
December 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The ARC is due to appear before Senate Estimates tonight. As usual, they're last on the schedule, at 9pm (Canberra time) ▶️ parlwork.aph.gov.au/committee/de... ("live" schedule).
I hope the committee asks about the job losses & restructure the ARC are proposing👇
I hope the committee asks about the job losses & restructure the ARC are proposing👇
Go say hi to Seema!!! I’m so sad I’m missing it this year. Ultimate FOMO
Our Editors will be attending #CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org.
Reach out to @seemagrewal.bsky.social and Amelia Glazier to discuss JCS, @focalplane.bsky.social and our other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.
Reach out to @seemagrewal.bsky.social and Amelia Glazier to discuss JCS, @focalplane.bsky.social and our other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Go say hi to Seema!!! I’m so sad I’m missing it this year. Ultimate FOMO
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Our Editors will be attending #CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org.
Reach out to @seemagrewal.bsky.social and Amelia Glazier to discuss JCS, @focalplane.bsky.social and our other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.
Reach out to @seemagrewal.bsky.social and Amelia Glazier to discuss JCS, @focalplane.bsky.social and our other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Our Editors will be attending #CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org.
Reach out to @seemagrewal.bsky.social and Amelia Glazier to discuss JCS, @focalplane.bsky.social and our other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.
Reach out to @seemagrewal.bsky.social and Amelia Glazier to discuss JCS, @focalplane.bsky.social and our other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.
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Every opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important.
Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
@ginaravenscroft.bsky.social & #NARF are collecting impact statements from Australian researchers
‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’
lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
1/
‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’
lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
1/
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Every opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important.
Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
@ginaravenscroft.bsky.social & #NARF are collecting impact statements from Australian researchers
‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’
lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
1/
‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’
lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
1/
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
@ginaravenscroft.bsky.social & #NARF are collecting impact statements from Australian researchers
‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’
lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
1/
‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’
lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
1/
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Hey ARC DPers with career interruptions- take a "print screen" of what you enter in your career interruptions boxes- seems like the ARC will never make this info roll over so do your future self a favour if it's a complicated set of dates 😭 (yes I have it saved elsewhere) @arc-tracker.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Hey ARC DPers with career interruptions- take a "print screen" of what you enter in your career interruptions boxes- seems like the ARC will never make this info roll over so do your future self a favour if it's a complicated set of dates 😭 (yes I have it saved elsewhere) @arc-tracker.bsky.social
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ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
I don’t know how they did it but someone found actual footage of @davidbryantlab.bsky.social and I on the dance for at the 2005 Cell contact and adhesion GRC.
November 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I don’t know how they did it but someone found actual footage of @davidbryantlab.bsky.social and I on the dance for at the 2005 Cell contact and adhesion GRC.
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"The ins and outs of microtubule regulation in centrioles and cilia"
CSHL Keynote, Dr. Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University
CSHL Leading Strand
youtu.be/X0nm0xGjwOQ?...
CSHL Keynote, Dr. Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University
CSHL Leading Strand
youtu.be/X0nm0xGjwOQ?...
CSHL Keynote, Dr. Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University
YouTube video by CSHL Leading Strand
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"The ins and outs of microtubule regulation in centrioles and cilia"
CSHL Keynote, Dr. Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University
CSHL Leading Strand
youtu.be/X0nm0xGjwOQ?...
CSHL Keynote, Dr. Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University
CSHL Leading Strand
youtu.be/X0nm0xGjwOQ?...
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We got a large Helmholtz Bioengineering grant with Oliver Daumke, Artur Yakimovich, Alina Bazarova, and Dietrich Ruess to use protein design to target cancer.
Five open postdoctoral positions in Generative AI & Protein Engineering. Share & apply!
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Five open postdoctoral positions in Generative AI & Protein Engineering. Share & apply!
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Postdoctoral Positions in Protein Engineering
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
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November 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
We got a large Helmholtz Bioengineering grant with Oliver Daumke, Artur Yakimovich, Alina Bazarova, and Dietrich Ruess to use protein design to target cancer.
Five open postdoctoral positions in Generative AI & Protein Engineering. Share & apply!
jobrxiv.org/job/max-delb...
Five open postdoctoral positions in Generative AI & Protein Engineering. Share & apply!
jobrxiv.org/job/max-delb...
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We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
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1/ Clare M. Waterman is a cell biologist who has worked on understanding the role of the cytoskeleton in cell migration.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1/ Clare M. Waterman is a cell biologist who has worked on understanding the role of the cytoskeleton in cell migration.
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There's not long left for you to submit your abstract for Signalling Circuits in Cancer!
If your research falls into any of these categories, don't miss your opportunity to be included in this new conference topic.
eacr.org/conference/s...
If your research falls into any of these categories, don't miss your opportunity to be included in this new conference topic.
eacr.org/conference/s...
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
There's not long left for you to submit your abstract for Signalling Circuits in Cancer!
If your research falls into any of these categories, don't miss your opportunity to be included in this new conference topic.
eacr.org/conference/s...
If your research falls into any of these categories, don't miss your opportunity to be included in this new conference topic.
eacr.org/conference/s...
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Hot tip- when you remove references from your pre print for publication in journals that limit references- make sure the ones you cite *actually* support what you’re referencing…..
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hot tip- when you remove references from your pre print for publication in journals that limit references- make sure the ones you cite *actually* support what you’re referencing…..
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Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
I honestly think we would all be a lot more productive if papers were bullet points with plots.
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
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I have some BIG NEWS to share today!
Today I begin my next adventure as
Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!!
(a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
Today I begin my next adventure as
Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!!
(a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .
ALT: a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .
media.tenor.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I have some BIG NEWS to share today!
Today I begin my next adventure as
Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!!
(a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
Today I begin my next adventure as
Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!!
(a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
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How I recovered from a collaboration gone wrong www.science.org/content/arti...
How I recovered from a collaboration gone wrong
After learning “how quickly ‘we’ can turn wicked,” this researcher reshaped his approach
www.science.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
How I recovered from a collaboration gone wrong www.science.org/content/arti...