Finally published: discovery of an unusual Arp2/3 complex with surprising new function in transmission of #malaria #parasites. Great work by Franzi Hentzschel, Yvonne Sokolowski + David Jewanski + fantastic collaboration with Matthias Marti: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wonder why flamingos feed upside down? Check out our new work in @pnas.org that demonstrates how flamingos stir, stomp, and chatter to bend flow and trap prey www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Work led by Victor Ortega-Jimenez, with Pankaj and Ben from the Bhamla Lab

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

• The shift from articles (longer material that requires the reader to synthesise, make inferences and reflect) to short self-contained posts (everything is pre-packaged in a few sentences, no critical thought required)

But what about intermediate filaments? This question is often in my head when I see a talk about cell mechanics focused on actin or microtubules. I am @tom_golde and today I will give you a short overview about the role of intermediate filaments (IF) in #EpithelialMechanics

Side-hustle activated. Stoked to have this popular science piece out in Aeon Magazine:

aeon.co/essays/after...

This is a fascinating effort. huggingface.co/blog/open-r1

Is evolution predictable? Are there strong constraints to living complexity? Check this @royalsocietypublishing.org paper by Simon Conway Morris. I like how the abstract ends: "Physics had its Newton, biology its Darwin: evolutionary biology now awaits its Einstein." @sfelenalab.bsky.social

Delighted that our review on modeling of #endothelial and #epithelial #cell monolayer #biomechanics is now published in @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.tc...! Thanks to all contributors and to DFG, Universität Tübingen, @cmfi.bsky.social for the support!

Yamini @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social changed the topology of Hydra to show that actin orientational defects of Hydra induce the full program of head regeneration: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mechanics controls development! Thanks to Dan Pearce, Karsten Kruse, Matthias Vogg & Brigitte Galliot.

We are releasing a dataset of the lifeforms found by ASAL from our large scale searches!

View the datasets:
pub.sakana.ai/asal/data/il...
pub.sakana.ai/asal/data/il...

To load them up and play around with them visit the ASAL GitHub or this Colab notebook:
colab.research.google.com/github/Sakan...

Feelung worried for my friends in Argentina www.nature.com/articles/d41...