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new PI @University of Sheffield -using mathematical models to understand living matter https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mps/people/all-academic-staff/mehmet-can-ucar
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It is inherently dangerous to democracy for one man to hold as much wealth and power as Elon Musk. It should be a primary goal of democratic states to prevent such concentrations of power, & to ensure that global plutocrats cannot shut off the arteries of democracy. www.politico.eu/article/musk...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This should be the last straw for the Turkish opposition. Unless there are mass protests, which the government is trying to prevent at all costs, Turkey is now very much a closed autocracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Paper Alert 🚨 Absolutely delighted to share our last paper on "spatial mechano-transcriptomics" @naturemethods👇!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

How do cells migrate without substrate, e.g. in embryogenesis, when extra-cellular matrix has not yet formed? Check out our paper in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social on zebrafish lateral mesendoderm migration, led by @stetavano.bsky.social @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Our work about a dynamic tissue mimetic is finally out: Remodeling of lipid-foam prototissues by network-wide tension fluctuations induced by active particles @mehmetcanucar.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Very happy to see this out! 😍 Tissue-like lipid networks with motile bacteria undergo large remodeling events, leading to active “hubs” & tissue fluidization! This was a super fun collab w Jan Steinkuhler lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 PhD position available for Oct 25 🔬Using advanced microscopy to understand how keratin networks control tissue mechanics An interdisciplinary #cellbiology #biophysics collaboration with Ruby Peters & @alicepyne.bsky.social 👇 Apply by March 14 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

AUSTRIAN SCIENTISTS! 🇦🇹☀️ Stand Up for Science on March 7th in Vienna! at.scientists4future.org/mc-events/ma...

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Please share: On March 7, scientists and citizens across the US will #standup4freescience . https://standupforscience2025.org/ 👉 Does anyone know whether any events are planned in Europe / Germany ? #DefendResearch #StandUpForScience #StandUpForScience2025

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

submitted 55 days ago • 645 comments

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

submitted 55 days ago • 64 comments

"eight italian physicists optimize cacio e pepe" [click] 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/s...

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

The French Human Rights League is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of X on January 20 www.euronews.com/next/2025/01...

submitted 65 days ago • 384 comments

Self-generated gradients guide collective cell movement -but often different cell types must move together, e.g. in immune response. We develop a theory of self-generated chemotaxis in mixed populations -are there optimal principles for this cooperation?🤔 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Happy to share the latest work from Preeti Sahu, with Adriana Sanchez-Danes on the biomechanics of cell fate choices during tumor initiation! We implement/test a 3D vertex model with proliferation and fate choices for multilayered tissues! See 🧵 below (1/n) bit.ly/3ZXxJzk

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

📣 I’m looking for PhD students to work at the intersection of theoretical physics & biology -topics range from active cell mechanics to collective cell migration & tissue patterning! Feel free to reach out for more info (DM/email)! Please repost / share 🙂

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

🐦➡️🦋 Looking to rebuild your network on Bluesky by reconnecting with your existing X/Twitter contacts? The Skylink browser extension makes it easy! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f... Thanks @jmschreiber91.bsky.social! #scicomm #cancer #tumorimmunology

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN

submitted 130 days ago • 79 comments