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Into brain development and evolution (+open science, generative art, genomics, music, 🇨🇱...). If you have questions about mechanical morphogenesis, I have more! https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6671-858X
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I just released the Museum of All Things version 1.0!!! You can find it at mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...

Maroudas-Sacks, Y., Garion, L., Shani-Zerbib, L., Livshits, A., Braun, E., & Keren, K. (2021). Topological defects in the nematic order of actin fibres as organization centres of Hydra morphogenesis. Nature Physics, 17(2), Article 2. #EpithelialMechanics https://buff.ly/41wWiTx

Congratulations Laura Avinyo! @lauavinyo.bsky.social and Heura Cardona! First paper of your PhD 🎉. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Beautiful quantified trajectory of how the skeletal pattern of the gene Sox9 emerges during limb development. @embl.org @barcelonacollaboratorium.com

Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking that leads to “random walk science.” Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments towards deeper insights, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

Open call! The EMBO Global Investigator Network supports group young leaders who are setting up their laboratories in Chile, India, Singapore or Taiwan. Apply by 1 May: https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/global-investigator-network/ #ResearchFunding #LifeSciences 🧪

New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. Because diversity increases excellence! www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

#mathematics #math

We (Marco Mazza, @jcammann.bsky.social, Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer and I) just posted a review on the physics of biological filaments across scales, enjoy! doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Getting tissue stress from images is tough, and elastic tension sensors are a way to solve this. Still, the analysis is complex. Try our GUI gitlab.gwdg.de/betzlab_publ... implementing analytical solutions to obtain surface stresses AND shape parameters of beads and nuclei.

"Genes are... the easy part" @philipcball.bsky.social argues biologists need to embrace complexity from the start, rather than beginning with oversimplified "one gene, one trait" models +1 www.cell.com/cell-systems...

please retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high. Join us!

“Howling and Performance” —a mesmerizing record of two lovely Siamang Gibbons expressing their bond. Their duets and serenades, filled with raw emotion, echo through the trees as they brachiate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLMR...

I am excited to announce that I will be founding an institute for network stimulation at the University Hospital Cologne – already this coming May!

I am hiring: PhD students, postdocs, admin personnel. Email me if you know somebody that may be interested in joining us in Cologne! 👇👇 Please RT for reach! 🙏🙏

Superbe article de @brunolevy01.bsky.social sur ces grandes figures de l'informatique non-binaires ! www.lemonde.fr/blog/binaire...

"Can a book be ahead of its time by 50 years?! The answer is a definitive ‘yes’ in the case of this phenomenal book by Francisco Varela. A real gem of a book about the philosophical foundations of biology and so much more." - Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

👩‍🔬 On this #WomenInScience Day 2025, we celebrate the inspiring female scientists at Institut Pasteur! More than researchers, they make science accessible to all. 🌍✨ Find out here what our scientists were recently up to : www.pasteur.fr/en/research-... Let’s continue to amplify their voices 🚀

Very pedagogical introduction to the actual capabilities of LLMs by @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social

Registration for ECCN 2025 in Alicante is now open. Do not miss!!! eccn2025.umh.es @neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @csic.es @eurnetbrainevor.bsky.social

BAMB! is happening again in 2025. Learn how to model your behavioural data, next to the beach in Barcelona! keynotes this year from @athenaakrami.bsky.social and Peter Dayan.

hey @jbarbosa.org, it was nice meeting you in person yesterday with @k4tj4.bsky.social and @nicog.bsky.social! You mentioned that many people have suggested that foundation models are like evolution and fine tuning like agential learning. Would you have some refs to share?

The 2nd conference of the Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Population Biology @smtpb.bsky.social will be in Chicago @nitmb.bsky.social June 2-6. Applications are now open, both to attend (junior applicants can apply for financial support), and to present, at www.nitmb.org/modeling-and...

How do epithelial monolayers respond to external mechanical cues at the tissue scale? Like any other mechanical testing, let’s begin with in-plane deformation modes: stretching, compression, and shearing. A short🧵by @dedenonmathieu.bsky.social

We’re delighted to have collaboration with Somerville College & Crossmodal Research Lab @ox.ac.uk Wednesday 19 th Febr 6 pm Immersive MR with live Piano performance! @dreamr.art @madshaahr.bsky.social @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social

🚨📢 New paper alert! Our work showing that bilateral cellular flows display asymmetry prior to left–right organizer formation in amniote gastrulation is now published in PNAS!! @pnas.org 🥳😃 🐣 Paper link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... News article: news.miami.edu/stories/2025...

Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain (!) Great new work lead by James Pang, @alexfornito.bsky.social & star collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's finally out! Visual experience orthogonalizes visual cortical responses Training in a visual task changes V1 tuning curves in odd ways. This effect is explained by a simple convex transformation. It orthogonalizes the population, making it easier to decode. 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115235

Here is the 2025 embryo alphabet from alligator to zebrafish. Developmental biology is stunning & leads to important discoveries for human medicine. @socdevbio.bsky.social

Murmurations, a short film by the Barcelona-born photographer Xavi Bou. aeon.co/videos/starl...

Came across a fun bit of marginalia from Darwin’s personal library: In a copy of “Principles of Geology”, Lyell argues that animal varieties can change over time, but never deviate enough to form new species. “If this were true,” Darwin scrawls in the margin, “adios theory”.

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Fluid simulation based on optimal transport, Accurate volume conservation and representation of boundary, playing with a 2D version. Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Tech report: arxiv.org/abs/2106.03936

Dendrites doing AI problems, so great to see the increased activity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The new edition of European Conference on Comparative Neurobiology, ECCN2025 will take place from May 6th to 8th in beautiful Alicante (Spain) and soon you will be able to register and submit your abstracts through the conference website: eccn2025.umh.es

Heard about #openhardware, wanted to know more, but was too afraid to ask? Fear no more! Join us on Feb 7th when @iamchagas.bsky.social will be at the #openscience office hours held by @theneuro.bsky.social! More info: openscienceofficehours.github.io/osoh_website...

Someone in 1st Century India got human embryonic limb development perfectly right. The progressive emergence of parts, even the timing, exactly right. Today, I'll start a new thing about the ancient origins developmental biology, the science of embryos. 🧵1/15 #TheLongBibliography #DevBiol #SciHist

Announcing this upcoming conference: GASTRULATION RELOADED: Developing, engineering, and evolving the body plan Join us as we explore the latest research on gastrulation and axis formation/elongation, featuring common, exotic, and synthetic embryos! 📅 14–17 October 2025 📍 Paris, France

🌺 Combining my Happy #Sunday post with #FluorescenceFriday🧪🔬 (just a couple of days late! 🤭). One of my favorite drawings by Gary Larson 🥰 used to hang on the door of my office during my #PhD, a loooooong time ago! #TheFarSide #GaryLarson #Comics

The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley (1885)

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Research Scientist/Engineer position available at MIT as part of the Data Coordination and AI Center for the BRAIN Initiative Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS) program. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks - Aug 25-31, 2025 We're happy to host a course/workshop at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in the incredibly beautiful Erice, Sicily, with amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/ho2025e... Wait no further and join!