Johan Ajnabi @johanajnabi.com PhD Candidate | Mechanobiology • Epigenetics • Regenerative Biology | Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) | Seeking Postdoctoral Opportunities (2026-27)
More about me: https://johanajnabi.com
Yuki Maekawa @gatohamu.bsky.social PhD student quietly investigating cell biology and cell migration.
Meghana @meghana8.bsky.social (she/her) PhDing on jellyfish wound repair.
Finds tidbits of joy in random long walks and ice cream!
Shardool Kulkarni @shardoolk.bsky.social Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics @upc.edu with a focus on modelling how cells respond to electric fields.
jared toettcher @toettch.bsky.social Dad, bioengineer, climber, skier, surfer (in that order, more or less).
Chaotic good alignment, or so my lab tells me...
Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social Cancer cell biologist, Research Associate @Clare Waterman lab, Blebs are life or death!!! LOVE to torture..Oops confine cells.. All about cell migration 😀 views are my own, not of employer
Merkel lab @merkellab.bsky.social Group Leader, theoretical soft matter & biophysics
CNRS, Center for Theoretical Physics, Marseille
http://www.merkellab.net
Opinions are my own.
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Raimon Sunyer @raimonsunyer.bsky.social Associate professor at @unibarcelona.bsky.social • Previous RyC • NIH & @ibecbarcelona.bsky.social alumni • Interested in #CellMigration & #mechanobiology
Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social Biophysicist working in nuclear mechanobiology 👩🏼🔬🔬 | Postdoc at IBEC Barcelona with Pere Roca-Cusachs | PhD squeezing cells at Ruprecht lab | she/her
Jordan Shivers @jordanlshivers.bsky.social computational soft matter & biological physics
jordanshivers.github.io
@drwendieberg.bsky.social @drwendieberg.bsky.social Breast imaging radiologist, improving early breast cancer detection, educating about #DenseBreastInfo.org, dog lover, respect human rights and democracy, finding the courage to speak up, love photography
Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social 🔬 Junior Group Leader in Münster, Germany.
🌐 Lab Website: https://www.bischofflab.com/
🌀 Morphogenesis, collective cell migration, and chiral organ development in #Drosophila.
🐍 Animal photos: 📷 instagram.com/maikscritters
Jiwon Kim @jiwon-kim.bsky.social Postdoc fellow working on Mechanobiology & Cell Mechanics at Wong lab, Brown
Li-Kun Phng @phnglab.bsky.social Cell, Developmental and Vascular Biologist. Laboratory for Vascular Morphogenesis. RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research.
Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social Faculty member at Tel Aviv University. Leading theoretical and computational research in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of soft matter. Mainly mechanical metamaterials, geometry, active matter, stochastic processes https://shokef.tau.ac.il
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social At KITP on the UC Santa Barbara campus, researchers in theoretical physics and allied fields collaborate on questions at the leading edges of science.
www.kitp.ucsb.edu
Stig Ove Bøe @stigoveboe.bsky.social Epithelial Mechanics, Active Matter, Biology and Physics
Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social Mathematician at UCLA. My primary social media account is https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao . I also have a blog at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and a home page at https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/
Tejal Desai @tejaladesai.bsky.social Bioengineer working at the interface of basic science and clinical translation; mother of 3; science + advocacy + inclusion; Dean of Engineering at Brown University
Nature Biomedical Engineering @natbiomedeng.nature.com A scientific journal publishing cutting-edge advances at the intersection of the life and physical sciences. Posts by the editors.
Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social Quantitative Developmental Biology @Duke
Stylianos Lefkopoulos (he/him) @slefkopoulos.bsky.social Senior Editor at @natcellbio.nature.com: #stemcells & #embryo development #disease | proud scientist | 🏳️🌈 gender fluid, antisexist, liberal | 🍫 📚 🐶 🧑🍳 🌱 |📍Berlin | views are his own | call him Stelios
Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social Associate Professor in Bioengineering 🇮🇹@ Linköping University 🇸🇪
Bioengineering/Genomics/Development/3R/Teeth/HeavyMetal/Photography
Max Fürst @maxfus.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Uni Groningen 🇳🇱
Comp & Exp Biochemist, Protein Engineer, 'Would-be designer' (F. Arnold) | SynBio | HT Screens & Selections | Nucleic Acid Enzymes | Biocatalysis | Rstats & Datavis
https://www.fuerstlab.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7720-9
Robert Grosse @ grosselab @grosselab.bsky.social all things cytoskeleton - nuclear actin dynamics and genome - nucleoskeleton and nuclear organisation - cancer cell invasion and pharmacology
@University of Freiburg
NSF-Simons NITMB @nitmb.bsky.social Math Inspiring Biology • Biology Inspiring Math
Elizabeth McKenna @elizsmckenna.bsky.social Executive Editor of Cancer Discovery, published by AACR. Harvard BBS/Dana-Farber alum. Native New Yorker. Posts are my own. She/her https://aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscovery
Edna Cukierman - Tumor Microenvironment @tme-caf-ecm.bsky.social Fibroblastic cells + ECM = functional unit.
I study these #TumorMicroenvironment units in #PancreaticCancer interception, tumorigenesis, immunosuppression, stroma function evaluation, & drug responses. https://www.foxchase.org/edna-cukierman
My posts!
Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social Professor & Chair of Global Public Health, Edinburgh Uni. Certified Level 3 Personal Trainer. Views own.
preLights @prelights.bsky.social A preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social).
Pete the Geek @drpwest.bsky.social Recovering academic, Teach First Science Teacher, U of Sheffield Alumnus, Cyclist, Runner, Spaniel owner, Dad.
Thomas M Truskett @tmtruskett.bsky.social soft matter; higher education; technology impacts; views expressed are mine and not those of any group, org, or institution
Irene Miguel-Aliaga @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social Eternally asking questions.
Likes guts.
Has guts.
And a lab at the Francis Crick Institute @thecrick.bsky.social
https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/irene-miguel-aliaga
Barriga Lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social We study the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying tissue morphogenesis @poldresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @embo.org @hfspo.bsky.social
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-groups/barriga
Hallou Lab @halloulab.bsky.social Group of Adrien Hallou @kiroxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Biophysics & spatial biology of cell fate decisions & tissue dynamics
Alumnus @cam.ac.uk & @normalesup.bsky.social
Franco-British Young Leader 2024 🇨🇵🇬🇧
Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social Theoretical biophysicist who loves to talk about science.
Homepage https://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~biophys/
Sangwoo (Steven) Park @sangwoospark.bsky.social NCI Early K99/R00 Fellow & Damon Runyon Fellow @Harvard Medical School & MGHCancerCenter | Biophysics PhD Paszek Lab @Cornell | Physics BS @KAIST; Glycocalyx, Mucins, Immunoengineering, CAR-T, Biophysics
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sangwoopark/
Eszter Posfai @eposfai.bsky.social Preimplantation development and germline biology. Live imaging and genome engineering. Assistant Prof at Princeton.
Martin Collinson @docmartin2mc.bsky.social Britain's Top Vicarious Birder.
Aberdeen Wildife DNA lab. Aniridia research.
Likes birds, stamps, ghosts, art, and wasps.
Leeds United #lufc because I was bad in a previous life.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/aberdeendnalab
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Carmelo Ferrai @carmeloferrai.bsky.social RNAPII &Transcription Regulation -Chromatin Conformation & Nuclear Architecture - ESCs & Neuronal Differentiation - Nuclear Mechanotransduction - Cell Plasticity
UMG, Göttingen, Germany
Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social Biophysicist / cytoskeleton in vitro
🏙 Paris @CytoMorphoLab
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social assistant prof at University of Pennsylvania
studying metabolic flux- NCI R00 awardee- also i do bad jokes (she/her)
https://bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com/
de la Puente Lab @pilardelapuentephd.bsky.social Associate Scientist @SanfordResearch| #ECM-Engineering #ImmuneCancer-Engineering|Women's Health|Co-founder Cellatrix|she/her/ella 🇪🇸🇺🇲
𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐧 @averyruisun.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate @jennyoung.bsky.social Lab @MBIsg.bsky.social @BME_NUS | 🔬🫀 Extracellular Matrix & Mechanobiology
Nidhi Subbaraman @nidhisubs.bsky.social Science reporter, ex-WSJ. Signal: @nidhisubs.11
Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social All views and opinions expressed are my own.
Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
Aguirre-Ghiso Lab @jaguirreghisolab.bsky.social We study how micro-environmental and epigenetic mechanisms drive cancer cells into dormancy. We seek to control this biology to prevent and treat metastasis. https://einsteinmed.edu/faculty/16974/julio-aguirre-ghiso
Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social Drosophila enthusiast. Assistant Professor of Mol Bio and Biochem at Rutgers U. Runner. Reader. Uses brain to think about brains. All around curious person.
Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.
Lisa Heinke @lisaheinke.bsky.social Senior Editor @ Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. Likes cell biology, loves cats. PhD 👩🏻🎓@MRC-LMB, @Cambridge_Uni. Based in Berlin, views are mine 😎
@jqzhu.bsky.social @jqzhu.bsky.social
Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social Distinguished Professor | U. of Minnesota | MacArthur Fellow | Director CPEC | Co-founder Sironix, Carba.com, & Lakril Technologies | Advisor ActivatedLLC | ❤️✌🏽🍃♻️ #mspsky
Jake Song @jakesong15.bsky.social Postdoc in the Chaudhuri lab at Stanford | PhD MIT '23, BS Northwestern '17 | soft materials science, soft matter physics, mechanobiology
https://jake-song.com
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Ashlee N. Ford Versypt @fordversyptlab.bsky.social Associate Prof. Chemical Engineering at University at Buffalo, SUNY | PI of Systems Biomedicine & Pharmaceutics Lab | We study tissue microenvironments | Computational Scientist | Teacher-Scholar | she/her/hers
Theoretical Biophysics @theobiophysics.bsky.social Theoretical Biophysics, Quantitative Biology
https://sites.google.com/view/theoreticalbiophysics/theoretical-biophysics
Our podcast
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/theobiophysics
An online seminar series
https://sites.google.com/view/popdyn/home
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert @drsakiyama.bsky.social Professor of @UWBioE, @UWMedicine
Biomaterials for Nerve Injury, opinions are my own.
Renato Sam Navarro @rsnavarro.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor at UF MSE | K99 MOSAIC Postdoc at Stanford University | Biomaterial Scientist Interested in Injectable Hydrogels for Cardiovascular Engineering | Equity in Science | Husband, human dad, cat dad
Danielle J. Mai @daniellejmai.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering | Stanford University | biopolymer design | polymer physics | single-molecule dynamics | views own | she/her | mailab.stanford.edu
Peyton Lab @peytonlab.bsky.social Biomedical Engineering @TuftsBME
#blacklivesmatter #biomaterials #cancer #TBI. Tweets by Shelly Peyton PhD she/her/hers. 🏳️🌈😷
Theresa M. Reineke @theresareineke.bsky.social Prager Chair in Chemistry Univ. of Minnesota; research in polymers, therapeutic biomaterials, and sustainability; ACS Editor-in-Chief of Bioconjugate Chemistry
Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social Professor and Chair, cancer biologist. I care about science, equity and cooking. Opinions (lots of them) my own.
Physics of Life Dresden @poldresden.bsky.social We are the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at TUD Dresden University of Technology @tudresden.bsky.social @dfg.de.
Our goal is to unravel the principles underlying the organization of living matter.
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de
Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social VP for Research, T.H. Smoot Professor
Depts Chemical and Biomolecular Engn, Pathology, Oncology, INBT
Johns Hopkins University
3D multi-omic, CAR T therapy, cell migration and mechanics
Lab: https://wirtzlab.johnshopkins.edu
Jorge Barrasa Fano @barrasa-fano.bsky.social Postdoc at Mechanobiology&Tissue Engineering lab @KULeuven developing image analysis tools to get to know cells better.
I did a PhD on 3D #TractionForceMicroscopy.
ScienceCommunication coordinator at cebebelgica.es/en_GB/
Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social Solopreneur @ IndieVisual
Data geek who loves problem solving
Rambles about fitness & random stuff too
https://indievisual.tech
Lakshmi Balasubramaniam @lakshmib02.bsky.social Herchel Smith/ EMBO Postdoctoral fellow at the Gurdon Institute working on mechanics and embryogenesis at Xiong lab. PhD @Ladoux MegeLab, Paris. Cell migration, adhesion and biophysics aficionado.
Heisenberg Lab @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social #Mechanics of #zebrafish, #ascidian, and #drosophila #development @Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
(Account managed by Zachary Gao Sun)
https://heisenberglab.pages.ist.ac.at
Daniel J. Cohen (Princeton) @djcohen.bsky.social zookeeper to two tiny humans, professor, cell herder, bioelectrician, 'professional' storyteller, and waterbears just because. see us at:
cohenlab.princeton.edu
Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Mons
Mechanobiology & Biomaterials group
https://www.cellmechanobiology.com
Shinuo Weng @shinuoweng.bsky.social Uncovering the mechanics of life, one cell at a time | https://sweng.wse.jhu.edu/
Tyler Huycke @thuycke.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan
Watching cells do cool things during development🐣🐁🧫🔬
huyckelab.org
Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social Associate Prof at Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
Cell biologist interested in microscopy and image analysis. My opinions are my own.
cellmig.org
Dave Bryant 🏳️🌈 (he/him) @davidbryantlab.bsky.social #CellPolarity lab using #3Dculture to study how cells collectively move in cancer. Professor, University of Glasgow. Senior Group Leader, @cruk-si.bsky.social. UKRI Future Leader Fellow.
Kolade Adebowale Ph.D. @kolade-adebowale.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UC San Diego Bioengineering.
Lab website: https://sites.ucsd.edu/mind-lab/
Stephan Grill @stephangrill.bsky.social Scientist interested in the physics of life
Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social professor at UCSF, engineer turned cell biologist, wants to know how cells solve geometry problems
Thomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social How are biological forms encoded? Group leader at IBDM Marseille, director of Turing Center for living systems (CENTURI). Professor at Collège de France, Paris: Dynamics of living systems
Omar Saleh @oasaleh.bsky.social Soft/Bio physics and materials professor at UC Santa Barbara.
https://labs.materials.ucsb.edu/saleh/omar/
Shashi Thutupalli @stpalli.bsky.social Scientist, Associate Professor at the Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, NCBS Bangalore and ICTS, Bangalore.
Broadly interested in the origins and organisation of living systems.
Bangalore — Toronto — Göttingen — Princeton — Bangalore
Dr. Allyson Sgro @allysonsgro.bsky.social How do cells work together and make decisions when people have so much trouble? Group Leader @HHMIJanelia. My views are mine, not my employer’s. She/They 🏳️🌈
Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social Professor of Mathematics; Chemical & Biological Engineering, UW-Madison. I dig biological fluid dynamics, soft matter physics, and numerical methods. APS DSOFT Vice Chair. Vijayanagara (GMT Games).
https://people.math.wisc.edu/~spagnolie/
Levental Lab @leventallab.bsky.social laboratory on structure and functions of living membranes lab at University of Virginia ; also posts occasional nonsense - views our own, not UVA
www.levental-lab.com
Orit Peleg @oritpeleg.bsky.social Dreaming of a cloudy sky | Associate Prof. | Computer Science & BioFrontiers, CUBoulder | Ext. Faculty, Santa Fe Institute | www.peleglab.com
Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social Professor of Developmental Biophysics.
Crossing all disciplines, through science, art and food | UCL | LMCB | IPLS
www.tissuemechanicslab.com
Science communication and #SciArt via www.datascaperealities.com
Loves hiking, glamping and sourdough baking
Timothy Saunders @timesaunders.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Medical School interested in how complex shape emerges during embryo development. Will work on anything that can be imaged live :)
Bhamla Lab @ Georgia Tech @bhamlalab.bsky.social Curiosity driven science in physics of life and frugal innovations for planetary scale challenges
https://bhamla.gatech.edu/
Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social Curiosity Driven Science
Campàs Lab @campaslab.bsky.social Physics of Embryonic Self-Organization and Morphogenesis. Tweets by Otger Campàs (Professor, Chair of Tissue Dynamics and Director
at the Physics of Life Excellence Cluster of TU Dresden)
Brugues Lab @brugueslab.bsky.social We combine soft matter physics, biophysics and cell biology to uncover physical principles of cellular organization @ Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, Dresden
Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social Cilia and cell motility enthusiast, basal cognition, weird organisms esp protists and larvae, how do living systems compute?
Professor of Cellular & Biophysical Dynamics, Living Systems Institute, Exeter (past: DAMTP, Cambridge)
www.micromotility.com
Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) @vaishananth.bsky.social EMBLAustralia Group Leader @ UNSW Sydney| Ex Asst Prof IISc Bangalore | EMBO YI 2018 | MPI-CBG Dresden & BITS Pilani alumna | Co-founder @ biaswatchindia | Ally 🏳️🌈
Benoit Ladoux @bladoux.bsky.social Biophysics / Cell Migration / Active matter / Mechanobiology
https://mpzpm.mpg.de/research/benoit-ladoux
https://ladoux-mege-lab.cnrs.fr
Liz Wellberg @lwellberg.bsky.social Scientist studying breast cancer and obesity | women's health | gardening | dogs 🩷
Kourtidis Lab @kourtidislab.bsky.social Where Cell-Cell adhesion meets RNAi - and other intriguing encounters. Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
https://medicine.musc.edu/departments/regenerative-medicine/research/kourtidis-lab
Garrett Beeghly, PhD @gbeeghly.bsky.social Postdoc in the Radisic Lab at the University of Toronto and Toronto General Hospital. Engineering tissues to understand health and disease. Baker, hiker, cat dad. He/him. 🏳️🌈
https://gbeeghly.github.io/