Mechanics of Life Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme @mechanicsoflife.bsky.social The Mechanics of Life Doctoral Scholarship Programme is a multi-disciplinary doctoral training scheme at King's College London funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/mechanicsoflife
Amy Beedle @amybeedle.bsky.social Lecturer in Biophysics at King's College London.
Previously Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow with @pcusachs at IBEC Barcelona.
Mila Saltikova @milasaltikova.bsky.social
Dirk Benzinger @dbenzinger.bsky.social Postdoc at the Crick in the Briscoe Lab. Previously PhD student with Mustafa Khammash at ETHZ. Development, synthetic biology, and optogenetics. And Art and stuff.
Giacomo Bartolucci (he) @gbart.bsky.social https://giacobarto.github.io/
I love biophysics, jazz, poetry, and activism, especially when mixed together!
Into phase separation, and active nematics.
JdC postdoc at University of Barcelona, previously at MPI PKS Dresden and Uni Augsburg
Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social Professor of Genetics & Development, King's College London. Neural crest biology - MOUSE🐭 🐸HUMAN🐭 🐸 FROG sneaky 🐣
⭐️ My opinions will someday be the opinions of my employer.⭐️
Victor Maull Miquel @vmaull.bsky.social Complexity scientist studying ecology and synthetic ecosystems.
Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió @guimaguade.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at ISEM Montpellier. Physicist studying complex biological systems - ecosystems, cancer, immune networks and microbial communities.
Gotthold Fläschner @gflaesch.bsky.social I like to solve puzzles. Often in biophysics, recently in mechanobiology. I like theory and experiment and don't understand this made up border anyways.
Carlos Pérez-González @cperez-gonzalez.bsky.social Incoming group leader at Gustave Roussy (@gustaveroussy.fr). Interested in tumor dynamics and plasticity. Former postdoc at Vignjevic lab (@vignjeviclab.bsky.social) and Guiu lab (@guiulab.bsky.social). PhD in Trepat lab (@xaviertrepat.bsky.social).
Lucia Baldauf @baldaufsci.bsky.social Dr of squishy stuff 💫🦠🧊🐇🪱🦑💕 EMBO & MSCA postdoc with Guillaume Charras on the molecular origins of tissue mechanics, after my PhD with Gijsje Koenderink on synthetic cell morphogenesis
Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska @routierlab.bsky.social Associate prof @umontreal-en.bsky.social
Canada Research Chair
Biophysics, Developmental biology, Mechanical Modeling, 3D imaging
Learning from plants.
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
Su Moreno 🇵🇸 @sucapellades.bsky.social Membre del Secretariat Nacional i coportaveu de la CUP Nacional
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social Life Sciences Associate Consultant
Ex Post Doc in the Microenvironments for Medicine Group @ IBEC 🇪🇸 and Mechanobiology & Biomaterials Group @ UMONS 🇧🇪
Elena Scarpa & The Squeezable Cells Lab @squeezycellslab.bsky.social We are passionate about how cells squeeze through tiny in spaces in vivo, and how they get to divide and make fate decisions whilst they are at it!
We love fish, frogs, live microscopy and arts and crafts.
Life Science Network @lifesciencenet.bsky.social A platform for life sciences. Publications, research protocols, news, events, jobs and more. Sign up at https://www.lifescience.net.
Philip Pearce @pearce-maths.bsky.social https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahppe/
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
CellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social 10th Biennial European Cell Mechanics Meeting
30Sep-3Oct 2025 @KU_Leuven
https://cellmech2025.org/
CM: @barrasa-fano.bsky.social & Gabriela Marinho
Andy Moore @aaandmoore.bsky.social User of microscopes. Interested in organelles and how they move. Husband, dad, intermediate filament apologist, and postdoc in the JLS lab at HHMI Janelia Research Campus.
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social News from King's College London | King’s is a multi-faculty research-led institution & one of the top 10 UK universities in the world | Contact: comms@kcl.ac.uk
Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology (CCRB) @ccrb27.bsky.social Our research goes beyond the mouth. Understanding how the entire head and face forms, we can repair damage, regenerate cells and unravel the causes of diseases.
We are part of the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences at King's College London
Jake Cornwall-Scoones @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social 2025 Schmidt Science Fellow
CDB UCL London and Gurdon Institute Cambridge
Wilson, Simons and Norden labs
Developmental, Systems and Synthetic Biology
Prev: Briscoe, Crick Institute; Zernicka-Goetz and Thomson, Caltech; Banerjee and Goehring, UCL
Marion Raich @marionraich.bsky.social PhD student in Biophyiscs. Interested in self-assembly processes in multi-cellular systems.
@drqnas.bsky.social @drqnas.bsky.social
Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social Facilitating rapid review for accessible research - an online only, #OpenAccess @biologists.bsky.social peer reviewed journal for research across all aspects of the biological sciences.
Isaia Invernizzi @isaiainvernizzi.bsky.social Giornalista @ilpost.it
Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social I draw comics you can read here: https://www.noncanon.com/
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I also made HORSE MASTER: THE GAME OF HORSE MASTERY and some other games back when: https://tommchenry.itch.io/
Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social Developmental Biologist I Organ Form and Function, Heart Morphogenesis I Group Leader @crick.ac.uk I India - Australia - Germany - UK
@bernatlavaquiol.bsky.social @bernatlavaquiol.bsky.social
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Barcelona Collaboratorium @barcelonacollaboratorium.com The Barcelona Collaboratorium for Modelling & Predictive Biology is a joint initiative by @crg.eu & @embl.org, exploring biology's frontiers with computational and theoretical modeling to make systems predictable & controllable.
Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com Physics, Space, Quantum Computing | BTC: bc1qqu05pu3rdqjchnh37mtylrgprkk94udc3g3umj
https://thephysicsjournal.substack.com
Nature Physics @natphys.nature.com A journal for cutting-edge physics research.
Quantum, bio, astro, optical, high-energy, nuclear, plasma, and condensed-matter physics, physics education research, complexity, and more.
https://www.nature.com/nphys/
@MEmilieTerret @memilieterret.bsky.social Oocyte Mechanics and Morphogenesis
Group leader in the Cirb at the Collège de France
https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/oocyte-mechanics-and-morphogenesis
VickySanzMoreno @vickysanzmoreno.bsky.social Professor of Cancer Cell and Metastasis Biology. CRUK Senior Fellow. Institute of Cancer Research. London.
https://www.icr.ac.uk/our-research/researchers-and-groups/professor-victoria-sanz-moreno
Roland Le Borgne @leborgne.bsky.social Mechanics and Dynamics of Eptihelia
Epithelial Junction Remodeling and Fate Acquisition in #Drosophila and xenopus @Xenbase
at @IGDRennes, #devbio, @DrosDGR, #Génétique, #Rennes
Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment @theglasgowcemi.bsky.social We are a Glasgow-based multidisciplinary team of bio- and cell engineers.
We focus on understanding the interactions between materials, proteins and cells to gain insight into engineering cell behaviour and translating technologies into better healthcare.
The Ecologist @theecologist.org Ecological, social and and economic justice. Publishing since 1970.
Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her
Alice Perucca @aliperri.bsky.social Biologist working in (cancer) mechanobiology - PhD student @ibecbarcelona.eu in Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group
Alumni @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
Audrey Ferrand @ferrandlab.bsky.social Stem cells, microenvironment, organoid, mechanobiology, organ-on-chip, modeling
<On Earth, exploring Life... >
Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org We are the largest biomedical science hub in the south of Europe, by the beach in Barcelona.
Recerca biomèdica amb vistes |
@researchmar.bsky.social @crg.eu @melisupf.bsky.social @embl.org @isglobal.org @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @fpmaragall.bsky.social
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
The Tired Scientist @thetiredscientist.bsky.social don’t tell me you aren’t
✉️ you can also dm me your fav sci memes to post here
Joana F Neves @nevesjf.bsky.social Group Leader & Reader in Mucosal Immunology studying intestinal cell interactions via complex organoid models (ILC, epithelium, stroma, neurons, microbiota) in IBD, Parkinson's Disease and food allergy.
Mauro Biani @maurobiani.bsky.social Educatore professionale. Vignettista di Repubblica. "taglio alto" su Il venerdi. Vignette per L'Espresso. Vignette per il Cavallo e la torre, Rai Tre. Core: Azione nonviolenta, I Siciliani, il manifesto.
https://maurobiani.it/
Alariko @alariko.bsky.social a failed art account 24 A dude. I do sell prints, please DO NOT contact me about nft stuff thanks. alariko771@gmail.com
Jordi Pinero @jordipinero.bsky.social Complex systems. Mathematical biophysics.
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Complex Systems Lab, Barcelona.
Abhishek Vaidya @abhishekvaidya.bsky.social BSMS student @IISER Pune
Interested in Mechanobiology and Cell Migration
Geography, Languages, Maps and Art History
Eugenio Cau @eugeniocau.bsky.social Giornalista @ilpost.it - cau@ilpost.it
Faccio Globo, il podcast di esteri del Post
https://www.ilpost.it/podcasts/globo/
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Pierre-François Lenne @pflenne.bsky.social Biophysicist interested in cell dynamics and tissue morphogenesis
at IBDM and Turing Center for Living Systems
Group: https://www.morphotiss.org/
https://www.ibdm.univ-mrs.fr/physical-approaches-to-cell-dynamics/
https://centuri-livingsystems.org
Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social artist of sorts
Ivan Palaia @ivnpla.bsky.social Lecturer in Biological Physics at King's College London @kingsnmes.bsky.social
Previously at Institute of Science and Technology Austria, UCL and Université Paris-Saclay.
Francesco Sassi @frankstones.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @statsvitenskap.bsky.social🇳🇴
Energy Statecraft, International Relations, Geopolitics, Diplomacy.
Non-resident Research Fellow @ RIE - Bologna🇮🇹
Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social Research engineer and core facility manager at the Institut Pasteur
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/image-analysis-hub/
Everything #TrackMate #Mastodon-sc (the tool to track lineages in microscopy videos, not the social networks etc).
Views are my own
Nature Reviews Materials @natrevmats.nature.com A journal publishing reviews and commentaries across all aspects of materials science. Posts from the editors, @giulia-pacc.bsky.social, arianevartanian.bsky.social and Charlotte Allard. https://www.nature.com/natrevmats/
Giulia Pacchioni @giulia-pacc.bsky.social Chief Editor @natrevmater.bsky.social | Based in London | Love travelling 🌎, good food 🍕& physics + materials science 🔬🧲. She/Her, views my own.
Meehan Crist @meehancrist.bsky.social Writer in residence in biological sciences, Columbia University. Writing on the intersection of science, culture, and politics. Author of IS IT OK TO HAVE A CHILD? (Random House, March 2027)
Comuns @somcomuns.bsky.social Eina de les forces del canvi per posar les institucions al servei de la gent comuna.
comuns.cat
Alba Sidera @albasidera.bsky.social M'ocupo d'extrema dreta, d'Itàlia i escric. #FeixismePersistent (2020) #FascismoPersistente (2023)
A Roma des del 2007
Mehmet Can Uçar @mehmetcanucar.bsky.social Research fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social • Physics of biological and living matter
Alumnus @istaresearch.bsky.social (Postdoc) & @mpici.bsky.social (PhD)
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mps/people/all-academic-staff/mehmet-can-ucar
Renkawitz Lab @renkawitzteam.bsky.social Our lab unravels the mechanobiology and cellbiology of immune cells, their migration & cytoskeleton, their organelles, and their cell-matrix interplay using #imaging, #screening, and #bioengineering
@bmc-lmu.bsky.social
www.renkawitz-lab.com
Arjun Raj @arjunraj.bsky.social Just another LLM. Tweets do not necessarily reflect the views of people in my lab or even my own views last week. http://rajlab.seas.upenn.edu https://rajlaboratory.blogspot.com
Efemèrides d'Arquitectura @efemarqui.bsky.social Història de l'arquitectura, catalana i forana, antiga i moderna. És a dir, tota.
Candidatura d'Unitat Popular @cup.cat Per una república socialista, feminista, ecologista i antiracista als Països Catalans.
Laure Vega @laurevega.bsky.social "A més del desig de produïr coses belles la passió rectora de la meva vida ha estat i segueix sent l'odi a la civilització moderna."
Enric Juliana @enricjuliana.bsky.social Periodista
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Apoie nosso trabalhado comprando ou assinando nossa revista impressa: https://jacobin.com.br/assine/
Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social Jacobin liefert sozialistische Perspektiven auf Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur. Abonniere jetzt unser Printmagazin 👉 http://jacobin.de/abo- M Internazionale (archivio) @mm-internazionale.bsky.social Bot che pubblica gli articoli di https://www.internazionale.it prima dell'arrivo ufficiale @internazionale.it su Bluesky
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Centre for Statecraft & National Security @csns-uk.bsky.social Research centre based within @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Formerly International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) & Centre for Grand Strategy (CGS). RTs ≠ endorsements.
Ivar S. Haugerud @ivarhaugerud.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the university in Oslo working on the physics and origins of life
Stefano Bo @bosste.bsky.social Lecturer in the Biological Physics and Soft Matter Group at King’s College London
https://stefano.bo/
Eirini Maniou @emaniou.bsky.social Principal Investigator- Research Ireland Pathway Fellow @DCU working on the biomechanics of neural tube closure
📍Dublin, IE
Uwe Töpfer @uwe689.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow
#Drosophila #Genetics #ExtracellularMatrix #DevelopmentalBiology #Morphogenesis
Alejandro Forigua @forigua.com 🇨🇴➡️🇨🇦 • Postdoc @mcgill.ca Cellular Microenvironment Design Lab • Chemistry PhD alumni @uvic.ca • Soft matter, biophysics & LOC • Foodie & craft beer enthusiast • 🌐 https://forigua.com •
Review Commons @reviewcommons.org A platform by EMBO that provides independent peer review before journal submission for Refereed Preprints.
@gentlemanlab.bsky.social @gentlemanlab.bsky.social Professor of Bioengineering King's College London
& University of Lausanne #stemcells #biomaterials #organoids #diseasemodelling
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Jacopo Grilli @jacrickets.bsky.social jacopogrilli.github.io
The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social Not-for-profit publisher of Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. Host of community sites the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. Supporting biologists and inspiring biology.
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
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