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They don't have mitochondria (purple).

Chicken heart day 4, what are these things?

Introduction to Active Nematic Solid Physics// Hydra hydra hydra [21] | Podcast Episode on RSS.com This week's paper is "Active Solids: Topological Defect Self-Propulsion Without Flow" by Fridtjof Brauns, Myles O’Leary, Arthur Hernandez, Mark J. Bowick, and M. Cristina Marchetti.Paper: https://jour...

Ep 21 of the Lemma Journal Club 🎧: rss.com/podcasts/the...

A short and insightful theory paper on active nematics embedded in solids. Here is my best topological defect emoji I could find:🌀

With ~19 in of snowfall in Trenton, NJ in February, That brings us to ~43 in this winter, the most since 2013. I thought this was way more snow than anything else I remember, but I guess shoveling is just way more my responsibility now.

data: www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate

YouTube video by The Lemma Journal Club Weekly Update [3]

Stuck in PR because we didn't understand the scope of this blizzard. So in one take today, here's our weekly update of publications in biophysics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgow... .

(Also, nobody watched the last actual LJC episode and it was the best one, which videos get views seems so random)

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This developing quail embryo looks like it's thinking fiery thoughts for #FluorescenceFriday 🐣🔥🧪. Imaged by the fantastic @vanderspuy.bsky.social

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In preprints: YAP/TAZ integration of mechanical feedback with tissue morphogenesis

Wade W. Sugden and Brian A. Link (@medicalcollegeofwi.bsky.social) discuss three recent preprints on YAP/TAZ-mediated mechanotransduction mechanisms: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Computing has a rich history in biological discovery, and the needs of biologists are continuing to drive algorithm development in multiple domains. Close alignment between developers and deep biological domain expertise is crucial in this field and a programming language such as Julia provides an ideal platform for such tight collaborations that require a range of access points to the software. Julia provides interactive and notebook-based interfaces commonly used by experimentalists whilst also giving algorithm developers the opportunity create more complex workflows and structures, and optimize performance as needed. In this minisymposium, we aim to highlight ways in which computational biologists* are using Julia to advance our understanding of living systems, in academia and industry, while also contributing to the package ecosystem and core language on multiple fronts. "Computational biology" is a broad tent. Topics presented include algorithms for text matching and search (bioinformatics), modeling and machine learning (systems biology and quantiative pharmacology),statistics and data science (experimental analysis, epidemiology), and imaging and geospatial statistics (microscopy), among others.

@kevinbonham.com, Rasmus Henningsson, Elisabeth Rösch, and Jakob Nybo Andersen are running a minisymposium on "Julia for Biology" at JuliaCon 2026!

Find out more at pretalx.com/juliacon-202... and submit your talk to juliacon.org/2026/cfp

#julialang #biology

New from us in @pnas.org :
We considered the limits of condensate diversity, and engineered DNA droplets to form 9 distinct, homotypic, coexisting phases. Very hard to do this except with nucleic acids. Probably you can make more than 9. (1/3)

YouTube video by The Lemma Journal Club Let The Great World Spindle // Annoyed By Our Lack Of Background [20]

Enjoy a walk along Lake Michigan in Chicago, in our latest Journal Club: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCx...

Fun episode, we don't explain the paper at all so you might want to read the first four paragraphs of the paper before listening.

Disco ball

A little digital reconstruction of the openSpim light sheet

And code for paper list here: github.com/bezlemma/Lem...

Paper list here: bezialemma.com/LemmaJournal...

YouTube video by The Lemma Journal Club Weekly Update [2]

Maybe a one-off (two-off?) but another Weekly Update (WU!) of biophysics papers from our Lemma Journal Club. Full Journal Club episode will be Wednesdays while these updates are still going on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qa9...

Wish I had a recording of these two talks. Easily the most intertwined and interesting pair of talks I've ever been a part of.

Raaaaay tracing.

They say they have no engagement here, because they have no engagement. And that they have more on twitter, because they do. The algorithm here is different, less addictive, less bots, more thoughtful people who don't as rapidly like and repost. All good, but also clearly smaller numbers.

Mitochondrial membranes (the cell’s power plants) in blue, captured with MAICO 💙🔬 Thank you @bezbez.bsky.social‬
for sharing.

Already realized we missed this one by Bennett Sessa, Federico Cao ... and Guillaume Duclos journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...

I'm sure we missed a ton more. We missed PRR entirely. We actually had an openAlex/GoogleScholar search specifically for Guillaume but that missed too :\

A little webpage to go with this, the biophysics papers we found for the week: bezialemma.com/LemmaJournal...

YouTube video by The Lemma Journal Club Weekly Update Pilot // Last Author Link [19]

Something different this week for journal club: a rundown of some biophysics papers that came out last week. (With video!)

If you like it (or a refined version of it) we might rotate it with the normal journal club or add it as an extra thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLE...

Does science have an equivalent of finance's Matt Levine? @mattlevineofficial.bsky.social

The next Zoom seminar on metabolism in development will be on 12 February, 4pm CET / 3pm GMT / 10am EST. Our speakers for February will be:
Bezia Lemma (Princeton, USA)
Jonathan Rodenfels (MPI CBG, Germany)
Sign up for the mailing list to get the Zoom link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Writing papers can be shockingly close to the rate limiting step for "trainees" in some fields. Over my ~10 yrs in research, I spend ~3 yrs in experiments, and ~1.5 yrs polishing/publishing. It's hard to start new projects during the 1.5 yrs if the time overlaps with the end of the grad/postdoc.

A cultured developing chicken lung, going off the rails in its developmental program the longer it is cultured.

A very early experiment with mitochondrial imaging (MitoTracker Red) when I first started my postdoc. Check out the contractions later on!

Every time my toddler has gotten a bagel, it's come out of a paper bag. So whenever they see me bring home a paper bag, they get excited for a bagel.