We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.

It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

Now live = The Kahneman Chronicles #2: Loss Aversion and the Art of Quitting.

Stay tuned for part 3 of this entertaining article series!

Part 2 ⬇️👀
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Divergent evolutionary strategies pre-empt tissue collision in gastrulation - Nature Flies have evolved two distinct strategies for managing mechanical stresses during embryogenesis: out-of-plane cell division in midges and transient out-of-plane tissue folding in fruit flies.

🪰Yu-Chiun Wang’s team & Univ. of Hohenheim group discovered how fly embryos solve the “tissue tectonic collision” that occurs in morphogenetic movements between tissues and why the #cephalicfurrow evolved, a longstanding mystery to developmental biologists.
In @nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Excited to be traveling to meetings.embo.org/event/25-cyt... in Pune, India. Looking forward to seeing friends not seen in years and revisiting for the first time since 2020. My lab is recruiting. Those interested, let’s meet up there! (Look out for ads up here soon.)

Daniel Kahneman's imaginary sabbatical in a fly lab continues...this time: The art of letting go.

Have you felt the pain of stopping while standardising a new method? Or letting go of a project? When to stop, when to persist?
Have a read @the-node.bsky.social
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What if the legendary psychologist and grandfather of behavioral economics, Daniel Kahneman took a sabbitical in a fly lab? How would the lab culture change?

Explored this imaginary scenario in a blog post @the-node.bsky.social
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Our latest preprint! Into morphogenesis, Yap, ECM, signaling, vertex models, feedbacks/robustness? There is something here for everyone. We discovered a positive feedback loop that extends inner ear canals, and a built-in mechanism that shuts it down when morphogenesis is done. tinyurl.com/464wsjhd

Happy to have shared my first post on The Node, on how hidden power dynamics may prevent creative science from blooming.
@the-node.bsky.social
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Flies evolved a shock-absorber tissue used during embryonic development The role of tissue that forms between the head and trunk of a fly embryo has been unclear. It turns out that it absorbs forces when nearby cells move and divide.

A long-standing mystery in the development of fly embryos has been resolved

go.nature.com/4nhVxaa

How to be a scientist in a post-journal world When we created this site to write about things in science that need to be fixed, we chose not to start with publishing, even though it has been our preoccupation for decades.

'How to be a scientist in a post-journal world'

@pracheeac.bsky.social & @mbeisen.bsky.social beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. 👍

#ScientificPublishing #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #Preprints #OpenScience

Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️

Tissues transition between solid & fluid states in development & disease; cytoplasm turns crowded or inert to literally 'solidify'. Any connections? Turns out nothing's known. @sameerthukral.bsky.social & @bipashadey29.bsky.social pulled this review off brilliantly with a conceptual synthesis.

Thank you Itai!

Thanks to @liamholt.bsky.social @fredchanglab.bsky.social for inspiration during the 2023 RIKEN symposium & @itaiyanai.bsky.social @nightsciencepod.bsky.social for encouraging us to blend day & night science,using a review not only to recap but also generate new perspectives!

From crowded cytoplasm to flowing tissues:how material properties changes across scales shaping development,especially during transitions?
We provide primers on tissue scale & cytoplasmic rigidity,control parameters,new hypotheses on possible cross-scale feedback,linking scales rarely integrated.

Integrating Tissue and Cytoplasmic Rigidity Transitions During Morphogenesis Multicellular organisms generate organizational complexity through morphogenesis, in which mechanical forces orchestrate the movements and deformations of cells and tissues, while chemical signals re...

Excited to share our new review in Development, Growth and Differentiation(DGD) Journall!

With the amazing @yuchiunwang.bsky.social & @bipashadey29.bsky.social,we explore how rigidity transitions bridge cytoplasmic & tissue scales.

Read the full review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Deep gratitude to @yuchiunwang.bsky.social @phnglab.bsky.social @kyogok.bsky.social Kenji Kamimoto and the BDR Diversity Working group to make this visit happen!

What an honor to host @itaiyanai.bsky.social at RIKEN-BDR, Kobe! From learning Night Science creativity, to see them come alive with Day Science rigor, Itai truly demonstrated the "yes, and" attitude in person! Thank you for your great energy, passion and generosity! Can't wait to have you back!

Excited to host @itaiyanai.bsky.social at RIKEN BDR, Kobe over the next few days! Looking forward to learning about "Tails" and how to use Night Science "Tales" to supercharge creativity in science! Thank you Itai for accepting our invitation!

Excited to announce that we will be holding another #mechanobiology across scales symposium this year in beautiful Awaji Island #Japan! We have a star-studded lineup of speakers and it's free participation (free accommodation and food!)! Register here: www.igm.hokudai.ac.jp/85th-fujihar...