The Kahneman Chronicles: Lessons from a Fly Lab - the Node The Kahneman Chronicles #1: When a Nobel Laureate Fixed Our Lab's Scheduling Disasters Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) was a legendary psychologist who

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
thenode.biologists.com/the-kahneman...

28.09.2025 07:57 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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

26.09.2025 12:55 — 👍 73    🔁 27    💬 4    📌 2

The Invisible Cost: How Power Dynamics May Undermine Respect in Academic Labs - the Node I'm a big fan of podcasts, and one of my favorites is Tim Harford's "Cautionary Tales." It tells true stories about disasters and what we can learn from

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
thenode.biologists.com/the-invisibl...

25.09.2025 04:48 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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

09.09.2025 14:16 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

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...

18.09.2025 09:49 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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

17.09.2025 09:27 — 👍 29    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0

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 ⬇️

11.08.2025 13:18 — 👍 100    🔁 40    💬 5    📌 2

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.

15.09.2025 02:11 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

Thank you Itai!

12.09.2025 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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!

12.09.2025 06:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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.

12.09.2025 06:24 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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....

12.09.2025 06:20 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2

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!

22.02.2025 06:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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!

22.02.2025 02:48 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

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!

18.02.2025 22:33 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2

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...

21.01.2025 04:28 — 👍 31    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1