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Felipe del Valle Batalla

@fadelvalle.bsky.social

Cell biologist - PhD. What’s a cell? How does it really work? Why do we care? Loving running, reading, microscopy and coffee. Opinions are my own. fadelvalle.github.io Donlin-Asp Lab University of Edinburgh

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Lovely Spaghetti Flying Monster rendition, In my humble opinion.

26.10.2025 20:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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30 Great Essays About Biology If you read one a day, you may just fall in love.

www.nmccarty.com/p/30-essays?... Great picks ! (also an amazing substack)

26.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As the left one, I presume.

24.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#FluorescenceFriday once again <3

24.10.2025 09:06 — 👍 27    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Not all colormaps are created equal. Notice the nonlinear brightness scaling in two very popular ImageJ LUTs! (Glow & GFB)

20.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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This is what I actually signed up for ❤️ gloomy scientific vibes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

21.10.2025 07:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes !

17.10.2025 11:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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😍

17.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🥳

15.10.2025 08:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Falkirk for the day ❤️

05.10.2025 20:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As per usual:
NEVER.
Enough.
L U T S

04.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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September in preprints – Cell biology edition - preLights

Happy October 1st!

A good time to share another #CellBio #preprint reading list put together by a team of preLighters: @sristi.bsky.social, Matthew Davies, @vibhasingh.bsky.social, @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Barbora Knotkova.

Check out their picks ⬇️👀
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...

01.10.2025 11:49 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Could run forever with these views 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

28.09.2025 09:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fiji is just:

24.09.2025 09:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pew Research looks the same:

19.09.2025 12:12 — 👍 163    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 26
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In 🇬🇧! Next stop: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🩷

09.09.2025 22:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dynamic Micropatterning Reveals Spatial Dynamics of B Cell Receptor Signaling and Immune Synapse Formation B cell activation by foreign antigens, recognized by the B cell receptor (BCR), is the key prerequisite for cell differentiation for antibody production. B cells typically encounter antigens bound to ...

I'm very happy to finally be able to show what I have been working on for the last years (with help of @sarahdezperez.bsky.social and Elmeri)!
@mattilalab.bsky.social @inflames-flagship.bsky.social @utu.fi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

12.08.2025 08:55 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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preLighters go live! This Thursday - preLights – How do membrane actin protrusions initiate to T-cells signalling? – What does RhoA have to do with nuclear envelope tensions in stem cells? – Does advanced microscopy help study mechano-signalling –...

preLighters go live!

A light and lively face-to-face conversation between the preLighters @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh and the researchers probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez will be hosted at the @focalplane.bsky.social webinar.

4 Sept, 14.00-15.00 BST

Tune in!

02.09.2025 13:04 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Beautiful snowy Andes 🩷 will miss you

23.08.2025 21:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hope to see you there !

21.08.2025 14:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Incredibly effective !

19.08.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m thrilled to announce that I will start a postdoc at
@pdaphd.bsky.social 's Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I’m beyond honored and excited about this opportunity 🙌😊Stay tuned for cool microscopy and data! (pic I took back in 2019 secretly wishing to come back)

05.08.2025 13:02 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
bonej.org

📢Release alert!

BoneJ 7.1.4 is out now, bringing 💥100x faster💥 GPU-accelerated 3D Skeletonization, part of the new BoneJ+ extensions.

You'll need a token to try it out, from bonej.org/shop

Drop us a line bonej@bonej.org to get a coupon for a 100% discount on your first token.

28.07.2025 11:05 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, Pieta! (And everyone in your lab) For hosting me in Finland and always providing important feedback and great discussions 🤩

21.07.2025 20:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Couldn’t have been possible without my Finnish team 🫰🏻💙

21.07.2025 18:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally! My PhD work is out in @jcb.org ❤️ thanks to everyone involved. It was a long way to this, but it was worth it.

21.07.2025 18:22 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

WHAT

14.07.2025 23:01 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Writing, making mistakes during writing and correcting those mistakes (through feedback, labmeetings, and personal interaction) is fundamental to achieving not only "good quality" science, but also for getting to know yourself as a scientist. Writing reflects your inner thoughts.

09.07.2025 21:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's here! ✨
The #ExSRRF protocol paper is out 😍. Full details for merging Expansion Microscopy with our eSRRF analysis. From cells to tissue. A partnership with @puellesv.bsky.social's lab. Lead by Dominik Kylies and @hannah-superres.bsky.social + colleagues. #ExM #eSRRF
➡️ Open link: rdcu.be/euvEw

03.07.2025 08:44 — 👍 43    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 2

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