Benoit Ladoux

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Le respect de la presse au RN a manifestement autant de valeur que les démentis de Jordan Bardella sur ses écrits antisémites. Soutien aux confrères et consœurs admirables du journal.

Le Monde with a good explainer of the current "let's wipe our ass with civil liberties" mood in France

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C'EST DIT. Le Premier ministre israélien Benyamin Netanyahou se dit lundi 19 octobre favorable à l'arrivée au pouvoir de l'extrême droite en France. « Parce qu’ils comprennent qu’ils vivent sous la menace. À nouveau, c’est l’ennemi commun qui crée les intérêts communs. » @c14english.bsky.social

Bravo Dr. El-Sayed. Bravo.

In 2002, success rate at the ERC starting grant was 14%. This already felt too low to both panel and applicants, but was constrained by government funding. Well, 5 years later, it is now projected to be 5%. This is not sustainable.

Don't miss this organoid symposium in Utrecht, NL! January 19-21 2027 organoids-are-us.com

le Spiegel sur la France : « Un État qui réagit à toute revendication par la violence fait diversion des revendications pour thématiser la violence en elle-même. » www.spiegel.de/ausland/schu...

Bloop 🫧 bloop 🫧 bloop 🫧 Fluid-filled lumens are everywhere in our body How do they get soooo big? We find that osmotic pressure vastly dominates mechanical forces in controlling lumen swelling in mouse embryos biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @louise-dagher.bsky.social @matteo-bassanini.bsky.social

Very happy to see our work highlighted by @natcellbio.nature.com. A great team effort and a fascinating example of how a simple physical principle can connect mitosis across eukaryotes! @lgudlin.bsky.social, @krunovuk.bsky.social, @kopslab.bsky.social

From MBoC: How do cells coordinate their movements as a group? New research shows how vimentin helps connect individual cell movement with coordinated collective migration and efficient wound closure. https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E26-01-0052

⚠️ Emballement répressif contre les lycéens, la preuve en chiffres: • En 2 semaines de mouvement lycéen, 5060 gardes à vue (GAV), dont 4400 mineurs. •⁠ ⁠Gilets jaunes 2018-2019 : 6730 GAV (en un an). •⁠ ⁠Loi Travail 2016 : 890 GAV …

Le mouvement lycéen et étudiant signe le crépuscule du macronisme: les jeunes veulent se former et accéder aux études, et un pouvoir élitiste leur répond en réduisant de 20% le budget par étudiant entre 2017 et 2026 et en gérant la pénurie avec un algorithme opaque (Parcoursup)

📣Our department is hiring a new group leader!📣 Want to start your team in a vibrant scientific environment in the center of Paris? I was very lucky to do that 10 years ago, reach out if you have any question. Apply by December 18th: jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr

• Mai 68: senat.fr/comptes-rend... (p.305) + lemonde.fr/archives/art... + lemonde.fr/archives/art...

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Une sublime anecdote d’enquête sur cette faute de français récurrente qui confond Jordan Bardella. #CeriseSurLeGateau C'est en accès libre dans la formidable « Lettre Enquête » de @mhajdenberg.bsky.social. ▶️ info.mediapart.fr/optiext/opti...

Les services de renseignements considèrent Frédéric Chatillon comme un « national-socialiste convaincu », qui a voulu « intégrer le GUD dans un mouvement néonazi international », selon une note de 2008 de la DCRI (aujourd’hui DGSI), consultée par @mediapart.fr.

Violence policière en direct contre des lycéens aujourd’hui à Reims. Honte à ces violences et provocations policières. Soyons nombreuses et nombreux le #6octobre pour protéger les #Lycéens

✍️ The @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social lab published a new article 📖 @natcomms.nature.com 📃 Extracellular-matrix mediated stresses spatially bias myoblast fusion and myotube growth 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✍️ The @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social published a new article 📖 @natcomms.nature.com 📃 A principal-stress rule for cell division in epithelia 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's the provisional program for the frozen accidents conference! (see also the previous post)

📢 PhD Thesis defense 📅 September 29th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Tomorrow, Ranjith Kumar Chilupuri ( @bladoux.bsky.social @rmmege.bsky.social Lab ) will defend his PhD thesis “Hydraulic Fractures in Epithelia: From Mechanisms of Propagation to Tissue Morphogenesis"

📢 PhD Thesis defense 📅 September 29th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Tomorrow, Lucas Anger ( @luanger.bsky.social ) ( @bladoux.bsky.social @rmmege.bsky.social Lab ) will defend his PhD thesis “Intercellular stress invariants and fluctuations in epithelial mechanical homeostasis"

Only one week left to apply ! Check below for more details but the course will be great. Please spread the word 🙏

Don´t know yet what you´ll be doing next April? Why not join us for a great meeting in Porto? Registration for Forces across scales is now open! meetings.embo.org/event/27-for...

Not every cell react the same way to caspase activation. In our recent study (led by @tomcumming.bsky.social and initiated by @avillars.bsky.social ), we tried to better understand what explains this difference and outlined a role of past caspase exposure 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NeMo is finally out! 🐟 We present our new method to peel cellular layers and extract their nematics. If you're wondering what a fish has to do with curved nematics, check out the thread and the publication 👀👇🏼 arxiv.org/html/2609.12...

What a wonderful short film for @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Sara Wickström's Körber Prize for European Science 2026! Our director explains how cells sense physical forces and translate them into gene activity. Thanks, @koerber-stiftung.de and Wagnervision GmbH 🎥 koerber-stiftung.de/en/media/sar...

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 September 29th 📍Pierre-Gilles de Gennes amphitheater, Condorcet building Invited by the Ladoux/Mege Lab , Nikta Fakhri ( @mit.edu ) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme "Thermodynamics of collective behavior" ➡️https://buff.ly/cvinsrI

📢 PhD Thesis defense 📅 September 29th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Lucas Anger ( @luanger.bsky.social) ( @bladoux.bsky.social @rmmege.bsky.social Lab ) will defend his PhD thesis “Intercellular stress invariants and fluctuations in epithelial mechanical homeostasis" ➡️ buff.ly/F6PVKtX

@myosincity.bsky.social and I are looking to hire a new postdoc this winter! Open to anyone broadly interested in studying how cells generate and interpret mechanical signals. Interested applicants can reach out to me and Jordan directly.

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

🔬 New publication, now out in #ScienceImmunology led by Mathieu Deygas in Pablo Vargas team, shows that Adaptive motility enables neutrophils to rapidly navigate confined capillaries 📰 To read the article: tinyurl.com/52vxuhmp

New work in PNAS, spearheaded by former postdoc Sadjad Arzash in collaboration with Andrea Liu, developing a principled, top-down & bottom up approach for figuring out what algorithms development uses to execute tasks...

Biophysics of lumen morphogenesis Read this Review from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by Byung Ho Lee, @hiraiwatetsuya.bsky.social, Masaki Sano, Alf Honigmann, Daniel Riveline, @anne-grapin.bsky.social and colleagues. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Choanoflagellates reorganize their global cytoskeletal architecture within seconds to explore confined microspaces. This is the main PhD work of the amazing @maitefreired.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A tread 🧵⬇️

New paper from the lab! We developed a self-organizing bovine muscle and blood vessel-like network from ES cells, bringing us one step closer to creating structured cultured beef steak! 🥩🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Excited to share a new preprint! We address a longstanding question related to stratifying tissues: What are the physical mechanisms that drive epidermal cell delamination? Find out why this👇 traction force pattern emerges and how it is linked to upward cell motion: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This project was a real team effort and huge thank you to everyone who made it possible! First of all @bladoux.bsky.social & @rmmege.bsky.social, and colleagues from @ijmonod.bsky.social @ceciledaubech.bsky.social, @luanger.bsky.social, Yuan Shen, Risai Dubrall and @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social