Julia Sero
@cellmorphosero.bsky.social
How cells stick to things and move around, microscopy, cats, garden bugs, forays into machine learning, occasional political snark. Asst Prof University of Bath, UK 🏳️🌈
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Trackastra is part of the brand-new TrackMate v8.
It is the first deep-learning-based ("AI") drop-in replacement for TrackMate's regular LAP-Track algorithm.
Tracks out of the box for many types of datasets (bacteria, fluorescent nuclei, phase contrast cell culture etc), zero parameters to tune 🤖
It is the first deep-learning-based ("AI") drop-in replacement for TrackMate's regular LAP-Track algorithm.
Tracks out of the box for many types of datasets (bacteria, fluorescent nuclei, phase contrast cell culture etc), zero parameters to tune 🤖
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Trackastra is part of the brand-new TrackMate v8.
It is the first deep-learning-based ("AI") drop-in replacement for TrackMate's regular LAP-Track algorithm.
Tracks out of the box for many types of datasets (bacteria, fluorescent nuclei, phase contrast cell culture etc), zero parameters to tune 🤖
It is the first deep-learning-based ("AI") drop-in replacement for TrackMate's regular LAP-Track algorithm.
Tracks out of the box for many types of datasets (bacteria, fluorescent nuclei, phase contrast cell culture etc), zero parameters to tune 🤖
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Brand new preprint from my lab, showing that TnpB, the ancestor of Cas12, acts as a gene drive in plasmids! And it turns out in conjugative plasmids that it acts as a primitive anti-self defense system, providing a potential link between its transposon effect and becoming CRISPR!
What is the best strategy to win any contest?
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Brand new preprint from my lab, showing that TnpB, the ancestor of Cas12, acts as a gene drive in plasmids! And it turns out in conjugative plasmids that it acts as a primitive anti-self defense system, providing a potential link between its transposon effect and becoming CRISPR!
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Python notebook from a two year old paper:
Oh, no, I cannot run, there is a slight mismatch of a logging library.
ImageJ plugin from 2001 running on Quantum Java 51 in 2078:
Your 100 petabyte temporal hologram was successfully thresholded.
Oh, no, I cannot run, there is a slight mismatch of a logging library.
ImageJ plugin from 2001 running on Quantum Java 51 in 2078:
Your 100 petabyte temporal hologram was successfully thresholded.
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Python notebook from a two year old paper:
Oh, no, I cannot run, there is a slight mismatch of a logging library.
ImageJ plugin from 2001 running on Quantum Java 51 in 2078:
Your 100 petabyte temporal hologram was successfully thresholded.
Oh, no, I cannot run, there is a slight mismatch of a logging library.
ImageJ plugin from 2001 running on Quantum Java 51 in 2078:
Your 100 petabyte temporal hologram was successfully thresholded.
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If you are interested in an interdisciplinary project connecting tissue mechanics, synthetic approaches and dev bio, this is the position for you! we are excited to get this colaboration started!!👇👇🤩🤓👇👇
🔬 PhD or Postdoc Position in Experimental Biophysics — University of Vienna
We are hiring for the WWTF-funded project MechanoSynth — focused on decoding and engineering multiscale mechanoresponses in synthetic and biological tissues.
PhD (48 months) or Postdoc (24 months). Vienna, Austria.
We are hiring for the WWTF-funded project MechanoSynth — focused on decoding and engineering multiscale mechanoresponses in synthetic and biological tissues.
PhD (48 months) or Postdoc (24 months). Vienna, Austria.
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
If you are interested in an interdisciplinary project connecting tissue mechanics, synthetic approaches and dev bio, this is the position for you! we are excited to get this colaboration started!!👇👇🤩🤓👇👇
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Our next #ForceTalk is Prof Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social on "Coping with mechanical stress: tissue dynamics during development, homeostasis and repair"
🗓️ 26 Nov 2025
🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Online & open to all 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force-talk-yanlan-mao
#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social
🗓️ 26 Nov 2025
🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Online & open to all 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force-talk-yanlan-mao
#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Our next #ForceTalk is Prof Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social on "Coping with mechanical stress: tissue dynamics during development, homeostasis and repair"
🗓️ 26 Nov 2025
🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Online & open to all 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force-talk-yanlan-mao
#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social
🗓️ 26 Nov 2025
🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Online & open to all 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force-talk-yanlan-mao
#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social
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When a larval zebrafish twitches its tail, the vascular endothelium lights up with a calcium signal, mediated by Piezo1. We used to think mechanosensing in endothelial cells was about sensing blood flow, but at least in this case it's about sensing body motion.
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
When a larval zebrafish twitches its tail, the vascular endothelium lights up with a calcium signal, mediated by Piezo1. We used to think mechanosensing in endothelial cells was about sensing blood flow, but at least in this case it's about sensing body motion.
We have a multidisciplinary PhD position on offer, through a BBSRC funded doctoral training program, open to UK and International students at Bath Uni. Microfluidics, microscopy, mechanobiology and epigenetics!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
SWBio DTP PhD Project: Mapping the epigenetic landscape in cells under compressive forces at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - SWBio DTP PhD Project: Mapping the epigenetic landscape in cells under compressive forces at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
We have a multidisciplinary PhD position on offer, through a BBSRC funded doctoral training program, open to UK and International students at Bath Uni. Microfluidics, microscopy, mechanobiology and epigenetics!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Wowww 🤩🤩🤩
Very excited to present OpenCGChromatin🔥🔥🔥
A new coarse-grained model that probes full chromatin condensates at near-atomistic resolution to reveal the molecular regulation of chromatin structure and phase separation
Brilliantly led by @kieran-russell.bsky.social, with the Rosen and Orozco groups
A new coarse-grained model that probes full chromatin condensates at near-atomistic resolution to reveal the molecular regulation of chromatin structure and phase separation
Brilliantly led by @kieran-russell.bsky.social, with the Rosen and Orozco groups
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Wowww 🤩🤩🤩
Wow!!!
How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Wow!!!
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
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ERK builds a population of short-lived nascent adhesions that produce persistent edge protrusion and cell migration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688923v1
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
ERK builds a population of short-lived nascent adhesions that produce persistent edge protrusion and cell migration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688923v1
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Imagine if we had a Labour government willing to make these arguments.
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Imagine if we had a Labour government willing to make these arguments.
Immigration isn't bad. Universities and trains and renewables are good. Tax the rich. Invest in infrastructure. Rejoin the EU.
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Immigration isn't bad. Universities and trains and renewables are good. Tax the rich. Invest in infrastructure. Rejoin the EU.
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A hopeful message to finish. The problems with the UK economy are many, but most of them are solvable, because they are the result of sustained poor policy choices. These policy mistakes have left scars, and some of the damage is irreversible, but the majority of it can be recovered.
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
A hopeful message to finish. The problems with the UK economy are many, but most of them are solvable, because they are the result of sustained poor policy choices. These policy mistakes have left scars, and some of the damage is irreversible, but the majority of it can be recovered.
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We can get out of the hole, but only with a sober analysis of what’s gone wrong.
Our view is that Britain has failed to base its economic strategy on what it’s good at - tradeable services, science and tech, universities, niches in advanced manufacturing.
Our view is that Britain has failed to base its economic strategy on what it’s good at - tradeable services, science and tech, universities, niches in advanced manufacturing.
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We can get out of the hole, but only with a sober analysis of what’s gone wrong.
Our view is that Britain has failed to base its economic strategy on what it’s good at - tradeable services, science and tech, universities, niches in advanced manufacturing.
Our view is that Britain has failed to base its economic strategy on what it’s good at - tradeable services, science and tech, universities, niches in advanced manufacturing.
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UK Bioimaging @bioimaginguk.bsky.social launches User Access Fund for Researchers
Researchers can apply for up to £5k for access to bioimaging facilities at @calm-stp.bsky.social, @esric-imaging.bsky.social, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York.
First round deadline: 9 December 2025
Researchers can apply for up to £5k for access to bioimaging facilities at @calm-stp.bsky.social, @esric-imaging.bsky.social, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York.
First round deadline: 9 December 2025
UK Bioimaging Launches User Access Fund for Researchers - FocalPlane
UK Bioimaging Launches User Access Fund for Researchers - News
focalplane.biologists.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
UK Bioimaging @bioimaginguk.bsky.social launches User Access Fund for Researchers
Researchers can apply for up to £5k for access to bioimaging facilities at @calm-stp.bsky.social, @esric-imaging.bsky.social, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York.
First round deadline: 9 December 2025
Researchers can apply for up to £5k for access to bioimaging facilities at @calm-stp.bsky.social, @esric-imaging.bsky.social, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York.
First round deadline: 9 December 2025
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November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
If the Tories had invested in public works projects when interest rates were low and borrowing money was cheap, rather than disastrous austerity policies, we could have been working to prevent these utterly predictable problems for 15 years already.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
If the Tories had invested in public works projects when interest rates were low and borrowing money was cheap, rather than disastrous austerity policies, we could have been working to prevent these utterly predictable problems for 15 years already.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It gets worse. Just ... 🤮🤮🤮
November 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
It gets worse. Just ... 🤮🤮🤮
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Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
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Yikes. Banning people for activities such as co-authorship and advising a graduate student is completely unreasonable in a modern research environment. And a retroactive 5 year ban is wildly unfair.
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Marvelous new image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, taken by photographer Satoru Murata before dawn this morning.
On the right you can also see galaxy NGC 4691. There should be a lot more pictures coming in soon. 🧪🔭
www.facebook.com/groups/22700...
On the right you can also see galaxy NGC 4691. There should be a lot more pictures coming in soon. 🧪🔭
www.facebook.com/groups/22700...
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Marvelous new image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, taken by photographer Satoru Murata before dawn this morning.
On the right you can also see galaxy NGC 4691. There should be a lot more pictures coming in soon. 🧪🔭
www.facebook.com/groups/22700...
On the right you can also see galaxy NGC 4691. There should be a lot more pictures coming in soon. 🧪🔭
www.facebook.com/groups/22700...
I hope that Larry Summers is blacklisted from all his local farmers' market food stalls.
November 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I hope that Larry Summers is blacklisted from all his local farmers' market food stalls.
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On November 20, I will be participating in Cellular Dance, a multimedia ballet by D. Ibbett. Come and watch the dancers do the #gastrulation, and more! Don't worry, I will not be dancing, but will give a mini-lecture on cellular movement. At the Museum of Science Boston.
#DevBio #SciArt
#DevBio #SciArt
November 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
On November 20, I will be participating in Cellular Dance, a multimedia ballet by D. Ibbett. Come and watch the dancers do the #gastrulation, and more! Don't worry, I will not be dancing, but will give a mini-lecture on cellular movement. At the Museum of Science Boston.
#DevBio #SciArt
#DevBio #SciArt