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Lucas Anger
@luanger.bsky.social
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PhD student in the Ladoux-Mège lab at Institute Jacques Monod in Paris. I enjoy mechanobiology, biophysic, when things are nematic, and doing little silly drawing.
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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ijmonod.bsky.social
📢 PhD Thesis defense

📅 November 26th
📍Institut Jacques Monod

Fanny Wodrascka ( @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social @bladoux.bsky.social @rmmege.bsky.social ) will defend her PhD thesis "Mechanical control of epithelial cell extrusion via RhoA-dependent contractility "

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November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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kwolbachia.bsky.social
My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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andreasschoenit.bsky.social
Truly honoured and grateful to have received alongside other young researchers the prize "Grandes avancées françaises en biologie" from the @academiesciences.bsky.social for our paper on mechanical cell competition together with @luanger.bsky.social and S. Monfared www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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epimechfc.bsky.social
1/ 🐣⚒️ To study mechanics, we need to apply prescribed forces - how can we do that in living tissues? I am @eigenp.bsky.social and in this thread I'll highlight our new approach for applying tension on epithelial tissues in vivo!
October 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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levayerr.bsky.social
Happy to share the last version of our story @currentbiology.bsky.social on the role of interfacial tension in mechanical cell competition led by @leovalon.bsky.social and Alexis Matamoro Vidal
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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natrevphys.nature.com
Mechanobiology across timescales

A Review by Bo Cheng, Moxiao Li, Min Lin, Hui Guo & Feng Xu ⚛️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Mechanobiology across timescales - Nature Reviews Physics
This Review explores how cells sense and respond to mechanical signals across timescales. By integrating mechanosensing at membranes, mechanotransduction in the cytoplasm, and nuclear reprogramming, it reveals a role of temporal dynamics in tissue development and disease.
www.nature.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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nature.com
John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret & John Clarke recount the history of their milestone discovery, which today won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics
In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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bladoux.bsky.social
We’re organizing a conference at @ijmonod.bsky.social in Paris, January 2026, in memory of M.P. Sheetz — pioneer in cell mechanics and mechanobiology, co-discoverer of kinesin, and founder of @mbisg.bsky.social. Join us to explore his legacy.

mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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bladoux.bsky.social
Happy to share our new study @ijmonod.bsky.social and @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social with C. Duclut and J. Prost. on forces generated by active fluid transport in epithelia and their role in tissue dynamics.
Congrats to Huiqiong Wu, G. Arkowitz and R. Chilupuri!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Regulation of epithelial tissue homeostasis by active trans-epithelial transport
Epithelia are intricate tissues whose function is intimately linked to mechanics. While mechanobiology has primarily focused on factors such as cell-generated contractility and mechanical properties o...
www.biorxiv.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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nature.com
As railways enter their third century of service, research must support their renaissance for more-sustainable travel that supports human development

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Make trains great again — for the sake of people and the planet
As railways enter their third century of service, research must support their renaissance for more-sustainable travel that supports human development.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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nature.com
Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system, says Dolors Armenteras

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Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending
Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.
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September 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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natrevphys.nature.com
This comment in @natnano.nature.com is well worth a read ⚛️🧪
September 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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physicsbioph-bot.bsky.social
Tianxiang Ma, Valeriia Grudtsyna, Robin V. B\"olsterli, Amin Doostmohammadi: Cellular Flow Architecture Exposes the Hidden Mechanics of Biological Matter https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17974 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17974 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.17974
August 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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ijmonod.bsky.social
📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar

📅 September 11th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Invited by @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social 's Lab , Stephanie Ellis ( @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social ) give the IJM Seminar "Understanding mosaic tissue dynamics through cell competition. "

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August 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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ijmonod.bsky.social
📢 PhD Thesis defense

📅 September 11th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Andreas Schoenit @andreasschoenit.bsky.social ( @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social Lab) will defend his PhD thesis "Mechanical forces in cell competition and epidermal stratification"

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August 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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juliaeckert.bsky.social
Want to test your multicellular system?

I have created a GitHub repository, ‘3D_SurfProps’, where you can download the MATLAB codes of our 3D surface analysis method:
👉 github.com/Julia-Eckert...

Any questions, suggestions, or ideas for improvements? Please DM or email me.

Have fun testing!
GitHub - Julia-Eckert/3D_SurfProps: These MATLAB scripts determine the nematic orientation field on the entire surface of 3D tissues of arbitrary shape, based on z-stack images, identify topological d...
These MATLAB scripts determine the nematic orientation field on the entire surface of 3D tissues of arbitrary shape, based on z-stack images, identify topological defects, and quantify signals of f...
github.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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juliaeckert.bsky.social
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🥳

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We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.
August 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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bladoux.bsky.social
To what extent does crowding modulate diffusion across the cytoplasm?
Thrilled to contribute to this study alongside O. Destrian, M. Chabanon, and B. Goyeau!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium reducing macromolecule diffusion
Intracellular transport of macromolecules is crucial for the proper functioning of most cellular processes. Although intracellular crowding is known to strongly alter macromolecule mobility, how cytop...
www.biorxiv.org
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
luanger.bsky.social
Thanks Benoit! 😊 This is also the byproduct of your support and mentorship, and I was glad to be part of it.
I'm really happy to share this prize with @andreasschoenit.bsky.social ! Unlike the cell competition, our work was steady and without fluctuations — I genuinely enjoyed every aspect of it.
bladoux.bsky.social Benoit Ladoux @bladoux.bsky.social · Jun 18
Congrats to @luanger.bsky.social and @andreasschoenit.bsky.social for receiving the prestigious 'Les Grandes Avancées en Biologie' award 🏅 from the @academiesciences.bsky.social !
June 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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epimechfc.bsky.social
Gupta, V. K., & Chaudhuri, O. (2022). Mechanical regulation of cell-cycle progression and division. Trends in Cell Biology, 32(9), 773–785. #EpithelialMechanicsReview linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
June 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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epimechfc.bsky.social
Lång, E., Lång, A., Blicher, P., Rognes, T., Dommersnes, P. G., & Bøe, S. O. (2024). Topology-guided polar ordering of collective cell migration. Science Advances #EpithelialMechanics doi.org/10.1126/scia...
May 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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bladoux.bsky.social
Flocking and active solid behavior of epithelial cells in our new study in @pnas.org
Great work of Y. Shen, J. O'Byrne and
@andreasschoenit.bsky.social and collaboration with A. Maitra and R. Voituriez!
| PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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giudica.bsky.social
3D cell cultures better mimic real tissues than 2D—but how do we image them? This review explores 2D & 3D microscopy techniques for studying 3D cultures, highlighting strengths, limitations, and future innovation needs. #microscopy #bioengineering @naturemethods.bsky.social
Imaging 3D cell cultures with optical microscopy - Nature Methods
This Review discusses current 2D and 3D microscopy methods for imaging three-dimensional cell cultures and emerging strategies to address key challenges.
www.nature.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social
Exploring the Frontiers of #Mechanobiology

Mechanobiology Conference III, organized by Prof. @bladoux.bsky.social ( #MPZPM), takes place July 6–12, 2025 in Vietnam. Topics include cell signaling, biomaterials & more.

📅 Deadlines: Abstracts – Apr 30 | Reg – Jun 6

👉 icisequynhon.com/conferences/...
The picture shows the official flyer with more information about the conference, for example the scientific organizing committee and the invited speakers.
April 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM