PoLS at Georgia Tech
@gtpols.bsky.social
This is the official Bluesky profile for the Physics of Living Systems node at Georgia Tech.
https://pols.gatech.edu
https://pols.gatech.edu
Actively-driven #robots can produce a rich variety of emergent phenomena, including behaviors that appear counterintuitive at first. In a recent preprint from the Goldman Lab at @gtresearchnews.bsky.social, undulating robots form long-lived pairs mediated solely by repulsive interactions.
May 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Actively-driven #robots can produce a rich variety of emergent phenomena, including behaviors that appear counterintuitive at first. In a recent preprint from the Goldman Lab at @gtresearchnews.bsky.social, undulating robots form long-lived pairs mediated solely by repulsive interactions.
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Excited to share our new work in @science.org #Robotics that shows how reversible kinks can help nematodes perform jumps 1000 times faster than you can blink! scim.ag/4iDIa1i
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Work co-led by @chemicalsunnyraj.bsky.social , @itiwari93.bsky.social and Victor Ortega-Jimenez with many other colleagues
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Work co-led by @chemicalsunnyraj.bsky.social , @itiwari93.bsky.social and Victor Ortega-Jimenez with many other colleagues
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots
A soft jumping robot inspired by nematodes demonstrates ultrafast jumping using reversible kink instability and stiffness.
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April 24, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Excited to share our new work in @science.org #Robotics that shows how reversible kinks can help nematodes perform jumps 1000 times faster than you can blink! scim.ag/4iDIa1i
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Work co-led by @chemicalsunnyraj.bsky.social , @itiwari93.bsky.social and Victor Ortega-Jimenez with many other colleagues
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Work co-led by @chemicalsunnyraj.bsky.social , @itiwari93.bsky.social and Victor Ortega-Jimenez with many other colleagues
Check out these birds, courtesy of Nami Ha! Nami and the
@bhamlalab.bsky.social at Georgia Tech studies the amazing materials that make up living things, including the ultrafast water absorption of sandgrouse feathers.
@bhamlalab.bsky.social at Georgia Tech studies the amazing materials that make up living things, including the ultrafast water absorption of sandgrouse feathers.
May 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Check out these birds, courtesy of Nami Ha! Nami and the
@bhamlalab.bsky.social at Georgia Tech studies the amazing materials that make up living things, including the ultrafast water absorption of sandgrouse feathers.
@bhamlalab.bsky.social at Georgia Tech studies the amazing materials that make up living things, including the ultrafast water absorption of sandgrouse feathers.
Today! Come see @sacrozhangt.bsky.social's talk!
Please join us this Thursday for the final PoLS Lunch & Learn of the semester! This week's speaker will be @sacrozhangt.bsky.social from the Hammer and @wcratcliff.bsky.social labs.
April 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Today! Come see @sacrozhangt.bsky.social's talk!
Today! Please come see Dr. Shucong Li give an excellent talk!
Please join us on April 15 for a PoLS seminar featuring Dr. Shucong Li!
Dr. Li recently became an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering. She will be hosted by Dr. Zeb Rocklin.
Dr. Li recently became an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering. She will be hosted by Dr. Zeb Rocklin.
April 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today! Please come see Dr. Shucong Li give an excellent talk!
Please join us this Thursday for the final PoLS Lunch & Learn of the semester! This week's speaker will be @sacrozhangt.bsky.social from the Hammer and @wcratcliff.bsky.social labs.
April 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Please join us this Thursday for the final PoLS Lunch & Learn of the semester! This week's speaker will be @sacrozhangt.bsky.social from the Hammer and @wcratcliff.bsky.social labs.
The @bhamlalab.bsky.social is looking to hire a new lab manager! See the flyer below for details!
April 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The @bhamlalab.bsky.social is looking to hire a new lab manager! See the flyer below for details!
Please join us today for another Lunch & Learn seminar! This week's speaker is Maryam Hejri from the Yunker Lab. Lunch will be served at 12:00, with a talk beginning at 12:30!
April 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Please join us today for another Lunch & Learn seminar! This week's speaker is Maryam Hejri from the Yunker Lab. Lunch will be served at 12:00, with a talk beginning at 12:30!
Animals at many length scales move through undulation. In a new paper, Chris Pierce and the Goldman Lab use the nematode 🪱 C. elegans to show how interactions with the environment cause undulating body movements to become desynchronized to the phase of muscle contractions.
April 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Animals at many length scales move through undulation. In a new paper, Chris Pierce and the Goldman Lab use the nematode 🪱 C. elegans to show how interactions with the environment cause undulating body movements to become desynchronized to the phase of muscle contractions.
Today! Come see Ben's talk!
This week's Lunch & Learn speaker is @doshna.bsky.social from the Sponberg Lab! Please come see his talk tomorrow!
April 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Today! Come see Ben's talk!
This week's Lunch & Learn speaker is @doshna.bsky.social from the Sponberg Lab! Please come see his talk tomorrow!
April 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This week's Lunch & Learn speaker is @doshna.bsky.social from the Sponberg Lab! Please come see his talk tomorrow!
Today! Join us for a PoLS seminar featuring Dr. Abdul Malmi-Kakkada, an Assistant Professor of Physics at Augusta University! Dr. Malmi-Kakkada is a computational biophysicist with expertise in cell-cell signaling and cell-substrate mechanical interactions.
We will begin at 3:00 in Howey N201!
We will begin at 3:00 in Howey N201!
April 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Today! Join us for a PoLS seminar featuring Dr. Abdul Malmi-Kakkada, an Assistant Professor of Physics at Augusta University! Dr. Malmi-Kakkada is a computational biophysicist with expertise in cell-cell signaling and cell-substrate mechanical interactions.
We will begin at 3:00 in Howey N201!
We will begin at 3:00 in Howey N201!
Please join us on April 15 for a PoLS seminar featuring Dr. Shucong Li!
Dr. Li recently became an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering. She will be hosted by Dr. Zeb Rocklin.
Dr. Li recently became an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering. She will be hosted by Dr. Zeb Rocklin.
March 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Please join us on April 15 for a PoLS seminar featuring Dr. Shucong Li!
Dr. Li recently became an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering. She will be hosted by Dr. Zeb Rocklin.
Dr. Li recently became an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering. She will be hosted by Dr. Zeb Rocklin.
PoLS faculty Dan Goldman has been named a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of #Science (@aaas.org)!
Congratulations to Dan, and also to the six other @gtresearchnews.bsky.social honorees named this year!
Congratulations to Dan, and also to the six other @gtresearchnews.bsky.social honorees named this year!
March 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
PoLS faculty Dan Goldman has been named a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of #Science (@aaas.org)!
Congratulations to Dan, and also to the six other @gtresearchnews.bsky.social honorees named this year!
Congratulations to Dan, and also to the six other @gtresearchnews.bsky.social honorees named this year!
Today! Please come see Pablo's talk!
Lunch & Learn is back this week! Please join us this Thursday for a talk from @pbravo.bsky.social from the Yunker Lab!
March 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Today! Please come see Pablo's talk!
Can wriggling #worms inspire new principles in robot design? A new preprint from the @bhamlalab.bsky.social, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and @sorbonne-universite.fr, describes how active filaments—like living worms—can efficiently gather tiny particles in confined spaces.
March 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Can wriggling #worms inspire new principles in robot design? A new preprint from the @bhamlalab.bsky.social, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and @sorbonne-universite.fr, describes how active filaments—like living worms—can efficiently gather tiny particles in confined spaces.
Lunch & Learn is back this week! Please join us this Thursday for a talk from @pbravo.bsky.social from the Yunker Lab!
March 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Lunch & Learn is back this week! Please join us this Thursday for a talk from @pbravo.bsky.social from the Yunker Lab!
Congratulations to the whole PoLS community on another successful @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Physics Summit! We look forward to seeing all of you again in Denver next year!
March 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Congratulations to the whole PoLS community on another successful @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Physics Summit! We look forward to seeing all of you again in Denver next year!
Just a reminder, PoLS folks—there will be no Lunch & Learn meeting today! We will see all of you again next week on the 27th!
March 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Just a reminder, PoLS folks—there will be no Lunch & Learn meeting today! We will see all of you again next week on the 27th!
I hope the PoLS community is enjoying the @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Summit!
For those of you who signed up, please remember that we have a PoLS meetup dinner tonight at 6:00!
For those of you who signed up, please remember that we have a PoLS meetup dinner tonight at 6:00!
March 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I hope the PoLS community is enjoying the @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Summit!
For those of you who signed up, please remember that we have a PoLS meetup dinner tonight at 6:00!
For those of you who signed up, please remember that we have a PoLS meetup dinner tonight at 6:00!
This year's @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Summit is well underway in lovely Anaheim, California!
Our illustrious Dan Goldman was invited to give the opening talk at this morning's Robophysics session: A Decade of Robophysics at the APS March Meeting!
Our illustrious Dan Goldman was invited to give the opening talk at this morning's Robophysics session: A Decade of Robophysics at the APS March Meeting!
March 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This year's @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Summit is well underway in lovely Anaheim, California!
Our illustrious Dan Goldman was invited to give the opening talk at this morning's Robophysics session: A Decade of Robophysics at the APS March Meeting!
Our illustrious Dan Goldman was invited to give the opening talk at this morning's Robophysics session: A Decade of Robophysics at the APS March Meeting!
Today! Come see Aradhya's talk!
Please join us tomorrow for another PoLS Lunch & Learn! This week's speaker is Aradhya Rajanala from the Goldman Lab!
March 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Today! Come see Aradhya's talk!
Please join us tomorrow for another PoLS Lunch & Learn! This week's speaker is Aradhya Rajanala from the Goldman Lab!
March 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Please join us tomorrow for another PoLS Lunch & Learn! This week's speaker is Aradhya Rajanala from the Goldman Lab!
The application deadline for this wonderful (fully funded!) opportunity is this Saturday! Please apply now for a chance to study the amazing biodiversity of the #Amazon!
Applications are open for the Jungle Biomechanics Lab—a fully funded program at Finca Las Piedras in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, from August 3-17.
Undergrads, grads, and postdocs should visit the @bhamlalab.bsky.social website for more information!
bhamla.gatech.edu/project-blog...
Undergrads, grads, and postdocs should visit the @bhamlalab.bsky.social website for more information!
bhamla.gatech.edu/project-blog...
Jungle Biomechanics Lab — The Bhamla Lab
Come do biomechanics in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest!
bhamla.gatech.edu
March 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The application deadline for this wonderful (fully funded!) opportunity is this Saturday! Please apply now for a chance to study the amazing biodiversity of the #Amazon!
It's #Biomechanics Day at @zooatl.bsky.social! GT PoLS is always happy to reach out to the community. A big thanks to Tianyu Wang and all of the other students who helped make today happen!
March 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's #Biomechanics Day at @zooatl.bsky.social! GT PoLS is always happy to reach out to the community. A big thanks to Tianyu Wang and all of the other students who helped make today happen!