For the third time in a dozen years, the U.S. scientific community is digging in for a potentially lengthy partial federal government shutdown that promises to disrupt research and funding programs. https://scim.ag/4pQ9y0K

📌 Join us for the next klogW seminar on October 21st at 12PM EST (register below) by Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social on "Emergence and Self-organization in Biological Systems".
Registration link:
apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I am hiring 2 PhD students to join my group in at University of Illinois, Chicago, starting Fall 2026.

We will be studying smart materials, from learning active matter to adaptive sociohydrodynamics, using theory and machine learning.

More information found here dsseara.github.io

A paper in Nature describes tiny, solar-powered floating devices that could support instruments in the high atmosphere. The devices could be used for climate monitoring and Mars exploration, without the need for conventional fuel to maintain their altitude. go.nature.com/3Jfvl0W 🔭 🧪

My favorite quote of the quote from the summer school, ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde’

The summer school at Santa Fe Institute has truly been transformative in ways I think about complexity sciences. I’m extremely grateful for all the friendships, mentorships, and connections I’ve made along the way. Lots of valuable conversations, lessons, and loads of lifelong memories!

More than proud to have learned that this interdisciplinary conference (QBIO2025) has been going on for years and how much Peking University embraces interdisciplinary studies. Honored give a talk about my most recent newborn in research. Complexity Science is a global emergence!

Ever wished to become an actin star? 😎
Then try getting suspended above a non-adhesive substrate.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you, Alfredo!

This piece of work from my PhD is FRESHLY out of the oven in
@natureportfolio.nature.com
Nature Physics! It illustrates how architecture and active stress mutually regulate Criticality and exhibit Anderson Localization-like phenomenon. www.nature.com/articles/s41...