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Jimmy Bernot 🦐🔬🧬🏳️‍🌈 @jimmybernot.bsky.social · 8d

This is my 1st time catching my pet archer fish, Legolas, spitting on camera. Archerfish use modified jaw and tongue bones to fire a jet of water to knock down bugs from over hanging vegetation. Here Legolas is shooting down a fruit fly 🪰 🐠🧪

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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 9d

🦑🧪 Job doing fieldwork (on ships) with Viking Cruises. Full-time position = ? Salary = ?

I usually don't post without more detail, but the job market is weird right now! And this would be a fun fit for someone, and I'm not sure if it'll hit the usual job feeds

www.vikingcareers.com/global/en/jo...

EXPEDITION - Field Scientist in Ocean & Expedition (Global) | Expedition at Viking Cruises

Apply for EXPEDITION - Field Scientist job with Viking Cruises in Ocean & Expedition (Global). Expedition at Viking Cruises

www.vikingcareers.com

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Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan @guille-rochelle.bsky.social · 21d

In another exciting development our new preprint is online:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

This is the work of my brilliant graduate student Katerina Kourkoulou in collaboration with Maggie Liu and Arnold Mathijssen. Here is a video of the subject of our study:

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Bhamla Lab @ Georgia Tech @bhamlalab.bsky.social · 21d

Congrats!!!

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Alejandro Soto @soto.space · 23d

Here's an interesting look into the Nobel Physics Prize nominating process up to the early 1970's. It's a reminder that it's never only been about the science. And that the human factors in science arise especially in recognition of work.

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pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

How Nobel favorites have fared

Over the first six and a half decades, the leading vote-getters received the award that same year less than half the time.

pubs.aip.org

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 29d

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Flagellar gliding in choanoflagellates

Freire-Delgado and Brunet discover a new mode of cell motility in choanoflagellates, the closest relatives of animals. Under mild confinement, choanoflagellate move over surfaces without cell deformat...

www.cell.com

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SciComm Excellence @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · Sep 8

Ripple bugs are aquatic insects about the size of a grain of rice, and it turns out that they can surf! 🦟🏄

A recent discovery by team @bhamlalab.bsky.social ‬found that these insects harness tiny fans to surf streams and glide across fast-flowing water.

More at: bhamla.gatech.edu/project-blog...

Rapid Ripple Bugs — The Bhamla Lab

How insects harness tIny fans to surf turbulent streams

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · Sep 3

More insights into the life of a scientist cosmosmagazine.com/science/biol.... 🧪 #arctic

Earth poetry in the Arctic: a window into another world

Lucinda Duxbury’s favourite place is onboard the research vessel (RV) JOIDES Resolution. She’s seeking traces of ancient DNA within Arctic sediments. This

cosmosmagazine.com

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Dr. Kakani Katija @kakanikatija.bsky.social · Sep 2

Big thanks to our team in @mbarinews.bsky.social Bioinspiration Lab and @moorefound.bsky.social for the wonderful feature and support as we developed EyeRIS. You can learn more about how we use this imaging system to study 🦑🌊🧪 from this 🧵: bsky.app/profile/kaka.... #onwardsanddownwards

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation @moorefound.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎙️ Our latest Beyond the Lab features Dr. @kakanikatija.bsky.social, principal engineer and Bioinspiration Lab lead at @mbarinews.bsky.social. Her team created an underwater optical imaging system that visualizes and measures fluid motion, particles, and living organisms in 3D.

Go Beyond the Lab ⤵️

Beyond the Lab: Kakani Katija, Ph.D.

[Image] Kakani Katija. Credit: Todd Walsh © MBARI /* Disable any hover zoom/magnification, overlay, or cursor change on this specific …

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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · Sep 1

Advice about sending your message in a noisy environment, from some birds with unusual eyelids: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-cut... 🧪

How to Cut Through the Noise

I'm not shouting.

elizabethgpreston.substack.com

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Aug 30

Can cellular life be created in the lab? We are not yet there, but clearly getting closer! Check this paper where a new scenario for protocell replication is presented by Job Boekhoven and co-workers @manlius.bsky.social www.cell.com/chem/pdf/S24...

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Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is a really exciting collab with Simon Rogers at Illinois. We're creating a rheological framework to characterize the mechanical behavior of granular materials. We're using it to improve 3D tissue printing & study dynamic processes like cell-mediated remodeling & aging. Supported by NIH. 🧪

ChBE Illinois @chbeillinois.bsky.social · Aug 29

ChBE Illinois researchers have unveiled a new framework for understanding and controlling the behavior of granular hydrogels — microscopic gel particles that mimic living tissue — paving the way for designing better biomaterials.
chbe.illinois.edu/news/stories...

Illinois researchers unlock new insights into granular hydrogels for biomedical applications

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · Aug 29

More #SciArt comics, and perfect timing for #InverteFest!

Bhamla Lab @ Georgia Tech @bhamlalab.bsky.social · Aug 23

Check out our comic illustrated by
@jordancollver.bsky.social and @rikworth.bsky.social , colors by @owenwattsdraws.bsky.social .

-- find the full comic and more here
bhamla.gatech.edu/project-blog...

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SLAM: Islamic Art @slamislamicart.bsky.social · Aug 29

Wall Tile https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/13310/

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Bhamla Lab @ Georgia Tech @bhamlalab.bsky.social · Aug 26

Beautiful discovery and patient unraveling of a cellular mystery 🕵🏼‍♂️

Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · Aug 26

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Video by Vittorio Boscaro.

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · Aug 26

Altogether, our results suggest that supergiants could serve as a bet-hedging strategy involving a tradeoff between dispersal versus the exploitation of a new trophic niche as a growing population reaches carrying capacity.

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · Aug 26

We found that this Euplotes isolate was in fact a previously undescribed species, displaying a highly polymorphic phenotype, including supergiant cannibals and also winged, "defensive" morphs, captured by SEM by Sam Lord. We named the species "gigatrox" in reference to the fierce supergiants.

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Scanning electron microscopy images of different morphs of Euplotes gigatrox

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · Aug 26

After picking cells to start cultures and then neglecting them for weeks, I began to notice the sporadic appearance of very large cells. During a visit to the Keeling lab, Vittorio Boscaro suggested these cells might be cannibals, as described in other protist species including some Euplotes.

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A very large Euplotes cell surrounded by several normal sized cells

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · Aug 26

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Video by Vittorio Boscaro.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 21

Ripple bugs use a special fan-like structure on their middle legs to speed and steer through turbulent waters. In a new Science study, researchers report a water-walking robot inspired by this feature.

Learn more in our latest issue: https://scim.ag/3V8FjDU