Jack-William Barotta
@jackwilliamb.bsky.social
Brown University PhD Candidate
Soft Matter | Fluid Mechanics
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Soft Matter | Fluid Mechanics
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Comment by Prof @icouzin.bsky.social that explores how collective intelligence emerges from local interactions in animal groups, and how these principles inform the design of swarm robotic systems. @natureportfolio.nature.com
@natcomms.nature.com #robotics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natcomms.nature.com #robotics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Collective intelligence in animals and robots - Nature Communications
This commentary explores how collective intelligence arises from local interactions in animal groups and how these principles inform the design of swarm robotic systems, addressing the challenge of ac...
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Comment by Prof @icouzin.bsky.social that explores how collective intelligence emerges from local interactions in animal groups, and how these principles inform the design of swarm robotic systems. @natureportfolio.nature.com
@natcomms.nature.com #robotics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natcomms.nature.com #robotics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Jack-William Barotta
Curious about the latest advancements in soft matter physics by young researchers? Join our Students’ Virtual Conference, on November 6th from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET! We have a great lineup of 20 speakers covering a wide range of topics. Register via the QR code or via tinyurl.com/DSOFTConfere...
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Curious about the latest advancements in soft matter physics by young researchers? Join our Students’ Virtual Conference, on November 6th from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET! We have a great lineup of 20 speakers covering a wide range of topics. Register via the QR code or via tinyurl.com/DSOFTConfere...
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Push together a small number of mutually repelling particles and they’ll adopt configurations that depend on the specifics of the interaction and the container. Researchers have now shown that a wide range of particle types can be coaxed into the same set of configurations.
How Confined Objects Arrange Themselves
A collection of mutually repelling objects can be forced into the same arrangement, whether they are magnets, soap bubbles, or hard spheres.
physics.aps.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Push together a small number of mutually repelling particles and they’ll adopt configurations that depend on the specifics of the interaction and the container. Researchers have now shown that a wide range of particle types can be coaxed into the same set of configurations.
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Following up on my invited DFD talk last year, @jackwilliamb.bsky.social and I put together an overview of the "Propulsion and interaction of wave-propelled interfacial particles," now published at @prfluids.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1103/353x...
doi.org/10.1103/353x...
October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Following up on my invited DFD talk last year, @jackwilliamb.bsky.social and I put together an overview of the "Propulsion and interaction of wave-propelled interfacial particles," now published at @prfluids.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1103/353x...
doi.org/10.1103/353x...
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We are happy to announce the DSOFT Students’ Virtual Conference, on November 6, 2025 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET! We have a great lineup of 20 speakers covering a diverse range of topics in soft matter physics. Register via the link or QR code to participate! tinyurl.com/DSOFTConfere...
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We are happy to announce the DSOFT Students’ Virtual Conference, on November 6, 2025 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET! We have a great lineup of 20 speakers covering a diverse range of topics in soft matter physics. Register via the link or QR code to participate! tinyurl.com/DSOFTConfere...
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Are you looking to craft a compelling application for a future PhD or postdoc position? DSOFT is hosting two virtual panel discussions on October 9th! To register, follow the QR codes in the images or follow the links in post below!
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Are you looking to craft a compelling application for a future PhD or postdoc position? DSOFT is hosting two virtual panel discussions on October 9th! To register, follow the QR codes in the images or follow the links in post below!
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DSOFT invites students and recent graduates to participate in our Students’ Virtual Conference, on November 6th (10 a.m.-4 p.m. ET). The conference aims to discuss the latest advancements in soft matter physics by students. If you wish to present your work, please find details in the post below!
August 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
DSOFT invites students and recent graduates to participate in our Students’ Virtual Conference, on November 6th (10 a.m.-4 p.m. ET). The conference aims to discuss the latest advancements in soft matter physics by students. If you wish to present your work, please find details in the post below!
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New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05919
We aim to explain what hyperuniformity is, for non-specialists (hopefully even high schoolers?), since this is a key idea underlying our #NSF #DMREF grant (and the last photo). And what a great excuse to visit the NC State Insect Collection, to take photo A!
We aim to explain what hyperuniformity is, for non-specialists (hopefully even high schoolers?), since this is a key idea underlying our #NSF #DMREF grant (and the last photo). And what a great excuse to visit the NC State Insect Collection, to take photo A!
August 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05919
We aim to explain what hyperuniformity is, for non-specialists (hopefully even high schoolers?), since this is a key idea underlying our #NSF #DMREF grant (and the last photo). And what a great excuse to visit the NC State Insect Collection, to take photo A!
We aim to explain what hyperuniformity is, for non-specialists (hopefully even high schoolers?), since this is a key idea underlying our #NSF #DMREF grant (and the last photo). And what a great excuse to visit the NC State Insect Collection, to take photo A!
Reposted by Jack-William Barotta
Don't miss our catch up with authors of Soft Matter Tutorial Review 'Hacktive matter: data-driven discovery through hackathon-based cross-disciplinary coding'
Visit our LinkedIn post to find out more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Read the review: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Visit our LinkedIn post to find out more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Read the review: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Hacktive matter: data-driven discovery through hackathon-based cross-disciplinary coding
The past decade has seen unprecedented growth in active matter and autonomous biomaterials research, yielding diverse classes of materials capable of flowing, contracting, bundling, de-mixing, and coa...
pubs.rsc.org
August 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Don't miss our catch up with authors of Soft Matter Tutorial Review 'Hacktive matter: data-driven discovery through hackathon-based cross-disciplinary coding'
Visit our LinkedIn post to find out more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Read the review: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Visit our LinkedIn post to find out more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Read the review: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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New review in PRX Life, where we propose a tangibility scale for the physics of social interactions, and highlight a few tangible examples - from dead fish “swimming” to efficient schooling, warm penguin huddles, and dry ant rafts.
Written with the brilliant Chantal Nguyen 🐟🐧🐜
tinyurl.com/naet5tdh
Written with the brilliant Chantal Nguyen 🐟🐧🐜
tinyurl.com/naet5tdh
July 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
New review in PRX Life, where we propose a tangibility scale for the physics of social interactions, and highlight a few tangible examples - from dead fish “swimming” to efficient schooling, warm penguin huddles, and dry ant rafts.
Written with the brilliant Chantal Nguyen 🐟🐧🐜
tinyurl.com/naet5tdh
Written with the brilliant Chantal Nguyen 🐟🐧🐜
tinyurl.com/naet5tdh
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🎨🔬 In our lab, science meets art! From vibrant colors to stunning shapes, our experiments are as beautiful as they are fascinating. Because science is art!
✨ Check out our gallery of images captured by the team:
www.softbiocoll.com
#SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter
✨ Check out our gallery of images captured by the team:
www.softbiocoll.com
#SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter
July 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🎨🔬 In our lab, science meets art! From vibrant colors to stunning shapes, our experiments are as beautiful as they are fascinating. Because science is art!
✨ Check out our gallery of images captured by the team:
www.softbiocoll.com
#SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter
✨ Check out our gallery of images captured by the team:
www.softbiocoll.com
#SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter
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Postdoctoral researcher @robert-hunt.bsky.social of @fluiddanamics.bsky.social, in collaboration with UNC-Chapel Hill, has found surprising new insights into how particles sink in stratified fluids like oceans, where the density of the fluid changes with depth. www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...
New research uncovers surprising physics of ‘marine snow’
Engineering scholars at Brown University uncovered unexpected dynamics in how organic particulates sink in the ocean, a process that plays a key role in marine nutrient cycling.
www.brown.edu
June 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Postdoctoral researcher @robert-hunt.bsky.social of @fluiddanamics.bsky.social, in collaboration with UNC-Chapel Hill, has found surprising new insights into how particles sink in stratified fluids like oceans, where the density of the fluid changes with depth. www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...
Reposted by Jack-William Barotta
Reposted by Jack-William Barotta
Researchers have introduced a comprehensive model that predicts the behavior of a bowling bowl. The goal: to identify the optimal launch position and trajectory for scoring a strike, the feat of toppling all 10 pins at once.
Bowling Simulations Inform Strike Strategy
A physics-based model that captures the complex dynamics of tenpin bowling could help players to increase their chances of scoring a strike.
physics.aps.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Researchers have introduced a comprehensive model that predicts the behavior of a bowling bowl. The goal: to identify the optimal launch position and trajectory for scoring a strike, the feat of toppling all 10 pins at once.
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Latest #harrislab work now live at PRE @apsphysics.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1103/Phys...
Here we study the wave-mediated synchronization of two capillary spinners. Work led by @jackwilliamb.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1103/Phys...
Here we study the wave-mediated synchronization of two capillary spinners. Work led by @jackwilliamb.bsky.social.
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Latest #harrislab work now live at PRE @apsphysics.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1103/Phys...
Here we study the wave-mediated synchronization of two capillary spinners. Work led by @jackwilliamb.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1103/Phys...
Here we study the wave-mediated synchronization of two capillary spinners. Work led by @jackwilliamb.bsky.social.
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Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts
Collective motion, which is ubiquitous in nature, has traditionally been explained by “self-propelled particle” models from theoretical physics. Here we show, through field, lab, and virtual reality e...
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Some of you might enjoy my lectures on "asymptotics and perturbation methods". youtube.com/playlist?lis...
These are ingenious methods for approximating the solutions to integrals and differential equations by exploiting the presence of a small or large parameter in the problem.
These are ingenious methods for approximating the solutions to integrals and differential equations by exploiting the presence of a small or large parameter in the problem.
Asymptotics and perturbation methods - Prof. Steven Strogatz - YouTube
This is the playlist for an applied math course on asymptotics and perturbation methods, offered by Prof. Steven Strogatz at Cornell University in Spring 202...
youtube.com
December 22, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Some of you might enjoy my lectures on "asymptotics and perturbation methods". youtube.com/playlist?lis...
These are ingenious methods for approximating the solutions to integrals and differential equations by exploiting the presence of a small or large parameter in the problem.
These are ingenious methods for approximating the solutions to integrals and differential equations by exploiting the presence of a small or large parameter in the problem.
Reposted by Jack-William Barotta
🚨Hyped to share our new article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We show that crocodile head scales develop from compressive folding that arises from constrained skin growth 🐊🔬
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Self-organized patterning of crocodile head scales by compressive folding - Nature
Crocodile head scales self-organize through purely mechanical compressive skin folding rather than a patterning process controlled by gene interactions.
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:25 PM
🚨Hyped to share our new article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We show that crocodile head scales develop from compressive folding that arises from constrained skin growth 🐊🔬
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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And a nice write-up about our paper in The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/s...
Squirting Cucumbers Shoot Their Seeds Like Botanical Bombardiers
Scientists say they’ve worked out how the plant can fire its seeds up to almost 40 feet.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:01 PM
And a nice write-up about our paper in The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/s...