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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 12d

Come fly with us, let's fly, let's fly away.

Full details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74169

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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 12d

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪

Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360

PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!

Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:

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Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics

Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Open Date: Sep 19, 2025

Description
The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area.

More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 11d

I'm really looking forward to hosting this @metagov.bsky.social seminar on the governance of bees, fireflies, and plants with my colleage @oritpeleg.bsky.social: luma.com/pzbp4zq1

Seminar: Governance Among Plants & Insects with Dr. Orit Peleg · Zoom · Luma

Dr. Orit Peleg seeks to understand the behavior of disordered living systems by merging tools from physics, biology, engineering, and computer science. At the…

luma.com

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · 17d

Surface tension wins when there’s no gravity! I love this video

Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 18d

This is what happens when you wring out a wet towel while floating in space.

Credit: CSA/NASA

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 19d

Truly chuffed for our fearless food physicists @mpipks.bsky.social + collabs from AT @istaresearch.bsky.social, IT & ES who won this year’s Ig Nobel - the #NobelPrize of hearts❤️for cracking the science of perfect pasta !🍝Kudos to all for intrepidly consuming lots of cheese in the name of science!😋

The Secret to a Smooth Pasta Sauce Wins Ig Nobel Prize

Italian researchers studied how the ingredients of the traditional Roman dish cacio e pepe emulsify into a creamy sauce, winning the 2025 Physics Ig Nobel Prize.

www.the-scientist.com

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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · Aug 29

New Episode!

What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? How do you tell your parents when you are ready to come out? Dr Gabriella Gall is here to tell us all about her research into the world of egg communication.

www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

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Karen Alim @karenalim.bsky.social · Aug 31

Join my team for a PhD in Learning in living adaptive networks (Theory). Apply by October 7th through www.portal.graduatecenter.lmu.de/ocgc/qmb

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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Jul 13

In the last couple of months I helped biodesigner Chris Bellamy in a collaboration with fashion designer Iris van Herpen to make a bioluminescent dress for Paris Haute Couture week.

And the outcome was absolutely stunning!!!!

www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...

Physics meets fashion: a bioluminescent dress

A very special look was presented earlier this week by fashion designer Iris van Herpen at the Paris Haute Couture Week. The garment: a bioluminescent dress, created from 125 million living algae. Bio...

www.uva.nl

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · Jun 9

Research in the lab..

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Jan 11

Is cognition a universal feature of the living world? How can we define it? Is a nervous system needed? If so, why? If not, why not? Check this fascinating @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue led by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social & co. on Basal Cognition royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · Jun 1

Mechanical interactions between plants and surroundings plays a huge role in understanding how plants negotiate their environment - but measuring low forces of free plants is hard!

In this preprint Amir Ohad presents a new sensor - using a drinking straw!

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · May 21

Science-cooking aficionados 🍩
Last week I had a fun conversation with Foodie Shaul Amsterdamski about my course “Physics of Living Systems - Lab & Kitchen”, which includes live demos by chefs :)
Last few minutes of his show “Close to the Plate”: www.kan.org.il/content/kan/...

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הפעם ספיישל מיוחד שעוסק בחיבור בין אוכל לבריאות הנפש. בתוכנית שאול מדבר עם איילת ברק, שעוסקת בטיפול בבישול, דוריאל רימר מנכ"לית עמותת "ונטעת" שמחליפה בטון בצמחייה במודל של "עיר יער" ויוטקה הרשטיין שהס...

www.kan.org.il

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · May 1

Roses are spectacular in so many ways..

Science Magazine @science.org · May 1

This week in Science, researchers delve into the #mathematics that shapes growing rose petals. 🌹

Explore our latest issue—featuring a new print design: scim.ag/42DasUT

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · Apr 26

It's dandelion season — but there’s more than meets the eye... 👀

🔦 Under UV light they reveal a hidden bullseye🌸

Visit us at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show to see more flowers with hidden UV patterns
#RHSChelsea #GreenSTEM #Dandelions #Pollinators #Bumblebees #Spring
@cambridgeuni.bsky.social

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Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social · Apr 14

Supposedly left-handed DNA reverses hair damage in 4 minutes.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · Apr 14

Seriously this is not gender equality … this is wealthy women doing what all wealthy people do, spending obscene amounts of money on nothing that advances women, humanity or helps anyone at all.

Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · Apr 14

A crew of six women, including pop star Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos's fiancé Lauren Sanchez, is set to blast off today on an 11-minute Blue Origin flight.

It marks the first all-female space mission in 60 years — hailed as a breakthrough for gender equality in space tourism.

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · Apr 3

FYI anyone interested in connections between art and science...
"Automorphy" is a new exhibition at Jerusalem Science Museum, focusing on "self design in nature, science and architecture". Cool talks on opening night May 6!

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · Mar 30

שתיתי פעם בירה מתירס , לפנים!

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · Mar 15

so anyway, here's a creepy stick person made of an electroactive hydrogel walking back and forth through an electric field...
#softrobotics
Video from this paper doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · Mar 11

I absolutely love this video

Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · Mar 11

Commander Dave Scott of Apollo 15 validates Galileo's theory on the Moon by dropping a hammer and a feather, proving that objects fall at the same speed, independent of their mass.

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Maizel lab @maizel-lab.org · Mar 10

Great theory paper by @hadrienoliveri.bsky.social & I. Cheddadi: a Hydromechanical field theory of plant growth treating tissue as a growing poroelastic medium. It's a nice bridge from cell biophysics to tissue-scale growth. arxiv.org/abs/2409.02775 & tinyurl.com/22n9ykdo

Hydromechanical field theory of plant morphogenesis

The growth of plants is a hydromechanical phenomenon in which cells enlarge by absorbing water, while their walls expand and remodel under turgor-induced tension. In multicellular tissues, where cells...

arxiv.org

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Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social · Mar 6

One of the key problems in biological growth is to obtain information about the forces in a growing tissue by just recording its deformation.
In this collaboration with José A. Sanz-Herrera, we show that this inverse problem can be solved.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kiv357ZkC...

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Mar 1

Friends! The science that we love is under threat. World-wide, there're forces seeking to make it corporate-like, focused on deliverables, or even the enemy of society. Take a stand & celebrate science & music! #theconferencetoendallconferences - Registration starts NOW!
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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · Feb 25

.. a lot.. 😅

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · Feb 25

This was a lit of fun :)

Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · Feb 25

Starting off the second day of the Biosoft center @biosofttau.bsky.social with a beautiful hike in Kibbutz Dalia, followed by a wonderful talk by Yasmine Meroz @merozlab.bsky.social

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