Richard G. Morris
@r-g-morris.bsky.social
Theoretical physicist | UNSW, Sydney and EMBL Australia | Soft, Active and Biological Matter | Father of four daughters | Posts my own.
Seems pretty on-point to me 👇
I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building.
medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building.
medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...
ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re…
medium.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Seems pretty on-point to me 👇
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December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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A huge thanks to @macsys.bsky.social for supporting our 10th PhD Course - we could not have done it without you! 👏
MACSYS is proud to support this year's EMBL Australia PhD program as it brings together more than 60 high-achieving PhD students from across the country for this unique, two-week residential course. For 2 days this week, MACSYS researchers led the program's sessions.
@emblaustralia.org
@emblaustralia.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A huge thanks to @macsys.bsky.social for supporting our 10th PhD Course - we could not have done it without you! 👏
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A huge shout-out to one of our major supporters of the 10th EMBL Australia PhD Course - @macsys.bsky.social, the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems. 👏
Their mission? Delivering the mathematics needed to compute life. (1/5)
Their mission? Delivering the mathematics needed to compute life. (1/5)
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A huge shout-out to one of our major supporters of the 10th EMBL Australia PhD Course - @macsys.bsky.social, the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems. 👏
Their mission? Delivering the mathematics needed to compute life. (1/5)
Their mission? Delivering the mathematics needed to compute life. (1/5)
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Congratulations to MACSYS Research Fellow Dr Sami Al-Izzi - just awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA): macsys.org/sami-al-izzi...
@r-g-morris.bsky.social
@r-g-morris.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Congratulations to MACSYS Research Fellow Dr Sami Al-Izzi - just awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA): macsys.org/sami-al-izzi...
@r-g-morris.bsky.social
@r-g-morris.bsky.social
Proud to be part of the team on this pre-print “Non-reciprocal buckling makes active filaments polyfunctional” (arXiv:2510.14725). Here’s a short thread to explain why…
Sami C. Al-Izzi, Yao Du, Jonas Veenstra, Richard G. Morris, Anton Souslov, Andreas Carlson, Corentin Coulais, Jack Binysh: Non-reciprocal buckling makes active filaments polyfunctional https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14725 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.14725 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.14725
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Proud to be part of the team on this pre-print “Non-reciprocal buckling makes active filaments polyfunctional” (arXiv:2510.14725). Here’s a short thread to explain why…
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Masayuki Hayakawa, Biplab Bhattacherjee, Hidekazu Kuwayama, Tatsuo Shibata: Emergence of chiral multi-armed spirals in an open system of migrating cells under continuous cell supply https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16074 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16074 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.16074
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Masayuki Hayakawa, Biplab Bhattacherjee, Hidekazu Kuwayama, Tatsuo Shibata: Emergence of chiral multi-armed spirals in an open system of migrating cells under continuous cell supply https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16074 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16074 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.16074
Thanks to the folks at @mig-unimelb.bsky.social for having me today! Great to give a talk and meet new (and old) friends! #fluctuations #physicsoflife
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Thanks to the folks at @mig-unimelb.bsky.social for having me today! Great to give a talk and meet new (and old) friends! #fluctuations #physicsoflife
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This is what happens when you put a preening, lazy, populist, dilettante in charge of a country.
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is what happens when you put a preening, lazy, populist, dilettante in charge of a country.
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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A couple of days left to apply for a summer #internship in #biophysics @mpipks.bsky.social . A great opportunity to join us over the summer of 2026!
Fully funded summer #internships in #biophysics @mpipks.bsky.social for Bachelor's and Master's students!
Apply by the 30th of November 2025: www.pks.mpg.de/biophys-inte...
Apply by the 30th of November 2025: www.pks.mpg.de/biophys-inte...
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A couple of days left to apply for a summer #internship in #biophysics @mpipks.bsky.social . A great opportunity to join us over the summer of 2026!
Also cool…
Gautham Gopinath, Emmanuel Y. Mintah, Aashrith Saraswathibhatla, Jonah J. Spencer, Shahar Nahum, Lior Aria, Jacob Notbohm, Mark D. Shattuck, Corey S. O'Hern: Cell Shape Emerges from Motion https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14707 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.14707 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.14707
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Also cool…
This is cool. 😎
Umbilical cord structure shapes feto-maternal heat exchange across mammals doi.org/10.1101/2025...
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is cool. 😎
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Umbilical cord structure shapes feto-maternal heat exchange across mammals doi.org/10.1101/2025...
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Umbilical cord structure shapes feto-maternal heat exchange across mammals doi.org/10.1101/2025...
OK. First post on Bluesky…
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
OK. First post on Bluesky…
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Meet Dr Alex Sneddon - a MACSYS Research Fellow at The Australian National University. Alex's research focuses on incorporating domain-specific knowledge into the data-driven AI methods that she uses to help MACSYS unlock insights from complex biological datasets.
📹VIDEO: youtu.be/GVsMQ0E3Aok
📹VIDEO: youtu.be/GVsMQ0E3Aok
Dr Alex Sneddon - MACSYS Research Fellow, ANU
YouTube video by MACSYS
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Meet Dr Alex Sneddon - a MACSYS Research Fellow at The Australian National University. Alex's research focuses on incorporating domain-specific knowledge into the data-driven AI methods that she uses to help MACSYS unlock insights from complex biological datasets.
📹VIDEO: youtu.be/GVsMQ0E3Aok
📹VIDEO: youtu.be/GVsMQ0E3Aok