Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Andrew Schulz, PhD

@schulzscience.bsky.social

630 followers 600 following 51 posts

Postdoc - @MPI_IS, 🐘🐆🦍🦎🦅 Scientist, #ConservationTech Educator, MechE PhD @GeorgiaTech, Postdoc Rep @SICB_DCB_DVM #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #EDrecovery

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Jan 8

New paper is up! Elephant skin collagen is all tangled up! Theead coming up in a few hours! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Second harmonic generation imaging reveals entanglement of collagen fibers in the elephant trunk skin dermis - Communications Biology

Advanced microscopy shows that the skin along the elephant’s trunk is anisotropic; elephant skin has an armor thicker than an Armadillo shell, with entangled protein fibers that provide additional sti...

www.nature.com

2 10 33

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Sep 4

I wrote a new blog post about being an #AuDHD academic and what life is like with and without wearing a mask...I hope to post blogs more regularly going forward!

An Autistic Academic — Mask Off

Experiencing a day at work with and without masking as an autistic academic has made me realize how much energy it takes to keep that…

medium.com

1 4

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Aug 30

Recently returned from the Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellows Study Tour across Germany with people spanning six contents visiting over 20 Germany cities in 13 days. It was one incredible trip with friends that will definitely last a lifetime! #myfellowfellows

2 11

Reposted by Andrew Schulz, PhD

ASB Postdoc Affinity Group @asb-postdocs.bsky.social · Aug 11

‼️ Attention ASB’ers! ‼️

Spread the word: The Postdoc Affinity Group will be at Il Tetto at Sienna Mercato (942 Penn Ave) Wednesday night starting at 7pm.

Swing by to meet up with fellow ASB postdocs. Can’t wait to see you there!

FYI: Senior PhD students interested in postdocing are also welcome.

6 5

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Jul 2

Prof. Dr. Manafzadeh has a nice ring to it!

Reposted by Andrew Schulz, PhD

Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · Jul 2

✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!

12 12 110

Reposted by Andrew Schulz, PhD

Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · May 12

The call for applications has just been released for #CV4Ecology2026!! This three-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data.

When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social

1 19 30

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Apr 20

This week has been tough for several reasons. I have been struggling to put it in words, but finally sat down and did some writing.

An Autistic Academic

This week, I read several articles highlighting the press conference of the HHS secretary declaring that autism is a growing “epidemic.”

medium.com

3 5 32

Reposted by Andrew Schulz, PhD

SICB DCB-DVM @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social · Mar 12

Hey Bluesky! @sicb.bsky.social 's Divisions of Comparative Biomechanics and Vertebrate Morphology are here! We're here to share any position opportunities and keep you updated on DCB and DVM activities. Give us a follow and feel free to send any postings our way.

14 23

Reposted by Andrew Schulz, PhD

Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Mar 5

1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment - Nature

In the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment, diploid yeast evolve to be tetraploid under selection for larger multicellular size, revealing how whole-genome duplication can arise due to its...

www.nature.com

16 170 360

Reposted by Andrew Schulz, PhD

preLights @prelights.bsky.social · Feb 28

What’s that on your tail?

Sidney Leedham, Roger Kissane & James Charles review an exciting #preprint from @schulzscience.bsky.social & team exploring how the development of a scaly-organ at the base of the tail of flying squirrels helps them stick to trees.

prelights.biologists.com/highlights/s...

Scaly-Tail Organ Enhances Static Stability during Pel’s Scaly-tailed Flying Squirrels’ Arboreal Locomotion - preLights

What’s that on your tail? @sidneyleedham @LivEvoBiomech, and @james_charles90 review this exciting preprint which explores how the development of a scaly-organ at the base of the tail of flying squirr...

prelights.biologists.com

1 4

Reposted by Andrew Schulz, PhD

David Gaboriau @dgaboriau.bsky.social · Feb 17

Thank you @gtpols.bsky.social for the thread on @schulzscience.bsky.social’s recent paper on collagen imaging of elephant skin!
🔬🐘🔬🐘🔬🐘

PoLS at Georgia Tech @gtpols.bsky.social · Feb 17

An elephant's trunk is a marvel of nature—flexible enough for precise manipulation, yet strong enough to protect against predators. A recent collaboration between the Hu Lab, Joy Reidenberg, and Claire Higgins explores the unique structure of trunk skin 🐘🔬 #biology #elephant

1 4

Reposted by Andrew Schulz, PhD

Carly Batist @carlybatist.bsky.social · Feb 13

Hello! Making the jump from X along with many in the #science community. I'm a #biodiversity monitoring and #SciComm professional with a particular love for #conservation, #bioacoustics and #lemurs 🐒🔊🌳💚

2 2 23

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Feb 3

Excited about collaborating with Ayah Ahmad and Maegan Tucker from Dynamic Mobility at Georgia Tech, our submission to #ICRA2025 is accepted.

If you're interested in bio-inspired robotics, modeling multi-materials in MuJoco, and more, check it out: dynamicmobility.github.io/ICRA2025-hop...

1 6

Reposted by Andrew Schulz, PhD

Jacob S. Harrison @jacobsharrison.bsky.social · Jan 22

Stay tuned for news about the next round of the in-situ Jungle Biomechanics Lab! This NSF program brings early-career researchers out to the Amazon Rainforest to learn how to do interdisciplinary research in the field! UGs to postdocs are welcome to apply! bhamla.gatech.edu/project-blog...

5 12

Reposted by Andrew Schulz, PhD

Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · Dec 6

🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos?

Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.

Thread👇🧵

3 33 88

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Jan 9

One more: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

A Myelin Map of Trunk Folds in the Elephant Trigeminal Nucleus

elifesciences.org

1 1

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Jan 9

here is an example of this: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Elephant facial motor control

Elephant trunk control involves huge numbers of facial motor neurons, cell size gradients, and motor foveae.

www.science.org

1 1

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Jan 9

Great question and hello from Stuttgart! So this answer has a few parts. Elephant trunks are actually extensions of the upper lip, are structurally closest to the tongues in humans, and the properties shift along different axes (as you suggested). There are some really nice papers on facial control.

1 1

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Jan 8

New paper is up! Elephant skin collagen is all tangled up! Theead coming up in a few hours! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Second harmonic generation imaging reveals entanglement of collagen fibers in the elephant trunk skin dermis - Communications Biology

www.nature.com

2 10 33

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Jan 6

Happy to chat more about your question!

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Jan 6

Thank you :)

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Jan 5

Talk number 2 is up at 2:00pm in Marquis C. If you love knitting or elephants you should stop by! #SICB2025

1 2 4

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Jan 2

Looking forward to #SICB2025! I'm presenting in two symposiums on elephants and bio-inspired materials! The first symposium is Saturday, January 4, from 10:00 am-10:30 am in Marquis C. If you are interested in entanglement, collagen imaging techniques, or biological composites, come by!

5 22

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Dec 24

Testing out a new feed for @sicb-spdac.bsky.social #SICB2025

1 3 7

Andrew Schulz, PhD @schulzscience.bsky.social · Dec 20

Paper accepted :)