Excited to share our new paper in Nature Physics @naturephysics.bsky.social: Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular Stentor! How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork?

What motivated Sugi Widjaja and Millie Wan to support Penn Engineering Entrepreneurship? The chance to endow a new program offering unparalleled immersion via coursework, mentorship and paid internships: the Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows. blog.seas.upenn.edu/investing-in...

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette

Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.

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This was a wonderful collaboration with @phdramoncp.bsky.social and his colleagues, matchmade by @karenedaniels.bsky.social! I am proud to have been a part of this effort.

Ramón Castañeda-Priego@phdramoncp.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am happy to share our latest scientific work in collaboration with @jcconrad.bsky.social! Self-Assembly and Transport Phenomena of Colloids: Confinement and Geometrical Effects | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/3XrJICM

Join Penn Engineering for the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award and Lecture featuring awardee Cherie Kagan. She will discuss how colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) act as "artificial atoms" to create advanced materials and devices. events.seas.upenn.edu/event/2024-2...

The Future of Rheology virtual seminar series has extended its submissions deadline. This platform highlights research from students, postdocs, and professionals advancing rheology. Selected speakers will have the opportunity to present at the Annual Meeting for a chance to win prizes!

SoR is sad to announce the passage of 1994 Bingham Medalist Prof Andreas Acrivos. Prof. Acrivos and his numerous students and colleagues have made lasting contributions to rheology theory and practice. A fuller accounting of Prof. Acrivos's career is available at www.rheology.org/SoR/News/InM...

🎉Paper alert! Material-like robotic collectives that mimic life Congrats to the Campàs group at PoL @campaslab.bsky.social, for their new #publication with researchers at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social published in Science! Read our press release here: physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2025/02...

Read highlights in this week’s issue of PNAS: We examine how turbulence enhances seagrass wave attenuation along coastlines, analyze the feeding patterns of marine Mediterranean megafauna, and study aerodynamics of flexible flapping-wing flight. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Society of Rheology is now accepting proposals for the 2025 Rheology Venture Fund. Past winners include the Student Trivia Night at the SoR meeting, the Soft Matter Kitchen, I am a Rheologist swag, Rheology Comics and others.

@nationalacademies.org released a 2022 report on #carbondioxideremoval (CDR) strategies that assessed the current benefits, risks, and potential for responsible scale-up of six specific ocean-based CDR strategies. ow.ly/jfpX50V1VG5

Make your mark on the next decade of #oceanscience! Find out more about @nationalacademies.org's recommendations for #NSF priorities through 2035 during a webinar from 3-4pm ET on Feb. 20! Registration: events.nationalacademies.org/44451_02-202...

2025-2035 Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences for the National Science Foundation (Public Release Report Briefing)

Register for this event from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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A study finds that male researchers increased their preprint posting rate by 6.4% more than female researchers after the introduction of ChatGPT, highlighting differences in how researchers are adopting generative AI tools. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/hkh950V3HFX

The #LAFires are the latest to devastate a community. What if we could design a fire-resistant town? Early strategies are already showing promise. A PNAS Science and Culture: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #wildfire #CampFire #FireBreak #RestorationEcology #firefighters #ClimateChange

Trace fossils capture ancient biological activity rather than whole-body impressions. A global dataset of trace fossils shows that development of the modern deep-sea ecosystem during the Ordovician Period took a leisurely 100 million years. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Census data from 1980–2020 shows that including undocumented residents in congressional apportionment has not shifted party control of the House or changed the outcome of presidential elections. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Improving vaccine distribution with network theory and a highly adaptable framework – A team of engineers and medical researchers developed a computationally affordable system for determining COVID-19 vaccination distribution. blog.seas.upenn.edu/who-to-vacci...

How do engineers transform breakthroughs into solutions? Vanessa Chan, Penn Engineering’s inaugural Vice Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, has spent her career answering that question. Read more: blog.seas.upenn.edu/meet-vanessa... #ResponsibleInnovation

Meet Vanessa Chan: Penn Engineering’s Inaugural Vice Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Penn Engineering Blog

Vanessa Chan describes her vision for building on Penn Engineering's culture of entrepreneurship, drawing on her diverse career experiences.

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Congratulations to John Bassani, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), on receiving the 2025 Society of Engineering Science William Prager Medal. blog.seas.upenn.edu/john-bassani...

Kyle Vining of Penn Engineering and Penn Dental Medicine is studying how the extracellular matrix regulates immune responses. Backed by a $2M NIH grant, his work could pave the way for new cancer and tissue repair therapies. blog.seas.upenn.edu/kyle-vining-...

Penn Engineering faculty members César de la Fuente (@delafuentelab.bsky.social) and Jason Altschuler have been named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows (@sloanfoundation.bsky.social). penntoday.upenn.edu/news/four-pe...

Stronger materials, inspired by nature? Led by Kevin Turner, researchers from @meam-penn.bsky.social and Aarhus University found that adding just the right amount of disorder to a material’s structure boosts toughness by 2.6x. blog.seas.upenn.edu/breaking-the...

Jeffrey Babin’s journey from musician to entrepreneur to educator shapes his teaching at @meam-penn.bsky.social, where he helps students refine ideas and develop innovative, adaptable problem-solving skills. blog.seas.upenn.edu/from-drummer...

From Drummer to Educator: How Entrepreneurship Transcends Disciplines - Penn Engineering Blog

For someone who’s navigated multiple careers and passions, starting in music, pivoting to tech and now teaching engineering entrepreneurship, Jeffrey Babin, Practice Professor in Mechanical … Read Mor...

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🄱🄸🄾🄵🄸🄻🄼 🄱🄸🄾🄿🄷🅈🅂🄸🄲🅂 Fascinating work from Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte, Sujit Data, et al at CalTech on polymer-induced entropic attractions that hinder diffusion and lead bacteria to form long spaghetti-like cables within mucus and biofilms Paper in Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The abstract submission deadline is today (Jan 13th)! So far, we have contributions on topics ranging from microvasculature, cells and tissues to biofilms! Looking forward to a great session on "Living Porous Media"! lnkd.in/eafFBRE9

Amir Pahlavan@apahlavan.bsky.social · 2y ago

We invite you to submit an abstract to the Interpore 2025 Minisymposium Session on "Biophysics of Living Porous Media" to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 19-23 2025. The abstract submission deadline is Jan 6th midnight PST (events.interpore.org/event/56/pag...).

Interesting findings by Jacob Notbohm's group. Nematic defects may form as a result of spatially coordinated patterns in cell forces and motion. 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2501.04827

A study in Nature Human Behaviour characterizes protein signatures in the blood associated with social isolation and loneliness, demonstrating how these link social isolation and loneliness to an increased risk of disease and mortality. https://go.nature.com/4gLM08p 🧪

Check out this work on Second Law of Thermodynamics without Einstein Relation by Benjamin Sorkin, Haim Diamant, Gil Ariel & Tomer Markovich physics.aps.org/articles/v17...

Toward a Second Law for Living Systems

A new theory related to the second law of thermodynamics describes the motion of active biological systems ranging from migrating cells to traveling birds.

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Happy to be on BlueSky! For my first post, I am excited to share a new collaborative paper combining experiments and simulations, where we used circadian clock proteins to engineer biomaterials with time-programmed self-assembly and disassembly www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Programming scheduled self-assembly of circadian materials - Nature Communications

Harnessing biomolecular systems to endow synthetic materials with life-like properties is a significant challenge. Here, the authors use the biomolecular KaiABC circadian clock proteins to control aut...

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