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.
Do cutting-edge research at the frontiers of AI-driven Whole Cell Modelling! We invite applications for two fully funded, 3.5-year PhD positions based with MACSYS at The Australian National University (ANU). 👉Info on the 2 PhD projects & how to apply: macsys.org/phd-scholars...
🔦 Spotlighting Prof @edueyras.bsky.social - EMBL Australia Group Leader & newly appointed Director of the Shine‑Dalgarno Centre for #RNA Innovation at ANU! 🔗 Read about his vision for the Centre: www.emblaustralia.org/eduardo-eyra...
Eduardo Eyras appointed Director of Shine‑Dalgarno Centre for RNA Innovation | EMBL Australia
From being recruited through a highly competitive international search to Centre Director, Professor Eduardo Eyras has charted an impressive journey at EMBL Australia. After joining the John Curtin Sc...
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We have the list of amazing speakers for the Population Dynamics virtual seminars 2026! Soon the calendar with the dates! sites.google.com/view/popdyn/...
Looks like a good opportunity!
Anders H. Lund@andershlund.bsky.social · 9mo agoAre you looking to establish yourself as a scientific group leader? Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen is recruiting 1-2 junior group leaders to join our research centre in the heart of Copenhagen. See more at www.bric.ku.dk Please repost and get in touch
Looks cool 👇😎
Shashi Thutupalli @stpalli.bsky.social · 9mo agoNon-motile microbes are not prisoners of diffusive transport. Just their metabolic activity can be sufficient to stir up the ambient fluid and cause explosive long-range dispersal -- a "metabolic firework". Our latest work -- arxiv.org/abs/2512.16288
Looking for climate experts at #AGU25 right now who can comment on these administration plans to break up UCAR. DMs open.
MACSYS was proud to partner with EMBL Australia for the 2025 edition of its flagship PhD training course. As a course sponsor, MACSYS led two dedicated teaching days, introducing participants to our mission of modelling an entire cell. This video📽️explains how: youtu.be/Gsm2taPZffI @emblaustralia.org
MACSYS at the EMBL Australia PhD Program
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Great to have our paper highlighted by @softmatter.rsc.org! Here’s a 🧵 explaining what its all about…
Soft Matter@softmatter.rsc.org · 10mo agoDon't miss this #OA article in Soft Matter, part of our Open Access Spotlight collection! 'Geometric frustration in twist-bend nematic droplets' by Joseph Pollard and Richard Morris @r-g-morris.bsky.social (UNSW, Australia) 🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sm/d5sm00530b
Seems pretty on-point to me 👇
Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 10mo agoI 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...
A huge thanks to @macsys.bsky.social for supporting our 10th PhD Course - we could not have done it without you! 👏
MACSYS@macsys.bsky.social · 10mo agoMACSYS 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
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)
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
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…
arXiv cond-mat.soft Soft Condensed Matter@condmatsoft-bot.bsky.social · 11mo agoSami 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
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
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...
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!
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems@mpipks.bsky.social · 11mo agoFully 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...
Also cool…
arXiv cond-mat.soft Soft Condensed Matter@condmatsoft-bot.bsky.social · 10mo agoGautham 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
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
Dr Alex Sneddon - MACSYS Research Fellow, ANU
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