🎨🔬 Can techniques from the arts become tools for scientific discovery? Our new preprint introduces glass-based physical models for studying tissue mechanics, bridging art, physics, engineering, and biology! 😀 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2606.22281

I'm recruiting a postdoc and a research assistant in my lab in the south of France for an HFSP-funded project involving choanos. More info: Postdoc: bit.ly/4xxlJTX Research assistant: (EN) bit.ly/4aOwUha (FR) bit.ly/4vcy3av Please share with any potential applicant. Thx!

How do corals use microscopic beating cilia to generate complex 3D fluid flows? Honored to write an APS Physics Magazine Viewpoint on beautiful new PRX Life work by Siluvai Selvan, Douglas Brumley, and colleagues 😀 Viewpoint: physics.aps.org/articles/v19... Paper: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

🪸Alkalinity enhancement through tile-based local pH modulation can improve early coral recruit survivorship. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Alkalinity-enhanced artificial substrates modulate local pH and increase survivorship of early-stage coral recruits - Communications Earth & Environment

Alkalinity enhancement through tile-based local pH modulation can improve early coral recruit survivorship, as shown in laboratory-fabricated artificial reef structures made by mixing sodium bicarbona...

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New paper out in @natureportfolio.nature.com @commsearth.nature.com! A major bottleneck in coral restoration is that newly settled corals rarely survive. We show that simple engineered substrates can increase early-stage survivorship by ~4×. Link to paper: rdcu.be/femTN

Lab day out at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science 😀😀 The Leonardo da Vinci exhibit was a highlight—art, mechanics, and curiosity all in one! A reminder that the most interesting science lives at the intersection of ideas! #Biophysics #FluidDynamics

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

Hello epithelia enthusiasts! I’m @inesfournon.bsky.social and I study epithelial mechanics in sea anemones 🪼 Did you know epithelial cell extrusion had never been described outside bilaterian animals before? Well… not anymore 👀 Read ⬇️🧵1/9

Sometimes, the only way to build back up is to let everything fall apart. This is certainly true at the cellular level. www.quantamagazine.org/break-it-to-...

Break It To Make It: How Fracturing Sculpts Tissues and Organs | Quanta Magazine

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

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What happens when marine embryos are crowded instead of isolated? They become materials. Honored to write a @natphys.nature.com News & Views on excitable living solids discovered by Prof. Fakhri and colleagues at @mit.edu 😀 N&V: rdcu.be/e5gLm Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...

A crowd of marine embryos self-assembles into a living solid

Nature Physics - Marine embryos are usually studied in isolation. But when starfish embryos are in a crowd, they self-assemble into living solids with unexpected dynamics, revealing how simple...

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Cilia alert! Stoked to have the new paper from Juyeon Hong about a new domain at the extreme distal tip of motile cilia! (The EDT, y'all!) It's out now @natcomms.nature.com. Check it out! #cilia www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A protein complex in the extreme distal tip of vertebrate motile cilia controls their organization, length, and function - Nature Communications

Here they combine in vivo imaging with proteomics to characterize a protein complex comprised of Ccdc78 and Ccdc33 that acts at the extreme distal tip of 9 + 2 motile cilia to control tip architecture...

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🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨 NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu 🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026 ⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP! #Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

We’re hiring! 🚨 Assistant Professor (TT) in Theoretical or Computational Biological Physics @univmiami.bsky.social 😀 Come build the future of interdisciplinary biophysics with us! Apply by Dec 15 → tinyurl.com/5n9bk836 #Biophysics #PhysicsJobs #AcademicJobs #UMiami

Honored to give the keynote at @frostscience.org.web.brid.gy annual fundraiser, celebrating Leonardo da Vinci: 500 Years of Genius. I shared how Leonardo’s curiosity, imagination, and creativity continues to inspire interdisciplinary science, art, and discovery, even in the Age of AI. #DaVinci500

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels! Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology? I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics. 🔗: clarkelab.com/join/ Please repost!

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: 1/10

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going. @harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2) @socdevbio.bsky.social #devbiol #scicomm

Thrilled to announce our FlumeX paper in HardwareX!! 🌊⚙️ 😀🥳 We built an inexpensive, open-source flume for exploring biological 🪸 + environmental flows 🌊. A major collaborative effort, supported by DARPA REEFENSE! @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.oh...

In another exciting development our new preprint is online: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... This is the work of my brilliant graduate student Katerina Kourkoulou in collaboration with Maggie Liu and Arnold Mathijssen. Here is a video of the subject of our study:

Looks like I am late to this party but have exciting news. I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study #XtrmCells! Thankful to @erc.europa.eus for this opportunity, and to my collaborators, mentors, and group for their support. Looking forward to exploring the mechanics of these cells!

Our new collaborative paper with Cyndi Bradham's lab at BU, led by first author @alexandralion.bsky.social is out in @devbiol.bsky.social & featured on the Sept 2025 cover! 😀🥳 PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development! Cover art: embryos + flow fields 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

@sonkejo.bsky.social and I were interviewed by @mdlaplante.bsky.social for his UnDisciplined podcast www.upr.org/podcasts/103... I don’t like hearing myself speak so I haven’t listened back, but my mom “LOVED IT”, so that counts for something. 😉 Support public radio, Utah PR, and @npr.org 🦑🧪🌊

UnDisciplined: Under the sea

Deep in the ocean, jellyfish, shrimp, fireworms and other creatures use multi–colored lights for defense, luring food, attracting mates, and communication. In their new book, Steven Haddock and Sönke ...

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Steve Haddock@stevehaddock.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!! 30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing. Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!! 30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing. Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT. RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to shekhar@emory.edu. More info: www.shekharlab.org

A little gem here from Martin Schwartz, PhD the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Cell Biology at Yale University Felt good to read and share and I predict you just might have the same experience

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...

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Just under two weeks left to apply for this 3 year postdoc looking at how signalling shapes skeletal development in sea urchins! Please reach out if you’re interested! For lovers of imaging, skeletal development, biomineralization, in situ hybridization, and marine invertebrates!

Jeff Thompson@echinerd.bsky.social · last yr.

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Excited to share this "Music from Science" project led my postdoc Melissa! Watch the video (with sound)! These are original music compositions created from research data on corals from our lab! 😀🪸🎼 Here is a news article with more details: news.miami.edu/stories/2025... youtu.be/C-JNPIXyKes?...

Coral Sonification

YouTube video by University of Miami

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🎉🎉We’re on the cover of Nature Physics! @natphys.nature.com Here is the original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...