This time of year in Rome, it is a marvel to look at the sky. Just before sunset, starlings amass by the hundreds of thousands, performing an aerial dance. But when the sun sets, the magic ends. The birds descend — and wreak havoc. wapo.st/3XX5mxw

Mathematician Emily Riehl explains the concept of infinity at five levels, from child to expert. Wonderful empathy and clarity here, at all levels!

Happy #WomenInScience Day! Let us get rid of stereotypes, challenge gender bias and beat discrimination that hold women & girls back in science, technology, engineering and maths! on.unesco.org/WomenInScience

Super interesting first day of the "Collective Behaviour" workshop here at Cambridge! Big thanks to the Isaac Newton Institute, my co-organizers Kevin Painter (Politecnico di Torino) & Philip Maini (Oxford Mathematics), as well as all the "Mathematics of movement" programme organizers #NewtonMMV2023

We have a fully-funded 4 year PhD position to work on chiral active matter (theory, simulations and experiments) at the University of Barcelona Facultat de Física UB and the Institute of Complex Systems UB ICS. Deadline 25/09! More info: demianlevis.wordpress.com/open-positions/

Thrilled to announce the 2024 Boulder Summer School on Self-organizing Matter: From Inanimate to the Animate. Applications are now open and the deadline is January 15, 2024. Apply now! #BSS2024 Andela Saric Gardel Lab Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials boulderschool.yale.edu/2024/boulder-s…

What a lovely surprise at DAMTP Cambridge University! Just came across a wall of women scientists in the middle of a crowded lecture rooms hallway - a way to rethink the #dudewall and increase the visibility of women faculty past and present

We are organizing a lovely summer school on Statistical Physics in Niš, Serbia, in June. Please help us to distribute it among possibly interested students. Registration is now open! Info below indico.ictp.it/event/10484/ov…

ICTP is going to Serbia again - check out this 2024 Niš School on statistical physics and information theory and their applications to biophysics, bioinformatics and machine learning!

We are very excited to announce our Physics Without Frontiers 2024 call for applications is open! ictp.it/home/physics-w… Please share with your networks!

Trieste celebrates #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience tomorrow! #IDWGS #WomenInScienceDay

📢Call for papers! The special issue on Collective Behaviour for the journal Movement Ecology biomedcentral.com/collections/co… following the recent Mathematics of Movement programme at Isaac Newton Institute Contributions on the collective behaviour of 🐠🐎🐜🦊🐋🧫(and others) are welcome!

Thanks so much for the invitation IntCha24, it was amazing to hear all the enthusiastic young researchers talking about their work! Hope that this interdisciplinary workshop continues over the next many many years!