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To stand at the edge of the sea … to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents …is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be. - Rachel Carson Excited for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 10th Biophysics Retreat!

Congratulations to Erwin Frey, Aparna Baskaran, Kinneret Keren, Gijsje Koenderink, Rohit Pappu, Pascal Silberzan & others!! APS DSOFT APS Division of Biological Physics @ApsGsnp PhysicsOfLifeLMU Gijsje Koenderink @PappulabWashU American Physical Society

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

In Paris, celebrating the life and work of Maurice Kleman. Thank you to Elie Raphael & other organizers for inviting me to give a talk.

Welcome to The Many Faces of Active Mechanics (#activesolids-c24) conference at #KITP! Learn more at: kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/act… Stay tuned for recorded talks at: online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/actives…

There’s science, and then there’s science Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Great to be back! Last time I was here, we were the first group post-pandemic with @Shankar_Lab, Ricard Alert Zenón, Cristina Marchetti, Mark Bowick.

A proud sister moment! ⁦Bita Fakhri⁩ ⁦Stanford Medicine⁩ youtu.be/oBMpQ5h5GEc?fe…

Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are really just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics. Shalma Wegsman reports: quantamagazine.org/how-noethers-t…

Fresh from the press with Nature Physics: How do we leverage a cell's self-organization to make it change its shape into a square? Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s4156… PhysicsOfLifeLMU Nikta Fakhri

Researchers led by Erwin Frey (Universität München) and Nikta Fakhri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) discovered how to reshape living cells with light, revealing key mechanisms behind cell morphogenesis. read article: synbiobeta.com/read/lighten-u… #SyntheticBiology #Optogenetics #ScienceNews

⭐🐟 When you think of #ModelOrganisms, do you think of starfish? They're a classic model to understand #CellGrowth used by the Nikta Fakhri at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)! The lab used light to control how a single cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development: bit.ly/3DYtpYu

We may not have really squared the circle — but came close! 😉 In our Nature Physics paper with Nikta Fakhri light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter. nature.com/articles/s4156… #biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter

It was a great honor to deliver the Christine Mona Khademi public lecture, sponsored by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies Stanford University — with my family and friends in the audience. iranian-studies.stanford.edu/events/hidden-… youtube.com/watch?v=Tndh_H…

The Hidden Order of Life: How Nature Breaks Symmetry with Nikta Fakhri Nikta Fakhri sco.lt/56SGJc youtube.com/watch?v=Tndh_H…

A The Scientist news piece on our recent Nature Physics paper with PhysicsOfLifeLMU. the-scientist.com/round-cells-sq…

Congratulations to Mehran Kardar of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Yoshiki Kuramoto of @kyotou_news on receiving the IUPAP Boltzmann Medal — the highest honor in #StatisticalPhysics 🏅 🔗 go.aps.org/4jCqbsR

Check out the The Graduate Center/CPBF symposium tomorrow on Information and Irreversibility itsatcuny.org/calendar/2025/… featuring Nikta Fakhri, my colleague John Bechhoefer, and yours truly!

Today (5-29-25) marks the last in a string of palindrome dates that began on May 20 (5-20-25) in the US. To mark the occasion, and in honor of the OneMIT Commencement ceremony, the Institute’s own Barry Duncan, a renowned palindrome poet and bookseller at the MIT Press Bookstore,

Such a privilege to meet Governor Maura Healey at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OneMIT Commencement! Huge thanks to Erin Amira Kara for the photo! #MIT2025