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Things I learned talking to the new breed of scientific institution owlposting.com/p/things-i-lea… a deep dive on the vibes of scientific institutions ive been curious about. 9 weeks in the making 4.1k words, 19 minutes reading time 🧵🧵🧵 for table of contents

just for the pleasure of it, the fine choreography of epithelial cell migration with a PI3K mutation. This is the complex behavior we have to drug to treat cancer ... Movie from Lucien Hinderling . Switch sound on.

📡🧵 Excited to release our preprint: Ultrack: Pushing the Limits of Cell Tracking Across Biological Scales doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… A tour-de-force by Jordão Bragantini, #Ultrack is a versatile, highly accurate, and fast ILP-based cell tracking software for 2D, 3D, and multicolor

There is a selection bias in college-level mathematics education: We believe that the status quo works well because it works for the top students (who go on to do PhDs, etc.). Yet it often works poorly for students in the “middle of the class.”

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Are you an undergraduate interested in pursuing graduate studies biological physics? Join us for a virtual panel “Applying to Graduate School in Biophysics” with panelists who have been on both sides of the application process! Oct. 3 at 3pm ET. Register: apsphysics.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it? My first feature for The Transmitter investigates the emotional and existential fallout for one lab in the aftermath of a misconduct case. thetransmitter.org/science-and-so…

A thing every interdisciplinary scientist hears: "how is this X?" (X=physics, math, chemistry...) Here is Hopfield's (thoughtful) perspective from his fabulous essay "Now What".

🚀 Thrilled to announce #inTRACKtive: a web-based tool for exploring massive cell-tracking datasets, no software installation required! Just open your browser and dive into terabytes of developmental biology data. We used it to build the virtual embryozoo.org of

This story started 5y ago with my lab. Spearheaded by fearless 1st authors theopi and Olivia Leland. Theopi is now a PhD student at Brown University. Olivia is a physics PhD student at Brandeis University, a self-taught biologist, and made us love soft matter. A (very long) thread (1/24)

"Moving boundaries: An appreciation of John Hopfield" (by William Bialek): arxiv.org/abs/2412.18030

We explore how the interplay between nematic order, activity-driven flows, and surface deformations in a viscous drop with interfacial nematic activity gives rise to self-organized behaviors, with increasing complexity.

Stoked to present our latest, brilliantly led by Chris et al & Alejandro Torres-Sanchez. How tissues are patterned during development – we found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

With great pride, we announce that Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy, who is also a J.C. Bose National Fellow Physics, IISc, IISc Bangalore has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences.

Fun new paper at #SIGGRAPH2025: What if instead of two 6-sided dice, you could roll a single "funky-shaped" die that gives the same statistics (e.g, 7 is twice as likely as 4 or 10). Or make fair dice in any shape—e.g., dragons rather than cubes? That's exactly what we do! 1/n

Check out our new work! The code for performing coherent structure analysis, along with the documentation, is available at sreejithsanthosh.github.io/FTLEhub/. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in using this analysis for kinematic data in your system!

📣 New review! Dynamical systems and low-dimensional geometric structures in phase space help rationalize how embryos develop form and function, from large datasets. We focus on morphogenesis, cell differentiation, and their interconnection. Alex Plum sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📣 New paper out! How do thousands of cells shape the emergent geometry of the avian embryo? We identify distinct, independently controllable mechanisms that contribute to embryo size and shape. gserranonajera Alex Plum Steventon Lab nature.com/articles/s4146…

Does stability matter in biology? My article on the cover of this month’s PLOS Comp Biol explores how large ecosystems develop supertransients, a manifestation of computational hardness (1/N) doi.org/10.1371/journa…