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We’re excited to announce the winning entries of the #RSPphotocomp 2023! Follow along as we reveal the beautiful winning images of each category. Starting with Microimaging and overall winner, Martian landscape by Irina Petrova Adamatzky 🎉

How should we model the dynamics of root growth as it turns towards gravity? As physicists, we tried using a damped harmonic oscillator. And it works! In small angles. Check out our new JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social paper, with Mathieu Rivière and @MerozLab: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/er…

Dig into our new special issue: Root Architecture and Rhizosphere—Microbe Interactions bit.ly/35JchR9 🧵

A tenure track position in the field of biomechanics (with a start-up package) is envisaged by the CNRS for 2024. One of the potential host laboratories is IRPHE (Marseille, France). Don't hesitate to contact me if you are interested!

Excited to announce the #EMBOplantTropisms meeting co-organised with Miyo Morita & Claus Schwechheimer Great speaker line-up. Apply and please RT meetings.embo.org/event/24-plant…

🚀 INRAE is hiring researchers (F/M) ! Profile: Early-career Researcher (F/M), Ph.D. holder, with publications💼 📌 Key dates: Opening on January 30, closing on March 5 Find all job offers 🌐 url.inrae.fr/3S4Vznd Join us! 🌍✨

🏹 #PLM18 Registrations are open for the 18th edition of the Physics of Living Matter #conference ! 📍 Where: Palais du Pharo, Marseille 📆When: September 16-17, 2024 🖊️Registration deadline: May 16, 2024 More info: centuri-livingsystems.org/plm18/ @univamu

Did you know plant roots can “wave”? Using morpho-elastic rods, we burrow into the intricate world of root morphologies as they navigate stiff inclined planes. Dig in, now on PNASNews, with Mattia-Lab and @MerozLab: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

The homemade greenhouse we just installed at the Psiche beamline for fast actuation in plants experiments Synchrotron SOLEIL

Just back from a great 5-days stay @synchroSoleil A fun adventure for us, and for the mimosas as well, I hope!

MECABIONIC Symposium at the University Côte d’Azur

Great Meeting with an exciting line-up of speakers and possibilities to get additional talks selected from submitted abstracts. Abstract submission deadline on April 30! meetings.embo.org/event/24-plant…

Postdoc position available in Arezki Boudaoud's lab on Marchantia splash-cups

ERC PhD Offer: Interested in better understanding how self-contracting vascular networks impact human health and bring innovative solutions for adaptive cooling and water management technologies? More info here: martinbrandenbourger.com/publications

New in Physical Review E: Sachs education and the strange dynamics of plants in rotation🌱🌪️ With Alain Goriely, Heather Harrington, and Derek Moulton. Read the full study here: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1… #OpenAccess A head-spinning thread 🧵👇

Hold on to your hats! The winners of the 2024 #NikonSmallWorldInMotion competition have finally been revealed, and they're sure to blow you away. View the full video gallery here: bit.ly/47t3L8A

With Orit Peleg we are organising an APS Division of Biological Physics focus session “On Light & Life” from energy capture and light production to bio-inspired metamaterial design and more. Submission deadline is Oct 25 Please help us spread the word and join us in California next March :)

Fresh off the press Nature Communications, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰: nature.com/articles/s4146… Work by: @HadjajeS, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément