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LIFE AS NO ONE KNOWS IT is out TODAY! And, I’m especially excited for three things (1) inspiring thoughts/debate on the fundamental nature of life (2) catalyzing discussion on how we might solve it and (3) your thoughts! (photo from the fab caitlin o’hara)

Scientists have known for centuries that sunflowers wobble in seemingly random ways as they grow – but those movements are actually surprisingly useful newscientist.com/article/244406…

See how these sunflowers wiggle? Very demure. Very mindful. Physics is cutesy. A new paper in Physical Review X shows that sunflowers' seemingly random movements, called circumnutation, help them minimize the amount of shade cast on one another. 🔗 go.aps.org/3SUYznU

Physicists discover how sunflowers work together to ensure that no plant is stuck in the shade ow.ly/25bw50T7BC2

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.

Sometimes life surprises you in the best ways: I’ve been named a 2024 Schmidt Polymath! Deeply grateful to my mentors, colleagues, and students who have been part of this journey with me♥️ Stay tuned for some new, delightfully peculiar animal behaviors😉 schmidtsciences.org/six-professors…

SFI External Professor Orit Peleg (Orit Peleg) has been named a 2024 Schmidt Sciences Polymath Schmidt Sciences. The award will support her research into the evolution of biological communication. ow.ly/3znA50TlmWV

We describe how octopus-fish groups can work, can malfunction, and can lead to benefits! Give it a read and don't forget to see the videos for punching, displacements, and examples of solo vs collaborative hunting!! 🐙🐠🐟 Out in NatureEcoEvo!!

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 :)

Excited to co-organize this American Physical Society MM session with Mazi Jalaal & invited speakers Shengqiang Cai + Todd Oakley ⚡️ … to explore how light shapes life and how life creates & uses light to sustain itself! If this sounds like your research, submit your abstract & join us!

A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to our focus session "On Light & Life" is October 25, 2024! ⚡️+🦠 = 💡

Our lab CU Boulder 🦬 is growing, and we are looking for a part-time lab manager! Please help spread the word 🙏 We’re excited to welcome someone who can help keep us organized and thriving as we explore collective behavior! 🎉 More info👇 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…

Our lab has 2 (!) open postdoc positions🥳 We're looking for creative and curious scientists to lead new projects: one on deep-sea biological rhythms and another on the evolution of biological communication🐚🦗🦋🐙🦉 If you know someone who'd be a good fit, please share!

Among the thousands of firefly species in the world, only a handful blink in sync. While both male and female fireflies flash, only the males synchronize. nautil.us/the-mathematic…

In these chaotic times, I’ve been grounding myself in my mentees’ successes: here’s a beautiful story by PhD candidate Owen Martin on Colorado’s fireflies 🌟✨ theconversation.com/fleeting-firef…