New paper out in @natureportfolio.nature.com @commsearth.nature.com!
A major bottleneck in coral restoration is that newly settled corals rarely survive.
We show that simple engineered substrates can increase early-stage survivorship by ~4×.
Link to paper: rdcu.be/femTN
Lab day out at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science 😀😀
The Leonardo da Vinci exhibit was a highlight—art, mechanics, and curiosity all in one!
A reminder that the most interesting science lives at the intersection of ideas!
#Biophysics #FluidDynamics
A small paper nautilus octopus female riding on the top of a pink jellyfish.
A dark orange octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on the top of a four tentacled jellyfish.
A small octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on an octopus that is only about as large as he is.
Semi-regular reminder:
Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿
Hello epithelia enthusiasts!
I’m @inesfournon.bsky.social and I study epithelial mechanics in sea anemones 🪼
Did you know epithelial cell extrusion had never been described outside bilaterian animals before? Well… not anymore 👀
Read ⬇️🧵1/9
Sometimes, the only way to build back up is to let everything fall apart. This is certainly true at the cellular level. www.quantamagazine.org/break-it-to-...
What happens when marine embryos are crowded instead of isolated?
They become materials.
Honored to write a @natphys.nature.com News & Views on excitable living solids discovered by Prof. Fakhri and colleagues at @mit.edu 😀
N&V: rdcu.be/e5gLm
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
Cilia alert! Stoked to have the new paper from Juyeon Hong about a new domain at the extreme distal tip of motile cilia! (The EDT, y'all!) It's out now @natcomms.nature.com.
Check it out!
#cilia
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨
NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social
Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience
Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu
🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026
⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP!
#Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics
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SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT
We’re hiring! 🚨
Assistant Professor (TT) in Theoretical or Computational Biological Physics @univmiami.bsky.social 😀
Come build the future of interdisciplinary biophysics with us!
Apply by Dec 15 → tinyurl.com/5n9bk836
#Biophysics #PhysicsJobs #AcademicJobs #UMiami
Honored to give the keynote at @frostscience.org.web.brid.gy annual fundraiser, celebrating Leonardo da Vinci: 500 Years of Genius.
I shared how Leonardo’s curiosity, imagination, and creativity continues to inspire interdisciplinary science, art, and discovery, even in the Age of AI.
#DaVinci500
🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!
Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?
I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.
🔗: clarkelab.com/join/
Please repost!
Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics Location: Pittsburgh, PA Open Date: Sep 19, 2025 Description The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area. More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360
I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360
PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!
Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:
1/10
Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going.
@harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm
Thrilled to announce our FlumeX paper in HardwareX!! 🌊⚙️
😀🥳
We built an inexpensive, open-source flume for exploring biological 🪸 + environmental flows 🌊. A major collaborative effort, supported by DARPA REEFENSE!
@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social
Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.oh...
In another exciting development our new preprint is online:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
This is the work of my brilliant graduate student Katerina Kourkoulou in collaboration with Maggie Liu and Arnold Mathijssen. Here is a video of the subject of our study:
Looks like I am late to this party but have exciting news. I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study #XtrmCells! Thankful to @erc.europa.eus for this opportunity, and to my collaborators, mentors, and group for their support. Looking forward to exploring the mechanics of these cells!
Our new collaborative paper with Cyndi Bradham's lab at BU, led by first author @alexandralion.bsky.social is out in @devbiol.bsky.social & featured on the Sept 2025 cover! 😀🥳
PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development!
Cover art: embryos + flow fields
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...
@sonkejo.bsky.social and I were interviewed by @mdlaplante.bsky.social for his UnDisciplined podcast
www.upr.org/podcasts/103...
I don’t like hearing myself speak so I haven’t listened back, but my mom “LOVED IT”, so that counts for something. 😉
Support public radio, Utah PR, and @npr.org
🦑🧪🌊
Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊
📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT.
RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to shekhar@emory.edu.
More info: www.shekharlab.org
A little gem here from Martin Schwartz, PhD the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Cell Biology at Yale University
Felt good to read and share and I predict you just might have the same experience
Just under two weeks left to apply for this 3 year postdoc looking at how signalling shapes skeletal development in sea urchins! Please reach out if you’re interested! For lovers of imaging, skeletal development, biomineralization, in situ hybridization, and marine invertebrates!
Excited to share this "Music from Science" project led my postdoc Melissa! Watch the video (with sound)! These are original music compositions created from research data on corals from our lab! 😀🪸🎼
Here is a news article with more details:
news.miami.edu/stories/2025...
youtu.be/C-JNPIXyKes?...
🎉🎉We’re on the cover of Nature Physics! @natphys.nature.com
Here is the original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A host of yellow, trumpet-shaped cells gather in a ball shape, with trumpets pointing outward, on a black background. The trumpets move around slightly.
A new study originating from the #MBL proposes that physical forces encouraged the evolution of multicellular life! 🦠 Follow the link to read more about Stentor, a single-celled organism that could offer an early model for multicellularity.
📲 More: bit.ly/4cilZvV
Excited to share our new paper in Nature Physics
@naturephysics.bsky.social: Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular Stentor!
How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork?
for a little back-story on how this project started in the Physiology course at the @mblscience.bsky.social , including how two of the authors become involved in the project after emerging from the water at "garbage beach" carrying lasers, check this out: wayback.archive-it.org/12248/201508...
Thrilled to be featured in The New York Times! @nytimes.com
Fantastic piece by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from @wcratcliff.bsky.social!
