๐ฅ Master Baker Yuval Elhadeff shows how dough elasticity is manipulated by changing network properties of gluten!
๐ชฉ 1st demo in my course โPhysics of living systems, lab+kitchenโ. When we cook we manipulate bio tissue with processes rooted in physics.
More to come!
Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.
Book cover
28 months later: In December 2024, I participated in the Ernst Strรผngmann Forum on #Navigation #Research ๐งญ๐งช Now the book has been published including our chapter of group 2 ("team zoo" ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ค) on the "Universal Principles of Navigation across Species and Spatial Scales" โ๏ธ doi.org/10.1007/978-... โ๏ธ
Preprint ๐ฑ Plants build nonlinear vectorial representations of light patterns!
Surprising results: Opposing cues cancel, so plants grow towards a weaker tie-breaker light.
Plants respond to sum of transduced signals, not physical sum of light: optical โillusionsโ! ๐ชฉ
tinyurl.com/44f83xh8
Honeybee swarms do not come together and fall apart in the same way ๐
In this new preprint led by Danielle Chase, we report how to trick swarms to repeatedly assemble and disassemble in front of our cameras, while tracking individual bees in 3D!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New preprint ๐ฑ
Segment plants in time-series images using foundation model SAM2 - without training a model ๐ชฉ. Magician Alex Abbey!
๐กSAP works across species, scales, and even z-stacks.
From single cells to whole plantsโ quantitative growth & dynamics .
tinyurl.com/3raedtvm
@biosofttau.bsky.social
๐ฑ โTo twine or not to twine?โ
Preprint ๐ชฉ Plants use inherent circular movements (circumnuations) for active sensing of support mechanical stability (eg whisking ๐ญ), twining occurs at a torque threshold. Heroic experiments by Amir Ohad, fancy simulations @amirporat.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/2syh4ny3
#LivingArchitectures
Congratulations @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social and all Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab for their poetic vision of the microscopic level.
Diagram of field LED perturbations of fireflies, showing entrainment patterns and a phase response curve linking phase delay/advance to relative timing.
โจ New preprint from the lab on firefly synchronization, led by Owen Martin (freshly Dr. Martin!), with Nataliya Nechyporenko and Kaushik Jayaram.
Our measured firefly phase-response curves reveal excitatory and inhibitory timing rules that facilitate population synchrony โจ
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Job alert๐จI am advertising a 2-year postdoctoral position to work on the mathematics of plant morphogenesis @mpipz.bsky.social. Candidates with interests in mathematical modelling, mechanics, or biophysics are strongly encouraged to apply. ๐ฑReposts are appreciated!
jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/4...
Artist+friend Liat Segal and I gave a fun talk at TRANSMEET Art+Science Festival (www.transmeet-festival.org ) "Artโscience collaborations: Generators of new ideas and serendipitous events"
(based on our paper bit.ly/4ohpuHu)
After all, both artists & scientists are driven by asking questions
It's funny how in space all intuition about basic stuff - like water - goes out the window
Weโre hiring! ๐จ
Assistant Professor (TT) in Theoretical or Computational Biological Physics @univmiami.bsky.social ๐
Come build the future of interdisciplinary biophysics with us!
Apply by Dec 15 โ tinyurl.com/5n9bk836
#Biophysics #PhysicsJobs #AcademicJobs #UMiami
Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
New paper!๐ก Amir Ohad developed this nifty setup to measure weak forces generated by freely moving plants, based on the deflection of a pendulum (straw from the cafeteria ๐), which does not require any tethering of the plant: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
Plant-obstacle interactions here we come!
I can what this all day.
ืืื ืชื ืืกืืืื ืืื ืืื ืืืืืืช ืฉื ืืืืืืืืืฆืื ืฉื ืคืื ืงืฆืืืช ืืจืืืืืช ืืื ืฉืืขื ืืื
yohai.github.io/complex
๐กBest way to learn electronics and ARDUINO for lab work?
๐จIn an artistโs studio of course!
Inspired by her amazing work, students (and some brave PIs) joined artist & friend Liat Segal in her studio for a workshop on the basics.
Thanks @biosofttau.bsky.social for help funding!
Come fly with us, let's fly, let's fly away.
Full details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74169
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! ๐งช
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360
PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!
Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:
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I'm really looking forward to hosting this @metagov.bsky.social seminar on the governance of bees, fireflies, and plants with my colleage @oritpeleg.bsky.social: luma.com/pzbp4zq1
Surface tension wins when thereโs no gravity! I love this video
Truly chuffed for our fearless food physicists @mpipks.bsky.social + collabs from AT @istaresearch.bsky.social, IT & ES who won this yearโs Ig Nobel - the #NobelPrize of heartsโค๏ธfor cracking the science of perfect pasta !๐Kudos to all for intrepidly consuming lots of cheese in the name of science!๐
New Episode!
What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? How do you tell your parents when you are ready to come out? Dr Gabriella Gall is here to tell us all about her research into the world of egg communication.
www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
Join my team for a PhD in Learning in living adaptive networks (Theory). Apply by October 7th through www.portal.graduatecenter.lmu.de/ocgc/qmb
In the last couple of months I helped biodesigner Chris Bellamy in a collaboration with fashion designer Iris van Herpen to make a bioluminescent dress for Paris Haute Couture week.
And the outcome was absolutely stunning!!!!
www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...
Research in the lab..
Is cognition a universal feature of the living world? How can we define it? Is a nervous system needed? If so, why? If not, why not? Check this fascinating @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue led by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social & co. on Basal Cognition royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Mechanical interactions between plants and surroundings plays a huge role in understanding how plants negotiate their environment - but measuring low forces of free plants is hard!
In this preprint Amir Ohad presents a new sensor - using a drinking straw!
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Science-cooking aficionados ๐ฉ
Last week I had a fun conversation with Foodie Shaul Amsterdamski about my course โPhysics of Living Systems - Lab & Kitchenโ, which includes live demos by chefs :)
Last few minutes of his show โClose to the Plateโ: www.kan.org.il/content/kan/...
