cool! what is the signaling wave shown here?

Happy to share the viewpoint article on recent work by
@jackbinysh @ASouslov @CorentinCoulais about interplay between percolation and oddity in robotic metamaterials!

Happening in 20 mins. We have open positions related to the project, if interested feel free to DM

PhD student Ouyang Xuan is going to present our work using representation learning to map developmental flow in morphological landscape: Mon Mar 16 3:30pm 'Morphogenesis' @apsdsoft.bsky.social @aps-dbio.bsky.social
Check it out! #APSGlobalSummit2026

Looking forward to first day of APS! Going to talk about odd robotic matter and information processing at "Emerging Active Matter" session summit.aps.org/events/MAR-B... Mon Mar 16 12-3pm, @apsdsoft.bsky.social @aps-dbio.bsky.social @aps-dsnp.bsky.social

Huge kudos to all the amazing members in the lab for making this happen! And a great collaboration with Nick Boechler, Nick Gravish and Hongbo Zhao #UCSD

Further particle-level chiral and polar symmetry breaking leads to emergent states including phase separation and active translation

We show how tuning a single control parameter allows us to access an odd elastic solid, an odd viscous fluid, and a chiral inertial active gas

Inspired by earlier work on living chiral crystal www.nature.com/articles/d41..., we built a "robo-embryo" with controllable symmetry breaking at particle level

By unifying physics and robotics, we provide a blueprint for treating robotic swarms as programmable states of matter. A new testbed for nonequilibrium physics! #Robotics #Physics #ActiveMatter

Are robotic swarms the next state of matter? Excited to share the very first preprint from the lab! "Three phases of odd robotic matter" arxiv.org/abs/2603.09897

Looking forward to @apsphysics.bsky.social March Meeting next week at Denver to share the lab's ongoing work on emergent dynamics & learning in odd robotic matter + manifold learning in morphogenesis.

Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM
www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
📷: syGlass.io

Our lab has some ongoing data driven/AI/ML in active matter projects that can be supported through postdoc.ucsd.edu/funding/schm.... if you are interested, or if you have some ideas of your own, feel free to reach out!

@tzerhan29.bsky.social et al show topological defects in cell traction forces underlie emergent chirality

They show pancreas derived organoids rotates as an active solid! bsky.app/profile/epim...

Largest Cohort in UC San Diego Program’s History Receives Hellman Fellowships Over 30 years ago, the Society of Hellman Fellows Program was founded at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. The program awarded 10 Hellman Fellowships in 1995 at UC San Diego. This spring, 26 UC San Diego ...

Honored to be selected and join the 2025-26 cohort of UCSD Hellman Fellows! today.ucsd.edu/story/larges...

If you’re eligible for a Pew Latin American Fellowship, please reach out to Suckjoon Jun (Pew ‘13). We have ambitious bluesky projects planned for the next decade, backed by exceptionally strong funding, and we’d love for you to join us!

www.pew.org/en/projects/...

LIVE sea urchin larvae for #3DThursday! Catch me at the MIT Museum tonight at AfterDark and see it in person.

🔬: @brukercorporation.bsky.social TruLive3D
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass

Very cool!

Still of a LIVE sea urchin larvae for #MicroscopyMondy from our #NESM trip to the MIT Museum!

🔬: Bruker's TruLive3D @brukercorporation.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social , Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD #UCSD
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass

Looks amazing! Are these mitochondria

✨#FluorescenceFriday brings you a glowing Berghia stephanieae juvenile! This stunning sea slug is lit up with Anti-α-Tubulin 🟢, revealing the dense network of cilia that help it glide across surfaces. 🐌💫 Image taken by @Luiza-O-Saad.bsky.social
#Microscopy #DevBio

Juvenile sea stars in a petri dish

Paper alert! We closed the life cycle of the sea star Patiria miniata in the lab!
doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...

Emergent chirality in active solid rotation of pancreas spheres Spontaneous rotations of epithelial spheres reveals chiral tissue patterning mechanisms, showing the interplay between geometry, topology, and collective dynamics.

Llegeix l'article sencer de @tzerhan29.bsky.social, Aboutaleb Amiri, Irene Seijo-Barandiaran, Michael F. Staddon, Anne Materne, Sandra Tomas, Charlie Duclut,
@mrkppvc.bsky.social, @anne-grapin.bsky.social i Frank Jülicher aquí:

📄journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstract/10.1103...

Always great fun to brainstorm at our UCSD monthly biophysics forum - let's bring the intelligence into active matter

Scientists Develop Simple Model for an Intricate, Ever-Evolving Cell Structure Scientists apply principles of math and physics to unravel the mystery of how the endoplasmic reticulum, an organelle vital to cellular life, constantly reshapes and reorganizes itself. As a second-ye...

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Textbooks: cell is a bag of weirdly shaped stuff.

Reality: it's all moving & changing shape.

Research on the endoplasmic reticulum by my colleagues Zuben Scott, Lena Koslover, Greg Huber and their experimental collaborators Laura Westrate & Samuel Sheen.

scitechdaily.com/scientists-d...

When two grids with a twist make a pattern exist, that’s a moiré. Listen to this week's episode of Quanta Science Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Very cool! What happens when you cut two wounds - do they waves interact?

Optical control of an excitable enzyme circuit for engineering dynamic cell shapes - Nature Physics Light-switchable enzymes hold great promise for mediating molecular activations in living cells, yet their full potential in realizing versatile controls in nonlinear networks remains unexplored. Now,...

Looking for a reading snack? Our work is featured as a @NaturePhysics research briefing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glad to see this work finally out. Happy to have played a small part in this project with teams @fakhrilab.bsky.social @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social!