If you have a background in cellular/molecular biology and are interested in studying the mechanisms of learning and memory in unicellular organisms, come do a postdoc in my lab! More info here:
gershmanlab.com/news.html

This will be super interesting, looking forward! And grateful for the opportunity to join 🥬

I can't get over how fantastically creative Grant Sanderson Grant Sanderson is! We all know he's one of the best math teachers on the planet. But who knew he could sing, play guitar, and create musical comedy? Check out his performance of this song about the twin prime conjecture,…

Ambitions for theory in the physics of life
William Bialek William Bialek
arxiv.org/html/2401.1553…

Want to work on GPS tracking of wild bats? Checkout the Azrieli postdoc scholarships. Deadline is around the corner. azrielifoundation.org/fellows/intern…

Join us for your Ph.D.!!!
Two funded positions in plant development.
First project with Jason Reed, Bastiaan Bargmann, and Clay Wight
The second project in collaboration with Laila Moubayidin Richard Smith Lab 🇺🇦

More details: kierzkowski-lab.com/join-the-lab/

One of these is a frying pan, the rest are moons in our Solar System.

Can you find it?

Plant roots are bosses at negotiating unknown environments. Here we show their secret: combining active growth downwards (gravitropism) with passive mechanics.
Growing on an inclined surface, this leads to beautiful growth patterns!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Amir Porat Mattia-Lab

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 Yasmine Meroz: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Coupled pendula (???) measure topological phase, Landau–Zener transition and Bloch oscillations in SSH model PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Desert? Piece of cake for this guy

Corentin Coulais and I are searching for two enthusiastic postdocs interested in fascinating interplay between physics, mechanics, and beyond!

interested? apply by end of March and Don't hesitate to contact us!

RT is appreciated 🙏🏼

vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdo…

A few days ago we found a titan arum in bloom - the plant boasting the world's largest inflorescence. But it also has colossal leaves: the size of trees, they shoot up out of the earth into the canopy.

Today I'm the happiest guy alive.

Stressed plants ‘cry’ — and some animals can probably hear them.

Plants that need water or have recently had their stems cut produce up to roughly 35 sounds per hour. But well-hydrated and uncut plants are much quieter, making only about.

In a recent research, plants were…

Guess the scale bar

Roots defying gravity! Navigating their way out of a “prison”, up this spout thingy…

This is going to be great!

Augustus Emanuel 'the drunken boxer' uses random movement to overcome opponents - facilitating unexpected solutions. 🥊
This is similar to the 'fairy dust' role of noise in interacting systems, optimizing processes from collective dynamics to self-organization and foraging🧚

We are looking forward to another in this great series of events .. but we need you! Please apply (simple form), deadline extended to Friday Feb 2. We want the widest range of topics and speakers exploring the physics of life.