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SciComm Excellence @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · 20/08/2026

A new resource for scientists looking to connect their work with broader audiences: “Modern science outreach: a guide for scientists.” Excited to see members of our #SciComm awards community among the authors — @dr-brein.bsky.social + @bhamlalab.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Who knew insect pee could be so fascinating? Research projects like this are the norm at The Bhamla Lab (@bhamlalab.bsky.social), where Saad Bhamla believes scientists should take risks and find new ways of looking at things.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You're watching a Crested Coua chick (Coua cristata) being fed at the Miami Zoo. The chick's outside appearance is ... unfortunate, but I want to focus on the weird 'targets' in the mouth. That's the coua's response to the problem of brood parasitism. Let's talk about it.

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

'The danger for the research enterprise is that if participation in the review process declines, the remaining contributors may realize they are being exploited by free-riders and will then withdraw their contributions, exacerbating the problem.'

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A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review | PNAS

A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

These protists make a cameo in another @bhamlalab.bsky.social comic I made with @rikworth.bsky.social and the invaluable clarity of @statedclearly.bsky.social all about how these babies have the fastest fiber twitch in nature - without any muscles. #sciart

Comic panel showing several different species of protists

Comic page showing how microorganisms called protists are able to contract at incredible speed

Comic page showing the calcium-based chemistry behind protist contractions.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The science of these little critters is pretty nuts. Here's a comic I did with @rikworth.bsky.social @owenwattsdraws.bsky.social for @bhamlalab.bsky.social #InverteFest #Sciart

Comic page featuring cartoon ripple bugs watching human canoers struggling against some rapids and talking about how much easier it is with their feathery fan structures on the tips of their "oar" legs

Comic page with cartoon ripple bigs talking about how their leg fans create water vortexes and allow them to turn on a dime.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The deep dive on the cocaine salmon paper you didn't know you needed, with the one and only @tomlumperson.bsky.social

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

📢Preprint: Positional information (PI) and information flows in dynamic tissues. Our mathematical framework quantifies, from data, how the coupled stochastic dynamics of cell positions and properties preserve, degrade and generate PI. @alex-plum.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Springtails use aggregation pheromones to find each other. Because they are too small to break the water surface tension, their mutual attraction can result in large black floats. Woodstock, NY.

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Alex Mendelsohn, PhD @alexmendelsohn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This is sooo cool! Ripple bugs propel themselves using collapsible fans that extend only when their legs touch water (in an ingenious way) - So glad I landed on this post. Amazing (and talented) way to communicate research

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Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Read a breakdown of the research (with lots of visuals) AND the whole comic here: bhamla.gatech.edu/project-blog... The new publication: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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Controlling Noisy Herds — The Bhamla Lab

A centuries old farming practice informs our understanding of control theory

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Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

New comic! Small groups of animals can be unpredictable, yet sheepdogs and their handlers direct them with style. The study just came out in Science Advances with a beautiful, mid-stride sheepdog on the cover! Congrats to the authors, Tuhin Chakrabortty (featured in the comic) and Saad Bhamla.

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Bhamla Lab @ Georgia Tech @bhamlalab.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Our recent paper made it to the cover of Science Advances. In this paper, Tuhin Chakrabortty and I studied sheepdog trials, where skilled dog-handler teams control small flocks of sheep, and showed that trained dogs exploit indecisiveness to herd and divide the flock.

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Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering @georgiatechchbe.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Tiny worms, big surprises! When placed in sand-filled Petri dishes, centimeter-long aquatic worms like T. tubifex spontaneously sweep up particles and reorganize their environment — all without a brain. Research team co-led by Saad Bhamla (@bhamlalab.bsky.social, ChbE@GT). bit.ly/4bzXFao

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Shashi Thutupalli @stpalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Non-motile microbes are not prisoners of diffusive transport. Just their metabolic activity can be sufficient to stir up the ambient fluid and cause explosive long-range dispersal -- a "metabolic firework". Our latest work -- arxiv.org/abs/2512.16288

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Helen Zenner @helenzsci.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Amazing research and such a fantastic scicomm video. I'd like to show it to my kids, but I'm afraid that it'll backfire and they'll use it to explain why all the clothes in their cupboards are unfolded despite the fact they were folded when they went in....

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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

(1/n) What if you never had to make your bed? What if your laundry could fold itself? Folding is everywhere around us - but did you know that folding flat sheets are at the ❤️ of diversity of shapes in the animal world - since 500 million years ago. Our latest work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudC...

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Self-folding laundry

YouTube video by PrakashLab

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Wim Meijer @wimgmeijer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

These microrobots can execute digitally defined algorithms and autonomously change behavior in response to their surroundings. It paves the way for general-purpose microrobots that work together to carry out tasks without supervision in uncertain environments. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute

Autonomous submillimeter robots are built with onboard sensing, computation, memory, communication, and locomotion.

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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I am pleased to announce that from Jan 1 2026 I take over as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Theory. My first act, with the support of the editorial team, is to bring the journal to BlueSky from X. Please follow us @biologicaltheory.bsky.social. We will be posting about all our articles.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 11/11/2025

PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Are you a scientist? Is your research cool? Do people not adequately appreciate how cool your research is? I'm looking for researchers to feature in Q&A-style interviews on my blog and would love to hear from (or about — embarrass your friends!) scientists interested in sharing their work. 🧪

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

How much stress would a wood beetle get if the wood beetle was filled with worms? Horned passalus beetles can have dozens to thousands of worms squirming inside them - and these worms can affect how their host responds to stress #invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/06/chon...

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<i>Chondronema passali</i>

The horned passalus beetle ( Odontotaenius disjunctus ) is an insect that is commonly found in rotting logs. These beetles do more than jus...

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Cara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Domesticated animals have pulled our heavy carts and turned our large mills for centuries. But what about the opposite end of the spectrum—what if the wheel you want to turn is so small you can’t see it? Turns out we can harness the power of bacteria to power the world’s smallest machines. 1/7 ⚛️🧪

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Andrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Ingenious concept - light sheet on serial sections by photo-etching the expanded hydrogel, layer by layer. Photo-sectioning is quite slow, and the volumetric images are insanely large and complex, but the data look wonderful. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Expanded mouse olfactory bulb imaged with fluorescence at 20-50 nm resolution!

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Welcome to all the new Packard Fellows- this is an incredible community. I look forward to meeting you at the reunion! Also, huge congrats to my colleague @jameststroud.bsky.social! Can't wait to see what you discover in your long-term eco/evo experiment, Lizard Island!

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Jimmy Bernot 🦐🔬🧬🏳️‍🌈 @jimmybernot.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This is my 1st time catching my pet archer fish, Legolas, spitting on camera. Archerfish use modified jaw and tongue bones to fire a jet of water to knock down bugs from over hanging vegetation. Here Legolas is shooting down a fruit fly 🪰 🐠🧪

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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🦑🧪 Job doing fieldwork (on ships) with Viking Cruises. Full-time position = ? Salary = ? I usually don't post without more detail, but the job market is weird right now! And this would be a fun fit for someone, and I'm not sure if it'll hit the usual job feeds www.vikingcareers.com/global/en/jo...

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EXPEDITION - Field Scientist in Ocean & Expedition (Global) | Expedition at Viking Cruises

Apply for EXPEDITION - Field Scientist job with Viking Cruises in Ocean & Expedition (Global). Expedition at Viking Cruises

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Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan @guille-rochelle.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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:

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Alejandro Soto @soto.space · 15/09/2025

Here's an interesting look into the Nobel Physics Prize nominating process up to the early 1970's. It's a reminder that it's never only been about the science. And that the human factors in science arise especially in recognition of work. 🧪 pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

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How Nobel favorites have fared

Over the first six and a half decades, the leading vote-getters received the award that same year less than half the time.

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SciComm Excellence @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · 08/09/2025

Ripple bugs are aquatic insects about the size of a grain of rice, and it turns out that they can surf! 🦟🏄 A recent discovery by team @bhamlalab.bsky.social ‬found that these insects harness tiny fans to surf streams and glide across fast-flowing water. More at: bhamla.gatech.edu/project-blog...

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Rapid Ripple Bugs — The Bhamla Lab

How insects harness tIny fans to surf turbulent streams

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

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Dr. Kakani Katija @kakanikatija.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Big thanks to our team in @mbarinews.bsky.social Bioinspiration Lab and @moorefound.bsky.social for the wonderful feature and support as we developed EyeRIS. You can learn more about how we use this imaging system to study 🦑🌊🧪 from this 🧵: bsky.app/profile/kaka.... #onwardsanddownwards

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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Advice about sending your message in a noisy environment, from some birds with unusual eyelids: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-cut... 🧪

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How to Cut Through the Noise

I'm not shouting.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Can cellular life be created in the lab? We are not yet there, but clearly getting closer! Check this paper where a new scenario for protocell replication is presented by Job Boekhoven and co-workers @manlius.bsky.social www.cell.com/chem/pdf/S24...

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Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

This is a really exciting collab with Simon Rogers at Illinois. We're creating a rheological framework to characterize the mechanical behavior of granular materials. We're using it to improve 3D tissue printing & study dynamic processes like cell-mediated remodeling & aging. Supported by NIH. 🧪

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

More #SciArt comics, and perfect timing for #InverteFest!

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Bhamla Lab @ Georgia Tech @bhamlalab.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Beautiful discovery and patient unraveling of a cellular mystery 🕵🏼‍♂️

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Altogether, our results suggest that supergiants could serve as a bet-hedging strategy involving a tradeoff between dispersal versus the exploitation of a new trophic niche as a growing population reaches carrying capacity. 9/n

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We found that this Euplotes isolate was in fact a previously undescribed species, displaying a highly polymorphic phenotype, including supergiant cannibals and also winged, "defensive" morphs, captured by SEM by Sam Lord. We named the species "gigatrox" in reference to the fierce supergiants. 4/n

Scanning electron microscopy images of different morphs of Euplotes gigatrox

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

After picking cells to start cultures and then neglecting them for weeks, I began to notice the sporadic appearance of very large cells. During a visit to the Keeling lab, Vittorio Boscaro suggested these cells might be cannibals, as described in other protist species including some Euplotes. 3/n

A very large Euplotes cell surrounded by several normal sized cells

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Video by Vittorio Boscaro. 1/n

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Science Magazine @science.org · 21/08/2025

Ripple bugs use a special fan-like structure on their middle legs to speed and steer through turbulent waters. In a new Science study, researchers report a water-walking robot inspired by this feature. Learn more in our latest issue: scim.ag/3V8FjDU

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Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

New SciComic! Check it out!

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Folks the paper is on the cover of the latest issue of Science.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

New comic about the science of water strider bugs! Was great working with Bhamla Lab on this, check out the paper upthread.

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