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Burton Lab @burtonlab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

"The Electric Worm Gets the Fly," what a great title! Led by postdoc Ranjiangshang Ran, our lab's latest work was featured in the NYT (gift article): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/s... All the experiments were done in Victor Ortega-Jimenez's lab at UC Berkeley.

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The Electric Worm Gets the Fly

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New research demonstrates that static electricity enables the nematode Steinernema carpocapsae to leap and attach to flying insects, significantly increasing its success as a biological pest control agent. doi.org/g96xrn

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Fatal attraction: Electric charge connects jumping worm to aerial prey

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, scientists have found.

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Francesco De Batté @francescodb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Amazing talk by @burtonlab.bsky.social! 3D printed acoustic levitators for studying airborne bacteria, and an investigation into the electrostatic attraction that helps parasitic nematodes jump onto their insect hosts. Interdisciplinary science is so cool www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHvu...

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Justin Burton: Biology in the air: from hitchhiking microbes to jumping nematodes

YouTube video by BPPB Seminar

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BPPB Seminar Series @bppbseminar.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Please join BPPB on Friday May 16 at 11 US Eastern time for an exciting talk by Justin Burton @burtonlab.bsky.social on "Biology in the air: from hitchhiking microbes to jumping nematodes". For more details & to sign up to receive Zoom links for the talks, visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

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Burton Lab @burtonlab.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This paper has taken a long time to see the light, but I'm so happy for Jing (Michelle) Wang, who did all the hard work! In short, when you mechanically shear a stiff hydrogel, they dilate and imbibe fluid in them, like cartilage in your joints. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

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Hyperelastic Swelling of Stiff Hydrogels

Hydrogels are swollen polymer networks where elastic deformation is coupled to nanoscale fluid flow. As a consequence, hydrogels can withstand large strains and exhibit nonlinear, hyperelastic propert...

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Burton Lab @burtonlab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Sunday night karaoke dinner with squishy science volunteers from the Burton lab!

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Burton Lab @burtonlab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Our lab made giant bubbles for squishy science Sunday! It was a beautiful day at the @apsphysics.bsky.social global physics summit.

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Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

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Burton Lab @burtonlab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A great article for my climate change class: "...to remove 1 gigaton of carbon dioxide — just 3% of what humans add every year — these systems would need to process the same amount of air that all the air conditioners in the world currently process in one year." www.aps.org/apsnews/2025...

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The daunting physics of carbon removal

A new APS report outlines the challenges of scrubbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Burton Lab @burtonlab.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

NSF funding trains graduate students and the next generation of PhDs. This will decimate the scientific workforce. It's not about university research vs. private sector. ‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts

Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds

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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

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Burton Lab @burtonlab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Our paper is finally out in @naturecomms.bsky.social! Led by Oliva Meng, we show how ice melange thickness can influence iceberg calving through buttressing glacier termini. Simply, the melange thickness is an indicator of the pressure on the glacier front. Check it out! rdcu.be/d5S52

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Seasonal changes of mélange thickness coincide with Greenland calving dynamics

Nature Communications - Mélange is reported to be thinner in summer during glacier terminus retreat and thicker in winter during terminus advance. A discrete element model is created to...

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Burton Lab @burtonlab.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I just joined bluesky! If you are attending the American Physical Society DFD meeting in Salt Lake City, check out Ranjiangshang Ran's Gallery of Fluid Motion Video! He has a talk on Monday afternoon too. gfm.aps.org/meetings/dfd...

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Gallery of Fluid Motion

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